 What is this lady Aida? Hey everybody and welcome to show and tell we're back to hosting Thanks to known Pedro and JP who have jumped in and Liz was co-hosting we've got it's a superstar team But we're here me miss lady Aida I you know thing one thing too of Adafruit behind us the Adafruit headquarters But for the next 30 minutes or so we're going to check in with everybody from the maker community Adafruit folks did you key folks make folks? It's going to be a star Studded we have we have some yeah, we have all the luminaries, I guess of Some are literally glowing what's called the maker movement But you know one of the cool things about the world of making is everyone is a star and everyone is Able to show and share it's not just it's just not just a few people. It's everyone. So this is uh pretty exciting So that's right. Let's kick it off right off. So first up Jay from did you key jay? What do you got? This week. Okay. So this week what I'm doing is I'm actually Recording a lot because I finally got done with all my trips And I'm finally writing up and recording a video on how I made my project hella and backpack So this on my desk right here is my test setup for recording for people can see on my screen Which can't really show it right now and stuff, but if I turn everything on It should oh, yeah, it'll start looking for a face. That's cool. Okay But yeah, I'm just currently running everything up, which I get. Oh, well that happened Yeah Um, should I get everything written up and together that way I can post the video soon and show everyone how they can make Their own helen or take the stuff from helen that I've learned and put it in your own projects Just you know, open sourcing everything and making sure everyone can learn and continue making some cool stuff All right, where can if people wanted to um start following You on social media or where all these videos again Going to be when you release them. What should they do? They should follow me on twitter or instagram and also follow digikey Yeah, I've always wanted to be tagging digikey I'm always going to be reposting the work and sharing the work But the best way to keep in contact me and my random Head tick lifestyle is definitely twitter because I just post everything there. Okay. What's your handle your tag? j Understore j a two y's because I'm weird that way It's all good. Okay. All right. Well folks can post that a link to it in the chat and then also folks follow digikey Definitely the videos that you're working on there Will be there. Yep All right. Okay. Well, thanks so much j and keep coming back and showing the um the progress of your bots and more Of course Okay, thanks so much. It's great to see you and your bots. I like they're all red You're like you got like a calling now because you got like the yeah, yeah, it's on it's on brand It's funding now too. Yeah I like your I like your backdrop But we should do wasn't there like a website that was rating Bookshelves for all the talking heads of politicians and yeah And unlike on the news We could do it for like makers like hey like check out You're gonna do a work you're gonna do a workbench Like like right before covid you're like, let's do a workbench like share a workbench gallery thing Yeah, it would be a social network of just workbenches Um, so anyways, we'll maybe try that out. Okay See you later j Okay, next up one of my favorite people in the entire world one of the bestest people on planet earth Sherry, what are you doing? What are you up to? Well this week? We're up to this is our second annual maker music festival and campus And we are getting ready to launch on saturday may 14th and 15th It's a virtual campus. Which is open all year We'll be adding 10 9 or 10 new buildings About 100 makers and that'll take us up to 30 buildings and over 400 maker projects New this year. We've added search Which now it's going to make it really easy for anyone to go in and figure out How to find someone and actually even a genre of music if you want to follow along We we put in place a young maker competition All around circuit bending this year and we have five winners All young um young students 12 to 16 years old out of the uk Your names are thomas heath lucy and rainbow and isabel I'll come back and maybe maybe we can do something and showcase them, but they they You know one and a half minute video. They actually created circuit bending instruments and they documented it It's really brilliant. So So love to see them doing that and maybe we could run a video and show some of the other great acts And then I'll wrap it up. That's right We have video and I'm going to play it Now as soon as I remember how the interface works on this. Yes, I do. Okay. Here we go Um, so good play the video now. All right. Okay. That was a journey into music in space It was I mean it's um as you can see a lot of amazing makers doing really cool things We have five curated buildings one by dorkbot san francisco Or you'll see like nat hecker nat hecker mold over a few other great people Brian alexander a product designer out of michigan Umass Lowell is doing a whole building on minecraft your students Performance on making music in minecraft Our french friends are doing something and we have kept incredible out of um kopenhagen Um, and he's got a whole building to doing things in micro bit So I don't know join us. It's free. We've got the schedule up on the website. You need to just register There's a saturday link and sunday link The first session on saturday saturday is mostly perform or mostly presentations and workshops The first one is by brian alexander workflows for makers and artists How to help get you going on designing instruments? So anyway, it'll be a great weekend and also just a shout out to our super maker Morey ono who's down in argentina who's really pushing forward Circuit bending and making around the world. So this is truly a global show and thanks everyone and thanks ate a fruit for your support Okay, and if folks can um I gotta go on to the next person But folks can put them in all the chats so they can check out I know the url was on the screen, but just put it there too. All right, sherry We'll keep coming back leading up to the event too. You're welcome here every single show and tell thank you All right, and thank you for all the work on this. I know No, thanks. Amen. It's nothing compared to what everyone's done and you guys. So thank you Teamwork dream work, you know, absolutely. All right next up Welcome back scott. How's it going? Thanks for having me What have you been installing circuit python on? Well, this this latest project of mine doesn't run circuit python yet. Although we'll use circuit python So yeah, it's folks know i've been on paternity leave, which it's important I want to say it's important for everybody to to both have paternity leave and take it Um, so this is just the first stint of paternity leave, but we have my wife now I have a new project This is harry. Oh, you got sleep mode working. That's great. Uh, there are some bugs in it We'll see if i'll be able to put it down. It wakes up at an opportune times Yeah, but uh, yeah, it's been a Quite the journey so far and uh, i'm happy to be back and if folks need something for me Please let me know because my schedule will be more flexible than it was before because i'll have Another project that i'm working on. Okay. All right. Well, I just want to say what a cool life this kid's gonna have because you're You're really fun to be around and you're so patient and you teach people so much stuff I I feel like this kid is gonna have a fantastic time. So, um, i'm looking forward to meeting meeting this kiddo um and uh blinka Puppets and more ahead like, you know, we have the puppet show and stuff for our younger kids, but um There's a lot of things that we want to do for even younger kids as they explore technology and more So you have our one of our first uh beta testers maybe for some of this stuff Oh, yeah, for sure. I I was like should I bring him on show and tell us like he's gonna be a part of this just like doing pedero Yeah They're a kid in in all those videos too. So all right, and so um for folks who tune into deep dive for me Guys probably gonna be continuing to do some of it all of it. We're working this out But yeah, I got to talk with him. He's been doing a great job. So I don't I don't see I'm hoping he'll keep up Well, I yeah figure things out and then um, you know hug report to to you That's what we do at a different to to use got the the momentum of circuit python Um things just kept happening the community kept building and you're coming back and the whole thing is not on fire Yeah, it's been great It's been great to see the circuit python's doing so well and and it doesn't need me to to keep moving forward So 300 all the folks that joined over the break. I saw a lot of new folks come in. So that's just awesome Yeah, so thank you so much for building something that is bigger than all of us Yeah, well, I knew at some point I wouldn't want to step away. Yeah, it's nice to be able to prove it out All right. Well, thanks god and thanks for bringing kiddo by oh, yeah, no problem. Okay Okay You are giving me a tough act to follow. I know it is. Yeah, that's true Yeah, so, um, I recently uh got a lot more into the pio peripheral of the rp20 40 and Added some stuff to the guide. So I'm going to switch over to my down camera so, uh with the pio Peripheral we had the ability and serve a python to send data out to it once and then it would return to your python program And your python program would keep running And we decided well, maybe we want to do that in the background so This uh demo here is running without an LED controller It's just controlling all of the lines directly from the pio peripheral Which writes out the digits continuously while the circuit python program continues counting up So if you look at it, there's just one call to background right and then after that it just changes the digits and they automatically update So that's pretty cool There are about four demos um in the learn guide And this is another one. It's writing neopixels. Hey, yeah, you have you have a limited edition keycap on there. I saw I do. Yes Yeah, thanks for that. That was handed to me by uh pt himself. That's right So anyway, this one is writing neopixels in the background So you can eke out a little more performance when you are updating your animation at the same time as it's outputting And so just to demo. I'm not sure how my frame rate is on this camera Yeah, but as we get faster and faster For me, it just turns to white or slightly purple because of the keycaps because it can update So quickly it actually updates faster than the neopixels do so that's uh A little fun project this one uses No, I don't know if this one uses async. I one of the demos uses async. I which is cool And then this one did not make the guide because I was just wiring it up today last one Um, I am controlling 128 leds And just updating them in software in circuit python with a new brightness level And then the pio peripheral is continuously updating the leds And it's a really slick display and it's pretty mesmerizing in person So that's what I've been up to check out the guide and you know for me This really kind of opened my third eye of what pio Can do let me switch back to my camera for the last couple seconds. By the way, your overhead camera looks really good this week I don't know if you've been doing anything different, but good work before we went on I just pressed the autofocus lock Or I was supposed to lock button 92 times until it was right That's that's what I did too. We have a turn through oven at home That has a button that just has a picture of a pizza on it. So sometimes the automatic settings just work Yeah Anyway, so I mean this really kind of opened up my mind to more things that pio can do and I hope other people will check out the guide and you know find other cool stuff All right on so learn dot adafruit.com folks can check it out Okay, thanks so much. Yeah. All right. Thank you. All right. Phil B. What you get going on this week? Oh my gosh. I'm up. Okay. Yep boy Shocking surprise you're on video All these awesome maker things and I just had like filthy old computers to show off like I want filthy old computers now. Yes. I have done collecting computers. Yeah, I don't need to collect any more computers That I I'll show you in a second. I know I've brought this to show until before this is a um hot msx computer, which was a a kind of a standardized Computer format from the 1980s. Yeah, it didn't make inroads here. It was kind of a european japan thing And they were all based on the same reference design So they were all the same machine and so every company they kind of focused on their industrial design The case and the keyboard to kind of set them all apart And I thought this one was pretty cool just with this very angular keyboard I love the space has the word space on it space. Yes Um, and then like caps and there's that line. It's kind of a nice graphic design on the yeah There's always always something very visual going on with these machines. I like this one. You know, this is cool But honestly, it's it was a bit of a compromise. It wasn't really the machine. I wanted Which is like extremely rare. You'll never find one, right? Except yeah, you found a red one. Yeah, I have a black one. Yeah, that's oh man The condition of that looks perfect. Wow. That's shiny. It's not there's some little scuffs here and there, but it's in Very nice shape And oh wow the reason I wanted this one specifically um They made this uh in in three colors, uh black white and red but outside japan Like all of your you could only get the black model. Yeah, so this is exclusively japanese and interesting thing This was kind of a trend in the mid 80s. Um Jvc did it with their camcorders and a couple others um In japanese design um There's like a primacy to the color red Like it's not on the rainbow. It sits up there alongside black and white and red. Yeah, you know, and so, um You know think about you see had a lot of like red only tvd's and stuff We have one so you think about You know ultraman or uh The movie akira the poster with the the red motorcycle, you know, it's a very japanese aesthetic and I think Like the rest of the world would look at it and think oh, it's cute like a ladybug or or Yeah toy, but it was a very serious thing Um for its intended market So that's why I was I was happy to uh find one of these that I could actually afford Even has the original. It's a sony sticker on it too. Yeah, I'm glad it still has the sticker Uh, this is great. That's nice. That was a happy find and that was that was one of my holy grail computers Well, it fits in a shadow box. You can put on the wall. We have a black one. Um, and so, uh, I don't know I guess that means there's a market share of these Now out there we we have at least probably 10 of the ones that are in uh remaining circulation It got me thinking, you know, how there's these cultural artifacts that get pillaged And like time goes by and people like you know what you really should return that Yeah, it's cultural to them. I wonder if some of these some of these things we collect are someday going to reach That kind of thing where it's like, you know, that that belongs in a japanese museum specifically um, I'm totally willing to um work with any Museum like I have like this arduino museum of like all the arduinos I would love to work with a museum in italy one day if they don't have them to make sure that you know, there's A place where people could see all these things. It's not like we're gonna have one Um museum anytime soon uh here in new york city, but maybe um, that's beautiful. Thanks for sharing it All right. Yeah, but I I I thought you would appreciate that. Yeah, it's beautiful because yeah Yeah, I think we both I think we both were seeking that that item Yeah, I mean this is almost as cool as scott's baby. I mean like it's it's really it's up there No All right. Anyway, take care. Thank you. All right JP what you got going on? Uh, that was gorgeous. I love that computer. Yeah, uh speaking of computers A lot of you know that people are trying to get their hands on these raspberry pi computers because they're they're uh, they're hard to find and uh What's been happening is we've been putting them out in batches 50 or 100 when we get them, but they sell out really quickly. So A website called our pi locator.com Use a bunch of bots and things to figure out when different resellers have them in stock and they automatically tweet So working with lizz I built this alarm That goes off the moment that tweet goes out. So this is a feather tft esp 32 s2 It is on my wi-fi. It is checking the twitter feed of our pi locator for the key words in stock at ate a fruit and when that comes in stock this thing Goes off so you can't ignore it. You'll see it. You'll hear it. You can come over you can look on the screen It'll tell you the time stamp for when those were in stock Uh, and I think how many were released basically is the text of the tweet And you can quickly run to your computer and buy one and don't uh, don't Don't resell them like a jerk. Just buy one. Yeah, don't don't buy one every day We don't try to be fancy with fake addresses. Don't do any of that. But if you have a legitimate need, uh, this could come in handy it's also of course a Project that you could generalize to searching pretty much any twitter feed for a particular keyword and having an alarm go off So so use it for whatever you like, but I've got it set up for uh raspberry pi finding right now Right. Well, like you lost some more civil rights. You never know. I mean like whatever Whatever's going on. What are the odds of that happening? Fine. Um, all right Well jp folks can tune in tomorrow to see you work on this and more on jp. Yes Come on by tomorrow. I've got a cool little composite video hack sort of esp thing going on. So all right All right, check that out. Okay. We're a little talky tonight So we're gonna do no page or liz and then mat the makers so if each keep it to three minutes each We can do it. Which is totally possible. Possibilities Oh wow first off scott. Oh my heart. It's filling in. It's not ever gonna Your heart will never start filling. Oh and I heard what jeff said. Don't worry. The kid's gonna be super fun Like right now. Ah, so as I get out of this meeting he's gonna run over to be like It's just like Anyway We can bring our baby up and have him show it off. It's fine. We have a dog too. We got some 3d printed signs using these neon like Neopixel strips. They're really fun and flexible So we thought we'd make a nice easy project where you just use the full meter long strip And just press fit it into a little 3d printed sign. So we have a lightning bolt a blink A rainbow and a kid cat So folks want to find out how to make your own 3d printed sign with a nice neon like neopixel strip Check out the learn guide. It's running off of the qt pie rp2040 running circuit python with the led animation library Awesome. All right Anything else before I continue on Yeah, um, do you want to show this one off fedora? That's all you. Oh, okay. Um, we got our apple Air pod max, um headphones. Yeah, we're 3d printing some of these kind of covers. So this is that flexible filament stuff And it just press fits into it. So it's gonna protect the the mesh And we got some ideas like maybe some lego studs. Yeah some kitty ears some horns dragon horns It might be really handy them is you put the you know the email or How to get in touch with the person who owns it in case you leave him somewhere because it's like Yeah, right? You put it on the top. Yeah, well, they have the fine line Yeah So one of the things about this, um, you can use the little sim card, um popper outer And you can there is some customization, but it's interesting I think what we're doing now is what apple is about to do So all these different pieces can be customized and just like apple watch bands and stuff like that So I think we're ahead of it So we have a lot of cool ideas that are super weird and I've been experimenting Around and um in in new york where we're at everyone has had phones on and I've been asked about like Where did you get those different ones from apple because I have some weird things I've been doing? So this is gonna be neat. I think folks are gonna enjoy this Yeah, we'll do some side ones too. The real estate on our heads is valuable We should decorate it and do cool things and light it up and other stuff as well Make a handle like a handle. Yeah All sorts of stuff. Yeah. All right, cool. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much All right, Liz what you got going on? Hey, how's it going? Um, this week I built a laser harp. Of course you did right And so, um, we were talking last night of adding some more features. So, um, this is some new code That's not yet in the guide where depending on the height Um, you got different instruments playing Who the cats excited? Yeah, uh, the lasers are not on because the cats go insane. Um I added a switch specifically for them. Um cat mode. Yes, uh, and then there's also pitch bend too Um When you raise and lower your hand, so that's new as well And I'll be doing a demo video for that and one minute build that'll be going around This is super cool. This is one of the, um, Adafruit projects that we wanted to do it's always it was always hard always expensive Impossible to make impossible to like do a guide or something, but now it's all possible So thanks for bringing this to life, Liz. Yeah, it was really fun And I play a lot with pocket operators and kind of the tabletop sense and this integrated right into my setup. So I'll be Going forward. I think it's because it's so it's so like interact. It's like it's so like, um Expressive, you know what I mean because you can really move your body into it And I love instruments where it's like the body gets involved. Yeah, same same It is cool to go to shows, but when the dj or the musician is just pressing like a button on a mac on stage It's you know, there's a lot that went into it. However, um, this seems to me like something that you might See at a at a live show That complements some of the electronic music that's going on too. Yeah, definitely. Definitely. All right, cool Well, thank you, Liz. All right. Nice work, Liz. And thank you, Liz's cats for being patient Yes, and understanding. All right math make the place out How's it going? Good. How are you? All right, what you got going on? So, um, I'm working on a pie zero two upgrade of this project, which is um, like a heads up display nerf scope It's got the pie cam hdmi port and then the interface is a rotary encoder um, so for the the new one I use um this game pad that I use for pie glass v2 So you can um move the crosshair with the d-pad um change the color change the pattern And uh reset it Then one of the new features I came up with is there's an imu in here And if I turn it past two thirds, it rotates the camera So you're looking um right side up even though the gun is is uh being held sideways cool So you're taking this project and doing more and more with it like every week Yeah, um the fun part like whenever I'm really having fun with the project It's in a cardboard box, and I'm working on the software, you know, like that's like the that's where I get the most enjoyment and the most, um Stuff done all right Well, thank you matt and uh, please continue to keep coming back on the show and tell and then you're also working on some guys with us too Yep happening. 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