 Live from New York, it's Asus Engineer. Hey everybody, and welcome to Asus Engineer. It's me, Lady Aida, with me, Mr. Lady Aida. We are here at the Aida Fruit Factory. It's Thanksgiving Eve. Really cool to have made it through this year. We're excited to give thanks to our friends, our family, our community. And for the next hour, we'll be doing that by showing you what's going on. What are people making and crafting and hacking and even talking about some sales coming up. So let's kick it off, Mr. Lady Aida. What's on tonight's show? On tonight's show, we've got the code. How do you say the first one? Kale. Kale Big is the code. Kale Big, you'll know why very soon. 10% off in the Aida Fruit store all the way up to, let's just say midnight, probably even tomorrow morning. Who knows, Kale Big is the code. Anything in stock. We're going to talk about our Aida Fruit live series shows, including Show and Tell. And what's going on for the next week. Time travel. We're going to look around the world of Makers, Hackers, Artists, and Engineers. Main New York City factory footage. We've got some 3D printing. We've got DigiKey and Aida Fruit bringing you I on MPI. We've got them new products. We've got some cool stuff. Top secret, we answer your questions. We do that on Discord, aidafruit.it slash discord. Make sure you go there to ask your questions. Join all 31,000 of us. We're going to do that and more all on Ask an Engineer. All right, so first up, before we do any of the things, you were wondering, what is that video that we showed? Well, Aida Fruit has paid time off for charity. And so, Lady Aida and I like to do charity and volunteer work. And so does our team. This year, Lady Aida and I went to Feeding NYC. It feeds, so far, I think 90,000 homeless families in New York City. How do you get 8,500 turkeys to homeless shelters and all the five boroughs? Well, it's a lot of shipping and receiving and that's what we do. So, we're experts at that. The logistics. Yeah, so we, Lady Aida and I went there. We unloaded turkeys. I like to pick the hard jobs that sometimes folks don't want so I did some box crushing and some turkey moving and more and you could see this is everything right before it goes out to the trucks and goes to the different boroughs. Here is our Lady Aida doing stuff here. I worked up a pretty good sweat and workout. It was a lot of fun. And the other thing is if you have a company or you work at a company, paid time off for charities worked out really great for it. The team gets to choose any non-profit at all. It's any 5013C so if you ever need help working with your company or if you run a company, email me. I'll send you the chunk of our handbook that we spent a bunch of time and our team really likes it. So, time is precious. I can tell you just on a personal note if you've had a lot of pain and trauma and bad things happen to you, there's only one way I know how to get rid of it and it's to help others and it felt great. So, next up, let's go over our free stuff. Now, I'm gonna say something. Free stuff is gonna change at 12.01 a.m. on Friday but right now this is the free stuff. Just keep that in mind. So, what is it Lady Aida? Free stuff, right now $99 or more, you get a free perma-proto half-sized breadboard. At $149 or more, you get a free STEMI QT board. That could be a sensor. It could be, that's the perma-proto. You know, we have sensors, whatever's available. You know, we put it in stock. We have the silicon shortage, so things may change up but you'll get a different one each time if you make an account because we can keep track of what you've already gotten. $199 or more, you get free UPS ground shipping in the Continental United States and $299 or more, you get a free circuit playground blue fruit. We're still waiting for our circuit playground expresses, wearing some parts to make more of those. In the meantime, we've got some blue fruits in stock so that will be your freebie for $299 or more. Okay, we do a bunch of live shows, Lady Aida. We've been doing this for over 15 years. We had show and tell, lots of great stuff. I'm gonna go back and watch a bunch of them. This week's pick, I would say, watch it to the end. Philby had a really cool book, maybe one of the OG open source robot books. Very cool. Awesome book. Check that out. On Sundays, we do Desk of Lady Aida. We'll be doing it this Sunday. Lady Aida, we talked about the Prince Floppy that's 30 years old that we took off the data and posted on archive.org. What else did you talk about? I also talked about the KB2040 tester. We put the KB2040 in the store this week but I wanted to show the tester and also this library I wrote called Testbed because every time I write testers, I kind of copy and paste this code over and over and over again. I was like, I should really formalize this and put it in a library so it can, even if it's a static library, the code that I use for testing pin connections, for testing I squared C, for scanning buses, for converting an amelot grid to a voltage with the AREF, all these little micro snippets are now in a library that people can use and it's up on GitHub. Okay, and then we do the Great Search which is super handy now because a lot of people need help finding parts in more later. What was this week's Great Search? Brought to you by Digki and Aida. This week's Great Search was actually a request, somebody emailed and they wanted a warm white 1206 LED that was inexpensive and they couldn't find the Digki part for it and I was like, oh, well, let me show you how to find it and I found something for them, a six cent warm white LED. It is a little bit brighter than the one that we use for the sequin. That's okay though, just put a 10K resistor on there and you're good as gold, good as gravy. Okay, and then some programming though, GDP is off this week so you will not see a product pick, it'll return I think either next week or the week after. Just check your local listings as I say and deep dive what Scott will be off this Friday but it will be back next week. Time travel, let's travel through time, space together. So, fun story, we were walking around about a month ago in this village and there was a park that normally, I guess it was closed. We've never been in this park. The gate was open and on the gate, there was this little sign that said fish and turtles in the pond and so we're like, hey, let's go check these out and there was no fish and there was no turtles. However, after we sat down, Anil Dash, who's the CEO of Glitch, I've known him for decades and also we do a bunch of cool stuff with Glitch, check out Glitch was there and we were talking about running the businesses in New York and COVID, post stuff and all the things we're dealing with and they did a build out and all sorts of stuff and then I said, hey, you know, you had that Prince Floppy and the Prince Floppy was, oh, and here's a photo of Anil and Lamour, he came by on Sunday. I said, you had a Prince Floppy and this Prince Floppy was something that they sent out to journalists when Prince changed his name to the artist, formerly known as Prince and I knew he had this, I'm a Prince fan, he's a super fan. And he had this and I said, you know, did you ever take the data off of it? And if you did or if we could, maybe you could go on, I don't know, like archive.org and I'll put on GitHub or something but the idea was Prince sent these out so people would not use his name, they would use his name, which is a symbol now and it was a really neat, super advanced thing, so visionary. And there's not a lot of these Floppy's around. I think it's actually similar to the Taylor Swift we recording all of her master's thing. I remember it was an intellectual property thing about like licensing. And it just all comes down to intellectual property. First thing I might ask aliens and I'm also gonna ask them to have pets. Anyways, so I said, hey, you know, we let's just do this, I scheduled time up and he came by, he brought the Floppy over and at first it was bad news. We have a bunch of equipment for taking off data and things and first one didn't work, second one didn't work and that was pretty much it, he said, oh man, you know, thanks for trying everything. You know, it's 30 years old, that a feeling was gonna work out and then I brought out a PowerBook 180 and I have a PowerBook 180 and unfortunately the track pad is missing, that's okay. So what we had to do is we had to stick our fingers in where the track pad or the track ball was. We had the Etch-a-Sketch it and we moved the cursor over, put the Floppy in, gazork, gazork, gazork, gazork, Prince showed up and a beam of purple light came down and then purple rain played and it was beautiful and then we clicked the disc and gazork, gazork, gazork and then it showed the symbol and he was recording it the entire time and it was scary and it was amazing and it was laughing and crying and all sorts of stuff and here it is, it was a 3000 by 3000 TIFF, there was Prince logo and Prince big and you could see this and it's now on archive.org right now. If anyone knows anyone at archive.org, I gotta do a fix. I sent him an email but tag him on Twitter or something like that. It's I think archive.org and then like Prince-Floppy but you can find it now and this is the first time this has ever been up there and it's really neat. It is kind of what you want to see as a technologist is like, here's this thing from 30 years ago and it still works and I got, so anyways, we dragged it onto the hard drive and then we had another way of getting stuff off this PowerBook 180 and then the PowerBook started like flickering and then it wants to give up the ghost but it had one last important thing to do in life. That's right. And that's the story of our Sunday with Anil and Lady Edidoo check out Glitch and download the symbol and relive a little piece of history. Another thing to remember, you have old disks they might be HFS formatted, not fat formatted. Okay, let's do the next little bit of time travel. Don't forget, AidaBox will be shipping in the winter and winter as in February. We are doing a winter edition. Go to AidaBox.com. We're full right now but some people drop off and you'll be able to sign up and you'll be able to be part of AidaBox winter edition. We just wrapped up the big theme which AP is gonna do is gone by great. You're gonna love it. It's gonna be good. Let's keep moving next up. It's Python on hardware time. Blink a blinka. All right, so first up, we have a newsletter. I know I say it but it's so where I'm just gonna say it probably every week forever. You go to aidaforddaily.com. It's not aidaford.com, it's aidaforddaily. Why? Because we never want anyone to think at all whatsoever that we would ever spam them. We never will. Do the address thing where you put in the, you know, spin. Dot plus. Yeah, do all that. Because I know we never will. Ever, ever, ever. So sign up there and you'll be able to get the best newsletter that has Python on hardware delivered to your inbox every Tuesday morning. So this week, MicroPython adds official SAMD support for MicroPython, which is kind of cool. We've had it for a while. Yes. And now MicroPython has it. Yes. CircuitPython online IDE. This is kind of, I feel like this is the natural progression of when folks are having fun with a platform. There's an online IDE that you could just do CircuitPython rent-and-bearers are kind of cool. We have our modules that we made for necessary feather. We have this neat wirelessly Code Your Bleed Toothpies with a code editor for CircuitPython. If you want to check out code.circupython.org and Big Inc in HackSpace, a huge profile on Ann. Check it out, Ann's story and more and all the neat stuff that Ann does with CircuitPython. Check out the rest of the newsletter. There is tons and tons and tons and tons of stuff this week. I have two picks that I'm going to do this week. First one is, this person was very nice. I'm just going to read it. They said, just thinking about things I'm thankful for. Right this moment, it's family, friends, and Ediver Blinka. So I'm glad we're up there. I'm glad we're up there. Thank you so much. I'm glad we're not listed first. I'll take third place on that one. So thank you so much, George, for the kind words. Our team really appreciates it. And then Trevor has an update for PyLeap to take it away, Trevor. Hey, folks, this is Trevor here to show you our new PyLeap beta update. This time around, we've added an additional seven example projects, and I'm here to show you a few of them. So let's start off with the Touchtone Piano Project. It's already downloaded, and I'll send it over right away. Let's see them in a couple of seconds. And just like that, it's downloaded. Now you're able to play your tone, or you're still gonna pick on blue food, and have the Neopixel slide up as well. Let's try another one. Let's try button-controlled Neopixel project. All right, let's send it over. So we're gonna take a couple of seconds, and just like that, it's completed. So we hit the buttons, Neopixel slide up. Pretty neat. All right, that's what we got for now. Thanks for watching. That's Python on hardware news this week. All right, next up, we are an open source hardware company to prove it. Not only do we publish our source code, our schematics. In fact, in the show until someone was like, hey, that's how I learned how to do this RP2040 board, we made a bunch of mistakes and learned from them, so you don't have to. But we also have 2,586 guides, ladies, what is on the big board this week? All right, this week, we've got a guide from Catney for the 128x128 monochrome OLED breakout that we put in the shop a couple of weeks ago. Thanks, Catney, for putting this together. It's got Arduino and Circuit Python code and examples, schematics and more. Dan has been hard at work adding Async IO and Async IO support to Circuit Python. We're trying to do it in a way that makes it a subset compatible to C Python, so that our code, any code that you write for asynchronous cooperative multitasking works both on desktop Python and Circuit Python. Dan's also started out a guide with example code and wiring diagrams for buttons and blinking LEDs and how you could use Async IO to do cooperative multitasking. There's also a fact about why we don't do some things like support hardware interrupts. There's a good reason for it, so check that out. If you're interested, and if you've been waiting for asynchronous or cooperative multitasking in Circuit Python, it's here. So please try it out, check it out, and give us feedback and open up issues if you find bugs, because we're working on it. None Pedro made a gorgeous Neopixel Minora. It has a button so you can change which number of days, lights you're on. And it's programmed in Circuit Python so you can change the animations easily. And then finally we have a pretty interesting project. It's a no-code room occupancy status monitor, an IoT monitor using a fun house and a PIR sensor. There's no soldering and no coding and there's even an occupancy light that's been added. So the data's available online through a MQTT feed that you can of course push into web hooks or whatever. But also it's self-contained. It's like when there's activity, you can have a light turn on so people know that there's activity in the room. And this is handy for if you have multiple floors and you want to know if somebody's using a meeting room, but can be used for other stuff. You want to see if there's somebody in your garage remotely. And why buy a commercial product when you can build one that's better, lower cost, it's open source and you have full control over it. So the other thing I wanted to mention is a lot of people are going to be visiting friends and family over the holidays, maybe family. And instead of talking about politics and more, why don't you look at the Adafruit learning system and maybe print out a PDF or do a project together because it's gonna end way better that way. And then last up, someone said, and thank you for this because I think the team will appreciate it. They think I was a big deal. That's pretty cool. Yeah, it is a big deal. And I'm glad we were doing it. We waited until we were ready, but we're not ready. All right, let's do some main New York City factory footage. And when it be in New York City factory footage, I'm gonna have to start recording the audio because it is so loud, the Disney headquarters that's being built across the street. It is as big as it is loud now, but it is what it is. And you're Disney plus membership at work. Stream Hawkeye. I'm gonna watch it later. So 3D printing at Noam Pedro have a speed-up this week. Next week they're off and then they'll be back next week. Take it away, Noam Pedro. Okay, lady, it is time. You ready? Yeah. This week's IonMPI by Digikey and Adafruit. Thank you, Digikey is from ST. Lady, what is this week's IonMPI? So normally, you know, we cover ST stuff and we've done their wireless chips and we've done their sensors. Of course, they're a massive company so they have a lot of chips that they design and come out with. But I saw this pop up on the digikey.com slash new and what's interesting is I didn't know that such a thing existed. It's a GPS unit that has dead reckoning built into it with sensor and wheel tick, you know, odometer capability. So this is part of a family called Tezio. And this is the VIC-3DA, the AS for Automotive. The 3D I think stands for like three dimensional and VIC I don't know. But it's part of their, you know, it's automotive but it's also really useful for robotics. So it's like, yes, this stuff is used for cars but we know where sort of stuff is used for cars. I also think it's often used really good use, often very good for use with art projects or mechatronics or robotics or installations or what have you. I'm sure there's a good reason to use this. And so first up GPS, you know, we've had GPS stuff on IonMPI and of course at Adafruit. We sell a lot of GPS stuff. There's all these constellations. The original one is called GPS for Global Positioning Service and that's our Global Positioning System and that's the American, well it's actually Global Navigation System is what you would normally call it. And there's now other Global Navigation Systems available. So, you know, there's Beidu, there's QZSS, that's the Japanese one. There's Glonass, there's the Russian one. And there's the Galileo, that's a European one. So there's like five or six systems. Not all of them are up and running but what's cool about this GPS unit or GNSS unit, I'm gonna call it GPS, but just it could recognize more than just the American constellations. It works with all of them. So that's kind of good because it means that even if you don't have great visibility for one set of satellites, you'll be able to get the other set of satellites. And that's handy because a lot of times one of the most popular things that GNSS is used for is navigation, whether it's automotive navigation or of course robotic navigation or human navigation. And you want to know where you are and the cool thing about GNSS is that as long as you've got a vision of the sky, you can use it anywhere in the world. It works anywhere as long as you can see the sky which is of course the thing which is, well what if you can't see the sky? Well if you can't see the sky, it doesn't work at all. You have to be able to see, you know I think three or four different satellites at a time in order to triangulate your position on earth. So what happens if you're in a tunnel or what happens if you're in a canyon like New York City? New York City has some parts of the city where you pretty much can't get GPS or if you could, it's not trustworthy because the signal's bouncing off of these glass buildings and you're getting distorted signals and so you kind of end up sort of jumping around. If you've ever been in a city and you're like, why is it thinking I'm three blocks away? It's because the GPS signal is bouncing around and you're not getting it directly so you're not able to triangulate as well. So historically the way we did, this is kind of interesting that this GPS module, GNSS module combines satellite tracking with what's called dead reckoning. So dead reckoning is an ancient way of measuring where you are and it's exactly kind of what you would think people would first invent for navigation. If you know where you are and you have a map and you know your compass direction of where you're moving, you just count the number of steps and then you know where you've ended up. And this is what basically, this is the only thing you could do before GNSS. I mean, you could of course use the stars and you could use clocks and stuff to do some sort of navigations. But the problem with dead reckoning is it's very susceptible to error. It's a great idea, right? If you really know exactly how many feet you've stepped in one direction, exactly the direction, then yes, of course, you're gonna be able to determine where you are. But in reality, without a reference pointer map to keep you along, even a small change in an angle, you think you turned 90 degrees but you really turned 89 degrees and suddenly the error magnifies the more and more you go. So dead reckoning is something that people have done as humans just using compasses, but with technology like using tilt compensated compasses and a more calibrated way of measuring distance, not just using like knots on a rope, like in geonautical miles, but using a wheeled tech counter, you can do a much better job of determining where you're at. So the Live3F, which is the, we're talking about the VIC-3D which I think is like the dev kit, but this family has the GNSS module with multiple constellation support so it can get data from anywhere. And it's got data logging, it's got firmware upgrade, I'm sure there's an ST chip inside of it. It does such a GNSS and that's where you get data from a website or over cellular to help it get the almanac of data so it can get a fix much faster. But it has that odometer in it. And what's neat is that you can see that you can get a fixed rate of up to 30 hertz when you use the odometer. Like it'll actually get you data quite quickly if you've got that odometer and built into it is a six-doff tilt compensated compass. And so as an aside, if you're wondering, hey, how come like, did you key in eight if you do not have any compasses in stock like you can't get like any electronic compass chips anymore or nine-doff sensors? All automotive devices and GPSes use compasses to do basic dead reckoning type measurements. And so there's all going to the automotive industry. This is one of the things that you haven't been able to get compass sensors for quite a while. So, yeah, so the Tessio is, there's a firmware system. It gives you Namiya data, but you could also give it, it's got these two pins forward, which is direction and wheel tick and you tell it how many, how wide your wheels are. And then of course it can calculate how far you've gone each direction. And then using the compass inside, you see there's an accelerometer and a magnetometer combined together tilt compensated compass, magnetometer, you know which direction you're going, you know how far you're going thanks to the wheel tick. Boom, you've got dead reckoning and this firmware does it all for you. And believe me, having had to write dead reckoning software, you don't want to do it. It's much better if the module does it for you. So the module's ready to go and it's got UR, it's got I squared C, it's got antenna staff, control, PPS, wake up, IRQs, and of course wheel tick and forward. You can also, I saw in the datasheet, you can send the Namiya data with the odometer separately. So if you don't want to use wheel tick and forward back, like let's say you want to like literally count steps for a human or maybe it's not easy for you to add a wheel, maybe there's some other way you're doing maybe a vision system to determine distance, you can send that data over Namiya, so it would take that and then merge it into what GPS or GNSS data it's got and then give you that dead reckoning output. And if you want to get started really fast, the DigiKey also has in stock this dev kit and the dev kit kind of does everything for you so you like don't need to do the power supply and the case and the antenna, it's got panel, it's got SD card for logging. I think it's got some ST chip in it. It's got the module, it's like 200 bucks and it basically has everything you could possibly need. So honestly, you probably couldn't really make this for less than the dev kit costs. So if you're just, if you have a robot or if you have a car or automotive thing or agricultural electronics, if you wanted to quickly get your dead reckoning stuff going, add this in. I think this, I think dead reckoning is a good alternative where you can't use RTK. Especially if you're out in the middle of nowhere, you can't use wifi as a GPS. It is completely standalone and that's kind of nice and it's not as expensive as having to manage your own RTK network. And it's also got some software that comes with it for testing and you can check the, check the, this example is for the valve board but of course it'll work with just the raw module. It just takes the UART data, you can get it over to a USB to UART converter and use it to play around with your module. And you can even see, they use little flags for all the different constellations in the satellite tracker. Available on Digi, here's the part number and the short URL. You can have this now. And it's very competitive with other similar GPS module makers. So they're definitely going in pretty strong. Ironically, getting a six DOF sensor is about the same price as this GPS GNSS module. So do check it out. I got some samples coming on the way as well. Either grab the module and you'll have to add your own antenna and your own circuitry or just get the all-in-one of valve board. It comes in a nice metal case and you just mount it, add an external antenna and you're ready to rock. And that's this week's Ion MPI. Hi, Ion MPI. All right, before we do the new product section, the code is Kailbig. Kailbig. Kailbig or Kailhom. Kailhom's not the code, it's Kailbig. Kailbig. That's why I made this one bigger. Are you ready, Lady Ada? Yes. It's time for me. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble. No, no, no. All right, first up, these are now in stock. Brown Dages, these are my favorite Band-Aid company. In five tones. Yes, and so when Band-Aid brand says flush tone, Band-Aids, not quite. But now. Brown Dages takes care of that and this is a cool minority-owned business. This is one of my favorite companies and we've had these at Adafruit for our team and now we have them in the store as well. Next up. Next up. S3 box from Espresif. This is a new eval box board thing from Espresif. It's got a two inch capacitive touchscreen, dual microphone. It's got a little port and a stand. This is using the new ESP32 S3, which is a dual core chip with some AI, you know, neural net acceleration stuff for machine learning. They're kind of positioning it as a very inexpensive low power way to do voice recognition. So that's why it's got the two microphones. But it's also kind of a nice little dead board if you just want to get started with the ESP32 S3. I'll say as of the making of this video, there is no Arduino circuit path on support. It's coming very soon, but you're expected to use the ESP Espresif IDF to write code for this chip. That said, you know, if you're familiar with the ESP32 or the ESP32 S2, it's in the same family. It's a 10 silica, you know, 240 megahertz processor, dual core, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth. And they just kind of wrapped it up in a very nice thing with speakers and microphone and sensors at all. Next up. Okay, we've got a hot air kit. This is the ST862D. Sorry, I have to write the part number. This is a very nice hot air station. It's got a digital control with a digital output, presets, it's of course great for lead-free, and it comes with four nozzles. And the nozzles kind of got this cool, like kind of tilt-y effect thing going on here. Makes it a little bit easier to hold it when you want to angle it towards your circuit board. This is a, you know, it's as good as stations that are three times as much, basically. It's compact, but it's very powerful. And we carry a lot of stuff from Atten. Now the soldering irons are very reliable, dependable. So this is a very nice, very compact hot air station. So I'll probably be taking one of these home because it's, I find that, you know, if you're doing rework, if you're doing SMT at home, if you don't want to reflow boards, even if you do a mini reflow, or preheat boards for rework, this is a really great hot air station. Okay, next up. Okay, this is a very small SD card. Well, it's a micro SD card, so it's physically small. It also has a small amount of memory in it. And you might be wondering, why have something so small? Well, there's actually a lot of times where we find older devices do not want SDHC, they want SD cards. And also there's sometimes where you have a data logger and you just don't need that much memory. And you don't want to, you know, kind of the price of memory has stayed the same, but the amount of memory you get has increased in size. So like, you can't really get four gigabyte cards anymore. It's really hard, but there's a lot of times where you maybe want a smaller card. And so these cards are one to eight megabytes. So they're perfectly great for a lot of text data logging and they're inexpensive and they're SD, which means that there are some devices that don't want SDHC or XC cards that these will work fine for. Next up. This is the most powerful servo we have. Be afraid, be very afraid. It's this Metal Gear servo. As you can see, it's got, you know, it can be driven at a high voltage, 27 kilograms centimeters of torque, 0.14 seconds at 60 Hertz motion. This is a scary servo, but you know, maybe you want something really strong. So you just for like little miniature airplane type kits, but there are times where you're like, look, I want to move something. I don't want to get like a geared stepper and I want to get a geared DC motor. I want a servo, it needs to be more powerful. It's a standard servo, use a standard servo signaling, but it's just like super chunky. All Metal Gear, I think it's like bearingless motor. It's just intense. You get about 180 degrees of motion back and forth, just like you expect. It's got some chunky accessories as well. Servo horns. Shia Luga. Yeah, that's just so you can see, some people are like, let's work with this metal horn. We tell you the number of splines and also here's the quite thick plastic horns that it comes with. Okay. Next up, cut chunk. Big Kyle, kale, kale big. Kale big. Kale big. We finally got a refab run of these huge kale switches. They're 64 times the size of a normal switch. They're four by four by four times bigger. The volume is 64 times as large. As you can see here, they're very friendly for hand clicking. We have three different colors. Each one is a little different. So bump is tactile. So the red one is tactile. The blue one is clicky. It says click. And then the yellow one is linear. It just says clack, but it's a smooth linear feel. So they don't quite match. I don't think they quite match the original kale stem colors, but it doesn't matter. Three different versions. They look just like normal kale box switches, Cherry MX style, but they're just massive. Look, they're great as fidget toys. They're great if you just want to be very satisfied by pressing a button. You can wire them up to one of our neokie trinkies if you want to make a single key input. Maybe I'll hold this up so you can see how big it is. It's quite big. This is a clicky one. It's extremely clicky. I'm pressing your skull. Even has like the positioning spot and the two tabs on the bottom and a very beautiful copper spring to them. This is so chunky. Yeah, so it's very satisfying. Okay. All right. For your clicky-clacky needs. Your large clicky-clacky needs. And the star of the show tonight, besides you, Lady Aida, our community, our customers, our team, and everyone who's been just keeping us going for all this time, here it is. The KB2040. Yay, it's in the store. It's a new RP2040 based board. It looks a lot like the Itsy Bitsy, but it has a totally different pinout. This pinout is pro-micro compatible, and this is specifically because ever since we made the keyboard library support in Circuit Python and HID support for the RP2040, folks have been like, I really want to use this for a keyboard build. And pretty much every keyboard kit we know of uses the pro-micro as the standard footprint, and you would solder in a pro-micro board. But in this case, you can solder in this board instead of a pro-micro, and you get a much, much more powerful chip compared to the mega 32U4, which has 32K of flash, and I think 2K of RAM, 2.5K of RAM. This has 256K of RAM, so like 128 times as much, and it has massive eight megabytes of flash. You can use it as a file system or for storing code. It's still got a ton of pins available. It's got four analog pins, and it's three volt logic, so it's compatible with almost every keyboard. There's also an onboard NeoPixel. There's two buttons, one for boot and reset, because you'll use that to load code onto it. It's got a 500 milliamp, 3.3 volt regulator. It's got the raw output, and on the bottom of the board, there's a jumper. So if you want to drive a lot of NeoPixels, and there's an onboard fuse, just like the pro-micro for 500 milliamps or so, if you need a lot more current, just shorten the jumper on the bottom of the board, and that will connect the USB five volt directly to raw, so you can get up to two amps from your USB power supply or USB port. Although one amp is kind of as much as I recommend. You can get two, but one is usually recommended. There's a Type-C USB connection, and then for the two little spots at the top of the board that are not used on the pro-micro, I brought out the D plus and D minus pins. This is a little non-standard, but I figured there's people who want to maybe use a different USB cable or connector, and it's usually hard to get to the data pins for USB, so this is like an easy way to get to them if you want to add a different panel mount USB connection. And then, let's see, there's a little NeoPixel onboard. USB-C Stem and connector. Oh, so the Stem and connector is interesting. So if you go back, there's a standard pin-out which has, starting with TX and RX, which are digital IO. So there's zero one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, so it's 10 on one side, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. So there's 18 GPIO pins. The analog pins can be GPIO, that your RX and TX pins are GPIO, the SPI pins are GPIO, but for some 65% keyboard kits, or if you just need those, sometimes they're five by 15 layouts, and then maybe you need more than 18 pins, maybe you want 100 keyboard kit, and so you need two more GPIOs. So that Stem and QT port actually gives you two more GPIO pins without changing the footprint of the board, so you get 20 total. So if you need five by 15, you can get it and you don't have to desolder or rework anything, just grab a Stem and QT cable, plug it in, and then use the yellow and blue wires as two more GPIO pins. This is the pro micro for keyboard folks that everyone's been waiting for. It works with CircuitPython. Cool thing, it shows up as a USB drive and it can be programmed from the keyboard, you build yourself, and then you can also make CircuitPython not boot up as a drive too. It is, I think, gonna be the most popular way people make keyboards. Yeah, as of this video, there is not QMK support. However, there is a pull request where people are working on QMK support and I'm almost positive that it'll eventually get ported over. Until then, you can use KMK or you can use CircuitPython. We have really good key matrix scanning support, like natively built in. It does all your key scanning for you in the background and just give you key events, presses and releases. So you can just skip all that part of your code and just go straight to the keyboard design that you wanna do. And I know I said this is to start the show and their products, but I have a... There's one more. But wait, there's more. So starting at 12.01 a.m. this Friday, we are giving away free pink feather RP2040s. That's right. You wanted them. You're like, how can I get them? Who didn't get them? So we are doing a special round of 1,000 pink feather RP2040s shown here with a random thing that doesn't make any sense. Come for the headers. It's okay. Cool pink and black silk screen on the back. It's the feather RP2040 you know and love with a megabytes of flash and stem and QT connector and neopixel circuit python support, Arduino support, microprathons support. It's pink, it's made with love and just check the site out Adafruit.com slash free at 12.01 a.m. Easter time. We're gonna be doing these as part of our freebies when they're out, they're out. We might do them again. Who knows, but this will be it. I'm telling everybody right now. And we will eventually have these for sale but not any time soon. These are exclusively for the giveaway. We want to do a fun giveaway for Feather Friday and Circuit Python Monday. So throughout this weekend order $99 or more of stuff and you'll get one of these. Yeah, just look at this site, 12.01 a.m. on Friday, Easter time and that's new products. New, new, new. All right. Don't forget to code as Kail Big. Gull, gull, gull. Let's do some top secret. I have some questions lined up from Discord. Let's see what's new this week. From the vault. Lady Aida, you sent out a proto panel. What are these? I know, I just designed so many boards and actually I haven't sent out a panel in a couple months and I realized as I was digging through my get history, how many boards that I designed that I had to panelize out. It's just been very busy. But a couple redesigns, a couple new breakouts, couple sensors, check them out. I'm kind of dealing with this looking shortage too. So doing the best I can with what's available. But go look it out and see if you can identify what some of these are. All right, and then you're also working on? I did a slight tweak to the ESP32 S2 feather for the ESP32 S3 F8 feather. So the S3 mini module, I got a couple samples from Digikey before they ran out and it's pin compatible. So it looked like one little mini change which honestly just meant a pin was disconnected instead of connected to ground. I also changed how the pull-ups for iSport C work a little bit to make it a little bit lower power. And then this board I just sent out for fab and then as soon as they get those S3 mini modules we'll fab up some S3 minis. Okay, and then we're gonna play a video. This is when we were getting the KB2040s off the assembly line. All right, Lady Aida and Dano. I know, special guest tonight. We've got the new KB2040 RP2040 based keyboard board and we just fabbed a bunch of them. Dano is hard at work going through and testing each one of these boards to make sure they pass test. They've got the boot loader working. They got a working neopixel and they're put through the store and they're gonna sell them to you and then you're gonna use them to make keyboards. This is how it happens. And you know, this is hot off the press and that's from inside the bin and that is this week's top secret. All right, we're gonna roll right in. Let's do some questions. We've got questions and we're gonna get out of here because I got a brand new turkey and I gotta pack up some stuff to visit a employee who's in the hospital. We're gonna make sure they're not spending Thanksgiving alone. Question number one, do you have a script to use for panelizing boards or do you have by hand? I actually, for a proto panel, I will do it by hand and when I have to panelize like a final product for like the, you know, like multi, one board multiple times, I do use a script and I had a video about it. I use the SparkFun panelizer script. I adapted it a little bit but basically the panelizer works quite well and I use that to do my panelization. All right, I'll get this one. What do you look for when leasing a manufacturing space? So I'm gonna talk about some of the specifics in a second so we'll learn more about power but here's the number one thing. Is it a good place for the team to come to every day? Is there a public transportation? So they're not using fossil fuels and cars to come to a parking lot. Is it something that is walkable? Is there things to do and things to eat in the area? Is it something that will make the people's lives to work here good and rewarding and fulfilling? Is it someplace that they wanna come to every single day? And that's number one. Everything else, power requirements for us is a big deal because we have pick and place machines. So the power that's already wired in for a build out, we had to do a lot of it. Ideally, I wouldn't have to do a build out again but I'd like the ability for a build out to happen. Large freight elevators, if you're not on the ground floor because the pick and places are big. Our pick and places fit exactly into one freight elevator. The oven, we had to have it in two pieces, was gonna have to get a crane, didn't have to do that. And so those are the important things I'd say really sturdy floors. These are concrete floors because we move lots of heavy things around. I like tall ceilings. I really like the fact that we had radiators and windows and we were able to have lots of ventilation. Didn't plan for COVID but this building was built during the last pandemic and it was specifically built to run the radiators and the windows open. So that came in handy to keep our team safe. And so that's just some of the things that I think that are important when you're looking to lease a manufacturing space. Next up, if you discover a manufacturing product, where do you send the info on the problems? Oh, email supportedatorfruit.com or you can publish it in the forums forums.atorfruit.com Next up, is the 10 piece hot air nozzle kit PID 3596 compatible with the new Atten hot air station? I actually think it isn't but we have to have to check again. I think the nozzles are slightly different sizes. Just kind of annoying. Okay, next. Will there ever be an NRF 24 feather? You have other NRF boards. I was curious about your thoughts about expanding to include this module. You know, I did think about making an NRF 24 feather wing. I just kind of like, the thing is is that you just get NRF modules for like, you know, 99 cents. I mean, they're not real NRF 24s. I just don't know if people are still using NRF 24 chips or if they've all kind of moved to like Laura and RFM 69s. Okay. Tyrone says, happy tea day to all. I appreciate your giving spirit. Do you know what's funny is, a lot of folks thought my name was Tyrone Phillips and it's also Phil Trown. Depends on where you're growing up and what you are and who you're hanging out with. I like reversing names. Last name is first name, first name, first name. You could be Fried Lamar. Next up, oh, this is a good tip. And I forgot to mention it. So because we're in New York City, so I didn't think you'd do that. So based on where you're looking for a manufacturing space, look at your internet options, telco options. So we decided to do three different internet connections when we first got here. We could potentially do four. We have a direct line into what's called level three and that's like a T1. We have a microwave dish that goes around. It was called rainbow. And there's also, there's DSL because we got here and then Sandy hit. And then there's also cable and fiber, but we have pretty much everything coming into this building, but that is something that's really important. And it's came up in a meeting today. And one of the things that I was repeating is if it's one, it's none. If it's two, it's maybe still too few. So one year we were here shipping and the internet went down, but we had our backup system and it was fine. And I'll be shipping with the team all weekend. And if one of the internet connections go down, cause who knows, we'll be okay. And that's one of the things that it's not cheap, but you know, it's expensive not being able to do anything when you need to. All right. Be it. I'm going to go to the other chats, even though I'm not supposed to. I'm not supposed to stick to, you know, discord. I'm sort of new to tinkering. I haven't started all going to do a first project, whether it be LEDs with neopixels or WLED. What advice do you have or recommend? I say go with neopixel and need it for stuff or do a circuit playground express because it's that easy and build off. Have a good five minute experience to be like, I'm blinking and stuff like that. So I'll say neopixel. Yeah, start small. Yeah, sort of a small project and you build up. Let's see if there's anything else. You never think there will be a fiber cut until there's a fiber cut or a snowplow taking out a power pole. Yeah. And that's how it goes. We'll see how the different internet services last this year. I think, you know, other stuff with leases and more, get a good real estate lawyer and get a good broker that's on your side because there's so many complexities with all the stuff that even if you're an expert in it, you should really have help and support. So I think that's one of the things that you should do. How loud is the new servo? It's loud. I mean, it's a Metal Gear Servo. It's gonna be loud. Metal Gear Servo, okay. But it's strong. Yeah, all right. And that is all of our questions for this week. Hang out in Discord. We're here all the time. I'm gonna be in the chat over the weekend and on Friday and Monday in Discord, we're going to be shipping here live. I'll do some videos and some fun stuff and it's gonna be a good time. And I appreciate everyone who's gonna participate in the sales and more. It was a really tough year. It was a really tough last year too. When you buy something, after we pay the rent, if you just talked about, and we pay our team and we buy the stuff so we can make the stuff, all of the money that's left over goes into a profit sharing account for our team. You know where your money's going. It's going to the employees at Adafruit who do all this. And it's a little quiet here, but during the day there's a lot of activity. There's a lot of people here. It takes a lot to make an Adafruit workout. And it's made out of people. And that's how we got here. And I'm looking forward to seeing some of you in person. Our team's been on site. It's been a really good end of year for us. And we very much appreciate it. Our code is keelbeeg. That'll be going on for a little bit longer. I'd like to thank Jesse May who's running things behind the scenes right now. And I think that you'll be really surprised and really happy and really delighted about all the things that are happening at Adafruit right now. We'll have some posts thanking people and more on our blog. And then we have these sales. And then on Tuesday we're doing Giving Tuesday which is featuring all of the charities and more that our team cares about that maybe we can help get the word out about. And then over the weekend I'll be posting all the maker sales. I've done this, it's weird. We post all of our competitors' sales and discounts and deals because Adafruit doesn't cover everything. We don't carry everything but we're going to make sure we get the word out. And I know some of the companies they don't like when I send an email because they are not allowed. They're company policy. They can't post about other sites and stuff like that. But we decided why don't we just always do it as a tradition every single year. And so even if you don't get stuff from Adafruit, that's fine. Check out the site over the weekend and all the socials. And there's some really good deals out there. I already tweeted about the Pololu sale. Check out Pololu. Parallax has a sale going on. Evil Met Sciences, Pimeroni make. There's a bunch going on and we're going to make sure we get the word out to a lot of them. And with that, that is our show for this week. Thanks, everybody. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving if you celebrate. And if not, you have a turkey sandwich in our honor. That's right. And we'll see everybody next week. Thanks, everybody. Here is your moment of zener. This has been an Adafruit production. We'll see everybody next week. Bye. 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