 This is Digikey and Adafruit Presents. Hi, I'm an MPI. Alright, this week's IonMPI is from Pro Ants. Pro Ants. Pro Ants is from Pro Ants. This is the first time we featured them. And they have this antenna that I saw in digikey.com. Which I always recommend everybody check out. There's a couple new sensors that just popped in today. So this is the, let me get the part number totally correct. It is the Pro OB607 onboard SMD2400 stamped antenna. It looks like this big chunk of stamped metal. There's also an eval board that comes with it. It's kind of just like the antenna where there's an SMA connector on the back. So you can use it to evaluate this antenna's couple capacitors as well. You're wondering, hey, you know, Pro Ant, that sounds like familiar, right? Like where have I heard that? Where have I heard that? You know, it's not the name of the professional ant farmer association. It's a technology that's also licensed on the back of the Raspberry Pi. Right? So you see here on the back of this Pi Zero, it says, uses an antenna technology licensed from Pro Ants. And if we go across on the south side, you're like, well, I don't see that metal antenna. That's because the antenna they licensed is actually like a PCB design. And it's like this thing, this like, you know, line with the ground plane and then this like kind of cool triangular shape with a couple passive components, like a very inexpensive antenna. And it works really well. I mean, we've actually seen this on a couple of Raspberry Pi products. So this is cool to see. Like they're like doing really cutting edge antenna technology. So, you know, not only do they have the stamped antenna, but if you are doing a PCB and you're doing a lot of them and you want a very low cost antenna that, you know, I think is probably smaller and gives you better results than an inverted F. Although I don't know for sure. I didn't look at the licensing documentation, but I assume it must be better because otherwise they wouldn't be using it. Check out Pro Ant for licensing antenna technology. So you're also wondering, you know, kind of this like bent wire antenna thing. Where have I seen that before? You probably saw it on the back of the Pi Portal pint because we use U-Blocks modules. And hey, look at that. It's a Pro Ant antenna. It might be the same model, might be a slightly different one, but it's just kind of 3D antenna. It pops up and above the PCB. You can also see this antenna style used here. Oh, look, it's another Pro Ant antenna. This is on the Pico ESP32. It's a dev board that we stock as well. And then what's this? Oh, look, Espresso fuses it on their PCBs as well for their Pico board. So, you know, I've seen this bent metal antenna and I've kind of been like, what's the deal here? And so when I saw it come up on I and MPI, I was like, this is cool. I'm going to pick some up because I'm always working on Wi-Fi or Bluetooth 2.4 gigahertz stuff. And what's the cool thing about this antenna? Well, the cool thing about this antenna is it's got really great gain. It's really inexpensive. It's, you know, sense. It's definitely going to be less than like 30 cents or so. It comes on tape and reel. It's really easy to pick in place. It's fully metal, so you know it's going to reflow quite nicely. It's got really nice circular emission. You know, it's off the PCB, so you're going to get more 3D gain across, you know, the entire sphere of emission. The gain is a max 4.9 dBi. You know, the datasheet has more graphs and it has less than, sorry, it has, do you mind making a larger scale? Oh, yeah. Sorry, the text is so small. It has better than 65% efficiency, which is really great and less than a negative about 7 dB return loss. So if you compare that with your, you know, inverted F antenna, you know, you're going to get definitely more gain. You know, here even the max gain is going to be 3.3 dBi and the reflection is a negative 15 dB instead of negative 7. So, you know, yes, nothing is going to be for price, a printed PCB antenna. But hey, you know, you can do better than that. Get this, you know, 3D stamped antenna. Pick and place it on your design. They're not very big. And, you know, I will say that I, when I see a lot of people using these antennas, I know there must be something good going on. You know, I know a lot of folks use ceramic antennas or 3D antennas and sometimes your space requirements dictate that. But if you have a little bit of space and, you know, the height doesn't bother you, especially if you have a tin can so that maybe the height would be equal to the antenna height, check out these antennas. They seem to have really good performance and I'm looking forward to designing one of these antennas until my next Wi-Fi or Bluetooth design. There is a, you know, there's a couple of different versions. I'll say this one is this big. This is a millimeters. It's got a couple of solder points. You know, I like that it has a couple of multiple solder points. So it's nice and stable against the PCB. But it looks like they designed a couple of different types of these stamped, you know, 3D antennas. Like I said, they're pretty cheap. You buy them by the real. This particular part is Pro-OB607. But the entire Pro-Ants, you know, they have many boards in the series or many antennas in the series. You know, bigger sizes, you're going to get more gain, maybe less return loss. So, you know, you, you figure out how big your antenna can be and check out these antennas. They seem to be quite the pros at antennas. That's why they're called Pro-Ants. Yeah, and you can get this over on digikey, digikey.com for a short year old. 4, F, D, Z, 8, M, 4, 2. And then for the product number, 1, 5, 3, 2, Pro-OB607, and then there's a couple variations, like Amor said. Yeah. We also have a video. That's right. They have, look, go subscribe to the Pro-Ant YouTube channel. They only have like a couple dozen subscribers. You can be first to comment on their videos when they do more videos. So check out this video from Pro-Ant. Today I want to introduce you to a demonstrator for the new Recon. Oops. Sorry. I think I gave it the wrong link. Oh, yeah. Oh, I apologize. And then in here. I apologize. That was last week's video. Exciting. I will, I'll send you the video in a bit and we'll... Yeah. Well, when we add it to the, what we'll do is we'll stop this here and we'll, for this segment. Yes. And then on the page that people are going to see this all the time, that's when we'll have that video in. Or they can just go to the YouTube, YouTube.com, search for Pro-Ant, and check out the video. It's the video they have on their page. All right. All right. Thanks everybody. And that's IonMPI. Good job. IonMPI.