 All right, the great search brought to you by Digikey. And everybody, thank you, Digikey. Lady Aida uses her powers of engineering every single week to show you things that you can find on Digikey. And this week is a special gift-giving favorite tool edition of things you can find on Digikey's site after we saw something cool. So take it away, Lady Aida. That's right. So I actually didn't do a lot of Digikey part searching this week because everyone's on break, which is wonderful. But I did see this really cool thread that Théa Valkyrie posted on Twitter. So it's on my computer and I can show it. Ta-da. So I love this idea. It's like the day after Christmas or the day of Christmas asked, what did people get this year or for the holidays? The special tools that you want to show off. And there's really good examples in here. So check out Stargirl's tweet thread because there's like, there's more showing up and I'm not going to get to all of them. But the first one that came up is from Timon, who does a really cool open source hardware. And they said, this brush and these little swabs are cleaning PCBs. And even Eva, whose team made a fruit intern, was like, that was really cool. So I thought this is actually a really good idea to show off. So these swabs, ESD brushes are pretty common, but these swabs that I thought was interesting about them is they're foam tipped, not cotton tipped. And so that means that you can use them to get flux remover in on your circuit boards and clean them up without getting like the little smags of cotton that always kind of come off and get hooked, especially on like little sharp corners of your components. Don't like that. But these foam tipped brushes are good. So I thought I would show how you could find foam swabs on Digikey. So I go to Digikey and I actually just, I'm just gonna search for foam swabs. And it turns out that there is a whole section called clean group swabs and brushes. And this stuff is like, there's like such a good stuff in here. So it's interesting because I'm not looking for a specific thing. I'm just looking for a general thing, but I'll look for active and in stock. And there's cotton ones, of course, but we don't want cotton tipped. We want just like foam. Note that there's like hog. You want like hog tip swabs. You can get that. But I want foam. So let's look at foam tip. And in particular, this is probably propylene. There's a couple. This one is sort of like a, yeah, like this is where the mouse over photos come in handy, because I was able to like really scan through them. Short has kind of like a rounded swab. These are pre-saturated. This is from Chemtronics. So it's kind of like the coolest, weirdest, like graphic treatment of all the chemical components companies. But this is actually the one that was, I think the closest. So you get a 500 piece pack for 65 bucks. And yeah, this nice sharp pointy tip. But I'll say that there's a couple other options as well. There's like flexible ones. There's ones that have a clear tip to them. They're not like made out of wood. There's ones that are made out of wood. I wouldn't, you know, I guess I was going to this. I was like, these look a lot like COVID test swabs. Don't use them for that. This is for cleaning your PCBs. Ones that are like guaranteed ESD safe, all sorts. But check out these ones. This is a kind of a really fancy swab. This is for like soaking up. So if you spilled a little bit too much flux remover, you can I think use this to kind of soak up some of that material very gently. So I'm checking up a lot of options, but I think the one that looks closest to the one they had was this one from Chemtronic. So you get 500 packs, 500 pieces in this pack, 44070. But check out the other swabs and cleaning supplies. It's one of those things where future you will thank you when you get good cleaning equipment and good tools. Then when you need it, you're not like, oh my God, I don't have, I'm losing a Q-tip and then you're cleaning the Q-tip off the board. Anyways, check out these foam swabs. I'm going to pick up some of these, I think for our family department. Okay, and that's your pick. I checked out the thread. It's still going on. The thread's still going on. I just picked one item out of it. It is amazing. And then the other thing that I'll say is I sent a note to some maker community leaders. And I don't know if people want emails from me anymore, but I had this idea. Very Christmas. Well, so it was the day after Christmas. And one of the things I noticed is, so we don't post links to Amazon because some people have issues with Amazon. Some people love Amazon. What we try to do is always post a link to the maker's website. If someone makes something, whether it be their own personal site or a Tindy store, or if it's even someone who's, we don't think SparkFun's a competitor, but even if we don't make something, but SparkFun does. Oh, I sent people to SparkFun all the time. Yeah, and so we do our holiday sales stuff where we link to everyone who sells electronics. Like, you have motor drivers? Go to Pololu. Yeah. They got that covered. And so, in this parting great search, because this is the last desk of Lady Eda for the year. Oh, yeah, the year. I just wanted to say like, so when we're all posting up links on social media and more, if you can remember to link to the maker's site, that's really helpful, especially if you want to reward open source companies or women-owned companies or minority-owned companies. You know, sometimes there is a cheaper, worse version on Amazon, or there's a cheaper, worse version on Taobao or Alibaba, and it takes forever to get, but people will say, oh, it's here, but they don't really even know if it is or not. I think we can all spend a couple extra minutes. So I sent a note to community leaders in the maker world, and we'll see, I thought this would be something we could all do in 2022 together, because I think, you know, you've heard the term virtual signaling. People are like, oh, Amazon's the worst. And then some people say Amazon is great. They're one of the biggest employers in the country. Well, no matter what though, that debate aside, when people are sending things to each other on social media, if you can link to the person's website, the company's website that you like, that you want to support, do that anyways. Even if they also do sell on Amazon, because often Amazon takes a big cat. Yeah, so just generally speaking, if you can find it on- Go be original. Yeah, if you can find it, it just takes a minute. Like, we're all smart. We all spend hours researching what socks to buy forever. And we read all the reviews, and we're like, fine, I'm gonna get these tactical socks. Coming soon, nice tactical socks. Can't wait for my tactical socks. Nice, freaking tactical socks on Adafruit. But I think that's something that we can all do together. And I think that that's a nice community thing. I used to do that at Meg, did that at Hackaday. I'd do that at Adafruit. I think we can all do that. And the makers, all the y'all that are in the chat and super fans and part of the community, that's why I think you like Adafruit, because we'll always point you in the correct right place. Even if it's something that someone else would consider a competition, we'll always do the right thing. And we don't do affiliate links, and we don't have any policies that says we can't link to any other site. I know there are some sites that can't link data for it, and I think that's weird, but that's their problem. So, anyhow, so with that is The Great Church this week. Thanks, everybody. I have to play the song. Play that. Last one of the year. Here in the world is that church with DJ King.