 workshop it's me John Park we're here in the workshop it's the first episode in the new year 2023 welcome all thanks for coming to join me here and thanks for joining me back on my normal time and day Thursdays at four o'clock eastern time I've been covering for Phil and the more on the Wednesday evening shift there but they are back and better than ever and so it's really great to see them up to their old hijinks last night as well as some new hijinks and some wacky new studio space that they're using in their New York City apartment so I thought they did a great job last night it was exciting to see the show back in top form so let's see here I am it's been raining wildly here in Southern California which we're terribly unprepared for but so far no leaks here in this space cross fingers it stays that way knock wood and I hope you're having okay whether wherever you are I know that up in northern California it's much much worse and I'm sure there are other places where it's been been 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to hire someone if you're looking to get hired head head on over here this is jobs at a fruit dot com it's free to use you'll see a new newest thing we have there is a to fruit itself we're looking for someone an employee resources assistant for benefits and payroll it's a new job opening that was just posted two days ago and you can see here a different currently seeking and to add an experienced employee resources assistant to the team full-time position on site at the a to fruit new york location and give some qualifications experience the benefits and all that so if you're looking for some work and you're in the new york area or thinking of heading to new york i can think of far i can think of very few better places to work that's what i'm trying to say the native roots fantastic company i've been with eight eight fruit six years now i think something like that so i'm sticking around i love this place so please head on over to jobs at a fruit dot com to look for jobs sometimes they're with eight fruit sometimes they're most of the time they're with other other people and uh doesn't cost anything to use so head on over to jobs eight fruit dot com find your dream job uh let's see also i'll mention i've got a show on tuesdays which is that right there it's jp's product pick of the week on the show i like to show you a new thing uh a new product sometimes it's an oldy but goody but sometimes it's new this was a pretty new one this week give you a little demo of it and give you a great big fat discount this week it was 50 off on this uh that was it right there it's the stemma qt five port hub and i'll give you a little one minute recap it is the five port stemma qt hub it is a passive hub it allows you to create a bunch of i squared c devices plugged into a single microcontroller board without needing to run from sensor to sensor to sensor and create a humongous chain of them which is pretty darn cool so here you can see i've taken the hub and then i have these four sensors plugged into it and then the fifth item plugged into the hub is my cutie pie right there so here i've got an accelerometer a pressure sensor a temperature and humidity sensor and a magnetometer so i can read the values on all of those over a single i squared c bus they all have their own unique addresses but as far as uh the actual wiring of the thing it's really nice and neat with that little hub right in the middle there so i'm just using some nylon standoffs and screws and nuts there to to hook that all together it is the stemma qt and quick five port hub uh yes it was so so you can i think still get those we probably still have those in stock right let me let's go check back over here at ater fruit uh you can look up stemma hub that'll get you there quick in stock they're back up to the full price $2.50 so it's pretty inexpensive for what you get and how useful that is uh let's see what else is happening here i again want to thank everyone for stopping by the discord if you're wondering where the chat is if you're ever on twitch or facebook or somewhere and you don't know where the chat is i've got an eye on the youtube chat but the main chat right here is our discord so you can head to aterfru.it slash discord look for the live broadcast chat channel we have a whole bunch of other channels going 24 7 people hanging out in the channels discussing stuff but this is where the chat's going on for live broadcast chat during the show um so thank you all for stopping in dad dude watch them a call it doodad gizmo doodah doodad right doodad that's what i call it a doodad uh right on so hey next up i got a kind of cool tip i want to share with you uh in circuit python so it's a great time to do the circuit python parsec hey all right for the circuit python parsec today i wanted to show you how you can use a short press versus a long press on a single button inside of circuit python this is super useful when you have a limited amount of user interface inputs such as a device with a single button or a couple buttons and you want to be able to switch say between different modes have certain actions act as like a single click other actions act like a double click um but i don't want to confuse it with that it's really this difference between a short sort of normal press of a button and a press and hold to enter into a different mode which is really really useful on limited ui's so here i can show you an action when i press this button on my circuit playground express i will advance one position on my little ring of neopixels and i'll have to move my thumb so you can see around to the other side there now if i want to switch the color of that i'm using the exact same button i'm just pressing and holding if i press and hold for half a second i go up to a different color selection so the single short press you can see it there printing out says short press if i click and hold we switch over to a new color switch and hold new color switch and hold new color short press and we advance click and hold new color click and hold new color short press advance so the way you do this is a subset of the uh what's the name of it it's in the debouncer library so inside the debouncer library you can import buttons so if you look my code here it says from a to fruit debouncer import button you set this up pretty much like a normal button except here i say button i give it the button pin that we're using and then i tell it how long to count in milliseconds to consider something a long duration press then down here in my main code i'm using button update pretty similar to debouncer if the short count which is when it senses you've pressed the button but not held it for a long duration if that short count happens then i'm doing one thing which is really just advancing to the next neopixel if however it detects a long press so if button dot long press then we're doing something else which is changing to the next color in my little list of colors so here you can see in action i can do a short press to advance to new neopixels press and hold and i change the color and so that is how you can use a short press versus a long press inside of circuit python and that is your circuit python parsec hey is that cool or what and i've run into this a lot of times on really simplified interfaces where you maybe have one knob and a button and you can use the button to switch among menu items use the knob to change the value but then let's say you want to jump up a level or go deeper into a menu item maybe toggle between a couple of layers of menu that long press is a great way to do it so i know we have an additional ability in there to do multi presses so you can distinguish between double click and a triple click and so on and maybe i'll show that as a future update and that's actually one of the reasons that this is named short count instead of long press and rather instead of short press the short count is anything that isn't that long press duration it'll count up the number of them here i just say anything other than zero i'm going to consider that a short count or a short press but you can find more info about this inside of the debouncer library i know we have a lot of different ways to press buttons keypad is a really good one debouncer is great but this button subset a little less less well known and you don't see it documented too many places so i thought that was kind of a cool cool one to share and i'm sure there's other ways you could do this in your own code maybe just counting ticks but or elapsed microseconds a milliseconds but this one is really easy to use because it's kind of built in just like debouncer it's a it's a very easy sort of high level library to use uh thin man asks if this works with capacitive touch as well i don't know i think it does i think it should because i've used the debouncer library with cap touch um and so i'm going to suspect that this is uh this will work in a similar way but uh try it out or if anyone has tried it out let us know over in the over in the chat um yeah someone also asked can you use different press lengths let me bring up the discord in fact because there's an interesting conversation here about this can you use different press lengths like short press two second long press five second ten second Todd's here says i don't think so it's just short and long again you could roll your own but in the uh let me bring back this the screen here now again in this setup where you say my button uh using the debouncer button is long duration i think it might even default to that but you could set it here to be two seconds if you wanted so two thousand milliseconds that would give you a really long press um you can also tell it what the short duration is i left that at its default i'm not sure what what it defaults probably it's a hundred milliseconds or something like that um so that it knows to count it as a press at all so that's that's getting into sort of the debouncer half of it is should it ignore things that are shorter than a certain length uh yeah and and uh that's right Todd mentions the keypad library does debouncing for individual buttons but it doesn't have this short long thing um right and foamy guy hey foamy guy says yeah you can you can check your down duration uh and have your own logic so uh another thing i didn't show in here is that it can uh report the down duration so it'll tell you how long you've held it down that's that's built into it and then all you would do is build some some checks around that so you don't have to roll too much of it just a little bit all right uh button i was excited about button there let's see next up what's going on um i think i want to jump just uh right into this little build that i worked on this morning and i'll tell you i wish i had seen this last night uh maybe i did but i didn't act on it i think i just noticed it this morning where did i even notice this i think this was on the adafruit blog we had a post let me let me go let's go see if i could find it uh about this uh nintendo entertainment system nes emulator for the raspberry pi pico uh so let me let me jump to the blog and if it's not there i have a link but let's let's just scroll through here it is nes emulator for raspberry pi pico with sd card hdmi and menu support uh so i saw this blog post i got excited i noticed it uses in this image here uh the very cool raspberry pi pico breakout board from pi moroni uh which is called their dv demo base so it's for digital video it's got essentially an hdmi port out or dvi in the shape of of an hdmi port out it has a sd card built onto it and it has some other breakout stuff power and so on so pretty cool i don't have one of those i was thinking of getting one but then next paragraph alternatively you can use the adafruit dvi breakout for hdmi uh and the uh sd the micro sd breakout board and wire it up yourself so uh this is handy little link here thanks and for that blog post by the way this is the little dvi breakout and i've shown this before in fact this was one of my product picks of the week at one point i built this little gizmo here which is a pico on a piece of uh proto board with the dvi breakout i wired it underneath there uh and i added a button and an led to it but basically this is a there was a nice dvi hdmi out demo there um so turns out i also had a micro sd card uh breakout on hand it's this one here which is okay this is a three volt only one the one that was mentioned in that article is the five volt one but we can use this three volt one no problem for this project so that worked out it's a little cheaper too because it doesn't have a voltage regulator uh of the other one that's mentioned and if you follow the blog post link to github uh here is let's see is this the one wait let me go back yeah i think this is it right yeah this is the one so this uh has a nice little demo of it here in action um and i'll show that i'll turn off the audio on that but you can see uh there's a playstation dual shock or dual sense four controller there um so become important in a moment because i actually can't get my controllers fully working so so there will be an issue with the demo here that i'll keep working on um yeah kayo she said dvi breakout added to cart yeah all you'll need uh you really need four things you probably may or may not have on hand which is going to be a brass break pipe pico the dvi breakout the micro sd card breakout uh and this uh on the go cable breakout that i'll show you i happened to have one because it came with uh my retro kits um midi rk 006 midi distributor box but it's essentially an on the go cable that has a uh micro sd uh plug a micro sd port and uh usb a port and allows you to power a device and send data and have a peripheral plugged in um so yeah here you can see it in actions working great so that uh tutorial page shows you how to do it if you're using the the pimeroni board which is really straightforward i think you'll you'll just be putting code on it basically you're you're you're wiring nothing i think it's all all put together basically for you if you're doing the one with the adafruit parts like i do here's the um the pinout i actually found it easier to follow the wiring here because of the silk screen names being not on the top of the board for the dvi and being named differently than the chart there um i might do a fritzing of this just to to make it really clear um and i even grabbed a pi pico that i had put together a while ago where i had pasted the pinout um gpio names onto it so i'll show you that in a second this is the little on the go cable that you'll need to get and there's a link in here to go pick uh those up on amazon um i can i can pop that up so let's open that look for this thing uh micro usb to usb adapter it just needs to look like that it just needs to have two sockets and one plug one plug is micro one socket's micro and one socket is uh usb a um this is two of them for six seven dollars so you could you could make a couple of these uh yeah on the on the go with power injection that's a good way to put it gayoshi um i bet you could make one of those two for sure so um yeah i don't think we carry those or anything like it but you could probably build that from one of our uh on the go adapters that are made for things like the raspberry pi zeros uh so nice thing here is if you want to just use it as is you'll put a nest rom on a fat 32 formatted sd card micro sd card and you will flash your pi pico with a uf2 file so there's a link here it says releases page uh very nicely done um you've got one uf2 if you're using the uh a to fruit breakout here it is uh pi cones plus a to fruit d v i s d uf2 you can use that one or if you're using the pimeroni you can use this one here uh source is available this is open source so you can you can download the source and it credits some of the creators of the emulator that's in use here uh in the couple iterations that's gone through different authors to to get it working with this hardware uh and then you plug it up and see what happens so what i want to do is jump over here uh show you what i put together and uh we can see what we can get working i i'm gonna not guarantee results because i don't have the right controller it seems which or i have the right controller and it's not working which is too bad so i'm gonna unplug power from it and i'll show you how this all all goes together so let's unplug some stuff here uh you can get away with putting this on a single full-size breadboard i just this was the most convenient one i had which was this big one um and this big one makes it really nice because i made my pie pico really wide when i added these headers that come out sideways and then i have 90 degree angle headers so that it actually is too wide for a for a normal breadboard i need to use these side by side but it gives me all these pin names which really saves me some trouble not having to look stuff up so there's other ways to do this um you can even get some uh i think you can get some some labels uh maybe todd bot had some of these i think maybe todd bot shared some uh label that you can stick or a sticker that you can stick over there but however you want to do it you got your pie pico you've got your dvi breakout and this essentially is wired in three uh pairs of clock and data um so you can see here we've got a gpio pin pair going to uh data two and ground or or data two positive and negative another pair going to one and another pair going to zero and then we have three grounds coming off of this uh the dvi breakout does require five volts and i think that's uh hdmi requires five volts so you're not going to get away with three volts uh and make hdmi happy or dvi rather uh so there's a breakout here for five volt on the side of this dvi breakout and i just ran a little sort of pigtail of a jumper wire jumper cable and that's going up to the v bus so since i'm powering this from essentially a five volt two amp usb power supply that'll make the v bus that five volts that makes the dvi breakout happy uh and then we're using this uh sdio breakout for the sd card here's my little fat 32 card this thing is eight gigabytes it works fine uh it also means that you could have probably every nes rom ever made 20 times over fit on there you don't need much space for these um that's just what i had convenient and so this has uh all the sdio data and clock connections as well as power and ground and those are running off of the 3v3 line right here uh and that's it those are the connections that are made so the the page there and i can put a link in the chat if one hasn't gone already oh i can see todd put thank you he put a link to his little printable sticker there for uh pin names on the pico next thing you do so here's this power injector on the go cable so this will do two things really it'll give me power to the pico over usb there uh and it'll allow me to still plug in a usb peripheral uh and power that peripheral as well as send data so these are really convenient uh let me zoom out just a little bit here so controller wise i've got this uh buffalo classic usb gamepad this is one that we sell uh on aterford is not the exact model number that was mentioned in the article and so it only sort of works and i'm confused by that but that's that's what i've got so far so this will plug into uh this side of the um sorry i pointed to the wrong things before yeah this is this is not where power is power is going to be over here um so this is where my uh usb controller plugs into to get the data over to uh the pi pico and then power i'm just running this is a uh you can see right there this is a little usb cable it's kind of short plugged into a power supply let me see if i can move that to a different one i've got here i've got a powered hub here that should be okay and there's mention in the article that you may want a uh a diode to protect the power supply if your power supply is coming off of i think they mentioned if you're trying to just power it off of like a raspberry pi but i'm guessing they mean a um a sort of normal computer usb port but i'm powering it from a powered usb hub so i don't think that's uh necessary at all and then actually i need to unplug that because first i want to plug in i don't want power yet i want to plug in uh an hdmi cable so i've got a little i haven't tested this monitor i just grabbed it i have another one over there we can use if this doesn't work but here is a little hdmi monitor i'm going to need this steel this full-size hdmi cable for that yeah i was checking funnily enough this is a nintendo branded hdmi cable it's one that came with my little nes mini or snes mini little emulator box uh so that's appropriate i'll plug that in right there and this these are great this is a actually this is a little eta fruit display i think there's a seven inch one is that right that has um hdmi vga and composite which is great really convenient for testing this kind of stuff let's see if it powers on plug in it's powering on all right so i'm going to plug power into the pico and look at that pico info nes emulator port shuichi oh i missed it shuichi takano and it's got uh choose a rom to play uh we have some garbage that's on there because i had this sd card plugged into my mac oh and we got a screensaver you actually saw this before at the top of the show the monitor behind me was showing this uh this little screensaver that's built into the emulator which is cool um if i wake it up you'll see that we can navigate those are just dot files here's the three games i put on here galaga micro mages which rules i don't know if we've talked about micro mages on here before i probably have it's a brand new in the last few years uh nes game created from scratch that you can buy on steam and itch io i believe for various systems and you can also they'll say you the rom so you can play it in an emulator and they also make cartridges which i think they still make they're made in europe and i think they cost about 50 to get them sent here but i kind of dying to get one because i love this game it's a really fun little little platformer that you can play for player so this will allow me to pick between my games and i put super mario brothers on there uh i'm supposed to be able to launch them i think select the rom with a and launch it with start i don't think it's recognizing any buttons other than d-pad sadly so it's a really terrible and disappointing demo i just ran out of time i'm so sorry i will get this working if anyone has suggestions try this if anyone reads something somewhere in the in the manual uh or in the in the github or looks in the code anything but i just i'm perplexed because these should be fairly standard things the other thing i've tried is i'll unplug it and take that controller out of the setup and instead uses sony dual shock 4 um which is what this is i'm pretty sure these are from my playstation 4 a little dusty um i've got a known good usb cable on here plug that in and plug power and it recognizes this even less oh wait hey that's a new one that's new please work oh it worked why did it work oh my gosh oh oh yes all right let's see if this volume i'm scared is that volume holy cow this demo really turned out much much better all of a sudden yay all right let's try start oh that goes back oh gosh what's it doing okay what does it think start is uh we're playing let me see i'll just play for a second then i'll go back and and launch micromages yes this is great oh yeah this is running on a pico ladies and gentlemen what the heck you know it'd be really cool as if this had tate mode so we could turn it vertically like the arcade but i don't think i don't think the nests uh game ever expect you to do a silly thing like that it's actually kind of bad for crts to turn them while they're on so all right so i think you can go back with the two essentially option and start i cannot believe this suddenly started working i tried i'm not kidding you four different dual shock controllers including this blue one here none of them worked i don't know why it's suddenly working maybe it's just a cable thing maybe it's the power source i did change the power source all right let me show you micromages this thing is the best so circle to start look at that micromages yes i'm thrilled uh i believe it can save states in some games too all right you've got jump and you've got a little sort of spell you can cast and it's a wall jumper a la celeste kind of thing bust through that take out the skeleton uh whoo oh and the uh the level scrolls endlessly so you can't just dally you got to move on anyway that's micromages is super cool you can't see it too great on here but that's great all right let's let's pop out that made my day that this suddenly worked huh how about that there are miracles this is such a good omen for 2023 suddenly this worked whoops did i pick the wrong one super mario bros oh i think you gotta hit circle it'll let you hit start and i think that means it just goes back to the last rom and there's good old super mario brothers um yeah it looks better in this looks great by the way um it's probably a little laggy compared to real hardware on a crt i will not lie but the fact that you can do pretty plausible emulation on a pico it looks great let me uh zoom in on the screen here look at this who could believe it who could believe this is running on a pico um if i had a decent downscaler i would love to hook it up to a crt because you know i'm going crt loco um i don't have a good one i don't think i have one in here at all so we'll have to do that another day um but i'll tell you the the part of the thing that's so thrilling about this is you can oh yeah i wonder if some of my problems were cable related did you see that i don't know if i trust this on the go cable this thing might be a little old uh or funny or something the um the thing is if you have a relative or friend that you want to get a little um emulated gaming experience going for of course what we used to do back a couple years back was get a raspberry pi and build a little um emulation station with retro pi but that's actually kind of involved um and we've had nes emulators that ran on uh other hardware i'm sure this one's on like esp32 um this is the first time i've run across one that lets you use an sd card so you can power this down pull that sd card go put another rom on it so if you wanted to build a really cool really compact low power um emulator box to give out as a gift or even build it into a weird enclosure and make it super super small super cheap right raspberry pi used to be 35 bucks okay that's not too much right now they're scalped for 100 bucks 200 bucks these are like four dollars get yourself a pico um really an expensive way to set up emulation i see no downsides uh and the sd card thing is huge uh of course with a real raspberry pi you can do single board computer that is you can do composite video which is great if you want to go out to a crt it's a lot of versatility there and the power to play a whole bunch of much much more advanced um console emulators snes genesis and even playstation one um but nes games rule this is a really cool way i've got nes games right here they're bigger than this whole thing right here's a cartridge uh i've built you might remember years ago i built a pi zero into a cartridge shell on a broken game this could do that easily really small uh svelte little package so i'm super excited about this i may try to at least fritz this up and share it so that it's um really clear how to put it together uh either just share that with the author on their github page or put together a little learn guide on adafruit for that if uh if lemours cool with it but i'm super thrilled we've got oops we've got a lack of jumping going on there sorry mary let's go fast let's get that mushroom oh no no no no i've missed the mushroom um so we can just jump back out there yeah this is really easy for it's gonna go back to mario isn't it yep really easy other than having to tell someone not to keep screwing that up like i do i tell someone how to use the buttons right um i'm curious which uh buffalo classic game pad you can use uh because that's you can get these pretty inexpensively cheaper than a than a playstation controller and uh they i think i'm guessing the one that they've they've recommended is a nest this is nest style here so it's got way more buttons than you need it would be great to have one that's literally just d-pad select star a b just like a nes controller all right uh let me see if there's any questions i'll pop over here to my workstation for a second and see uh if there's anything that people are wondering about you know i'll also do in the meantime because he can uh i'm gonna switch displays here this i should be able to do on the fly let's see and just have this running behind me there it is yeah woohoo i'm so thrilled with this all right uh so let's see what's going on here oh yeah someone shared this uh phone me guy oh i really i shouldn't but i really want that have you have you people seen this thing it's this beautiful like two hundred and eighty dollar lego set that builds an nes and a tv and the tv has a little rotating um backdrop and i think mario you can control on a little lever so it looks like he's going through the level yeah there's also a 26 a tar 2600 one uh yeah put the pico in an nes cartridge that would be super fun all right let me let me back up here uh do do do oh yeah so uh you saw that there's the link thank you yes Todd that is it i don't know this maker's name f hoda f hode makers that's the one who created this pico label plate from Todd thanks for sharing that Todd it's on printables hey that's very literal go and print one of those stick that to the top um there's a cat who likes that label plate cool all the all the nes games ever is less than a gigabyte that's amazing do do this is not the official nes joystick that i showed recently it is not no uh yeah i know okay she said using it using a uh nes controllers blasphemy i agree do do usb host mode is still kind of janky you think could be part of the problem there maybe i can't believe it worked it really was giving me problems i bet it was just a wonky cable yeah we've got we got the the pico running doom to it's a good time for gaming i don't know what the i'd be curious what the um sort of specifications are if you match them side by side between everything that the pico is being asked to do here versus all of the chips that were on the nes uh to do this everything from you know rgb video stuff to sound to uh actual compute power and any chips that were on the the rom or the cartridge itself put it in in our put it the pico in an arcade cartridge running the nes emulator make people's heads explode uh how hard would it be ks how hard would we get this working on an oled or a tft um that i don't know let me know if anyone in the chat has an idea of that um i don't really know what goes into um making that video work on dvi versus something like a tft so i i just can't speak to that it's a good question i mean the fact that we've seen doom i think running over hdmi as well as running on tfts makes me think that this certainly would be doable and then you could get into the realm of tiny handhelds you know embed a tiny tft into the nes controller itself and you know real nes controllers tiny little chocolate bar size things so could get small um so yeah exciting times uh so that really cool project uh thank you so much to uh do you have a name let's look at you frank frank thank you frank codemakers thanks for sharing that uh that was in a tweet and thanks to ann for finding that and sharing it uh and thanks for geeking out with me while i put that together let's see so other stuff going on i am uh finishing up writing the guide for the 16 step drum sequencer so look for that soon i should have that uh finished and submitted to moderation and editing by the end of the week uh and then i am on the final stretch with the l cars display and then i've got some i've got at least one cool project coming up after that that i know of i'll i'll wait till i get a little further before i mention it but that should be probably something we look at next week it'll involve a tear down and a rebuild of a piece of consumer electronics so i love doing those look forward to doing that so come and join me if you want to watch uh so kiyoshi says pico can do composite out with a little work right i don't know i've done composite on the esp 32 i think it can i think i looked and it can i would love that i would love to have this running over composite because i've got loads and loads of tvs did you see that new one back there i can't remember if i showed that one it's like a 1985 sony trinitron 20 inch side of the road on the side of the road it works works pretty well i've got to fix some sort of pin cushing and cushioning bowing and convergence and stuff but um yeah i would love to have have the little nests running on um a composite out or s video out be fun to pair up with one of these crazy little uh like nine inch bvms or pvms one of these little things that'd be great i've gone into the dark side of this whole crt thing people there are crt's in here that you can't even see there are so many uh i have one here with it's bonkers uh this one here i show you this one when i got it i posted this online this thing also found on the side of the road i can't remember if i showed this this only has a rf input antenna style 75 ohm coaxial cable but about i don't know 12 years ago or so i got for three dollars and 99 cents i bought this at the thrift store and finally have a use for it it's this radio shack rf modulator uh plugs into ac power and it takes in a composite video signal and stereo audio and outputs that uh as a rf signal and i don't have any idea why it has an antenna input because it has no switch on it why would it do that someone tell me yeah thank thank goodness i knew where that was in here you had that tv and it exploded yeah it's rca it's fairly i think it's fairly new model let's see it's small enough to pick up 2000 this one was made in 2000 uh i searched the model number uh to find did i get i can't remember if i found a remote for it or not online but i was searching uh and someone on a comment on a forum said that they know the person who designed the shell for that the industrial designer who designed the shell for that which is a pretty small world kind of thing to find antenna pass through huh i just don't understand how or why because the tv only has one in coming into it maybe when you're not sending a composite signal it would switch maybe it internally does that that would make sense i guess if you turn off your vcr or whatever was going into the the the video in maybe it would just switch over to uh to the antenna that would make sense uh i have no antenna to try it with all right i think that's going to do it yeah thanks everyone for stopping by uh it's been a lot of fun having you here in the workshop again uh excited about the new year and the new projects and things will be working on especially eta boxes those are going to be coming back so i gotta yeah clean up some of this mess so i can film some eta box shenanigans um c grover says it mixes vhfrf signals what is happening i don't i just don't understand that yeah auto switches huh okay so i guess it just knows that you're either sending it it must just take over if a composite signal comes in huh nido uh so yeah come on back next week i'll be doing another tuesday product pick of the week we'll have wednesday shows i think it'll be the return of the ruiz brothers next week for 3d hangouts we'll have a show and tell on wednesday we'll have an ask an engineer we'll have i think possibly desks of lady eta at certain times not sure about that yet uh and i think we got foamy guy happening over on uh friday if you want a general idea you can go to discord and type in question mark show times uh and that will let you know our general schedule we don't update this mint up to the minute this is just something we type in until we see we changed it back here so it shows my shows happening on wednesday yeah foamy guys five o'clock friday and uh 11 o'clock on saturdays and i think that uh deep dive is on the a different channel the uh saturday shows on foamy guys personal youtube channel so you can google around and find those or ask here if you're having a hard time finding it uh good all right thanks everyone and i will see you next week bye bye