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Yeah, so this week we have a 3D printed LED emerald inspired by Sonic the Hedgehog. We have three different sizes. And what's cool about these is they light up and they use the circuit playground blue fruit. So just by looking at it, it looks white. It's like there's nothing inside, right? It's kind of magical. So you can use the free blue fruit app for iOS or Android. I have a pen code, sorry, put my phone. So the blue fruit app is a free app for iOS or Android. There is some demo code that you can run. It'll show up and advertises a circuit pie device. There it is, so I will connect to it. And you can use the controller and the color picker module. If you haven't seen this demo before, this is a really great way to just kind of quickly get a Bluetooth controlled light up prop. So that's kind of what we got here. So you can use the color reader to change up the colors and then you have this brightness slider. So if you want to see battery, you can turn it off that way without having to disconnect the battery. You can see here that you get some really, really nice diffusion here, particularly with the bigger one. But I have this one under the overhead because it fits under the overhead, but you can do some really nice colors here. You can see under the webcam, you can see a little bit of the hotspots that reveals where the standoffs are. But otherwise in a nice dark setting, it looks phenomenal as you might have seen in the video. So I got this one. You also have a very smaller version and they all snap fit. So this one doesn't have the circuit playground in there, but you can see here, you can make even really smaller ones like that. But the idea here is that you would use this translucent white PLA. You can kind of see my fingertips kind of bleed through there, but you see that this isn't pure white. There are a lot of white filaments and they're not all created equally because this stuff is actually translucent. So it does a really good job at diffusing LEDs. So that's kind of the trick there is to get some filament that is translucent, particularly this white pigment because it lets all sorts of colors come through. If you get like a green transparent PLA and you try to make it blue, it's not gonna be blue. So that's why I choose going with the white pigment. This particular filament is called Filacube and Filacube makes it in 175 diameter and it's called Avery White. They also have some other names, Cream White, Natural Clear. I've seen the name Avery White. I've been used Avery White being used in other brands and it always seems to have the best diffusion for these type of projects. So if you're doing a sword, you're doing basically anything that needs to light up and take in really good rich color, check out this filament. I have it linked in the Learn Guide. So this is how it opens. You can just squeeze the edges here and you can see that there are some grabbers built into the bottom of the thing. No support material required for any of this, which is really awesome. Just kind of everything's at a nice angle where you don't need any support material. There's two brackets going on here. So there's one bracket or there's one mount for the circuit playground. It's just this. You've probably seen us use this before. It's a really, really simple way to attach a circuit playground to anything. It has these tabs on the sides that grab onto the edges of the PCB. There are four standoffs and two of these have these little nubbins and the nubbins go through the pads on the circuit playground. So I'll do a quick little demo of kind of installing it. Let me get some more focus. Oh, geez. Focus here. I'm gonna have to give you the focus wheel at one point. Wouldn't that be cool if we had a little Brian Locke focus project? Here we go. So here is the circuit playground mount. There are four mounting tabs on the outside and this allows you to attach it to other things like the bracket here. That's how I would attach it. But let's kind of do a quick demo. The way you wanna do it is you wanna line up your USB port with this opening here and you notice if you rotate that, it's symmetrical so that if you have a battery hidden underneath here, it can fit in between the standoffs and you have these two exit holes here for the cable to kind of route through. So you see the standoffs are elevated so that they match the thickness of a 500 milliamp lipo battery, which is really cool. So to take it out, you can grab on one of the tabs and then just kind of do one of these when you get your finger down in there and once one side is open, easy to get it out. But it's very, very nicely secured in there and this is just regular PLA. Nothing fancy other than just being regular PLA. So let's go ahead and you wanna have your battery. I recommend putting a dab of hot glue here to insulate or to just make a good strain relief because this is what happens when you don't do that and you're too forceful with it. You can kind of break those very, very dangerous. So be careful and always add a piece of hot glue there. I don't have any hot glue right now so we'll just have to be very, very careful. But the 500 milliamp is kind of the biggest battery that fits right there without any pressure being applied to the battery, which is really important. You don't want any pressure applied to the battery. So you can see how the cable is kind of exiting that way. And you kind of want that notch to kind of have the cable hanging out there and I'll orient the JST connector so it's lined up where the power cable's gonna be and then I'll start kind of fitting one of these pegs through one of the pads here, so you can see there. It's a little transparent and then all you gotta do is just make sure now the batteries are being keamed and then you can just kind of do that and it's nice in there. You can see that the flexible battery can move around in there a little bit freely, which is good. There's no pressure being applied to it because it's freely to move around. And now you have the ability to just plug this into the battery connector there. And that's how you install it. I really like this snap fit case. I've been using it for, I don't know, four years now and it just keeps reusing it over and over again. It's really great. So you can use these mounting tabs to attach this to any other thing, a prop, a lamp, a thing, what have you. And for this one, I created an extra bracket that would actually suspend this in space because if originally I had the circuit playground attached to this surface and that doesn't look good at all because the light isn't able to kind of pass through here. So what's going on is the light is bouncing off this area and kind of feeding itself back into here. So all this empty area allows the light to kind of leak through and it looks fantastic. So this is the medium size one. It's about 120 millimeters in diameter. So you can print this on your kind of standard printer. But if you have a printer that's like 100 millimeters, you can print this guy, which is a really, really small one. And well, that's not really, really small, but it's small enough to fit on a bed that's about 100 millimeters cube. Yeah. And the thing about this one is it's so small that you actually don't need an extra bracket. You can just secure this to the built-in standoffs because it's small enough and that's kind of cool. You can actually, if you're careful, you can actually just kind of press fit this in without any screws, but I recommend using screws. Yeah. So those are the two sizes. It's a bit difficult to show this one off because it's so large. This is about 200 millimeters. So it doesn't fit in the overhead, it's just too big. But it prints without any supports, which is great. All these print without any supports. So let me switch cameras and just kind of show this is the scale of it. Head for scale, I don't have a banana. But the, because it's bigger, I had to make the snaps bigger as well. So you can see the snaps are large and they have the exact same thickness as the two halves. And we'll talk about the thickness, we'll talk about slice settings in a minute, but I'm just showing you that this has a different bracket so you can see this bracket is much bigger. There's still standoffs. Instead of like putting standoffs like on these corners here, I figured just put it on two of these and that suspends it pretty well. So we got the circuit playground in there. There's a small battery in there as well. Plug it in. And there it goes. So here's this half here. Just gonna line up. There are nubs that you need to line up for the grabbers to catch onto. Kind of hard to see here, but there are nubbans. Let's do it with our head and do some focus. These nubbans are right there and that's what catches on to the grabbers on the other half. And these nubbans are, you know, they're 45 degree angled. That way you can print it without any sports. So let's put it all together. It's so hard to drive this show and do this. Let me see here. Am I in frame? I don't know, there you go. Cool, so there you go. I have a lot of light here so you're not gonna see the best of it. But yeah, it looks pretty cool. You'll just have to trust me and watch this YouTube video because it's hard to get good light diffusion with webcams. But do you want to turn lights off? No. Just get the effect. Oh, yeah, let's turn lights on. You can get that one over there. A little bit better on this camera, on that camera. You can start to see some of the details there. It's fused. You're not gonna get like super great diffusion but it's enough to like look really, really nice on camera with like a regular camera and not a webcam. You can see some of the hotspots. So if you wanted to be really clever but kind of try to hide it. I'm just changing the colors to show folks. You could use the LED animation library as well if you want to like trigger different, what do you call it, animations? It's all white, nice and bright. And yellow, pink, I really like the pink one. Change the brightness. It's not so hot at the bottom there. Try to match it out a little bit. That's nice. It's really hard to film lights, folks. It really is, but check that out. Looks pretty good. Yeah, so, yeah, that is a little demo. Look at that, it looks so good. You can't see anything inside there. It's so good. It's in there. It's too green. Green, green. It's too full brightness. Here we go. Oosh, my whole shirt's gone. Another thing I did was made a little three-pin stand for it so folks can send it up on their desk or whatever. But, yeah, that's pretty much the demo. There's all sorts of fun things you can do with circuit playground. You can use the built-in accelerometer to shake it and then like turn the lights on or trigger different animation. We have lots of demo code on the Advert Learn system. The Snow Globe project from Jump Arc. Really, really good code to use as well if you want some interaction where you shake it and you can do different brightness controls. So, yeah, folks can have fun with that one. Maybe they can make it audio-reactive too or do it where you turn it upside down and it can do a different color or something like that. So, lots of fun different things. I just wanted to do something really easy. The color picker is kind of really what we want here. Yeah. And I've been posting the design files, links to all of that in the Discord and all the chats. You can check that out, modify and edit these step files or you just want the STLs. Go ahead and grab those two. Cool. Cool, cool, cool. Okay. I think we're ready to take a quick gander at the Learn Guide. We'll get some lights back in here. It's always fun to do it, you know. All right, so if we head on over to learn.84.com, see the Learn Guide got published a little bit late last night or earlier yesterday. This will work with, you know, the Circuit Playground Express and, but the code here is really for Bluetooth. So that's why we only have the Circuit Playground. But if you want to write your own code and do some old things, different experiments with it, you can use any number of the Circuit Playgrounds because the mounting holes, rather the pads are all the same. So it's really nice that they have the same footprint. It means I can reuse the mounts and in whatever project over and over again. It's really nice. For the batteries, there's three different batteries that will fit in this 3D printed mount. 500 milliamp is the biggest one, but we also have a 420 and a 350. So you can use either of those. There is no built-in battery recharging on any of the Circuit Playgrounds. So that's why we recommend using a micro-lipo charger. And these micro-lipo chargers are designed specifically to work with our lipo batteries. So only use Adafruit lipo batteries when you're using batteries from Adafruit. There are some screws, as you might have seen. There is a mix of M25 screws and M3 screws. So check this out. I have a link here for the PLA Ivory White from FilaCube. So if you want to get that stuff, it's on Amazon, but if you want to try something else, you can do that. So FilaCube, I did post a link a little bit earlier and I like the way that they have it in the description as a litho-pane. This one, right? Yes. Yeah, you can see this is really good for litho-pane. So that's one really good clue that it's good for the diffusion. Yeah, so just kilogram. Fairly good price. It's made in the US, really? And it ships. No bubble, no jamming, no working. Yeah, it's a really good filament. It's pretty clean. I mean, it's easy to work with. There's not any special settings or anything you need. What can I say about it? It's great for diffusing LEDs. Whatever additive they're using on there is... Just like... Doing a nice job of spreading all the way. Yeah, something like this wouldn't look good because it would have hot spots. So you really want something that has a tiny bit of white pigment in it. But you don't want to get full white because it won't be safe through. Yeah, so as they say in the description, it has a little bit of yellow to it and I think that's... Yellowish white. Yeah, creamy white. And that's what the Ivory... Notice it never says translucent. It is translucent. You can see my fingers through it. It's translucent. I think that's another key, too, if you're looking for this. We're always scared that they're never gonna make this filament again. So we're always looking for what the description for in case other companies come out with this. And that's a good point right there, making sure that it is the translucent verbiage that they use on it. It's probably gonna give you that harsh, hard diffusion on it or not too much diffusion. So don't look for that in the description of if you're looking for something that'll diffuse. We know customers care about colors. Yeah, this is a good comparison. This isn't white. You want the one that is off-white for the diffusion. Well, let's hope it's translucent. Like I said, it doesn't say anywhere here that it's translucent, but it is as you've seen. Again, the key word there is that they're using it as a litho-pane, for litho-pane. So that should give you a clue there that it's really good for diffusion. Cool, okay. All right, and that's just a quick look at the filament stuff. Because we did try, like I don't know, four other different ones and all the other ones that give you that harsh. I mean, if you're going for that look, it'll work. But if you're looking for a soft diffusion. Yeah. Okay. All right, next page is, walk you through setting up CircuitPython on the Circuit Playground Blufruit. You can just drag and drop this U of 2 file to install the latest version of CircuitPython, which is really nice. And the next page will walk you through using the Color Picker code for Bluetooth using the Blufruit LE app. There's a link to the Blufruit app for iOS. For Android, you can just search for it. And because we don't have a link to it, I guess. There's a dedicated page that has the Android links. You can use this link and it'll take you there. But this little gift just shows you how to use it. And that is an Android device. They have a different Color Picker. It looks kind of nice. Yeah, the APIs are different. See, it looks like it works with Android. Antonio is working on Android versions of everything, so he's got to get the concepts all nice and working on iOS to start off with. Cool, cool, cool. All right, 3D printing. Let's take a look at 3D printing. Here's a picture of all the whole set. They, all three sizes use the exact same circuit playground mount. So the circuit playground mount will fit all of them. You just need to print one of those, but they all fit that one. I have a link for the CAD source. It's a step file, Fusion 360 file, which where it was designed in. And then all the STLs. Here's a link to the filament that we talked about. When you're slicing the top and the bottom, let me reverse. When you're slicing the bottom half, that's this thing, the triangle bit, right? It's called the cone. You want to, because it's so thin, there isn't really much surface area for good bed adhesion. So what we want to do is add a large brim with, I think, a minimum of a line count of like six. Maybe you can get away with four, but at least six is what I used. And a brim is a great way to get thin parts that barely have any surface area on the bottom to adhere to the bed. A brim is a great way to do that. And there's also a little thing that you could do. A brim only on the outside, not on the inside, so that's a good thing too. And then when the print's done, you can just easily remove the brim with a deburring tool. When you're slicing it, you make sure you're not using the vase mode. This model is already shelled, so you do not need to use the vase mode, vase mode. But you do want to double check that your extrusion line width is set to 0.4 millimeters. If you're using cura, if you're using something else, just look at your G-code preview. Most slicing software now have a 3D preview of what your slice looks like layer by layer. So just kind of step through your layers and just make sure that you have no infill in that it's all shells, meaning it's just perimeters. So I set my line count to just two shells. My line width to 0.4. That way it's just perimeters, no infill. And it's really clean. There's no zigzags or anything going on in between the lines. It's just a straight, clean, it's basically vase mode, but it's not because I've defined in CAD exactly how thick I want it. So I'm actually using 1.2 millimeters thick, right? And if you divide that by 0.4, it's three layers. So three shells is really what you're doing. So even though I put two, it needs three because it's the way the slicing works. But that's one thing you wanna definitely check out when you are printing a thin thing like this. And each set has its own set. Each size of emerald has its own set of brackets. So just use this as a reference to see. But the naming should give you an idea. SM is for small, MD is for medium, LG is for large. So pick whichever one you wanna print. There's a nice little cad assembly that shows how the screws are fitted in there. Yeah, you can use whatever screws, but as long as they fit the holes. So M3 for the gem, and then M25 for the bracket. If you want a 3D model of the circuit playground or any ADER food board, so you can check it or get a repo. We have lots of 3D models for every board, just about every board. And they have a pre-populated with LEDs, components, connectors, all that good stuff. It's a one-to-one accurate model because it's literally from EagleCAD, which is where the PCB is designed. So check those out. This page just walks you through assembly, so you can check that out. I had a tip there on using hot glue for strain relief. But if you're really careful, maybe you don't need it. But yeah, that's kind of it. Don't forget, you can recharge your battery when it's completed. And that's this week's project. I posted a link to your Snap Fit tutorial that you have on the layer by layer playlist. So add it on there, and the fritzing, if you want to get a little bit fancier and add a new pixel ring on the backside, so you have evenly distributed light throughout the entire gem. It will definitely help the smaller one. So I forget what project actually did that on, right? Yeah, the last one you did on was the Spider-Man pumpkin. That is correct, yes, that is what it was. Pumpkin, bond, thing. Do I have it in here? No, of course not. I did not think that far ahead, I'm bringing it in. So I wanted it to be no soldering. You do have to solder a ring, and if you're comfortable with that, cool. If not, you don't need it, because I just showed you that it's not so bad. One of the other things that the kid wants is probably like some gaskets along the inside, just so you can be like weatherproof to have outside as like an lawn ornament. You see like those big old like spherical balls that are like lawn. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this is one light. I'm pretty sure this is watertight. This doesn't snap fit, and it would be buoyant in water, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, because there's air trapped inside, and it's pretty watertight. It's a little floaty for the pool, or do like 100% infill and have them be sinkies. And if you want a free idea, Adafruit stocks, wireless LEDs, you could have embedded it while it was printing. That would be cool. So imagine if it was a dice or something, and you're like kind of rolling a dice, and you have a game board, and then your coil is underneath the game board, this would light up without any power. Well, you know, there's power, but without wires. Oh, that's a really good one. Yeah, and you can, I don't have this STL, but you could totally make it. I might release it too. I'm gonna do a layer-of-a-layer on how to make this shape parametric, so you can just update the size, and then the thickness will retain. And yeah, it's a really fun little shape. It's a, is it 20-sided or cut? Yeah, so it's 12-sided, and then you can do a three-point plane to do this diamond cut. So I'll show folks how to do that as well. That's what the trick was, yeah. The trick was is doing a three-point plane, and then extruding that, and then doing a circular pattern on it. So I'll show folks how to do that in the tutorial, in the future, coming up. Yeah. And then, loves the lawn gems. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great idea, right? Super fun. It'd be great to put a little solar thing, then like solar lights, and it just charges the night, or charges the data. On the top here, it'd be awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, to take the electronics out, and like, have a fun full time, like bring it in the pool, I'm just gonna. All right, and that is this week's very current projects. I think we're all excited to see Sonic. Get some filament, put some lights in it, make an instrument, and share it with the world. All right, sweet. Let's go ahead and jump into this week's, what are we prototyping? What are you prototyping? I need to intro Sonic. I have a guitar right here, if you told me to. Did you know Sonic plays the guitar too, right? Well, it's headboarding. The only guitar Sonic plays is electric flying V. So, PT got inspired by these really cool design, topography, Instagram accounts, and one of them was three printed book covers. So, of course, he's a huge fan of Watchmen. So are we. And he wanted to make a nice little protective book cover, so at first I was like, what do you need a book cover for? Usually have one that comes with the books, but after, you know, going through this freaking awesome comic novel, you'll notice that, you know, if you don't want to damage the spine of the book, this is a really good way to have that nice and protected in terms of after you're finished reading for the day, you can have it put back in here and have the spine not be so open and start to sort of bend into that shape. So this is the really cool way to show your love for the book that you're reading, and of course have some nice protection for it, and in terms of it, like, you know, we're into like home design, like furniture design, so this is a really cool way to have your display on your bookshelf, the awesome books you've read. So Bruce Yan, our designer here, does all the designs that you see, like all the Adabot stuff, all of the like banners, he does all those, like the packaging. So shout out to Bruce for an awesome vector that he sent over on getting this so close to matching up the graphics for the book on there. So printed in two different pieces, the blood, and then this, the text for it, which I was so surprised on how good it came out because it prints vertically, so I was so scared that, you know, the nozzle would run into all of the text here and knock that out of the way. And I did have to use support, so if you've seen like some of those diagrams on how to do like printing a T, you know, you always need supports on it. So there's supports throughout the entire thing, and I was able to go in there and pick all of that out without having any damage to any of the letters. How thick is this then? This is a 1.5, so not, It's all perimeters. Perimeters, it should be three, I believe. Okay, yeah, but there's no infill, it's all perimeters, so it's nice and solid. Exactly. A little bit of a flex. Don't try to break it, but hey, that's just to show it's a little flexible. Yeah, oh, I forgot to take some supports off here, but you can see how the supports are all printed on there. Now I'm scared to break it on air, so I'm not gonna do that, I'll do that off here. No way. Cause it does take quite a while to print. Don't do it. Come on. We'll do it off screen. I don't want to have a fail on here. And yeah, a nice school series of book covers that Phil wants to have done. And if we go ahead over to the screen, you can take a look at the inspiration. Yeah, I don't have that. We've got this, I have it in the notes under the prototyping. Okay, let's pull that up. Put it in the chats as well. This is the book in inspiration, is Instagram account for that. Okay, it's loading. Sweet. So you can see here that kind of like tapers it, so it's gotten more depth to it. That's kind of neat too. Maybe it has some sort of illusion when you put it at the right angle or something. Yeah, that's what it looks like. But yeah, it's really neat. So among others, I don't have the base camp open, but he's talking about like, like, you know, all the popular big books like Batman and all those really cool comic novels that he really enjoys. So excellent way to have some protection for the books and do some nice way of showing them off in your bookcase. Cool. Did you talk about this as a separate print and you taped it on me? Ha ha ha ha. I'm reading up Paul Cutler's comment on, the only reason he bought yellow PLA was for the Watchman project. Dude, that is the exact reason why we got yellow as well. That was funny. Yeah, it's a good color. So yeah, like you were saying before, this isn't glued on yet. It's just like a double stick tape. I just aligned it to how the book is. It's so cool. You do that. I'll probably like hot glue it or super glue it on for the final. And that's in a future where, you know, books have DLC downloadable content. Like, hey, you can download this cool book cover for your book on your 3D printer. Yeah. And the company wouldn't have to injection mold or anything. Yeah, because if you have a printer, you could do it. This would definitely add a lot of cost to the book. I think it was like $20 book. No, $12 book, so. That's a $12 book. I think that's what I saw on the Amazon and there's like more expensive ones. So it was like an $80 one. The absolute one is probably $100. Yeah, so it definitely cuts down on the price for that. And if you want to customize it anyway, like engrave your name and all that stuff on there, it's definitely a really good way to. Great way to gift it too. For gifts, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which, yeah, really cool. Sweet. Did you take a photo? How did you get this so perfectly? That's all Bruce. Really? I just took it in. Shout out to Bruce. Yeah, that's what I'm like. Is our creative, creative designer. Pretty, pretty, pretty spot on. A little bit like, I want to have like a black back just so that where it doesn't line up entirely like over here. The T and the C are like lined up pretty good, but yeah. Or you get just kind of like that for this. Yeah, there's totally a brim outer on the outside only. What a brim. Hold on, because of how high it is, you know, when it's printed up vertically, and I already said this that I was scared that the nozzle would crash right into it, especially since I didn't have the Z retraction on. So there was like no clearance, you know, it's just going right over each other. Did you bring in vectors or is this the type tool infusion? No, I couldn't, you know, I looked for the type tool infusion and I did not see it and I was like, okay, I just, I have the, I have the vectors. So I'm just going to import that in, extrude it out, line everything up. There's a type tool infusion. I know there is. So I was like, where the heck is it? Where did it go? I have no time for this. Let me just bring it out anyways. How funny, where you can just import it faster than you can look for a tool inside. Well, if you already have it. So the SVG is imported and you extrude it out. Yeah, we'll go over that next week for creating these because he's going to want to. I might not. He might want to like the Batman one or something like that. So I'll hook up some more covers for that. Very, very cool. So what's the prototype? This would be next week's projects. Yeah, we'll get it ready. We, yeah. Cool. The tape is staying in the chat. Don't forget yellow safety boxes and big red buttons or yellow daggers. And Liz is saying, yep, definitely printing that. Yeah, it's neat. Cool, very cool. And that is what we're, no, you got one more too, right? Where do you want to save it? Yeah, we got to save it for now. All right, awesome. This will be out of content. Wonderful. All right. This week's shop talk, we got a fun update. This is so cool. Very neat. It's gonna be fun when folks kind of contribute back to projects. Let me get things ready. Go to, I'm gonna get a link. How's everybody doing? Feel free to get some water or... Jokes, anybody got jokes? People like the book covers, yeah. Sweet. The link, folks. Definitely put in the comments if you have requests for any other book covers. Senator Bruce. All right, I think I am ready. So this week I wanted to share a bit of a shop talk slash community make. Shout out to Travis Hardyman, who posted a make of our NeoPixel UV meter. This is a collab project with Liz. And Travis did a little update to the code where it has a bit of a fade out animation now. So this just gives it a nice kind of soft fade. So the pixels, well, fade. Hey, what's up, folks? There's a bit of a color thing too. So Travis added some blue here, which is really nice. It's super cool to see this project get a little bit of an update. So folks wanna build your own. We have the learn guide and you can use Travis's code too. Oh, where's that code? I didn't grab the link for that. Yeah, it's literally pasted in the description of Thingiverse, which is fun. Yeah, so I'll reach out to Travis. Can you post that link? So we'll send it to there. And see if we can do a PR, because this is kind of cool. Oh, here it is. Let me see it. Why doesn't it let me copy links? Here it is. Connor says, the math puns are the first sign of madness, S-I-N-E. Here is the code. Oh, we already posted it. Whoops. Fun. Yeah, this is a piece of black LED acrylic. It uses the QT pie. It's a snap fit case. You can see here, there's a PDM microphone right there. And that gets wired into the pins on the QT pie. So this is all running circuit Python. And it's using the LED animation library, I believe. Maybe it's not. Don't quote me on that. Yeah, and a black piece of LED acrylic. You can cut that out using a scoring tool or a bandsaw or a mill. You have access to one. And a QT pie, and it makes it nice and easy. Yeah, very fun. So shout out to Travis again for posting up their make. And that is, uh, this is what you're up to. No, this has some suggestions for other ones. Ooh. Apparently the last Vegas, Brave New World, I think. I could go on. Yeah, I was gonna say, I think PT actually. He had, yeah. Brave New World was on there. How funny. That should be probably great, right? Cool. Yeah. Whatever he wants, I'll go and make it. Sweet. Excellent. Okay, we're ready to jump into the next segment. Oh, this week's community makes. Yeah. All right, well, we saw Travis's make of the UV meter. Let's go ahead and look at the next one here. We got some dumpster fire. This is a really cool model. A lot of, was it a vinyl designer that I saw when this was getting popular where it had like the little flame going out? I think Dano made one as well. So shout out to Bianca, right? For posting this up on Thingiverse as a pre-download. Yes. This was actually remixed as well. The little cute face was remixed for some reason. We can see it in some emails. Sure. So we put a circuit playground, blue fruit in there. There's plenty of room inside for fun things like light. So I made this for my wife because she uses it as olive whore, like the garbage from her nails that he does show that is the main use as an actual little mini dumpster. Dumpster. Yeah. So one of the things I did do to modify this, so I wouldn't have any supports on the bottom there because it does have those nice little caster wheels. They're not real wheels. They're just like nice little detail. I did chop that off. And you can see that I did have some lifting on each corner from that. And I just glued it on just so I wouldn't have to use any supports because the rest of the model all has a nice 45 degree angle overhangs. And then the way that the lid works is that awesome trick of just using a bit of filament. That's your hinge. That's your hinge. And then you use something hot, like a soldering iron or something to make a little rivet. Yeah, don't use soldering iron. Wood burner. I use a, what is it? A lighter? Lighter. And then let the heat from the little metal part on the lighter. The guard from the lighter. The guard from the lighter, yeah. The way to make a rivet. Bam, right in there. That's it. So it's just 175 millimeter sized. Get close up. Maybe we can do a focus bit here. We really need to install universal control so I can go from this computer over to yours. So there is the rivet. It's very, very clean. Just a little bit of heat. And there you go. You have a rivet now. That's just 175 filament, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Any support material or anything required? No, as you can see here, it just prints in the air. And it is tall enough for it to catch. This is the texture you will get from a powder-coated PEI bed. Fantastic. Smart way to kind of cut it. Would you bring it into Tinkercad and cut it off? Sign up. Prusa slicer. Prusa slicer has the tools to kind of modify the meshes. That's fine. Nice, nice. A little bit of infill. Of course, you can scale this up and have it be a little bit bigger. OK, so let's take a look at the thing of our stage. Shout-out to Bianca. She is a minute to get the link. The a. Yeah, I can't wait to do universal control. This is ridiculous. All right, so shout-out to Bianca, right? For posting this up, she's got a lot of other fantastic designs as well. And she actually has, you know, this was originally for 2020, 2021, 2016 as well. I don't have a 16 being a dump, it's a 5. Yeah, we'll see though. Definitely 2020. Yeah, so customize it, make it your own, you know, it's fun. But yeah, definitely consider supporting her as well. She's a veteran. And she did a fantastic job on this. Oh, and originally, yeah, it is for a T-light holder. And she has a, was it one of the remixes I think has like a little holder on the bottom so you can stick properly align it and hold it in place. Yeah, look at that. It was an ornament for your Christmas tree. Your holiday tree. Cool. Happy little dumpster fire. Remix there by Thingiverse user D. Dunmirey. That's where you'll find the one that I use. Oh, cool. That's where the other one is, yeah. But obviously I wanted to give credit to Bianca for the original time. Yeah, she originally designed it. Sweet. That's the sweetest community makes. Very fun print. Two little storage unit. Okay, we have some more here. Give me a second to get links. All right, posting these. And the first one is a Highland shield. Is it gone? Where did it go? Who? I must have typed in something. You killed it. There we go. Thanks. All right, so shout out to Thingiverse user FriedRightsLegend who posted their make of Link's Highland Shield. This is a 3D print. It's two pieces that print without any supports, right? Or maybe they do for the handle. Has a built-in handle. Great for the kiddos. It's large, but it can be scalable. I've seen so many folks scale it, paint it, do all sorts of things to it. We originally printed decals for it with Ninja Flex. Crazy stuff. You could paint it, adorn it with all sorts of fun sanding and post-processing techniques. But FriedRightsLegend here posted it up. Yeah, if you have a big enough build comments. But looks great. That can't be printed as one piece. We made a little mini version on one of the printers. Yeah. And the handle was just attached to it. Sweet. All right, next up we have the unicorn horn. This was posted up on Prusa printers. Cool, so Rad Alpaca posted this up on Prusa printers. It says, I put the horn on the backside of the hat, which did not have any sort of structure to make the horn stay up, actually hot glue to two pieces of cardboard and then the horn inside. And that seems to solve the issue. Sweet. And this is a wearable unicorn horn that you can print out in different colors or you can put an LED inside. You don't have to, but we did. A lot of folks seem to print these out. Shout out to DNO and friend, and Becky Stern. She, I think, sewed this together. Yeah, yeah, she put some cotton in there. This is a really nice hat. And glow-in-the-dark ninja flex. We went crazy with this. We did a dual extrusion version, where half of it is black, and the other half is purple or something. It has built-in sew tabs. And yeah, this was a really fun one. Unicorn horns, always fun. It's funny, the next iteration of this might be Godzilla scales. Oh, we're doing spikes again, 2012. Uh-huh. All right, next up, we have another make posted on crucifixure printers of the Mario Boo planter that we did a little bit ago. Plun posted this up five days ago. This is the type of PLA that's translucent. You can kind of see the infill. Yeah, you get that harsh lighting. But if you're painting it, all fair. It's perfect, actually, if you're painting it. That's important. You might not even need primer. But a lot of folks like to paint theirs. Here's one from Anthony who painted it. Looks great, a fan too. But thanks for Plun for posting that up. These are really fun. And the last one this week, this is a really, really fun project. Posted up by mouse, moose, moose, mouse. On crucifixure printers, they made a LED hourglass with the eight by eight LED matrix and the feather sense. That looks fantastic. Looks like they used a powder coated PEI bed to get that texture, it's really, really fantastic. The snap fits together. It's got a couple screws and things. I'm really happy with the design. And really nice to see it posted up there. Now, even like the columns look like they used like the fuzzy mode or something because it looks like texturized. Yeah, I think it's the glitter and that light is hitting it just right where it looks like it has an extra texture. So if you're looking to do a similar texture, the glittery stuff is really fun, really nice. And this is all done in Circa Python code by Carter Nielsen. He wrote the code for this one. Carter made it in cardboard. And I was like, do I gotta make a thing for it? I'm so happy to do it. Very fun. And there's a look inside the guts. It's a nice simple, the eight of the feather sense has a built-in accelerometer. So you don't need two boards. You just need one board. And that's a great time. Sweet. And that's this week's community makes. Shout out to everybody for posting their makes. I really appreciate it. And we are done with the show. That's it, yeah. Shout out to everybody for hanging out in Discord. We've got all the comments and banter. Yeah. Some little things to play off of and some good suggestions on books. Yes, thank you, Liz. All right, later tonight, we've got a full set of shows starting off with Show and Tell. I believe it will be hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Lady Aida. It's right there back. So they're back hanging out. We'll do the show at 7.30 PM each time. The invite link will be posted in the Discord chat room. So if you want to participate, you can just hang out like five minutes before the show. So like, 720-ish. And we'll be sure to post the link there. Click on it and just make your mic is muted so we don't hear anything when books go live. But yeah, we also have a learn guide on how to join the show and tell. Oh, I shouldn't have links to that every time. I always have a link for that, right? Maybe we'll make an infographic. How to join? Click on link. I think we even did a video, right? I know. Here's one. Oh, look who's on the cover. Yeah, post it up. I don't want to embarrass anybody, but. How to join? Here's how to join Show and Tell. Bam, click on the link. Yeah. Excellent. So I hope to see you there. They're claiming tank for watering pot plants. Spoon feed me ideas. Excellent. Well, here's a cat animation I forgot to play. Stay tuned this week for a labor layer on how to make a parametric. 12 sided. Emerald. Very cool. What's that for a tease? And then tomorrow. Tomorrow, Jump Park's workshop. Every Thursday at 4 p.m. Eastern time. Update a graphic on Friday. On Friday. Yeah. Shout out to Bruce Ian for posting this, making this. And shout out to Tim, Foamy Guy, for doing Fridays at 2 p.m. Pacific or 5 p.m. Eastern. You can tune in and check out what Tim is working on. To the deep dive. There's Tim's little. You can't see my cursor, but there's a little Blinka. And a purple submarine is so brilliant. I want a 3D print submarine now. Rubber band propelled. A little cool project for the summer. We'll put a deep dive in there. And then on a weekend, usually Sunday, we have Desk of Late 8. Yeah, on Sunday nights from the Desk of Late 8. I need to update this, this old notes for me. And then wrap it around. Monday's Circuit Python meetings. Tuesdays is JP's product pick of the week, where you can get up to 50% off select items from JP. Only live during the show, so make sure to tune in then. Yep, fun. We do the show every Wednesday at 11 a.m. Eastern time. We might take next week off just for the show, just to get some spring break in. The book cover's kind of easy, so can't really make a whole show around. It's so fun. Oh, that's easy as I do this. But we'll be on show and tell and all that. Yeah. And we'll post more. Progress and things on the socials. You can always follow us on any of these social channels up there. I'm Ekin, Pedro's video pixel. Of course, Adafruit. Follow for every single day. We'll post some sort of project. Yeah, thank you for supporting all of us at Adafruit. Hopefully we can start doing this again, where we all kind of meet up again in the real meat space. But good luck with all your maker endeavors. Really appreciate all going out there inspiring folks like us to do things and keep going. But with that, hope to see you next week. Until then, remember to make a great day. See you next week. Bye folks. Yeah.