 Welcome to the show. It is me, JP, and it is time for JP's product pick of the week. Thanks for stopping by today. For some reason, my broadcast software is being very slow when I pick new things, so bear with me if I have a little unnatural pause as I click from thing to thing. Maybe it'll even out. So first of all, I want to thank people for stopping by in the chat. We've got people over in our Discord as well as our YouTube chat, so if you're wondering where to go to hang out, those are two places that you will find us. Dave Odessa asks, do you think JP will be on time this week? I'm right here. Aren't I usually on time? I'm close. I'm very close. Where's the suspense if I'm here exactly on time though? I don't know. Do we need suspense? Maybe we don't need suspense in 2022. Maybe we're done with suspense. So let's see. 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So take it away, Lady Aida. One of our most popular projects is now a kit, LED goggles. So if you wanted to make these, we saw these at Comic-Cons. We see these at Maker Fairs. We see these on Show & Tell. We now have a pack so you too can make your own. And it's a deal. It's like 10 bucks off if you buy the pack. So if you were to buy all the parts, it would be more expensive than if you get the pack. Here they are. And Vance, who's kidding, showing them off. Yep. Like how he's like holding that smile like perfectly so you can't tell that he's, he's actually moving, but he's like so still. Yeah, we have this software that what it does is if you can do a video and stay still, you can scrub out where only the motion is and then you can do those cool animated graphics that we have on our homepage now. So I'll let you, I'll let you demonstrate those. I'm showing off those goggles. I'm like Vance. And this is just the basic demo. And we have, we have also a demo that has like these little eye-looking things in a rainbow demo. So there's a couple different examples. And of course you can program your own. And the kit comes with these costume goggles, two neopixel rings, a trinket, battery and a battery charger. So you get like everything you need to lock out and make this project. You need a little bit of soldering skills, but luckily you do not have to be good at soldering. It's like pretty basic. Yep. Since we revised the neopixel rings to have more connections, it's a lot easier to make this kit. We don't suggest these for looking through because like the electronics are in the eye cups. I mean, you could make them in a way that you can kind of look through them, but it's not suggested. Lots of people do. Your vision's not so good. So just be aware of that. We designed these to put on a hat or on your forehead as part of a costume. Yeah. Like a steam-fun costume with LEDs. And it's a really great trinket introduction. So check it out. Especially if you've seen a lot of people build these now. We have a great pack. It has everything you need with a rechargeable battery. And fill the updated instructions. And it's a great project, learning project. And you can wear these all the time. This is like heirloom electronics. Okay. First up is an update. Okay. We've updated, I realized that our old LED ring trinket kit, which people love making LED goggles, was using the old trinket. We love the old trinket, but it's time has come and gone. It's been upgraded. That kit now comes with a trinket M0. Same thing. And here's the good news. The code's the same. And you can also use circuit pythons. So same price updated to use a new SAM D21 bigger and better. Yes, indeed it is. So here you can see the very cool box that you get when you order this. It comes in a lovely Adafruit black box. And this is it. Right here. That's the product pick of the week. It is the NeoPixel goggles kit. You get all of this great stuff to make these goggles in the box. In fact, I'll show you the contents of those, but first let me just show you what the goggles themselves look like in action. You should not wear these over your eyes. They're meant to wear on your head. But Lars, he can get away with stuff like that because he's Lars. So there you can see we have the goggles. I put a little diffusion material. And then we have the two NeoPixel rings that are spinning there doing some cool patterns and picking different colors and embedded right inside, thanks Lars, right inside of there. You can see we have all of the parts and goodies. So let me jump to the overhead. We'll take a look at the box of stuff you get and then we'll take a look at how they're assembled because it's a fun build. It's a fun project to take you a little afternoon sometime, not too long to put them together. Main thing you need is hot glue gun. So let's jump to this overhead and I'll position myself up in the corner there. So here's what you get in the pack. I'm going to dump all this good stuff out in fact so that it all fits. So we have the costume goggles and these have screw off caps and tinted lenses. So that gives you some of the tinting. You can just unscrew these to change out what diffusion you're using. You can pull that lens if you want to. It's a little ring. We have a pair of NeoPixel rings right there and these are RGB NeoPixel rings. We get some ribbon cables so that you can connect all of the connections you need to the data port, power, ground, and then daisy chaining to the second ring. We have a LiPo battery that we'll use to power it. You could also power this with other things such as a USB battery maybe or AA or AAA pack but the way the project is designed is to use this one. And therefore we have a little JST battery connector that you'll connect to the underside of the Trinket M0 which is the brains of this project. So originally this was a Trinket project and used Arduino. Now it's been updated to be on the Trinket M0 and you can use Arduino or circuit Python. I happen to have circuit Python running on the version I've got here. And since we give you that LiPo battery, we also give you a LiPo charger. And so this is a nice one that you can just plug into a USB port so it's just got the same connectors as a USB plug. It's just a thin PCB version that just goes right into USB plug, plug your battery in there and you can charge it in any port that you have. And you don't need these but there's some bonus header pins. So let's take a look at the construction here of the one I put together. One note, you power it on and off by plugging the battery in. That's not super convenient so if you want to go for a little bonus upgrade I'm using one of these JST battery inline switches. That means you can also kind of connect this with zip ties to the back of the cord, have a little plug on the back of your band there and the battery can be mounted up here. But if you want to do it the way it is in the project, you'll plug it directly in there and keep the battery in there as well. So if I take a look at how this is put together, let me bring that camera a bit closer and I'm going to refocus that. Oh, that's pretty good. That looks good. So you can see it's a lot of hot glue. I use liberal amounts of hot glue to hold the LED rings, the no-pixel rings in place. They are connected wired to the trinket which is soldered in place and then again I'm using some hot glue as strain relief. I've got the JST connector that I soldered to the back of the board there and I have hot glued the trinket to the inside of the goggles as well. And then your cabling is just running pretty discreetly through this little slot that's already in the costume goggles over to the second ring. So data passes through the first one and over to the second one as well as power and ground are connected. You can see there I used this is just some parchment paper from the kitchen, a baking parchment paper that I used to give a nice diffused glow. And if I turn those on they'll power up and they'll just start going through their little patterns there. Now let's take a look if you jump into the code for this. Let me show a code view of the world here. And let me take out the background there, a little less confusion. There we go. These are, you know what, let me plug them in. So these are going to run right over USB, the micro USB cable. I can plug that in right now and that'll be live. This is a circuit python that I'm running right now. So this should just be available to immediately iterate on your code. This is based on, I'll show you the project in a second on Learn Guide, but this is the demo code. I just took one thing out which is I didn't want to cycle through the other mode, but let's change that. So I'm going to change the mode option to zero and I'll just hit save. So what this is going to do is it's going to run this sort of sparkling LED code. That moves a lot faster in real life than it does on the video actually. But we get it's really nice sparkling, same sort of thing. It's going to cycle every eight seconds to a different color. If we want, we can also tell it to switch between modes, not just colors. So here I'll hit save and now you'll see we'll get the sparkle code. And then after eight seconds of that, we'll go to that sort of rotating. I really like that rotating mode there, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. And then it's going to switch colors and modes over to the next one in the list. After eight seconds of play, now we're on to green sparkles. So all of this is fairly straightforward neopixel code here. And all you need to do is copy and paste that to the board once you've got circuit Python on there and off you go. The I'm going to jump over the learn guide and show you all you need to know. So here is second while we change screens, you can do it. There we go, bring up my version of the guide. So this is the Kaleidoscope Eyes Trinket Powered Neopixel LED Ring Goggles by Phil Burgess. This shows you how to set it up, how to solder on, even though it's using the older trinket, it's the same for soldering on this little JST connector. Prepping your wires, which wires are going to go where. Here's a nice little circuit diagram and tells you what the connections are. This is essentially what you have. It just doesn't have the goggles not placed in the goggles yet. So the next bit you'll care about is the assembly. So if we jump over to final assembly and use, tells you to trim your extra leads, use some epoxy or hot glue for strengthening and then assemble those. You'll see there's those slits that are in the goggles. There's using some vellum to make diffusers. I don't have any vellum on hand, but the parchment paper worked pretty well. One thing I did was I actually kept my rings pretty far, show you the overhead again. You can see I kept my rings pretty far from the front. In fact, let me turn off the power to that for a second. So you can see I have a bit of space there, maybe a half an inch. And the further these are, the more diffuse it gets. You won't get individual points of light as easily. If you want to do the very sharp points of light, you won't have that. But I wanted a little bit more diffusion. So through the miracle of hot glue, I was able to just put that further away from the front of the lens. So let's see. There's the instruction on the guide for how to hot glue it. Also gives a really good tip about if you have a problem with your hot gluing, you can always use just a little bit of rubbing alcohol, which gets under. You can wiggle a little bit of rubbing alcohol, get underneath the hot glue and pop that bond. It's a miracle, it just pops that glue right off. So much easier to deal with than sort of a gunky adhesive glue. A little safety checklist, reminding you you probably don't want to stick these right over your eyes. Also, you've got a LiPo battery there, so be mindful. You probably don't want that right in your eye ball. So keeping that on your head or on your hat or mounted on your favorite murder sloth like Lars. That's a good idea. Don't put them right over your eyes. So let's see. What else have we got? Any questions in the chat? I'll check those out. Hey, Todd says it's like a mini Aida box unboxing. That's right. Yeah, I haven't done one of those in a while, but I think I fall into the natural rhythm of explaining what the parts are. Let's see. Any other questions? No, looks good. Todd says you could use some copper foil tape to make cap-sense touch sensors as switches, and then you wouldn't need any extra components. That's a great idea. Yeah, you can run a wire and then some copper foil off to the side, and then you could do tapping between different patterns. You could add an accelerometer if you want to do stuff based on head tilt or whacking yourself in the head. So yeah, really cool goggle set. Let me put them on my own forehead here as we finish this up. I'll just have a little cord dangling off the back there. So ignore that. Hard to... there we go. Let me stick that back there while we finish that up. Yeah, look at those, huh? So yes, I did pick this with enough time, I think, for people who want to use this for Halloween. I have used these for at least a couple of Halloween's when I just had to quickly grab something and go out trick-or-treating. I just throw these over my head and grab a hoodie, and I at least look like I've got something happening. It's a very low-effort Halloween costume, but it works. They're cool-looking. So that is going to do it for today. So my product pick of the week this week is the Neopixel Trinket M0 LED Goggles Kit. And I will just put these on the... I'll leave them lit, how about? That's more fun. Set that back there on the wall there. Thanks so much. Before I forget, head on over here to get your own at this URL. It's product 2221. You can go to that QR code if you want. You'll get them right now and get up to four sets of them. Build them for your friends. Give them out as gifts. And these are half off right now, I believe. In fact, let's go to the product page. I forgot to go and check that and make sure everything is as I said. Yeah, so normally this is $39.99 and I think we have it for $24.98. What a price. So not quite half off, right? But a good price. A really great bargain. We're practically giving them away. There's so much good stuff in there. And you can, of course, code your own effects for these in Circuit Python. Use any Neopixel code you like in Arduino or Circuit Python to do fun stuff with them. Extend them using other sensors, tap, cut, cap, touch, sense, things like that. A really fun gift for someone who's into building or for yourself. So with that, we'll wrap it up. Thanks everybody so much for stopping by today for Adafruit Industries. I'm John Park and this has been JP's Product Pick of the Week. Bye-bye.