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I didn't have any stuff to share with you anyway, so I have stuff to share Yeah, you have it up. I think you're ready Geary Geary is just jealous of Wally Yeah It's all the attention the only bouncing was your sound I love it well Go share go share the link with everybody you love for Matt Yeah, I'm not sure I'm not sure what is happening to be fair if it was crazy across everything and so we just rebooted everything and It looks like StreamYard was having some issues With other streams as well Yeah, we definitely had and some other people were saying that StreamYard was having issues with other chats as well Or other streams as well, but Yeah, I think we're good now though. Everybody says we're good. So all right, let's do this I know we're running a little bit late because of this audio garbage, but Without further ado, he's here. He's with us It is my pleasure to introduce Matt Hobbs Matt, how you doing? Well, whoa, whoa Dude I think we're doing good now, but yeah, yeah, I think we're doing much better. We actually we actually have audio so that's Professionals here folks. Yeah, I Gotta tell you a hundred and nine episodes and I can't remember Maybe one other time that we ever had audio issues like that. So hey, that's a that's a pretty good track record How you been good good? Nice I had it all Well, I know you're super busy and you just got out of a meeting and we appreciate you, you know squeezing some time in for us we are just super stoked to talk to you about all things Wally as we can see behind you and Of course, it's perfect timing to talk about the telescope if you can talk about that too. So that's that's pretty awesome Yeah, we can talk about any of that. It's all open source. It's all NASA all the missions are Free for anybody to see Nice. Oh, I love that But let's start let's start with who you are like what you do and maybe where people could find you after the stream And then let's dive right into it. Yeah, okay. So I'm Matt Hobbs originally from Huntsville, Alabama. I just moved out to California in October After finishing up integration for the the James web I was working for a company called nexol that built the sun shields in Huntsville And then we helped integrate out here and I found out I really liked it out here and decided I would Make the move and they had a job for me here. So, you know opportunity presented itself and here I am Other than that, it's it's you know, my hobbies are joy building. I mean, that's that's basically all I do Well, uh, you that that's pretty dang awesome that you get to work on that you worked on right the James web and I definitely want to dive into that. But like but first you said your hobby is droid building We could see right behind you any phenomenal Wally going on right there. Can you tell us a little bit about it? Yes It was a challenge build someone said, you know, it was it we were at dragon con They were like, okay, you can't build one of those in a year. I'm like, yeah, okay. Well, I want it right on next year That's how I operate Let's do it so Mike Senna and Michael and master talked a little bit They were the founders of the club and they had a lot of things going on and it was just a perfect time that another builder Had already started making the track system. So I was like, okay This is perfect if I can get the track system built. I can get everything else done without an issue So we went through build the track system with him and then Lose used a little bit input from Mike because he was using the same thing. So it's his design System with the metal tracks and then I think his mark D grown them. I think that's his last name that did the open source track system and then so we took And got that one built. Yeah, there's the first and there was one of my other hobbies that 1930 model a but oh man Those are too big and it's way too expensive. So But once we did that and Mike was really gracious that he let me his Joy, he was sick at the time and he was like, I can't use it. So here takes a joy I was working in California in a hotel So he trusted me to take the droid and then I took it all apart parts everywhere. It took and measured everything Droid just so that we could get all the measurements for the club And that's where set Kelly came in and then he came in and did the new club interface that we have now He did all of the took all of those measurements and went through thousands of screenshots and got The files that were using for this new one back here, which is Wally 2.0 And those are open source for the club So that's kind of where things went. Another guy Wayne was one that had the head mechanism. So He had a bunch of drawings and it had a guy do a bunch of design work. So then we took and Redid all of that and made it producible I ended up with where we're at now and then we went through the first paint job was really crappy I don't know if you've got a picture of that. I should have told you that one It's like from the way back from first dragon con and it was what I perceived as an old rust bucket So that's what I did But then a little bit later on Pixar approached us and they're like, okay You'll redo your Wally to what We would like it to be done to Then, you know, we'll we'll let you be the first approved Wally to be approved for the park use Nice and we went through. Yeah, there he is So he went from that To what Pixar approved and what he is now Um, and then we've gotten a few more people approved and we do like the the private events and stuff in the parks that we can actually Um use these guys for so it's really cool that they they allow us to do that I love that. I love how they bring in people like for every every type of, you know Yeah Mandalorian and All the fan groups. Yeah, amazing. Now if they would just do a live action Wally, we would be There you go, so What is Wally? Like what's the predominant? Is it 3d printed? Is it like a combination? Is it? It's a combination of of all the elements everything but wood I think so I mean, it is 3d printed all the exterior body is the interior of this one Is a steel frame And then the new one that we're doing is all aluminum Uh with aluminum extrusion and a couple different flat pack systems that we've David's design, but this one is and the tracks are molded. So I took in 3d printed apart And then made silicon molds for that And then, you know cast those in a urethane, I think bjb Urethane so which we can get the links to all of those. They're all on my pages If anybody needs links for that, so that's awesome And you you know your reference in the page you're talking about your facebook group, right facebook. Yeah My facebook page. Yes. Yeah, that's awesome. So we'll get a link in that We'll get a link to that. I think it's already in the description Yeah, there's a link to it. I definitely post one too because I think this is such a cool thing and it looks like you have some other Droids behind you too. So right right over your shoulder there. Yeah, I mean, I've got uh mo It's sitting here. Then we've got the wally 2.0. We've got the r2 dome. I'm redoing that Uh to put the periscope in Then I've got the scrubber droid on this side over there um that that one was actually on the production set for Obi-Wan, but didn't get chosen Use the cool thing is is that actually weathered it for me. So it was it looks really good That is so cool being on set. So that was really cool. Yeah, no, that's super cool that you got to have it on set at least Yeah, so so um, oh there you go. Nice Oh, look at that It's just a real ice cream It's an ice cream thing. Let's put ice cream sandwiches in there and I'm like That's so good. I love that So That's why we took to celebration. They'd asked us to build one of those for the joygreens. So The recent celebration. Were you at that one? Well, it was. Yes. Just curious. I missed that one. I'm sad about it It was a good turnout That's what I heard. That's so good. Oh, look at that. There's Moe. This is that one So this was uh done by Matthew Zerts Files are and then uh, some of the programming and stuff is done by Stefan Um, which you know talking about all these other guys I'm mentioning is that You know, I'm not a one person does it all thing. Um, the team of friends I guess we're not in you know a team of people we've built some really good relationships over the The past five or six years and you know, I've only been doing this maybe Six years now, I guess. Wow As a hobby and You know, I couldn't do it without the other people that I work for why and we have motivate each other and push Push each other along but then we all have our shortcomings and we all have our things that we're really good at So, I mean, it's like, you know, that's why we have these communities and you know, if you're getting into this new then my biggest advice is You know build some friendships. Don't just ask questions. Try to build for, you know, some true friendships in these groups Uh, because there's there's a lot of great people out there Yes, that's that's great advice and it's cool to have a good core around you Yeah, you know, just like it's a good segue, right? Just like you you know working on the james web You guys didn't do everything, right? You did your piece and What what piece was that so we can talk about that? So I stuck up the sun shields is what I worked on So it's the big silver things that are underneath the mirrors. So they're protecting They're separating the mirrors from space Or from the sun basically on on the hot side So all of that silver and the purple on that's what we built each one of those is around the size of the tennis court They're about 40 feet by 80 feet. I think is what the Measurement is I'd have to look and see don't hold me with that. We're never supposed to meet you I don't know. They're right So you said like the size of a tennis court. Yes, it doesn't look like that from that first picture Yeah, this is so deceiving on this on this Those those are tennis court size from the width and the length of the tennis court So so they had a really cool Stream the whole time they were building this right in that building right you guys were inside there working Yeah, oh, yeah, I spent the last six years of the program out there Probably at least three to eight months out of the year Just all of that in a hotel room, you know, so it was It was it was good money, but it was it was a rough way of living. That's a lot of team members there Which are amazing That would be rough bill group there um That's cool So, yeah, it's it it was an amazing trip I mean what we did and what we got to do and you know, I've been told that I had the most hands-on gloved hands-on Usage of the of the sun shields from all the way from the beginning when I came in I started as a technician on what they called the template layers And then did that for around six months and craig was like, hey, do you want to you know manage the the Guys we only had like four at the time. I'm like sure, you know, I had done that previously. I came from the sign industry So my education is only two years Nice. Um, so I do not have an engineering degree which makes what I've achieved, you know, a lot different uh, that's just by a lot of hard work and You know putting all the things I should have finished school, but I did um, I love that I says if you're going to do this kind of work finish your school early You know try to get it on while you're young because the harder the older you get the harder it is, right? There's so many people though right now that don't have like an education that are doing these kinds of things that you know are just self-taught or Uh, it starts as hobbies and I love hearing those stories because yeah You know not not everything has to be streamlined, you know, cookie cut school I'm not saying don't go to school guys, but you know, there's so many different paths that you can take in your interest. So They're even down to the the technician level that you guys make good money Uh, you can start out It's better to have a school background in there and you'll make more coming in as far as that goes But if you know someone you're lucky enough to find your way in But it's it's where and start with a smaller company And you know, you'll grow from there. I was really lucky. I was in the right place at the right time Right. I designed a piece of hardware. They couldn't get enough stuff done So I designed something for one of the engineers there and he showed it to his boss and he was like, man, that's good So just got a job and they come and offered me a job. So it was nice there And then I worked that for a couple years in the management. I went into Um, what they call a manufacturing engineer position, which is basically the translator between the engineering team and the manufacturing team Uh, and we just try to all make everything work well together where we can produce it and design it Um did that and then, you know, it was always hands. I was working Um a working manager. I guess is what it was and that's I led by Doing that and I think that's what made my team so successful is that we were I was always in there with them I never you know left them out the hang or you know, something like that It's always getting if I knew if I could do it they could do it um They do it for me. So that's the difference between a a manager and a leader Yeah, that's that's what that is Because you know, you can sit back in an office and say go do this But if you're out there you're leading the team you're in your your your hands are dirty. Well in your case, you're gloss You know, that's that's really what does make a team and that um, if you can find that in a company Grab it and run with it because in the bigger companies that you get in smaller companies It's easy to for that to happen, but the bigger ones are so subdivided Uh, it's really hard to that mix I think geary has some more pictures for us. Um, if you're if you're watching and you're not sure what we're talking about We're talking about Uh, the new james webb telescope. It's out there now. We just saw some Phenomenal pictures that just came back from that thing. Um It is it's the biggest telescope we've ever launched, right? Correct. Um, and it's and it took what six to eight years or something like that to build No, this was over 20 years to build from the start from design to build Okay, I'm for 11 years. Oh wow Jeez, so I I guess I came in late. Um, I have a good friend of mine Uh, he may be watching right now. Hey steve. Thanks for taking care of the animals. Um So he's he like you gotta check this out. There's this room There's this telescope and he was showing me this stuff and it was like nothing in this room yet He's like watching it every day, you know, seeing what's going on and then you start seeing stuff And uh, it's really cool to kind of like check in on it periodically and just all of a sudden There's stuff there then if there's more stuff then it's looking like something and what's even cooler is that we're probably Checking in on that. I saw you as one of the white, you know, it's one of the white suited people running around in there Um, but but I think we have some pictures. We have a picture there of uh, the actual telescope I think geary has that Um, sorry, what was that? I saw a little picture. Do you have a picture of the actual like the whole telescope? Uh, just this one I mean, I can pull something up though There we go. Can you hear me? nice We saw that a minute ago. We were talking about that that foil you said is each one of those like a tennis ball size Court there's a big difference there Of course the thickness of human hair, so Wow Or so each one of those sun shields can weigh less than 15 pounds. How delicate is that? It's they're delicate Hold up in space then But you know a little thinner but Intensile and strength they're really it's really strong, but if you do put a hole in it or something then it does tear So hopefully it never gets hit by a piece of space garbage. It's designed to to absorb that though. It's really we'll um, basically together so it's quilted in a section by section size So if something does go through it and it does do a tear it will go to a point and stop Oh, wow rip stops But even with this with we did a lot of testing with the stuff tensioned and you shoot something at it And it just goes directly through it. It doesn't tear it crazy That's that's it all folded up so we could fit in the fuselage, right? Correct. Yep. That's wow duration so so when you saw Recently, I mean you had to be super stoked when it actually got launched. It was up. It was like, hey look It's actually out there now, right? um What was your feeling when that happened and then like Late last week or I think it was last week when we saw the first pictures Like can you describe that as someone who worked on this thing? I can only imagine what that felt like. I've got a video out there that's of walle watching the the large And you know that that feeling was was was good. We got it off the ground You know, we know, you know, it's on its way and really what what hit me is they didn't expect it it came off the uh the secondary Launch and it released and then we got that glimpse of the uh, the solar array opening up and that was just like It's working, you know, it's it's all But nothing was as good as those first images when I saw those I was by myself and I'm gonna get teary thinking about it now But it was it was it was like, okay, we just saw something that you know, this is brand new now We're we're discovering all to look at everything out there and what I heard it from one of the scientists He's like, we're disappointed. He's like, there's no black space. There's stuff everywhere They're expecting Earlier and they're not It's not going to be as popular but there's just it just continues and continues to go So it's just another one of those things of saying, you know, I mean, we can't be the only ones out there It's yeah, you know, it's and I'm glad that we're learning all the things We are and the discoveries that this thing's gonna make is is gonna be amazing It's it's and you know, I set back in a look and You know, my dad's not with me anymore, but he would be Wow, you know, you're you're gonna be in the books in the history books writing with this kind of stuff That like gives me chills. I love that I don't know how to describe it and I've tried to a hundred times, but I think that was a pretty good one but It's it's cool You have achieved something that Almost Nobody watching now Or gonna watch in the future. We'll ever have achieved ever, right? You were part of of this one piece that's out there at space You you had a big part of that and no one's ever gonna do that again. That's out there. It's gone It's never coming back, right? And and and your work is like I can only imagine during launch and stuff But the tension like please don't explode or something Yeah, there was a joke like if it does explode then it not working will not be our fault, but And we're glad that we got to see y'all though You know, there were hundreds and hundreds of single point failures on the thing and it's just like We were all on chat. It's like, okay, did this go did this happen did this go, you know What fired next and just watching all the different things and you know getting a little pickup or something like, oh, no You know what what do we do and there's all the contingencies and we had all these test pictures set up to Be able to test things if something went wrong and we never had to use them, which was really good. Everything worked That is that is so good, right? I Mean, I just want to you know on behalf of all of us that thank you for your work on this thing because it's like you said It is going to be in history books. I mean, we're seeing things that Literally have never been seen before I mean I don't I don't understand in my Brain like I haven't read enough to understand how these pictures are actually transformed from the infrared and all that stuff But holy moly, I mean, yeah, that's a whole another job Of yeah, that it takes to transform these. I mean a lot of it's done electronically But then a lot of it is the artists that are doing The work of you know helping us to visualize what's coming back from the the computers That's phenomenal and these pictures are just Yeah, it's easy That one right there. I I saw that one right here and I was just like what is what is happening right now You know, if you like then now we're able to see through those dust clouds and see what's over You know beyond it or what's inside it. So it just doesn't look real Yeah No, it really doesn't it like it looks like like the backdrop of like a star wars poster or something I'm gonna be real with you And the quality on it, you know, it's so crisp like Yeah, once they start doing the planetary studies, that's really what I'm looking forward to of seeing You know what What's in some of the atmospheres of the planets and you know, can they detect life on some of these other planets? So good That that's going to be absolutely crazy. Um, this was this the first one. This was the first one. So this Thinking, you know, and each one of those is is not just a planetary system. Those are galaxies Which billions of planets by each one of those Things really It's like almost oppresses me though because the odds of us finding out anything about these places While we're still here kind of small, you know Not unless somebody comes and visits us Yeah, I mean, I'm sure it'll happen at some point, but it's gonna take time and it's just but we have to under we have to come up with a way to Be able to travel at light speed. So if any all these young engineers come up with that, that's right Well, that is so cool, man, and uh You know, I I don't There's no words for I'm just looking at this. It's just super Incredible and I think a lot of us don't even understand fully what we're looking at to be fair I mean, I look at this and I'm like, wow, that's super cool But now I need to go read a a book or like well, they don't have psychopedias anymore I mean, they should but you know what I mean, like I need to go You gotta think of it another thing that's like that really blows my mind is that Some of those that they're saying are billions of years Oh It has taken that photon. I think that's the proper name about, you know A billion years to get to us or what however light however long that uh, like what so a billion light years to get that Pixel to us to be able to see it. So whatever we're seeing Is over a billion years old So, I mean, we're seeing in the past Wow And so that's and to hear the scientists talk about it is is is yeah, that really hurts your head Well, uh, you know, I know we're we're a little late. We uh had to restart the stream and hopefully audio has been good Saying it isn't so that's pretty cool Any cool stuff? I know we got walley moving now again in any any fun projects that you're working on That you can talk about now like I know you said 2.0's coming. Yeah 2.0's coming He'll be done probably in the next month. So that'll put him at about a three month build I hope And then after that we've got a few things for um, some other star wars droids we're going to be working on and then We also work, you know, while I do a shameless plug while we're here is the The kiber control system. Uh, so we're going through an update on that Um, and be pushing that out here probably in the next month or so Um, so if anybody's interested in that go to the kiber control facebook page and what's that What is that? Just so we know, um, it's a control system for it's what walley uses So it basically turns your rc transmitter into it gives you a button pad so that now you can play yourself On this button pad instead of having to have a different A different controller or something that you would have to use bluetooth with or something like that So it's an all rc system. That's awesome and it does all of your sounds and it does Motions through the mystero motion controllers No programming needed to use one of these it's all It's all web based So you can just put, you know, log into it Through a wi-fi and then you can do all of your settings and stuff in there So we tried to make the system really easy for Beginners to start picking up and using And mainly because we want people to go to rc for their controllers because it's safer Um, the bluetooth and stuff are great. You can hide them. You can keep them in your pocket But you're limiting yourself on uh, your range for one and then Losing those signals and losing control of your drawings. So We have a runaway walley Oh That would be awesome Are you doing you were at wonder con and you were at celebration? Are you guys going to san diego? Yes, we will be at san diego common con. Okay, let me know where you're gonna be. I want to confine you Reach out to me on facebook. We'll be there with me and we'll have rusty also very fun You know So that's the the other little droid that's fun to drive. He's a little picture Like are you do you have a table or anything? Are you just going to be walking? Uh, we'll just be walking. We'll probably go from the hotel and Bring him down and just do like a day or two with him and then do the rest of the con without any droids We didn't droid booth this year. I wish we had Shannon you're gonna have to connect with uh, matt we got to get some pictures As long as i'm not in rescue because that's just going to be a project Fly when i leave me alone right now. Sorry Um, yeah, so it's going to be interesting, but i'm there all four days. So i'm excited Yeah, it's gonna be a fun day to pack yes Well, well, uh anything else geary do you have any questions for matt before we go? I need to upgrade sometime soon We need to we need to upgrade you Yeah We can do the team of experts We need a we need an animatronic, uh body for me for when we go to shows so that i can drive around That would be awesome. We should we should make a like a full body geary And then when we we do shows we could uh have geary Like his head is you know his head and then like he gets to walk around and yeah, that would be awesome Knowing me all I would get is I get to be one of the gears in like walley's track system Like it's just me in there. That's it. That's about as far as it goes What we're gonna do is we're gonna put you on a cell phone screen and we'll just carry you Nice well, uh, thank you for bearing with us tonight. I know we had a crazy stream in the beginning We're gonna re upload and hopefully uh, it'll be okay with that and then you know, thanks for joining us. Um I man, I cannot in words say thank you enough for the project you worked on with the help with the telescope and and uh You know, I can't wait to see where this thing goes and it's really cool to say hey I talked to somebody in person well, you know, virtually in person That had like a lot of hands-on experience with that Uh, and and anytime you want to come back. We will love to see your new stuff We would love to see any new droids or Uh, the new when you get the new control system if you want to come on and talk about that We would love to hear about that because I did uh, you know, one of the battle racers tripod is with us And really he built it. I just brought a bunch of parts and I had the tracks ready and then he's like get out of here I'm gonna do it for you So I ran away. He sabotaged it. It broke down. Uh, that's not true But it's fun to say, um, but we would it's really cool because I wonder if we can incorporate stuff that you're working on into those um, you know the little projects and stuff that We work on as well. So we'll have to talk about that Collaborations, so I mean if there's anybody that ever has some cool ideas the whole marway We'll just see what we can do with it Oh, I love it. Well, we'll check out. Um, can you shout out the group one more time? Which group the uh, the facebook group the one that? Oh And then if you want the kiber control, which is k-y-b-e-r Uh systems, uh, you can check that out there. I'm also on instagram and Uh tiktok under matt droids Matt droids Find me on those m-a-t-t-s droids. Nice and we'll have all those in the description below uh Anything else shannon before we take off Well, not from me guys. Um, my head's fried right now trying to pack so I can get to san diego But yeah, thanks for coming and talking to because it's the whole space thing is like it blows my mind And then it puts me into this like position though where I sit here and I'll think about this now for the rest of the night So No, that's so cool. I hope you guys I hope you guys connect I would love to see like a picture or with you in any of the droids too and and uh, I'll try no, um I don't think you'll be with us next monday, right? You'll be in the air. I think it'd be flying back Um, yeah, so well, well, I think next next monday. I think this is the 25th We have uh, our friends at cookie cat on so come join us for that We're going to talk about some really cool stuff with cookie cat on the 25th and uh, yeah anything else Geary anything else before we go No, i'm good Matt hang out right there. We'll be right back with you everybody else. Thank you for bearing with us tonight Thank you for being here and we will see you next week right here on hot makes See you later everybody