 some secret okay yeah get the vault there's a lot of vault yeah first in the vault we're gonna play a video that we just shot yeah okay lady what is this hey I'm trying to fulfill a quest I'm put myself on to find reverse mountable neopixels so you know basically SK or ws-2812's that you can reverse mount and have the LED shine through the front of the PCB so this is like one that I got and I'm doing a little test here and yeah it works just fine it's nice and bright what's interesting is that you know you still need to cut like a large hole in the PCB but you should be able to mount this on the bottom through these four wide pads that stick out you just have a hole cut out and then the LED shines through so I might try a PCB with this next now that I know these work all right next up tell me about this okay so I had like a four-day weekend and so I I finally got to a lot of hard-working to do so this sorry this module right here is the new ESP 32 s2 mini module so we've had boards like the metro or the mag tag with the ESP 32 s2 which is ESP 32 with native USB that can run circuit Python now but they're really big and those modules won't really fit very nicely on feather which is my favorite format and so I wanted to wait until the mini version of the module came out and this mini is just it's a little bit it's a lot more smaller and it has the chip inside that has the built-in RAM and flash all-in-one so it can be so compact but it's still a very lovely little module with a PCB antenna and so I put together three different versions of a feather one is just a plain feather with you know everything on top and ESP 32 s2 module just sort of like our classic feather and then I made one so this one here the or sorry these these two images here the modules on the bottom and then on the top I put a TFT this is based off of a metro mini that a long time ago you wanted me to design and we couldn't make it work before but now we have small TFTs we have small Wi-Fi modules so I send out prototypes we'll get them soon put them together all right and then this is the yeah and this is another version where put the module back on the front and the TFT on the bottom so I'm trying out like different you know I'm experimenting with like once I got the schematic going I'm like well let's try flipping things around like maybe maybe it's reverse mounted so that you can panel mount it with some buttons and when I post this up we put the github repo screenshot there one of the things that's starting to happen is people will say they're like working on a project and like I thought of that a year ago I never showed it to anyone and I wish you wouldn't do that a deferred like you're coming out with hardware and I think everyone needs to stop with that like ship your hardware post more than renderings if you're gonna like play the game of who thought of something first it's not what open source hardware is anyways like the whole idea is we're all figuring out the state of the art like there's tons of ESP 32 boards cool it worked out great for customers there's tons of ESP 32 S2 boards coming out if not are already out that's great for everyone I don't think it matters like we don't ever care about us posting or sorry shipping something first we show all of our work so these coming soon like you know I get asked sometimes like oh why do you show what you're doing in advance are you worried about competitors like you seeing it and making it and shipping it faster I'd be like if they did a real good job I'd probably buy it yeah I mean like I like all of my new products was like this yeah board from spark fun they did a great job yeah like I'm not gonna make anything better than that yeah so it's just one of those things I think everyone needs to chill out with that because you know someone's like oh I know you can't I know I came up with this before you and they saw like the board they thought the date on the board was like a different date and it was like no we actually thought of this two years ago we put on our flicker and it's on github from like three years ago so please don't say you came up with first but it doesn't even matter yeah it's just like stop it I wouldn't I would never I would never say oh it's like somebody got something for me I'm not going to do it yeah so you know if you look at every single top secret video you do you can see our entire product lines and some of them we get to right away some of ticks will allow but we're always gonna show all of our work all the times we're always gonna like make something and I'll talk about that except for some things that are secret yeah okay I also was mucking around some stuff and I was in a situation where I needed two USB ports where I only had one USB port so I started looking around at low-cost USB hubs and this chip from microchip was actually kind of nice it's like a very simple all-in-one pretty much a USB hub it can do even a high speed 2.0 although I don't know that my layout would support it you can even configure it over I squared C like you can put it into like a mode where you write the e-prom and then it shows up with like your VID and PID and username and stuff so I thought this would be a cool little like it's not a stem of board right because it's a USB hub but I put a stem of connector because you can reprogram it so I don't know I'm experimenting with this chip all right so this is we're sitting on a panel we're sitting on a panel these are 15 new products coming out very soon and if there wasn't you know the capital on fire and the end of democracy I was gonna have a longer discussion about this but I'm just gonna stick it in the top secret so so we show our work we show what we're doing and working on and here's my 2021 request for all of us to help our dear Lady Aida with so we post this up and what do we see you really need to slow down development we get emails from dudes and say I wish you wouldn't make this hardware or that hardware and they're sending it to Lamar here is I'm just removing because I don't want to like you know dunk on anyone we would prefer Lamar not work on hardware and work on hardware and by the way the two things after the stars I work on both of them okay yeah I'm still doing both of those things so here's from my point of view knowing Lamar for like 10 years now and just like guys need to stop telling Lamar she can't make hardware like they it's not because they don't want hardware out there they feel bad about themselves their abilities or ability to ship the fact that they have to make a video guide they have to like try harder than just putting out a board and just you know post-and-ghost we have a very high level of service post-and-ghost yeah yeah where's that from it's actually a healthy one sometimes just post stuff and then leave okay don't look at the comments so this has happened enough and I have a folder of emails from lots and lots of people saying could you tell them or not to release hardware as fast can you tell them or not to release such-and-such hardware can you imagine anyone else getting emails like this I've never seen anything like this none of the other engineers that we work with get these type of emails only Lamar does so anyways if you see it please tell people to stop all of you all want hardware like our community here everyone is watching you love all the hardware this is great it's cutting-edge stuff it's like competitors frenemies or whatever you want to call them these like weird aggressions and like you know I really wish you wouldn't work on this like who talks like that and like Twitter is like the worst place for this there's like me and me and me and I'm gonna needle you to death so anyways we are shipping and going to release more products than ever and we're an open source hardware company you can download them you can make your own that is this week's top secret okay thank you so much thanks for coming