 All right lady, what is this everybody and Everybody and welcome to show and tell to me Lady Aida with me mr. Lady Aida We're here at the Aida food factory do our testing and shipping and manufacturing kidding and coding and videoing and more But enough about us the next 25 ish minutes We're gonna check in with people from around the Aida fruit community some Aida fruit peeps make a verse friends of the fruit All are welcome go by discord to get the link all you need is a video camera And honestly, you don't really need much more than that. Maybe hold up something We'll chat about it. We'll make some funny jokes. Let's kick it off first up is Kevin. Yeah, welcome back Kevin You be look globetrotting you were in maker fair which in all sorts of things. Yeah so we were at the the Raspberry Pi reseller and then also a couple weeks later at maker fair Rome, which was Phenomenal right now. I think they expected about 20 to 30,000 people and It ended up being I think close to 50 by the time Sounds like the first maker for in the Bay Area. We're like, oh, maybe like 20,000 people show up I think everybody was just anxious to get out there and see technology and talk to people and touch things and you know We actually had a kid like physically lick a Neotrailist board so that was fun Me and me and David looked at each other like Which one of us is the one taking that one home? Does not contain any minerals or nutrients that are essential to life. So, right? So I do have to say a Neotrailist actually holds up really well to being dipped in hand sanitizer. Yes Yes, we designed it that way. Yes. Yes. Yeah, so speaking of events tomorrow morning I'm taking off to another event that Phil. I know you're quite familiar with is Hackaday Supercom. Yeah, so I This afternoon. I was like, you know, I'm going to Supercom I know they have badge hacking but We're working on a fun project with you guys So I decided to make my my own little badge using Piley. Oh, yeah That's Liz's a guide. Yes. It is so easy like it was literally minutes to do this Yeah, you can change it throughout the day. You can have other messages. You could put a QR code on it There's lots of things you can do. Yeah, it's really great. You guys did a phenomenal job on it Yeah, the QR code is pretty cool So I have that set up to go into the digikey website actually maker.io website. So yeah, this is a Such a fun project and it like I said, it was so easy. I love the clue board, you know You're hanging the clue upside down, but that's okay. Yeah And it works either way it's got my Twitter handle my my first and last name and then digikey on it I know the camera isn't great. So you can't really see the Kevin for sure. You have to add mastodon That's all that matters. Just you can call me Kevin. I'm good It's nice. Jay came by and was showing some of the robot that Jay was working on and then We sent off some of the lanyards were a media sponsor sponsor for Hackaday Supercom I know digikey's doing stuff with Hackaday. Thanks for I have nothing to do with Hackaday anymore I was a founder, but I think it's great that a Company like digikey jumps into the community Does stuff with not only the contest but the event and been supporting it for you know from the hackaday prize to everything else It's it's really good to see that. So thank thank all the higher-ups who signed the checks and and maybe it's you We love being a part of it the hackaday prize is you know, it's all for bettering the world and there's some really cool Pride around contests out there. So Being part of hackaday and then any chance we get to show off some cool Adafruit parts and Talk about you guys is you know, we're all in yeah right on and You want to support digikey doing cool stuff like this buy some Adafruit stuff from digikey But let them know that you know that you like seeing companies like digikey at events that you like to participate in So a really quick story. I know I don't have much time here. Yeah, you're fine maker fair Rome We shipped a whole bunch of stuff to have a really cool booth a cool setup the day before I left I found out our stuff was stuck in customs. Yeah, and I'm like, I think we'll be able to get it out But just in case I came into my office and I took everything I had which is like eighty five percent Adafruit That's what we ended up having we bought table covers at a local. I don't even know what it was called Terrible We've ever got our stuff it did come back. So we got it back home, but took a nice trip around the world Adafruit spread at the show and it Well now that that Neopixel, you know, it's it's it's a lot when Lamar and I were running a booth at Maker fair when we had like a table or the one I think one time was also hope We've had that we had to go local and buy like oh, no like some of the stuff We needed didn't arrive so we need to get like extension cords or whatever So that's cool that you're able to cobble together a full experience With just the stuff you had. Yeah, I mean it was pretty good because one of our executives was actually there and He said if you wouldn't have told me you lost your stuff I would have never known and I'm like, I'm gonna call that a success. You know, that's good. Okay. Yeah, you know, it's nice This is you know, I'm gonna bounce is uh, so back of the day when we had to do a lot of projects with Compiled code or like trying to change things it was impossible because the Code that's on the microcontroller has been sitting there forever And if you plug it into a computer, it's like, oh no the latest idea and everything was always a pain it was impossible and And like your laptop yours they never had good internet and so you can like download libraries So for folks who have to like on the go do a lot of things from cosplaying to showing some of the stuff off in person It's really nice just being able to plug in a device edit the code on the device And then you're like I can update my demos and not have to like oh, no the cloud toolchain is down every like oh, no This is right. That's actually worse and yeah, so we actually had to do that. So one of the new trellises You know it's set up. We had a set up with four different sounds and one of them I thought it'd be funny to put a crow sound on there and I had to change it after the first few months into that crow And yeah, yeah, it's like the kid toys are just like eventually you're like you I have to change this Yeah, so like you said take out your laptop it takes 10 seconds to plug it in Download a quick sound bite and yeah So yeah, just drag the file over. All right. Well, very good to see you guys Yeah, good to see Kevin And just on a side note for folks who watch we'll be talking about this tonight If you've been watching the shows so we're announcing that aida box is returning 2023 So, um, that's our big news. We'll talk about it on ask an engineer, but we're finally able to Get enough of everything special. Thanks to digikey for Uh, helping us out all through the last like three years of this nonsense But it looks like aida box is returning in full force. We're finally getting parts. We'll talk about digikey's a big part of that I know you guys. Yeah, we're all riding this wave I'm sure it's a party at the warehouse. It must be like non-stop shipping. Yeah, it is it. It's interesting It's interesting So anyways, uh, so you heard of your first and then we'll talk about it. I'm getting like free shipment order a day I'm like, oh my god, like everything is flooding in. Things are starting to happen again. Yeah, it's good. Good to see Take care Next up we're gonna go to jeff. How's it going jeff? I just wanted to share my latest keyboard project with y'all. It is a neo trellis, but instead of pressing the buttons It works by licking Oh Perfect prevent About how you sterilize it with isopropyl alcohol between uses just for personal safety. Yeah But actually I did do a real keyboard project and excuse me while I lift this thing up Because this this is a trauma keyboard. This is the original keyboard of the ibm pc And I've created some code with circuit python and like a little simple circuit here two resistors and Six wires, uh, so that you can use it on your modern computer. So, um, I don't know check that out This is what I'm here to say. Um, it's it's made of the same metal as pay phones This is built like a beast. There's a metal plate inside the whole case. I think is metal Yeah, it just has that great that great classic sound There's nothing quite like it even the new keys They never it you actually need that resonant cavity, you know made out of steel made out of lead So so to do this you use the pio interface for the rp20 40. It's not it's not serial. It's not ps2 What is it? Yeah, there's uh, so there's a signal with a clock in a data line But it's just a little bit different than anything else. Uh, they actually used I think it's an 80 42 microcontroller in the keyboard Um to send the end and then in the pc there was a dedicated chip Then understood how to receive and process it But yeah, we're doing it with the cutie pie rp20 40 In this case is this little uh individual right here and with the pio peripheral and you just read it and you get like 10 bits back and seven of them is the key And one is whether it's pressed or released and you convert that over to And there's no purling you can't you can't send data. You just get no there's no like in this keyboard They didn't have the status leds yet. There's no have slot light. There's no num lock light And the communication was strictly one directional into the pc With the at keyboard. I think is when they added the status leds. I'm not a hundred percent sure of that All right, what's your next keyboard? What's my next keyboard? Um, so I'm No, no, you're not gonna get me like that. Um, so you you had me pick up this keyboard for atari Oh, yeah, and they have a little interesting way to do their key matrix where they only use eight pins where anybody else would have used 16 And that's interesting and i'm gonna try that one with the new uh coprock or coprocessor module on the esp 32 s Three because I think it'll a give me a chance to kick the tires And b that the it doesn't really work with pio. It needs a more complex Program so really i'm using that as a way to learn this new facility and we'll see how that works And that's the that's the guide that I plan To do after this on keyboards, but we talked about we're going to do some other guides Not just a couple of things in between. Do you have that keyboard? I just want to show I do not have it right in front of me. So It has what is it is it the help button that's like really weird like it's got a help button. Yeah, it's got It's like gave me and it's got help written on an angle. I will share some pictures in discord because this is a cool old home video game slash computer console that was too late and was never successful But it's Yeah, there's a lot of words feel so bad. It's like typing on a marshland Yeah, there's a lot of keyboards that it's like the Galapagos island and like survivor of like it just Evolved on this island and that was it and it's like well That was that you know, there's no That's the end of the tree A lot of these are like too weird to survive too weird to Too weird to reproduce on did not pass on it's all right. Well, thanks so much, Jeff All right, and I'll keep working on the likable neo trellis. I'm sure. Yes. Thank you Please get on that. Liz what you get going on this week? How's it going? Let me switch my camera this week I was working on an http server with a sarge python on a pico w So the pico w is running a sarge python code that serves up this html Web page through an f-string and then with that you can use the ds 18 b20 temp sensor to show data On the screen And then these buttons send http post requests. Uh, and so the led is for the onboard led. So if I Yes So that's led on Okay, wait, what's party? And party I had to make party parrots. Oh, yeah And then you can Just digestive jack truck looks like One of the stomachs anatomically to scale everything inside of cow. It is a party parrot. That's what actually does the digestion That's what she's got. Yeah And uh, it's using the pie cowbell breakout board. Uh, and you can access the reset button on the side here If you have a pen you can Hope it right there to reset. Um, and if I turn that off on the screen normally shows your ssid Your ip address and in the circuit python code You also set a static ip address for it and it also shows the temp sensor on Oh, yeah, and then on this on the little web server shows. I know it's cute. It's cute Yeah, so I hope this will be a good demo for folks. Um guide. Uh, I just wrapped up tonight So I'll get an interview so folks can I like the um the color theme It's like you're like, look, I can't you know, it's hosted on the pico w's. You can't like do a lot of Graphics, but it's like you got the pink text and you got like the buttons Yeah, yeah, and um, I tried to show folks a little bit with the css styling you can do um to call out the colors and um, yeah I think it looks great. Thank you. It's good. It's got that nice Great work. Liz. Thanks so much. Okay. Thank you. I'm going right erin what you got going on this week Oh, you're there So I just launched a tutorial about how to make costumes that won't break if you take them into harsh environments. So I want to just Share my screen here for a minute and Let's see This is my light up mermaid tail, which I'm wearing in a saltwater mermaid tank um, and basically, um The tutorial is kind of about how to well to make lickable projects. I see If I can lick this all I want. That's that theme. Yeah So my um, my microcontroller is I'm using a cutie pie in here and it's inside this gopro case Which I just drilled a hole in and put a cable gland So that the whole thing is actually submersible and it all just fits in there with a battery and a little charger and um And everything and then um, I have a waterproof connector on here, which leads to the actual leds Let's see if I can get the top of it here They're, um sewn on to just a piece of Scoob of fabric that I can wear underneath the mermaid tail that I'm wearing. So I can actually change different tail skins out. I can make it look different ways. I could do custom tail skins Um, and uh, it's using these these led dots. Um, which are super cool because they're real flexible They're very hard to break and they work underwater. Believe it or not. Um, yeah They're ip68 rated or anything like that, but uh, they're the best leds I've ever found For harsh environments So if you're making a burning man coat or you know Something that you want to take to the plier or the desert or something that you're going to put on your kids And they're just going to roll around on the dirt in uh, this tutorial is kind of show you how to do that And and still have a lot of success with your project What's cool is like it's like, yeah, if you can if you can make something that works in a salt pond underwater then definitely can survive like burning man or You know a uh Museum exhibit, you know Yeah It's good good tips and tricks. This is great. We'll be showing um a couple of your videos tonight including this one Um, this is really neat. I don't think I've seen any Online resources or anything in like the electronics world that had something like this. So fantastic I've actually never seen underwater leds before. This is It's just really hard. Yeah, it's really hard. There's people who probably have had to do it, but they're like James Cameron and like, you know, no, they just think it was CGI Well, they they don't even do practical effects anymore. This is actually, I mean, this is a very beautiful utility where you actually have to have leds Under water. So this is super cool. This is like the news thing if the ocean levels continue to rise and burning man's underwater This is the best water man. Yeah, okay Thank you, Erin. We're gonna get accused. This is like an ad for avatar too. Okay. All right Thank you, James Cameron. All right. Bye, Erin. Bye. Okay next up We're gonna go to paul and then we'll wrap up with dj Mn paul, what's going on? Got a new episode of the podcast out this week and it's one that i'm really proud of Um, I drove two hours east to Eau Claire, Wisconsin and inside of a park There are three circuit python powered trolls for children to play with. Whoa They have about 20 panels on each troll And if you go to i'll link to the to youtuber I've got some pictures of it too with the podcast But let's say there's 20 panels on there and out of the 26 will react and they'll play sounds they'll light up the eyes Um, it's just really cool. And if you go there in the summer Kids are just swarming and kids will show Which panel to press and it's it's really neat. So even if you don't listen to the podcast This one is a really neat episode to hear how it was concepted. They used a circuit playground express Jason p core was the guest to explain all this and then just built it from there in partnership with a couple other companies Awesome. Yeah, one of the things when um, we were first working on How python might work on microcontrollers were like, you know artists Exhibit museums anyone who has to do hands-on things with kids They're gonna love this and we're just like just got away And then now you're starting to visit it. What's cool is they'll probably be a world tour One could do of all the places where people are using circuit python for these type of public interactive Exhibits and more If anyone out there is built one reach out to me. Love it. Love to have you on the podcast. Yeah. I think the other neat thing is unlike the Black box style of building stuff. I think when you build it with circuit python, you're also building in hey I want people to see this and learn from it There's a lot of cool installations And I remember a long time ago when I was working on stuff like that Every single one of them was unique and once it broke it's over because you couldn't find the original people He did it. You couldn't get the code off of it. It's the end and it's like that's why you know, especially children's museums They've struggled a lot with Installations on how to maintain them. So I think that'll be kind of neat. So that's coming up. Um, this week. It's out right now It's out came out monday. All right. Thank you so much. Yeah, you've met with jason and folks can go to The url is the circuit python show. Yep.com.com. All right. Thanks so much All right, check that out. All right, thanks paul. It's the only time you're allowed to feed the trolls. Yes. Yeah, all right All right, dj deb and play us out Hello This is my halloween dragon skull project And i'm speaking to you and i'm like inside the masks. Yeah, it works. There's no room Yeah, I have stuffed this full of four microcontrollers two neopixel rings five nudes And lcd eyes which is run in tie box code. Yeah, and they even go up up into the horns So this was what I wore just to hand out Halloween just to hand out candy this halloween. Yeah, it's also the new oculus three coming out Did the kids like it when you open the door? uh It depends on the age a lot of the little ones I scared I scared one so bad. She dropped her bucket I felt bad about that The teenagers loved it. Uh, I got There are two girl foxes who wanted a photo with me because I thought it was so cool And one kid asked to keep my scepter and I was like, uh I made that so I could make another yeah, but it's got my uh my s3 on there, which I didn't want to lose Now you gotta need that. All right. Well, I'm working for the young kid But on the other hand it is trick or treat It's halloween and the parents were there and they were saying it's all good. So that's the whole point. It's the whole point You have one day It is I get one year or one day a year to scare kids and i'm gonna take it Absolutely All right. Thank you so much to you Philby you should watch this because yeah, we'll send a link to our resident dragon expert This is an amazing dragon costume. Good work tj devin. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Excellent Glad you got it done in time too. All right. 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