 breadboard projects and make them solder full. 149 and more, we're still giving away the PCB pink circuit board KB2040, featuring the ARP2040 with eight megabytes of flash, Stem EQT connector, USB-C, cast-alated pads. Works great for keyboard projects or anything where a Pro Mini shaped board would fit. It's also just a great microcontroller to get started with. 199 and more, you get free UPS ground shipping in the continental United States. And we're back with 2.99 or more. You get a free circuit playground, blue fruit or all-in-one Bluetooth low energy capable microcontroller board. It runs Arduino and circuit Python. It's got sensors and buttons and buzzers and LEDs and more. It's great for getting started with microcontrollers and electronics. And you don't have to do any soldering because everything's built in. And if you're looking for things that are kind of hard to find, like Raspberry Pis, usually on Wednesdays, we put some in stock and there's a couple of different services online. One's on Twitter, RPAI locator. And you can purchase them. They'll let you know when exactly it goes in stock. Usually it's around 11.30 Eastern time on Wednesdays. But just make sure you have a verified Adafruit account and two-factor authentication that's been managing to keep the folks away who are trying to buy multiple versions, multiple products and put them on eBay. Yes, don't do that. For lots of money. Okay. Got some live shows that we like to do, including this one, that's an engineer. So we just finished up Show and Tell. Good show this week. Jebler came by and showed a really neat Tandy keyboard. And we also talked about if you want to try Wi-Fi on the Raspberry Pi Pico W, that'll be in the beta of the latest circuit Python. It's merged. Merged. So that's there. And then J.P. came by with Darth Vader. Motorized Vader project. Liz came by with a very nice trombone project for the, I guess it's called Trombone Hero? Trombone Champ. Trombone Champ, yeah, I guess there's probably some type of trademarky thing. You can't call it Hero. Yeah. And then Philby came by, showed this really neat repair that he made with the mini disc looking thing. So it's a recorder now. It's in his mini disc with record. I didn't know you, mini discs were recordable. And then Tavis came by, showed this very interesting. It's a CRT inside of a Sony hand can. Yeah, the old style, pre-TSTs. Like a CRT, a little eyeball on it. And then Paul came by and talked about the new podcast that Paul's working on, which is Bootloader. And also, of course, y'all are super fans and listen and watch to the circuit Python show. So coming up, I think, is Todd Butt on Bootloader. And we were talking about this. There isn't a lot of long form maker stories shows out there. We have to do an electronics company. We have Show and Tell. We have Ask an Engineer, JP Show. We're definitely project based, and we're going to stick to that. But one of the things, if we had unlimited time, would be interviewing makers, more maker stories, more people that are doing electronics. And thankfully, Paul's doing that. So tune in. You can use your favorite Podcatcher, whatever they call them these days. And it's called Bootloader. And the other one is Circuit Python Show. And there's some overlap with some of them. A lot of people use Python on microcontrollers, and there'll probably be a little bit of everything. On Sunday, we do Desk of Ladiata. And it's usually in two parts. The first part is Ladiata is showing what she's up to. What were you up to this week? OK, this week I was showing off three boards that I designed. It's in prototype put together. So the first up is the Micro-LiPo. It's a little battery charger that plugs into a USB port. And you plug in one of our LiPo batteries to charge it. And I was kind of doing a bunch of revisions. And I really wanted to revise this board because I had to order more PCBs. And so I revised it to add a switch. And I just showed testing it out. I also showed, let's see, after that, I had the two, I showed off two breakouts for the little PB86, the TR808 style step switches. And then the eight STEMIQT output multiplexer board with the PCA 9584 or 48. I can't remember which one. And I showed that. And also I was using Penguin. And I showed off some Penguin silk screens. Then we do, where in the world is that part I need? It's called the Great Search. Do that with Digi-Key. And every week Ladiata uses our powers of engineering to find what you're looking for. What did you help folks find this week on the Great Search? OK, so this week's Great Search was about how to find, you know, parts that look the same do not necessarily have the same specifications. So this week's Great Search was finding a slide switch that could carry up to five volts, and ideally up to, you know, half an amp total through the switch, especially when doubled up. This is a DP-DT switch. And I have like a footprint that I use, but usually the switch doesn't carry power. It's a signal switch, not a power switch. And it's not that common to find SMT power switches. Honestly, usually they're through a hole. So I showed how to find some good spec parts, and we did find one in the end. OK, and we'll be doing the show again this Sunday, but a little programming note tonight. We're going to do IonMPI this Sunday. It's a bigger one, so we wanted to make sure we put in all the time needed to show a very cool, new, exciting, new product, new product introduction. And we'll be showing that on Sunday. Every Tuesday we have JP's workshop, and we have my highlight here. It is from this week. It is the Neopixel Goggles Kit, these Lars. So there you can see, we have the goggles. I put a little diffusion material, and then we have the two Neopixel rings that are spinning there, doing some cool patterns and picking different colors. And embedded right inside, thanks, Lars, right inside of there, you can see we have all of the parts and goodies. The costume goggles and tinted lenses, these are RGB Neopixel rings, ribbon cable so that you can connect all of the connections you need, a LiPo battery that you use to power it, a little JST battery connector that you will connect to the underside of the trinket M0, and you can use Arduino or circuit Python. We also give you a LiPo charger that you can just plug into a USB port. Plug your battery in there, and you can charge it in any port that you have. So my product pick of the week this week is the Neopixel Trinket M0 LED Goggles Kit. OK, and then tomorrow, weather permitting in California. Who knows what's going to happen there? JB's workshop, and then Friday, deep dive with Tim. Time travel, got a few things going on. We're still trying to figure out will we be able to do a Aida box for the holiday season? It all depends on if we can get between 5,000 and 10,000 parts that have been chronically out of stock. So we'll let you know if we can't, don't worry. Not charging credit cards at all until we ship. Maybe we'll just line up 2023. Think we can get everything by then. Things are looking better, but it is a bit of a slog. Anyone who does anything in the world right now with electronics or really any physical goods on planet Earth, you don't really get what you want right away, and you don't get exactly the thing that you may have purchased. And there's just been a lot of lies and rug pulling, as I say, where you think you're getting something that you ordered from a couple years ago, and it's still taking a while. So let's go. But we did get some things. We did get some things. So I am going to kick off our segment that we've started. It's called The Real World. And let's see what we got. This is the true story of nine strangers taking place to live in a factory to manufacture together and have their lives taped to find out what happens when people stop being polite and start getting real. Adafruit, The Real World. OK. So we have some stuff that came in. Yeah. What is it this week? This week, we've got the Max 31865, which people might find familiar if you like to connect to RTD temperature sensors. We use them in our PT100 and PT1000 platinum RTD converters. Very popular. People really like these. They're very high quality temperature converters. They're not as high range as a K-type thermocouple, but they are a lot more precise because they use a little piece of platinum that the resistance changes. But you need to have a really good and long front end to handle them. So we had this breakout. It's been on stock for almost a year. But we got a reel of these chips in this week. And so if you are looking for a PT100 or PT1000 amplifier, if it's not in stock, I think we put in some in stock. But if they're not, sign up because we're putting in. We made like 1,000 boards. We're putting in chunks of them at a time. And we wanted to tell the other side of this story, which is we've been doing chip shortage and letting our customers know things that we're out of stock, things that we're having a hard time with. And we communicated with some of the companies that could do different allocations. Some of it worked out. Some of it we're still waiting. Some of it will eventually work out. But now we have our kind of weekly, like, OK, we think we are going to get these in. Let's celebrate that. That's why we do. I don't want to just complain. I want to be like, look, you guys did get me the part. Thank you. I think it's the one we even did a chip shortage on. And it did come in. We did. So that's the other side of the story. Yes. Now we have them in stock. Yeah. All right, now back. OK, this week, this letter came in from Nathan, Adafruit's customer support in the forums. And VML has been speedy, phenomenal, anything a customer could ask outside a working product. This is my first order and certainly won't be the last. You've won a long-term customer who will suggest it to you two others going forward. Thanks, Nathan. All right, hope wanted. Jobs.adafruit.com is where you can post your skills or you can post up the job or the thing that you're looking for people to do. And we have a pretty good success rate. And we also monitor these. And we look at each one before we approve them. Just so you all know, because you're probably getting lots of these emails. And I got one from one of the banks that we use. And this one, I think, MIT Press did a tweet today. This happened to them. Someone was pretending to be MIT Press on freelancer.com. And they'd have people apply for jobs, hand over bank accounts, and then say, oh, you have to do this thing or whatever. And then not only was it identity theft, but it was also they were out of money, because they have all sorts of tricks that they do now. So we really like to make sure that these are legit things. They're actual companies that are looking to hire makers. Some of them are freelance opportunities. So check out this one. This is a wearable medical device opportunity. This is out of Dublin, Ireland. Check it out. It's a contract job. And if you're interested in building the things or have ability things, check out jobs.aderford.com. Python on hardware. OK. This week in the Aderford newsletter from aderforddaily.com. This was a good newsletter. I had this one. One day later, because we had an issue with send stuff out, but it came out. I'll get to the story I was going to ask you about. But we went over. If you haven't seen our shows last week or some of the things that we've been writing about, Aderford Penguin, you can use any font and needle cad. That's exciting. And we definitely abused papyrus quite a bit. And people will see, as I'm doing a lot of board, we order right now. As new boards come in, you're going to see some of the nice silk screens filter in. You might get ones with the older versus newer silk screen as I make them all pretty using Penguin. It's made it so fast. I do it instantly. And then order the boards. Great. And then this is interesting, because we just had our show until a long ago. Tandy, Tandy. And a lot of folks are taking some of the retro hardware, but now they're updating it with new things. So this is a Tandy TRS-80 model. We have one, model 100. This is a retrofit. So it uses Raspberry Pi hardware, uses Pico running circuit Python. And while the machine itself is faster, they kept the same display, too. So this is very neat. Look at the first part of the keyboard. And then the next thing they're going to do is maybe put in a Raspberry Pi with a bar display. Maybe a color display. A couple of interesting things, program environment for MicroPython. Called Wannick. Checked out. Badger, if you want to hack your ID badges to play games. This is a cool badge from the folks at Pymeroni. You can use MicroPython with that. And then the circuit Python IDE. I don't know if you all have seen this, but there's an online ID for it. A couple new features. File modification indicator. And the other is a serial mode indicator. So you can check that out. Yes. And this is at River Wangs. And we also have our own as well, so there's. So here it is. And yeah, this is real and live. And you can connect to your board. And I just went straight here from the newsletter. What a wonderful time to be doing electronics. All right, you can check out some of the shows that we have. We just talked about Paul, who is on the show and tell who has bootloader in addition to other shows. I think this week is. Brayden. Brayden. And Brayden showed some projects last week on the show and tell. And then don't forget September 29th, which is coming up tomorrow. The Circuit Python Community Help Desk. Oh, here's a bootloader project. Oh yeah, it is in there. Oh, that's a nice logo. OK, Todd and Paul. Yeah, and this was one of Brayden's projects here. So the thing I wanted to give you a couple minutes of airtime, Lady Aida, is I saw this running around and everyone's like, nothing divides people up like programming languages or bringing people together. So mainline Python 3.14 predicted to be faster than C++, really. OK. What's this all about? It's a little bit of a joke. So basically, as of Python, the biggest deal with Python was just trying to get everyone on to three, which took a while. And I think what you can see is by the time we got to like three, six, three, seven, a lot of people moved over to three. And so one of the things that seems like the Python Foundation wanted to focus their time on because there's so much stuff built in. There were a couple of additional like the Walrus operators. And I think Async also got a little bit more support in recent versions. But it looks like what they've really been working on for the last couple of versions, starting with 3.10 and 3.11, is improving by decreasing the amount of time it takes to execute Python scripts. So interpreted languages are great because they have memory management and garbage collection and they're often dynamically typed. And I just love interpreted languages. You don't have to compile them and sit there. You don't have to compile stuff. Trade off is, of course, things can fail halfway through the program because they're not all compiled at once. But second thing is usually they're all slower because they're run through a virtual machine. But it looks like one of the things they've really been working on is really improving the quality of the speed of the Python runtime. Looks like there's an example loop that they use in the loop time, usually 10 milliseconds or 10 seconds for this example loop. And they got it down to, sorry, 11 seconds. And it got down to like about six. So it's about two times increase in speed, which is great. Because if the only trade off between interpreted languages and compiled languages is the running time, then if you can just improve the running time, then maybe more people will use Python for live applications, not just for speed of programming, but also speed of running. And so there's this joke of it uses the XKCD graph generator where it's like, if you extrapolate, like yesterday you weren't married today, you are married, which means in three days you will have seven husbands. If the loop time has gone down this much so far, basically within a year, we will have negative loop time, not really. But it'll get closer. I mean, I think we could probably squeeze another two times speed improvement now that they're looking at it. And one of the great things now is everyone can try something out for free, essentially. Like there's some way to try something out for free. So my suggestion is stay away from the arguments online, like, eh, make sure you cut your teeth, then you should write things in assembly. Don't listen to any of those folks, in fact, run away from them. Try something out. And one of the things that's kind of nice now is with microcontrollers and being able to do Python with microcontrollers, you can learn a skill that can work on desktop data sciences, any of the machine learning stuff, any of the AI stuff. There's tons of things. And then the Raspberry Pi with Blinka, like one, learning a programming language to start and then being able to do a lot of stuff with it and then figuring out where you want to do literally deep dives, you have a deep dive, is really powerful. And the microcontrollers are fast enough now where there really isn't like, what are you doing with these things where a millisecond's going to matter for a lot of these things? Yeah. And one of the things that we've always prioritized in CircuitPython. I mean, this is Python, which is, of course, a different core than CircuitPython. But one of the things that we've always prioritized is ease of use over runtime speed. Because you can always improve the runtime speed later, but getting the usability is important to get done first. Because it's one of those things that, if you don't bake in the usability and the ease of use to start, it's really hard to add that later. I've found that things don't get easier to use with time. They'll get faster. Yeah. But usually it's like whatever system you have set up to program the boards in. That's why using math storage was really important to us, using Wi-Fi workflow. Yeah. I feel like the biggest barrier right now is just getting people started and having some success with what they're trying to do. Yeah. That seems to be the thing that's taking the longest is a total abandonment and not wanting to do it. And then like, hey, no, really, there's other ways to do things. So anyways. Yeah, it's cool stuff. Yeah. So the graph is a joke, but the performance improvement is real. Yeah. And that's Python on her. Thank you, Blinka. And we deliver this every single week. Turn your inbox. Usually Tuesdays, sometimes Wednesdays. And speaking of Adafruit Daily, so the Adafruit IoT newsletter monthly is coming out. And go to adafruitdaily.com and sign up for that. And then we also have our new product newsletter that that's the only one you can get through our website if you want to. You can go to adafruit.com slash newsletter. But we also do it as a standalone newsletter on Adafruit Daily, too. So you don't even need to use our store site. So do check those out. I strongly recommend the IoT newsletter. So she's done so much stuff is happening with our snapper. It's like non-stop. So if you're interested in the rapid development that's occurring on Whippersnapper and Adafruit IO, and of course, general IoT news around the industry, do subscribe. Yeah, and just because you all know us. So even though it's our newsletter, we put everything in there. It doesn't matter which company is making an IoT thing. We're just picking the best stuff. Oh, yeah. People can send in stuff, too. There's no affiliate links. There's no ads. There's no Amazon affiliate links. There's nothing like that. We just cover this stuff that we like and we want to show and share. And I think that's why people like these newsletters, because they never feel like they're getting tricked or they're getting sold something. And it is really like, here's cool stuff that we like and we're up to and things that other people make. I kind of wish more newsletters were like this. OK, it was just hardware time. We have 2,737 guides, Lady Aida. We've got a bunch. So let's start with the first one. OK, first up, we have updated some guides. This is an updated guide. Oh, sorry. This guide, I actually remember what this guide was. Eva has been going through many of our sensor guides and adding Whippersnapper getting started pages. So the LC709 is one that Whippersnapper, our no-code IoT system, recently added support for. And Eva has added a page on how to do that. So especially people who have projects with a built-in battery charger, they're using a battery monitor or using an external battery monitor, you can now track that on Whippersnapper. OK, next up. OK, a bunch of new guides and updated guides. On the right, a new guide from Jepler on the Tandy 1000 keyboard. Jepler inherited a stash of old keyboards. And decided to circuit-pythonify them. They're all different. These are pre-USB, pre-PS2. So each one of them has their own funky, unique, weirdo protocol. So in this case, it was a clocked serial interface that Jeff found some documentation for. And then showed how you can use circuit-python with PIO, which is the really cool RP2040 built-in state machine system to program in the bit-banging required to do this weird serial protocol for the Tandy 1000 keyboard. And then he 3D printed a little jack to add in all. So I thought this was kind of neat, because on one hand, it's a keyboard. On the other hand, it's a great PIO tutorial as well. Liz is going to be pie-leap-ifying a couple clue sensor projects for a project with a pack. But basically, pie-leap is a way of you can use a phone to upload code to Bluetooth in the future Wi-Fi, circuit-python boards without having to write any code at all without needing access to a computer. So it's really handy for people who only have a phone. You want to just run some of our demos. You don't want to set up even the most minimal Moo install or whatever. You can use a phone to do it. So we wanted to have a little guide that goes with the pie-leap installation. I've even tried out pie-leap right now. It's available for iOS. We're working on the Android version. And we'll show the video later. And then Brent's been working on updating the Whipper Snapper guides. We took some more screenshots because we've updated the look and feel. And then Ann has also, by the way, if people who want to, if you see example code that we have and you want to improve it or you want to add your own example code, all of our example code for all of our projects is on the learning system. So we've unified it. So every guide, all 2,000 guides, the code is in GitHub. And you can see the original code. And if you see typos and stuff, please submit poor requests because we will take them. And then we'll play the video for the pie-leap project. But then we have another set of guides. And then we're going to play one of these videos too. I don't know what happened with Make It Pulse. Probably just we updated the guide. We do have a guide now for the ENS-160 Mox Gas Sensor. That's last week's new product. It's a handy 4-channel Mox Gas Sensor. It's the upgrade to the CCS-811 from Siocense. It's a lovely sensor. That's the CCS-811 was one of the original iSquad C gas sensors. This one works quite well as well. Gives you TVOC, Total Volcanic. I always say volcanic. Total Volatile Organic Compounds. Volatile Organic, not Volcanic. Effective CO2 and air quality index as well as the resistances. So that's available in Circuit Python, Python, and Arduino. So check out that guide for how to use it. Erin is back. I don't know if people remember Erin. Our in-house mermaid, she swam the world for the last year or so, taking a little bit of a break, but then has come back and is rocking it with guides and projects. This one shows how to install WLED, which is a cool wireless LED library. And you can run it on our ESP32 boards. So she shows how to do that for the Feather ESP32 and the Qtipi ESP32 to make these awesome Wi-Fi jellyfish. And I think we'll have a video as well. We're going to show you two videos from the learn system. And then finally, the LED Backpacks Hex Segment page completely got redone by Catney to modernize it and add Circuit Python example code. So we're going to show the jellyfish video and then the piley video. OK. See you on the other side. Our oceans are full of life, and few species are more fascinating than the jellyfish. Jellyfish are more than 600 million years old, having survived all five mass extinction events. Some are deadly, some have bioluminescence, and one species may be immortal. This tutorial will show you how to create your own luminescent jellyfish out of iridescent vinyl and neopixel LEDs, easily add endless life patterns with WLED software, with no coding required. You can even make multiple jellyfish and sync them up over your Wi-Fi network. This is a fairly easy project with no coding and just a little soldering. The end result is out of this world. See the full build tutorial at learn.adafruit.com. You can choose between plotting with a line or dots and having the plotter scroll or wrap around the display. The A button changes the sensor that's plotting on the screen. As the sensor's values change, you'll see the on-screen plot change as well. This project is a great introduction to the clue and its many features. If you're curious about what makes the code tick or plot, you can check out the original learn guide that goes into depth on how everything is working. Happy plotting. And it's time for some factory footage. Made right here in New York City. A 3D printing time. And like we said, the 3D printing shows and more will work on a little bit of a break today because of weather. Hurricane Ian is heading right towards Numpadro. They're okay. We were talking with them over email. Everything's fine right now, but they took the day off to put all the things that could fly away inside. So maybe three prints and tarps or something like that. They were able to get a couple of videos out and we're gonna play this. You can build an MP3 audio player with Circuit Python and parts from Adafruit. This personal music player features a TFT display and mechanical key switches. With this DIY project, you can relive the years when physical media was hot and chunky gadgets were the norm. Powered by the Adafruit Feather RP2040, this dev board is packed with tons of great features. It's got plenty of GPIO and flash memory that can be used in either Circuit Python or Arduino. Four key switches are used as button controls and feature NeoPixel LEDs. Use the rotary encoder to adjust the volume with a graphical progress bar on the display. An audio jack lets you plug in your favorite pair of headphones like these old school wire frames. Store your favorite tracks on a micro SD card to make your own mixtape that you can easily swap out. The 3D printed case is inspired by the Sony Walkman and features parts that snap fit together. A slide switch on the side of the case lets you easily turn the device on and off. There's also a built-in button for hitting the onboard reset switch, which comes in handy. The code was written in Circuit Python by Todd Kerr in John Park. It uses the MP3 library to decode and play back audio using an I2S Class D amplifier. It's all open source and available to download on the Adafruit GitHub repo. You can customize the features or write your own by hitting over to the learn guide for a full step-by-step tutorial. Our enclosure design features 3D models of Adafruit parts that are free to use in your projects. Be sure to check out the CAD Parts repo on GitHub. We hope this inspires you to check out Adafruit Circuit Python for your next audio project. Hi, Okie-Dokie, we're in doubt. We'll start new products in a couple minutes here. Hi, sorry. That was good. That was good. Before you do that code segment, 10% off in the Adafruit store, all the way up to 9PM tonight. Lady Aida, are you ready to kick it? Hi. Sorry, just give me my cables, stables. Yeah, so many cables. Can you help me? Want me to find you one? I have one on my desk. OK, so here I am. I'm just going to hang out for a bit. You know what I'll do. I'll show the code. I'll use my police standby card. You know what, I'm going to keep my night purple woven cable because we always tried it. OK. Yeah. Well, I'm ready to new. OK, we're going to start over. Sing it. New, new, new, new, new. Where's my cable? New, new, new. We'll edit this the best. All right, first up. OK, so we have the revision, but it's a revision that I want to talk about because it's a big deal of vision. So the INA219, which we revised to add STEMIQT connectors. People love this. It's a high or low side current sensor. And it goes over I squared C. It's one of our oldest products. I think it's like product number 904, so it's quite old. But here's the thing. So yeah, sorry. Yeah, click here. So yeah, so we revised it, and it looks a little different, and I want to explain what changed. So we could not get the INA219B, which is the version of the SOP23 chip that we've been using for a really long time. So instead, what we did is we revised the board to use an SOIC-sized chip. So the chip is bigger. And it's the INA219A, not the 21. It may be the 219A, not just the 219B. The difference is the 219B, I think, is 0.5% precision, and the 219A is 1% precision. Thing is, is that resistor is only 1% precise anyway, so it's not like it's going to make a huge difference. But I do want to mention that the precision has changed slightly. We never promised that we'd have the 219B. We kind of just said it was the 219. We just couldn't get the 219B chips anymore. It was just very difficult. We wanted to keep these in stock, and I think for most people's usage, the 219A is just fine. If this is absolutely killing you and you absolutely need the 219B, I think in the next few months, we might be able to revert back to using specifically the B subtype. But the next few months, basically, we could only get the A type, and I thought it would be better to have it in stock, even if it's 0.2% less precise. Okay, next up. Okay, next up, we have, you know, this is actually something handy for people who have a micro bit, or you have a circuit playground express, or circuit playground, or any other project where it has alligator clippy pads. So we had Tower Pro, which makes the servos that we really like, create a version of their microservo, but this time it has alligator clips on it, which makes it really easy. Good for workshops. It's great for basically. Yeah, this is gonna, if you've ever had to do any like step-by-step instructional learning, especially with youngins, you will appreciate this because you can get right to controlling a servo and not trying to figure out which way to plug it in. Yeah. Wrong stuff, wrong wires, wrong this, wrong that. Okay, so it's gonna be overhead, and I'll show off this demo. Okay, so basically this is a demo of moving back and forth, but it's the same microservo geared plastic servo that you're used to. Send it one to two millisecond pulses, and you can power it from ground and signal. And in this case, I'm powering it from V out, which happens to be five volts, but you can also power it from 3.3 volts. It won't move as fast or as strong, but I know the micro bit only has three volts available. But basically we have a servo to alligator clip adapter cable, which you can use with any servo, but if you just wanna get started quickly with the microservo, this is very compact and easy to use, and the wires are color-coded, which took us quite a few tries to get the right color coding, but power is red, signal is white, and ground is black. Yeah, this is gonna save a lot of people a lot of time. Okay. It's funny, I had the USB-C cable right here, it was plugged into one. That's the way it always is. I know. And also it takes like three times a plug-in to cable tabs. Yeah, I got it all. Okay. So we're continuing on our path to have our seven-segment backpacks all come preassembled, so that people don't even have to solder in the LED segment displays. So these are STEMIQT-capable seven-segment backpacks, so they're plug-and-play, and you don't even have to solder in the LED segment. So let's go to the overhead, because I'll show these off. Yeah, do you want me to show both of them before we go to the overhead, because we have them? Sure, yeah, there's blue and white. We also already put in red and green. I think that was the last few weeks. Yeah, we had a bunch of them. So we go to the page so you can select and get all the different colors, but here is the... Also one of our first products was the seven-segment backpacks. It's great to be updating it. Okay, so, beef, one, two, three, four. So this is the two, blue and white. They're incredibly bright, matrix drivers, and what's nice is, of course, now you don't have to solder anything at all. You can just plug-and-play over I-squared C. You can have up to eight of them if you solder close these jumpers over here, but otherwise they're just stackable. You can put them next to each other. They stack up side-by-side, so you can have very long digits if you so wish, and always stem IQT. So we're trying to get everything to, as little soldering as possible, required to get started. Okay, next up. Okay, another update. So there's many updates because of this chip shortage, which is causing a little bit of a back-and-forth-ness in the market. So... Oh, I was on the C-mail third. Oh yeah, these came in, cool. These came in. It is, it is like that. It's like, oh, these are finally, I can get these to you, great. Okay, so this is the OpenMV-M7. This is like a smart machine learning camera that you can program with micro-pythons. Very powerful. It uses the STM32-H743, which if anybody knows is basically like total unobtainium, but they were able to get some stock to fabricate some. The only deal is they couldn't fabricate the version two with the, I think it's the MT9411 camera. So this has, I think, the OV56 something-something camera. It's basically version one for why we're selling version two, but then chip shortage hit, crushed all hopes and dreams of getting STM32-H7. So the one thing we were able to get is to go back to V1. If you absolutely need V2, you really want that new MT9411 or whatever part number camera, please wait, you know, maybe in six months, we'll have some of the V2s, but for most people's uses, it doesn't really matter. The camera quality is almost identical. The chip is the same. The software functionality is the same. So we have a couple hundred of these in stock. Honestly, I don't know when, and neither does OpenMV know when they're gonna be able to make more of these. Yeah, I figured I'd go and check on one. So if you want one, you may not want to wait out until the V2 is available. You might want to get the V1 and it's basically the same. Anyone has been waiting on ST chips that's living in the world of hurt? If you're in an STM32-F7 or H7 world, you're, yeah, you're in a world of pain. Okay. And no parts. Next up. And look, here's another STM based board. What a coincidence. So actually, this is funny. This one, they went to the GD32-F105, which is a giga device, ST compatible chip. So this is the Blackmagic Probe. This is a really cool all-in-one debugger that has built-in debugging capabilities for a variety of chips, core chips, it's SWD programming. But what's really neat is it like, it's kind of like built into the chip itself. So you don't necessarily need to install OpenOCD. It's very popular. And we were out of stock for a very long time. They had to do a bit of a redesign for chip shortage reasons. But thankfully, we were able to get some, they've also updated the firmware. It's now V2.3. So we got a bunch of these. And I think they'll be able to keep these in stock. Hopefully, giga device can supply them with the chips. And basically, this is kind of an advanced programming debugger for folks who are using, if you're using STMs or SAMDs, any of the Cortex M0, M3, M4 processor. This will do the job. Check out the open source code also on GitHub. You can see the changes and also make sure that your chip is supported. All right, next up. Okay, this is a very weird cable. So we didn't get a lot of these. What is this? Okay, so this is extra weird because we've actually stocked the, we've stocked USB-C PD cables already. And USB-C, what's interesting, it looks, I thought this was like makeup on it, but it's actually a translucent cable. So these are very interesting cables in that you plug in the USB-C side into a wall adapter that can supply USB power delivery, five, nine, 12, 15, 20 volts. There's like power supplies and they can supply different voltages based on what kind of cable device is plugged in. So we stock the cables that when you plug it in, they will give you like a fixed nine volts out or a fixed 12 volts out. It's very handy because you no longer have to have multiple wall warts. Like, you know how we have that box of wall warts at home? Yes. And like we can't get rid of it because it's always like you need it. No, there's always like I need that one. There's always a thing you need. So the idea is to replace those instead of having different wall warts with different voltages, the cable defines or the device defines the voltage. So we had the fixed cables. And if you want like a fixed voltage, like I always want nine volts or always want 12 volts, get that. Now, if you're freaky like me and you want a cable that can be reprogrammed to request different voltages, this is your thing. So this cable, and this is so dangerous. It's like sometimes we carry stuff and I'm like, you're gonna hurt yourself. So try to like not hurt yourself. But this cable comes a little dongle. You see the dongle on the top right. You can program that. There's some Windows software that comes with it. And you can reprogram the power delivery requester chip to request different voltages. So you can have it be five, seven, nine, 10, 12, 15, 18 and 20, I think. And you program it with like these little kind of like, they're not EVADs but they kind of feel like EVADs are little code chunks. And then the cable turns into that cable. So one day you can have it be a five volt requester cable. The next day it's a 12 volt. The next day it's 20. You know, you can have it request the highest voltage up to you or the lowest voltage, whatever. There's like different programs that you can program it with. Basically it's extremely dangerous because you don't know what you're gonna, you know, like if you thought that you programmed it for nine, but it's actually 12. This is a super fun cable. Yeah, you could get 12. If you're interested in experimenting with power delivery, though I think this does have some use cases. You know, especially if you're not sure what power delivery you want or you want to test a power supply with different voltages. So it's like kind of funky. I will say you do have to reprogram it between each settings. Like you can't, there's no button or anything to switch the setting. You have to reprogram it each time for the different settings. But it's one cable that can do them all. You know, just try not to hurt yourself with this. Don't forget what you set it to because you think it was set for five volts. It's actually set for 20. You plug it in and you blow up your electronics. So super fun. Okay, and Star Show tonight besides you, Lady Aida, our team, our community, our customers, our staff. Everyone who works with us, everyone who's supporting this adventure called Adafruit is? The PCF 8575. Now you might be wondering, well, why do you have a 16 IO expander? Don't you have the NCP 23017? Yeah, we do, but we're not getting chips till 2024. So, or maybe, I mean, hopefully we'll get some sooner. But I wanted to have something out there for people who needed a 16 bit GPIO expander and did not want to wait for the MCP 23017 expander to come back into stock. This is very inexpensive. It's very easy to use. It's a bit of a funky chip. We stock the PCF 8574, which is the eight bit version. And that's been in the store for a bit and people have liked that. The thing with that is, and this is they actually use very similar code. There's technically no direction register for the pins on this. There's only two modes for each IO. It's either a light pull-up input or a strong syncing output. Basically what this means is that if you want to wire up an LED, this cannot source current. It can only sync current. So you have to connect the LED from the power, one of the power rail pins to the GPIO. And if you want to have a button connected, you have to have the button connected to ground. So when you press the button, it shorts the ground. And that will use the light pull-up on the input. It's not as powerful and amazing as like something the MCP 23017. However, it's available and it's very inexpensive. And there's a lot of drivers out there. We wrote Arduino and circuit Python slash Python code. There's three address pins. So you can have eight of these. There is an interrupt output pin. All light pull-up inputs are automatically added to the IRQ. So it's a very simple chip, right? There's not a lot going on. There's like one I-squirt-C register, but it does work quite well. So I thought I'd show this demo, which is using the USB-C cable that I finally found. So I just have it, one thing that I liked about this breakout is ahead of space. So I added a power rail, ground and power. Because again, LEDs, you have to connect the anode to power and the cathode to LED. You can't connect it from the I-O to ground. It will not be able to source current. It only gets sync current. And here's a button connected from one of the ground pins to an I-O. And then I have a little Arduino sketch running on here. It reads the button when the button switches. When I press the button, it switches which LED is lit, back and forth, back and forth, all over GPIO and then just fell out. Second. There you go. Very simple demo, but it's effective. I mean, one thing that is nice about this is because the I-Squared-C interface is so simple, it's very fast. Like you don't have to read a bunch of registers and do bit masks or whatever. There's literally, you either write the 16-bit output or you read the 16-bit input, and that's it. Okay. And that is new products. Yay, new, new, new, new, new, new, new. I found my cable. New, new, new, new, new, new, new. All is good. New, new, new, new, new, new, new. All right, so a little bit of a reminder that code is segments. We have some questions that we've lined up. Okay. So I'm gonna jump to this because we're gonna try to get on here. Nine o'clock on the dot tonight. Okay. Ask away. Start putting them in Discord. There's a little bit of extra few minutes for the questions. Yeah, so idford.it slash discord. So here we go, are you ready? For one of the products you showed before, this one. Is it possible to monitor, so it's continue rotation at Servo? Not easily. I know the standard size Servos you can modify. And I might, you know, if this does well, if people like this, I will say it took like a month and back and forth to get them to understand what I wanted. I'm totally willing to get other Servos with alligator clips, but I wanna make sure since I have to buy like a thousand in time, I wanna make sure that this is something people want. So it's not modifiable, but with luck, we'll also have a standard Servo and a rotation Servo eventually. Okay, is there any way I can use the Maker Pi 2040 motor output chip H-bridge as a simple relay? You know, H-bridges are not really relays. They, you know, sometimes you can use a relay in exchange of an H-bridge, but you can't really use an H-bridge in exchange of a relay. And so what I recommend is we have a, you know, a simple relay breakout board that you can just plug in. You know, it comes with a, you can connect the JSTPH cable and just plug it into some of the header pins that are on, I think the Maker Pi has like header pins. If you don't wanna do any soldering, I would recommend doing that rather than trying to rework this H-bridge. Okay, would you consider selling a breakout board for the three amp USB-C power banks? I get a lot of use out of my 2,000, 220,000 hour lamp one. And it'd be great to have that option to make custom ones, replace the boards in broken ones. You know, if I could get boost converters, I actually just got into a little bit of an email back and forth with TI. They're like, no, you know, like, check out these cool boost converters we sell. I'm like, they are not in stock. I cannot use them if I cannot buy them. So I would love to have, you know, power boosts in three amp power DC these converters. I just can't, I can't get chips. So this is one of the first things that went AWOL during that chip shortage. For a real world segment, we had this as a real, how many are typically in a real like this? Oh, these I think come in real of 2,000. Okay. I think 500 to 2,000, I mean, it depends. Actually, what's interesting is there's a lot of companies that they sell multiple real sizes. Like sometimes like TI especially, they tend to have 250 reels. And then I think 2,000 reels or maybe 1,000 or 2,000 reels. So I often when I'm getting started, I get one reel of like the mini reel of 2,000 at 250. And then when things go well, I get the 1,000 or 2,000 piece reel. Okay. Next up. This is just, maybe someone could try to figure this out based on what you say. How many feet miles of 0.1 pin, oh, sorry, 0.10 pin headers Adafrit goes through in a year. It's a really good question. I would guess that we go through about a million pins a year. Okay. So you can do the math. So do the math. I do not know how many miles it is, but it's a one, let's say a million. I don't actually know, but I'm just totally guessing. Okay. Do you know of an iOS spanner that does pull up and pull down? I do not. It's actually quite rare. Usually they do pull ups. The AW9523 doesn't do pull ups at all. Which is a little annoying. The MCP23R17 does do pull ups. Like I said, the PCF857X's do a light pull up. I do not know of any that do pull downs. It's very rare. It's unusual. I don't think they would spend the money, to be honest, because if you're using a GPS expander, it's like you could probably customize your setup. Okay. Speaking of crazy ideas, like this cable, if you're going to build a tiny space heater type project, what would you use for it? Well, that is a really bad idea. Well, I'm glad we're on this. It's a space heater for ants. Okay. I really wouldn't, because space heaters often have, Well, they have, you want something UL certified, so if it falls over, it turns off, and it doesn't overheat. But you can use our little mini hot plate, and just put your hand over it. Yeah. Why isn't there Adafruit candy shaping the characters? You know, we have done, There is, but it's called rainbow fentanyl. Yeah. No, not really. We've had, we've had some like Adabot lollipops, and some other things. We'll probably do something at some point. So it is an idea that we tossed around, because we like to think- We did those LED gum drops. Yeah, we've done- Becky did that as a project, an early project. Okay. Have we ever logged walking around Adafruit with Panamra? Yeah, I have. Back when I was shipping, even when we were apartment Adafruit. We did, yes. There's a few miles. Yeah, I remember you had your little, your little watch, your Fitbit or something. Okay. The numbers are in it. It might be 1.58 miles of headers. Okay. Just because it depends on- No, I mean, like we go through a lot of head, but you know, this was one of the things that like, we did that was weird. It was like, we included headers with our- We're getting the same result. What is it? Five Sigma is that's when it's real. That's when the result is real. So we're getting close. Yeah. Okay. I think this might be everything. It is. All right. That's our questions for tonight. Thank you everybody. 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