 Hello and welcome to the show it's me John Park and it is time for another edition of JP's product pick of the week. Thanks so much for joining me and I will first of all thank the people over in our YouTube chat a bunch of people over there today so hello to, I'll open my chat here, Dave, Tackle the World, Jordy, who else we have, Roger, Anthony Chad, welcome Anthony, thanks everyone for stopping by and if you're wondering where our main chat is happening, I shouldn't say main, the other chat is happening, check out our Discord, you can go to adafru.it-slash-discord jump on over into the live broadcast chat channel and there's a bunch of people there too. That is partly one reason I send you there is it's a great place, the other is we're not keeping an eye on the Twitch or LinkedIn learning or other chats, it's just too many chats, Facebook, so if you're wondering where everyone is, if there's radio silence head on over to our Discord, it's a great place to participate. So first thing I want to do is send you to one of two places today, we have two URLs, two QR codes, these are very similar products, we're doing a sort of a double whammy and if you head there you will not only find this video living inside the page so you can hang out right there but you'll also find a deep discount on this week's product pick, I believe we're at 50% off, it's true, so head on over there if you want and if you want to want to see it unveil itself naturally then you're in luck because I'm gonna have Mrs. Lady 80 jump Mrs. Lady Ada and have LeMore jump in and tell us all about it, let's take it away. Aw man I love wires and boxes, we had before just the mini, just the one box but here's the thing about the other, actually you know what I'm gonna grab it, I'll get back this is from Altax Express and this is kind of cool and this is the box and here's the issue though, they use these large spools and so this was a little bit wider and like this spools actually this is like what they look like almost full so the spools are they're just bigger than they need to be and so this was the original box and this was cool but we wanted to have, well one thing we wanted to have a set of ten in the box and so what we did is we contacted the factory that makes our wire spools and said hey could you put these in a box for us and like we'll design the box everything and they did and so instead of just having six wires which is okay six is fine but you know it's better than six ten because ten is always better than six for almost every purpose almost everything yeah and so you get red, orange, yellow, green, all colors the standard electronic colors they've got the little punch outs and the way we can fit this many is they're just the spools are just they're skinnier but they're round more so it's the same size as the other box but you get more spools it's a little more expensive because you don't have to pay for the spools they're still like a you know 250 each or whatever it says eight of fruit on it so it's lovely ten set of solid core and stranded and then we also have now we have a smaller for the six wires it's cuter and smaller and this is a six set of solid so you can get six or ten I think six is good for most but like honestly at home I got the ten I just love having multiple colors especially when I do diagrams and tutorials because I want to say like the SPI clock pen is orange and the iSquirt C data pen is green and so like having all those colors is really helpful I like this because it's like a rain it's like a fruit with a rainbow come out yeah and you know you're probably like okay but everyone just uses the black and red wires the most what do we do but we stock the in all the spools individually so when you're done you just remove this and you just slide it out refill and you just refill you know you just take out the white put in this one because you're always going to use black and red the most and then you can just swap them out that's what I do so you can get a refill later but this is like my favorite thing in the world I love these wire school boxes this is a great invention oh man I love me to do this wire that was just gonna repeat wasn't it yes so let me let me jump down here to my overhead because this is the product pick of the week this week it is the hookup wire spool set and I've got a six and a ten so let me let me show you these right here this is the product pick of the week this week it's a double we have the ten and the six solid core hookup wire spool sets these are 22 AWG and they are perfect for breadboarding and prototyping so if you first of all let's let's jump over to the two product pages for these you can see these are on deep discount so 1498 for the ten set and 798 for the six set these are great just to re-up if even if you already have some of these get more they're great to have and I have done exactly what Lady Aida has said which is re-upt the black and the red which by far go the quickest but also green and yellow I tend to go through a lot depending on the types of projects I'm doing I grab those but you can for sure find a use for these in any of your breadboarding and prototyping one thing that I do a lot let me jump to this view here again is this type of prototyping in fact this was a different product pick of the week and I wanted to be really clear about which color using the colors which pin was going to which pin so when you're documenting stuff if you're using something like fritzing in particular you will find all these colors and some some extras but all these colors available for documenting and keeping things clear it's really easy to fuse all the same color wire to get confused I know I get confused easily so this is a case where I'm actually using a perma proto board and I first built this on a breadboard then I just moved it over to the perma proto and was able to make sense of my wiring and match my fritzing diagram here's another example I was actually breaking out this teensy audio card here and you can see I just needed some clarity here of which pins I was breaking out I made a little diagram for myself and then I can go and hook these up to the appropriate pins on a different microcontroller for if you're not using this directly with a pin a teensy which I was getting ready to hook this up to a feather I want to use all these beautiful colors of wire so that I keep sense of the project now if you are getting ready to prototype something here's how you use them surely everyone has used these before but I'll say a couple of notes don't use stranded wire when you can use solid core because strands can be your enemy they can end up touching things that they shouldn't touch so I will just take a little bit off of the ends of my wire and end up running them like that the solid core this this gauge works great 22WG works great for pressing them in and getting a solid connection this isn't fallen out easily but it's great for getting a solid connection so you'll find I've got these little ice cream sprinkles all over the place when I'm working on this type prototype because I use my little handy wire strippers to strip a little off the ends there so let's take a look at these both the 10 and the 6 jump out a little bit here so if you open these up you actually have an option to when you get the new one it's gonna have all of these sort pre-punched holes but they're not always fully punched out so you just pop those out it's a little cardboard you have them on both sides so you can which is a luxury you can decide which side of these you want your wire coming out of I've picked sort of a consistent front side here in these two cases and as Ladyata showed if you need to you can just lift that nice plastic dowel up and add a new wire to this a new spool to this if you run out of one and we sell all of all of the major colors as as replacements at least red and black I don't know about others so here you can see we get white black gray brown a purple dark purple blue green yellow which you can see I'm going through a lot of orange and red so that's a really nice set if you look at the set of six you get the blue white green yellow red and black and that'll do you well for a lot of projects for sure so there is here's a nice picture of these you can see here even better than my overhead of those there is not a lot else to say about these other than go go get yourself some it is a good deal on these there are I think it's consistent 25 feet on each spool of the six or the ten colors let's see any thoughts or questions in the in the comments this was the most straightforward product pick of all time I think no code example no how-to really okay I managed to attempt to do a bit of a how-to pop open my discord here where'd you go discord there you are no no questions is not surprising so someone says they're out are they out of stock already me let me reload no it looks like we have stock I'm not sure maybe you meant something else by that excellent so that is going to do it for today I know it's a short one I can ramble a little because one thing I have to remind people is that there is no coupon code necessary but the discount is just during the show here so during this time while I'm still talking before we end this you will want to head over to one of those URLs either product ID 3174 or 1311 can use these QR codes or this URL down here throw some in your cart you can get up to ten sets of I believe each of them I don't think we split that five and five I we may I don't know if anyone wants to test the theory and get a whole bunch of wire but you can get these for the half price just by putting in your cart this is no coupon code the price will go back up after the show so that's why I'm stalling a little bit here I can tell I'm triggering people namely Todd bot because I don't have my colors in order here if you look at I don't have RGB I've got way out of order blue green red that's that's wrecking you if you're OCD about these things but you can you're welcome to rearrange those all you want another thing I'll say is actually I have used this method with other types of wire we have the silicone wires stranded silicone wire I have taken boxes and put a dowel through punched my own holes and made these you can also reuse these for other types of wire you may have around also fun historical fact I didn't realize that this was where I had gotten this but when I saw the software here when I saw that making of video from Lamora that that new new new video I'd forgotten where this had come from I did have one of these electronics express ones it's kind of dusty right now and it looks like I used up the red red in the black and never replaced those so I just have the four on there but this is nice because I that does give me one extra color of blue you might have seen I cheated a little bit on one of those examples and had a light blue this one had a lighter blue but any trick that you can have I gone out with a song well we're gonna go out with bear and open but did to do to do so let me close this off and out I don't think I have anything to hang on there but we'll try that's my product pick of the week this week it is the 10 and 6 spool hookup wire set solid core it worked all right thanks everyone for coming for infrared industries I'm John Park and this has been JP's product pick of the week I will see you next time bye bye