 Hey, hello everyone and welcome to another show and tell it's me John Park and I'm doing special Service here of guest hosting tonight while Lady Aida and Mr. Lady Aida do Adafruit things In the in the background there. They probably keep it an eye on this too They they somehow managed to pay attention to lots of things at once but I'm gonna get this thing started and we've got a couple of people who are gonna go right away including our good friend Jay, so let me bring Jay on first and we'll chat about some projects You can come on by if you want to head to our discord It's adafruit.it slash discord and you'll see a link there for joining in if you come on We'll spend about two minutes or so each talking about a project and we'll try to get in as many as we can and then wrap This up for eight o'clock eastern time when ask an engineer starts. So first up is Jay. Hey Jay. How's it going? Hey, how's it going? All right, thanks. What have you got there today? I have my this month's digi-key project, which is a Steampunk owl that I designed and built It's very warm And then if I press this button, I got the links to move. I Love it. If I press this button, I get the links to pull it out Yes, that's adorable Yeah Oh my gosh Love the high-speed I gears there. That's fantastic. Yeah, I'm using an a fruit cricket for this one So I would have to install everything but this is definitely more of a mechanical based type of build I wanted to show people how they can use different like servos and like motors and stuff to like It's some cool like mechanical movement in their projects That is terrific And it looks like you're doing one motor for one eye and the other really is geared to just move along with it Is that right? Yeah. So this is actually the driver. That's why it has a little little thing in there You can kind of see it and this one is just in there. That's just in there and grounding against each other So this entire bill is basically a giant mechanical lesson That's really cool. I love it. It's got a great steampunk look to it Now usually give your your creations a cool name Does this guy have a have a name yet or is that in the work? I was debating on it We were talking about it earlier. I think I'm a calm of these Odysseus It's often the Greek mythology story and I'm just I'm a big mythology. So like it kind of fits Odysseus the owl That's fantastic Really cool. And so will you be posting this sharing this up online at some point video? What's what's to come? I'm showing the I'm doing a video which I'll go through my step by step process into making this and I'm gonna be writing up a blog for DigiTee. What should be coming out at the end this month Excellent, great. Well have have fun with that. Good luck with it. And we're looking forward to seeing more. Thanks. Take care All right Odysseus the owl way cool next up we've got Jen Fox bot Hey, Jen Classic Yay, I have a mute button, but it only works for teams. Oh Oh, it's a specific kind of mute. Yep So we Want one thing we wanted to talk to you about you're with Microsoft's make it team, right? And and we got this survey sent out. I think we linked to it in our Instagram recently Can you tell us what this is about and what you guys are up to? It's very mysterious. Yeah, totally So we are looking for ways to help folks who are running small businesses I before this gig and I pretend that I have time I'm still kind of doing stuff with my business, but I was running a business full-time. So I know for real how hard it is and how How much help I would have taken? And so what we're trying to do now is really figure out like where can Microsoft best plug-in? My whole thing is like let's not build stuff first and then just shove it out there Let's talk to people. What are the major challenges that people are facing? What do they need help with and and using data to really figure out like what types of tools should our team make? What types of tools should we promote to be built within Microsoft and what other types of resources can we develop to? Actually help people so we're here to listen and learn And and really to understand the needs that people have So yeah, so these are the sort of constraints around this are small-ish maker-sized entrepreneur Users is that roughly or is it bigger than that that you're looking into right now? Do you know? Yeah, so, you know the the US Census Bureau defines a small business. I think is 50 employees or less We're kind of expanding that to say like hey if you if you started a company and you grew or if you happen to work at a Company that's doing manufacturing in the United States. We would love to hear from you If you're developing products, we would love to hear from you You know the Biden administration is also really interested in and made in the US Manufacturing and that's that's really where we would love to plug in whether you're a solo entrepreneur Or aiming to build a giant startup and everything in between, you know, I don't think that all businesses need to scale I think they're all very important and I'm you know me and my team and Microsoft are really interested in figuring out How do we help people run businesses? How do we help people? More people build businesses And right now we're really focused on the US Yeah, so sorry so you're in the gathering This is the gathering phase right now and then you have sort of steps that you'll be going through to analyze that and Yeah, what you want to actually make out of it really yeah cool Very interesting that Microsoft's doing that. Well, thanks. Thanks for sharing that info If I understand correctly you also have a project you might be able to show us that you've been working on related to Corvids crows, right? Yeah I'm gonna really quickly do a quick The link for the survey is aka ms slash maker entrepreneur survey all one word Great way to have your voice heard and feel free to reach out on to us on Twitter. If you have any questions Cool. Okay. Now I get to do the other fun thing. I'm gonna switch my camera Project time okay, so Okay, yeah, so this is fun so My team worked with Adafruit and a product in Microsoft called lobe, which is a no-code way to build image classification machine learning models and so Lamar Came up with this brain craft hat and we were like this is amazing Let's do some machine learning stuff and make it easier to put on hardware And so I'm using this kit to build a device to train crows to clean up the neighborhood in exchange for food So this is version 2.0. I'm using a gumball machine that I hacked So you hit the switch? Nurtains me every single time Food it'll take a picture and then I'm gonna use the The pictures to build a machine learning model so that I can number one make sure that squirrels aren't gaming my system and Yeah, that the crows aren't gaming the system by bringing me sticks and leaves instead of trash That's excellent. I love it Thank you. It's fun So what kinds of what kinds of trash do you think they can get for you? I'm just flattened cans and McDonald's wrappers that kind of stuff. Yeah, exactly cigarette butts are a big thing. Um, I I'm one of those people that I like I will go around my neighborhood if I'm walking the dog or something and just like pick up Trash, but I will not touch cigarette butts because that's gross I imagine that the Corvids are not, you know, they're probably not gonna get the same types of Diseases that humans guess so that's a little bit safer for them Yeah, and what do you know about? What do you know about their favorite foods? What are you gonna? Is there a particular thing that they would really work hard for that, you know? The the the people that know way more than me say walnuts. So I'm gonna go with their expertise Excellent. Oh, I love it. I love crows the ones that we have around here I have on multiple occasions seen them Push a nut out into the road and then come back and stand on the curb and watch a car crush it So they're using a car as a tool using a human to use a car as a tool to get the nut open, which is just like I Saw that they did that to me a couple of weeks ago. I saw it drop the nut and I was like I got you So smart Love it. Oh, that's great. Well, thank you and we're really interested to see updates on both of these on the Entrepreneurship survey as you guys go as well as your crow Device so come on back. Thanks. Thanks for coming by today. Yay. Thank you for having me And we'll put a link in the discord for for the more I put I posted a forms link I don't know if it's the right one. Thank you. They're really sure thing. Yeah, the more data the better So excellent listening and learning. That's the way to go Alright Take care Alright next up. We got knowing Pedro And we're all big. Hey go to this size. There we are. I don't know That was so cool. I thought that was that robot from mystery science. What is that? 3,000 whatever Yeah, somebody had one the other day What is it? Yeah, so this week apologies no 3d hangouts like internet went down right before the show and you know Everybody has a recurring theme like during your show like you have Lars like every time that we start the show We have like a lawnmower going by and he didn't show up this week. So we were like, oh, that's why there was no internet This week Phil or Lamar, I don't know like they email each other stuff They're like no I prayed to build that so Lamar saw this really cool lamp to remake of I don't know It was like on sale somewhere and they're like just use a couple of Neopixels So just made like this cut sort of like gravity-defying like design for it It's just using like the 60 Neopixel the 24 to 24 is and then a 16 a cool thing that I like about it on the back is it's all modular so you can take the whole thing apart We're using all of the Connectors So they're super easy to connect and take apart and all of the parts are all you know just snap fit So the entire thing will do it break it all of course, but everything is all snap fit together I love it using the reservoir pipe pico. You can see on the bottom there You have access to that and the little base you can change that around to like fit whatever decor you have in your house and Yeah, just the translucent PLA and yeah I'm code LAD animation library cannot forget that. Yeah, super good to use animation library for a circuit Python Yeah, I love the I love the look of that and yet the animation library makes life so much easier for doing this kind of stuff You know separate Exactly even though it looks like you have it just on a single single pin, right? Yep, just one single shame and of course I have the a little hidden Mickey in there And I didn't bring the little Santa hat so perfect for whatever holiday what what not yeah nice little simple I have to say when you meet when you reached back to grab that I thought that thing was like seven feet away and Much bigger. So like there's like a weird little thing happening in your room there. You're like just let me But we'll be back Yeah, we'll be back next week for three hangouts the guide in the video and all that stuff came out 360 so you can like modify it of course all the three part 3d parts Components, so if you want to like model your own stuff and the way I did a good job of LEDs you can get it on Yeah, so you can grab all that design all you want around it and that's it Really great lamp. Thanks for coming by and showing that See you next week All right, let's see next up. We've got Scott tan newt who is a screen Hello, can you hear me Scott? I do hear you. Yes. What's happening? What's new? So this is not my camera. This is not me obviously instead. What it's doing is it's capturing the output of a Raspberry Pi Over HDMI and I've added some things so I first wanted to show that I can Import microcontroller and I can do microcontroller.cpu.temperature And now we're getting the temperature in Celsius, which is cool. We could also be frequency And so it's just around 600 megahertz right now You don't usually see that in a in a in a circuit Python or micro Python. I know and this is this is slow So we could actually get this number even even higher which is exciting And then I also did the unique ID So that's the unique idea of the of the particular pilot I've got And then the other thing I did is and we'll see how the capture does it with this but I added the ability to change The screen size that you're doing so if you've ever done display IO, you'll know that we need to We need to do the release displays, but I'm going to import a couple things first so The way that it works is from the video core we get a frame buffer and then we use frame buffer IO to produce a display so You're actually going to miss it because I'm going to do display IO dot Release displays and now you won't be able to see because I will disappear But then if I do FB equals video core A frame buffer in 1920. Oh, yeah, sorry No, it's all right by 1080. I didn't think that we've gone dark. Oh good. Good idea Where's this transmission? Yeah, so I'm I'm redoing it at half the size of 1080p so 960 by 540 and then It should show up here once I Type it in and now I But now it's just it should be a different size and it should be yeah So it had the reset everything because the displays got reset, but it should be a different size and yeah I could have done full 1080p as well, but it's a little slow and confirm that looks like it's half the size Yeah So this will will default it to something really easy to use and then folks will be able to pick kind of the Resolution that they want after the fact with us awesome work And you should be able to take over the display and do all the normal display. I have stuff too Because they're if you do import board There's now board that display as well But yeah, uh-huh. There it is getting close to getting it out to folks Really cool, and will you be working on that on a deep dive this Friday? I will be and No deep dive next week Right on excellent. Well great work. Thanks for continuing to bring circuit Python micro Python to the actual Raspberry Pi Ah, no problem. Go the big daddy. Very cool. Hey, look, there's Scott. All right. Yeah, thanks Scott just in time to say goodbye All right, let's see next up. We've got Joey Get ready because here we go. Hey Joey. Hey John. How's it going? Good. Nice to see you. Good to see you too So I have been working on Twitter probably people have seen this little gadget called the sensor watch It's a little Cassio wristwatch with a board swap. We got like, you know different time systems temperature sensors things like that But that's not actually what I'm here to show today because all right I mean that's the issue of I want to develop things to the watch But I don't want to take it apart constantly So I wanted to make a development board for the watch and this is very ate a fruit oriented because I thought I should make It in the shape and size of a feather Neat so this is the same kind of functions as the watch it's got this little mode button here. You got the you know Turn the light on it's not not underneath. Obviously. Yeah, but what's cool about it is yeah It's just plugged into a board doubler here So this feather could actually be useful for someone doing you know a solar powered project or something else That wants to be low power and my feather wing I'm actually really proud about this or stoked about it. I guess I should say It's all just parts you can get off of a different website. So it's just like that piezo buzzer nicely done Yeah, you have them right to be led. It's all just like you know center through all parts So it's very easy for folks to you know get this little dev board and make their little wing that has their you know Sensor watch peripherals so to speak and and it can also be the sensor clock for people who want the complete Collection totally totally your that your sensor does the desk clock as it were. Yeah. Hey, I have to tell you Joey you're You're diving into building the sensor watch made me finally Decide to go and get an actual oh awesome. You know, what is it the F? 91 class of class. I've never had one. I had a g-shock way back When those came out, but I missed these I never got one of these so I just bought one for $16 a couple weeks ago No, they're really happy with it. Yeah, they're super accessible. They're super fun like yeah And my son who's a he's 18 and he saw it and he's like I want to get one of those Which is a rarity when you're you know Adult dad parent to have a kid say hey that thing that you've got that would be cool for me, too So it kind of transcends generations apparently very awesome And so with your sensor watch that you've got this dev board now So you can really work on it at sort of a bigger scale and And then you're gonna be rolling that soft that software or hardware and software into Yeah, just just one different build target But then yeah anything you write for this you can put onto this and my hope is actually I really want to get Python running on this because it's a it's a Sam chip. It feels like it should be reasonable to do it I just need to buckle down and figure it out amazing work Yeah, it's really cool one other thing just a just a quick advisory I I'm giving a talk at hackaday remote a con on Saturday about LCD technology So if anyone's interested in that sort of thing, you know, check it out excellent. Yeah People go go to remote a con or if you go to hackaday, you'll find links to it and look up Joey's chat That's very cool. Thanks. Yeah, good to see it All right, let's see next up. We've got foamy guy Hey, all right. Hey JP So I Have yeah, thank you I have been working on this if folks are familiar with a thing called the method of lochi There's a Wikipedia article here. You can learn about it It's basically a technique for memorization Where you try to picture a an environment a 3d environment that you're really familiar with so lots of folks could use their house or their neighborhood or something like that And you imagine yourself kind of moving through a journey through that Environment and you try to associate different ideas with different parts of the journey. So maybe You could think of something at the front door and think of something at the coat hook after you get inside and so on and so forth You just store these different ideas in the different Locations and it's supposed to make it easier to recall them in order because you can always imagine yourself going through That journey. So I've been experimenting with bringing that core idea into Games. I've always been pretty good at memorizing game maps. So I made this little map here using Tiled map editor. This is just the same tool that you would make a video game map for if you were going to do that It's built on a JavaScript library called phaser And we can run around inside here and I've got these little signs and when I run into the sign It will load the right-hand side of the page with whatever information I've stored at that location And I can put more of these signs in here. I can have different stuff on each one of them So I got another one inside of here can load up a list this side over here works with markdown So you can add, you know bullet points you can add images you can add Style like bold and italic and all of that sort of stuff and it's real easy for me to just go in and You know edit the text that's on all of these so I think it's going to be a cool tool that I can use To start keeping track of information a little bit better Yeah, I see so so part of the central premise here is that you are finding Things that you want to look up and read that you're not trying to memorize that whole list But just like where did I put that list is associated with this sort of spatial map? Yeah, that's going to be my goal Some folks do use it to remember like specific data like they'll use this to memorize a deck of cards or a big long string In numbers or something like that But that's my my idea more so is to keep it there and go back to find it And so I have just the small proof of concept map made so far I just kind of got the basics working But I intend to expand it out a little bit and make a little neighborhood inside of here and Put a bunch of signs in there and load it up. So that is tremendous Yeah, you know, I am terrible with directions in the real world But I definitely over over my lifetime have come to know Maps in like first person shooter games really well just something about Shear wrote doing it a lot Probably but it seems like with This more third person view you can have landmarks and things that are that are a little more Higher level Process instead of just inside of a hallway Yeah, that's definitely my goal is going to be to load it up with like little gardens and flowers and you know Buckets and they got all kinds of little tiles I can load up in there. So Oh, that's really terrific But yeah, great work. We look forward to seeing more about this I'd love to to get to play around with it at some point once you're ready to share it out there Cool. Yeah, definitely will do. Thanks. Awesome. Thanks Tim. Bye. Yep All right, and I think last up we've got Michael There Michael, how are you doing? How are you? Good? Thanks. What's new this week? Yeah, so I a few weeks back I showed off the beginning of my like crazy pyramid sculpture project It's complete now. It's actually in the gallery at My university universities are building. So I took some Images of it on display here next to some of my other work So yeah, it lights up it has a ton of neopixels. This is it with the top off It's actually two separate pieces that were 3d printed So it just like slides right on to each other Uh, and it has the iSpy display and yeah all sorts of fun stuff in there Um, and then that's it next to some graphics I made and here's just a short little clip of it And then yeah, I made a little name tags for everyone too that are laser engraved. Oh, which is pretty fun. It's really nice Um, and yeah, beautiful work lights up and stuff. So yeah, it's pretty fun And then yeah, there's the little name tags Oh, yeah Oh, it's really great work. Uh, thank you. Thank you for sharing that. So, uh, what kind of information are you displaying? I can't remember if you explained that before uh with with the iSpy display there Yeah, so right now I have it just displaying the distance sensor information In inches With the other piece over I found with the Lighting like the spotlight. It was actually kind of messing it up with the shadow But when I took it off it was reading correct information Um, my general idea was to have it actually like print off something That it would be more interactive. Um, but I would have had to completely re-engineer it to make it work more Right. Well, it's beautiful. It's beautiful as as is so congrats on on completing that and getting it into the gallery Thank you. And uh, how how long will that be there? Can people who are in your area go and see it for a little while? Uh, yeah, it's it'll be up for a little bit. It's in the keel gallery G10 gallery in st. Claude minnesota. So yeah Excellent. Oh, that's really terrific. All right. Well, uh, thanks and and great work and we love seeing the stuff You're doing so come on back any time Awesome. Thank you Bye. Bye uh, all right, I think that is uh, gonna do it and um I also just wanted to say I am going to be doing my uh, workshop show tomorrow And then I'm off next week So there actually won't be a product pick or a workshop show next week for Thanksgiving week And I misspoke yesterday when I said I'd be doing those things because I completely forgot that hey, that's Thanksgiving So, uh, I'll see you tomorrow, but then I'll I'll be off for a week Thanks again to everyone for coming by with all of your great projects Go to our discord to check out some links to a lot of these That's a great place to find people a lot of the people who've been on the show until hang out there You can chat with them ask questions find links to their work And uh, next up in just three Of your earth minutes we have lady aida and mr. Lady aida with ask an engineer That'll be at eight o'clock eastern time So thanks everyone and uh, I will see you soon. Bye. Bye