 Let's open up this week. I'm just gonna play these videos and I'll see you on the other side. Cool. Okay, lady What is this? Hey, we're back at the Adafruit factory Making prototypes my stencils didn't come in yet. So I'm hand-pasting these prototypes for my RP2040 keyboard with OLED and rotary encoder and the way I do this is I actually have solder paste in this little dispenser and I've got a nice fine tip on it, and then I very carefully Squeeze paste on to the pads. I try to get it as clean as possible I'm gonna have to clean this up later with my soldering iron But you just want to get it good enough so that the components sit in the right place and then I'm going to use This collection of all my raw components Hand place them on and then the best part is it goes to the oven which saves me the most time So this is gonna be very fast once I pick and place all my hands. All right, Lady What is this? Okay, so I put together the prototypes for my macro pad with all those LEDs and buttons and and the OLED socket and everything and then I got home and it's time to actually put it to the test So this is some Arduino code running on it that you can see it reacts to when key presses are pressed I can press them all. Yeah, there you go There's also the rotary encoder which you can see as I turn it goes the right direction And when I press it and also knows it was pressed and then finally I'm doing a little i-squared c-scan With the stem IQT sensor so you can see here when I have it plugged in it says there's something detected when I remove it It's like there's nothing detected. So this is my little hardware bring up test But so far so good. I have a couple tweaks to do like, you know, it's a little embarrassing But I actually had to add a couple of 10 micro far capacitors. I needed more capacitance, but I think it's almost done All right, Lady. What is this? Okay? So I'm still working on the bring up of my macro pad boards and I just finished doing the Arduino core So this is Arduino code here You can see it's rotating and like keys are being pressed all that and then on the other one I've got two prototypes I've got this with circuit path on my music. There's a blink of friend. So this one I just had to do a little bit of like a patch to the core to fix like a typo bug for the sh1106 OLED driver because like the columns and rows were mixed But I did that and then my driver is like working great now and then this code is, you know Kind of similar when you press the keys they light up and you get the rotary encoder and the rotary Button press working as well. So it's good. It means I've got the hardware working on Arduino and circuit Python Which means it's time to write some macro pad code early data. What is this? Hey? I'm trying out a sample. I got of these lamp keys. These are interesting keys They actually showed up on JP's video. He's been like loving these lamp keys You see it's an opaque blast black plastic key within this clear window that like you have neopics Really need to go through that is kind of cool like modern cyberpunk 80s look to them, which I really dig So after I asked JP with what they were called. I found a supplier They're not super cheap, but they have a great look to them And you can see the clear window here and then the neopixel shining through and then this is the clear cast RP 2040 key that I made with my resin kit over last weekend I'll probably doing more resin stuff this weekend, but these keys look pretty cool I mean like they're just I don't know. There's like super cyberpunk. So I think these are good. We'll put them in the store All right, lady. What is this? Hey, we are looking at some mechanical keys today? And so folks are pretty familiar with these. These are like the cherry and mech style switches This is actually kale switches and there's this one with a keycap. I can't be like man. These are so chunky I mean, they're great, but they're they're a little tall I mean like look at this board. It's kind of sticking up. What if you want something slimmer? Well, there's the chalk series and the chocolate series from kale are super slim So I got some samples and this is the one with a keycap like compare this to this It's like so much slimmer And then there's one here's a really nice clear key cap only thing is the keycaps are totally incompatible and the bottoms also, you know, I had to get special sockets The socket bottoms. I'm sorry that pin bottoms are also totally incompatible as you can see here So it's kind of a whole different system But they're super small and skinny. This one's a clicky one too. Sounds good. All right lady. What is this? Oh, I got some cool samples in today. So this is a custom etched keycap It's a translucent plastic with like a black plastic that is then etched through so you can see this got the Adafruit logo In cool glow-through design. So looking great on this macro pad Whatever the color of the Neopixel underneath is what it goes through I also got the OLED working with the offset and everything in circuit pythons That's good news. And then when I press this button BAM Opens a beta fruit. I just programmed the macro pad really easy to make it do anything on your computer So I just made it open up a a browser window Very cool custom keycaps coming soon Ta-ta-ta, what am I singing yeah? All right, so we have one right here. I don't have this plugged in. It's not running But it's a translucent Etched keycaps one of the few things we'll put our logo on which is really cool So it's actually a translucent plastic and you can see there's a thin black layer Which means we can get custom edge keycaps. We already have some goth keycaps on the way We got some stuff going on and then last up I've got to read the room here, so we're doing an E-ing Trinkie, so do you want squid friend? Squid friend? Or do you want panda friend? Panda friend? Squid friend? Squid friend? Or panda friend? Panda. Squid friend? Or panda friend? I'm not going to tell you which to pick, but you should pick panda. Squid friend? Or panda friend? Alright, and with that is Top Secret for the week.