live-broadcast-chat

[open surge]

Thanks JP, good show

[lavish patrol]

Bye all. 👋

[old surge]

Thanks for the show, JP! Good afternoon, all!

[haughty quiver]

thanks everyone!

[old surge]

This one had plenty of sole

[still bane]

?showtimes

[arctic abyss]

Desk of Ladyada - Sunday Evening
JP's Product Pick of the Week - 4pm ET Tuesdays
3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
John Park's Workshop - 4pm ET Thursdays
Deep Dive w/ Foamyguy - 5pm ET Fridays
FoamyGuy's CircuitPython Stream - 11am ET Saturdays

[still bane]

Deep Dive question for @smoky island : What's your preferred way of making sure that Fruit Jam or Metro RP2350 picodvi is set to the right video mode when code.py starts? I'm thinking about this in the context of how to avoid a framebuffer allocation for every auto-load after a save (unless the save changed the resolution or color depth).

[smoky island]

I have been starting to use this function: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_FruitJam/blob/main/adafruit_fruitjam/peripherals.py#L47 for any scripts that want to run under specific sizes or configurations. It doesn't currently, but it could be updated to check the current size before re-initializing if the user requests a config that it is already set for.

[still bane]

nice... that's kinda similar to some stuff I tried where I wrapped my release_displays()... display=... code in an if block that would check if the existing height matched the height I wanted. Do you know of a way to check the current color depth?

[smoky island]

I don't think I've used it, so unsure if it works or what the exact correct syntax is, but it looks like get_color_depth is exposed somehow in the C code: https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/blob/main/ports/raspberrypi/bindings/picodvi/Framebuffer.c#L241 though its missing docstrings so it doesn't appear in the documentation.

[still bane]

oh... hmm... interesting!

[smoky island]

or maybe it's not fully implemented, I'm not sure. My understanding is "bindings" should contain stuff that sits between python code and the "module" C implementations. So existing in this file makes me think it's intended to be exposed to python somehow (or at lease was intended at some point). I'm not familiar with that proto structure bit though, I don't know how that works on the python side

[still bane]

doesn't seem to be fully implemented...

Adafruit CircuitPython 10.0.0-alpha.6 on 2025-05-17; Adafruit Fruit Jam with rp2350b
>>> import supervisor
>>> d = supervisor.runtime.display
>>> dir(d)
['__class__', 'auto_refresh', 'fill_row', 'framebuffer', 'height', 'refresh', 'root_group', 'rotation', 'show', 'width']
>>> dir(d.framebuffer)
['__class__', 'deinit', 'height', 'width']
>>> (d.width, d.height)
(320, 240)
>>> (d.framebuffer.width, d.framebuffer.height)
(320, 240)
>>> 

[old surge]

👋 ☕

[devout crow]

Greetings! 😊

[tulip canyon]

👋

❤️ sparkline graphs for glancing at data

I had a question about IO_HTTP...
Is there an equivalent to IO_MQTT Publish multiple?
https://docs.circuitpython.org/projects/adafruitio/en/stable/api.html#adafruit_io.adafruit_io.IO_MQTT.publish_multiple

Yes, that's correct, I think batch data is a single feed.

As for now I just IO.send_data() for each feed/value

[unreal bay]

👋 🍻 If you want the other type of multiple for IO_HTTP, look at Groups, the group endpoint has a batch version too, which accepts data for multiple feeds in that group.

There might be another multiple one for any feeds and any data, but not sure it's in the libraries, just an API endpoint

[tulip canyon]

I'll take a look at groups, thanks and don't let me derail you 👍

[unreal bay]

https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs/#create-data-in-a-group-39-s-feed-2

Docs claim the multiple batch endpoint takes any feed keys, let us know if you run into issues in #help-with-wippersnapper-and-adafruitio
https://io.adafruit.com/api/docs/#create-multiple-data-records

think its trekkie world, sure a real pro can tell us

[old surge]

LCARS from Star Trek TNG

[devout crow]

Star Trek

[unreal bay]

what you scrolled past in the browser, and that last file, looked like it used the singular, y_min

whats parent class?

oh this is a multi sparkline, so mins for each series

you might find all the values are still strings too, pretty much all IO data is (as that's how it's stored)

just make floats

[old surge]

(sorry, I keep mis-hearing 'X-Men' - just me?)

😄

[unreal bay]

give us min 77, max 79
[22:52]Tyeth: if you did the float casting as you build the value list, then kjust use .add_values(list)
[22:53]Tyeth: for (i,val) in enumerate(blah):
, update: i == len(blah) -1
Typed it in wrong channel 🤦

ahhh I get you

definitely

okay the data is new on left not right

oh that would do it (reverse order data)

would this work on blinka pygame display?

ctrl click is meant to work, but yeah old react links 🤮

Fixed, nice work!

[old surge]

Yeah, it's there!

Thanks Tim and everyone; have a nice weekend!

[tulip canyon]

Thanks Tim

[unreal bay]

Thanks Tim!

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[smoky island]

I am back at it this morning working on the factorio circuitpython integrations. You can follow along on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWTFTAy1SAI or twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch

[still bane]

?showtimes

[arctic abyss]

Desk of Ladyada - Sunday Evening
JP's Product Pick of the Week - 4pm ET Tuesdays
3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
John Park's Workshop - 4pm ET Thursdays
Deep Dive w/ Foamyguy - 5pm ET Fridays
FoamyGuy's CircuitPython Stream - 11am ET Saturdays

[haughty quiver]

Hi there

[echo canopy]

hey 👋🏻

[haughty quiver]

https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/06/17/jps-product-pick-of-the-week-4pm-eastern-today-6-17-25-adafruit-adafruit-newproductpick/

[inner spade]

👋

[split gazelle]

hiiiiiiiii

[haughty quiver]

🚕

[ivory flax]

Afternoon JP. Hope everyone is having a super day

[dusk socket]

will this work to read the can network on a cars

[inner spade]

“Beep beep beep beep, yeah.” https://youtu.be/6ZwNO_zAqOo?si=LxoKLcd5XxoB9Sc5

[vivid ore]

Does it drive?

[shell mason]

lars with detective led ring

[devout crow]

👋

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/standing-still-great-horned-owl-on-the-hunt-i-see-you-i-can-see-you-im-watching-you-gif-20387389

[sand lotus]

https://tenor.com/view/asimo-gif-7555038

Make robot fren with CAN networking modules

[ivory flax]

Can midi commands be passed thru can communicate

[sand lotus]

OBD-II CAN was released in 1996. Pre-1996 vehicles had their own variety of diagnostic systems. As long as your vehicle is 1996 or newer chances are good you can get info from it.

[ivory flax]

What is the longest length of cable

[echo canopy]

question so the demo on the site has 2 wires used … you used 3 , what’s the difference?

[sand lotus]

Prior to 1996 all car companies had their own propriety systems. They're known collectively as OBD-I even though they're all different.

OBD-II also didn't make it to the EU until around 2002-2003 universally.

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[ivory flax]

Thanks JP

[sand lotus]

Thanks JP!

[haughty quiver]

🥫

thanks everyone!

[old surge]

Sure we CAN-CAN! Thanks, JP!

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/battery-energy-drink-saki-anime-drink-gif-2492018879732669303

[haughty quiver]

because we CAN CAN CAN!

[ionic crag]

CAN SAE J2284 uses 3 wire min... ground, CAN high and CAN low differential signals. Max len is can be much larger than a car. It depends on the cable type use, the baud rate and topology used (star, line, etc).

I worked on a CAN system that had a 1000ft max (at 125kb) range. The test rig i built was massive due to the piles of cables.

[ionic crag]

limitation on CAN networks is 8 byte packets max... so... tunneling other protocols, can get complicated and slow.

[strong acorn]

but it CAN be done 😉 https://fosstodon.org/@anecdata/111424624075751815

[vagrant flax]

good morning!

[viral sail]

Good morning.

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[urban gale]

Hi folks!

[upbeat coral]

It's not real if it isn't annoying (someone).

I see a steampunk computer in the future.

[vagrant flax]

I type so loudly that I don't need a bell to annoy people 😌

[upbeat coral]

As if my model M clackey keys weren't enough of an attention getter.😏

I've looking for the perfect project for my pink RP2040. However,...no USB A😢

[vagrant flax]

the solenoid xylophone reminds me of a room from the Meow Wolf in Denver where they have a whole room full of automated instruments (drums, piano, etc)

[viral sail]

The kinetic sculpture at the Museum of Science was still on display and operational when I visited about a year ago.

[upbeat coral]

Oh dang, 10 versions of rp2040 and none is a USB A🤨

[vagrant flax]

the CAD parts repo is a treasure trove

ah so you could make an IoT version if you paired the USB host featherwing with e.g. an ESP32

[upbeat coral]

In my collection I mean

Well, time to order ANOTHER 2040 device. Love the excuse.

[vagrant flax]

I learned to type on a real typewriter! my mom got it for me for my birthday lol

(yes I'm old)

that's why I type loudly on every keyboard lmao

[upbeat coral]

Bummer, no solenoid drive in the parts bin. OOS at Adafruit and Digikey.😢

[vagrant flax]

I feel the same, the Pocket Operator is cool in theory, but it's clunky

Great show, thanks @hard hollow and @split gazelle!

[viral sail]

Thanks @hard hollow & @split gazelle . See you all tonight.

[upbeat coral]

Thank you both for taking time for us.

[hard hollow]

Thanks folks cya night!

[upbeat coral]

adafruit crickets

[dim knot]

Hello all.

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[dim knot]

I'm not seeing a notice that the show was canceled this week. Sorry, I don't have any info. Nothing on the blog that I see.

[upbeat coral]

I guess it was pay the Tarrifs or pay the internet bill. Tarrifs won.

[dim knot]

If the HTML packets come from China, do I have to pay a tariff on them?

That's what we need. A "bitcoin" version of shipping. Bitshipping. FedCoin.

BitEx

[unreal bay]

Unfortunately Ladyada is unwell, and her and PT were the show and tell hosts for this week (summer availibility is hard)

[alpine nova]

is aae cancelled too?

[dim knot]

Hope she's doing better. So, no Show and Tell or AAE tonight?

[unreal bay]

I believe definitely no AAE, although PT was talking about airing something else... So keep an eye out
Show and tell is probably a bust

[alpine nova]

k get well soon @proper trench

[upbeat coral]

I hope she feels better soon. Sucks to be sick.

[unreal bay]

Definitely! Fingers crossed for something interesting at 8pm anyway.

[dim knot]

Thanks for the update!

[haughty quiver]

Let's do this!

[lavish patrol]

👋 😀

[ivory flax]

Great afternoon to all. Looking forward to a great show.

[split gazelle]

hihi

[inner spade]

👋

[cinder wind]

this is the live-broadcast-brat channel? 🌭

[inner spade]

They just don’t write show scripts like this anymore.

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/the-smurfs-campfire-telling-stories-camping-gif-22162364

[shell mason]

larsSpace were all space have went

knobs

[lavish patrol]

Is Lars on the hotline?

Or maybe he's placing orders...

[cinder wind]

Obi-Knob Kenobby

[shell mason]

lars taking knobby knobby orders

[lavish patrol]

That's scary... You phone up, and Lars answers.

[dawn magnet]

Hi JP and others

[shell mason]

Coaster free

[lavish patrol]

Is Lars building his own Stargate there?

[shell mason]

lars stargate network

[cinder wind]

very pong. much bounce

need to import math

[shell mason]

slower it looked like ghost

[cinder wind]

change the 10 to 5 to be slower

[lavish patrol]

Zippy JP

[shell mason]

|o|

x-wing and tie-fighters

[cinder wind]

[-o-]

<-o->

[lavish patrol]

o<

[cinder wind]

ahhaahah no no no

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[cinder wind]

yep the cheap ones suuuuuck. I've got a small and medium of the blue Menda dispensers for IPA (soldering, 3d printing) and I've had them for over a decade. those are great

[lavish patrol]

I've only seen them recently.

[ivory flax]

Yup you can chain up to 8 board. Pretty cool

[lavish patrol]

Loud and clear

👍

[dusk socket]

you still have up the sine wave editor

[ivory flax]

You still have your Claude window open

[lavish patrol]

Very clever, that Claude... 🤔

[ivory flax]

You are blowing my mind. Very cool

[lavish patrol]

You don't have to be polite to it, JP. It's just a machine.

The robot uprising is not with us, yet. 😄

[cinder wind]

It'll be interesting to see how bad the output Claude and others generate once they get retrained on all the code they're generating now. I suspect it'll be like making a xerox of a xerox of a xerox of a xerox...

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/anime-buttons-switch-controls-gif-17290671

[ivory flax]

So your using a paid subscription of claude

[lavish patrol]

Raga_Kafi... I might order one with my morning croissant.

[inner spade]

Very cool. Thanks JP!

[lavish patrol]

Great Workshop, JP 👍

[dawn magnet]

Gret vidoe

[lavish patrol]

Bye all. 👋

[haughty quiver]

thanks so much everyone, see you later!

[smoky island]

Looks like I disconnected for a moment, but shows reconnected on my side now. If stream freezes try refresh.

[lyric frost]

Seem to be back now

[unreal bay]

case sensitive commands?

[lyric frost]

Nope, ignores case for commands

[unreal bay]

and /? help for commands? or any / arguments, like for dir?

[lyric frost]

screen height is set to 29 by default I think

no /? yet

Add a /s

[unreal bay]

super cool. the /? is probably unnecessary without the extra arguments for commands. Expect them unused so save your time for other bits

ooo /s

I took years to find DIR /s (recursive) and /b (skip header info, more like one line per file batch mode output)

[lyric frost]

Detail command doc is at github.com/retiredwizard/PyDOS

[unreal bay]

I've been using the current release tag (0.0.4) then compared to HEAD.
e.g. https://api.github.com/repos/adafruit/Fruit-Jam-OS/compare/0.0.4...HEAD

yeah same thing, but slightly different url for api

could filter the filenames in files collection to /app

(i have adabot tell me if only .md or CI changes or asset images)

Yeah the zips comparison would avoid some unnecessary releases (for build py)

I'm looking forward to the first one of us that sends the PR to an LLM for review as part of CI, the build.py file would be a perfect example where it may not affect the outputs

maybe filename case or some line endings

use the "touch" command to update file time to current, then generate and test hashes

yeah, I thought this was to test the hash varies with timestamp

You can alter to a specific timestamp using touch, man touch look for -t
Then you could have the zips match the content change time or whatever

There definitely is a limit on agents, per organisation, the circuitpython builds eat most of them

Hey Miz Swift 👋

The waiting yesterday was so bad I made our job allow individual build targets. Each time you pushed then circuitpython ran two builds of 500 jobs 😂

debug port probably (looks nearly identical but 3pins)

[wind spoke]

Not steam, a debug

[unreal bay]

You could add a workflow_dispatch target as well as schedule, then can manually trigger

[wind spoke]

Make a change to test...

You can Cron faster to avoid the wait...

[unreal bay]

just add workflow_dispatch:

manually trigger any workflow. Add it to the triggers section, like pulls and schedules

it's already there!

the schedule action has it already, so can be manually triggered in the UI

change that action name, easier to distinguish

[lyric frost]

Thanks Tim!

[unreal bay]

Thanks Tim! Have a great weekend all 👋

[tulip kestrel]

question: when is the si 4732 AM, FM, longwave, shortwave, and single sideband radio receiver board coming out?

[smoky island]

I am getting started for the morning, carrying on with some more fruit jam OS work. You can follow along on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXredVvNek or Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch

[inner spade]

☕ 👋

[tulip canyon]

Hey Tim, making 9 = maxpage might be a nice touch. Similar to chrome tabs

ctrl+1 2 3 etc.
ctrl+9 is always your last tab

What is the FruitJam aspect ratio targeting mostly? 16:9 or 4:3?

Thanks

cheers Tim

[open girder]

Desk of Ladyada - Return from "Dethflu"! 🍓🎤
Back from the flu & back in action! 💪 Check out the latest hardware updates: Fruit Jam Rev C is final, Sparkle Mic fix is in, and new stepper driver tests coming soon. Plus, PiTFT & PoE upgrades underway!
https://youtu.be/CZQLgqoybe4

[timid plover]

Glad you are on your feet!

fruitjam - great achievement for the adafruit team!

[open girder]

thanks 🙂

[split gazelle]

hihi

[haughty quiver]

hellohello

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[inner spade]

👋

[haughty quiver]

📡

🛰️

[ivory flax]

Hey JP on this soggy day... Cats and Dogs

[cinder wind]

Is this the live-broadcast-sat channel? 🛰️

[haughty quiver]

yes

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/pet-gif-24445732

[cinder wind]

📡🛰️☎️

[shell mason]

some say lars watch jp location with gps

[cinder wind]

brb, just listening to 22 satellites FROM SPACE with nanosecond accuracy

[ivory flax]

Will the small ant work with the ext ant

[tulip canyon]

JPS Coordinates locked!

Learning about NMEA Sentences helped get the most out of that GPS module

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[haughty quiver]

thank you all!

[vagrant flax]

Good morning! 👋

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 488 LIVE! Not A Typewriter, Drone LED Net and Fidget Gear Rings https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “peacenet” gets you 10% off your order!

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/egg-drone-dr-robotnik-jim-carrey-robotnik-drone-eggman-drone-jim-carrey-eggman-gif-25643746

[vagrant flax]

omg yeah the aqua teen scare 😂

I think these days nobody would even bat an eye at that lol

[shell mason]

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll. Whadimiss

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

Subscribe to Adafruit Newsletters - https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

[hard hollow]

https://www.printables.com/model/1312158-fidget-gear-ring-v3/comments

[rocky reef]

https://www.printables.com/make/2677586

https://www.printables.com/model/1330628-lid-for-husb238-breakout-with-bigger-cutout

https://www.printables.com/make/2685633?comment_id=2685633

https://www.printables.com/make/2686590?comment_id=2686590

New Parts! 3D Parts on GitHub - https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CAD_Parts

Adafruit Fritzing Library parts - https://github.com/adafruit/Fritzing-Library/tree/master/parts

[unreal bay]

If you didn't see it, then checkout the new filament from QIDI, foaming, variable shore hardness with temp.

TPU

[upbeat coral]

Still waiting on 8 channel driver😢

[vagrant flax]

great show, thanks @hard hollow @rocky reef

[shell mason]

TPU and other flexiple ones

[unreal bay]

Thanks for the steam 👋

[viral sail]

Thanks @rocky reef & @hard hollow

[shell mason]

interesting HT-PLA filament from polymaker as what heat resistance go

[upbeat coral]

Thanks for taking time for us.

[crisp dew]

is there show and tell today

[strong jasper]

would love to join show and tell session today

[crisp dew]

no but i can't get to it on youtube

got it

[strong jasper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emVrWvUBJ5g

[inner spade]

👋

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[spring heath]

Hi all

[open girder]

Link to join to show and share your project! https://streamyard.com/p3z46svasb

[blissful apex]

hello

[open girder]

WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! SHOW AND TELL! https://youtu.be/emVrWvUBJ5g

[cinder wind]

that looks so great @split gazelle

[tulip canyon]

The inlay!

[haughty quiver]

so awesome @split gazelle

[blissful apex]

wow that's epic

[smoky island]

Those patterns look AMAZING! Really nice job on that.

[split gazelle]

thanks folks!

[tulip canyon]

Blender MCP uses Claude and looks promissing for 3D

[haughty quiver]

@inner spade that's awesome!

https://makezine.com/article/craft/carl-jerry-adventure-in-e/

https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/john-t-fryes-carl-and-jer/

You had hoped for it in 2006, Phil, and it happened in 2007!

[open girder]

@haughty quiver i think our old posts at make are link rotting

[smoky island]

High temp detection is such a neat use for that. Really cool idea, great job CGrover.

[haughty quiver]

@inner spade so cool, smart project! I think I'll build one for my workbench too

here's Jeff's post: http://www.copperwood.com/carlandjerry.htm

[inner spade]

A side benefit of the remote thermal sensor is that it can also detect human movement.

[open girder]

and not faces, just heat

good way to detect people

[inner spade]

The most recent Carl & Jerry 5-volume publication (2023) https://www.amazon.com/Carl-Jerry-Their-Complete-Adventures/

The thermal image is of me making a shadow puppet. Doesn't work as well with heat instead of light. Note that the prototype converts the image from the forward-facing camera to a selfie, but the AIO -posted image is corrected from the mirror image to a standard image.

[spring heath]

https://adafruit-playground.com/u/AnneBarela/pages/using-the-terminal-for-dvi-in-circuitpython

[tulip canyon]

Thanks all for sharing. Great projects all

[upbeat coral]

Thanks to all who shared.

[haughty quiver]

awesome project Mehrdad

[strong jasper]

this is so cool. What is the name?

[haughty quiver]

That was Chumby

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby

[strong jasper]

Oh I remember that now! I love the leather in the design

By the way, I am working on emulation of camera, mics, display so that folks can use this on bare Raspberry Pi. There are other hardware specific features like IR and sensors that cannot be emulated though.

[open girder]

ASK AN ENGINEER 6/25/2025 LIVE! https://youtu.be/DQbhVXf9kho

[urban gale]

ok that song was awesome

[open girder]

10% off! Use code: cboost on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://www.adafruit.com

[slow spire]

Hi, all. Hope you’re feeling better soon, Ladyada.

🍜

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌑

[tulip canyon]

Thanks for being here when you can Adafruit. Get well soon

[ionic crag]

[dim knot]

Adafruit NAU7802 24-Bit ADC - STEMMA QT / Qwiic https://www.adafruit.com/product/4538

Adafruit 2.9" Tri-Color eInk / ePaper Display FeatherWing - SSD1680 - Red Black White https://www.adafruit.com/product/4778

Adafruit 2.9" Red/Black/White eInk Display Breakout - THINK INK - SSD1680 Chipset https://www.adafruit.com/product/1028

Adafruit AS5600 Magnetic Angle Sensor - STEMMA QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/6357

Adafruit TPS61169 Constant Current Boost Converter for LEDs https://www.adafruit.com/product/6354

[cunning cedar]

Can that constant current boost converter also do lasers?

Mr Lady Ada, is it too hot for spicy soup? Lady Ada's lungs sound yucky. When it was more in her nose a couple of days ago I was going to suggest using the solder sucker, ala a snot aspirator for babies.

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[lavish patrol]

Morning/afternoon/evening all.

[open surge]

👋

[split gazelle]

hihi

[ivory flax]

Hi JP

[verbal river]

What is JP actually saying here?

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[lavish patrol]

It's the voice of Lars...

[clever summit]

Evening mr. Callaway

[verbal river]

"Barcode Alexa" 😄

[tulip canyon]

beep beep-beep

[lavish patrol]

Hello, Mr. Bergdahl.

[verbal river]

eh dee froo dot eye tee

[cinder wind]

Is this the live-breadcast-chat channel? 🍞🥖🥨

[lavish patrol]

A circuit python parthec...

You can put aything in a bag. It just depends on the size of the bag...

[shell mason]

lars circuits are pulsing it must be workhop of jp

[cinder wind]

can put Lars in a bag...

[lavish patrol]

A lot has happened since Tuesday. 🤔

[gaunt plume]

im working with thegps featherwing as we speak!

[haughty quiver]

rad!

[verbal river]

"so it's not an exact pointer at my workshop" - Anyone who wants an exact point to MY workshop, just look at my avatar.

[gaunt plume]

🐉

[shell mason]

andy think lars with labubu

[lavish patrol]

Labu who?

Doesn't look sinister enough...

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/labubu-big-into-energy-labubu-dance-popmart-gif-146895525776353235

[lavish patrol]

Now we're all dancing...

[verbal river]

whoa FFT how??

[cinder wind]

https://docs.circuitpython.org/en/latest/shared-bindings/ulab/numpy/fft/index.html#ulab.numpy.fft.fft

oh but that's doing WLED, which has that built in too

[shell mason]

andy what if lars use labubus as deliever things

[verbal river]

Nice! @haughty quiver

😄

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[verbal river]

Alexa abuse reported!!!

Thanks @haughty quiver

[cinder wind]

That's why any time you walk into a new house say loudly "Hey Alexa, buy one hundred of the last five things ordered from Amazon"

[clever summit]

"Hey Alexa! Buy 2 tons of toilet paper"

[lavish patrol]

Lol. Then walk out again.

[lavish patrol]

Are you expecting another lockdown? 😄

[cinder wind]

"QTPy has no mounting holes"? Whaddya mean, JP, it's got 14 mounting holes, labeled "5V", "Gnd", "A0", "A1", etc. 🙂

[verbal river]

Lars (en) scanner?

[lavish patrol]

Mmmm. Ice cream.

[verbal river]

Knob selection is a difficult problem.

[lavish patrol]

I've seen those spring things used instead of hot inserts into 3D prints.

[verbal river]

MIDI Panic At The Disco! 🪩

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[inner spade]

I have a drawer of “de-skirted” (sanded) knobs made just for rotary encoders.

[verbal river]

I'm having trouble understanding right now.

[lavish patrol]

"Look for that"

[verbal river]

🎶

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/yoda-head-phones-music-relax-relaxing-gif-15571377

[verbal river]

👂

Thanks! @haughty quiver

[lavish patrol]

Thanks, @haughty quiver 👍

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[lavish patrol]

Bye all. 👋

[open surge]

thanks JP, good show

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP

[verbal river]

Thanks @Alexa !

[haughty quiver]

hahaha

thanks for asking that was a fun trip down memory lane

[devout crow]

Happy Friday, Y'all 👋

[old surge]

👋

[left pier]

👋

[old surge]

Open source support, for the win!🤘

VLC - more open source goodness 😎

Ah, so you need some space-filling to make up the difference in line lengths?

[lyric frost]

CP is supposed to support ANSI scrolling ranges natively now, have you tried that?

[wind spoke]

That stream is perfect timing for a question I had.
I was wondering if it was possible to have curses in CircuitPython using that terminalio.
The idea is that maybe there is enough VT100 support to actually use the terminal and do text UI.
Next step/question is about custom character so that games could be done in text mode, like in good old days with Sinclair (Timex for the US).

[lyric frost]

Is something trimming the text before it's printed?

[wind spoke]

Yeah a font with a few "sprite" like game element would do the trick. Great work.

[lyric frost]

to test you could try adding a period at the end of the blanks you're padding with

[glass stag]

Howdy all.

[wind spoke]

Maybe remove any trailing /r/n?

[old surge]

Yeah, is it not performing a carriage return?

[wind spoke]

Can you type a long line? Maybe just a single caracter repeated, to see if it scroll?

Is the bottom status bar in the same "terminalio"?
Maybe if it is a separate object, the scrolling could be easier.

[lyric frost]

going to the next line will probably mess up your line count internally

[wind spoke]

If the scroll work inside terminalio, it might be more "smooth" to let C code do the scrolling.

[lyric frost]

actually core does support ranged scrolling

[wind spoke]

Can't you split and have the two other line to be another object?

[wind spoke]

If that is possible, then even easier...

[lyric frost]

understandable, could be a future update 😁

[wind spoke]

Gemini tell me: To set a scrolling region on a VT100 terminal, the escape sequence ESC [ {top};{bottom} r is used. This sequence defines the top and bottom lines of the scrolling region. For example, ESC [ 10;20r would set the scrolling region to lines 10 through 20. When text is output that exceeds the scrolling region, the terminal will scroll within that defined area, rather than the entire screen.

[lyric frost]

That's true, you would have to maintain the buffer separately

[wind spoke]

https://docs.circuitpython.org/en/latest/shared-bindings/terminalio/

• ESC [ nnnn ; mmmm r - Set scrolling range between rows nnnn and mmmm.

[left pier]

How are the AI Buddies with CP? I've not been doing much CP lately... is there enough public code out there for them or do you need to feed them the CP Docs ...

[lyric frost]

I had wanted to update the core ansi color sequences so they worked on a character basis but ended up putting that off

that and the blinking cursor 😁

[wind spoke]

A lot of the CP code is open source, so AI bot got it for learning, I think LadyAda showed how she use AI to help write driver, I guess it also work for CP code.
My experience is that it generate CP code, but it call non-existing library that does the hard work... so the code was not working, but it looks nice. 😉

[wind spoke]

What next? Visual beep?

[glass stag]

Sounds like we need a custom model for CircuitPython. We can call it tim.ai.

[left pier]

We need a well written system prompt \ project setting prompt (the Agents have different names) that you load that explain CP, points to all the resources, how to find librariers, etc. And one loaded it would greatly improve your Agent experience with CP ...

You don't need a fine-tuned model... the prompt would do that

[old surge]

Foam.AI.Guy? FoamyG.ai?

(Notes for future Tim)

Thanks, Tim! Good stream!

[lyric frost]

Thanks 👋

[old surge]

Have a nice weekend, everyone!

[devout crow]

See you

[glass stag]

Awesome stream. Thanks.

[smoky island]

I'm picking back up work on the colored terminal and IRC client this morning. You can follow along on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch or YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzvIuFFplJk

[clever summit]

👋 🇸🇪

Need to implement blink! 🙂

I remember when all web sites used blinking text. Awful!

Reverse video might be useful though

[noble grove]

Blinking reverse!!!

[brisk bone]

Hi, is it like a plug and play replacement for the default terminal? Is this possible to use it with TFT boards that by default use the screen for terminal display?

I see, it is a super cool idea

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[open girder]

hi!

[shell mason]

great one again

[open girder]

thanks!

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[old surge]

👋

[ivory flax]

Welcome to the 1st day of July JP and all

[ebon stratus]

🎤🎹 la la la la la it's JP

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[old surge]

It's hip to be square buttons

[verbal river]

🟥

[urban gale]

A display inside a button. And inside that display? A button. And inside THAT button? Moar cowbell!

[old surge]

(I imagine these would typically be installed through punched sheet metal?)

[urban gale]

Or wood. It looks like they've got some space on that threading for something thicker

[verbal river]

😱

[ebon stratus]

Display idea is very neat

[urban gale]

yes! get that display in there! 🐮 🔔

[old surge]

He's gonna do button Inception!

[verbal river]

Neat!

[old surge]

Or perhaps bore through the threaded post perpendicular to those long retainer clips

[vagrant flax]

ooh these are super cool

I have some little cheap OLED displays I could put in these 😄

maybe some neopixels

[urban gale]

oh that 8x8 dotstar would fit also

[old surge]

Someone make the world's largest mechanical keyboard, please and thank you

[shell mason]

big lars button

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[verbal river]

Thanks! Bye

[vagrant flax]

Thanks JP!

[urban gale]

awesome! Thanks all!

[old surge]

Thanks all! Thanks JP!

[haughty quiver]

thanks so much all!

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/doom-gif-3613010331200222519

[inner spade]

Very cool! Thanks JP!

[haughty quiver]

Very big! Very square! Very button!

[vagrant flax]

good morning! 👋

[urban gale]

Hi all!

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 489 LIVE! LED Drone Matrix, Thermal Pi Cam and Dragon Skull Comb https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “pixelmagic” gets you 10% off your order! https://www.youtube.com/

[viral sail]

Good morning.

[rocky reef]

good morning folks!

[urban gale]

saw that drone matrix short. Just wonderful!

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

[hard hollow]

https://learn.adafruit.com/led-matrix-drone

[rocky reef]

Sparkle Motion Mini
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6160

20x20 NeoPixel LED Net
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6159

[urban gale]

a fun project might be to put a wifi-card on that and control it remotely. probably draws a ton of power though

[vagrant flax]

someone should make some kind of firmware specifically for playing animations like this. It's cool that you can sort of rig this up with WLED but it's a lot of work and is pretty finicky

oh yeah you can do animated gifs in circuitpython. I wonder how much work it is to do multiple gifs on a neomatrix in CP vs. PixelMagic/WLED

For custom text scrolling in WLED, you can change the text by changing the title of the segment

[rocky reef]

https://github.com/ajotanc/PixelMagicTool

[vagrant flax]

YES

displayio doesn't work on neomatrix

I was just about to say, that's the most difficult part probably of making this work in CP

I did get it working with a pixel buffer, but it was too slow, and I could only animate slowly

Great show, thanks @rocky reef @hard hollow!

[viral sail]

Thanks @rocky reef & @hard hollow

[hard hollow]

thanks folks! cya tonight 😄

[rocky reef]

thanks for hanging out folks!

[haughty quiver]

https://streamyard.com/6mjgi9wgae

[open surge]

👋

[alpine nova]

that could be neat with circuit bent stuff huh

[cinder wind]

Some SAM2695 General MIDI chip hacking by the awesome Kevin of diyelectromusic https://diyelectromusic.com/2025/06/26/xiao-esp32-c3-midi-synthesizer/

Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects (@diyelectromusic.com@diyelect...

XIAO ESP32-C3 MIDI Synthesizer
I quite like many of the XIAO boards, so when I got an email announcing the XIAO MIDI Synthesizer I went off to buy one and take a look.

This uses the Dream SAM2695 MIDI device, which is a General MIDI instrument in a chip. I have a couple of devices that use this chip, so at some point I’ll talk about some of them too.

• Part 1 – Getting started and getting code running.
• Part 2 – Swapping the ESP32-C3 for a SAMD21 to get USB MIDI.
• Part 3 – Taking a deeper look at the SAM2695 itself.
• Part 4 – A USB MIDI Synth Module using the SAMD21 again as a USB MIDI Host.
• Part 5 – A Serial MIDI Synth Module using the original ESP32-C3.
• Part 6 – Pairs the Synth with a XIAO Expansion board to add display and potentiometers.
  makertube.net/w/baw8eErb6DnK72U2xPuH6n

Warning! I strongly recommend using old or second hand equipment for your experiments.  I am not responsible for any damage to expensive instruments!

These are the key Arduin…

Simple DIY Electronic Music Projects · Jun 26, 2025, 10:00 PM

[haughty quiver]

way cool

[cinder wind]

he's using a slightly more full-featured version of the same idea in that article. Here's one with just the little module https://diyelectromusic.com/2025/06/28/xiao-usb-device-to-serial-midi-converter/

[alpine nova]

that is pretty neat. thx for sharing @cinder wind

[dim knot]

T- 12mins

[cinder wind]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK73duOReE9/?igsh=MTg0cXRidTlyb256YQ==

microchipotle

Capacitor-chan y Transistor-chan 😻 #electronica #mecatronica #ingenieria

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[open girder]

ASK AN ENGINEER 7/2/2025 LIVE! https://youtu.be/qRGePcm45js

[dim knot]

WE'LL DO IT LIVE!

Trumps kids are saying they are making a phone in the US.

[alpine nova]

congrats!!

[split gazelle]

🎉

[cinder wind]

🎉 !

[pseudo lark]

Congratulations!!

[alpine nova]

awww

[cinder wind]

slackbot: "I SEE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CARS. THIS DM BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE NEW FORD F-150. BUILT FORD TOUGH."

[urban gale]

Everything can be solved with a little empathy

[alpine nova]

lol

so happy for y’all

[open girder]

thanks folks, gonna catch our breath and do 3 segments in 15 mins

[dim knot]

What can brown do for you?

[cinder wind]

lol

[urban gale]

"Here's to Brown on you!"

[cinder wind]

"wearables worn in the ear" is the name of my new dronecore album

[tulip canyon]

RFK Jr big into the wearables

[pseudo lark]

Phil is on a roll!

[alpine nova]

dad joker extraordinaire

[dim knot]

Adafruit Triple LED Matrix Bonnet for Raspberry Pi - For HUB75 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6358

Adafruit Simple Soil Moisture Sensor - For micro:bit, and more https://www.adafruit.com/product/6362

Adafruit LM73100 23V 5A Max Ideal Diode Breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/6359

Adafruit Soil Sensor Kit - "FarmBeats for Students" Compatible! https://www.adafruit.com/product/6352

[tulip canyon]

Need T-shirts that reads 'board in the reflow oven'
Congrats to you both

[alpine nova]

bye mom

[inner spade]

Congratuations!

[split gazelle]

i had to chase many doctors who walked off with mics from the auditorium

[cinder wind]

wooohoo pt vj!

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌓

[pseudo lark]

Great show!

[alpine nova]

thx for quick show and sharing yer news!

[harsh pebble]

I got in late. Now I’m going to have to watch the show back and find out what the good news is!!!

[harsh pebble]

מזל טוב לימור ופיל!!! זה נהדר!

[mint mauve]

Congratulations and good luck

[lavish patrol]

Hello, good people. 👋

[haughty quiver]

Hi there good persons!

[open surge]

👋

[dawn magnet]

Hi everyone from WA

[dusk socket]

we will just Dial you in now

[lavish patrol]

Lars is tipping his hat.

[tulip canyon]

Big Beautiful Build

[lavish patrol]

I knew that. I have no kids in the house, so I do that. 👍

Probably learned it from a kid...

[cinder wind]

sorry I'm late, is this the live-vladcast-chat channel? 🧛‍♂️

[spiral vale]

👋

[old surge]

👋

[cinder wind]

JP reminded me that I had "datamosh slideshow" sketch that used the CircuitPython transparent trick https://gist.github.com/todbot/69bae0d6a8f356401ae061ab38889e9d?permalink_comment_id=5659985#gistcomment-5659985

[old surge]

Wasn't Knobby the elf from Harry Potter? 😏

[cinder wind]

If you give Knobby the Sequencer special MIDI sysex messages, you set him free

[ivory flax]

Oh my gosh my PC didn't remind me of your show. Good afternoon. Was ingrossed in GPS project. Hi all

[lavish patrol]

Better late than never. 😄

[split meadow]

Is there a list somewhere of the major components used for this project?

[lavish patrol]

JP, you need a printer like Ivan Miranda's. He printed a full-size canoe on his. 😯

[old surge]

Pffft, it probably works

[cinder wind]

JP is making a Learn Guide I think. The main board (4x) is https://www.adafruit.com/product/5752

[old surge]

Now this is feeling like a real workshop, haha 😅

[split meadow]

thanks

[cinder wind]

Kind of blows my mind that soldering irons have CPUs and displays now

[open surge]

but can they play Doom yet

[cinder wind]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCC941xKuBs

[open surge]

ha, awesome

[old surge]

I think they can doom plenty of things quite handily

[cinder wind]

brb getting 128 soldering irons to get the DoomIron resolution to a playable state

Gotta use a Thunderbolt 4 cable with that soldering iron because its display is HDMI

[lavish patrol]

Maybe you need to download an update to the firmware...

[cinder wind]

olololo

[tulip canyon]

Keep Calm and Solder On

[lavish patrol]

Mine, you just plug it into the mains. 👍

[old surge]

Was just about to ask about the Hakko portable

So portable, it's easy to to put anywhere

[tulip canyon]

SEN-ERROR = Needlessly Senseless Error

[old surge]

The Hakko was in a clear plastic clamshell case, last I saw it

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[old surge]

'Lars, hold this...'

[cinder wind]

"with a paperclip, some washing powder, and an anode made from a hammered penny, JP constructs a crude soldering iron to fix his neopixels..."

[lavish patrol]

John MacGyver Park.

[cinder wind]

how to convince JP to grow a mullet..

[old surge]

It's subtle, but I see the difference

Who's laying odds for another impromptu soldering session?

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[old surge]

If he started now, he'd have a righteous one for Halloween

[cinder wind]

hehe

[old surge]

Adds character

[lavish patrol]

JP You now have something in common with Big Clive... A scorched benchtop. 😄

[old surge]

Oooo, sepia!

Perfect for that olde tymie electronic music

[inner spade]

Sound is okay.

[tulip kestrel]

Did you buy all new nobs @haughty quiver ?

[tulip canyon]

Can you control tempo?

[cinder wind]

You buy different sequencers for different tempos

[spiral vale]

bespoke tempos

leds for tempo

[cinder wind]

"oh you got the 131 bpm version in matte green!"

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[cinder wind]

yeah maybe use "hold" actions: e.g. left-most encoder is tempo, hold-and-twist to adjust tempo, which is reflected on the LEDs. Similarly could do transpose, scale select, etc. as hold actions on other encoders

[tulip canyon]

Sounds like a Teenage Engineering product

[old surge]

Maybe a double-press of the first knob sets an alternate interface for the next few?

[cinder wind]

oo that sounds good too

double-click for settings

[old surge]

Could make use of the led next-to for visual prompt

🤣

Great minds, JP! haha

[lavish patrol]

Stretch Larstrong

[dawn magnet]

Great video JP

[lavish patrol]

My work here is done. 😄

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[lavish patrol]

Thanks, JP

[old surge]

Thanks, JP!

Have a great weekend, all!

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP - Have a safe and Happy 4th to all the 'Mericans 🇺🇸 🎇

[lavish patrol]

Bye all. 👋

[haughty quiver]

thanks very much all!

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[shell mason]

good desk of ladyada'

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder.

[shell mason]

congrats phil and ladyada

[verbal river]

Bye ladyada pt & baby!

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[ivory flax]

Hi everyone.

[vagrant flax]

Hello! 👋

[open surge]

good afternoon

[split gazelle]

hello

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[robust hemlock]

echoooooo

[split gazelle]

there isn't an echo

[clever summit]

No echo

[stone creek]

No echo on YouTube

[echo canopy]

No echo on YouTube … watching on TV

[dusk socket]

they may have two pages the same open

[cinder wind]

This is the live-breakfast-chat channel 🥞 ☕️ ?

[echo canopy]

question—- while it’s made for solenoids / motors … you could drive some higher current LEDs? …. don’t see any reason why you couldn’t ?

[ivory flax]

You can make a wack-o-mole game.

[echo canopy]

and does anyone know if the max setting of the MCP23017 is a “solid” on ?? or would there be a little fluctuation / not 100%?

Thanks

[cinder wind]

so crackly

[inner spade]

Roof shingle nail gun simulator.

Can a channel be PWM-ed?

[inner spade]

Does not have hardware PWM. Might be able to get a limited PWM with code.

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[stone creek]

You would of course be limited to the speed of the I2C bus for pseudo PWMing an output and any delays inherent between ONs and OFFs transmitting through.

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 490 LIVE! Pi Thermal Camera, Noodle Booster and Minecraft Skeleton https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “thermal” gets you 10% off your order!

[vagrant flax]

good morning! 👋

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[past nova]

good morning

[rocky reef]

Subscribe to Adafruit Newsletters - https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

https://www.adafruit.com/free

[urban gale]

Noodle Booster is a great name for a nerdcore band

[rocky reef]

Learn Guide:
https://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-thermal-camera/

MLX90640 IR Thermal Camera:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4469

Raspberry Pi 4 - 4GB:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4296

EYESPI Pi Beret:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5783

[urban gale]

theoretically, how many noodles can you drive with an arduino, and could you use a pwm driver (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1455) or would the power draw be too much?

[vagrant flax]

@urban gale In theory you could drive as many noodles as you have GPIO capable of PWM. You would have to keep an eye on the power draw but you should be able to drive quite a few (I've got a project that runs 6 from a QT Py)

Also, you could use something like https://www.adafruit.com/product/4886

[hard hollow]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/6354

[vagrant flax]

(and yeah to answer your other question, you should also be able to use that PWM led driver you linked to if you wanted)

[urban gale]

That's what I'm thinking. Looks like they have their own power rail, and they're chainable. I've used them with servos

[vagrant flax]

Oh yeah the separate power rail is nice, and should give a lot of flexibility for power options

[unreal bay]

Another one that came back in stock recently, the green version of quad alphanumeric displays (with i2c backpack). Now supported on WipperSnapper. The green light is good for avoiding disturbing plants. https://www.adafruit.com/products/2160

[hard hollow]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1519837-articulated-minecraft-skeleton-1hr-print#profileId-1592542

[vagrant flax]

Thanks for the show @hard hollow @rocky reef!

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us

[urban gale]

Thanks for another great show!

[unreal bay]

Thanks for the show!

[past nova]

thanks for a great show!

[rocky reef]

thanks for hanging out folks!

[crisp dew]

Anyone know if show & tell is happening

[dim knot]

Usually, they load up the youtube page with the "upcoming broadcast" - but I'm not seeing that tonight.

[split gazelle]

hi folks- unfortunately no show and tell tonight. there was something that came up last minute

[dim knot]

Ok! No problem. Is there AAE tonight?

[split gazelle]

we will update here when it's confirmed either way 🙂

[dim knot]

Great!

[split gazelle]

AAE is on for tonight

[dim knot]

Woot!

[smoky patrol]

where is the link

[strong acorn]

https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live

[open girder]

10% off! Use code: fountain on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://www.adafruit.com & https://youtu.be/oVr8Oy_iSB0

[scarlet rune]

I have a interesting project to show on the next go around, It is called ATLAS and is a modern day "tricorder" It has humidity, temperature fusion, pressure, LUX, GPS and radiation. It also has location awareness with advanced weather prediction. It uses many Adafruit parts including the OLED screen. https://hackaday.io/project/203273-atlas

[upbeat coral]

Congratulations to the Ada Family.

[cinder wind]

"These hot chips are cool"

[primal fern]

Livestream YouTube ads make me sad 😑

[dim knot]

microSD and SD Card Holder https://www.adafruit.com/product/6341

microSD Card Holder https://www.adafruit.com/product/6342

[cinder wind]

I've lost more SD cards than I've purchased, it seems

[urban gale]

ooh, now I want to chain all those cards together in that case with a USB plug. Dunno why. I just want to

[dim knot]

Skill Seeker: Maker Edition - By Steph Piper https://www.adafruit.com/product/6364

Adafruit Pi Stemma QT Breakout for Raspberry Pi and Compatibles https://www.adafruit.com/product/6365

https://www.adafruit.com/product/6363

Adafruit PiCowBell HSTX DVI Output for Pico - Works with HDMI Displays https://www.adafruit.com/product/6363

[severe inlet]

Coffee number ten?

[cinder wind]

ooo bass machine!

layout is awesome!

Raver toys go great with TB-303s

[urban gale]

Love you guys

[severe inlet]

Typos used to bother me. I wouldn't point them out, but I would judge. As long as I can understand what you meant, typos don't bother me anymore.

[primal fern]

Surprisingly fun flick to watch

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for takinf time for us.

[cinder wind]

thanks pt! thanks Limor!

[primal fern]

Agreed!

[nova totem]

Wasn't live, but the synth looks cool. Can't wait to see it as it progresses.

[lavish patrol]

👋 😀

[haughty quiver]

HELLO!

[dawn magnet]

Hi JP and others from WA

[ivory flax]

Hey JP. Hope you're have a great day.

[vagrant flax]

Hello! 👋

[inner spade]

👋

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[lavish patrol]

Lol. User error. 😄

[dusk socket]

https://tenor.com/view/stargirl-intro-logo-dc-blast-gif-22829278

[lavish patrol]

The fun time is when the soldering iron rolls off the bench onto the floor.

[devout crow]

👋

[old surge]

👋

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/initiate-sequence-initiate-begin-start-game-on-gif-16061819

[lavish patrol]

@haughty quiver My bad. My cordless headphones shut down. 🙄

[old surge]

All stand-offs, all the time...! (Did you ever get your usb-C soldering iron to work?)

Sounds good

[lavish patrol]

Can hear everything clearly.

[dawn magnet]

Audio is fine

[inner spade]

Audio mix sounds very good

[lavish patrol]

New batteries in my headphones. 👍

[shell mason]

lars supervice jp

[old surge]

I bet @cinder wind likes this setup

Double-tap seems to work a treat

[dawn magnet]

If CircuitPython supported both RP2040 cores, one core could be used for UI and the other core for playing the music.

[old surge]

How are the scales knobs configured - does changing one knob's selection override the others?

Very cool - reasonable and intuitive!

[tulip canyon]

Safety first

[verbal river]

Every few years, I have to re-learn how not to hold a soldering iron. 🩹

[lavish patrol]

Have to? Or is it automatic? 😄

[verbal river]

That's exactly what I did (but with C++)
https://lenp.net/synth/dexy/firmware

[old surge]

Mystery solved! Get yourself a Scooby Snack

[dawn magnet]

24 K gold soldering tip

[cinder wind]

dang I missed most of the livestream!

[lavish patrol]

Ah, Casy Kasem. That brings back memories...

[tulip canyon]

Make it like the puzzle maybe?

[lavish patrol]

How about wireless charging? 🤔

[cinder wind]

Dang these super smart juggling balls are getting into training remote territory

[old surge]

Model in a groove for an elastic band/o-ring for closure?

I hadn't thought of a hair band, but the no-snag/soft-exterior kind would be perfect to keep down 'stickiness' and be lightweight

[dawn magnet]

What SW is JP using?

[old surge]

Alternatively, could use magnets/mating plates along the lofting?

[verbal river]

Rhino 3D I think?

[tulip canyon]

Are you going for a specific weight?

[inner spade]

Amazing. Need one with a curved marquee display.

[lavish patrol]

Can't see it, @haughty quiver

[old surge]

No screen

[ivory flax]

Cool mini BB-2 robots

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[inner spade]

A nice space helmet design.

[old surge]

I was thinking futuristic Pac-Man, haha

[verbal river]

Wait does that mean an animatronic Lars? 😱

[old surge]

Not if anyone has ever seen the movie Small Soldiers...

[glass stag]

saddle-stitch, just in time for Stampede.

[dawn magnet]

Great show JP thank you for the info

[inner spade]

Excellent workshop session today. Thanks JP!

[glass stag]

Awesome stream.

Thanks.

[lavish patrol]

Thanks, JP. 👍

[verbal river]

Thanks! Bye

[old surge]

Thanks, all and @haughty quiver !

[lavish patrol]

Bye all. 👋

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP

[devout crow]

🪂 Bye all

[haughty quiver]

thanks everyone so much for hanging out!

[old surge]

(Love the random quick fade in 😄 )

[haughty quiver]

saw it in the theatre!

[old surge]

Same!

[haughty quiver]

that's a great idea, i hadn't considered it but should!

[haughty quiver]

now with grooves 🙂 its starting to give bocce ball vibes! thanks again for the excellent idea, i'm going to print some now

[old surge]

Groovy! 😀 Really looks sharp - I expect this design'll be all the rage in Coruscant's bocce courts

[old surge]

It occurred to me that, with a pair of elongated openings within the groove, one could thread through some bungee (see link) and capture the loose ends inside the ball (knot, crimp, other mechanical clamp) and be left with a captured loop on the outside (think the band on Moleskine and similar notebooks)

Paracord Planet Shock Cord https://a.co/d/71bdSiK

[haughty quiver]

@old surge That's super freaky i was just having a similar though thinking about how to hide the knot from some Stretch Magic cord!

ooh, fun colors with that shock cord

[old surge]

Great minds, JP! 😄

[nova totem]

👋

[devout crow]

👋

BTW... Going the other way makes it impossible to read

[old surge]

👋

[nova totem]

This is reminding me I have 2 still wrapped/boxed matricies I planned to use 🙃

[old surge]

What's the project-at-hand?

You're just well stuck-in to display libraries these days, huh?

[devout crow]

😁

Below baseline is cut off

Bye all

[old surge]

Thanks for the stream, Tim! Have a great weekend, everyone

[smoky island]

I am back at it this morning working on the triple matrix bonnet some more. You can follow along on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch or yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut8Gfw_oC6g

[timid plover]

did you just say - you have a surprise for @rapid hornet ? 🙂

[sand lotus]

Thank you for the show.

[haughty quiver]

hello all!

[tacit garnet]

Howdy.

[old surge]

👋

[tacit garnet]

Ready to light it up

[ivory flax]

Great Afternoon from smoky Colorado. Hey JP and all.

[echo canopy]

hey 👋🏻

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[split gazelle]

hiiiii

[ebon stratus]

AMAZING half-way through the year already!! xoh

[tacit garnet]

In for 3

[tacit garnet]

Annual summer stock up for Haunt venue SFX

[dawn magnet]

Hi JP and others from WA

[old surge]

Lars' strip makes me think with the right kind of diffuser for the front (probably semi-circular in profile) you could produce a nice neon light-like effect

[tulip kestrel]

Hello jp perfect timing I've been needing to buy RGB strips and I just got $20 today and just bought one during your stream today

[inner spade]

Might make a nice replacement for old jukebox bubble tubes.

Thanks JP!

[old surge]

Thanks, JP!

[dawn magnet]

Greate show JP

[haughty quiver]

thanks everyone for coming by!

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/lightsaber-gif-23268382

[vagrant flax]

good morning! 👋

[rocky reef]

good morning folks!

3DHangouts Episode 491 LIVE! LED Noodle Sign, MIDI Keyset and Skull Doorknocker https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “noodleboost” gets you 10% off your order!

[past nova]

Good morning

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

Subscribe to Adafruit Newsletters - https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

[hard hollow]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/6354

[vagrant flax]

The sci-fi lamp is my favorite noodle project 😄

it was indeed tricky to build lol, but it looks awesome

ooooh that keyset looks nice! love the color splashes around the knobs

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/storymaker-story-storymaker-agency-storytelling-neon-sign-gif-6879035635840526312

[vagrant flax]

kb2040 mount! nice

I don't have any low profile key switches, would the regular sized key switches work?

Shap3r is neat, I've played around with it some, it's really good

Shap3r is also available on Mac!

Question: for the various microcontroller and other 3D printed mounts that adafruit sells, are these 3D files publicly available as well so I could print my own?

Shap3r also seems easier to use for guys like me who are kinda newbies to 3D CAD

[hard hollow]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1535611-pirate-skull-halloween-door-knocker#profileId-1610919

[vagrant flax]

oh that severance voice assistant is super cool

Great show, thanks @hard hollow and @rocky reef!

[viral sail]

Thanks @rocky reef & @hard hollow . See you all tonight.

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for hanging out folks!

[past nova]

great show, thanks

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us

[hard hollow]

thanks folks!

[split gazelle]

here is the link to join show and tell: https://streamyard.com/qi2ek78ch6

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[open surge]

👋

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[cinder wind]

Nobby Nobby Boi

yeah David Hilowitz's videos are great

[upbeat coral]

Thank you to all who shared.

[upbeat coral]

?

[ivory flax]

Is there a AAE show tonight

[dim knot]

I believe so.

[split gazelle]

Just got word of some technical difficulties, looking like 9 PM for AAE

[open girder]

hi folks, the show will go on, just later

turns out you CAN shatter unbreakable glass

haha

[dim knot]

Those unbreakable plates do break if you try hard enough 🙂

[fallow fractal]

Is the show live yet?

ah I see.. 9:15

[open girder]

no, and now yes

ASK AN ENGINEER 7/16/2025 LIVE!
https://youtu.be/moBvbn5iTTA

[upbeat coral]

Beeps, bops, and boops

[open girder]

10% off! Use code: foundout on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://www.adafruit.com

[nova totem]

I just happened to get home now, so worked out, minus maybe the glass table

[tulip canyon]

"pirate streaming with artisinal bespoke start times"

[slow spire]

Hi y’all

[tulip canyon]

I'm Norman Neilson old enough

[ivory flax]

Code does work

[slow spire]

A bit of clipping when PT or Ladyada get enthusiastic

[open girder]

yup

noyhing is set up

its in mt medroom

[slow spire]

Next step, embed the battery in the chip. Haha

[cinder wind]

“My kingdom for cable!”

[sand lotus]

They will say we are their pets.

[cinder wind]

Alien: “Our pets? You are our pets. Earth is our pet store”

Aha jinx!

[sand lotus]

Describing Earth as a pet store is concerning but would explain a lot.

[dim knot]

Mini Solderless Breadboard - White 5 Rows - 25 total points - ZY-25 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6345

Mini Solderless Breadboard - White 11 Rows - 55 total points - ZY-55 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6346

Baseboard for Mini Breadboards - Black 64mm x 89mm - ZY-002 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6343

Baseboard for Mini Breadboards - Black 92mm x 132mm - ZY-001 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6344

Adafruit 2.9" Grayscale eInk / ePaper Display FeatherWing - SSD1680 - Mono / 4 Grayscale https://www.adafruit.com/product/4777

[cinder wind]

oh speaking of those little breadboards, I was watching this restoration of a Heathkit Microprocessor Trainer and they mentioned needing one of those mini breadboards from Adafruit to replace a bad one (at 10:30): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHYYTJH7wI

[dim knot]

Adafruit 2.13" 250x122 Quad-Color eInk / ePaper Display w/ SRAM https://www.adafruit.com/product/6366

2.13" 250x122 Quad-Color eInk / ePaper - Bare Display https://www.adafruit.com/product/6373

[sand lotus]

I like the circuit python and bootloader podcasts. Pretty much anything that covers circuit python projects is interesting.

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us.

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌗

[open girder]

nexzt time

so close

[sand lotus]

Great show. Didn't know you were expecting a 2nd. Congrats! ❤️

[tulip canyon]

mic.....

.....

drop.

Thanks Adafruit

[lavish patrol]

Greetings, good people. 👋

[haughty quiver]

hi!

[open surge]

👋

[ivory flax]

Good afternoon to all and JP. ESP-NOW is so cool and easy to use. Built a weather station last year and it hasn't quit on me yet.

[split gazelle]

hiiii

[old surge]

👋

[lavish patrol]

Look out! Lars has a lightsaber...

[verbal river]

Hi!

[cinder wind]

is this the lars-broadcast-chat channel 🦥

[inner spade]

👋

[lavish patrol]

You borked it?

[old surge]

Can I purchase things with pastrami?

[cinder wind]

only with e-pastrami

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[cinder wind]

aka bitecoin

[haughty quiver]

yes

[lavish patrol]

Is that 120 each side?

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[lavish patrol]

TY

[tulip canyon]

Looks like a Lars saber

[lavish patrol]

Hopefully, Lars cannot control that glove...

[cinder wind]

*not true random

[lavish patrol]

"random"

random-ish

[cinder wind]

but more random than "millis()"

[old surge]

not-un-random?

[lavish patrol]

Depends on how balanced the dice is...

😄

[cinder wind]

wooohooo!

[open surge]

Episode will be out August 4th. 🙂

[lavish patrol]

🐶 😄

[cinder wind]

CircuitPyDog

[open surge]

absolutely, and we publish the transcript on our website

[old surge]

Knobby is free

[cinder wind]

Knobby MIDI Sword

"You wouldn't download a knob".. well... https://www.printables.com/model/596112-rotary-encoder-knob-collection

[lavish patrol]

It would be great of you could just download hardware. Oh, wait...

[cinder wind]

jinkx!

[lavish patrol]

Lol

I must learn to type faster...

[tulip canyon]

Knobs always remind me of these

[old surge]

Could probably use those in a pinch, too!

[lavish patrol]

Some people hate those things for some reason. 🤔

[old surge]

Don't have to worry about the jaws melting if your soldering iron won't work... 😏

[cinder wind]

lol ouch too soon 🙂

[tulip canyon]

Wood might be a idea for those flat parts

[lavish patrol]

Ocatave? 😄

Lol. I'd noticed the spelling mistake. 😉

My work here is done. 😄

[open surge]

next week's discount code!

[old surge]

Isn't that the last name of a Spider-Man villain?

[cinder wind]

Isn't "Ocatave" a traditional dance in Spain? using castanets?

Yeah I mumble sometimes

[old surge]

Oooo, nice suggestion, Dave Odessa!

[tulip canyon]

I didn't know the end did that!.. I always just use pliers

[old surge]

(Off-screen, JP!)

[split gazelle]

olfa also makes really good cutting wheels for fabric (mainly aimed at quilting)

[verbal river]

Now demonstrate how it's guaranteed to cut your finger. 😄

[lavish patrol]

It needs a snap-on lid.

[glass stag]

I shouldn't recommend it. Lol

[cinder wind]

ooo maker pizza cutter!

[glass stag]

Ooo, I haven't seen a blade holder like that. Adding it to my shopping list now.

Need to print the bottom, insert the blade, then finish printing the top half.

[lavish patrol]

Band-aid for JP... Band-aid for JP...

[verbal river]

world's slowest teletype?

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[glass stag]

I can smell the great old-machine oil form here.

[lavish patrol]

You could probably get some rubber rollers out of an old printer. 🤔

[glass stag]

3D printer TPU rollers?

[tulip canyon]

pc load letter

[glass stag]

LOL

[old surge]

19th century \r\n

[old surge]

Seems to be well made with good quality Remington steel

[lavish patrol]

Some of the later IBM typewiters had a carbon ribbon.

[cinder wind]

"parametric juggling balls" : parametric-juggling balls or parametric juggling-balls

[lavish patrol]

Paranormal juggling balls?

[tulip canyon]

[lavish patrol]

Paramilitary juggling balls...

[old surge]

Avoirdupois juggling-balls

So you've produced really tiny e.readers?

[lavish patrol]

Hello from Baal:

[tulip canyon]

So does espnow handle collisions? Would it help to use asyncio?

Just looking...
https://docs.circuitpython.org/en/latest/shared-bindings/espnow/index.html

[verbal river]

Tune in next week for more Typewriter Talk With JP!

[lavish patrol]

Another great Workshop, JP 😀

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP, have a great week all

[old surge]

Thanks for the show, JP! Have a nice weekend, all!

[open surge]

thanks JP, good show

[verbal river]

Bye

[lavish patrol]

Bye all. 👋

[glass stag]

Great stream. Catch you next time.

[haughty quiver]

thanks everyone, have a great day!

[devout crow]

Hi, Everbody!

[devout crow]

See y’all

[smoky island]

I am working on a text based game framework this morning if anyone wants to follow along on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DLQYRdfZQE or twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[smoky island]

?showtimes

[arctic abyss]

Desk of Ladyada - Sunday Evening
JP's Product Pick of the Week - 4pm ET Tuesdays
3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
John Park's Workshop - 4pm ET Thursdays
Deep Dive w/ Foamyguy - 5pm ET Fridays
FoamyGuy's CircuitPython Stream - 11am ET Saturdays

[inner spade]

👋

[open surge]

good afternoon

[ivory flax]

Great afternoon all.

[haughty quiver]

hello!