 What is it? Hey everybody and welcome to Chantel. It's me Lady Aida with me is mr. Lady Aida We got a whole bunch of people waiting in the wings to come by and show you their project whether it's an event or 3d printing or sauna your coding or new products or more maybe you built a successful Kickstarter off a Thing like Adafrit's feather and source speck and stuff. We have just about everything going on tonight That's right. So let's get right into it. We're gonna be here till 755 and we had to go over to do ask and share So let's start with Kevin from digi's back. We missed you. Yeah And on show until but I was watching it. All right, that's still fine. Okay. Yeah, it was good. It was good All right, welcome back. What'd you been up to? So what I've been up to I got this new board Recently you guys may have heard of it the new fun house. Whoo. Yes. So I had some fun with it My wife and I were talking about how our kids always digging our closet and find their Christmas presents Easter presents Yeah, you know holiday gifts or birthday presents. Yeah, so I set up an alarm on here That when the door opens it will ha alarm ha and then it'll go over through Adafrit IO It'll send me an email and a text message Aha Very simple using Adafrit IO and all the features of the board running circuit python Okay, so you get out of the display say no presents for you. You've lost I don't know what this play yet, but I should a big a big circle with a cross through with a present. Yes. No presents Yeah, I got just got a text, you know, I didn't spend a lot of time getting this up and running I was that easy and I got a text that the door zero is equal to zero Yay Yeah, this was inspired by this was inspired by the digi key house project that we did a few years ago With the keys IO service and it was like really cool to have a little house That you would Like decorate and like make into an iot project. So I was like, okay, let's do something someone of that But like have it be a pcb But like designed specifically to make it really easy to do home automation Yeah, and this you can hook up using iftt or there's you know many other services It's simple so to your home internet, you know, you just use the secret step ui folder and connect it to your internet and The world is open. Okay Do they play any of the things like Minecraft or roblox or any of that stuff? Do they do they do that as well? My kids. Yeah. Oh, yeah So, you know roblox with all the iftt stuff you could also have it so if they open it up it deducts money from their accounts Or you could do it. So if they the longer they wait the The longer they wait the when they open it. That's you know the more they get So there's a lot of things that we now that you can kind of attach smarts to anything and then have Trigger and do something and all these services you can glue Um, I have a lot of bad ideas, but that's just one idea I don't think that's a bad idea. I'd like to hear some of your bad ideas someday. All right All right And we'll be in stocky did you key real soon we're making them Right now. We just got some parts in it's a little part shortage. So it's a it's a fun time to build electronics But we got shipment in of tasty I've heard about this little part shortage. We're going to turn into eight of fruit goodies. That's what we do here All right. Well, thank you Take care. All right Next uh, hello Hey sherry Oh you guys. Hi everyone. How you doing? So I'll do a mini intro for sherry, but then you know say stuff about yourself I've known sherry through the my entire maker movement career so we were at make together sherry founder of maker fair and just someone fantastic to work with and Brought so many people together and I haven't seen sherry in a really long time But normally we see each other But it's good to see you virtually right now and you can't can't stop you you're doing an event, right? This is what you're here talking about Absolutely, um, it wouldn't be a may without a maker fair, right? So we're doing a maker music festival and Uh, you know, we did a little one back in sabbastopol in 2018 with 25 makers as a as a benefit for local maker space And it was so wonderful like music and making and electronics all go together and why don't you play the video and then I'll fill in some details Yeah video, right. That was like 20 30 show until is all in one it's going on there Yeah, you know, it's pretty amazing. The pandemic has really allowed us to pull together this global music maker community and We picked up on some of the work that we did last year on an imaginary place called the Cameron row And this time we designed it a little bit more for the web instead of being more theatrical And we'll have about 10 to 12 buildings eight buildings are curated and there's 15 to 20 makers in each building The curators are acoustic out of the uk Make me out of france We have a bella from the bella platform. Makey makey has a building maker net out of the Asia pack maker area We have the center for new music in san francisco has a building And cc rma from stanford has a building and dog bodic has a building And there's about three other three other buildings with different things So next week i'll show a little more but it's actually a wonderful gathering and it's going to live on So it's free. It'll be at maker music festival.com. We open it up Because we're a global event. I think it'll open up 7 p.m. On the 14th So it'll open on the morning of the 15th in the asia pack region And it'll just stay open and we'll have 20 hours of live programming throughout the weekend Okay, that's what I have And we'll see you next week and we're also doing Hoping to get the word out on our shows and our blog and all that stuff. So I love it. Thank you You guys are great. Okay. Good to see you Much of people. Yeah, two three minutes per person. Yeah, we're doing good. We're still good on time. So next up is Sean hello, Sean and What you got going on? Hi, uh, uh, thanks for having me guys. Um So, uh, this is a moda bit. Um, and as you mentioned, it's an eta fruit featherwing That's a research grade biometric sensor Um, and it's open source and the data is 100 percent owned by the user And we're running a Kickstarter campaign right now. Uh, we have about eight days left currently And uh, it's going really well, but uh, if anybody is stoked on sensing signals from their body and not giving it to the largest corporations in the history of the world, um You know, I would love your support. Um, and uh, I would love to change the face of biometric sensing going forward. Um The the idea behind it is that it's really easy to use so you take the emota bit And stack it with an eta fruit feather Like so, um, and then use the slots built into the pcb To add a strap and whatever orientation you want. Um, so this one Is a nice sized strap to fit on my finger, but you could also stick it on your arm Or print a 3d case and stick it on your leg or your head or whatever you want and then Immediately start streaming biometric data from your body So you can see a number of different signals coming off my body right now. Um, you'll probably see my Um, electro dermal activity spiking from time to time because i'm pretty excited about being here Um, and you'll see my heart rate Uh fluctuating probably mostly going up. Um as uh represented in these, uh wiggly ppg lines here There's an accelerometer a gyroscope magnetometer A local body temperature sensor And you can record data directly to the sd card built into the emota bit It's awesome. All right, so they go to emota bit.com and that's where you can sign up and back it and get more info That's awesome. Yeah, and if anybody in new york or in reno, nevada wants to collaborate on a maker music festival piece That's sensing signals from the body and making music Tie together All right. Thank you. Shawn. That's awesome. Uh, just one other thing It's always good to see people able to take this feather ecosystem and then do something with it You already hit your goal on Kickstarter like four or five times over so congratulations and thanks for picking feather to do it Thank you guys. Okay next up trevor Hey, trap. Hey, what are you guys doing this week? All right, so I've been working on the pile ebap Uh, and if you're unaware about the pile ebap, it's an app that lets you program Uh info boards with the nr 52 chip Uh, uh on your iphone Hopefully, you know, we might we might do it for android, but who knows we'll see what the future holds But right now i'll show you the app itself Here it is. Do you see it? Awesome. Cool. All right, so i'm just going to play that really quickly. So right there, we're able to uh Display the uh pc. I'm sorry the the second playground blue fruit Our peripheral grid. We're using the rs rssi uh to filter out peripherals around the phone Just so that uh, you know, like if it's used in the classroom, uh, it won't pick up like 20 boards It'll just pick up the board says uh in its vicinity So, you know working on that uh right now. I have a gay well at the time of this video I had a clue uh halfway across the room and it didn't pick it up. So that's where I can just Let's work it out. All right. Sometimes you don't want to have a clue That's true All right, so there so I clicked on uh clicked on the uh peripheral Now it's connected. So here you're able to uh edit a uh Edit your code right here Let's see what else. Yeah, so Uh, yeah, and in the corner in the upper right hand corner right here. You're able to uh also Have like a bunch of examples where you can kind of just have it Well, you'll have a set of examples and then you'll be able to edit it and send it to your to your board So you can basically edit on the fly And that's basically working on exciting on the on the go programming for people You don't necessarily have an extra computer or if you just want a wirelessly program a circuit pipeline board It's going to be really cool. There you go. All right, sweet. Thank you so much. Nice work trip We'll continue to uh show our work and progress as we do this. We're really excited about it A lot of people have Films and mobile devices don't have computers, but we want to get people to program So this is going to be one of the many ways All right next up melissa Uh I have a uh fun house here hooked up to this fan with the motion sensor. Yeah, and you can see it turned off. Oh, I just moved what I have What I have it doing is The timer on it will actually reset as it uh Senses motion. So if I hold still here Hold still okay turn off and then I can move and I just have it set for five seconds at the moment Okay So I have this like little timer on here that you can see kind of count down. Is it If I can still enough three seconds two one off And it turns the fan off and it's hooked up to this little outlet thing and um Uses that to control the fan All right, nice. All right, cool. I have a guide out for that right now All right Melissa who's always been willing to home assistant is doing lots of cool home automation projects with the fun house I hope I made a board that's that meets your standards of excellence. Yes. Yes. I'm sure there'll be lots of fans of that guy All right, all right, thank you. Melissa check out the guide on learn folks who want to follow along Okay, next up Scott. Hello Hello Let's nerd out about laws. Shall we yeah, so here in washington state. We have two broadband bills that passed the uh, the senate and the house and now they're waiting on the governor That's what this is showing you. So this is the public portal for washington state. This is one of the two bills uh, and There's a theory that the governor can only sign one of them because they work a bit differently But the the main motivation is giving like public utility districts the ability to service their customers with broadband Which is a good thing. So, uh, the regular text of the bill looks like this And what it is is it's a diff. So they say for this section. Here's the diff the underlying stuff is new and the crossed Out stuff is old and this just like resonates like oh get the get land for me, right? Uh, so what I've done is a good request Exactly. So what I've done is I've scraped all of the laws. So there's like laws are codified Um, so that's literally like known as code. So here's an example We're in port districts and the powers of port districts and we can see the table of contents And this is all ASCII doc And then what I've done is now I apply the the changes from the bill To this version kind of the codified version of the law. So here's a pull request. This is the diff for the pull request For the that particular bill we can see that like, oh, they add the like this bill allows cities as well to provide broadband So that's what it's showing us here And then if you're also curious, I capture each version of the bill as well Um, so this is the bill as it was introduced by drew and then this is the version as passed by the legislature So you can actually click like, um, if you want to see just like what the first version was Um, I think that'll show the diff for it as well So basically, uh, the goal is to use a git lab in this case because I can make all these fake accounts for all these people Um to show off how the laws have changed how the the text of the bills changes Over time it kind of like attributes different portions to it Because there are some people who like don't like these laws who will try to amend them to basically like make them less potent We don't see like oh, what was added Something really weird in at the last second and no one gets a chance to read it or something Yeah, it's hard one some multi-page document. Like what was the red line? It's like it's it's really really tough to read But with this it's very clear you can see the right and without okay and like instead of outside of great So yep in this case it seems like it's about the same But there could be situations where you really want to know what what change and git is great at text diffs Yes, it is and and I like that it's also puts you in more context where like if you look at the original bill text It just says like Look at this section and this is how it's going to be changed. It doesn't give you all the other sections All right, cool. This is really useful. I hope no one passes a law against it Yeah Well, we're very we're very lucky in washington. It's very open But there has been some issues with like the ability to reproduce laws Yeah, I like to also have an rss feed on there. Like it's kind of yeah. Yeah, they do a pretty good job I think it's some bespoke microsofty system they did in like early 2000s all right Coming back to their progress It's the future like you can see that's what's going to happen eventually. We're all getting a little glimpse of it now Yeah, it's pretty interesting. All right. Thanks Scott. All right next up erin Hello, erin. What's what's it glowing? So this week i'm working on a project using one of these himaly and salt crystal lamps They're just lovely and uh, it's super simple build. I just stuffed some new epistles inside there and it just turned out beautiful uh, what I want to do with this is I want to make kind of a subtle and uh Interesting like a menstrual cycle tracker So, you know on days when I'm ovulating it'll be a specific color I can predict my pms days and so anybody else in the know will will know to avoid me You know on days when it's flashing red or whatever. I'm using a mag tang So I should be able to um connect to the wi-fi know what day it is what day the month and there's lots of buttons on here So I'm going to plan on doing some ui where you can press the button, you know If your cycle is a little longer or shorter Um, anyway, this is this kind of the project I'm working on this week. It's just it's beautiful and I can't stop staring at it Okay, all right beautiful and salty you can lick it Thanks so much erin. I thought that was weird. I think it's food, but it's a lamp All right. Thanks, erin. There'll be a cool project very handy if you want to know Next up jp what you got going on jp. Yeah, so something else that's salty and you can lick Is your keyboard, but I wouldn't recommend it Yes, that's my only segue I could come up with but I've been having fun with these little Breakouts for mechanical key switches. So you can see these are no solder Sockets for plug in different little key switches in keyboard switches And they are breadboardable So I can arrange them into a nice little ergonomic pattern here And then try them out in different arrangements for things like split keyboards or macro pads And the setup here. I've just got a itzy bitzy m4 I think this one is or an m0 and I'm running all of these keys as a single neopixel strand Using the circuit python led animation library and all I have it doing right now is when I hit a key I get a different animation pattern and it can send a usb Key I actually turned that off right now. So I wouldn't screw with my computer But I've had this setup just sending the numbers one two three four and five to change cameras in my broadcast software So it's a lot of fun for trying stuff out, which is kind of difficult. Otherwise with Doing doing custom keys with stuff All right, cool Everybody turn in tomorrow to jp show and we'll have some highlights from some of your recent videos on tonight's asking engineer Come on. Bye. Thank you jp keyboard master. We're gonna go over to fomey guy Hello, how's it going doing very well? Thank you. See some really amazing graphics. What's going on? So this is something I've been working on. It's basically kind of like a high portal remote screen control. So You have this nice design page. You can drag and drop stuff It's pretty similar like fuse powerpoint or any kind of design tool where you're designing pages But you can have text you can do all kinds of fun stuff. We can change fonts. We can change Sizes we can do all of that stuff. We can change background. So if we want like a nice bunch of flowers Or you know anything so we got this nice design tool and then the idea is once we save it here There is code that's running on the pie portal. That's basically just checking away This is a change the flowers change the flowers Okay, we can do flowers So there it changed to the this little bubblegum stuff or whatever so we can go back here You can go flowers. You can go it. I don't believe it. I don't believe it Save it again. You can let it update here This is the promise of every mobile thing forever like you'll design on your desktop. All right, these flowers are it'll show up on your There you go Nice. So it's uh, yeah, just a server. It's running on my local network right now But it could live out on the out on the internet. It's based on jango and then this uh front-end react j s Design tool. So that's what I'm writing a code that pie to the disc It is no no. It's just the image. Yeah Yeah, it's uh, it's checking uh to see if the md5 some of the image changed and then it's down It's not rendering it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, sorry that makes it some more sense. I was like, wow, what the heck It does save uh some json for that layout there Um, and you could download it into the circuit pie and render it with display io You could like kind of make shapes and do different stuff if you wanted to but yeah right now It's the full screen and uh, just one So we do a set of bug reports the data for we do hug reports one one hug report to uh, Tim There's a really neat feature that we're doing with our libraries where you can Visualize what where the files go and it looks like a screenshot from a mac, but it's not I know Excellent work uh on making things easier and then this was this is beautiful amazing good work All right. Thank you. Thank you, Tim. All right. Yeah, that was a good demo Nice flowers. All right next up. We're gonna go to stewart. Hey stewart. Hey, can you hear me? Yeah? Yeah, okay I need to share my screen okay Let me see make sure I do this right Okay, oh entire screen. No share All right. Here it is. You can see it. Yeah, okay. Let me uh go to me Yeah, let me go to my okay. Okay. Can you see this? Yeah, okay, so I made this a year ago. Oh actually it's in my office Um, I didn't think I would show it but anyway, it's a what it is is a camera here And this is a auto camera that I got a little monitor by my desk and what happens is I also have a next-gen uh display which is two-way communication with the uh microprocessor and there's a 360 Pi sensor on the other side of the wall and what happens is I also programmed in you can't see it there also programmed in a um a menu so that I could test the motor and the neopixel and back to the main menu has a has a um A combination code on there also In addition to that there's a I have a little video I think Yeah, I had it since last year so I didn't think I would show it but I happened to have it And when someone walks by it actually goes up and neopixel lights up and then it goes back down And the reason why I um I thought of that because I have a new mechanism The camera was supposed to go below the um the cubicle But what happened was the camera was too heavy and I had to 3d print something on it to support it So now I have a better so I'll I'll redesign it. All right. Okay. Do the update and come back Okay, it'll be the sequel. What is the name of the project? Did you did you give it a name? I didn't give it a name Yeah, it's almost like a periscope Watching you watching me. All right. I love your builds. They're like Contraction to you really. I love them though. They've got a lot of personality. I appreciate it. Thank you The green plastic is so good. We're gonna go to okay. So mark and then we're gonna go to Dan So keep it a couple minutes each and uh One and a half minutes might still might be here, but the camera's up. We'll find out All right mark. Give us an update Uh So I have finally finished My show and tell badge Is that the digi key red thing or is that you got it from somewhere else? I took the red I got the boards from jlc got it, uh, which matched your badge almost perfectly Okay, great. I was I forgot where you got the pcb's from because we also did a video on the jail's pcb Yeah, and I had actually seen that video right before I ordered these things so it worked great and all right These look great. Yeah, I've been basically incorporated the three things that I'd used the most often There's a light sensor in the middle that you can barely see Um, which is working if I cover it. It should change the animation And then on the back. There's an imu Which will detect the motion and then so yeah It will now Acton forth. That's good and Then of course I had to put neopix all over it because that's probably what I've used the most out of everything Uh, yeah, so the last one I managed to move almost all the traces to the back So the front is nice and clean And yeah, uh right away running something circuit python. Uh, I think it was an rp 2040 feather And then I ran into a great new problem of making electronics is The imu I used is now at a stock and I can't get any more. That's right The video game is now on a harder level for everyone. Yeah, so now I've got a bunch of uh board sitting around which Uh, I was planning just to assemble the giveaway to whoever might want one if anyone That is on show and tell once when just let me know and I can probably send one off Once I get chips again Okay, if you think about that we've all trained for this we've all been doing video games Where you just walk around and look for a crystal. I know it's like money for it Yeah, so like we need the rare shiny. We've been we've been ready for this. Okay All right, thanks so much. All right. Thanks a lot. All right. Give us a one minute update Play us out Wait up to All right, uh, well, let's see how fast I can go. Um I've been working on the on spot and been tinkering and fiddling and all of that got uh motors to power to test with rage bridge, uh been tinkering what Microcontroller to go with Got these the feathers. I thought it'd be cool to Use the uh, oh, what do you call this thing? And um The two eyes version Yeah, oh, yeah the um monster mask monster mask. Thank you. Yes um, but I figured I just take a step back. I was Fussing around on amazon and happened across A nifty little uh toy like 10 bucks And so I figured I go small just take a step back and go small for a little bit. So I started Oh, yeah working on this about an hour ago Put this uh big old power supply so it'll put out its own two amps with no problem And Oh Take it with that and I'll upgrade to the big stuff Let's go. That's your scale model and you can figure out what you want to do later Exactly. All right. I'll come back and show us the progress You have a great desk lots of cool stuff on it Managed chaos, uh questioning on the managed part. That's fine. It's it's an empty desk shows an empty mind Indeed. All right. Thanks everybody. That is our showed night everybody. Thank you so much for joining us every single Wednesday 7 30 p.m Eastern time. Thanks for making this the best half an hour of our lives every single week. Good to see a lot of friends people we know people we work with and then people that we've never met in person But we just know them for a really long time because technology can also bring people together In addition to completely separating them Um and polarizing them, but we can also use it the other way and bring people together That's what we do every week on show and tell. Okay. See everybody Next week and ask an engineer starts in about a minute or so. All right, buddy