live-broadcast-chat

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[tacit garnet]

Happy Tuesday

[midnight plinth]

Hello John

[old surge]

👋

[shell mason]

Pies

oone could remember those frm jetsn boards

with those gpio pins

[midnight plinth]

Works with the pi zero too.

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[ivory flax]

thanks JP

[midnight plinth]

Sorry, but that looks like a raspi pig.(the title image not the board)

[old surge]

Thanks, JP! (Mic audio cut occasionally today - is that jack plugged in all the way?)

[haughty quiver]

thanks all

[inner spade]

Of course Lars was at the Coldplay concert.

[haughty quiver]

ack! sorry, not sure why, i'll look into it

[old surge]

No worries - just didn't want it to wind up being an issue on Thursday!

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 492 LIVE! Chatsubo LED Sign, Fruit Jam Slim and Nesting Doll https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “chatsubo” gets you 10% off your order!

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[urban gale]

Hi all!

[rocky reef]

good morning folks!

[vagrant flax]

good morning! 👋

[nova totem]

Morning, on holidays so can watch live today!

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

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

LED Noodle Learn Guide:
https://learn.adafruit.com/nood-booster-case

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/neon-omer-studios-omer-studios-neon-neon-lights-neon-colors-gif-11929635244558449999

[hard hollow]

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

[upbeat coral]

Finally, something I want to use nOOds for.🥰

[shell mason]

current oost 🙂

[rocky reef]

Fruit Jam:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6200

[shell mason]

fruitjam

[hard hollow]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1085034-matryoshka-muerta-a-morbid-nesting-doll#profileId-1077662

[rocky reef]

Today's coupon code “chatsubo” gets you 10% off your order!

[vagrant flax]

great show, thanks @rocky reef @hard hollow

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us

[hard hollow]

thanks folks cya tonight!

[hard hollow]

https://streamyard.com/mmgtxmy55y

[smoky island]

👋 Good evenning everyone

[open surge]

👋

[haughty quiver]

hi!

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[smoky island]

I am excited for these juggling balls. The design is looking great JP! 🤹

[haughty quiver]

🤹‍♂️

[severe inlet]

Yes, rogue! I would play rogue when I needed a break from working on problem sets in grad school

[upbeat coral]

Thank you to all who shared.

[hard hollow]

thanks folks

[smoky island]

Thanks everyone, have a great night.

[dim knot]

Bleep, Bloop. Hello, World!

[smoky patrol]

Is there an Ask An Engineer tonight?

[dim knot]

We think so. But not sure of when the start time is.

[smoky patrol]

Thanks. WIll it posted someplace or just pop up here?

[dim knot]

Ideally one of us will post a link to it here. I'll keep an eye on it, but others are welcome to beat me to it.

[dusk socket]

we are waiting for the fun

[upbeat coral]

Guess I'll catch the recording later. Bed time.

[dim knot]

Night.

[dim knot]

Well folks. I'm not sure if there is a show tonight or not. I'll be back in a while to check on this - but if not, I'll see you all next week!

[ivory flax]

I hope all is well. Good night

[haughty quiver]

hi there!

[open surge]

good afternoon

[old surge]

👋

[inner spade]

👋

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[ivory flax]

Hi

[old surge]

Is this the live bro-AdCast-chat?

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/daft-punk-daft-punk-aura-daft-punk-snow-gif-13447450483417469837

[old surge]

🤯 1600?!

Those pass-through headers be nifty

[tulip kestrel]

so your saying there was no ask an engineer or show and tell yesterday? @haughty quiver

[old surge]

Oil pens are slick

[cinder wind]

If this soda bottle manufacturing is interesting to you (as it is to me), I found this video fascinating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU_gH36GG58

satisfying click!

[lavish patrol]

Hello, all. 👋

[tulip canyon]

If an accelorometer is contantly rotating how will you know which direction the force is pointing?
Will you not need a gyro?

[strong acorn]

250 bytes of data encapsulated in an "information element" of a standard wifi management Action frame

[cinder wind]

For like 5 years I've been trying to get JP to make a "screams when falling" project that uses that free-fall detection to play a scream WAV. Finally with these juggling balls maybe.

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/the-wizard-lucas-the-wizard-lucas-power-glove-nes-power-glove-power-glove-nintendo-gif-18434216099666334552

[lavish patrol]

I'm thinking Lars would like to be involved in that...

[cinder wind]

hehe

[tulip canyon]

long-exposure light painting could be really cool with these.

[shell mason]

one not simply notify power glove with ball on hand

[old surge]

Is someone playing Pong?

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[old surge]

Also, nice juggling!

[cinder wind]

very cool JP!

[old surge]

I imagine having a way to maintain internal balance might be important

[tulip kestrel]

You could have the balls send battery present over to the resiver and display it on a tft @haughty quiver

[near turret]

what would you do to make them impact resistant ? Which material did you choose for the shell ? Especially to protect the electronics and lipo from shocks

[lavish patrol]

Thanks, JP 👍

[old surge]

Thanks, JP, had a ball! Have a nice weekend, everyone!

[inner spade]

Thanks JP! Totally spherical, dude.

[open surge]

thanks JP, good show

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP

[lavish patrol]

Bye all. 👋

[open girder]

The Desk of Ladyada — FruitJam Tester + Neopot Prototype 🔌🍓📦
https://youtu.be/0bzMJeyvvLA
Last week, we conducted a Great Search for a clear shaft linear potentiometer. This week, the prototypes arrived—and they work great! We're also beginning work on the FruitJam Tester. We'll be showing the finalized silkscreen, the cover plate we designed, and the expected form factor of the tester itself. Additionally, we wrapped up a library for a QMC5883 breakout. This chip serves as a drop-in replacement for the now-discontinued HMC5883. It's frequently found in quadcopter builds, so we thought it would be a great candidate for a simple magnetometer breakout.

[robust horizon]

evening folks! Hi @open girder

[open girder]

yay! hi hi @robust horizon !

[echo canopy]

Since the FruitJam™️ has a C6 for WiFi, it would be cool if it could somehow connect to Adafruit IO and have two players remotely in different locations

[open girder]

there are a few options for connectivity. we've got a fun irc setup to show off, plus some other projects. you'll be able to do a lot.

[timid plover]

thanks @open girder for the fruitjam update!

[old surge]

👋

[devout crow]

Yo, Y'all 👋

[old surge]

Oh, MagTag's in stock?!

[brazen grove]

aloha

[old surge]

Only 1 MagTag left in stock now 😉

Audio dropped there

It is back, was only a momentary thing when the other window popped up

[brazen grove]

I think it's the root_group change from a few years ago

[devout crow]

Mahalo 👋

[old surge]

Thanks, Tim! Have a nice weekend, all!

[inner spade]

Thanks for the stream!

[brazen grove]

thanks

[smoky island]

I am testing out some fixes in nina-fw this morning if anyone wants to follow along. yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAkwML58yQI or twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[clever summit]

Arduino is not hogging the serial port if you dont have the serial window open.

[inner spade]

G’day! 👋

[open surge]

👋

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[drowsy inlet]

hello all

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[split gazelle]

hihi

[dusk socket]

clang ..Clang that john coming with the cowbell things get ready

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[old surge]

👋

[ivory flax]

Howdy JP

[echo canopy]

Joining late ., heyyy

[waxen bough]

Been a while for me! Good product to come back on!

[ivory flax]

Bummer I just bought this the other day. Oh well

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-bell-fever-guees-what-gif-8044196

[cinder wind]

Is this the live-bellcast-chat channel? 🛎️

[waxen bough]

I feel your pain. I've done the same with several much pricier products. But it doesn't compare to the great savings when I catch a good product pick. Like this one, IMO. (I feel far worse when I miss out on the fantastic buys because I place my order late or missed the livestream completely.)

[clever summit]

What I was up to five years ago:
https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/12/04/displaying-temperature-and-humidity-with-an-adafruit-magtag-eink-display-circuitpython-magtag-adafuit-jonnybergdahl/

[cinder wind]

OG magtag!

[shell mason]

cowbell magtag

[clever summit]

CircuitPython wasn't even fully supported on the MagTag when I got it. 🙂

[old surge]

Oh, microcontrollers can output screensavers the classroom computers ran when I was in elementary school. That's a fun age to get to...

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[old surge]

Thanks, JP!

[haughty quiver]

thank you all!

[still bane]

👍

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/poppy-cowbell-poppy-trolls-poppy-trolls-trolls-holiday-gif-10092035841224058420

[waxen bough]

I grabbed a handful. with a pico 2 and 2w. Now to choose a project...

[haughty quiver]

i forgot to mentions that's a cool combo for retro computer/game console emulators

[haughty quiver]

here's the screensaver Playground by @still bane that I showed: https://adafruit-playground.com/u/SamBlenny/pages/fruit-jam-lines-screensaver

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[vagrant flax]

Good morning!

[rocky reef]

good morning foks!

3DHangouts Episode 493 LIVE! Fruit Jam, Booster Case and Epoch Chrono https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “epoch” gets you 10% off your order!

https://www.adafruit.com/free

[gaunt plume]

Pedro's mic sounds kinda far away from him, low

[rocky reef]

TSP61169 Current Boost:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6354

KB2040:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5302

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

[cosmic totem]

can i build a midi controller like that but using a rp2040 instead?

[vagrant flax]

I love this project

those colored stripes on the right make it look so slick

[cosmic totem]

i was thinking of building something like the melodicade mx

[vagrant flax]

I've been impressed with what even the free tier of claude can do but yeah, if I wasn't babysitting it and double-checking everything, it definitely would have led me astray

[cosmic totem]

i meant the pico haha

thank you!

[hard hollow]

https://learn.adafruit.com/midi-for-makers/overview

[gaunt plume]

I somewhat regret not getting AMS with my a1 mini, that looks very clean regardless of the print time consumption

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/excited-apple-dancing-apple-gif-12113851

cyber fruitjam deck

i saw dual screen and dual pc cyberdeck on yt

[hard hollow]

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CAD_Parts

[shell mason]

https://hackaday.com/2025/07/30/a-dual-screen-cyberdeck-to-rule-them-all/

[vagrant flax]

I've actually been playing through chrono trigger for the first time lately!

I haven't made it to that ship yet

[shell mason]

that was the cyerdeck dualscreen

the ship with flexible string small servos to make fins flap like wings

[hard hollow]

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:807476

[shell mason]

one not simply build a kit from it'

[rocky reef]

https://www.printables.com/make/2759516?comment_id=2759516

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

[hard hollow]

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSczgdHd2AXZJWKZ9S5xX4FzI4FmGRIeWiCSQ7HobYpTEhsYgQ/viewform

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/chrono-trigger-epoch-time-machine-time-travel-jrpg-gif-12583116834187502302

[vagrant flax]

great show @rocky reef @hard hollow, thanks!

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us.

[viral sail]

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

[hard hollow]

thanks folks! cya tonight

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for haning out folks!

[timid plover]

wow - just noticed this! https://www.adafruit.com/product/6200

[haughty quiver]

https://streamyard.com/zgjhwmwbgd

[dim knot]

Hello, World!

[haughty quiver]

hi there!

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[tulip canyon]

👋

[open surge]

👋

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[bold roost]

https://gist.github.com/relic-se/526a043115e58752a7ae74bf4718954a

[upbeat coral]

Cooper does Commodore👍 64

[bold roost]

https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/pull/10529

[bold roost]

If only it weren't dead.... 😭

[upbeat coral]

@bold roost What's wrong with it?

[shy topaz]

How do you bend a PC board?

[bold roost]

I haven't figured it out yet, actually. I've gotten dead test to run, but diagnostics won't boot. I recently picked up a testing harness to suss it out. I think the clock is good, but I don't actually have an oscilloscope fast enough to properly measure it.

[viral sail]

Thanks for sharing everyone.

[tulip canyon]

Thanks all

[upbeat coral]

@bold roost sounds like you have a good handle on it. I guess you've seen Adrian Blacks Youtube - Adrians Digital Basement

[lyric frost]

Thanks!!!!

[upbeat coral]

Thanks to all for sharing

[bold roost]

You know it 😆

[open surge]

Fruit Jam is in stock: https://www.adafruit.com/product/6200

[bold roost]

Have a great night everyone!

[upbeat coral]

@open surge , Yep. Ordered one. Would have ordered two but didn't want to seem greedy.

[unique cairn]

Although it's almost out of stock, I archived the stock level here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250731001216/https://www.adafruit.com/product/6200

[upbeat coral]

🦗

[upbeat coral]

Clocking out. Next week .

[open girder]

prolly goin live

⚙️ ask an engineer live from brooklyn: deep dives, demos, and your questions answered on-air → https://youtu.be/8NE0LKyTf5Q

[unique cairn]

👆

[open girder]

⚙️ ask an engineer live from brooklyn: deep dives, demos, and your questions answered on-air → https://youtu.be/8NE0LKyTf5Q

[grand tusk]

Fruitjam Out of Stock

[still bane]

yeah... they've been gradually selling out for the last couple hours. last one sold just a little bit ago.

[grand tusk]

:sad-panda:

[haughty quiver]

more to come!

[dim knot]

https://makezine.com/article/maker-news/why-is-open-source-hardware-not-working-for-3d-printers/

[grand tusk]

AAE Yay!

[dim knot]

Night all!

[lyric frost]

👋

[haughty quiver]

👋

[vernal rampart]

Dangit!!!! I missed out on the Fruit Jam!

[haughty quiver]

should be more in soon!

[lavish patrol]

Hello, all. Looks like it's time for:

[inner spade]

👋

[haughty quiver]

HAhahaha

[ivory flax]

Hi all. Hope your all having a good afternoon

[open surge]

👋

[dusk socket]

time to expand our out look

[old surge]

👋

[lavish patrol]

A snippet:
✂️

[ornate magnet]

Hello. I am new in the programming world. I have just started learning Python but before I have been learning MakeCode and Scratch. I have base but not so fully because of my teachers at school. Do you have some tips what to do, learn? I am having classes about Python with group. We have just finished algorithms and some things that we use in Python such as int, if else... Please someone help me I want to be persuade a career in programming.

[lavish patrol]

Welcome aboard, @ornate magnet.

[tulip canyon]

I like https://realpython.com/

[lavish patrol]

I find W3Schools useful: https://www.w3schools.com/python/default.asp

[dusk socket]

we are not see your work on line

[lavish patrol]

Can't see your typing, @haughty quiver

Can see it now. 👍

[ivory flax]

Breaking up

[open surge]

audio is out of sync

[lavish patrol]

Lol. Audio out of sync...

[inner spade]

Audio sync on YouTube is okay

[lavish patrol]

I blame Lars.

[main flame]

On YouTube the audio has been cutting out for me

[open surge]

reloaded, is fine now

[lavish patrol]

I'm watching on YouTube. It's watchable nonetheless. 👍

[tulip canyon]

Refresh helped 👍

[main flame]

Refresh also working for me

[lavish patrol]

Yep, @open surge, @tulip canyon. @main flame 👍

[ornate magnet]

Thank you all! What do you think about skipping Java, JavaScript and then learn C languages?

[haughty quiver]

https://github.com/fhoedemakers/pico-infonesPlus

[lavish patrol]

FF is zero? 🤔

TY

[tulip canyon]

breaker breaker 19, what's your 20, come back

[lavish patrol]

@ornate magnet It depends on what you want to do going forward.

[ornate magnet]

I want to work in AI.

[lavish patrol]

@ornate magnet A bit out of my skill set, I'm afraid. Probably C.

[ornate magnet]

Thank you.

[open surge]

If you're interested in AI, start with Python

[lyric frost]

Will ESP-now run on the Fruit Jam WiFi coprocessor?

[lavish patrol]

I've only written basic scripts in Python - copying files and such.

As I said, beyond my skill set.

[tulip canyon]

I was just on the FAQ
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-faq/en/latest/application-solution/esp-now.html

[smoky island]

The chip is capable of it, but I think it will depend whether Nina-FW and esp32spi libraries have support for espnow to work in CircuitPython on the Fruit Jam.

[lavish patrol]

Lol. "Wrapped around the axle". I like that expression - never heard it before. 😄

[open surge]

Yup, coming Monday the 4th

[lavish patrol]

Another great Workshop, JP. 👍

[ivory flax]

Thank JP. Love using ESP-NOW

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver . Have a great weekend everyone.

[open surge]

thanks JP, good show

[inner spade]

Thank for inviting us into your workshop, JP!

[lavish patrol]

Bye all. 👋

[smoky island]

Thanks JP, cool stuff as always

[still bane]

good show 👋

[haughty quiver]

thanks very much for hanging out w me!

[lyric frost]

Thanks JP 😁

[strong acorn]

watching delayed, a couple of notes... ESP32-C6 as wifi co-processor doesn't support ESP-NOW in the NINA firmware (only native wifi) --> oh, n/m, foamyguy answered later

wifi.radio.start_ap with max_connections=0 won't allow any connections (there are use cases for that) ...other than 0, range is 1-10

[haughty quiver]

I see, thanks

[strong acorn]

if you really want to go down a rabbit hole... the maximum number of connections to an espressif AP trades off with the maximum number of encrypted ESP-NOW peers, but it's a compile-time thing currently https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/issues/11697

[old surge]

👋

[lyric frost]

Good evening Tim 😁

[wind spoke]

Hi, so there were a lot of Metro and early Fruit Jam revision guides. Are those still working for the customer revision? Will you review them?

Can we consider the Pico2 + HSTX bonnet a kind of FruitJam mini?

Pico2W does WiFi.

[unique cairn]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/6243 instead of the Pico 2 in that setup would be more alike due to PSRAM and larger flash.

[old surge]

'has an built-in...' -> 'has a built-in...'

[lyric frost]

Dinner bell is ringing, I'll have to catch the rest on VOD 👋

[wind spoke]

I hope it is a diner cowbell.

[wind spoke]

No need to unplug the keyboard... you have two USB ports !?

[unique cairn]

It would still be good to document the pinout for people porting to other platforms, such as Zephyr.

[old surge]

Thanks for the stream, Tim! Always a pleasure to hang out

[wind spoke]

Usually Adafruit product are open hardware and the schematic is available in the last pages of the primary learn guide.
Here are all the learn guide for FruitJam: https://learn.adafruit.com/products/6200/guides
The primary guide is missing as foamyguy still work on it.
I think the suggestion was to look at the firmware code, and maybe this file will tell you everything about the GPIO mapping, as seen from within CircuitPython

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[smoky island]

I'm getting started for the morning stream working on some Fruit Jam OS stuff. You can follow along on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_HSKvHdlfY and twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch

[clever summit]

Seems I have been out of the loop too long, just realized I have no idea what Fruit Jam OS is. 😬

[inner spade]

👋 ☕

[open surge]

Good morning. My Fruit Jam should be here Monday, little excited

[lyric frost]

@smoky island Thanks for the morning stream, unfortunately I couldn't catch it in real time 😢 . With respect to the issues you had with copying files to the CIRCUITPY flash, I have taken to having a linux terminal window open and after any copy to/from CircuitPython mounts run a "sync" command. I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to be necessary, but since I've been doing that, a lot of the issues associated with moving files to CP flash seem to have gone away.

[lyric frost]

Almost never do this but I paid for the faster shipping on mine. It came yesterday... Got almost no sleep last night 😆

[unique cairn]

Were you trying to speed run porting https://github.com/RetiredWizard/PyDOS to it or something? 😆

[lyric frost]

@unique cairn No, I'll probably get an update out for that but I really like the Fruit Jam OS as the primary shell for the Fruit Jam 😁 I was just really excited to get my hands on it because using a Micro Controller as the CPU of a general computer was the idea that got me involved with Micro Controllers in the first place.

[wind spoke]

Thank you, I did not knew ESPNOW was available in CP.

Right now I have copied your demo (no D0 button but just timer).
The goal is to do an ESPNOW chat application in CP.

[smoky island]

Thanks for this tip! I'll try it out

[inner spade]

👋

[drowsy inlet]

👋

[haughty quiver]

Hi!

[open surge]

good afternoon

[old surge]

👋

[ivory flax]

Cool discount. I built a cube with these

[split gazelle]

hihi

[old surge]

Yeah, look how low that product number is!

(For reference, Fruit Jam is #6200 compared to #1487)

[drowsy inlet]

Is there a guide for the 4 panel example?

[haughty quiver]

no guide for that one in particular

[old surge]

Thanks, JP!

[haughty quiver]

thanks!

[ivory flax]

Thanks JP. Short and sweet

[haughty quiver]

@drowsy inlet i just sorta scaled this project up https://learn.adafruit.com/sqaure-neopixel-display-with-black-led-acrylic

[drowsy inlet]

Awesome, thank you!

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 494 LIVE! USBC Fixer, Fruit Jam, MagTag and Fidget Ferroseed https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “usbcfixer” gets you 10%

[vagrant flax]

Good morning! 👋

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[rocky reef]

good morning folks!

[open surge]

good morning

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

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

USB-C Fixer:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/6323

[upbeat coral]

Beats the dickens out of coating it with hot glue. Just saying.

[rocky reef]

KB2040:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5302

[vagrant flax]

still love the design of this device. was just thinking it kinda reminds me of something from severance lol

[gaunt plume]

Oh I didn't realize there's a single color version!

[upbeat coral]

Love the button "flaps"

2 x 16

[gaunt plume]

yeah, they work really well

[vagrant flax]

that case looks really sharp

super professional!

someone should do one of the transparent resin prints from pcbway 👀

[upbeat coral]

Guess I'll wait on your design file. I started one but I was incorporating the enclosed top plate.

[vagrant flax]

you could do the old trick of putting some masking tape or something on the side to prevent the light leak lol

[gaunt plume]

hm, maybe a VESA-compatible backplate would be neat too. I kinda want to mount one on a TV or monitor.

[vagrant flax]

that LED window is so slick

[upbeat coral]

@gaunt plume , like the back of the Raspberry Pi Monitor.

[vagrant flax]

magtag!

[upbeat coral]

Yea, I like my Magnets.

[vagrant flax]

If you get a magtag and want a fun ready-to-go project for it I made an ISS tracker awhile back https://github.com/apendley/magtag-iss-tracker

[rocky reef]

MagTag 2025 Edition:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4800

[vagrant flax]

I actually just realized the display in the new version is different, so you might have to slightly adjust the code to use that driver instead of the old one

I don't have one of the new ones so I can't test it myself unfortunately

but if anyone wants to make a pull request to the magtag iss tracker for the new display I would be very grateful! 🙏

oh also I just saw the note that the 2025 one only works with CP 10

so I guess I need to update the project to use that from CP 9

maybe I can do that later today

[upbeat coral]

@vagrant flax Since the new one is OOS, no need to hurry.

[vagrant flax]

that's a good point

but it would be cool if it worked for circuitpython day still

[hard hollow]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1591665-fidget-ferroseed#profileId-1676308

[vagrant flax]

great show, thanks @hard hollow @rocky reef

[upbeat coral]

Thanks for taking time for us.

[hard hollow]

thanks folks!

[open surge]

thanks for the show! looking forward to the Fruit Jam cases

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for hanging out folks!

[smoky patrol]

Is there going to be show and tell today? What about Ask An Engineer?

[open surge]

Show and Tell is loaded on YouTube as coming up next if you visit Adafruit's YouTube page

[open girder]

Link to join to show and share your project! https://streamyard.com/52nzcdun6 & WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! SHOW AND TELL! https://youtu.be/8uVOu88tLBU WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! SHOW AND TELL! https://youtu.be/8uVOu88tLBU

[open surge]

The Streamyard link doesn't work, shows a 404

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[crisp dew]

who did the opening screen for show & tell?

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[tulip canyon]

👋

[smoky island]

Good evenning everyone 👋

[open surge]

@open girder pt, can you re-share the Streamyard link? The one you shared comes up as a 404

[open girder]

oh no!

https://streamyard.com/52nzcdun6t

i see, it was the one from a previous that got stuck

[smoky island]

This is the link to heart emoji encoder https://foamyguy.github.io/Love_Language/

[open girder]

🖤🩵💜🩶💜🧡💜💟💜💖💛🩷🖤🤍💜💝🖤💙💛🧡

[smoky island]

That kickstand is so slick, great job on the case!

[tulip canyon]

Have you seen the movie Sneakers (1992)? Old Cryptography movie I recently re-watched. Still kind of holds up. fun watch

[open girder]

gpt-oss is setec astronomy

[smoky island]

I haven't yet, I need to watch it. I've been recommended it a few times and it definitely seems right up my alley.

That is cool Paul! Love to see projects where people solve some practical little thing in their life. Great job!

[open surge]

Here's my write up on SongMatrix: https://www.paulcutler.org/project/songmatrix/

[open surge]

thanks!

[upbeat coral]

Thank you to those who shared.

[tulip canyon]

Great projects all, thanks for sharing.

[viral sail]

Great projects everyone. Thanks for sharing.

[open girder]

the project we want to make is a particle tachyon iot device that uses shazam and the new 25 megabyte voice model. we want to put it inside a toy parrot—not a real parrot, just something that looks like one. when it hears a song, it'll say the name and title of the track. for us, it'll squawk, "you're listening to joy division again, squawk." based on current trends, there's a 67% chance we'll actually finish this prototype within the next six months.

whoops, that was ziggy

more later

[tulip canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/quantum-leap-dean-stockwell-al-calavicci-blackberry-smartphone-gif-10468205970853907550

Just received my Particle Tachyon!

[dim knot]

YouTube is saying the show is scheduled to start in 25 mins. Just FYI. I'm guessing it might be a bit before or a bit after.

[open girder]

WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! ASK AN ENGINEER! https://youtu.be/8j7sjcudKCM

[dim knot]

2.66" 296x152 Monochrome or Gray eInk / ePaper - Bare Display - SSD1680 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6392

3.7" 416x240 Tri-Color Red / Black / White eInk - Bare Display - UC8253 Chipset https://www.adafruit.com/product/6394

3.7" 416x240 Monochrome Black/White eInk / ePaper - Bare Display - UC8253 Chipset https://www.adafruit.com/product/6395

7.5" 800x480 Monochrome eInk / ePaper - Bare Display - UC8197 Chipset https://www.adafruit.com/product/6396

[open girder]

10% off! Use code: ossai on checkout, expires 11:59PM ET! https://www.adafruit.com & https://youtu.be/8j7sjcudKCM

[dim knot]

Adafruit QMC5883P - Triple Axis Magnetometer - STEMMA QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/6388

Adafruit NeoPot - Clear Shaft Potentiometer with RGB NeoPixel https://www.adafruit.com/product/6387

[tulip canyon]

These would go great https://www.adafruit.com/product/5676

aka TinyML or EdgeML or Sovereign AI

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us.

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌔

[tulip canyon]

Love to see more of what you are doing with the Bantamtools Artframe

Thanks for the stream

[grand tusk]

Great show!

[open surge]

👋

[split gazelle]

hiiiii

[haughty quiver]

hello everyone!

just cranking up the YouTube

[ivory flax]

Top of the afternoon to you JP and all you creative makers

[old surge]

👋

[vagrant flax]

hello! 👋

[wind spoke]

empty?

Chat was empty. 😉

On YT maybe...

[cinder wind]

Hi hi. Is this the live-fruitcast-jam channel?

[wind spoke]

Don't forget to tell us your plan for the Circuit Python Day...

[dusk socket]

sound

[split gazelle]

@haughty quiver muted

[wind spoke]

I have noSOUND

[old surge]

No sound @haughty quiver

[ivory flax]

Sound

[cinder wind]

JP has sound and that's all that really matters

[wind spoke]

Read my lips.

[old surge]

No, this is the almost-live-fruitstock-jam channel 😉

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/star-y2k-black-and-white-black-white-gif-15442611332630963502

[old surge]

I thought Zed was dead? (Couldn't help the movie reference, sorry...)

[cinder wind]

so long ago! https://todbot.com/blog/2008/02/18/wiichuck-wii-nunchuck-adapter-available/

[old surge]

I don't think I knew there was an Adafruit nunchuk adapter board - that's really cool

Yeah, the grid makes it pop. Is that a 3d printed part?

[ivory flax]

What is the dimensions of each of the grids .5.x.5 or smaller

[old surge]

Yup, looks cool even without the grid - you really can't make them look bad!

[cedar coral]

https://pbs.twimg.com/tweet_video_thumb/ETqDUJyXYAA3zNt?format=jpg&name=360x360

The 8x8 fits in a wide mouth mason jar.

[ivory flax]

You have give me sooooo many ideas with these panels. Never thought of the sparkle board to drive a cube

[vagrant flax]

I made the version that uses the 16x16 flexible panel a few years ago and incidentally these little stands that adafruit sells worked great with them https://www.adafruit.com/product/1679

[wind spoke]

Wait, is there an API to check how many in stock???
I have a usecase for that...

[cinder wind]

aww no JPs in stock and they're only $39.95

[tulip canyon]

"Call in the next 30 minutes and we'll include a second unit, absolutely free. Just pay separate shipping and handeling.."

[old surge]

JP's a bargain!

[unreal bay]

Super cool JP! How often are you updating the stock count?

[wind spoke]

If you could change that 0 to something else...

[unreal bay]

https://www.adafruit.com/products_api
[Useful docs page]

[old surge]

Would be a good resource for learning to access this type of API information, too

[vagrant flax]

can make a device with one of those siren lights to go off whenever fruit jams are in stock

[wind spoke]

Limit your rate of usage to 5 requests per minute or less.

[old surge]

Does it require a Fruit Jam? 😉

[vagrant flax]

😂 nah just a wifi-capable MCU and one of those lights I guess

[unreal bay]

There's a single page for all products too, preferably use that instead of lots of single product requests.
But I've got a thing doing 100 fetches at midnight so no issue so far

[wind spoke]

Can it also display "mother-of-pearl"?
Is there an API for the code?

Nope, that is the product we are watching...

[shell mason]

fruitjam trellis

[vagrant flax]

I hope we see a lot of neat little fruit jam games. seems perfectly suited for it 😄

[shell mason]

lars pearl

[old surge]

Thanks for the stream, JP! Fun as always!

[vagrant flax]

Thanks JP! Have a great weekend!

[wind spoke]

Where do you store all of your old project???

[unreal bay]

Thanks JP!

[haughty quiver]

storage is a huge problem, @wind spoke !

[open surge]

@haughty quiver Are you on Thursday or Friday next week for CircuitPython Day?

[haughty quiver]

boxes on shelves

[wind spoke]

He will pre-record something.

[haughty quiver]

@open surge I'm planning to pre-record on Thurs for airing on Friday

[open surge]

thanks!

[inner spade]

Thanks for the workshop stream, JP!

[grim void]

any chance for an update to the learn guide for the DarkSaber to use the "New" RP2040 PropMaker feather ?

[open girder]

Desk of Ladyada - Drivers, Tachyons & Heat Sinks – Oh Boy!

Fresh drivers for Bosch BMP5xx sensors & LiPoly chargers, plus Particle Tachyon fun with web-console shell + Blinka support! 🚀 Also, heat sink tips for TO-220s - https://youtu.be/ek0IEFQZsVo

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/grant-gustin-barry-allen-the-flash-sushi-food-gif-5457094

the tachyons i remember flash show

[verbal river]

Bye

[ivory flax]

Hi JP and all you makers

[old surge]

👋

[split gazelle]

hiiii

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[echo canopy]

heyyy

[cinder wind]

No that’s right I’m in the black hole

I’m actually walking home from the gym and get to listen to JP and tap messages on discord. Tech can be magical

[old surge]

The show is inside the webpage?!

[tulip kestrel]

Will this work for making a portable raspberry pi

@haughty quiver

[old surge]

( Ooo, 'salient', nice vocabulary word, JP! )

[echo canopy]

QUESTION ❓I might have overloaded, but don’t see an answer… as long as the voltage is in rage of the solar panel, can you use a “ ginormous” one that would do well in low light and deliver close to the full Amp?

[cinder wind]

“This is a mission-critical CircuitPlayground Express”

[old surge]

That's a cool use-case: project UPS

[tulip kestrel]

Can you post a link to one that works please? @haughty quiver

[echo canopy]

Also is the the load pins able to go directly into a feather batt pin ?

[old surge]

Sensor projects like, say, monitoring the water level in a coffee machine water tank?

[echo canopy]

Thanks for the clarification .. multitasking while working from home @haughty quiver

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[tulip kestrel]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[old surge]

Thanks, @haughty quiver !

[inner spade]

Thanks JP! Always fun to shop on Tuesdays with ya!

[haughty quiver]

thanks very much all!

[open surge]

thanks jp!

[haughty quiver]

that's a great question, I'm not sure, but I'd like to try it out. I have one of the solar panels off my roof right now... hmmm......

[tulip kestrel]

Would this "https://www.adafruit.com/product/5704"
work to make my pis portable and if so what is the calculation from mAh to how many hours it can last on a single charge? @haughty quiver

[strange mantle]

hours ~= current_used_by_pi_and_accessories_in_milliamps / battery_mAh

[open girder]

Link to join to show and share your project! & watch it live or later! https://streamyard.com/me7qki5pqd

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

Almost convinced myself no S&T tonight because of Friday celebration

B&W?

[bold roost]

That magnetic rotary encoder is super cool!

[delicate fractal]

I'll give you at least 600 seconds to post the source!

[haughty quiver]

yay @still bane and @bold roost for the gamepad work and this Fruitris! game

[open surge]

@bold roost so awesome, thank you for Fruitris. 🙂

[upbeat coral]

Thanks to all who shared.

[bold roost]

Thanks for letting me rant about my game today, everyone! Here's more info if you're wanting to learn more ❤️ https://adafruit-playground.com/u/relic_se/pages/fruit-jam-fruitris-tetris

[open girder]

THAT WAS AWESOME @bold roost

[ashen dove]

does anyone know why I can't post a question in ask-an-engineer-questions?

[open girder]

ASK AN ENGINEER 8/13/2025 LIVE! https://youtu.be/C-6sr1VylhU

[viral sail]

Good evening.

[unreal raptor]

I think it only works when the broadcast is live wait a few moments...

[cinder wind]

whoa it's like they're in Pleasantville!

[tulip canyon]

Speaking of funky graphics, anyone using TouchDesigner? Seems to be everywhere lately.

Software is not JUST for robots

But man it's good... 🙂

[ashen dove]

I still can't post a question in ask-an-engineer-questions.

[tulip canyon]

Ask here 👇

[ashen dove]

I will post this question here: does the feather esp32-s2 have pull up resistors on the board for I2C? I am only getting down to 122µA in deep sleep and Grok says there might be soldered on resistors on SDA and SCL.

[tulip kestrel]

question: Would this "https://www.adafruit.com/product/5704"
(Witty Pi 4 HAT - RTC & Power Management for Raspberry Pi)
work to make my pis portable and if so what is the calculation from mAh to how many hours it can last on a single charge?

[cinder wind]

love that Arduino is doing castellated pads now too

[dim knot]

2.13" 212x104 Flexible Monochrome / 4-Gray eInk ePaper Display - ILI0373 Chipset https://www.adafruit.com/product/4243

5.83" 648x480 Monochrome Black / White eInk / ePaper - Bare Display - UC8179 Chipset https://www.adafruit.com/product/6397

Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit TPS61169 Breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/6402

Adafruit JST PH Remover / Puller for LiPoly / LiIon Batteries https://www.adafruit.com/product/6391

Adafruit MLX90632 FIR Remote Thermal Temperature Sensor - Medical Grade STEMMA QT / Qwiic https://www.adafruit.com/product/6403

[cinder wind]

love the cool motion graphics visuals

[dim knot]

https://learn.adafruit.com/

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us.

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌖

[cinder wind]

thanks Limor, thanks pt!

[tulip canyon]

Thanks Adafruit

[unique cairn]

According to chapter 4.6 of the ESP32-S2 datasheet, ~180 μA at 3.3 V is expected in deep sleep when the ULP co-processor is active.

[gaunt plume]

Hello, happy CircuitPython Day!

[split gazelle]

[tulip canyon]

Happy CircuitPython Day everyone!

[open surge]

Good morning and Happy CircuitPython Day!

[rocky reef]

good morning folks, happy CP Day! 🐍

[vagrant flax]

good morning 👋

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

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

CircuitPython Day 2025:
https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/07/28/circuitpython-day-is-august-15-2025/

Learn Guide:
https://learn.adafruit.com/midi-keyset

KB2040:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5302

1.3in OLED Display:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/938

CHOC Key Switches:
https://www.adafruit.com/product/5114

[tulip canyon]

Musical instruments for big kids

Playskööl

[rocky reef]

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

CircuitPython Downloads - https://circuitpython.org/

[tulip canyon]

The lever and inverted keys is really clever

[strange mantle]

what multi color 3d printer did you use for the case?

[hard hollow]

https://learn.adafruit.com/midi-for-makers/

[strange mantle]

neat! amazing how well that printed. really clean break between the colors.

[old surge]

Happy CircuitPython Day, everyone! 🎉

[hard hollow]

https://makerworld.com/en/models/1663828-soul-flower#profileId-1760536

[rocky reef]

https://www.printables.com/make/2790351?comment_id=2790351

https://www.printables.com/make/2789259?comment_id=2789259

https://www.printables.com/make/2779311?comment_id=2779311

[lyric frost]

👋

[smoky island]

Thanks for kicking off the day, great stream 👋

[vagrant flax]

great show, thanks @rocky reef @hard hollow

[tulip canyon]

Thanks fellas

[gaunt plume]

thanks ruiz'

[strange mantle]

thanks!

[old surge]

Thanks!

[open surge]

thanks Pedro and Noe!

[unreal bay]

Thanks guys!

[viral sail]

Thanks @hard hollow & @rocky reef . Have a great weekend.

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for hanging out on the snakey day 🐍

[strange mantle]

great UI on that midi project as well!

[hard hollow]

thanks folks happy CircuitPython day!

[split gazelle]

next stream is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/T-r9WVUFubk

coupon code: snakebyte for 15% off in the adafruit shop

[unique cairn]

Any plans for displayio support on Blinka? Specifically to emulate the Fruit Jam.

[rapid hornet]

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka_Displayio

[lyric frost]

Thanks! 👋

[old surge]

Thank you @paper peak and @rapid hornet !

[gaunt plume]

thanks dan and scott!

[rapid hornet]

no problem! excited for cp 10

[smoky island]

Another sweet new thing with 10 is emoji support with lvfontio

[gaunt plume]

love that

[rapid hornet]

I forgot 🙂

[inner spade]

Perhaps a comprehensive CircuitPython information collection specifically designed for LLMs to use as a reference and examples foundation.

[rapid hornet]

I think we could have a standard prompt doc with pointers to those resources

(or improve our readme for it)

we definitely need to have a section to update llm cp knowledge for apis that have changed

[split gazelle]

next session is here in 4 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/live/187JYu-cI_4

[gaunt plume]

https://io.adafruit.com/welcome

If you purchase an Adafruit IO+ one year pass and use code snakebyte, a yearly subscription is $84 instead of $99

[inner spade]

Being able to extract local weather data and place into a feed is a fantastic feature!

[torpid geyser]

thank you!

[inner spade]

That will comprehensively simplify one of my projects. Thanks!

[gaunt plume]

thats the goal! if you think of anything else like this that will help you simplify your projects - let us know 🙂

[split gazelle]

huge ups to @gaunt plume and @torpid geyser for organically keeping it to 30 minutes 🤘

[smoky island]

Thanks for the stream! Neat stuff going on in IO land

[inner spade]

I’m also impressed with image support and the built-in capability to enhance low-res bitmaps. Nice.

[split gazelle]

next session is starting meow: https://www.youtube.com/live/kJO-ru6QouA

[lethal lagoon]

hey yall!

happy Circuit Python Day!

[tulip canyon]

Love the finish/weathering

[lethal lagoon]

thanks so much @tulip canyon !

[strange mantle]

what was the film?

[lethal lagoon]

the film is still in production, it's called Happy Thoughts, it's a sci fi short film by a director/crew located in Nashville

they filmed throughout the course of a year so they could get the outdoor environment different seasons

i'll definitely share when the film is out 😄

[dusk socket]

thank for the all the great props you have showed us, great job from the both of you .

[lethal lagoon]

thanks @starman !

[smoky island]

That is awesome. I'm awful at soldering wires. Those look so convenient.

[nova totem]

Cooling in helmets (and costumes) is so nice but so hard. Great to see this.

[open surge]

very cool @lethal lagoon - thank you for sharing!

[split gazelle]

thank you so much @lethal lagoon !

[bold roost]

Great show!

[old surge]

Thanks for sharing, @lethal lagoon ! Very cool stuff!

[tulip canyon]

Thanks for sharing Sophy. Look forward to seeing more builds

[dusk socket]

great job Liz and Sophy

[split gazelle]

next session is prof. g: https://www.youtube.com/live/hUPt08tCYNM

[lethal lagoon]

Thanks for watching yall! Here's a link to those connectors: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09BHW6BWC?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

[old surge]

(Extra hug reports for @split gazelle for great work herding the cats today!)

[lethal lagoon]

Yes! Thanks so much @split gazelle for hosting and organizing!

[dusk socket]

I have been looking forward to this I really enjoy his programs on the Youtub.

[split gazelle]

Prof. G is really fantastic

[rapid hornet]

@lethal lagoon how much data do you store in eeprom? CircuitPython has nvm that can do that too

[nova totem]

The older I get the more I need that medication reminder

[old surge]

Guten Tag, Leonard!

[smoky island]

I love those columns. Nice touch to separate the sensor box so it can be pointed around different ways.

[bold roost]

Wish my classes were this cool!

[old surge]

Oh, to work in that space regularly

[nova totem]

The meeting I’m in is definitely not that cool

[split gazelle]

it's such an amazing space. there's a whole back room too with woodworking gear, like lathes, table saw, etc

[old surge]

It's all I've ever wanted to have at home - just have to figure out how to add the electronics lab to my woodworking equipment 🤔 (Plus really good dust control)

[cinder wind]

Yay @junior niche ! Thanks for all your videos!

[open surge]

Check out @junior niche's YouTube channel with CircuitPython School: https://www.youtube.com/@BuildWithProfG

[smoky island]

Thanks for the stream and all of great educational material Prof G! Really cool to have a look into the cassroom and projects!

[split gazelle]

now there is going to be a break for a bit until 4PM ET/1PM PT for a LIVE episode of The Bootloader Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/live/05c2LV6krvM

[old surge]

Very cool stuff, @junior niche ! Thank you for sharing

[open surge]

We're doing this live starting in a few minutes, so if you have comments or questions, let us know

[cinder wind]

Is this the live-podcast-chat channel?

[old surge]

Is this the live-todcast-cutler channel?

[tulip canyon]

Load up your boots

[old surge]

🎶 These boots are made for loadin' 🎶

Woot! Thank you, Anne!

[tulip canyon]

That's cool, didn't know those existed. Thankful for the learn guide with FontForge

https://learn.adafruit.com/custom-fonts-for-pyportal-circuitpython-display/conversion

[nova totem]

Finding good fonts was always a challenge in the past

[split gazelle]

i switched from mu to vs code with this extension and its so great

[cinder wind]

https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython-fonts
my code shown: https://gist.github.com/todbot/b966f51307aca8dab64af70dc2954aee
And the T-Display S3 board: https://lilygo.cc/products/t-display-s3?variant=42284559827125

[nova totem]

I have to try this out again, I think I only did for about 5 minutes

[split gazelle]

i've got a guide here too: https://learn.adafruit.com/using-the-circuitpython-extension-for-visual-studio-code

[nova totem]

If I install Fruitris I may not do anything else, dangerous advice ha

[old surge]

Thank you, @open surge and @cinder wind !

[nova totem]

👋

[smoky island]

Awesome lineup of stuff. Thanks for the show!

[tulip canyon]

Thanks Paul and Tod, always learn tons listening to The Bootloader

[lyric frost]

Thanks! 👋

[open surge]

thanks all!

[split gazelle]

thank you paul and tod!

[cinder wind]

Sam's awesome projects: https://adafruit-playground.com/u/SamBlenny/pages

[split gazelle]

last but not least for circuitpython day is foamyguy's game jam coming up at 6:30 ET/3:30 PT: https://www.youtube.com/live/32-_lSzz_jk

[cinder wind]

Can't wait to play with foamyguy's FruitJam OS.

[ivory flax]

Is there a discount code for all this goodness

[split gazelle]

• snakebyte 🙂

[open surge]

Oops, lol

[old surge]

👋 Hiya, Tim - happy CircuitPython Day! It's been a fun day. What really grabbed your attention from what our group of amazing presenters offered? I really appreciated the insight Dan and Scott gave into how CP has evolved/will evolve over the course of v9 to v10

Yeah, Sophy's presentation of the design considerations that were involved in that helmet was amazing! And I wish I had a prof like Prof G/access to a course like that when I was in college

[red folio]

Adabot head with zombi body. 😛

[cinder wind]

Pump up the Fruit Jam

You're using PyCharm, foamy?

oh wow! You are real Python coder 🙂

I've been meaning to follow ProfG's PyCharm CE (free version) and try it out for CirPy development. Thanks for the +1 of it

[still bane]

@smoky island If you want some sample code that does gamepads and HID keyboard with a gamepad emulation mapping: https://adafruit-playground.com/u/SamBlenny/pages/fruit-jam-two-gamepad-demo

you can totally ignore the async stuff if you only want to do one gamepad

it's only set up that way to do two at the same time

[lyric frost]

It's a little fidgety but if you click just before the link and then drag-select the rest of the url, you can then right-click and "copy link"

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder Team for sharing the CircuitPython Day content. Have a great weekend everyone.

[old surge]

Thanks for the stream, @smoky island ! Glad to spend CP Day with you all!

[lyric frost]

Thanks! 👋

[tulip canyon]

Thanks Tim, Happy CircuitPython Day all!

[cinder wind]

thanks Foamy!

[inner spade]

@torpid geyser @gaunt plume ... and the extraction action worked perfectly. You folks are amazing! Thank you!

[old surge]

Say, wasn't there meant to be a pre-recorded John Park's Workshop yesterday for CircuitPython Day?

[smoky island]

I am picking back up work on the maze game this morning if anyone wants to follow along we're on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXRSLTD-NIQ and twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch

[inner spade]

☕ ☕ 👋

[inner spade]

Very good progress. Thanks for the stream!

[open girder]

Desk of Ladyada - Blinka x Tachyon, BMP585, VEML6046, e-Ink bonnet 🧪📟🖥️
Testing the BMP585, VEML6046, e-Ink bonnet, Particle Tachyon, plus updates on Blinka + CircuitPython support. Also on The Great Search: hunting a 24-bit I2C ADC for RTD sensors. Watch 👉 https://youtu.be/Gx2dj6lK-w8

[brazen quail]

Will the dual serial port to single USB board be out soon you have on GitHub ?

[steep mica]

Just unboxed my Tachyon this afternoon, stoked to try Blinka

[open girder]

@brazen quail still workin on the tester, so no eta, but wanna get to it soon

[gray obsidian]

aww, too loud that jingle 😛

open windows at 2am, I don't want to wake up the neighbors 😅

[shell mason]

great search agan

[gray obsidian]

great great search 😄

bye!

[haughty quiver]

hello

[open surge]

👋

[inner spade]

🔋 👋 🔋

[old surge]

👋

Hi, JP! We missed you on CircuitPython Day!

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/inazuma-eleven-go-chrono-stone-inago-cs-anime-nobunaga-era-hissatsu-gif-21873908

very cool setup for split boost

[old surge]

Looks very useful for testing/playing with analog IO sensor data

Thanks, JP!

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[dim knot]

hELLO, wORLD.

Darn caps lock!

[blissful apex]

hello

[tulip canyon]

👋

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[open surge]

👋

[open girder]

Link to join to show and share your project! & watch it live or later! https://streamyard.com/5ss6zsbviy & https://youtu.be/sx_HeBglcXs

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[smoky island]

Love the way the light shines through those petals. That is really cool!

[tulip canyon]

Past UI of the Future

Use with a Compaq

[mellow arrow]

One of these weeks I will get my act together and share my 3-axis camera slider (codes in CircuitPython) but for now I am enamored but the cool projects people are sharing!

[dim knot]

OLPC - one laptop per child - it had a cool transflective LCD screen that worked in full sunlight!

[mellow arrow]

I still have a working OLPC

[haughty quiver]

wow!

[mellow arrow]

My OLPC currently runs Fedora.

[haughty quiver]

that would be neat to see on S&T sometime

[mellow arrow]

I should do it as part of a retro computing theme. I am finishing up a RetroMod of an Osborne 1

[dim knot]

Everything I know about UNIX I learned from Jurassic Park. 🙂

[haughty quiver]

haha -- just that Irix 3D filesystem demo is all we needed 🙂

[tulip canyon]

https://tenor.com/view/butter-robot-gif-21973199

[viral sail]

Thanks everyone for sharing.

[mellow arrow]

Woohoo

[upbeat coral]

Thank you to all who shared

[tulip canyon]

Thanks all

[smoky patrol]

Where can I find the link to the Ask An Engineer from last week and the one for this week?

[still bane]

start at https://adafruit.com, look for the "LIVE!" link in the header. That will take you to Adafruit's YouTube channel.

you can browse through old videos from there

If there is a scheduled upcoming live video, the LIVE! link will take you directly to the page for that video. In that case, you can get to the list of old stuff by clicking on the Adafruit Industries channel name link and navigating to the Live tab.

[tulip canyon]

https://www.youtube.com/@adafruit/streams

[open girder]

WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! ASK AN ENGINEER! https://youtu.be/uNOWcs0czhs

[brazen quail]

Is there a way to have a high side FET, without a bunch of other components ? I like the simplicity of your FET board ! I want something like it, but instead one side of the load to be at ground.

[tulip canyon]

Yay Blinka on Tachyon

[open girder]

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

[tulip canyon]

plugging in uFl GPS/GNSS was the hardest thing I did all week

[ionic crag]

i actualy have a bucket of those all those supplies...

[shy topaz]

I have two buckets - going to recycle next week.

[dim knot]

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 - 5" 720x1280 with Capacitive Touch - SC1975 https://www.adafruit.com/product/6408

FeatherS3[D] ESP32-S3 by Unexpected Maker https://www.adafruit.com/product/6399

ProS3[D] ESP32-S3 by Unexpected Maker https://www.adafruit.com/product/6398

TinyS3[D] ESP32-S3 by Unexpected Maker https://www.adafruit.com/product/6401

Snap-on Enclosure for Adafruit USB Type C CC Resistor Fixer https://www.adafruit.com/product/6409

Slim Right Angle USB C to USB C Cable - 23mm https://www.adafruit.com/product/6367

Slim Right Angle USB C to USB C Cable - 40mm https://www.adafruit.com/product/6368

Slim Right Angle USB C to USB C Cable - 75mm https://www.adafruit.com/product/6372

Slim Right Angle USB C to USB C Cable - 75mm - Opposite Plugs https://www.adafruit.com/product/6369

Slim Right Angle USB C to USB C Cable - 100mm https://www.adafruit.com/product/6370

Slim Right Angle USB C to USB C Cable - 150mm https://www.adafruit.com/product/6371

Adafruit BMP581 I2C or SPI Temperature Humidity Pressure Sensor - STEMMA QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/6407

[tulip kestrel]

are you going to do top secret today?

[echo canopy]

Question @open girder

The Adafruit MLX90632 FIR Remote Thermal Temperature Sensor —- would it be able to detect a human if you had it set in a hallway ? // can it be used for security?

Thanks

[rich wing]

Any suggestions for a local AI to help sort photos locally?

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us.

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌘

[tulip canyon]

Thank you Adafruit

[open girder]

@rich wing here is what a llm said, i would review it of course, etc

[mellow arrow]

The circuit for using a MOSFET to switch a source is pretty ubiquitous but, like you, I wanted something simpler to assemble, the solution is called a "load switch" which is the high side circuit all combined together into a simple little 6-pin package.

I have used this to switch a 5V output using a 3.3V logic pin.

Here is the one I use: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tps22919.pdf

[old surge]

👋

[open surge]

👋

[old surge]

(I'm pretty sure I've just used lower-case letters for the codes...)

The word you're looking for is window sash

(Anyone else getting dropped audio occasionally?)

[open surge]

Yes, I'm getting some dropped audio

[old surge]

I think audio dropping is getting worse, @haughty quiver

[dusk socket]

You are braking up real bad John

[old surge]

Didn't want to interrupt, but was making it difficult to follow along your explanation!

🫡

(Audio seems to have stabilized 🤞 )

[dusk socket]

you are good to go

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[dusk socket]

Good Job

[old surge]

https://tenor.com/view/thumbs-up-approval-approved-alright-good-gif-10133682355625029537

Much better!

Uh-oh, you're asking a lot from that computer, JP

Volume would be nice, but that's already very cool!

[cinder wind]

Has JP's show started yet?

ahahah oops I am late

[old surge]

(Audio still good, had a few moments of the stream drop during code compilation, but has normalized. Had to refresh YT to resync the audio)

[cinder wind]

JP is the Bluetooth HID Master!

Adafruit search is down for me too

[tulip canyon]

Search Error
Too many search errors

[old surge]

Not-so-great search?

[open surge]

No 3D Hangouts next week

[grand tusk]

Thanks JP!

[tulip canyon]

Thanks JP

[open surge]

thanks JP, good show!

[old surge]

Thanks so much, JP! Glad we got to hear your Parsec properly!

[dusk socket]

Great job JP had fun

[haughty quiver]

thanks!

[strange mantle]

search should be fixed now

[haughty quiver]

@vagrant flax your game is great! I have a loooong way to go to get to 32767...

[vagrant flax]

Thanks @haughty quiver 😄 Once you start getting upgrades you'll be getting higher scores in no time. Love the way it looks on that gorgeous display!

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[old surge]

👋 ☕ Hiya Tim! Hope you're doing well this beautiful Friday

[clever summit]

Well, most important - CircuitPython is available in swedish. Thanks to me. 🙂

[old surge]

Yeah, also doing well, thanks. Just finished up (unexpectedly) writing a proto-LSP server for CircuitPython with Claude Code.

Yes, exactly - LSP = Language Server Protocol for completion, etc.

[clever summit]

Both boxes looks wrong. 🙂

Try it with a normal font as well. Might be an issue with the font?

Put them next to each other

[old surge]

With the green box up at the top of the screen, was that located the same way you would locate the pink one?

Yes, there's definitely something to do with the font as the script-like font apparently specifically imagines 'ruled lines'

[autumn kernel]

could it be somehow reversing a sign for one vs the other. The one box looked like it has a border that caused the background to be wider while the other one had the reverse where the background was smaller by the same amount.

yea that one shows the differences.

[clever summit]

The gap at the top is for characters like ÅÄÖ

"Umlauts"

[old surge]

I'm thinking about how those lines would 'stack' on top of one another and not, for example, interfere with the descender for the 'g', etc.

[old surge]

'diacritical marks'

Yes, but don't the two types seem to use different logic for stacking: one where you need to be careful to leave space, and one where space is 'built in'?

Ah, now I follow - must've missed while typing 😅

Orientations?

Oh, so like LTR, RTL, TB, BT?

[tulip canyon]

Hey Tim, does display text label or bitmap label have a line-height attribute?

Thanks, I always get confused with these two different uses

[clever summit]

Also; ÅÄÖ actually don't have diacritical marks, they are separate characters in the swedish language.

[old surge]

From wikipedia: "In typography and handwriting, an ascender is the portion of a minuscule letter in a Latin-derived alphabet that extends above the mean line of a font."

[tulip canyon]

If anyone is wants more design type knowledge, there is no other than the type bible
https://archive.org/details/the-elements-of-typographic-style-robert-bringhurst-z-lib.org

[old surge]

(Looking at ascenders/descenders reminds me of grade school penmanship paper, with the blue line = the ascender height, the red = the base line, the dashed = the mean line, and the next-lower blue line limits the descenders extending below the red/base line)

[tulip canyon]

I'm using JP's trick of getting the label.bounding_box
Then centering the label based on size.
label.x = round(display.width / 2 - bbwidth)

[old surge]

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

[tulip canyon]

Thanks Tim! Have a great night all

[smoky island]

I am back on the trail of the text bug this morning. If anyone wants to follow along I'm on YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuwt7CO6WkY and twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch

[inner spade]

👋 ☕

[tulip canyon]

print("AllTheThings!")

Hey regarding the chained assignment
xposition = x_start = yposition = y_start = 0
"While convenient for immutable objects like numbers or strings, chained assignment can lead to unexpected behavior when dealing with mutable objects (e.g., lists, dictionaries). If you assign a mutable object using chained assignment, all variables in the chain will refer to the same object in memory. This means that if you modify the object through one variable, the changes will be reflected in all other variables that point to the same object."

[tulip canyon]

There is a lot going on in that label. I didn't know it measured the font as it goes.

I feel you could simplfy and base the layout on the character 'M'

I'm curious why negative numbers are used. Displayio is (0,0) top left?

Definitely seems like a relative coordinate system.
I'm really thankful for anchor_point and anchor_position. Does that get set by default?

[tulip canyon]

I wonder if there would be a difference here using a monospace font?
Also when does Scale get involved?

I found a comment in the library
"# Note: Scaling is provided at the Group level"

👍

[inner spade]

✅

Thanks Tim!

[tulip canyon]

Thanks Tim, great work, keep 'er 'tight' 😉

[open girder]

Desk of Ladyada - Prototyping CAN FD Featherwing & BFFs 🚗⚡

Plus, we’re exploring USB Type C PD w/ PPS & wrapping up the STHS34PF80 driver! Check out our deep dive & upgrades on The Desk of Ladyada + The Great Search! 📺 Watch - https://youtu.be/ptht_t0JNZY

[slow spire]

Hi everyone!

Looking forward to the Learn Guide on DIY rare earth mineral mining in our victory gardens.

Oooh! Asking Claude to include the unported original code in inline comments is the best tip of the week. Thank you for that!

[shell mason]

nice overheads

Flexible can nice

[slow spire]

Futureproofing.

[shell mason]

that was good great search

[slow spire]

Thanks, @open girder

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[open surge]

good afternoon!

[ivory flax]

Hi JP and all you makers

[old surge]

👋 Hello everybody!

[tacit garnet]

Time to step up.

[echo canopy]

Heyy

[tacit garnet]

In 4 5. It's spooky maker season.

[open surge]

When you buy the stepper motor driver, you may want to add a Fruit Jam to your cart (it's in stock!)

[haughty quiver]

thanks all!

[waxen bough]

Fruit Jam looks cool! Why don't that put on in the next(?) Adabox?

[smoky patrol]

Anything happening this afternoon. Is there a mailing list about what is planned?

[robust horizon]

?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

[robust horizon]

in principle, Show & Tell is up soon, followed by Ask an Engineer

[smoky patrol]

I keep looking, but...

Is https://www.youtube.com/adafruit the right place to look?

[robust horizon]

try https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live or https://adafru.it/live for live streams.

[open girder]

Link to join to show and share your project! & watch it live or later! https://streamyard.com/2ts9zjftan & https://youtu.be/8kbF7KK0Nx0

[smoky island]

👋 Good evening everyone

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[open surge]

hey all

[haughty quiver]

hi all!

[smoky island]

Super cool bringing micropython to this plat form. Awesome job Jeff!

[open surge]

it's Python inception!

[pearl shoal]

Great to see you all

[robust horizon]

https://github.com/m68k-micropython/

[pearl shoal]

Lots in AT here. Customer screens on a pc showing options. Chris will use this

Could be a simple AAC device into a monitor

[haughty quiver]

great slideshow @robust horizon !

[viral sail]

Thanks for sharing everyone.

[upbeat coral]

Thank you all who shared

[robust horizon]

Dresden Technical Collection photos (plus a tiny bit from the british National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park) https://photos.app.goo.gl/f6XQ7Z74u9F8vMwK9 -- dithered version https://photos.app.goo.gl/dCX6eNJ5QaTUJjB66 [corrected]

German Museum website: https://tsd.de/ TNMOC https://www.tnmoc.org/ -- both are worth a visit, depending whether you're up for an international flight.

G'night all!

[smoky patrol]

when will ask an engineer be on?

[open girder]

in 2 mins! @smoky patrol

WE ARE LIVE in BROOKLYN! ASK AN ENGINEER! https://youtu.be/TAIcYsAClq4

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

[upbeat coral]

I can barely hear you over the background robot band

[haughty quiver]

perfect!

we could hear you

[upbeat coral]

Did you see the Pack of Robot dogs on AGT last night?

[open girder]

really? ii will soon@

will watch

[dim knot]

7.5" 800x480 Tri-Color eInk / ePaper - Bare Display https://www.adafruit.com/product/6415

I'm always down for a water skiing squirrel.

Adafruit 3.52" 340x180 Quad-Color eInk / ePaper - Bare Display https://www.adafruit.com/product/6414

[severe inlet]

Can you do gradations of red and yellow on the multi-color e-ink displays like you can do grayscale on black and white displays?

[dim knot]

Adafruit BMP580 I2C or SPI Temperature and Pressure Sensor - STEMMA QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/6411

Adafruit BMP585 Ported I2C / SPI Temperature and Pressure Sensor - STEMMA QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/6413

[viral sail]

Thanks @open girder and good night. 🌒

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us

[open surge]

👋

[haughty quiver]

hi!

[dusk socket]

Hi John more fun for today !!!

[clever summit]

🇸🇪 👋

[ivory flax]

Hi JP and everyone playing with circuitpython

[old surge]

👋

[ivory flax]

Wow that was loud in your replay

[dusk socket]

Can not hear you

[old surge]

Yes, loud compared to your current(previous) vol. Sounds better to me!

[ivory flax]

That's better

[dusk socket]

your show was way down on volume to start out had to turn it way uo

[ivory flax]

Thought I was going deaf

[old surge]

(Maybe just a hair down? You've got some distortion in now)

[ivory flax]

Your Mike is clipping you a bit. Sound like a carnival man

[cinder wind]

is this the live-spaceship-chat channel?

"Invasori dello Spazio!"

JP doing the JJAbrams with the lens flare

[open surge]

I was thinking the exact same thing. 🙂

[old surge]

Me three 😅

[cinder wind]

One of the coolest things about the RP2 series of chips (Pico2(RP2350), Pico (RP2040)) is being able to get an entire image of the flash as a UF2 file using picotool. Makes it super easy to give to someone else

[ionic crag]

48k of ram....

6502... em...

[viral sail]

Interesting that apple ][ hasn't attained an advanced state of "old computer yellow."

[cinder wind]

Yep for Arduino you can get UF2 files too. Turn on "verbose upload" and you can find the temp compile directory printed and the location of the UF2 file. On my Mac, it looks like /Users/tod/Library/Caches/arduino/sketches/2C5829F9A47E6A95A12E294E495A68D7/Blink.ino.uf2 (with each sketch having a different temp directory)

[strange mantle]

^^ i think there's a menu option for that as well? in the arduino ide

[ionic crag]

1. smell of smoke demons?

[cinder wind]

for showing the sketch folder (where your .ino files lives) but not the build products

[ionic crag]

mobo good then.

contacts might be crusty....

catalog = file directory

[strange mantle]

yah, i can't find it now. i also just grab from the location found in the compile output. something /tmp on linux 🙂

[old surge]

"Here's one I've cooked before..." (Please no! 😄 )

[ionic crag]

can you look at it with a thermal image... see a hot chip?

[open surge]

45 years is a pretty good run for 16k RAM

[ionic crag]

could also be a shorted cap

[cinder wind]

"The game told you not to go North and you went North!"

[ionic crag]

oooh.... looking crustie from old rosin

[ionic crag]

your where eaten by the grue

[cinder wind]

I'd say it's V+, Gnd, video, audio

oh wait no audio nevermind

[ionic crag]

right... the only audio it had was pulsing to the speaker

one of the first asm programs i made was a multi-tone output for that speaker... it was horrible sounding

[old surge]

Apparently: Gnd, Modulation In, NC, V+ https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ftp.apple.asimov.net/documentation/hardware/video/Sup 'r Mod II - Manual - Page 1.jpeg

[shell mason]

lars super mod 3

[cinder wind]

that's very cool

[ionic crag]

puff caps?

no dead rodents either...

[old surge]

SupRMod has a wikipedia page - manual page from sources listed there

[old surge]

Or dried fruit

[ionic crag]

you where expecting dried apple ring slices?

[old surge]

Well, you open an Apple...

[inner spade]

And caps can leak dielectric from the leaded end without bulging.

[ionic crag]

the caps do have a life... they will eventually die... 20 years of life is fairly good

dead ram card and weak power supply would look the same

supply gets weak with old caps

[clever summit]

Make sure to short the caps before you touch them. I got a shock once from a PSU that hadn't been connected for several days.

[old surge]

Thanks, JP, fun as always! Have a good afternoon, all!

[open surge]

thanks JP, good show

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver . Have a great weekend everyone.

[clever summit]

On the high voltage side that is.

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[cinder wind]

Thanks JP!

[dusk socket]

Thank John Good Show

[haughty quiver]

on the left is the B&W monitor, on the right is a color TV

[old surge]

👋 ☕ Hi there, Tim! How're you this afternoon?

[old surge]

Thanks for the stream!

[smoky island]

I am working on the BMP5XX driver some more this morning on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch and yt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxxu5DlG2Ok

[ionic crag]

composite (or component) is just a inherently better signal than RF... but there where a lot more TV's out there at the time.

[echo canopy]

Heyyyy 👋

[haughty quiver]

Heeeeyyyyyy 👋

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[haughty quiver]

Hello

[split gazelle]

hiiiii

[haughty quiver]

hiiiii

[tacit garnet]

Happy Sept

[ivory flax]

Good afternoon JP

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[haughty quiver]

thanks so much all!

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 496 LIVE! Rumi Sword, MagTag Case and Flexy Eye https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live Today's coupon code “backtoschool” gets you 10% off your order!

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[rocky reef]

good morning folks!

[vagrant flax]

Good morning! Welcome back from vacation!

[split gazelle]

sup

[rocky reef]

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

[ionic crag]

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

Adafruit Certificates: -
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[split gazelle]

toast

[rocky reef]

Fruit Jam https://www.adafruit.com/product/6200

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

[split gazelle]

https://tenor.com/view/spinal-tap-no-more-black-stonehenge-gif-11747549