 Lady, what is this? Hey everybody and welcome to show and tell it's me Lady Aida and mr. Lady Aida hosting again tonight We switched it off with some folks like known Pedro and JP. Thanks to them for when they host, but we're picking up We're here at the Adford factory downtown Manhattan. It's nice and quiet here. We're the only ones here We live together. So that's why we're not wearing masks, but enough about us pretty soon. We won't have to say that anymore This is this is gonna be a weird moment. Yeah, we're gonna look back and then we're gonna edit and post We pretend this never happened the last two years Um, I can't wait for for the AI robots to replace our masks with with our what they thought our faces look like Oh, that's yeah, that'll be weird because it'll be all the glory. Yeah, okay Well, we got some people from around the maker Community you got some hackers and coders and designers coming by and they're all gonna show up what they've been working on in This cold weather kicking off with Kevin from digikey. Hey guys cousin is basement. Yeah, I'm glad to hear you guys are safe And healthy and I agree with Two years we're gonna talk or we're not gonna talk about this two years. Yeah We are we didn't really handle it that well Collectively as a scientist. I think we're just gonna kind of skip right right now We are finally in talks of going back to the office So a lot of us are very excited to see people again be back in the digikey A giant building that you built to see you have plenty of room. We do we it We're starting some of our first test shipments this month, which is really exciting And I'm hoping once we kind of get things going I would love to do a live show and tell when I'm in the building and walking around the new new facility It's pretty cool. Yeah So what I've been working on so I'm not sure if everybody is aware of this but 2022 is Digikey's 50th anniversary. Oh We've been playing we saw the retro videos. We're gonna play one of them tonight the 1991 I think Digikey video that we saw on your social media. So we're gonna play it tonight on ask an engineer for anyone who wants to stick around and see that But yeah, congratulations. Yeah. Yeah, congratulations on the anniversary and thank you to whoever decided to post up the Digikey like video commercial from like 1991. Oh, that's great. I'm glad you guys are sharing it. I can smell the carpeting 91 or 96 Oh, man, that was I was a I was just a kid back then So for the 50th anniversary What better than recreate what started the company? So I I'm working with a team of some of our engineers and our technical team and we're gonna recreate the Digikey here It was you let us borrow that and we did a full day was here. Yeah. Yeah, and we're gonna we're gonna take it to the next level I mean, it's not gonna be just the Digikey here, but we're gonna use the original Digikey or Cirque Cirque We're gonna incorporate a 555 timer because it's also the 50th year of the 555 timer so we might as well bring that in there's no one you actually it and So this is just a quick image of how we're we're gonna create PCB paddles for the dits in the DOS Oh, good idea and the best of all is we're gonna We're gonna have this a standalone project or We're gonna make it so you can add on to it What are we gonna use we're gonna use a feather We're gonna With feather wings, we're gonna have a OLED display So when you turn it on it'll have a splash screen and I don't want to get into all the details I want this to be a little a little surprising Yeah, we have some cool things we want to be able to send the Morse code out on Bluetooth to a phone Just to make it a little more modern day But I'll kind of keep you guys updated as we're working on this Yes, not a big secret, but it's something that I think this community would really love I think it could be a secret but also show the progress. It's still Trailers for movies, you know what the movies about we collect Retro hardware stuff and I remember when we first met from the team from Digikey and we asked if we could borrow it And they're like, yeah We only have this one and we did a photoshoot and we make sure that we took good care of it and we still have photos on our flicker and We did a bunch of like cool animations within everything. This is a really good idea Yeah, we're really excited about it. We have like I said a team of Really smart people working on this and I'm sure we'll reach out to the community for help ate a fruit and discord Every times we'll run into snags and be like, hey anybody know how to get through this so We'll definitely be neat is they could order the boards from your board service They could get it right from the website and the the retro Digikey commercial that we're gonna play tonight on ask an engineer It says in the beginning we Service the DIY market and then we decided to like have you know do more and it's neat because it reminds me of a You know a little bit like a different we did kits and now we do you know quite a bit more So it's it's a neat look back in in the history, but it's also maybe a glimpse at the future too Yeah, I saw your pulse on twitter 10 years ago You had the entire ate a fruit on a small was it a a tray or uh 16 years ago. Yeah, it was uh A very small all of l'amour. Yeah, I only had like one product It was the mini puff kit and then I did the minty boost that was our second product That was her entire inventory all of her net worth all like it was in kitchen bags Yeah, it was like you have like 500 dollars worth of of ate a fruit. That was it. That was the entire company Doesn't just meet the kids and that's great. There's so many similarities I mean, that's how did you key started, you know the the guy created a Are found around sort of created the digicure and ended up with all these extra reels of parts and Cut them up and sold them off All right. Well, this is super cool. Kevin. So um keep us posted Send me anything over email if you want us to cover it on the vlog Uh, yeah, but this is really neat. I'll do a um I'll do a post with our photos that we took of the digicure when we got to borrow it as well Okay. Yeah, great. Okay. All right. Thanks guys. Everyone a digicie. Glad to see you guys are happy and happy. Yeah I'll talk to you soon All right next uh Jeff You are interrupting my research on the digicure. I posted up some links on the discord But uh, i'm here to show you I went a little off the rails today. And so I made a clock Whoa, that was bad. Um, what time is it? It's jeff tom. What time is it? Yeah, we're in central time here So it's 6 37. This is made with a esp 32 s to feather the one with the tft because it's what I had But we're not using it. And then these are little i squared c displays Um, and you can hook up to eight of them up. So I mixed them up Gets the time from the network and just shows it on the display. So nice Fun little project I did in arduino because I hadn't done arduino with esp 32 s to yet. Oh, okay, great All right, it's going to uh, is this going to be available anywhere in the world for people to kick the tires on or anything? You know, I can share the the design for this little bracket But otherwise it's just a bunch of 80 fruit parts and like 150 lines of code. So I'll put it on the gist But I don't know that it's Super super exciting or anything like that. I might ask. Uh, they can probably find you in discord if they want to Yeah, I'll I'll share it on the gist and post the links up in discord. All right. Thanks so much, jeff. All right See you around All right jp what you got going on this week Hey, yes, so the retro marvelousness continues. Uh, I've been working on last couple weeks. This, uh, arcade synthesizer controller. This is a mdf medium density fiberboard version of the tweaks I did to the case design And this is the previous acrylic one that you see in the overhead I have a guide that i'm working on so people will be able to build one of these if they want uses are really cool arcade LED arcade button one by four stomach qt boards makes the wiring Heck of a lot easier than than doing this without Um, and one of the cool things about this is I have the audio library synth running on the feather end For in there, which is what I've shown before But I also have our midi feather wing on the back of this thing And so I've plugged it into A game boy I have here And you'll notice it's running Some ate a fruit code. This is a little cartridge that scott made a few years ago that runs circuit python on a cartridge Uh, and so the midi is going into there and it's using the sound engine built right onto the uh, the game boy here So with the latest code i'm using a arpeggiator library that todd curt wrote called arpey And uh, it means I can hit a button let it play patterns and change the root note of those patterns I can also adjust the uh octaves and the speed so i'll just hit play on it I Switch a pattern I feel like I've entered a battle These guys got a little faster like when you're in battle mode. That's right It, uh, cranks it up the game boy, uh midi sometimes can get a little, uh, unhappy with spamming too many notes at it I noticed I'll have to see if scott has any thoughts about that But I've used it to run some midi synths over usb some hardware synths over Classic midi as well as it's got the built-in audio. So uh, I'm real excited about it. It's a kind of a fun Build it's almost like a kit once you get uh get into it this uh little crack I have here is one of the reasons I've redesigned the case so that won't happen um And with the the learn guide people will be able to download those Files and either cut it at a laser cutter at a makerspace or send it off to a service online to get them cut And then it's a mostly a bunch of plug-in stuff together to to build this nice big Controller and I imagine someone out there could end up wanting to use it just as a regular fight stick might make a pretty good fight stick for For emulating music games, uh, but I also feel like there's a lot of space there people can add more buttons if they want or They can add sliders three functions on the front Which is how I'm changing some stuff, but you can put knobs and sliders lots of space on the back there Side here has the little ports for uh usb for the power and and uh recoding it and the audio out right there And on the back I put a couple buttons for uh reset that'll reset the Board or go into bootloader mode and then power it off entirely. Oh, that's nice As always, you know, it's like a project always like you know, it's done when there's an off button Yes, right I'll tell you what having the nice reset button was really helpful for uh for flashing firmware. It's nice to be able to Yeah To get in there without finding a little tiny button on the microphone. Let's see. Okay, cool. All right I'm looking forward to the guide On the show tomorrow, I'll be diving into a little bit of our More keyboard madness with a little wordle keyboard. So I was gonna ask what's on the show. We're gonna Show your uh parsec and then the highlight from jp's product pick of the week We do that on tuesday and then so tomorrow You're doing a wordle thing Yeah, I got to use the lovely little keyboard, which i'm a big fan of now our little Our little latest microcontroller there. Yeah, it turns out wordle was made for all these keyboard stuff Yeah, for sure. All right, thanks jp. Thanks everyone. Thank you jp All right, uh, what is happening? Oh, you're a mute You can see we cannot hear you No Yep, okay wrong microphone selected Okay, uh, so I thought I'd be need to add the uh a dual shock for for the ps4 controller and be able to control things and So I'll show you down here. So I have a little setup here and Uh, I have some custom firmware called blue pad 32 that's loaded on the air lift here And that go and then I can go ahead and And Sync that up here It's not working It was working just a bit ago No, no, you want to come back to you? Yeah, please. Okay. Let's go to known paedra and see what they're up to You know, let me uh Pump you over here. What's going on? Hey, can you hear me? Okay? No, okay cool Yeah, so this week we got a 3d printed prop We've been watching a lot of uh star wars of the book of boba's new tv show on disney plus So we got inspired to make the staff from the tusken raiders Um, so yeah, it's just a nice little it's not little it's kind of tall It's made out of several pieces. They all print without any support material and I just like the shape It was really cool. Everything kind of screws together And what I like about that is you can take it apart. So let's say I want to take it somewhere I could break it down into several pieces and then kind of take it wherever I need to or store it away If things happen, right? Um, so yeah, we talked about that on the show this morning And folks can download and 3d print their own staff This is great for when you're like, I want to go, you know, raid some stuff on naboo or whatever, but Yeah, I have to take public transport and it's too tall for fitting in the bus And your video is coming a little choppy so folks can watch ask an engineer or they can order a youtube channel And they can watch it in sparkling hd Thanks All right folks. All right. Thanks. All right. Thanks for coming by All right. Next up. Let's go to fromy guy and then we're gonna. Oh, no, Melissa's back. Let's go to Melissa Let's go to Melissa. Then we're gonna go to fromy guy and then we're gonna go to Liz. Melissa Okay, so back to this I just had pressed the wrong combination of buttons on the ps4 controller but right now I have it so it's controlling six different servos and I can It's going on six different axes because you have little axes on the left and the right triggers here That's kind of nice because it's like those are really ergonomic controllers And it's like that's a really hard thing to make but now you can add it to any mic control project Yeah, and it's running circuit python and it's on the just on this tiny little Qt pi rp 2040 and which that's a sony ps4 controller. Yeah, yeah, exactly So the big news is sony already saw this video and they've acquired melissa for 68 billion dollars So they have to keep up with microsoft. Well, the great thing is all this stuff is just available for made of fruit here So they just had it. You already had it in your your apartment, probably Had what now you had all the parts all like in your bins because like you've used all these components for other Right, right This is really cool. You could do some neat puppeteering and stuff like that and that controller especially for folks who Play a lot of video games. They're really fast up with it. So they'd be able to do a lot of interesting Uh movement I actually wanted to kind of build like a little robot and I use this as the input and then Yeah, so I wanted to see how much control I could get over this These are just to demonstrate like more the different axes. I have to get better battery power because It's just using the power boost 1000c and it's kind of almost bottoming out there I always think about like um, disney's animatronics and like how they can get the next generation of like imagineers And to me this would be something like it like imagine you're in a box like oh like you want to make your own abe lincoln I don't think anyone does but you want to make your own abe lincoln robot Well, here's how you would do it with the things that uh, you're very familiar with playstation controllers Yeah, very interesting 3d printers combining mechatronics with with remote control because it is tough It's like you make like, you know an eight axis robot It's like you're how do you control it like you can't write code for it like humans aren't good at that Then you could record it too and and then play it back and so you know There'd be one performance that you're you do all the movements and all the voice and then you know stores and then it plays back Digital puppetry. Okay, cool. Thanks. Nice work. Yeah, thanks All right tim what you got going on this week. Hello this week. I have worked on this Niko cat you can find out more about this old uh application here on Uh wikipedia, but I have implemented it into display io So we basically just have this cute little cat it will run around the screen It will scratch when it gets to the edges and if it feels like it In between it will stop and sleep or stop and uh, kind of lick its paw and scratch its head so Just some cute little display animations and it has customizable backgrounds and I did figure out that it runs on Uh multiple devices the same code So it's on a pipe portal a fun house and a clue here, but it would probably work the same on anything with a built-in screen Yes I was thinking about this because we were thinking about um You know old uh screensavers Um, and we did do a project where we um did animation of of after dark like flying toasters in display I know because it's really good with sprites and then I was thinking like oh wait I remember this other thing that I had that was a screensaver. It was like a screen toy and it would follow your mouse Um, so the cat would like chase after your mouse. It was like an old, you know apple system seven system six extension Then I found out I was actually ported to a bunch of other different um platforms. Anyway, so that's that's where the inspiration came from I was like, oh, yeah, this is a great display project back back to my I'll recycle my joke Back to uh the microsoft news. They technically own um after dark berkeley systems. I know so it's that's why it's like It's very um, we could convince them to open source it and then we can then we could do other stuff with it I think we could do that Okay, one more thing so for me guy if you have if there's a cursor control support on the board like for the touchscreen You should be able to have it follow your your finger Yeah, we can do that That's nice. Have it. Yeah, we can do that touch a point and I think you I really like this promise that was made a long time ago right once run anywhere You know java using a bunch of We all fell for it because it was like it's like yeah a good idea Um, but it looks like this is is actually here and you did it Yep. Yep. This is the exact same code on all three. Uh with the one difference is just the background color. So, yeah Yeah, the one thing that's really funny is it really was that slow too because it looks like the animation slow It was that slow on a computer. It was not a very fast animation Yeah, I figured we I would try to find a youtube video But I never did track one down, but I figured it would be kind of that retro Frame by frame animation. Yeah, it was a little bit like you can pop this in a little 3d printed Computer and it would look like it's just a miniature computer. It looks really I mean you what you have to do is you have to get like an old mac emulator And and boot it up with the exit. It's a lot of work. I don't think it's worth it. This looks this looks basic Yeah, this is fine Okay guide coming soon. All right. Thanks so much guys. Yep. Thanks. Let me guys cat All right, Liz place out. Maybe literally Maybe uh, I love that cat. Uh, so I'm working on this uh, VU meter with uh, name Pedro So I'll be coming soon. It's a circuit python PM mic and then a strip of neopixels And I've got the colors so that it's like a traditional VU meter But you could change it up to be any colors you want And then the other thing that I started working on is this uh, cutie pie is running circuit python And it's sending two alternating between two midi notes and sending it out over UART to this feather that's running Arduino to receive the midi input and then When it receives a specific note It'll play a tone that syncs up with that. The reason why I was experimenting with that is I want to have the oscotone scout take in midi to get like sequences as up And I will use circuit python to basically make it like a usp midi input device So that was the first kind of test with that So all right, this looks cool You could also do uh, red for the led colors and it would look like um night rider There's probably some other. Yeah, there's probably some other effects that are just like new picks. It could be any color you want It could be any color you want Um, but there's but there's lots of robots that when they talk, you know, it just There was the um remember that robot. What was the name of the with the mouth that would sing? Like tosky tone or something I'm like see oscotone sometimes guys and it's making my brain confused, but there was like a speaking mouth Matrix, it's not dr. Thelopolis. No, no, it was okay. I just wanted to say that from um, like 10 years ago It was like a product you could buy. Yeah, I'll look it up. It wasn't to excel No, no, no, it was modern. It was by the nabazz tag people But I can't remember. I have a wife. I have one of the wife. I read that Yeah, it was the same company, but I can't remember. Yeah, I'll think of it Anyways, all right. Well, good to see you. Good. See you too. All right. Thanks so much. That is show and tell tonight Thank you everybody. We're here every single week in some way shape or forms of a 30 p.m. Eastern time every Wednesday night. Thank you so much for making this the best, you know, 22 minutes or so 28 minutes sometimes 30 minutes sometimes even more every single week And uh, we'll see everybody next week ask an engineer starts in a few minutes We'll see everybody then and we'll see you next week. Bye everybody. Bye. See you in five minutes