 Ladies, so this week's chip shortage, what is it? Okay, so this chip shortage is actually kind of an interesting one because I mean, like I'm starting to save the better ones, you know, as we're getting into the chip shortage videos. So the previous videos, I talked about like single microcontrollers or single chips, like, oh, I can't get this motor driver, and so I can't make this motor driver board. But the chip shortage that has been like kind of a little bit of my mini crisis this week has been the voltage regulator that we use on like 80% of our dev boards and breakout boards, the AP2112K shown here, is hard to get. And I've actually seen a couple of people on social media also mention, you know, a lot of people use it because we put it in our schematics, and I don't know if you're aware, but our schematics are very helpful for people because they tell people how to spec the parts for our boards. And so they see that we use the AP2112K and they're like, that's a great regulator. I'm going to use it. So I'm free to know what everyone's using it. And that's really cool, except if you can't get it suddenly like all of the Adafruit dev boards can't go in stock. And I always like to say, you know, what Phil has taught me, which is never let a crisis go to waste, except for now during a chip shortage, we now let one out of five crises go to waste. But we try to... Yeah. So if there's an Adafruit business book of phrases, you know, we used to say, oh, don't let a crisis go to waste. I heard it somewhere. However, over the last few years, there's just been a crisis after crisis after crisis. So now we're saying it's not a collection of crisis, like a yogurt card where you know, you get five crises, you get one free or something. So we're letting every like fourth or fifth, like maybe there's some crises that can go to waste. But generally speaking, when something comes up like this, look at it as an opportunity. And that's what we're trying to do with this series. So what are you doing about this? Okay. So this is the Diodes, Inc. AP2112K 3.3 volt regulator, which again, anyone who has looked at Adafruit designs has seen that we love using. So we do have some on order. And we're going to ask the CEO whose name is Mr. Diodes if they can maybe send us some a little early, because we do have some on order, but we're going to run out. And we're doing, you know, if you've seen a bunch of our great searches, we showed a couple other Diodes, Inc. parts that we might be able to use as alternatives. But we really do love this regulator and we use it in all of our feathers. So please, please, please, maybe you want to go to the, I think the next one. Yeah. We have, yeah. So this is it. Yeah. From Diodes, Inc. They have a cool, they make some more than Diodes, by the way, but they do have a lot of Diodes. And I'm going to say, please, please, please, please, we have, you know, a couple hundred thousand on order through Digi-Key. Could you please allocate us? You know, like 50,000 pieces, 30,000 pieces. Name some products that we won't be able to make and get to all the folks in the world who want them. Classic, any feather, any cutie pie board. All of our OLED displays and our sensors, our Wi-Fi boards, our Bluetooth, our Nordic boards. You love the Espresso and Nordic and SAMD chips, and you love the STMs. Well, all of those use this regulator. And it's like, this is just, you know, you know, a lot of people don't realize how much work these regulators do. They're, you know, it's not that they're unloved, but they just silently do the heavy work of keeping that voltage 3.3 volts rock solid. No matter what you're doing, our regulators don't usually pop. They're really solid. They're high quality. They're protected. They've got, you know, temperature control. They've got great enable pins. We love them. Please, Mr. and Mrs. Diodes, could you spare a couple of reels of the APT-112K? Please, we are just mere street urchins. Please, please, please, Diodes. Please, Diodes. Okay, well, we'll try. Well, we're going to send this over to them. All right. Yeah, we're using this for good stuff, for good reasons. All of it, all of it is going to be used by young children learning a very wholesome. They've got like little pink cheeks and they've got slightly messy hair. Think about what we're tasking the next generation to do. So many things they have to fix. So many things they have to build. So many things they have to solve. They need diodes. They need these. And they need regulators. They need regulators. Yeah. They need parts. Yeah. They need hope. And this is everybody's favorite regulator, by the way. So, I mean, that's a, again, it's a blessing and it's a slight curse if they're not available. Okay. Well, that's this week's tip shortage.