 Peter, what's it? What is this? Hey, everybody, this is the Adderford Show and Tells. This is the awesomeest place to show off all your 3-printed projects, your electronic projects, your wearables, your retro tech. Everything is game here. We're going to take about half an hour to go through everybody hanging out in Show and Tell. We're going to go ahead and start off with Kevin from Digikey. Hey, Kevin. You can see him. How are you? Good, good, good. So, tomorrow, no, not tomorrow. Today is Wednesday. Friday is Open Source Harbor Summit. Yay. We're all excited for that. I got my bag in the mail with all the goodies. And this lovely little guy, the Cutie Pie. Hey. This thing is amazing. Look how small it is. I connected it to just a bunch of Neopixel strips. This thing just blows my mind. I had another thing planned for tonight for Show and Tell, but I thought, you know what, I'm going to hook the Cutie Pie up and just show it off. It was included in the Open Source Harbor Bag. So, I mean, really all I did was connect some Neopixels and I have just like a You have a Neopixel belt. Yeah. It's going to be like my, what do you call this? Sash. That's a good idea too. You know, I've always known that the Cutie Pie was small and I never physically had one. And it just blows me away how small it is. And you can simply add it to the end of a strip or anything you're working on embedded into a small project. You know, the tech that Adafrit is coming up with just seems to amaze me every day. It fits the name, doesn't it? So cute. It does. It's Cutie Pie. Awesome. Yeah. I think Scott might do a little unboxing of some of the other stuff that are in there. So, can't wait for that too. All right. Well done. Thank you for the kind of sneak peek of what's inside the Cutie Bag. We'll see you next week. All right. Next up, we're going to jump in with Bill Bingo. Hello, Bill. Hey guys. How are you? So great to see you. Holy crap. Everybody in the community is like, dude, yes, Bill is back. I am delighted to be back. That was one of the one of the worst weeks I've had and many, many, many years. I am still not 100%. You'll hear me coughing, I'm sure. I'm still all bruised and grossed up. Many of you know I was sick last week. I got COVID a couple weeks ago and then being hospitalized last week. That sucks. You really, really don't want to go through this. I will tell you that I mainly come on. I do have a project I can show that I was working on for the first time today. I actually got to work on a project. All I did, if you want to show my screen for me, I'll show you. All I did was I fixed the Go Baby Go car. If you don't know what Go Baby Go is, it's a thing out of the University of Delaware where we take little power cars and we make it so that if kids can't they can use hand presses to move around. It's a great program, we've been working with them for years and this one's been broken for about a month. Today I finally just had enough energy and enough motion to just say let's actually work on a project and how awesome was it to not be worrying about health and being in the hospital and things like that and be able to work on this instead. I do want to thank Lamar and Phil. Last week I don't think everybody always gets the fact that it's a big deal to get support, especially with COVID. When you have COVID, especially in a hospital you're completely isolated. You're by yourself. When you see somebody go online and they started the show with how much they cared about me and everybody online posting a million messages saying thank you all. It was enormous. So thank you for Lamar and Phil that was very sweet of you. I am going to be fine which is fantastic. I thought I'd be on oxygen at this point. I'm not. I will tell you, kind of have a message for God's sake, don't get vaccinated. Seriously, you don't want to be where I was. Everybody gets that you don't want to be where I was. But I got to tell you, a lot of you are like, well, I'm healthy, I'm not overweight which I'm not either, I lost 25 pounds in the hospital. I was overweight. Not a recommended diet. Not the recommended way to do that. Although your knees still like, it doesn't matter. My friend Tony gave me COVID. We know how it happened. Kind of like Tigger, he downs in the room and gives me a big speech on the cheek and we're like, what on earth are you doing? The next day he called and said he was COVID positive. And then I got sick. And when I got sick, Tony was devastated. So even if you're not going to get vaccinated for yourself, you don't ever want to be where Tony is. Where a kiss on the cheek might put your friend in the ICU. It's not a big deal. If you can't, that's fine. That's different. But if you can, go get vaccinated. You'll have a bad two days and we can actually kill this stupid thing. We are so close. Just go do it. Thank you for letting me get my little PSA and anybody to do this. Yeah. We were able to do four schedules at the same time. So it's me and my wife and my mom. We're doing the drive through at the Orlando Convention Center. I'll stick our all hands out out of each window and get all the shots at the same time. I'll get a snap of it so it'll be nice for you to show and share that around. It's going to suck and you're going to feel crappy for a day. Dude, I am terrified of needles. But for this one, I'm going to look at it's needle eye and be like... And for everybody else out there, thank you so much for reaching out. I really appreciate it. If you ever wonder whether it helps to post thinking of you, hope you feel better, yes. Oh yeah. I wasn't able to pay attention to the meeting because I was just sitting there watching you on the livestream going, oh crap. Yeah. To the first 36 hours I kept tanking down and that's just terrifying. And then thankfully, I made a nice hard V and it came out of it. Man, you don't ever want to feel like that. Yeah. And I think they're being a bright light in this start time. And as we said before, we're now closer to you so as everything gets to die down, we'll be seeing. Do all the crazy events you wanted us to do in the past were down the road now. Like literally right down the road. See you guys later. Great to see you. Excellent. Let's jump into it. Hey, John. There we go. What was that? Look at that. Now it works. I'm going to add a screen. Let's see. Share a... I didn't want to do this before because I think I would have jumped on top of what you're doing since we're both logged in. So here we go. So this is what I want to show. I've been updating this project. This was the Midi Feather Wing project I showed a couple of weeks ago, I think it was, so that I could write some sample code for our Midi Feather Wing guide. This one is using Feather RP2040 and I've got the DIN5 connector version, which is for sort of classic Midi old school big connectors. And I've got it on this Feather quadrupler. I forget what we call this one, but this is the sort of side by side one. And I really like this one because it's kind of like a modular plug and play feather wings thing. I've got one feather and then I've got three feather wings going on here right now. So there's the Midi one. I've got an OLED on here that I'm not using quite yet. But here I've added in our new feather what are we calling it, the NeoKey. So it's two mechanical keyboards, hot, swappable mechanical keyboards. And they have a reverse mount GBLED under the board and those are controlled just like NeoPixels. And right now I'm not doing much with it other than when I press the keys I'm lighting up a couple different colors on here. You can see that we're using these translucent I'm using some Cherry MX key switches here. And one of the really cool things I have on here are these, essentially the scroll lock button. If you look on older keyboards, the caps lock and scroll lock tend to have these windowed keys. So you rather than getting like a full blast in the face of light with a translucent key which ends up looking sort of like that these will just let that through this sort of like little window or light pipe here. So this isn't doing anything yet but other than looking cute and since I have the same pins wired up on the OLED featherwing here as those I can also press these buttons and light up those lights it was unintentional it just happened to be on the same ones. So I'm playing around with that a little bit and then eventually I'd like to have that allow me to do some navigation or start stop playback of a MIDI file or maybe just something that sends MIDI panic when you have MIDI notes that won't turn off it can just sweep through and turn them all off but anyway I want to show that and then the thing I'm going to be showing tomorrow I've just started working with this new board here which is our fun house board I think we sold a few of these I don't remember if these went on a small number of them or not but it's sort of a sneak peek early peek at this fun house board I'm going to be doing some IoT kind of stuff with it tomorrow on the show related to house stuff Adafruit IO maybe some if this than that maybe some SMS messages and Gmail filtering also we know when we've left the door open or similar types of things so come on by to my show tomorrow JP's workshop and we'll get the board a little bit so awesome can't wait we're always in a oh man we're getting some echo I can't listen to myself ah thanks John we're always tuning in we'll see you then thanks John yeah there's always a little echo all right next up we're going to jump in with Dan we got some fun stuff here Dan we got some retro tech hey Dan so we're going to talk about netbooks and I have an example of one and this is not really old old technology this is like 2007-2008 I can vaguely remember them right so there was this plethora of small um Intel compatible chips like the VSC7 the AMD Geo and the Intel Atom where all these are low power like a few watts CPU chips and um ASUS I don't have an ASUS here but ASUS can we build a tiny computer that is like the size of a large paperback book or something and these typically have like a gig of memory and maybe like a four gig flash drive in them or something and some of them ran Windows XP really slowly and painfully but most of them ran some Linux derivative so I got one of these around 2008 and here it is it's called the Dell Mini 9 and it's still pretty small if you closed it up like this it's this size kind of thick but compared with say this MacBook it still can hide behind the MacBook it's about 5400 form factor maybe yeah and this is like a seven inch screen a 1024x600 display and you could do stuff with it and it was like I thought this was great because laptops at that time were like four or five pounds and this is a kilogram this is 2.2 pounds so there was a brief like kind of craze for these especially among like journalists and people like that but a lot of people found that they couldn't get any work done on them because XP was slow unless they were willing to use the Linux distributions this one I got from the Dell outlet after it had been returned or something and it was running Ubuntu 804 and it was one of the things I think that kind of helped put Ubuntu on the map and also I replaced the keyboard with the international keyboard because the original one had larger keys but they were in strange places and so this has a bunch of like really tiny keys but that are like the size of the width of your little finger or something but you can kind of type on it could you show the side again sorry the side for it like what kind of ports it's got so it's got ethernet it's got USB and on the other side it's got two more USBs so it's a real computer and I thought for carrying around and taking on vacation and going on airplane trips or something I thought it was great and I used for that purpose for a long time and then they became unpopular because they were so slow and eventually people started trying to figure out how to make really thin small notebooks but that was a lot more work expensive and these were like in the two to four hundred dollar range it was like I think the first kind of real, it was kind of some people say there was this one laptop per child project that was at the MIT lab and some people said it was the inspiration for this that was a really kind of unsuccessful project but it spawned a whole bunch of ideas about small cheap computers you know the Raspberry Pi 400 is like a derivative of this you might say or something good idea too early for its time maybe also I think I see Alvaro has one yeah Alvaro has flashing one I got one I got one we'll check in with Alvaro in a minute thanks Dan alright next up we're going to check in with Liz if you want to get your stuff ready here we go oh she's got her screen up hello Liz how's it going I started working on kind of a proof of concept Neo2D so the idea is that using the two cap touch that you can control your mic and camera and zoom so red would mean that stuff was muted you could tap green again and then the other thing is if you hold down both for a second and release should go to maybe the idea is that it will go to a rainbow swirl and you'll be able to leave the meeting that's the perfect animation for leaving a meeting a rainbow swirl it's not on my screen I wish it was working I mean maybe you don't want to leave this meeting right like if it's on right now so yeah this little thing it was pretty quick to put it up great it's Ulster the python alright sweet is there a board definition for the Chinky yet I think I was put in last night alright everybody can get it well done thanks cool thanks for showing the new stuff alright Liz okay next up we're going to check in with Scott Scott hello hello I have too many windows open here no it's good so I was afraid Kevin was going to scoop me because I got my open hardware summit bitty bag as well and I'm not going to go through everything in here unless we like need to kill 10 minutes which I suspect we don't but I'll he already plugged the cutie pie that was in there but I thought I would plug the digikey calendar hackaday and digikey electronics calendar this came up I think on show until a few weeks ago or months ago and the thing that I remembered I was like oh is this the calendar that has circuit python day in it and I went and looked so here's September there's the circuit sculpture and then on the ninth there you can see circuit python day and it's kind of funny it's a funny story because you know this is the first time we saw this and they're like oh we looked up what day it was but we haven't actually been consistent about what day of the year we've been doing it so it was kind of like okay great you picked it for us circuit python day this year September 9th so that's pretty exciting and as long as do we have time or are there a bunch of folks waiting I think there's like three more just a quick plug if you show my screen what I've been working on is a BLE file transfer service protocol so that you can send files between an app on your phone or your tablet to BLE enabled Adafruit or non-Adafruit device so if anybody is interested in that I wrote human words of what I think the protocol will be I also have like a prototype implementation of it so if you go to github.com slash Adafruit slash Adafruit underscore circuit python underscore BLE underscore file underscore transfer which is super long but you'll probably be able to remember it because it does make sense I just made a poll request of all of that so that's where we can have a discussion if folks have opinions about what the protocol should be I'm pretty happy with it so if you just want to like expand it a bunch I'll probably push back but I would love to get the opinion of people who want who may want to do different apps for it or bring it to other devices so let me know awesome cool well done we'll have a link as well down somewhere please post yeah I'll post it to the discord end to the YouTube right now and then on to the circuit python day felt so bad I remembered what day it was and I don't remember my mom's birthday I always swapping around so I was like oh dang my priorities yeah it's good you only have to put it in your calendar once birthdays and then you just make them repeat every year all right thanks oh and dive on still on yeah deep dive on Friday my talk is in the morning for me so I'll be doing my 15 minute open hardware summit talk which I don't think I actually plugged but I am giving a talk about interface design it'll be nice short and sweet and hopefully helpful and then deep dive at the regular 2 p.m. Pacific on Friday as well and it's the one-year anniversary of me regularly doing deep dives which is kind of wild it's so awesome yeah it's been really fun yeah because it's always like PT's always had this mind of you know having like a whole network full of you know all of these different types of like segments and you know styles for the shows and dude you'd like we almost have all the weekdays yeah it's so awesome thanks so much for doing those oh no I enjoy it and we have a good crowd that does it every week as well and more often than not Lady Aida stops by as well we just have technical chit chats about whatever she's been working on so I think people really enjoy that as well yeah we always have you playing in the background we can't be in the chat but we always hear you cool thanks good luck with everything next up yeah here we go hello Micah wait can you hear me wait is my video frozen sorry it is wait one second I'm going to stop sorry let's see it's trying no it's working just fine hmm maybe try reload and we'll call you back in if you reload yeah go ahead and try reload and we'll get back to you there you are I'm so sorry so as you can see I'm kind of sitting in a toddler car wondering what's that all about well this is my carbot that I shared last time so I got it working again and I installed some neopixels on the bottom so maybe I will um one sec um hey look at that yeah so I also um switched out the control method because before it was a I was using the remote control that came with it it's like a parental remote control for like driving around the car I just took it apart and soldered wires to the push buttons and hooked them up to the raspberry pie but that's a little bit too hacky even for me so what I decided to do was grab a motor hat from Pololu whatever my power motor driver for these chunkers and um I hooked the motors directly up to them so now I can actually drive this and I installed a bigger battery so now I can ride in it so I hop on over to my ssh terminal I don't think I'm gonna you know what I'll share it one sec my screen is so it'll look a little bit shrink shrunken whatever there we go alright so this is just my ssh terminal okay um so I'm gonna python3move.py and boom oh cool that's great python power yeah it definitely works the steering works too the steering is really weird there's a motor in the steering column and it actually turns the wheels from side to side I'm gonna stop sharing it turns these wheels this way so that's really weird so I I did that and yeah that's pretty much it at one point that one of the pixels um on the um yeah pixel strip um strips fell off and uh that was fun to fix I like cut this and re-soldered it together with the pixel not being in it like the pads I don't know I could have just reworked it oh no you're good awesome thanks for sharing I think the only thing it's missing is like a blink of sticker on there since it's circuit python powered python power I will maybe buy one of those awesome thanks for sharing like it definitely stop by as you continue to upgrade it it's great alright alright bye bye let's go ahead and jump in to John John pro proctor John proctor hello hey John hello oh my video is not working no no I think that's so BS um me wants to get back to you and you have to get back to me okay next up we will jump in with Alvaro hello hey hey everyone we have a couple of things for today but my camera is kind of doing bad things so I was going to show the satellite interface so this thing you can kind of see the wifi logo and also a world map that's there so this thing is an ESP32 and it actually has a lot of in it so this small antenna is able to hear satellites that go on the top of my house especially satellite from Israel so it's very cool but yeah my camera is not doing well so next time I'm going to take some pictures and show you better I'm also going to show a couple of things that I had just because that didn't work well so probably most of you know what this is no it's not an Alka sensor bomb it's actually for a what can I open I got this very cool camera it's actually a 360 camera so what you do is that you and it's actually well you can see it very well but it has like a slot in there and just and that actually just took a 360 but it doesn't have a roll right now but it just took a 360 picture and yeah this camera is really really cheap because you know nobody uses rolling at all so it's actually a nice way to do some nice pictures and you were able to easily find the film yeah actually there's this brand that people actually make a new film like a black yeah this is actually a fresh roll I actually have some old rolls in the fridge because you can actually use like 10 year olds or 15 year old rolls so people can do that amazing and another thing that I want to show real quick because you know that's the one that I remember was iconic and it's actually a 360 yes how cool this was actually my first Arduino because this thing is actually the sound port is actually an analog port so I started doing stuff before I actually found an Arduino so again this laptop is so so so cool the keyboard is actually waterproof so I had this thing in my kitchen I had this thing in the chorus and I was like wow also the screen you can actually shut down the backlight so here it actually looks like e-paper I actually thought that this thing was actually e-paper a long time ago but no it's not e-paper it's just starting down the backlight and if you do the battery will last for like 11 hours or something and it's also doing wireless mesh you can actually shut down the laptop it's actually going to reroute the network packages for it it still has a lot of things that normal laptops have I absolutely love this thing I've never seen that thing everywhere it's so cool I didn't know it had all those features you can see a secret Python PDF because I actually used it for translating oh that's so cool it's still a workhorse I love the handle you can also carry them like that the plastic is so hard so that the thing has dropped from a hammock it has dropped from trees it's like the Nokia phone oh yeah the little candy bar phone yeah it survived another small retro thing I have a Firefox phone I remember those that's awesome that is some great retro tech thank you all for some great stuff just a small thing Vanga this is my dog Vanga Vanga Vanga oh she got a child you got it thank you so much that was a great trip last but not least we're going to jump in with John hello John your video is working I got it working here is a 24 hour clock we have midnight at the bottom 6am sunrise noon sunset and then I got a pixel here that shows the now time so that now pixel goes around once every 24 hours and it just sits around my wall you know high tech but very low speed on that rotation so yeah that I got working with circuit python with the feather wings with the Pico's that have come out of my Pico's I've set up a macro keyboard so I can use this to control my OBS hey I like using this so much that I've actually designed a circuit board now I'm working on soldering oh how cool I'm going to switch over this to a different type of Neopixel because these guys are pretty hard to solder so I got to get in and fix that one tonight but yeah this little Pico's pretty powerful so I'm going to do this macro keyboard and then set up a midi controller later for some halloween stuff that is excellent, well done I'll stand her and getting halloween ready I love it the keyboards are for Christmas so I'm like way ahead I'm way ahead right now it's like my wife she's already planning Christmas yeah well so this is a nice challenge if you have any more info on your project please drop it in the discord so we can share it on maybe the newsletter yeah these are great, I love the wood on the top thanks so much John I think that's it for the show thank you everybody for coming on we really appreciate everybody coming on don't go anywhere though, ask an engineer starts in 2 minutes ago bye guys