 So we have a coming soon. Yes. Well, it's coming soon really So this is something that we worked on like a year ago, and we kind of got delayed and distracted You can you can tell when we took this photo because Bitcoin was 10,000 usk But we actually are back on the IMX train We took a little bit of a detour to do some other things including keeping our company running During 2020, but we're finally able to get back to some delayed projects including this one So it's our first Cortex M7 board. It's going to be the IMX RT 10 11, which is a 500 megahertz Cortex M7 from NXP. It's got 128 K of RAM. It's gonna have a 4 megabyte Q-Spy flash chip We have circuit Python already working for this chip and we're sort of, you know, going through a bug fixing stage We're also gonna give it a second stage bootloader So we've been working on getting TUF 2 all ported over and working quite well for the IMX series and this will be the first board of a many IMX series Chip breakouts and feathers and metros and pipe portals and whatnot We thought this trip was cool because it's like it's a hand solderable 500 megahertz processor It's just kind of neat And it is very fast with circuit Python. It doesn't have a ton of RAM But it does have enough to be able to do Wi-Fi projects and control a display and and get sensor data So we'll be our fastest megahertz Metro so far. Yep. Very exciting. Next up. Okay. We've got some more Raspberry Pi compute modules this one. I mean every day. We're kind of getting more modules in let me verify the two stats for these so these are Yeah, because one has flash this one does not have flash memory. So the one without flash memory is the Two gigabytes of RAM, but it does have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. So this is the light version So you'll need an external SD card With a compute module But if you do that, you've got two gigabytes of RAM You got Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on board and this one you can see the flash chip kind of in the top center there It's got eight gigabytes of MMC flash memory two gigabytes of RAM and of course Wi-Fi and Bluetooth So this is you know if you grab our compute module IO board plug this in and Again, if you don't have the MMC memory, you're gonna have to plug in an SD card If you have the MMC, what's nice is it it's got this super hat fast High-speed large memory chip right on board So a lot of people prefer that to having an SD card Okay, next up. We have a lot of cables. We have a lot of cables. It's a cable series These are 1.25 millimeter pitch cables. They're compatible with Molex picoblade They're sometimes called like picoblades, but they're not necessarily Molex. They are just 1.25 millimeter pitch cables They are 1 2n and I can show on the overhead what that means Because there's two there's two kinds of cables So let's let's go to the overhead and I'll show so all the cables are pretty much this, you know They're just different number of pins Let me just make sure that we lock onto the focus So you'll see that they have, you know the contacts. They're crimped in and all that good stuff So for this cable Oh, sorry, this one this one is one-to-one made a mistake so you can see that The the colors may not be the exact same one as your cable but for this one it is Yeah, this one pin one is The black wire and this one is pin one is also the black wire So just make sure that when you have your boards that are connecting back and forth sometimes like the black wire On what is on one here and it's on like, you know the nth pin over here So just like keep in keep that in mind when you're designing it. We've seen Some cables are they're called one-to-one and some are one-to-n So this one, you know, it's it's the same on both sides But that's not always true I just want to warn people because we might also carry the cables that have it the other way around That said we have them in multiple different pins. We have seven pin eight pin nine pin ten pin basically four through ten They're pre-assembled cables. They're really nice. They're 20 centimeters long. So if you're Just you want to connect data and power from one board to the other You don't want to use a flex cable. You want a fine pitch or a fairly fine pitch cable. We do like picoblades We use them a lot. They're very compact. You get a lot of pins without a big connector. So they're not very bulky. All right next up Next up. We have stemma qt fide the htu 21d breakouts is a humidity and temperature sensor from te we like it. It's a nice sensor It's got a ptfe filter also quite nice We've had this one for quite a bit and it's a popular sensor So we decided we would stemma qt fide it now comes with plug and play stemma qt connectors on the side We're trying to get all our boards into the same form factor same pin order Same connector to make it easier for people to do no soldering sensor connectivity So the htu 21d had gotten the qt glow up as we like to say all right next up Okay, now we're on to new products from fabrication department. So We've got this board. Let me grab the demo So these are Mechanical key breakouts, so I'm kind of getting interested in mechanical key parts and to use them You know the mechanical keys themselves. They're often called a cherry mx or cherry mx compatibles and They normally you need to solder them into like a keyboard and you know, then you you clicky and clacky them This breakout lets you plug in a cherry mx compatible switch like you see here This is a kale box switch, which is cherry mx compatible. You plug it in to The breakout board and there's on the bottom you can see on this photo There's a socket and so the switch doesn't get soldered in it actually kind of press fit plugs in It can be removed So if you want to be more permanent, you know use glue or something or or some epoxy to keep it in place There was also on the bottom you see that white square thing That's a neopixel and there's also a diode and the diode is what lets you create key matrices with this thing and the neopixel You see here. There's this kind of like you know There's the two sockets on the left the center is the mounting post on the right There's actually a little slot in the keys and the key Itself is meant for like having an LED Soldered in perhaps, but you can also just have a reverse amount neopixel shine through And then you can kind of backlit the LED with RGB colors One thing to just be aware of it's not in the center You know, it's the bottom half of the key or the top half it's one half the key that gets RGB lit Here I've got some translucent keys so you can sort of see that it's not the full body of the key It's not like, you know whole thing glowing. It's just one half of it So let's go to the overhead and I'll show you the demo because it's actually easier to show so you've got a stem at QT Sorry a QT pie board You know, it's just using Arduino or you can use circuit Python or whatever and These are the keys and I'm just gonna remove them to show you that The key itself plugs into the sockets. This is the key and it's got these two Connectors and that those when this key is pressed those connect together and then there's the mounting post right to keep it mechanically stable so you can Plug it in and then, you know, it's pretty stable I would say look you want to have a glued or taped or something to keep it from coming apart because you can pull it off And here's another one. So you have two of them connected together and then on each side you have multiple pinouts There's power and ground here for these are for the neopixel and then this white wire you see, you know Goes in here and then chains over to this one. That's the neopixel data line So just like neopixels you chain them together. This has neopixel data going through and then You have two pins for the switch the top and the bottom that and in the cathode of the switch again There's a this diode in the middle so you can make key matrices If you're not doing key matrices, you can just ignore that diode there to avoid key ghosting if you're making a complicated matrix But basically you have one pin for every switch and then for this demo I will reassemble it very quickly When you press the key the LED turns off So, you know, you can just use it as a switch and then control the neopixel separately So they're you know, the neopixel is not connected to the switch at all They're totally separate you can have the neopixel all the time off all the time You don't even have to power if you don't want to it's just kind of a bonus extra It shines underneath. Here's a demo of the opposite when you press the button the new pixel shines through So it's basically a breadboard friendly way of connecting a mechanical key that is cherry MX compatible to your breadboard It'll do more stuff with these keys But I wanted to just can get started and have an easy way to make breadboard friendly mechanical key switch projects Okay, and star of the show tonight besides deleted our customers or community and our team is Neo Trinkie, Neo Trinkie your best friend who's neopixels and to drink it and it's USB key It's Neo Trinkie From Bandai. No, it's not. It's from Adafruit. It's a USB key and As you as you might expect it's it's got the USB connectors here. So you plug into USB It's got a samd 21 is our favorite little micro controller chip so can run circuit Python In fact this demo circuit Python It's got a regulator just to get you that three volts you need doesn't need a lot of components There's a reset button and then there's four neopixels and two capacitive touch pads. So You know these contacts here at the end of the Body we zoom in you can see that there's there's a split in the middle left and right. So When I plug this into USB signal USB extender When I press one it gets bright and when I press the other Wait, hold on Sorry, this one gets dim and this one gets bright so I can dim dim them Brighten them so they act as two separate Inputs the capacitive inputs you can control the neopixels separately You know so I just have them doing this kind of a rainbow glow thing and then of course you can get into a boot loader Or you can load Arduino code. You can use circuit Python. It's very small and simple We just wanted to make like a keychain Circuit Python board It has a little slot here that you can put onto a keychain keychain ring if you'd like and then you just plug it in and you can Immediately start coding and again, you don't need an IDE or anything You can just go straight into circuit Python and write code for it. So it's very cute And it's got an extra thick PCB. So it plugs into USB quite nicely So Trinkie Neo Trinkie. Why not? Let's be friends. Neo Trinkie. Neo, Neo, Neo