 Welcome to the show. It's me JP. It's time for JP's product pick of the week. You're just in time. Actually, I'm a couple minutes late. Sorry about that. So let's do this. I've got a really cool product pick for you this week. You're going to get it half off. Let me verify that and check my refresh my page here this week's product. Boom! It's going to be 50% off. And if you want to watch this show from inside of the product page and go jump on this great deal right now, you can head to that URL or that QR code. It's product 5768, product ID 5768. And there's no need for coupon code. Just put it in your cart and buy it before the show is over or just a few minutes after and you will get it on instant and fantastic discount. So before I say any more, let's jump back a little bit in time and have Lady Aida tell us all about this week's product pick. Take it away, Lady Aida. The PropMaker Feather is the latest in our RP2040 all-in-one feather line. This is because we had a lot of people who were making projects with our PropMaker Feather wing and the Feather M4. And the Feather M4 has been really hard to keep in stock because the 7501 is still affected by the chip shortage somehow. And people all start to solder together and there's two pieces and like they wanted better quality audio and so I was like, you know, maybe I'll just make it all in one feather. Actually, you know, that's giving myself too credit. Dan Halbert said, why don't you make it all in one feather? And I was like, that's a good idea. So I did so. So what this has, the next image is on the left hand side, you've got your USB-C and your battery input and your RP2040 chip. So that's a dual core 130 megahertz processor. So you can do sensing, playback audio, do circuit Python or micro Python or Arduino with it. There's a reset button. There's a boot loader button. You can also use as a user button. After it's booted, you can use it as an input. There's a STEMI QT port, eight megabytes of flash, so lots of space for storing audio files or sound fonts, whatever you want to call them, or animation instructions. There is an accelerometer kind of in the top right corner. It's a LIST 3DH, three-axis accelerometer with tap detection. So really good for motion sensing. On the bottom right, there is an I2S Max 98357 3-watt digital amplifier. So this takes digital signal I2S from the RP2040, so it gives you really high-quality audio output up to 3 watts. So it's good for, you know, powering fairly large speakers for props and robotics and electronics. There's also a little servo port. We had a little space left over and I was like, well, what are we going to use it for? And I think Phil B was the one who was like, can you stick a servo connection there? I don't know. Somebody said so, and I was like, yeah, it's a good idea. So I did, so you can plug and play a servo inside. And then there's total blocks for the outputs, so the neopixels. I don't know what happened there. It just cut off. Don't think that's going to play. I think I made a boo-boo on editing that video. So we'll never know the full story of what Lady Aida thinks of it, but I think she likes it. Sorry about that. So I, yeah, that, let me talk about some of the differences here between the feather wing and the feather. But first, let me just intro this. So sorry for that. I got taken off guard by my video snafu. So let's bring up that video right there. And I will also shoot this little downcam view at the same time. Let's see if I can fit me in there. There we go. So this right here is this week's product pick of the week. It is the prop maker feather RP2040. That right there. So just like our previous prop maker feather wing, this is designed for doing your basic prop needs for light sound input and a little bit of something fancy in this case, the servo motor output. But unlike the feather wing, this is an all in one solution. So this is the microcontroller right there. You can see it's the RP2040 just just like in any of our beloved Pico and RP2040 based boards. And this then has the onboard accelerometer. It has a neopixel driver. It has the I2S amplifier. So we've improved the quality. Now we have digital audio quality for the output. We have an input for a button. And one of the things you'll notice is that we now have built onto here instead of a bunch of different types of ways to plug your stuff in. It really varied on the prop maker feather wing. This one has a really nice neat set of screw terminals right here on the back. And if you flip that over or look at the the other picture that I have there, that lower picture, you can see we have the speaker outputs that's listed as plus and minus for audio on four to eight ohm speakers. Then we have a button input. And then we have the five volt for the neopixels. We have a ground which you'll use both for neopixels and for the button input. And then we have the neopixel data line. We also have as you can see right here, the ground five volt and servo lines. So those connect to pre soldered headers. So one of the really nice things about this is there's no soldering required for your basic usage unlike with the feather wing, which you had to have a feather with some sort of pins on it, header pins and on the feather wing. This is all one you can plug and play this as long as you got a screwdriver and some some wires, you can plug into this, you can plug standard servos right in here, you can use any of our stem acute outboard stuff just by plugging into that stem acute slash quick port. And then we have battery charging for our typical lipo battery usage. We also have a jumper you can cut here if you want to use some alkaline or other types of batteries that can't be charged, you can cut this trace here. And then it's safer to use or safe to use a battery pack, which is really nice for certain types of costuming needs. And for prop uses, we also have jumpers back here to adjust the gain of the output. And what I'd like to do is show you a typical use when you're building a prop. So first of all, I mentioned, let me let me go to this view of the world here. I will mention that our good friend Lars actually has the prop maker featherwing and a I think it's a m4 feather m4 inside of him. So I use the accelerometer you might might or might not be able to hear this on my just on my lavalier mic. Yeah, it's a little quiet. But I'm using tap detection to to turn on and off. So creepy. And then I've got battery charging through this little foot port here. But this is a project that you could do now with the prop maker feather instead of using the wing plus a feather. So it gets cheaper, smaller and easier, which is really great. This Lars was done using circuit Python. I also have a prop I want to show you that is a little more, I'm going to turn turn Lars make him be quiet for a second. I'll show you a project where let's see you have to really quickly throw together a prop or maybe not quickly. But here's one that I threw together really quickly using a squirt gun, this is a super soaker a Nerf super soaker. And it is essentially unmodified all I've done is I removed the barrel just because it was longer than anything I wanted to see there. But this has the prop feather wing. Sorry, this has the prop maker feather RP 2040 right here. And you can see wired to it. I have a servo. I have a speaker and I have a neopixel strand and all of that is just screwed right in. In fact, there's no soldering going on here. What I'm going to do is actually turn off my AC for a second and hopefully I don't melt but that'll that'll improve this mic's ability to pick up audio from that speaker. I just used a little piece of wire to bridge the enable pin. So you can hear we've got some random noises random sounds that are being played. We have sweeping of this servo here. So imagine this is like a ghost detector or something like that. We have rainbow neopixels running here. Also just screw terminal right in there. And then I have a button that I've connected again just with some plug in wiring that will allow me to adjust some features of the of the props. So in this case, I'm just setting the color of the neopixels either a full bright white or the rainbow pattern that I have going there. Okay, so let me see if I can fix up my view here for a second. So I have to hold it. Let's focus that up. So there you can see boost my exposure a little bit to that'll blast out the neopixels a little. Oh, that was white balance. Sorry. There we go. Now we got exposure. Okay, so you can see it right there. This as I zoom in here is the prop maker taking care of basically everything you can see I have whoops, I have a floppy camera arm going there too. All sorts of things are breaking. Focus a little harder in there. So you can see here I've got a lipo battery underneath and this is just the battery port that I took out. There were four AA batteries for the regular squirt gun. So just to make this nice and easy, there's plenty of space you could put this inside you could wrap your wires more neatly. But if you're just trying to come up with a quick prop something for a party for Halloween for a stage effect for something in a background in a video or something like that. Really great choice here you can see I've got the USB-C plug there which is open wide I can plug in there for power or if I want to power this off of a power bank that's great that'll charge this this lipo battery that I have underneath here and it's pretty pretty decent size one. So this should run for quite a long time. You can see my button in action that will adjust the lighting there and that is ready to go so nice solution. You could use this for some simple robotics too. Oh gosh my camera really just there we go. I'll try to keep that balanced there. The camera's on the way out. It's fixed the focus there. So some robotics projects you more likely use something like a cricket for more DC motors and drivers and so on. But for some simple things you may get away with especially costume effects, prop effects where you want just have a little bit of movement a little bit of button input still have the accelerometer on here so we can do some some neat accelerometer stuff. If you want to do tap detection or you want to change sound effects or lighting effects as you move it. Did you Devin says yeah you kind of don't want to get into a squirke on fight with all this exposed wiring that's for sure. I won't run water through this I promise. So let me turn this back off again. I'm just using a piece of wire to connect the enable pin to ground and that has the effect of turning that off and let's go back I'm going to turn this AC on before I expire and let's look at product page here so if you want to get one of these I think they're still in stock. Let's see they are still in stock says we have 56 in stock so $9.98 that's the half off price right now just throw it in your cart and buy it you don't need to use coupon code or anything and that'll get you the RP2040 prop maker feather and it has the I2S audio on it. You can scroll down here check out some of the other facts on this. One nice thing about this is that you can just use circuit python or Arduino code I think you can use this also a micro python with the typical libraries that exist for these subsystems so if you look at I've got some example code here not the code exactly that I'm running here I happen to be running the Arduino code on there and but this is some pretty similar code that you'll find in the learn guide that Liz put together so this has you can see here we're using things like audio core audio bus IO and audio mixer to do wave playback or yes this is wave playback over the I2S amplifier we're also using PWM for servo we're using digital IO for checking the button can also use the on board boot button as a second button so without even wiring something if you need to change a setting you have that right there we've got neopixel we're using some LED animation rainbow motor servo and the list 3D H is the accelerometer on board that we can use for either single tap double tap and for any of the three axes of accelerometer reads then this is being set up with the external pin for power the wave playback over I2S using mixer we've got servo control in here we have that extra button external neopixels this is set as a as a strand of 30 by default and then the accelerometer and then if you load this up or even just the default that it ships with it ships ready to go so when you when you open up the little bag and grab grab one of these go ahead and just try it out plug in some neopixels on the back there it will immediately start doing a rainbow animation you can turn on and off the on board neopixel using the on board boot button as a user button servo is ready to go just plug that in there you can we had a question over in the chat about some good servos to start with we're sold out of both of these but they are great choice set the standard tower pro servo or that's this micro servo those both work great just happen to be sold out I think if you click on those you might find a link to buy them elsewhere such as digikey but nearly any hobby servo you can imagine will work just great with that pin out it's pretty typical pin out of power ground and the position data there are a couple great guides already out using this brand new feather version of the prop maker so you can see here there's the Mario magic wand by the roose brothers and there's this great collaboration with the roose brothers and Liz Clark for the adabot toy robot friend and you can see the switch over to the site here you can see the little gif animation there so this is using the servo to move the head it says phrases it has a neopixel 8 neopixel board for the mouth animation some really clever light blocker to make that straight line actually look like a curve without any bleed through and this also has I believe accelerometer for going to sleep and some other cool features so look at those but also if you check out any of the pre-existing prop maker feather wing projects you will be able to use probably 80% of those without change there were a couple of differences like I said we now have I2S audio instead of a DAC there's no longer the high-power RGB analog LED driver that was that was on the other one but depending on the project I'm sure some of the cool lightsaber and Zelda prop projects that the roose brothers and others have done will work really great with this one and it's just smaller now so that means you can you can fit that board in a smaller handle on a prop project which is really cool let's see what else what am I missing I think that'll probably do it let me know if you've got any questions in the chat that's some nice pictures of it right there Chris S. asked it does not have Wi-Fi right which look which most look alike of this one do if you want to have Wi-Fi yeah so if you wanted to use Wi-Fi on this one you would need to use a separate module for Wi-Fi I'm not sure I haven't thought about it too much if anyone has any ideas in the chat of a way to add like ESP32S2 as a co-processor to this is there any reasonable easy way to do it I don't think we have any Wi-Fi over over I2C that would be nice but I don't think that exists so you probably looking at a SPI or SPI SPI module of some kind to add that you can also use a feather with another feather if you're really careful don't just plug them into each other but essentially over serial you can use other modules let's see oh good David King over in the YouTube says great timing on this I had him in my cart was going to order tomorrow so just doubled my quantity and ordered them today hey that's nice air lift feather wing thank you yeah over in the chat Hem and Todd said there's the the air lift feather wing that would be worth checking out if you want to try to do a Wi-Fi add on to this board so you could certainly do it this way you could also use the a Wi-Fi cable board and the prop maker feather wing so we have kind of two ways you can slice that but I think this one is ideal for the simpler projects where you just want one board no soldering no Wi-Fi no wireless in that case let's see how sensitive is the tap detection there are defaults for the tap detection that are work great I've used them and it'll allow you to not have spurious reads until you really intentionally go in there and tap I love the double tap because the timing is about I think it's under 200 milliseconds requires so you won't just get tap tap and it thinks you've you've asked for a tap and it's less likely just one hit versus a single tap will cause it so I don't know I think if you go to our product page so you can get there by going to the primary guide downloads and then the data sheet for the list 3D H will tell you all you need to know about the the different I think it's a plus 2 plus 4 plus 8 and plus 16 scale that you can use for accelerometer and I believe tap detection has some similar settings for for tuning that in let's see other questions oh Matthew Hand is going to finish a master sword that is excellent tackle the world says yes terminal blocks I'm a huge fan these are these are really great and these are some some nice pretty small ones just right for your typical stranded wire I find these work better with stranded wire or a little crimp ferrule rather than a solid core is just not a lot to grip on to so those can come out let's see I don't recall him as if that's the full forum 3 watt output on Lars I don't remember he's kind of buried in some stuffing so he's not not super loud but we can experiment with that I can I can bring that on sometime and do some some tweaks maybe it's time for Lars to get an upgrade we'll see Lars was using DAC audio and not this I2S audio with whatever I forget which built-in amplifier was on that one all right well I think that's going to do it then have I forgotten anything I don't think so so head on over there that's the the URL if you want to go grab these before they're all gone we have let's see double check it's exciting to see what do we have we have 46 in stock all right so that means four of you could go and grab ten that's the max per customer and leave one for six or lots and lots of you how about 46 of you each go get one that would be great so like I said no coupon coded just needed just no coupon code needed just throw that in the car and you'll get it for that price all right I think that's going to do it let's fire this wild thing back up that is my product pick of the week this week it is the prop maker feather rp2040 all in one prop making board go get one build a prop build a costume thing build a Lars all right for Adafruit Industries I'm John Park and this has been JP's product pick of the week I will see you next time bye bye