live-broadcast-chat

[dim knot]

EeonTex Stretchy Variable Resistance Sensor - LTT-SLPA-20K https://www.adafruit.com/product/3669

[eager sapphire]

Yes you need a Person With FIngernails now to pull the thing out

[shell mason]

like that you need microcard reader

[dim knot]

Micro SD Card Extender - 68cm (26 inch) long cable https://www.adafruit.com/product/3688

SD Card Extender - 68cm (26 inch) long cable https://www.adafruit.com/product/3687

[gusty wedge]

@open girder How would the stretchy fabric degrade in the outdoors?

[willow pollen]

does it work underwater? asking for a mermaid friend

[fallow fractal]

ultraviolet

[river peak]

This stuff is pretty cool.

[muted mesa]

"Spandex. It's a privilledge. Not a right."

[frail cape]

you must earn it

[eager sapphire]

Mermaids in the UK?

[river peak]

If you round the values you get from measuring this fabric, would that be... Stretching the truth?

[gusty wedge]

Looks perfect for measuring tree growth.

[willow pollen]

no, the ones over here are more like narwhals

[eager sapphire]

LOL @willow pollen

[spring heath]

The SD card extenders are such a good idea, you cxan make enclosures without having to be constrained by a RasPi card slot for example

[willow pollen]

😃

[spring heath]

A theramin played by stretching fabric

[river peak]

@spring heath A sound idea!

[muted mesa]

@open girder electric. "This year's fall fashion is...electric!"

[waxen thistle]

@spring heath Pitch bending!

[glossy glacier]

@river peak Earning your title

[tropic oxide]

A theramin played by dancing in spandex pants

[dim knot]

Eeontex High-Conductivity Heater Fabric - NW170-PI-20 https://www.adafruit.com/product/3670

[river peak]

Oooh, @open girder decided to turn up the heat with this one.

[normal plover]

Bruce Wayne will be ordering some of this

[muted mesa]

space age Hypercolor!

[normal plover]

Oooh, Hot new item

[viral sail]

Let me know when you add sheets of graphene to the Adafruit store. 😃

[willow pollen]

cover it in mud

it'll disappear

[shell mason]

heater fabric sounds like sci-fy

[eager sapphire]

0.7732 ohms (after reading six pages of math on this problem)

[waxen thistle]

If you make a 70's dance outfit with this, would it be called a Disco Inferno?

[gusty wedge]

And with a hand crank generator, you get heat from the fabric and from the activity.

[muted mesa]

space suit heaters. someone call Elon...

[spring heath]

Donna Summer, Hot Stuff

[river peak]

Heated seats!

[normal plover]

aka Bun Warmers

[shell mason]

omg thnk winter gear with this stuff

[spring heath]

Fabric Faraday Cage

[glossy glacier]

So if its conductive I can put it in the SEM...

[split gazelle]

@shell mason that's what i was thinking!

[gusty wedge]

😃

[forest pebble]

Could you use the cloth to help find points of connection?

[willow pollen]

everything goes in the SEM at some point. #NewRule

[inner spade]

Portable, packable static-free work surface. Need one for my toolbox.

[dim knot]

Adafruit PDM MEMS Microphone Breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/3492

[normal plover]

Is that the same mic on CPX?

[clear matrix]

Conceptually at least, yes

[glossy glacier]

INSTANT WANT FOR SEM REASONS

[fallen rivet]

The other microphone meat.

[normal plover]

SEMple to use?

[shell mason]

SEM mic

[rapid hornet]

@glossy glacier its on the circuitplayground express

[river peak]

@glossy glacier Isn't that most things?

[icy comet]

anyone online who has familiarity with ESP32? Want to use it for BLE communications with a Xamarin app I'm building.

[shell mason]

soon Adam is controlling his sem via voice

[willow pollen]

"Does it come in a size 14? Asking for a friend who has an SEM"

[waxen thistle]

Play an audio SEMple.

[shell mason]

Adabot start SEM

[inner spade]

Does this conductive fabric make my SEM look smaller?

[spring heath]

It ReSEMbles the mic on CPX

[glossy glacier]

@river peak Well...

[rapid hornet]

cool!

[glossy glacier]

@rapid hornet My sister would not like that...

[waxen thistle]

Whistle the Close Encounters theme?

[gusty wedge]

The Mac and Me theme.

[clear matrix]

@normal plover There you go 😃

[blazing atlas]

hunger games!

[normal plover]

do a wolf whistle

[spring heath]

The X-Files theme

[shell mason]

think when you have more mics so you could make a spacial mic recording sample

[waxen thistle]

👏

[willow pollen]

spooky... youtubes froze on the first note for me

[muted mesa]

same here

[frail cape]

same

[gusty wedge]

Same here.

[forest pebble]

Same here

[willow pollen]

and now half my face is red

[split gazelle]

same!

[normal plover]

me too, I thought I was my horrible ISP

[muted mesa]

lol

[eager sapphire]

Really, really need to see Close Encounters, Limor, really.

[inner spade]

copyright issue for music

[normal plover]

the aliens are now coming

[shell mason]

think if LadyAda could whistle Star Wars Theme

[fallow fractal]

Don't worry .. there was no violation. ;)

[glossy glacier]

@inner spade Wait really?

[forest pebble]

Alien firewall

[normal plover]

I bet she has seen Princess Bride though

[glossy glacier]

That sound like something they would do...

[spring heath]

inconceivable!

[willow pollen]

inconceivable

lol

[inner spade]

@glossy glacier probably not. was just kidding.

[shell mason]

in Zoo earlier I got cool pendant for mic

[waxen thistle]

Message to Aliens: We have a mac, you can be hacked.

[willow pollen]

but only on one day a year

early july

[forest pebble]

May the fourth be with you

[muted mesa]

oh man...i refreshed. now i'm back at the start of PDM...

[dim knot]

Adafruit PDM MEMS Microphone Breakout https://www.adafruit.com/product/3492

[shell mason]

@waxen thistle MEssage to Aliens: We have a mac, you can be macked

[glossy glacier]

@inner spade Its actualy a thing

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/3367684?hl=en

[muted mesa]

n/m. it was the new wrap up

[verbal kindle]

any suggestions for powering a raspberry pi from automotive power? Basically turning on when the engine is started and allowing for a safe shutdown when the ignition is turned off. A delay of a few minutes or a way for the pi to detect the ignition is off would be nice so the pi could transfer some data before shutting down if it is on wifi when the key is turned off.

[gusty wedge]

@open girder Are you planning on upgrading the servo controllers to Trinamic? Available from digi-key, make 3dprinters really silent, and give better torque

[gray nest]

Alright, so getting my question in, is there a way to tell, on a 32u4 feather, if your USB cable is connected to a computer or just a dumb power supply? (I would like my project to intelligently decide how much power it's safe to pull)

[willow pollen]

Message to aliens. You should have used a blockchain.

[inner spade]

@glossy glacier Egad.

[urban gale]

Q: The Flexible Nth-Light you introduced last week are cool. Are they available in other widths and lengths?

[muted mesa]

@verbal kindle http://mausberrycircuits.com/collections/frontpage/products/shutdown-circuit-use-your-own-switch?variant=1253823028

[gusty wedge]

(Link for the Trinamic in case interested https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/trinamic-motion-control-gmbh/TMC2208-SILENTSTEPSTICK/1460-1201-ND/6873626)

[fallen rivet]

Trinamic makes sweet motor drivers

[verbal kindle]

@muted mesa thanks!

[muted mesa]

@verbal kindle np. they aren't cheap though, and go out of stock a lot.

[gusty wedge]

And yeah, I ment stepper.

[fallen rivet]

Watterott(sp?) makes a cheap breakout board for them.

At least one of them.

[river peak]

@gusty wedge Man, step up your game!

[willow pollen]

lol

tough crowd

[urban gale]

sweet!

[agile cave]

How is the PDM Mic better than other Mics?

[fallen rivet]

I think the same pinout as the boards used to plug into the mainboard(s) used on a lot of DIY 3DPs.

[urban gale]

ty

[willow pollen]

Q: When do you plan on buying Apple?

[hot oasis]

Any faster sonar sensors (or other sensor) than the MaxBotix 20hz out there? Need a wide detection area and fast speed.

[gray nest]

Thanks for answering. 😄

[river peak]

@open girder Are there any SD extenders that function as converters as well? MicroSD to SD and vice versa?

[split gazelle]

Can you daisy chain the sd card readers or would that be a bad idea?

[fallen rivet]

I don't know of anything better than MaxBotix in the maker market.

@hot oasis

[river peak]

@split gazelle I feel like the answer is "Yes" to both.

[spring heath]

The longer the SD extension the more chance it'll pick up radio frequency interference

[glossy glacier]

Can you get the flexible LED company to send a bit of just the actual diodes they use?

[spring heath]

of the resistance of the leads can add up

[fallen rivet]

I use them for broadcasting EMI.

[arctic turret]

Q: what’s the maximum voltage I can run through ‘passive PoE injector cable set’ (id:435)? I’d like to do 60v over 100m cable w/ custom power supply for raspberry pi and motors for an underwater ROV

[eager sapphire]

Yes, Eric, picking that up HERE thanks

[fallen rivet]

@arctic turret it's not the voltage as much as teh current.

[split gazelle]

Experiment time then 😄

[normal plover]

You could do speed tests

while adding extenders

[willow pollen]

Q: Do you think Martin Luther King would have been a maker?

i think he'd have appreciated the community

[agile cave]

Are you aware of any solution for using FeatherWings with an Uno R3? Perhaps a converter shield with level shifters

[versed mountain]

Question: How do I calculate the torque of a brushless motor?

[shell mason]

@split gazelle making Winter Clothes DIY project so cool

[fallen rivet]

@agile cave you don't really need to level shift if your shield is decent and handles 3.3V automagically (by respecting the IOREF pin).

[willow pollen]

it's a symbiotic community

[gusty wedge]

@open girder Email about the trinamics, sent.

[fallen rivet]

@severe geode That info should be in the datasheet for your motor.

[river peak]

Sometimes, what I share is just bad jokes.

[willow pollen]

oops

died

[dusky arrow]

Makers + Simbi = New Society

[muted mesa]

@river peak "Sometimes"??? 😛

[shell mason]

yeah stream died

[waxen thistle]

@river peak You're a maker smiles on our faces 😃

[blazing atlas]

@river peak humour is tragedy over time 😉

[rapid hornet]

twitch is fine

[willow pollen]

youtubes gone in the uk

[river peak]

@waxen thistle That's the goal!

[shell mason]

youtube died

[gusty wedge]

42

[waxen thistle]

Twitch is still solid

[split gazelle]

YouTube is still okay for me

[waxen thistle]

twitch.tv/adafruit

[muted mesa]

SE US is still up.

[rapid hornet]

airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

[waxen thistle]

Geordi LaForge

[eager sapphire]

Was quite lagged here, had to hit the LIVE button

[normal plover]

would that be an african swallow?

[rapid hornet]

😄

[willow pollen]

cool. as long as NYC hasn't got a late present from north korea

[tropic oxide]

You tube is ok for me

[willow pollen]

oh, it's back up now

[spring heath]

I've one in Limor's lifetime, ineligible

[waxen thistle]

@open girder Do you have a link for the startup of that LED pin?

[spring heath]

won

[muted mesa]

don't hang up on ladyada!!!

[arctic turret]

@fresh dagger that’s what I was thinking thanks

[fallow fractal]

three F frank

[spring heath]

boy the humor tonight is pegging the meter

[willow pollen]

sounds like a goodfella

how did the bot not ban pegging?

[normal plover]

san francisco only has 1 f too

[eager sapphire]

<- Joe with absolutely no Fs

[river peak]

@willow pollen ....I can't even comment on this.

[waxen thistle]

<- Bruce with an undisclosed number of Fs

[willow pollen]

lol

[muted mesa]

@willow pollen dyno is still a little old fashioned. not hip on the lingo these kids are using today.

[timid escarp]

Thanks lf pt

[willow pollen]

oops. forgot to say "asking for a friend..."

[gusty wedge]

Some make, some break

[river peak]

@open girder "I got two, so I can take one apart" <-- Spoken like a true maker.

[eager sapphire]

I think we’re beginning to see through your friend ploy, db9

[viral sail]

Thanks and good night.

[waxen thistle]

@open girder Thanks for another awesome evening of shows!

[urban gale]

'night all

[blazing atlas]

thank you! \o/

[inner spade]

Thanks!

[tropic oxide]

Thank you!

[gusty wedge]

By all.

[split gazelle]

Thanks for a great set of streams!

[open girder]

10% off all items in stock code is bradford expires 1/10/18 @ 11:59pm ET #askanengineer http://www.adafruit.com @open girder

[willow pollen]

great show, as always

[spring heath]

blockchain with one f

[normal plover]

Mosfet? Is that with 1 F or two?

[muted mesa]

thanks @open girder and co.!!!!!!! g'nite!

[shell mason]

@open girder with

[normal plover]

THanks

[clear matrix]

Night everyone!

[river peak]

@spring heath FlockChain - It's BitCoin, but for birds!

[willow pollen]

and feather owners

[spring heath]

FFFlockchain

[waxen thistle]

#FFFFFF <- White with six Fs

[glossy glacier]

So how many years until we get Adacoin?

[rapid hornet]

time for food. night all

[gusty wedge]

Well, there is a project that mines bitcoin with an ESP8266.

[willow pollen]

night mr newt

[shell mason]

toaster for @rapid hornet

[gusty wedge]

If we port that to CP it would be a pycoin miner.

[spring heath]

Adafruit does not need to inflate their stock by doing a blockchain, they have no stock

Kodak is such a gimmick

[glossy glacier]

We need a blockchain that we uses jokes about block chain as the work

[willow pollen]

gimmicks make money

[spring heath]

The Kodak miners took out the power at CES

[willow pollen]

a blockchain to validate your puns

[waxen thistle]

PunChain by @river peak

[spring heath]

Maybe each Discord comment is a node in the chain

[river peak]

@waxen thistle Absolutely

[willow pollen]

and you pay transaction fees with a sarcastic comment

[spring heath]

Nighty guys, work tomorrow, someones got to keep the lights on in Foggy Bottom

[river peak]

Enjoy!

[muted mesa]

what a coincidence! just got an adafruit ad on youtube...from last week's AAE! 😛

[shell mason]

@haughty quiver is awesome right

[haughty quiver]

Hang on, let me get more coffee. Then I'm awesome right.

[shell mason]

as workshop is coming

[haughty quiver]

Yes, Workshop livestream coming up in about 25 minutes

[eager sapphire]

Awesome.

Greatest lab mystery: when I need a twist-tie for some cables, I can’t find one. When I’m not looking for one, I find at least twelve.

[haughty quiver]

I'm gonna start the stream now for a quick pre-show sound check. I want to test an audio thing if someone can LMK if I get an echo.

[eager sapphire]

Got audio, got video

[lavish patrol]

Got audio, got video. 😉

[eager sapphire]

Voice fine

[lavish patrol]

Vocal works.

[solid wyvern]

adafruit is live at https://www.twitch.tv/adafruit

[lavish patrol]

The wind buffeting equivalent of keyboard bounce.

[fallow fractal]

Could shape the brightness same way as with an analog music synthesiser and use an ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, release).

[inner spade]

Very cool. Could also use brightness > 0 instead of "lit" to indicate the lighted state.

[fallow fractal]

"That was just pulled out of the guts of Lambie"

Cut a hole in the floor and use the same quarter over and over. ;)

[inner spade]

Can it detect wooden nickels?

Cool joinery. Like the floating bolt idea.

[eager sapphire]

This show is very Hollywood

[fallow fractal]

Wonder how it captures the nut from turning without binding too much during loose assembly.

Yeah I keep putting off buying real calipers. This project is a great example of how useful they are to have on-hand.

[cinder wind]

John Park just mentioned that nubbly truck bed liner paint. I just found that people have painted their entire cars with it!

[shell mason]

think coin seperator and stacker

[inner spade]

@cinder wind Had a friend who owned a bed-liner franchise. He painted an old Nissan truck using yellow bed liner as a marketing gimmick.

[shell mason]

so every coin is stacked it's right value stacks

[fallow fractal]

Someone half-buried a car and then tarred over it. Still there in a public parking lot. It's supposedly a real car but could just be a kind of sculpture.

https://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/ct/CTHAMghostparking2_620x300.jpg

Okay that's the rub -- he put in finger access to help with loose assembly.

That doesn't look too bad. Could also use a magnet here and there, since he chose (probably) ferrous metal for the fasteners.

[inner spade]

A piece of tape on the inside could substitute for a finger.

[fallow fractal]

Right. Just leave the sticky tape inside the finished box. ;)

[inner spade]

... no one would know...

[fallow fractal]

Might bother me at night just knowing... ;) j/k

[inner spade]

I'd say it's OCD, but that's not alphabetical. It's CDO.

[fallow fractal]

AT-AT time. /yay

[eager sapphire]

That’s the beauty of the JP show - all inclusive for us nerds.

“Lots of juicy space” lol it’s a beautiful thing when it’s roomy like that

[fallow fractal]

The shorter buttons seem to work well to 'chord' more than one at a time.
http://adafru.it/3101

[inner spade]

@haughty quiver If you end up using a microcontroller, what about touch sensors instead? Could be implemented with just a screwhead showing.

[lament flume]

or a looped wire

but it might be too far in

[inner spade]

Switches are more fool-proof, probably.

[fallow fractal]

Fools are so very ingenious!

acetone to melt it a bit

[cinder wind]

Instead of that sound module, put a tin can w/ old screws & nuts and use a gear motor to slowly spin it: makes about the same noise as the AT-AT walker noises 😃

oh man that book looks good. Gonna get me one

[eager sapphire]

https://youtu.be/Vhj5CVBNnSc

Is that the one, John?

[lament flume]

poor GMT

[fallow fractal]

Could include legit spare parts in the tin can for futureproofing its maintenance chores. ;)

[lavish patrol]

9pm GMT

[shell mason]

coins what are selected are stacked in coinbox

[inner spade]

Thanks @haughty quiver . Always some new, creative ideas in your workshop. Like the music, too!

[haughty quiver]

thanks so much!

[fallow fractal]

That was a good show. <golf clap>

[shell mason]

omg think if your coin selector work you have to play a sound

I mean right sound

[fallow fractal]

Might not be riveting E.R. footage but it's more meditative and reflects the true workshop pace and mindset better than a show with fast-edits and more 'pop' and 'wow'.

[haughty quiver]

Next week: pop rivets.

[fallow fractal]

lift-a-dots!

[lavish patrol]

@haughty quiver With poptarts?

[eager sapphire]

Actually, the show that included opening up a fluorescent tube had me thinking of the ER for a bit

[haughty quiver]

mmmmmm pop tarts...

[lament flume]

@haughty quiver after talking about it a few months ago here I made a bluetooth remote camera trigger I finally got to use it there the other day, it actually works quite well (altough i've not tired an iphone)

Bluetooth module in HID mode sending volume up

[fallow fractal]

@lament flume Excellent idea.

[haughty quiver]

@lament flume oh, yes!

[lament flume]

https://twitter.com/witnessmenow/status/950865441257336838

Brian Lough (@witnessmenow)

The interesting thing about this photo of me is I took with my knee with a camera trigger made using @arduino and a HC-06 flashed as a HID module

Instructions for flashing module here: https://t.co/oz7cKDGOOT

Twitter

[haughty quiver]

is it a BLE micro?

[lament flume]

its just a cheap HC-06 module

there is photos of it on the tweet (that ar least aren't showing for me in the preview)

It's a bit of effort to go through flashing it though

a board that supports Bluetooth HID out of the box would be much handier!

[haughty quiver]

Oh cool. Nice photo too -- I like your led shrine

[lament flume]

😛

https://gfycat.com/ExemplaryUnknownHoki

They were a project that i entered into a n instructables competition, it does look very shriney in that photo though!

[fallow fractal]

There is (or was) some kind of material called 'angel hair' used for light sculptures. Probably sold in craft supply houses. A quick google search suggests this is 'spun glass' (whatever that is; probably a fibreglas type thing).

[haughty quiver]

beautiful

[lament flume]

@fallow fractal do you have a link to any?

[lavish patrol]

@lament flume I like it.

[lament flume]

oh didnt see your edit

thanks @lavish patrol

I made them for my wedding

there was one on each table

Anyone in Ireland who wants to borrow them are more than welcome 😛

[onyx arrow]

Hey John. Thanks guys for all your amazing products. Just awoke my love for electronics again

[fallow fractal]

@lament flume Just 'angel hair crafts' in google search bar

[lament flume]

thanks @fallow fractal , must play around wiht it!

[fallow fractal]

I saw it used in 1977 or so, when LEDs were still very new to the hobbyist market.

[onyx arrow]

I was born in 76 😉

[haughty quiver]

@fallow fractal I like that ADSR idea!

[fallow fractal]

A simple R-C time constant circuit can do a lot.

[onyx arrow]

Do you guys chat about all random projects after the show? sorry I'm just new here

[lament flume]

I haven't been around in a while, but I think Live chat is pretty loose

[onyx arrow]

ty

[lament flume]

although normally would be in #show-and-tell

[onyx arrow]

I'm still new to and just got my first pieces yesterday.

[lament flume]

so slap on the wrist for me 😛

[onyx arrow]

Understood

[lament flume]

#help-with-projects is good too

what did you get @onyx arrow ?

[fallow fractal]

Super fast attacks on LED brightness can catch the eye with no time for it to say for sure just where it came from. A few here and there deep in the wind emoji triggered very occasionaly, so as to be impossible to anticipate when one might occur.

[onyx arrow]

Couple of controller boards and LEDs with power

I'm a prop maker 3D modeller and wanted to add some electronics to my projects

[lament flume]

cool

I really recomend ESP8266 if you havent picked one up yet

[onyx arrow]

I'm redoing the arc reactor to add a chasser using Gemma to make aa bedside power bank

[lament flume]

they are cheap boards with Wifi on them

[lavish patrol]

@onyx arrow Look forward to seeing what you create.

[onyx arrow]

ty

[lament flume]

Feather Huzzah is a good board for it

[fallow fractal]

@onyx arrow most people here self-censor about topic drift. It's not a culture of punishment. ;)

[onyx arrow]

3D reder of model

That's teh 3D model I'm busy printing

render*

ty

[lament flume]

looks cool!

[onyx arrow]

Sorry. I didnt mean to take you guys off topic. I'll listen quietly 😉

[haughty quiver]

@onyx arrow welcome, great to have you here! Adding functions to props is an excellent reason to get into this stuff :)

[onyx arrow]

TY John. I was watching a tutorial by a prominent prop maker and was pretty disappointing about the lack of knowledge.

So many useful applications if done properly

[haughty quiver]

I've seen a lot of prop makers in the past who would buy a commercially available something-or-other and gut it for the parts they wanted. Which can work well, but sometimes its a limitation.

[onyx arrow]

It is and expensive to not do what exactly you want. At most it's lights on or off

Some add a sign wave chase but that's preconfigured

[fallow fractal]

We had a guy in tech (high school 1976) who curb-rescued television sets and would make one good one out of three bad ones. He was in high school and was reselling them. It was a good trade.

He never spoke in class. But I think he knew more than most of us did.

[lavish patrol]

I find it funny when something used for props becomes commonplace. I seem to recall an old Doctor Who episode (from the 70s I think) where the monstor was clearly made out of bubble plastic.

[onyx arrow]

@fallow fractal I studied Radio and Tv about CRTs many years later. It's been invaluable to my work even though I dont work on circuits

[haughty quiver]

Yes, it's an odd feeling when you recognize a bit of whatever that's been glommed onto a prop.

[onyx arrow]

Like an R2D2 Mobile bin

[haughty quiver]

I just saw the new Star Wars and was sort of taken out of it for a second when I saw the two red wires the are exposed on Kylo Ren's light saber.

[lavish patrol]

Last night I watched an episode of "Travelers" where they were about to inject this guy with nanobots. The nonobots in the petri dish were clearly ferrofluid.

[fallow fractal]

I don't see how you can coordinate nanobots to work together.

[onyx arrow]

If you dont know any better, it's magical

It's the exact reason I never watch old McGuyver episodes. I loved that show but will pick it apart with my adult brain

[lavish patrol]

But the rasberry pi on Black Mirror was more authentic...

[haughty quiver]

Hold my drink while I go build the cabbage cannon from the A-Team.

[onyx arrow]

lol. We'd go out and scrape anything in the yard to make a plan come together.

[fallow fractal]

Yeah I don't want to say what we-all did. ;)

[onyx arrow]

RDA was one of the good ones that made science cool

Otherwise it's revenge of the nerds

[haughty quiver]

Gotta run, later all!

[onyx arrow]

Later John

[lavish patrol]

Later John.

[fallow fractal]

Thanks again John.

What is it early morning in Brisbane?

[onyx arrow]

Sydney

9h39

[fallow fractal]

So one hour behind UTC plus 12 hours. Got it. I keep my computer on UTC so that I can convert directly to other time zones.

[onyx arrow]

good idea. I work for a global company so we have 4 clocks up

You guys mostly from the states?

[fallow fractal]

I use 'Tokyo is 14 hours ahead of New York' as a ballpark figure for your region.

USA definitely well-represented here. Some Yurrup too.

[onyx arrow]

So not too late on your side then

[fallow fractal]

17:41 here.

[onyx arrow]

ty

I hope to inject some real science into make believe 😉

[lavish patrol]

22:42 here in the UK.

[onyx arrow]

Time runs away when you're doing something you enjoy

[fallow fractal]

See, our west coast people are 3 hours earlier (they are 14:42 right now) so they need people from your region when our region has gone to bed for the evening, to talk to.

[onyx arrow]

Sounds good

[fallow fractal]

It's an old thing in chatrooms .. when New York time zone stays up waaaay too late, and the Australians start showing up, you know the sun's just about rising outside (in a dark-curtained room hehe).

[onyx arrow]

I was facinated by Knight Riders LED chaser but it was super complicated when I started studying electronics

lol

Like a casino

[fallow fractal]

Yup pretty much.

[lavish patrol]

@onyx arrow Ditto for Cylons

[onyx arrow]

Safe to say noone tries to calculate resistors and circuits with 555 ICs anymore

From the tutorials, using 2 outputs on a controller one for sound one for audio would get the kit effect right?

Did you like the BSG reboot @lavish patrol ?

[fallow fractal]

John Park was addressing the audio mixer issue 2 episodes back (iirc). Someone suggested a circuit. I've forgotten the details.

[onyx arrow]

Any way of going back to old chats?

[lavish patrol]

@onyx arrow Yep. I thought it was way better than the original. Remember that dog?

[onyx arrow]

I vaguely recall the old one. I remember more about Buck Rogers

[lavish patrol]

I wish they'd reboot Farscape.

[onyx arrow]

And Steve Austin of course

[cerulean swallow]

@onyx arrow I remember the old BSG clearly, even the first ep 😃

[onyx arrow]

It's just Scifi to some but those ideas inspire real world creations and changes

[cerulean swallow]

and nice to see someone else from Aus

[onyx arrow]

There'd be no iPad without Startrek

hey Jafine

[fallow fractal]

@onyx arrow If you use the search function here in this channel you can search on 'kestrel' to catch the start of the chat for that show JP did wrt the audio mixer issue.
I happened to post a link to a RONJA project graphic that has a cartoon of a kestrel (kind of bird) just before the conversation about the passive mixer (see below).

[10:37 PM] CGrover: @haughty quiver Here's a really simple passive mixer. Assuming that the output signals are decoupled, the R values determine the relative mix and should be around 1/10th the input impedance of the follow-on amp. If the amp impedance is >100k ohms, then you may want to place a 100k resistor to ground at the input. There will be some volume loss, of course.

[onyx arrow]

ty @fallow fractal NIS

[fallow fractal]

I just figured that out right now .. I'd been scrolling back the hard way, previously.

[onyx arrow]

saved me some time

[fallow fractal]

Yeah looks like you can type 'before:' and it will pull up a calendar dialogue.

[onyx arrow]

later guys

[glossy glacier]

?showtimes

[arctic abyss]

3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell (YT only) - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
Desk of Ladyada - Random hacker times
John Park's Workshop - 4pm EST Thursdays
Desk of Tony D - Evenings PST Fridays

[fallow fractal]

It's usually Tony on Fridays (istr 10:30 pm Eastern Time, for the one show I managed to catch live). Or was that when it ended?
Watch Tony D's Desk playlist, YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOUmgpmVDTyX85Z8OO142eia

@glossy glacier It was difficult to find you on Google+ and the icon/avatar was wrong (not your current avatar on YouTube).

[glossy glacier]

@fallow fractal I have a odd YouTube/Google account setup that keeps everything more sucure.

[shell mason]

sucure ore secure?

[devout blade]

It looks like he hasn't done a live stream since October

[glossy glacier]

Live stream starting now! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb_v3Hwa40W7ZU-qgV8KOMA/live

[shell mason]

that looks like purple liquid

[fallow fractal]

If you eat the gold sputtered cheerio does your self-worth increase?

[fallow fractal]

Hi, this is so interesting I have nothing to say but to watch and listen...

7 7

[fallow fractal]

salt

[turbid elbow]

I missed it last night

[gusty wedge]

Oh, I'm just in time.

[rocky reef]

hi @here #help-with-3dprinting Live in 10 mins! https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live

[eager sapphire]

Showtime!

[shell mason]

3D Shotime in Shotime hangout time

[rocky reef]

hi folks!

[lavish patrol]

Hi, guys.

[rocky reef]

good morning !

Today's coupon code HEATVISION gets you 10% off your order! https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live

[shell mason]

polyprops thinking about 3D printer what can print foam

[lavish patrol]

@shell mason Something like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgp4ncc1wOQ

[shell mason]

that is cool yeah

[rocky reef]

nice!

[shell mason]

https://www.poly-props.com/

[eager sapphire]

Nice work, @shell mason

[steady pike]

How bout dis for show and tell: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qPRokVbf4o5nVfe53

[rocky reef]

thanks for joining !

[shell mason]

@rocky reef https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/windows-mixed-reality-viewer/9nblggh42ths

[strong spear]

@calm nebula When you all do time-lapse, are you using GoPro? is so, which model? and does it save the time-lapse in one video file? or is there an additional process?

[shell mason]

thevideo @rocky reef @ripe blade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH14lBUOYyU

how it works in action is there

[rocky reef]

yes, the gopros 5 and above have a video timelapse feature that stitches it into a video

[strong spear]

@Pedeo thank you

[rocky reef]

but for small prints that need a close up lens, we'll use a 7d/5d with an intervalometer

[strong spear]

@calm nebula Is that a lens that snaps onto the GP5?

@calm nebula Oh, that triggers the pictures.

[rocky reef]

no, the lens is for a canon 5d/7d

[strong spear]

@calm nebula ?Small prints as in less than an hour?

@calm nebula ...So you use the Canon camera for some time-lapse also? Does the canon stich together the time-lapse or does it puts it in one single video file?

[rocky reef]

if it has small details or short on the z axis. sometimes the wide angle on the gopro aren't the best for certain models

no stitching with the canons - premiere can import sequences

• you can add keyframes to add camera movements

im sure other video apps can do stitching as well

[strong spear]

@calm nebula Thank you.

[shell mason]

@rocky reef have you used Solidworks?

[rocky reef]

unfortunately, no - but we can import/export step files in fusion in needed

[shell mason]

have to check if you can draw shapes with pen with fusion 360 as with solidworks you can

[sweet kernel]

My discord windows app went bizerk. Had to uninstall it and redownload

[wild urchin]

That's unfortunate.

[sacred isle]

Show and tell starting soon!

?showtimes

[arctic abyss]

3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell (YT only) - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
Desk of Ladyada - Random hacker times
John Park's Workshop - 4pm EST Thursdays
Desk of Tony D - Evenings PST Fridays

[sacred isle]

"Random hacker times"

[waxen thistle]

Good evening all you wonderful people!

[split gazelle]

hello!

[glossy glacier]

Hey there everyone!

[waxen thistle]

Hey Adam & BlitzCity!

[green pagoda]

Hi everyone!

[waxen thistle]

Hey @green pagoda !

[rapid hornet]

hi all!

[viral sail]

Hi

[alpine nova]

hi y'all

has show started

[inner spade]

Hello!

[open girder]

@here SHOW-AND-TELL LIVE VIDEO! 1/17/18 (video) https://youtu.be/K9qnTi54ZIw

[alpine nova]

starting now

[waxen thistle]

Just started 😃

[sacred isle]

yep!

😃

[odd stream]

'evening, all

[round willow]

Dang it, can't get ib

in*

[clear matrix]

Yep I missed it too.

[alpine nova]

full house

[split gazelle]

people are going to be dropping

[sacred isle]

yep!

[odd stream]

It's going to have to expand to an hour!!

[sacred isle]

Look at my game!

[soft plinth]

where are you trying to get into? I never know what you guys are talking about?

[alpine nova]

that'sb what i was saying

[sacred isle]

i'm live!

[warm plank]

nice name

[soft plinth]

Oh, nevermind. I understand.

[normal plover]

@soft plinth They can't get into the show-and-tell queue

There is a limit of people for time

[sacred isle]

People will drop off after

like noe and pedro did

[soft plinth]

Thank you @normal plover

[odd stream]

@clear matrix Yay! you're live

[clear matrix]

@odd stream Made it 😃

[wild urchin]

Sadly I have nothing to show.

[alpine nova]

mme too

[wild urchin]

So it turns out to not to be a problem that I didn't get in.

[sacred isle]

great @clear matrix

[river peak]

I don't have much way to show things at the moment...

[wild urchin]

oh, wait, test tube rack!

For which @river peak gets credit.

[sacred isle]

we can't hear you if that is an error, and your not muted

@clear matrix

[waxen thistle]

Very nifty @split gazelle 😃

[sacred isle]

aggreed!

[normal plover]

I am here for moral support

[river peak]

GIANT BUTTONS

[shell mason]

@rapid hornet no Toaster?

[river peak]

Oh, that is cool.

[alpine nova]

collin makes coolest stiff

stuff

[split gazelle]

i regret not ordering one of those when i had the chance

[odd stream]

Now to make a full keyboard!

[shell mason]

colin totally have huve buttons

[wild urchin]

Thre finger salute.

[rapid hornet]

@shell mason pcbs are in the mail. next week!

[river peak]

@odd stream That would be gigantic

And also awesome.

[wild urchin]

@split gazelle the big keyswitches?

[sacred isle]

we can hear you now!

[alpine nova]

hear you

[waxen thistle]

Very nice Colin!

[split gazelle]

@wild urchin yar

[normal plover]

Needs to make a giant breadboard

[odd stream]

@river peak HULK TYPE!

[river peak]

Lightbox! Always a bright idea.

[waxen thistle]

@split gazelle The buttons?

[alpine nova]

hahaha

[wild urchin]

@clear matrix your hair is the color of the filiment I've been printing with.

I need to push pictures to Thingiverse.

[river peak]

@clear matrix I love those types of hardware hacks.

[split gazelle]

@waxen thistle yeah massdrop had a drop for them a bit ago

@clear matrix that's great!

[spring heath]

Yes, your tutorials have helped!

[haughty quiver]

Yay @clear matrix

[rapid hornet]

yay @clear matrix !

[alpine nova]

yes, thank you @clear matrix

[clear matrix]

@wild urchin 😄

[wild urchin]

Massdrop has cost me too much money already. :_/

[clear matrix]

@river peak It took a microscrope to get that done.

[shell mason]

@haughty quiver what are you working on?

[waxen thistle]

@split gazelle They're still available on here, I believe: https://www.novelkeys.xyz/product/the-big-switch-series/

[river peak]

@clear matrix Hey, it works!

[haughty quiver]

I'm writing a guide for the Picade coin acceptor right now, and I'll be doing AT-AT action on livestream tomorrow!

[waxen thistle]

@haughty quiver *readies the harpoon and tow cables.

[normal plover]

Live debugging 😃

[alpine nova]

yay

[soft plinth]

Great check!

[wild urchin]

Bugs are shallow with many eyes!

[normal plover]

Desk of JMK coming soon

[sacred isle]

😃

ik

I need a desk too 😃

[clear matrix]

I'm working on trying to document the setup and do a guide for the lightbox. I'll come back again when the buttons are all setup. It runs right now but it involves SSHing in and interacting with the program via terminal.

[sacred isle]

"Desk of codingpro"

[shell mason]

JMK is doing good

[sacred isle]

i

k

[alpine nova]

jmk is on the fast trak for genius

[wild urchin]

@vernal mulch you are so awesome! Keep being amazing.

[waxen thistle]

@split gazelle That's why i was asking before if you meant the switches -- I looked them up the other week and found them on their site to be still in stock. [I was hoping they didn't sell out from there!] Hope that helps.

[split gazelle]

@waxen thistle it does thank you very much!

[wild urchin]

already at genius. Just clear things out of their way.

[alpine nova]

true

open source lego

[sacred isle]

😃

[waxen thistle]

I wonder if stepping barefoot on an open source lego hurts the same...

[split gazelle]

@sacred isle check out this site: https://printabrick.org/sets/

[wild urchin]

@waxen thistle Probably depends on the material.

[soft plinth]

I bet it does! @waxen thistle

[sacred isle]

wow @split gazelle

I want to make some more complicated legos too

[odd stream]

@split gazelle oh cool

[sacred isle]

like some with angles

[wild urchin]

I wonder how long it would take me to print the parts that you can't get out of modern sets.

[split gazelle]

nice that'll be cool

[clear matrix]

All the lights!

[waxen thistle]

Live demo gremlins!

[wild urchin]

There are a couple of the older technix kits I'd like to print.

@waxen thistle Were you at Unplugged also?

[soft plinth]

That always happens when someone is warching

watching

[alpine nova]

i can't get my dotstar working right

[sacred isle]

@haughty quiver , why aren't u on show and tell?

[split gazelle]

@odd stream that's awesome!

[waxen thistle]

@wild urchin No, I wasn't. What's Unplugged?

[wild urchin]

@waxen thistle PAX Unplugged, in Philly.

[normal plover]

@odd stream are you going to add this to you website?

[wild urchin]

If you're an enforcer, I assume you might travel to different PAX events.

[shell mason]

@sacred isle he write a guide to coin collector selector

[waxen thistle]

nope, i haven't been to a pax since...2008? 2009? out in seattle.

[odd stream]

@normal plover I'm writing adafruit learning guides for both.

[clear matrix]

Enforcing glitter!

[split gazelle]

that's a really cool feature

[alpine nova]

that is really cool @odd stream - i dl your library, but i'm still trying to get the cp to work smooth

[haughty quiver]

that's hardcore tough guy stuff, Glittering Enforcer style

[wild urchin]

Sorry, did I have that wrong?

[waxen thistle]

The crowd controller is controlled by the crowd.

[odd stream]

@normal plover My project focused work is going there from now on.

[normal plover]

@odd stream Cool,

[spring heath]

Very nice work Jon

[shell mason]

this is bluetooth science

[forest pebble]

Awesome

[odd stream]

@alpine nova Get in touch if you need any help

[spring heath]

Because closed source tubas are not appealing 😮

[alpine nova]

thx @odd stream , i'm sure i will very soon

[river peak]

PixelShoe - It's a real feet!

[wild urchin]

@waxen thistle aren't you the Jon that was just presenting?

[inner spade]

Open tubas just sound better than the muted ones.

[wild urchin]

or am I confused?

[waxen thistle]

No I'm not. I'm Bruce 😃

[river peak]

@wild urchin No, that was @gray nest

[clear matrix]

@waxen thistle G'day Bruce!

[wild urchin]

So, I am confused.

Sorry!

@waxen thistle "Immanuel Kant was a real ..."

[river peak]

@waxen thistle Is your last name "Wayne"?

[waxen thistle]

@clear matrix Every day is a Monty Python day 😃

[clear matrix]

@waxen thistle As well it should be!

[spring heath]

What software do you use to stitch Carson?

[waxen thistle]

@river peak I'm not saying I'm Batman....but have you seen me and Batman in the same room together? Hmm?

[shell mason]

Bruce Wayne

[gray nest]

😄

[sacred isle]

cool project!

[gray nest]

Thanks folks

[wild urchin]

@gray nest Were you also at PAX Unplugged? Your enforcer shirt is excellent.

[alpine nova]

nice color

[gray nest]

I can only justify a single PAX a year, and South is close. 😄

[clear matrix]

Seaweed is amazing under microscopes

[waxen thistle]

@river peak Or I could be a 🦈

[shell mason]

adamn the recording

[waxen thistle]

@clear matrix The seaweed is always greener in someone else's lake...

[river peak]

@waxen thistle We'd have to get the shark-repellant bat-spray

[shell mason]

so cool lab for @glossy glacier

[river peak]

@glossy glacier At least you've figured out the noise!

[gray nest]

That's insane looking

[clear matrix]

@glossy glacier Mind blowing is accurate. That's amazing

[river peak]

That's awesome!

It's so kind of @glossy glacier to... illuminate us on how they work

[spring heath]

Shining a light on manufacturing

[wild urchin]

@river peak Are you getting a charge out of staying current on LED manufacturing tech?

[waxen thistle]

Really a bright kid 😃

[split gazelle]

oh no, the puns are spreading 😄

[normal plover]

@wild urchin I thought he got a charge from capacitor tech

[river peak]

@split gazelle It's like a plague.

[wild urchin]

You could consider it sputtering-coating.

[clear matrix]

Wow

[sacred isle]

@glossy glacier You should magnify a show and tell sticker!

[split gazelle]

@river peak an entertaining plague though

[river peak]

Better than the Black Plague

[wild urchin]

Bootstrap yourself to better abstractions.

[glossy glacier]

High Voltage!

?

[spring heath]

Tandy 64

[split gazelle]

clutch n64

[viral sail]

Great projects everyone, thanks for sharing.

[sacred isle]

@glossy glacier You should magnify a show and tell sticker

[inner spade]

Commodore 64

[spring heath]

Compaq 6464

Intermission!

[round willow]

I got a 3d printer for my birthday today so I think I'm going to print a better case for my camera

[glossy glacier]

I had literaly just gotten an image on screen when they called on me

[round willow]

Because cardboard is sort of dangerous to put electronics in

[sacred isle]

wow!

[normal plover]

Z80

[odd stream]

OK.. now to get the digital sand running on the M4 😃

[split gazelle]

@glossy glacier i enjoy that your SEM seems to be in sync with the timings of show and tell

[clear matrix]

@glossy glacier So literally perfect timing

[open girder]

@here 10% discount code: THEYLIVE expires 1/17/18 @ 11:59pm ET #askanengineer https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live & http://www.adafruit.com @open girder

[clear matrix]

@odd stream That was my thought too!

[sacred isle]

Wrong video!

[haughty quiver]

@clear matrix was that two sets of Pi shims?

[sacred isle]

wait, it is the right one

but wrong name

[waxen thistle]

Awesome music 😃

[glossy glacier]

I will say that this JEOL is much better behaved than my old ISI.

[waxen thistle]

Is the ISI feeling a bit jealous?

[river peak]

Hinges of Death? And the code is "theylive"?

What is Adafruit trying ot imply?

[sacred isle]

ikr @waxen thistle

😃

[split gazelle]

@river peak dun dun dunnnn

[barren kayak]

I came here to watch "ask an engineer" and to chew bubblegum. . . and I'm all out of bubblegum

[sacred isle]

lol @river peak

[solid wyvern]

adafruit is live at https://www.twitch.tv/adafruit

[glossy glacier]

The ISI has not been run up since the JEOL made it into the shop...

[normal plover]

How do you get the little UPS truck?

[sacred isle]

They should sell it

I want it!

[wild urchin]

It is a friendly wonderful place.

[normal plover]

Seems fair

[wild urchin]

I'll buy more trinkets and gemmas.

[round willow]

You should sell giant circuit playgrounds

I actually sort of want to make one

[wild urchin]

I sort of want the full spectrum of Circuit Python controlers.

[waxen thistle]

@round willow Digikey made one for MakerFaire 😃

[wild urchin]

@round willow Do it!

[round willow]

Time to find some massive leds and suppliers that sell massive circuit boards

[clear matrix]

@glossy glacier Unbelievable

[viral sail]

If you have 8 bitcoins do you have 1 bytecoin?

[waxen thistle]

https://cdn-blog.adafruit.com/uploads/2017/05/dk_IMG_2042-e1495377656334-600x450.jpg

[normal plover]

@haughty quiver has a giant arduino

[dim knot]

https://www.adafruit.com/shippinginfo/

[glossy glacier]

I can't stress enough how small those wires are

This image is at at least 9400x mag, and probably more...

[haughty quiver]

You can too! https://jedgarpark.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/arduino-grande-tutorial/

[gray nest]

Building brick compatible!

😄

Watch those trademarks

[split gazelle]

@haughty quiver did you make a giant metro too?

[haughty quiver]

yes!

[inner spade]

Toy UPS Truck at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/UNITED-SERVICE-UPS-Package-Delivery/dp/B0054KWOLY/ref=sr_1_2/143-7676668-4854822?ie=UTF8&qid=1516237649&sr=8-2&keywords=toy+ups+truck

[turbid elbow]

They sell those now?!?!?

[clear matrix]

@haughty quiver I remember that!

[waxen thistle]

@viral sail A modern day Spanish Piece of Eight?

[split gazelle]

@odd stream that game was really impressive

[haughty quiver]

https://twitter.com/stellastriegel/status/910561169219481600

Stella Striegel (@stellastriegel)

So incredibly cool! @johnedgarpark just showed me this mega, functioning @adafruit Metro Express he made. Nicely done!#metroexpress

Twitter

[waxen thistle]

Poor @haughty quiver, he got stuck on the Honey I Shrunk the Kids ride....

[onyx arrow]

So the board is normal size.😉

[wild urchin]

I'm excited about 007

[turbid elbow]

Not quite, still byte bigger than normal board size

[wild urchin]

Hackerbox is good too, but I haven't really built any of those yet.

Except some of the robot bits.

[odd stream]

@split gazelle ~ 75 lines of circuitpython, not counting libraries

[waxen thistle]

Woah, Phil knows ComicBookGirl19? Awesome! She was on Geek & Sundry's "Wednesday Club" a few weeks ago, @open girder 😃

[muted mesa]

[round willow]

Here's my gif I took during the stream

[normal plover]

Can it run on a microbit?

[muted mesa]

@normal plover only one way to find out? 😄

[split gazelle]

@round willow fun!

[waxen thistle]

@open girder If you're into comics, there's another subscription service they talked about on "Wednesday Club" -- Shortbox.bigcartel.com

[round willow]

Brr, that is cold

[river peak]

CircuitPlayground is pretty chill, then

[muted mesa]

is shifty...

[round willow]

adabot, give her back her circuit playground

[waxen thistle]

I'm digging the new Zebra-motif

[dim knot]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-107

[spring heath]

SPace travel is hard

[turbid elbow]

I miss those shuttles

[normal plover]

I remember the Challenger disaster

[glossy glacier]

Here is an even better photo of those nano wires, this time at 18000x mag

[lavish ether]

I saw the debris as it fell...

[sacred isle]

wow!

[turbid elbow]

@glossy glacier I just seen a microscope perfect for ya

I saw it on Star Trek TNG

[normal plover]

GROUND HOG DAY!

[split gazelle]

that's going to be a great chat

[soft plinth]

Roddy Piper

Rowdy Roddy Piper

[scarlet marsh]

I love They Live... so funny... love the Ads with the sunglasses on....

[dim knot]

THEY LIVE - Trailer ( 1988 ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJC4R1uXDaE

[normal plover]

Thanks for making me feel old

[blazing atlas]

Oooh! 30 years but somehow... contemporary

[urban gale]

Best movie evar

[scarlet marsh]

the only reason They Live would be considered scarry is if it was all real....

[dim knot]

15 Years of SparkFun https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2571

[normal plover]

It is all real

[soft plinth]

But @scarlet marsh it is.

[severe inlet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

[spring heath]

'88 - someone I know was coerced to do diplomatic engineering

'18 - someone sweet talks me to stop

[clear matrix]

@spring heath Yeah!

[spring heath]

Joining the fruities, soo happy

[muted mesa]

i feel like i've neglected sparkfun over the last year...

[dim knot]

https://learn.adafruit.com/

[spring heath]

Nice sensor

[pallid bluff]

i'm glad they're doing sparkx... it kinda reminds me of the "old" sparkfun

[waxen thistle]

I will admit, Adafruit gets more of my attention than Sparkfun as of late 😃

[blazing atlas]

@waxen thistle yay team blue :P!

[odd stream]

100% that

[glossy glacier]

This is amazing

[alpine nova]

love the stop motion

[odd stream]

But partly becasue I discovered Adafruit as I was getting back into hardware.

[eager sapphire]

This is a long way from Kapton tape and a toaster oven

Ain’t life grand?

[blazing atlas]

freshly baked electronics ❤

[pallid bluff]

has the nintendo labo been mentioned at all yet?

[waxen thistle]

I wish other electronics companies did the same sort of vetting and hands-on use that Adafruit does with the 3rd party products they sell. How many times have you heard them say "we love [insert item here]. We use it in our factory, so we figured, why not carry it in our store?"

[pallid bluff]

(possibly too new to talk about)

[sweet kernel]

Put that pick and place on a bus take it on tour.

[blazing atlas]

@pallid bluff OmGH 😮

[waxen thistle]

@blazing atlas I dropped a video link to it earlier in #general-chat

[blazing atlas]

😄 looks cool! Reminded me of the kid who made his own switch using cardboard, now it can come with accessories 8) @waxen thistle

also you play switch ;O

[waxen thistle]

@hard hollow @rocky reef -- I love the neutral gray solder mat you're using. It's a great idea for recording project work. Do you have a link to it?

[open girder]

10% off all items in stock code is THEYLIVE expires 1/17/18 @ 11:59pm ET #askanengineer http://www.adafruit.com

[dim knot]

https://learn.adafruit.com/

[waxen thistle]

@blazing atlas I personally don't own a switch, but if they opened a devkit for this Labo system....I might change my mind 😃

[spring heath]

Nintendo is on a roll

[odd stream]

Wow.. the Labo stuff is sweet

[pallid bluff]

you could probably make your own with a smartphone and a laser cutter

[alpine nova]

egg2d2

[dim knot]

https://www.adafruit.com/adabox/

[spring heath]

Bond, James Bond

[clear matrix]

Black cat, Collin's eyebrows. Can't go wrong.

[waxen thistle]

I'm thrilled that Nintendo is dipping their toes into the Maker world. The more visibility and options, the better.

[muted mesa]

new newnewnewnenewew...new

[sweet kernel]

Already got it on kindle

[dim knot]

Make: Magazine - Vol 61 - Spotlight Shenzhen - with Naomi Wu @RealSexyCyborg https://www.adafruit.com/product/3717

White Nylon Screw and Stand-off Set – M2.5 Thread https://www.adafruit.com/product/3658

[river peak]

Get one of these boxes and just hope you don't screw up

[odd stream]

Love those standoffs... I decided not to pick something similar up off amazon a couple weeks ago.

[clear matrix]

Nice 😃

[dim knot]

Adjustable 60W Pen-Style Soldering Iron - 120VAC USA Plug - BEST 102C https://www.adafruit.com/product/3685

[sweet kernel]

Works great as a branding iron

[waxen thistle]

Why shouldn't we change a soldering iron tip while it's hot? 🔥 🥓

[spring heath]

My spaniel stopped to watch LadyAda changing the soldering iron tip. He never watches the computer.

[muted mesa]

hoof tip, or nothing! 🤠

[pallid bluff]

huh, that iron looks like

[dim knot]

Solder-free Stackable Banana Plugs 4mm - Pack of 5 Multi Color https://www.adafruit.com/product/3694

Panel-Mount Banana Jacks 4mm - Pack of 5 Multi-Color https://www.adafruit.com/product/3691

[spring heath]

Jacks are Back!

[inner spade]

The white nylon screws are great for troubleshooting breakout boards where the LEDs are close to the mounting holes. Not very efficient as a lightpipe, but bright enough for troubleshooting.

[dim knot]

Adafruit SGP30 Air Quality Sensor Breakout - VOC and eCO2 https://www.adafruit.com/product/3709

[clear matrix]

@inner spade Good call!

[glossy glacier]

I'm kinda excited for this

[gray nest]

Time to make neopixel pants that light up when you fart.

[odd stream]

Those jacks & plugs are nice... they'll be great for the bench PSU I'm planning to build (based on the project in Diyode).

[gray nest]

Because it measures volatile organic compounds

[muted mesa]

but then we can't say "he who smelt it...". we'll just be looking at people's pants.

[wild urchin]

Will that measure the amount of PLA that's in the air around my printer?

[spring heath]

COunt the organic particles logged into discord

[scarlet marsh]

SGP30 out of stock already?

[gray nest]

If no one beats me to it, I'll make a April 1st guide for a fart detector with that SGP30

[muted mesa]

hehe. Dispacable Me just popped in my head. "Dart gun...not a"

is it leek time?!?

[split gazelle]

yay!!!

[alpine nova]

beautiful

[waxen thistle]

Woah. Yes. Please.

[pallid bluff]

oooooh

[cyan veldt]

omgg!!!!!

[pallid bluff]

niiiiice

[green pagoda]

They are so pretty

[muted mesa]

but...but...my subaru floor mat coasters are my favorite. well, were?

[rocky reef]

@waxen thistle thanks! its this one here: http://a.co/77fJvCy

[stiff remnant]

where's the Sparky coaster?

[spring heath]

OSHPark compatible?

[glossy glacier]

How often do you deal with a line down situation?

[waxen thistle]

@rocky reef Thanks!

[versed mountain]

Question: Why did Collin leave adafruit?

[cyan veldt]

When would i use something like the nrf52 vs the 32u4 bluefruit?

[pallid bluff]

question: any recommendations for a board-to-board connector that support hotplugging? (i.e. some contacts longer than others)

[waxen thistle]

@rocky reef I found this one too: https://www.amazon.com/Ceatech-Soldering-Electronics-Repairing-Resistant/dp/B075SXRXTL/

[pallid bluff]

(bonus points for using something that would not be confused for USB, SATA, etc)

[sweet kernel]

I invented something now what do I do with it?

[versed mountain]

question:Could the 8x8 thermal imaging sensor be used to detect if a person is in a room?

[blazing atlas]

@open girder is the new VOC sensor more accurate than the CS8111

[odd stream]

@versed mountain That'll be part of an upcoming project I'm working on: AMG8833 + some deep learning.

[versed mountain]

Question: What is the strongest serial connector

[waxen thistle]

@open girder Will you be carrying any other Rigol products, such as a Waveform generator?

[odd stream]

@versed mountain If you dig into the AMG8833 documentation, person detection is mentioned.

[wild urchin]

I just tried to use the Bradford code, and it did not work.

[open girder]

the code is THEYLIVE

[lavish ether]

Question: Can a raspberry pi3 with a stepper motor driver board to work as a 3d scanner

[glossy glacier]

How often do you deal with a line down situation?

[versed mountain]

Question: I am on a VEX Robotics team that is looking for outside advice on some design issues. Could you do a conference call with us?

[scenic goblet]

Pls how can arduino be uses for industrial product my friends say arduino is for kits pls what ur take for these

Kids**

[versed mountain]

@dastels thank you

[wild urchin]

@open girder That's not what they are saying in the live stream.

[gray nest]

Haha

[scenic goblet]

Question: how can arduino and open source be used for industrial product

[odd stream]

@scenic goblet Arduino is simple an MCU in an easy to use format.

[gray nest]

Time to call in and make my fart detection pants

[spring heath]

Many industrial products start on ARduino. ARduino sells a DIN mount controller for industry in their lineup

[waxen thistle]

☎

[alpine nova]

@odd stream , are you available for a bit after the show?

[spring heath]

Arduino is good to get started and for serious work

[waxen thistle]

ring ring ring banana phone 🍌 ☎

[odd stream]

@scenic goblet I've done projects that have started with an Arduino Uno connected to a breadboard, then as a UnNO shield, then as a ProMini on a prototyping board, and finally as an SMT ATMEGA328 on a fully custom designed PCB.

[alpine nova]

oh no!

[spring heath]

Oh, a duplicate caller

[rapid hornet]

lol

[muted mesa]

bad Keith! 😄

[scenic goblet]

@spring heath can u give me example ..for theses ??

[spring heath]

LadyAda is still alive

[eager sapphire]

Da NOIV!

[alpine nova]

are you sure he hasn't won before

[odd stream]

@alpine nova I'll be grabbing some food, but likely back about 9:45 (ET) for a couple more hours.

[spring heath]

Look on Kickstarter or indiegogo for people who have taken the basic Arduino design and made different products. Go to arduino.cc for info from the company

[alpine nova]

@odd stream perfect

[spring heath]

Companies have used it too but they most often don't share what they have made

[viral sail]

Thanks and good night.

[spring heath]

Pinching Bananas

[cyan veldt]

Thanks for the greatest night of the week!

[barren kayak]

John Carpenter is a really cool composer too! Check out youtube for his compositions!

[spring heath]

Goodnight

[alpine nova]

thx y'all goodnight

[odd stream]

'night

[muted mesa]

thanks @open girder and co ( @dim knot ). night!

[eager sapphire]

Nice pic!

[split gazelle]

thanks for two great shows!

[urban gale]

'night

[open girder]

10% off all items in stock code is THEYLIVE expires 1/17/18 @ 11:59pm ET #askanengineer http://www.adafruit.com

[clear matrix]

Goodnight everyone!

[devout blade]

At some point I might get that gas sensor.....I have natural gas heat and I'ld love to make something that is small and can go multiple places...perhaps even send a warning to my phone

[waxen thistle]

Thanks again @open girder for another wonderful evening of shows!

[barren kayak]

g'nite!

[scarlet marsh]

I liked the scene with the machine making the products

[cyan veldt]

woahhh nice outrooooOooOooooooo this is new?!?

[rapid hornet]

night all!

[devout blade]

Night all...Thans @open girder for the always interesting show

[eager sapphire]

G’night Scott

[wild urchin]

Thanks y'all!

[sweet kernel]

Good nite

[frail flame]

I repeat. Brilliant young man

[pallid bluff]

i do miss Desk of Lady Ada...

[wild urchin]

Has Desk not been on in a while?

[scenic goblet]

@dastels#41 woa Awsome just that am new into these arduino hardware ..so I wanted to have a clues if there can be used ...thanks for ur info

[odd stream]

@scenic goblet Here's some writeup on the project I was mentioning: https://daveastels.com/2017/04/02/smarthome-node-hardware/

@scenic goblet Similarly you could start by using a featherM0 and evolve to a custom ATSAMD21 based PCB. That's likely the next version of my smarthome nodes (which I have on a breadboard now)

[odd stream]

Does anyone have any experience with the Logitech C922x Pro Stream Webcam? Especially using OBS on Linux.

[forest pebble]

yes but only a little, i used it to record the speaker for my linux group meeting earlier this week

@odd stream it was my first time using OBS so besides leaving both audio channels I had coming in as mono(user error/inexperience) it went really well.

[odd stream]

@forest pebble I'm looking to get a camera (that one randomly looks good and isn't too $$ as a first foray into streaming/recording) to play around with, ideally grabbing another one or two to get different angles: face cam, overhead, closeup on the project work. That sort of thing

[forest pebble]

it did a good job even in low light

i previously had the earlier version c920 and after 5 or so years it passed on and I replaced it with the c922

[clear matrix]

@odd stream I was the presenter. I presented on CircuitPython and had another 922x streaming to a smaller window that I had floating over the presentation so I could show the boards as I did the code. The lights were turned down so the audience could see the projector screen well enough and it was still really high quality with closeup as well. Sometimes had some issues with LEDs getting super bright, but I'm not sure there's a way around that for under a significant amount of money.

[forest pebble]

switching scenes and having multiple cameras coming in worked well with obs

[odd stream]

@forest pebble @clear matrix Cool. I seemed to have stumbled on a good choice. This would be a bench situation with full control over lighting.... quite likely involving some of those super bright LEDs.

[clear matrix]

I was able to get it to play closeup with a rainbow cycle demo using a CPX with a 24 ring soldered to the outside on full brightness. It actually focused pretty well. The key was finding the right location for the cam, it was happiest at a certain distance from the item I was attempting to get closeup to. (Happened to be my hand width which was handy.)

[forest pebble]

it may make sense to start with one and make sure it works for you then add more (unless there is some deal which helps make it make more sense to get them all at once)

[odd stream]

@forest pebble That was the plan. Play with 1, try the various ways I envision using it.

[forest pebble]

I also used an elgato camlink to connect a camcorder ....this did not work with other programs as a camera input (which I tried using to test it with.... ) a helpful youtuber had a video showing it working in linux so I opened up obs and it just worked

there are lots of gamers who have helpful guides for using obs (some more helpful than others)

have you already used OBS or just getting started with it?

[shell mason]

Awesome new products

I fell to sleep end of show and tell

[eager sapphire]

Audio/Video good sir

[haughty quiver]

Welcome to the pre-show. LMK if you see a picture and hear sounds and we'll get going in a couple minutes

[shell mason]

omg old sounds can trigger a headache

[eager sapphire]

Not hearing your voice, @haughty quiver

[solid wyvern]

adafruit is live at https://www.twitch.tv/adafruit

[normal plover]

Look, an AT (is that what you call half an AT-AT)?

[shell mason]

3D model?

3D Printed AT.AT with the old model?

[quartz estuary]

​What do you use to mount the lightpipe to the LED? just silicone, hotglue, or a special cut?

Oh boi @haughty quiver let's talk about that camera switcher board...

[onyx arrow]

Great trick with the tape.

Do you ever use translucent PLA and 3D print pieces to diffuse light?

[quartz estuary]

while he was cutting the middle of that acrylic I was all like:

[shell mason]

multiple LED edge lit parts and then KITT like light

[quartz estuary]

Poster putty is the best. Good call.

[normal plover]

Yeah, but you have to worry about fast moving fire storms and mud-slides

[inner spade]

Those panel mounts are great! I keep a few of each in stock...

[normal plover]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/908

[inner spade]

@haughty quiver What about a hidden switch that plays the sound of popcorn popping?

[normal plover]

Not sure if @haughty quiver is using the 2MB sound boards, but ...https://www.adafruit.com/product/2342

[pearl shoal]

Hi John - looks awesome... any reason you use a Feather M0 Express & avoid the power board? Might save space & should cost the same. ("I just didn't" is a fine answer 😃 )

[inner spade]

@haughty quiver two speakers is an excellent solution -- since you have the room.

PowerBoost powers everything and charges faster than the Feather.

[pearl shoal]

Fair enough

[normal plover]

You can also move the power boost off the proto-board if you need more room

[shell mason]

Trinket M0 to head of AT-AT

[inner spade]

The switch panel is ingeneous!

[shell mason]

If you have trinket in head part then LED what you put there are controlled in there

[normal plover]

The popcorn buckets go for $35 - $40 on ebay right now

[pearl shoal]

Louder 😃

[normal plover]

Can barely hear it

There you go

[pearl shoal]

I'd stick your lavalier in it

[normal plover]

Will the sound effects play with the music playing? Or do they stop the music?

[pearl shoal]

Are the soft tactiles at an angle? How are they held in place?

[inner spade]

Sweet. Wouldn't have thought to have different heights.

[pearl shoal]

You could solder on the wires first to the inner row and then the tactiles afterwards to the outer row (after close trimming) - just a thought

Again, all good

[inner spade]

Trinket M0 will also support CircuitPython for future feature updates.

[shell mason]

Space saver to locate trinket m0 to head part helps

[inner spade]

Needs a popcorn-flavored air freshener tree inside.

[shell mason]

you could have knub mutters in head too in side