live-broadcast-chat

[cinder wind]

Yes, servos have a feedback mechanism, so they try to go to specific position. This is called "closed-loop". Steppers are open-loop, in that you can tell them to step but there's no feedback to verify they got there. You can configure stepper motors in a servo configuration. A standard hobby servo is a gear motor with a potentiometer feedback mechanism

[sudden gate]

Thanks John for another great Workshop !

[fallow fractal]

thank you jp! great tips 😀

[lilac tusk]

Great show, thanks 🙂

[teal river]

I need to animate some of my dolls

[sudden gate]

Chucky like?

[teal river]

Anime style

[lavish patrol]

Thanks, John. 😀 And another great workshop. 👍

[teal river]

Good show!

[shell mason]

sometimes you need to build a armor

[lilac tusk]

Goku doing kame hame ha? Blue LEDs in the hands? (Yes I spent it wrong)

[grand tusk]

Thanks!

[opaque hearth]

Thanks JP !!! Great Show !!!

[inner spade]

Excellent workshop today, @haughty quiver. Thanks!

[haughty quiver]

thanks very much!

[fallow fractal]

glad the stream behaved itself 🙃

[teal river]

Lol. Most of the ones I've made are one I got the models for on Thingiverse, just cute anime style girls

[lilac tusk]

@haughty quiver you reminded me I need to figure out making a singling Christmas snowman for my son who loves the old “manaminah “ snowmen toys

[haughty quiver]

nice!

[fallow fractal]

for high torque stuff like moving a skeleton hand or something weighty, a stepper is preferred yea?

[haughty quiver]

There are motors of all kinds geared for different uses. You can find things that gear a hobby servo into a beast that can lift 50lb. weights :)

here's a nice writeup on the DID https://vfxblog.com/dinosaurinputdevice/

[ionic garnet]

Wonderful. I still would consider updating some small demo in CP Learn guide to show this!

[paper peak]

There is a Feedback link in the left sidebar on all guides. Feel free to point out specific things to fix using that. It's anonymous, so you won't get acknowledgment, but we appreciate it.

[open girder]

LIVE in 15 mins! Manufacturing in NYC with Adafruit! https://youtu.be/sDeiO-k6GME

Manufacturing in NYC with Adafruit! https://youtu.be/sDeiO-k6GME

[lilac tusk]

excited 🙂

hello everyone watching

[mellow thunder]

Woo-hoo special stream! Hello all happy Friday! 😊

[lilac tusk]

it's manufacturing day and i'm manufacturing the Bread 2040

😄

not in NYC though

[haughty quiver]

How many pizzas can you make per hour in the manufacturing oven?

[lilac tusk]

lots of forbidden pizzas

[haughty quiver]

🍕

[lilac tusk]

my tour would be done in like 20 seconds

i have a 5x7ft space xD

[gaunt plume]

@lilac tusk my home office is ~5x6

ahh, I miss the factory. good to see everyone on the line

[lilac tusk]

i occasionally use the dining room table

[smoky island]

I had no idea there was an astronaut hiding underneath the display 👩‍🚀

[lilac tusk]

i'm still waiting to get a macropad

hoping to make a mini midi pad for my nephew for christmas

[haughty quiver]

fun!

@lilac tusk will that be to control a software synth?

[lilac tusk]

uh, i'm not sure. I think he wants to use fruityloops to make music or use it with a keyboard, or maybe a software synth

i'm not 100% sure what i will be able to accomplish

[glossy void]

such a polite test program

[lilac tusk]

i sometimes spend more time reworking issues from assembly than actually assembling boards

sometimes solder paste doesn't want to do what i want it too

[left pier]

Thanks for sharing so much about your internal processes, the openness is refreshing and awesome!

[lilac tusk]

it really is

[eager matrix]

Is Scott doing his Deep Dive today?

[left pier]

No, it will be FoamyGuy

[haughty quiver]

No, Scott's off today.

[eager matrix]

Thanks @haughty quiver . That was prob in my head somewhere.

[haughty quiver]

Happy Today, everybody!

[lilac tusk]

thanks for the tour! 🙂

[cinder wind]

TODay, haha!

[gaunt plume]

woah..TODay

[lilac tusk]

good one lol

[teal river]

Aww, I missed the manufacturing thingy... But I get to see a special FoamyGuy stream :D

Where is stream?

[cinder wind]

perhaps here? https://www.youtube.com/user/Zobrombee

[lilac tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/elmo-shrug-不造-i-dont-know-gif-5094560

[cinder wind]

https://twitter.com/HistoryMuppet/status/1443659702219513858

🎃 Muppet History 👻 (@HistoryMuppet)

September 30th vs October 1st

Retweets

36410

Likes

157993

Twitter · Sep 30, 2021, 7:31 PM

[lilac tusk]

oh yes, i saw that and laughed probably way harder than a normal person would have lol

[teal river]

No stream at the moment

[lilac tusk]

I like halloween but most years i get burnt out on it by mid month so i'm really hoping to make it to halloween this year with all my excitement

[teal river]

Am spoop life

[cinder wind]

just remember Halloween == Christmas because OCT 31 = DEC 25

[lilac tusk]

for me christmas is a season (more than just a handful of days as some people suggest). and by season i mean like a state of mind, a spirit of giving. whether it be candy on halloween, turkey on thanks giving, or presents on christmas morning

my kids are also old enough to really enjoy halloween so that is also exciting

[grand tusk]

I think foamyguy said he would go live one hour later than the usual deep dive.

[lilac tusk]

yeah

[teal river]

ah

Am forgetful

[left pier]

So we're all here an hour early lol

[grand tusk]

Now what will we throw in the well?

[teal river]

Should I stream soup?

I have soup

[lilac tusk]

soup yes

also, interesting idea. i think it would be cool to create sort of a physical MIMO access point with ESP32 or ESP32-S2 in access point configuration

[teal river]

Oh wait I don't like having people watch me eat... oop

[lilac tusk]

have like 2 or 4 ESP32/ESP32-S2 in broadcast mode to make a weak access point lol

[grand tusk]

mermaids in my ocean?

[lilac tusk]

i've seen it done somewhere,

astronauts in the ocean?

[teal river]

I'mma make a pizza boarrd

[lilac tusk]

one that uses 100 neopixel to cook a pizza?

[teal river]

https://tenor.com/view/alastor-hazbin-hotel-hazbin-maybe-alastor-hazbin-gif-18782610

[lilac tusk]

use high temp solder and circulating fans to create the first neopixel convection oven

[teal river]

lol

[brazen grove]

no deep dive today?

[teal river]

Nope, Scott is off

[brazen grove]

aww

[teal river]

FoamyGuy streaming around 6EST

[brazen grove]

what time is it now in EST?

[golden sedge]

we’re 5:35 right now

[brazen grove]

ok, so in half an hour

thanks

[smoky island]

it occurs to me now that I don't actually know how to ping the deep divers role 😅

[teal river]

Hmm.... Maybe we can't?

Wait, I'd think you could

Hmm

[left pier]

Maybe @paper peak can ping everyone

[paper peak]

does scott normally do that?

[smoky island]

<@&(846780953275006976)> While Scott is out this week I will be streaming for a bit tonight if folks are interested in hanging out still. I will be here in the chat and you can follow along on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch or Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_mslil7CAc

I believe he does. it was created originally so that he could let folks know if he was switching to thursday.

[left pier]

Given the time has changed, I think its a legit use of the group.

[smoky island]

I will try one more @DeepDivers about to start streaming for a bit tonight. Links to join are a few messages above.

[paper peak]

I cannot do the ping

[ornate coyote]

Wicked... can hear those keys pounding 😉

[teal river]

Scott does it sometimes, but usually he @ the group when there's a change he didn't get to tell us about in the previous stream

I'll only be here for a bit, off for my walk soon...

I like that blue cable

[left pier]

Why do you go by FoamyGuy ? Is that a fun story you can share ?

[teal river]

ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND MASTER FOAMY

Foamy is alive and well!

[left pier]

Never heard of that before, I'll have to check it out

[teal river]

Foamy recommended for... not children

[grand tusk]

Today I'm driving...the couch. Zzz

[teal river]

Haha, you've never wired up a matrix directly, I've only done it manually

I'm doing a 8x2 NeoTrellis build

I <3 I2C

[grand tusk]

Max7219

[teal river]

The controller IC might have inbuilt resistors

[brazen grove]

if you use driving chip, it has a constant-current driver built-in, so you don't need resistors

the datasheet for the chip should have an example schematic

[teal river]

I should mention I did matrices either direct to the MCU pins or with a shift register

Yup, little dot is pin 1

[brazen grove]

the first page has it

they use a 7-seg display as the example, but it should be the same

so you connect the seg pins to cathodes, and the digit pins to anodes of the matrix

note that the matrix has a crazy pinout, all mixed up

the wire with a slash is a bus, actually 8 wires

[teal river]

That's confusing

[brazen grove]

the matrix has a text on the side

that side is where the pin 1 is

[grand tusk]

If your soldering iron looks like that you don't have any business using it.

[brazen grove]

if you look at the matrix from the top, with the text on the right, then pin one is bottom right

[teal river]

Usually pins wrap around

[brazen grove]

on the right, sorry

this is part of my PCB that uses it

[brazen grove]

pin one is marked with "1"

the text label goes to the right

[teal river]

"Ergonomic"

[brazen grove]

https://www.circuitstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/8X8-Matrix-Pinout.png

here you have C for columns and R for rows

for this diagram, the text label is on the bottom side

[teal river]

Well, finished half my NeoTrellis board, but didn't realize the time XD I'm off for my walk, good luck!

[brazen grove]

on that diagram pin 1 is probably the upper right corner

for the matrix

it's all mixed up :(

[simple fractal]

just tuned in

[brazen grove]

that schematic doesn't show you the matrix pins in order in which they are broken out

[grand tusk]

7219 is zero based (Digit 0-7) Matrix is one based (R1-R8).

[brazen grove]

what you need is basically connect R1-R8 to DIG0-DIG7 and then C1-C8 to SEGA-SEGDP

here are the R1-R8 connections

[left pier]

nice!

[simple fractal]

looks like my actual wiring.

[grand tusk]

That should be enough to light up one LED (once you wire up the power and signals to the MAX7219.

[left pier]

(we need a breadboard emoji)

Chat looks fine

or magic smoke ...

🤞

[grand tusk]

boot.py only runs on a cold start

[brazen grove]

you have to eject the board properly for the rename to take effect

three pins and two for power

TX to 1, RX to 13, A1 to 12, GND to 4 and 3.3V to 19

[left pier]

I wish I had a Deshipu with me when I was working...

[brazen grove]

I suppose you can use 5V as well, as there is no signal going from the chip to the mcu board

[grand tusk]

I couldn't live stream circuit construction. Too many bleeps.

[brazen grove]

GND before anything else, otherwise shouldn't matter

the data pins are high-z before you write code

use scl for clock and mosi for mosi

mosi to pin 1 and scl to pin 13

sorry, not scl

SCK

SCK is SPI, SCL is I2C

you can also use board.SPI()

[grand tusk]

Bundlefly can't help you now.

[brazen grove]

in the oled display driver?

HT16K33

[grand tusk]

Where would the font file go in the repo?

[brazen grove]

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_framebuf/blob/master/examples/font5x8.bin

it's in the framebuf repo

[upper sandal]

if it's in the package it gets distributed with the package and can be accessed from python

[left pier]

Does your library need to be a package and then you put it in the package folder and the code in __init__.py (Like the change we made to circup recently)???

[upper sandal]

as in a module package, that is a directory

[left pier]

(assuming this library is now a single file)

[brazen grove]

it would still not find it if you install it in lib

CS is 12

this is weird, there should be only one column

and we are missing some rows too

[upper sandal]

ah I was talking for pypi, does the bundler include non py files ?

circup would copy the directory, no questions asked, but what about the bundling tools ?

[grand tusk]

See https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_framebuf/issues/10 -- closed last year.

[upper sandal]

also, it's true circuitpython does not have pkg_resources or modules like that, so it could be tricky finding the file actually

[brazen grove]

you want to pull ISET (pin 18) up

with a 10k resistor to VCC

doesn't matter, anything from 10k to 100k should work

[left pier]

... Insert Borg joke here ...

[brazen grove]

ah, sorry

[left pier]

Very organized !

[brazen grove]

I'm 10k should be fine, it's for the current sense

datasheet says 9.53kΩ

[upper sandal]

so I ran circuitpython-build-bundles on the adafruit bundle after adding a jpeg in the magtag package and it was not included in the final result, I did seem to remember it only looks for py files

[brazen grove]

yeah, that resistor is for regulating the current

is the matrix up-side-down?

that's good

you don't want miso

the data out DO pin is for chaining

when you have multiple chips

[grand tusk]

MAX7219 Pin 1 is Din.

Pin 12 is /CS.

Pin 13 is CLK.

[brazen grove]

maybe they just used miso as CS

I think the communication with the chip is good

it does light up

[grand tusk]

Maybe change the while True: loop to fill/unfill the matrix.

[brazen grove]

because they bit-bang it in software

[grand tusk]

Fill/sleep/unfill/sleep

[brazen grove]

do you need to call show()?

[grand tusk]

Looks like a problem with the existing wires to me.

[brazen grove]

you need to call matrix.show()

[grand tusk]

There are four lights!

Pull matrix pin 9.

[brazen grove]

you only have 1 column connected, there should only be one column shining, so we definitely have the column pins mixed up

[grand tusk]

So that would be row 1.

[brazen grove]

https://www.circuitstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/8X8-Matrix-Pinout.png

do you have a datasheet for this particular matrix?

[grand tusk]

Let me rethink...which column was connected?

[brazen grove]

C2

[grand tusk]

...but the third column is flashing. 🤔

[brazen grove]

should be similar enough

that the wrong one

you are looking at common anode

we need to swap rows and columns

no, wait, rows are cathodes

that should be fine

[grand tusk]

Maybe just connect R1 and C1 and see what happens.

[brazen grove]

maybe we had an off-by-one error

[clever summit]

Hey Foamy!

What are we making?

[brazen grove]

max7219 matrix

yes, SEG A

[grand tusk]

MAX7219 pin 14

Move matrix 13 to 12.

Hmm. Tricky. That was C1 to R4 so yeah, no light.

[brazen grove]

do you have a multimeter with a diode mode?

yup

black to pin 9, red to pin 13

disconnect them from the chip first

[grand tusk]

DISconnect

[brazen grove]

disconnect the matrix from the chip

then connect the meter black wire to matrix pin 9 and red wire to matrix pin 13

[clever summit]

I do have some of those matrices.

[brazen grove]

weird

[teal river]

I have returned! Still going? :O

[brazen grove]

can you disconnect the matrix from the breadboard and try touching the multimeter wires directly to the pins?

[teal river]

I'm 1 2/3rd hours behind, think I can catch up? XD

[brazen grove]

do you have a regular LED to test this on?

black cathode, red anode

only if the polarity is correct

[teal river]

I take it you don't have a datasheet for the matrix? I had a weird one with randomly placed pins...

[grand tusk]

change the positive to negative

row 5 column 5

[teal river]

Oh, since you got one to light up, you know what column and row it is

Or vice versa

[clever summit]

The hardware is easy enough to compare to the datasheet.

[teal river]

It's either row 5 column 1, row 1 column 4, row 8 column 5, or row 4 column 8

[clever summit]

My matrix was 180 degrees off.

Upside down means the diodes are the wrong way, and it will not lit up.

[teal river]

Yeah, hard to know if the model numbers are a revision or totally different device...

[brazen grove]

I need to head to bed, good luck!

[teal river]

Bai!

[clever summit]

But using a resistor on the VCC connected to a dupont cable and another one connected to gnd will veriry what pins are connected where.

[brazen grove]

find a corner diode

[teal river]

Woo!

Always good to figure out what you know and work from there!

Bingo!

[clever summit]

SO EASY right? 🙂

[teal river]

Chonk font, lol

[brazen grove]

so we had it up-side-down

[left pier]

cliff hanger ...

Does the Adafruit product page explain the orientation ?

[grand tusk]

The suspense is horrible. I hope it will last.

[teal river]

Oof

[grand tusk]

You may have to map the pins.

[teal river]

Manual mapping weeeee

[grand tusk]

But if it is jumping from row 1 to row 8 that's unsettling.

[teal river]

This seems like the one matrix I had that was like... totally random

[grand tusk]

You went from (1,8) to (8,4).

[clever summit]

Like I suggested 10 minutes ago?

[grand tusk]

Only Keanu Reeves can save us now.

(9,16) => R1C8?

[strange mantle]

is there a model number as part of the label?

under "Luckylight"

KWM-R30882CWB-Y

?

[teal river]

Oof, my tip of my soldering iron broke off...

[strange mantle]

yah. the ones in adafruit shop link to datasheet with 1

[teal river]

If searching the model number on Adafruit does NOT give a result, I would expect you did NOT get it from Adafruit

daheck

[golden sedge]

為什麼

[strange mantle]

https://www.luckylight.cn/en/products/led-display/dot-matrix/

not even seeing a *882* variant on their site

[left pier]

Someone kick them.

[grand tusk]

Don't we all. <@&327289013561982976>

[golden sedge]

good

[teal river]

Wakarimasen

Does that mean something?

[golden sedge]

sounds like that’d be romanized japanese

[teal river]

Bean said "why", I said "wakarimasen" which is Japaense for "I don't understand", but I know, they were speaking Chinese XD

[teal river]

💯

I can't type Japanese characters and only know a few phrases XD

[golden sedge]

they were typing simplified chinese, I countered with my taiwan traditional chinese

[teal river]

Ahh... So what were they talking about? Did it mean anything? I saw the translation but still didn't understand

[golden sedge]

yeah, it was exactly what their nick and the google translate said, just that message spammed over and over again

got kicked very fast (props to mods for that too); good riddance, don’t need that in this server lmao

[teal river]

I guess I mean I don't know who or what they were talking about XD

[golden sedge]

that’s still cool! and of course, never too late to pick it up if you ever want to

[left pier]

Let's stick to discussing the livestream and Foamyguy's project ...

[teal river]

Sadly I have a learning disorder that prevents me from learning languages DX I can only process English

Right, Foamy time!

[golden sedge]

prolly too political to describe that person here (being that I’m taiwanese I have some bias against em and that’d prolly colour whatever I tried to say about em)

[golden sedge]

[teal river]

I would assume it follows the pattern from there on

[left pier]

This is definitely feeling like a Deep Dive Foamy !

[grand tusk]

We've got 1/4 sorted.

Go with a known column and find all the row pins.

You had one light each on 8, 7, and 6.

The pinout picture should have the pins increasing as you go counterclockwise. One side is not.

Red is on 9 now.

[strange mantle]

use for pin numbers, but not r/c

[teal river]

Not-a-race race: Me completing my NeoTrellis board vs. Foamy doing what he's doing until he decides to stop, lol

I have my top and bottom rows complete, just need to join them and do address jumpers :D

One would hope the pattern continues

But... who knows

[grand tusk]

🎉

[left pier]

OK, I am being summoned to go for a walk, or else.. 😉 Thank you @smoky island !
I can't listen live tomorrow but looking forward to more on the type hints stuff

[teal river]

Woo!

Foamy wins XD

[left pier]

Oh you did it!

WOOT !!

[grand tusk]

Seems like none of the diagrams were right.

[teal river]

Hopefully the map is right and it isn't randomly different XD

Seeya!

[grand tusk]

It's a foamyguy weekend!

[left pier]

[teal river]

Can you ping me before you go live tomorrow?

[strange mantle]

yes. according to the internet, that part does not exist.

[left pier]

Oh this was Deep !

[teal river]

I'll try to join

Awesome! G'night!

[strange mantle]

post that pin out!

[smoky island]

did you find that somewhere? or make it real quick?

[strange mantle]

made it real quick

all yours

[smoky island]

Nice! thank you. I've saved a copy

I'm told the matrices may have come from this individual: https://ch00ftech.com/ they don't seem to have a section selling anything at this time but I think it was kind of a one-off situation. They do have some project videos tha use similar matricies.

[sudden slate]

So, was Scott off today?? I couldn't find his stream anywhere....

[upper sandal]

yes

[teal river]

FoamyGuy did a stream instead

[smoky island]

@teal river I'm getting ready to start up the stream in about 10 minutes.

We mapped the pins on the 8x8 matrix last night, now we are ready to have another go at wiring it up to the MAX7219 chip. That's what I'll be working on for the stream today. Hang out here in the chat and follow along on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/foamyguy_twitch or Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN44lZq96Zk

[teal river]

Adafruit best toy store

I would live in an Adafruit store, more than I do Micro Center!

Micro Center's Adafruit stock is kinda random, lol

Fresh good

Ahh, was wondering why you didn't have two interlocked breadboards

It looks like you could remove a set of rails from one, although then you'd need to cut the foam on the back...

Is code running without error?

I have that phone :O

I like chonk too! I used to carry it daily as my secondary, but replaced it with an iPhone 8 refurb for daily carry due to security concerns, so now it's just my thermal camera and flashlight

Had to replace the battery because it nearly exploded...

[lilac tusk]

Spicy pillow

[teal river]

puff

I dunno what to do with my spicy pillows

I feel like DP means something...

Spicy pillow currently lives in an electrical tape lined Altoids tin

Fritzing?

Always easier with pratice

Framing hard DX especially with lots of things going on

Huzzah!

Maybe you should write a test to do a pattern so you know you're getting the right order

Yeah this matrix isn't crazy like I thought

Yay!

Testing good

Getting close!

brb

[teal river]

I have returned... that took longer than expected XD

I just caught up with where you welcomed me back, lol

2x wooshing

Confused matrix seems confused

W00t

I'd snag it

NeoTrellis is fun :D Although I realized the Monome project is Arduino and I dunno if I can port it to CP, lol

JP introduced me to the NeoTrellis Monome! Magical music goodness

Yup, blinky board

You should be able to ping the hostname and then you'll have the IP

Hmm

May be different in Linux...

[I'm on Windows, assuming you're on Linux of some flavor]

I need to get an HDMI capture

Regular keyboard? What did you switch to, DVORAK?

Trouble typing on QWERTY after switching to another layout is the exact reason I never really considered... Plus I can type at 80+WPM as it is, so not too concerned about speed

Ohhh, I see... I'm building a split, but it's basically like if you cut a regular keyboard in half

I feel like there's a term for non-ortho that I can't remember

Interesting

[golden sedge]

staggered layouts?

[teal river]

I feel like there was another term

[teal river]

I gotta go, gonna go pick up a new iPad Mini :O have fun, good luck!

[lilac tusk]

😨

[simple fractal]

I should scroll back and see how the 8x8 matrix turned out

I've progressed de total git beginner to upper beginner watching scott

Same. First pull request ever was to cpy.

I'm just watching freecodecamp video about git. Always learning

[simple fractal]

Thanks.

Looks good

Will you do a learn guide :)

I last used an 8x8 with an Arduino. Many years ago

👍

[sudden slate]

👍

[sudden slate]

Windoze supports everything

[sudden slate]

My setup:
HW: System 76 Laptop - https://system76.com
OS: Pop_OS! Linux - https://pop.system76.com
Keyboard: Kinesis Advantage - https://kinesis-ergo.com/support/adva...
Macro Pad: Nostromo N52 Speed Pad - https://www.google.com/search?q=Belki...
IDE: PyCharm Professional - https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm
Shell Prompt: Starship - https://starship.rs
Streaming Software: OBS

That's what he said

[sterile forge]

@smoky island I was watching the replay of your live broadcast and I
realized that the notation on the pinout is actualy for seven segment displays

[teal river]

That’s what FoamyGuy said his setup is, or that’s your setup and you happen to have the same keyboard? XD

[sudden slate]

That's his setup

[teal river]

Ahh

[open girder]

Desk of Ladyada - How we code up a sensor board tester! https://youtu.be/UeRHI1--U4E

[glossy flicker]

Early show - nice!

[restive owl]

I like sensors, boards and testing. I'm in the right place.

[open girder]

notes for tonight. ...

Desk of Ladyada - How we code up a sensor board tester!

Last week we showed that the VL53L1X has the same shape and pinout as the VL53L0X, making it an easy addition to our collection of STEMMA QT boards. We ordered new boards with a different silkscreen and now its time to make a tester. Our sensor breakout testers follow a common process - we don't have a library or anything but we'll show how we test each element of a sensor!

The Great Search - Antistatic foam blocks
https://www.digikey.com/short/wf90rnzb

"Do you have a vendor you could recommend for the antistatic foam blocks you use for products with pre-soldered male pin headers? We’re on the hunt for one and would be happy to take any advice you all have! - Thanks!"

We got an email request this week from another maker in the community, who is making and selling hardware with pre-soldered pin headers. They were wondering where we get our antistatic foam for our pre-soldered boards. Great question for a Great Search! We'll show you the different kinds of foam and the sizes we recommend.

[odd fox]

Addon Question to 👆: How do you recommend storing your Microcontroller boards? I have a plastic "case" with slots I got from Microcenter, but I'm concerned if this the best method.

[green bison]

some people add anti static sleeves/bags

[odd fox]

I was thinking about that or of it's overkill.

👍

Thanks for the callout.

mmmmmm tofu

😉

ooo pink pls. lol

[glossy flicker]

Thanks all!

[haughty quiver]

hello

[cloud ginkgo]

greetings!

[teal river]

Ohai!

I wish I hadn't gotten one of these in my last order DX

[inner spade]

Hearin' the disco beat on YT!

[opaque hearth]

YT bloops 'n bleeps

[grand tusk]

it bleeps, it bloops!

[teal river]

Blorp!

[inner spade]

mic audio in-sync and peaking at 0.0db. No clipping, though.

[cinder wind]

"Don't move. Its encoding bitrate is based on movement." –JurassicJohnPark

[teal river]

The YouTube link spoiled it in #adafruit-video-music-feed hours ago XD

Can't say I use µ constantly, but nice to have

But π is best

JP doing instant costume changes... magic :O

https://www.digikey.com/python

oops

lol

I touched my ruler

XD

[cloud ginkgo]

I bought one. I'm hoping to make it into a eurorack synthesizer input.

[tacit garnet]

I use Ohm in the kitchen regularly. I'm often Ohm on the Range. (Doh!)

[grand tusk]

lol

[teal river]

Ωµπ life

Or pull up the Character Map in Windows...

µUSB, anyone?

Moo

Oh, I should try this on my phone and iPad

Mine came with CP 4.1 rc1, lol

[grand tusk]

I was just going to ask which version it had.

[tacit garnet]

If you use the mu editor to edit the mu key code, you've got 2/3 of a python inception.

[teal river]

Ohh, hey, gifts, that's an idea...

12" ruler with moar buttons and stuff? :O

[grand tusk]

Hoping for the RP2040 Raspberry Beret.

[teal river]

Ωµπ

Would be cool if it came in read or a brighter purple :O

[grand tusk]

JP can wing it.

[teal river]

lol

[opaque hearth]

yea! thx JP!

[sudden gate]

Thanks JP for another great product showing!

[teal river]

Imagine if the pick board got wired together and everything did stuff and lit up XD

Good show!

[grand tusk]

Thanks JP!

[haughty quiver]

thanks all!

[inner spade]

One of my favorite PCB rulers 'cause 0-inches and 0-cm are right at the cut edge.

Thanks @haughty quiver !

[teal river]

Yet another place the regular PCB ruler just doesn't quite measure up...

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 345 LIVE in 10 mins! Mini LED Matrix, TVA Baton and Flexi Croc https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live

[upbeat coral]

Hey y'll

[lavish patrol]

Greetings, all.

[wise iris]

good morning!

[rocky reef]

good morning, afternoon, evening and night folks!

[lavish patrol]

🐊

[urban gale]

Hi all!

[shell mason]

🐌

[lavish patrol]

🐸

[vagrant flax]

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/torch-fire-gif-9675817

[lavish patrol]

🦆

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

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

https://www.adafruit.com/jobs

Hackaday Halloween Contest https://hackaday.io/contest/180664-halloween-hackfest

[lavish patrol]

The Lawnmower Man is early this week...

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/volume-volume-control-turn-up-the-volume-gif-13481877

[rocky reef]

Learn Guide
https://learn.adafruit.com/mini-led-matrix-audio-visualizer/

[shell mason]

this could also made like KITT

[rocky reef]

Learn Guide Project Code: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Learning_System_Guides

[vagrant flax]

I'm in love with these little LED matrices, they're so cool

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/knight-rider-k2000-kitt-gif-15959224

[rocky reef]

Feather Sense nRF52840
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4516

3D Files on Thingiverse
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4983214/

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

Layer by Layer CAD Tutorials Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjF7R1fz_OOVsMp6nKnpjsXSQ45nxfORb

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

STEMMA QT cables https://www.adafruit.com/product/4397

[vagrant flax]

The RP2040 controllers also have 2 I2C ports so you can hook up 2 LED matrices without cutting/soldering jumpers 👀

[shell mason]

nicely placed

[lavish patrol]

Autofocus, AKA outtafocus. 😄

[shell mason]

LarsFocus

[rocky reef]

Adafruit LED Glasses Driver - nRF52840 Sensor Board https://www.adafruit.com/product/5217

LED Glasses Frame IS31FL3741 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4970785

[shell mason]

that pcb is like same with like that frame torn on glasses

[rocky reef]

Filament for 3D Printers in Various Colors and Types https://www.adafruit.com/product/2080

[lavish patrol]

I thought those diffusers were glue sticks.

[rocky reef]

Layer by Layer – Holder for Slide Switches
https://youtu.be/VB9ks3N9030

Breadboard-friendly SPDT Slide Switch https://www.adafruit.com/product/805

[urban gale]

That would be great w/ a glow-in-the-dark filament also

[rocky reef]

https://learn.adafruit.com/robotic-creatures

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4979507 heatset rig remix

https://www.thingiverse.com/make:972807 iphone 12 flexcase

[mellow thunder]

Late to the party, good morning to all my peeps!

[rocky reef]

https://twitter.com/m4dnerd/status/1445694559049052162 pico midi fighter

Rémi Sarrailh (µsini) (@m4dnerd)

[THEAD]
Hi @adafruit ! I made the Pico Midi Fighter, it is a really interesting instrument 🎹
Here are some modification I'm working on.
https://t.co/VopKyCZ17d
@ecken @BlitzCityDIY

Twitter · Oct 6, 2021, 10:16 AM

[mellow thunder]

Just carrying Ninja Flex in the shop these days?

[lavish patrol]

Great show again, guys. 👍

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us

[hard hollow]

woo! thanks folks 😄

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for hanging out folks!

[mellow thunder]

Thanks guys!

[urban gale]

thanks all!

[wise iris]

thanks guys!

[green bison]

apparently all of twitch's source code and user data was leaked, just FYI. May need to change some passwords

[wise iris]

it has not been a good week for people

[shell mason]

well twitch source code and csv files not DB was breached

[green bison]

Ah I read a headline that may have been inaccurate.

[lilac tusk]

Source code AND internal tools including security tools were reportedly part of the leak

You should still change your password and enable 2FA if you haven’t done so already

Just because they didn’t leak databases doesn’t mean they don’t have them or access to them

https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/6/22712250/twitch-hack-leak-data-streamer-revenue-steam-competitor

[odd fox]

How can I verify if I have a subscription? I've logged into my adafruit account, but it does not state if I have a subscription to Adabox.

[clear matrix]

I'm uncertain. You have two options - wait until the live stream tonight and ask during it, or email [e-mail] and check with them, they'll let you know for sure.

[odd fox]

Thanks @clear matrix . You're the best

[split gazelle]

good evening folks

[nova totem]

good evening everybody

[teal river]

Hewwo!

[hard hollow]

Hey folks!

[teal river]

I has pizza

[haughty quiver]

come on by! https://streamyard.com/ascuq9ij94

[teal river]

To show off my pizza? :P

I don't have project progress DX

[upbeat coral]

Hey y'll

[teal river]

I hate working full time+

[upbeat coral]

Retirement is where it's at. 🙂

[teal river]

Indeed

Oof, Ask an Engineer got suggested before Show and Tell on YouTube, almost asked why S&T was starting at 8

[viral sail]

Good evening everyone.

[haughty quiver]

hello!

[teal river]

YT did a blink!

Now a JP!

Hmm, audio sounds crunchy, kinda like phone compression

Yay robospiders!

I love them so much!

[split gazelle]

super cute yet intimidating smol bots @north harness

[teal river]

I shall make a giant version

[nova totem]

Those look real cool. Robots are awesome

[proven crow]

Hi all!

[teal river]

@north harness do you have links yet for your spider pals?

[north harness]

@teal river Not yet, I will release them soon 🙂

[split gazelle]

i like @low fractal 's better 😺

[teal river]

Can't wait!

[proven crow]

We need an emoji for those sweet shades 😎

[fallow fractal]

can the matrix do other effects besides scroll text?

[teal river]

Scott!

[proven crow]

Fancy purple!

[teal river]

Ohh pretty board

[nova totem]

I believe all the LEDs are addressable so you could do more

[split gazelle]

sweet board @rapid hornet

[hard hollow]

I spy Scotts bird logo 🐦

[split gazelle]

stacking headers are painful to solder

[nova totem]

I've done that too "why do I smell plastic burning"

[teal river]

@rapid hornet very nice! The STEMMA QT and SWD are the only things that aren't super common, right?

[rapid hornet]

thanks!

[hard hollow]

Favorite Liz, yes!

[teal river]

Definitely favorite Liz!

[rapid hornet]

https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/fBq76nP9

[teal river]

@split gazelle I love data collection :D

[split gazelle]

me too 😺

[nova totem]

That looks real ... sharp!

[teal river]

Love it Darian! I want one!

[proven crow]

Neato!

[cinder wind]

That looks neat Darian!

[proven crow]

I never loved the E-ink refresh either

[inner spade]

Great looking hinge on that display @distant junco

[teal river]

Also glad to see I'm not the only one to leave the screen protector on XD

[proven crow]

Criminal 😉

[split gazelle]

looks great Darian!

[rapid hornet]

looks neat!

[fallow fractal]

very light weight

[smoky island]

Awesome gadget Darian

[teal river]

I bet the power consumption isn't too far off from the MagTag if it's similar processing and all, those SHARP memory displays are amazing

[proven crow]

Cool!

[teal river]

That's a weird way to spell "safe" :P

[proven crow]

noooo!

[teal river]

todbot!

[proven crow]

That's cool!

[echo burrow]

Was that screen in the last demo the eink display?

[proven crow]

LOL

🙂

[teal river]

It's a SHARP memory display

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4694

[proven crow]

Can I have the JP head image?

[ionic garnet]

Hello!

I want the JP head too!

[teal river]

Here's a JP head from when he turned into a NeoKey monster

[lilac tusk]

JP head pillow now available on Adafruit

[distant junco]

Hey all - thanks for all the love for the "Newt" - that's the name if the smart, always on, low power display that I just showed. "Newt" because you can stick it on a wall, and a homage to the Apple Newton

[proven crow]

need. today.

[upper sandal]

it's the lilygo TTGO T8 v1.1 or something, the name is 1km long

[lilac tusk]

Christmas adabox is just a JP Head Pillow

[echo burrow]

Beautiful start!

[distant junco]

Here's the crowd supply link if you want more info: https://www.crowdsupply.com/phambili/newt (that link has links to the github and the hackaday.io site where I'm tracking the build)

[lilac tusk]

Beautiful project @distant junco

[teal river]

Awesome!

[teal river]

I love this entire paragraph, and can't wait to have one on my wall!

[distant junco]

Power consumption is really good - I specifically picked parts that could operate at low power. The RTC operates at 45 nA(!!!) and it also controls the hardware refresh of the Sharp display - so the ESP32s2 can sleep ad not worry about waking up to refresh the screen

[distant junco]

Thanks... was a little (ok a lot) nervous sharing it

[nova totem]

You did great, and that board is real cool too. Glad you shared

[distant junco]

Keeping the screen protector on is a must!

[teal river]

Ohhh, I didn't know you could have an RTC control things like that! Glad to see the MagTag idea being taken in other directions. I had actually thought about doing something like this, hehe

[lilac tusk]

I’m designing a little IoT board with an EDP display, and it’s super cool to see how other people design their IoT products 🙂

I don’t think I’ll ever sell mine but who knows

[split gazelle]

super cool

[teal river]

Oh wow, @proven crow that's AMAZING!

[lilac tusk]

Right now I’m just getting comfortable designing boards with displays which is really fun.

[distant junco]

I'm hoping to make them available for purchase soon (working with crown supply)... But you can always build your own (the board files are on github) and I built my prototype with adafruit parts

[lilac tusk]

Oh nice @proven crow

[teal river]

I'll definitely take a look at the BOM and see about building one!

[ionic garnet]

hey folks, what's the best dev board that runs circuitpython and has wifi and ble? I've seen some that are expensive and wondering which you would all choose? For now use case is a few sensors and a couple of digital and analog pins with some floating point math. Code runs well on rp 2040

[distant junco]

Well, the ESP32-S2 still has to drive the display (send images, text, etc), however, the sharp displays require a 1-60Hz refresh. You can do that with software or hardware. Most of the Adafruit examples use software refreshes. However, a sw refresh means that the ESP32s2 has to wake every second. I use the attached RTC to send the refresh pulse instead - so the ESP32s2 can sleep for longer (in this case, for 60 seconds before it changes the time)

[ionic garnet]

off topic^^^

[teal river]

I love that BlackBerry keyboard adapter

[proven crow]

Yeah, pretty cool! I might have to try it

[rapid hornet]

we don't have a good option for a mcu that does both ble and wifi

[ionic garnet]

ahh that's what I thought

how about just ble

[lilac tusk]

If you’re using rp2040, probably the nano rp2040 connect from Arduino

[rapid hornet]

(esp32-s3 will be a good option when it's available)

[ionic garnet]

yeah have that on order

[rapid hornet]

nrf52840 is good for ble. esp32-s2 for wifi

[teal river]

Ahh, gotcha... Guessing you just run it at 1Hz when idle? I hadn't realized those displays had variable refresh rate!

[ionic garnet]

the arduino. and looking at esp32 stuff. Thanks

[ebon stratus]

Howdy all 👽 Chicago here. LOL

[ionic garnet]

the arduino i think i have on order. sometimes I order random hardware late at night!

[balmy steppe]

Thanks!

[ionic garnet]

it's fun when it arrives and I don't remember ordering it

[distant junco]

Thanks Liz... LOVE your projects, by the way

[split gazelle]

thanks!

[turbid hill]

Yo

[teal river]

I'm curious, where do you source your keyboards?

[ionic garnet]

my latenight electronics habit is certainly cheaper than my crypto buying sprees!

[proven crow]

Thanks JP!

[split gazelle]

great projects everyone!

[viral sail]

Great projects everyone. Thanks for sharing.

[cinder wind]

Thanks JP!

[ionic garnet]

bye @haughty quiver

[split gazelle]

and great job hosting @haughty quiver !

[teal river]

Good show! Thanks JP! Great job everyone!

[nova totem]

Great job everyone

[tulip canyon]

Thanks all. Inspiring projects as always

[ionic garnet]

really cool to see all the youngins

[lilac tusk]

Great job beeping and booping @haughty quiver

[haughty quiver]

super cool stuff all!

[ionic garnet]

that gives me hope

[turbid hill]

what not me I am aged and old

[distant junco]

the HINGE!!! I didn't think anyone would know! Yeah, I designed the Newt to stick to a wall, but I wanted to put it on a desk/shelf as well, and I wanted something easy to make (scale)... so laser-cutting a stand, with a living hinge, was a no brainer (once I figured out how to do it)

[echo burrow]

From Chicago: hello, Chicago!

[open girder]

WE ARE LIVE! ASK AN ENGINEER! https://youtu.be/AZ1jWUSekaw

[teal river]

Bleep bloops!

I very <3 these bleep bloops

[proven crow]

Me too!

[ionic garnet]

bleepin ell!

[fallow fractal]

earthboundy

[lilac tusk]

From that really cool historical building in New York! It’s ask and engineer

[teal river]

Hewwo!

[lilac tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/drake-approves-clapping-clap-applause-gif-4635196

[ionic garnet]

I think of Adafruit when I hear those beeps

[distant junco]

@haughty quiver thanks for being a great host and keeping me on track (I was SO nervous, and can talk about this for hours if not regulated - as my wife can attest)

[ionic garnet]

Yay MTC

NYC

[teal river]

I think about Adafruit a lot during the day

[proven crow]

I love the shirt Ladyada is wearing

[teal river]

Especially with all the Adafruit things across my desk XD

[ionic garnet]

me too

[lilac tusk]

Same

[teal river]

JP audio peaking loud

[nimble jackal]

I refuse to believe it's already Wednesday

[teal river]

Crackly

[turbid hill]

His mic is being over driven again

[ionic garnet]

Phil audio topped out and crackled

[teal river]

https://tenor.com/view/reality-substitute-replaced-adam-savage-mythbusters-gif-10816078

[balmy steppe]

I got mine here on ebay, select just the keyboard option, not T-Watch Keyboard unless if you wanted the entire thing. https://tinyurl.com/cwpjfszd

[ionic garnet]

what day it is is arbitrary

time is relative

[nimble jackal]

👍

[ebon stratus]

Need board advice: Want to build emote device that simply snd/rcv an on/off msg (not power on/off). Bluetooth or wifi to a central hub. What board would be cheepest for "clicer"? I/R not useable. May not have line of sight. P.S. if you can't tell, I'm a noob.

[lilac tusk]

Time is a relative to gravity and light

[open girder]

think sound is fixed now

[balmy steppe]

The quality for the one from Solder Party is better, but they aren’t ever in stock anymore.

[teal river]

Ohhh, I might pick that whole thing up... thanks!

[dim knot]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

[teal river]

Ah, that's a shame

[ionic garnet]

@open girder yup

[lilac tusk]

Freeeeebies

[turbid hill]

I am collecting those white proto boards as a indicator of how many times I buy from adafruit

[ionic garnet]

i know you ran out. I had to buy from amazon cuz I needed a CPE

[fallow fractal]

what the...

[teal river]

I'm going to cover a wall with them

[turbid hill]

Lol

[lilac tusk]

I’ve never been able to order enough from amazon to get a freebie lol

[ionic garnet]

i am hoarding gear

maker apocolypse

[lilac tusk]

I have no problem spending $100+ on Digi-Key though

[teal river]

I saw a report that factories had to reduce energy consumption [generally shutting down for lengths of time] because they hit certain energy limits related to emissions

[lilac tusk]

Usually buying parts for boards lol

[turbid hill]

I have bought a ton in last couple weeks all for my electronics binge for my Dec holidays, got the whole month off

[nova totem]

I love that even to Canada Digikey is $100 for free shipping and customs handled

[lilac tusk]

Dang, free shipping

I never qualify for that

I just get to pay tariffs

[ionic garnet]

i tend to buy from Adafruit more than digikey or other because I like them! The black boxes make me happy

I really like free shipping

[turbid hill]

should be renamed happy boxes

[ionic garnet]

i just use mail from NYC as long as no lipo

[teal river]

Adafruit boxes are my happy boxes

I just do USPS for smaller orders

[ionic garnet]

yes! Happy boxes

[lilac tusk]

Boxes of parts are my happy boxes lol

No matter where they come from

[turbid hill]

In canada I get most shipments from adafruit via DHL

[ionic garnet]

good point. I buy a lot from Sweetwater too

[nova totem]

I do try to order direct from Adafruit whenever I can (and really from any maker direct if I can)

[open girder]

10% discount code, one hour only! code is: TimeOfFlight expires 10/6/2021 @ 10pm EDT http://www.adafruit.com

[ionic garnet]

those even have candy in the box

[teal river]

Adafruit is the candy of electronics

[ionic garnet]

yesindeedo

[turbid hill]

soo many electronic calories

[ionic garnet]

I bought one of the rulers!

[lilac tusk]

I usually have to buy bigger quantities than is feasible to get from Adafruit 😅

[ionic garnet]

I figured @lilac tusk

[teal river]

I bought one the week before DX after thinking about buying one for months

[turbid hill]

lol my last purchase I decided to buy that ruler for some of my co workers and got the wrong rulers and had to order again this week to get that ruler

[ionic garnet]

i buy from Adafruit also to support their wonderful work to educate the world and spread the electronics love

[lilac tusk]

Though I’m wrapping up my business to focus on grad school so Adafruit will probably get more business from me soon

[teal river]

Lol, did you get the regular PCB ruler?

[turbid hill]

sigh yes

[ionic garnet]

and for circuitpython which I love

but I love C++ too of course

[turbid hill]

I did update the ruler I have to circuitpython 7

[ionic garnet]

after 35 years you'd think i like c++

but python is so simple

sometimes simplicity wins

[teal river]

I got both XD but thankfully I did it on purpose

[turbid hill]

I remember in 1980's getting Borland C 1.0 and self learning C

[teal river]

Who remembers TurboPascal?!

[tribal iris]

i love the regular ruler so much it gets weekly use. the other one i have for novelty

[turbid hill]

I went the Turbo C route

[ionic garnet]

I worked on Turbo Pascal!

[teal river]

Worked on as in developing? :O

Raspberry Pi: the FASTEST microcontroller?!

[ionic garnet]

I was one of 3 employees of TurboPower Software in Scotts Valley. We ghost wrote for many compilers and sold class libraries. Worked with Anders on TP

especially tp 5.5 with objects

wrote the class libs

[lilac tusk]

Someone over locked the rp2040 to 400MHz lol

[teal river]

Ohhh, that's so cool!

[ionic garnet]

won Jolt Award for much of my work in those days

[teal river]

lol

[cinder wind]

I loved Turbo Pascal in ye olde days

[turbid hill]

so sad they faded out sight, I always really liked their IDE

[ionic garnet]

i was just a hotshot kid playing in the big leagues

this was 1980s

i was in my 20s and wrote system level, assembly, and development tools

[teal river]

Spoopy Adafruit

Haha

[ionic garnet]

Turbo Pascal changed the world

[nimble jackal]

Used that calculator and quadrule paper for a lot of programs

[ionic garnet]

I worked on many dev tools but it is the most amazing one

[nova totem]

One of the big things I missed from the office last year was decorating my cube and area for halloween

[turbid hill]

Borland made compilers low priced and with reach of hobbyst

[nova totem]

And by me, I mean mostly my friend at work who didn't have a desk so adopted mine to decordate

[ionic garnet]

i learned to program on a calc like that in 1970s

[teal river]

Computing history is fascinating

[lilac tusk]

I learned to program initially in Visual Basic and then really got deep into making IRC chat bots

[proven crow]

12 and 36 bit 🤔

[turbid hill]

what about ibm basic or gbasic

[odd fox]

How can I verify if I have a subscription? I've logged into my adafruit account, but it does not state if I have a subscription to Adabox.

[ionic garnet]

and FAST. I had a program in UCSD Pascal that took 12 hours to compile and link on CP/M. TP 2.0 compiled and linked it in like 9 seconds

[turbid hill]

gwbasic

[fallow fractal]

lol

[proven crow]

🦑

[lilac tusk]

My mom told me yesterday that she did programming on an old Apple II computer

[cinder wind]

Next AdaBox is gonna be cookies and scarves

[turbid hill]

I started on apple 2

[nimble jackal]

Sky squids, best squids

[lilac tusk]

And a Lars pillow

[dim knot]

https://www.adafruit.com/adabox

[lilac tusk]

Gotta keep with the spooky theme 😉

[teal river]

I'm more concerned about perishable things that have gotten stuck in shipping that are going to be absolute losses... at least Adafruit stuff will show up and work when it gets here regardless of the time!

[ionic garnet]

i can tell you guys many Turbo Pascal stories. Look me up. Lots of my code is on the public domain. I spoke at conferences and wrote for mags. It was a great time. Just the beginning of the most wild ride that led me to Jibo

[lilac tusk]

I was thinking about all the food that comes over on container ships

[teal river]

Fun fact: the flexible eInk (2.9" at least) is compatible with the MagTag :0

[turbid hill]

please just thinking of it I can smell it

[slow spire]

Nice jar label

[teal river]

I'm sure they've attempted to get that stuff unloaded first, but with all the insanity... yeah

[slow spire]

Mild Magtag Pickles

[upper sandal]

forehead screens are the future

[lilac tusk]

Companies like Walmart and Costco are chartering boats to get stuff off boats faster

Or some I’ve heard

[cinder wind]

ooo Collin's upped his motion graphics chops. looks awesome!

[ionic garnet]

I programmed on an Apple IIe too, but had a Commodore 64 before that. My Apple addiction continues to this day

I got to work with them too! In a roundabout way.

[turbid hill]

I still have my Apple 2c and it works perfectly

[nova totem]

C64 is what I grew up on and learned so much from

[ionic garnet]

yeah it was an amazing tool at the time

inexpensive

[turbid hill]

watch Adrians Basement for C64 stuff

[ionic garnet]

I bought it myself with money from working as a dishwasher

late teens I think/early 20s

[upbeat coral]

TRS-80 Mod 1 then a Ti 99 4/a

[ionic garnet]

teens

[tulip canyon]

👋

[cinder wind]

"shell-shocked" is a good description of the feeling

[ionic garnet]

we're all sharing our geek creds

[turbid hill]

I bought the blues swan, 2 of them and the programmer

[tulip canyon]

I freaked when I saw my tweet

[slow spire]

DEC PDP8/E, Imsai S100, Some mainframe (FORTRAN), …

[viral sail]

[ionic garnet]

oh I did PDP stuff too around that time

[upbeat coral]

Raspberry Pi also just announced Raspberrypi.com

[ionic garnet]

in machine language!

[slow spire]

We old

Tried to do assembly on C64; was beyond my patience at the time

[ionic garnet]

what did PT say a few minutes ago? I was distracted. About sending him a tweet or email?

Yes. We old

[turbid hill]

did assembly on the apple

[nova totem]

Once I got an assembler (and figured out what it was) I did some on the C64 but never of any complexity

[ionic garnet]

I didn't do assembly on C64 just basic and peeks and pokes

then I got the apple

[nova totem]

About the blog job they're offering

[ionic garnet]

then I added a CP/M card to IIe

oh

thanks Mark

[cinder wind]

is there a name for a snake hydra?

[turbid hill]

I knew a guy in high school who got a apple without the basic roms and all he had was assembly so he got real good at it

[slow spire]

In high school, got the TRS 80 speech to read Spanish text aloud, with a bad American accent (available phonemes)

[ionic garnet]

^^^ cool

[slow spire]

Clipping

[ionic garnet]

Impressive!

that C64 launched my career

[turbid hill]

we had one also but no one used it, everyone wanted to use the commodore pets

[slow spire]

Nice!

@ionic garnet were you getting paid for stuff on C64?

[ionic garnet]

Kind of

[ionic garnet]

I sold a program for $10 to a professor

[slow spire]

So, something useful!

[ionic garnet]

I want FPGA dev board!

[slow spire]

What kind of program?

[teal river]

We need a WipperSnapper emoji

[ionic garnet]

math. It did some blade pull analysis that I wrote for my dad. He was a jet engine designer at Pratt and Whitney aircraft. It showed how to use some Calculus and other advanced math stuff

he liked it and wanted to use the source

So I made up a price on the spot

[slow spire]

(BTW, watching via Twitch on iPhone, so I can use Discord at the same time (picture in picture)

)

[ionic garnet]

cool. I have two 32" UHD monitors

[dim knot]

https://learn.adafruit.com/

[ionic garnet]

on MBP and M1 Macbook Air

[teal river]

Currently on my 55" 4K TV that I mostly use as a monitor for work, lol

[ebon stratus]

ICYMI - Need board advice: 😲 Building multiple clicker devices to snd/rcv on/off state msg via Blu or wifi to a hub. What board for clicker? I/R not poss cuz no line of sight. Need cost effective. Thanks. - signed, the noob

[teal river]

I like the different

[ebon stratus]

Or which forunm would I best ask that type of question?

[slow spire]

Semi-napping, so 32” monitors not yet pillow friendly

[ionic garnet]

I can't work w/o two monitors

or play

good point

[teal river]

This is an upgrade from 2 1080p 27", lol... it's kinda like going to 4

[ionic garnet]

not pillow friendly

[slow spire]

So cool

[ionic garnet]

I'm old Doc and need big word

s

[teal river]

if I were laying in bed I'd have the stream on my iPad Pro or Mini and Discord on one of my phones, lol

[ionic garnet]

both in my CPUs and on my monitor!

I have an old iPad Air 2 that still works but slow

[teal river]

I like this walking tour, but a slow version looking closer at things would be super duper cool

[slow spire]

@open girder I want a walkthrough of every aisle, so I can sorta pretend to rummage shelves

[ionic garnet]

love the M1 MBA

retina

[teal river]

Yeah, like this!

[nova totem]

Besides all the technical knowledge of Adafruit the logistics handling always amazes me

[ionic garnet]

want to walk through!

n e r d toyz

[teal river]

Two Limors in one stream :O

Ahh, so THAT'S where I left my TARDIS...

[slow spire]

@ionic garnet rumor that M1X MBPs being announced in next couple weeks

[ionic garnet]

the tardis is tardy

[viral sail]

Cool tour.

[ebon stratus]

I have a 21" Trinitron monitor with BNC connectors from my old miniVax. Set that on your tummie laying in bed. LOL

[cinder wind]

if you've got a Tardis, put all the storage in there. get a lotta space back

[ionic garnet]

yeah i have heard that for some time! But I hope so. This 2019 MBP intel i9 gets so hot

[cinder wind]

The M1 Macbooks are so good

[ionic garnet]

the MBA M1 doesn't have a fan, break a sweat, or run slowly. It's lightnight fas

[open girder]

this show is runnin off a m1 macbook

[ionic garnet]

lightning i meant

Love it

[lilac tusk]

Sweet

[teal river]

looks at 2018 MacBook Pro that's trying to catch fire

[ionic garnet]

My Gold MacBook Air is my favorite toy

[lilac tusk]

Yours too?

[ionic garnet]

Mine heats the room!

[lilac tusk]

Mine randomly finds GB of data

[teal river]

Mhmm... toasty while idling with nothing open, fans go brrrrr

[ionic garnet]

I have found tricks to keeping it cooler though

[lilac tusk]

Mine is actually still running quite well.

[teal river]

Mine doesn't get THAT hot, but my Threadripper and other systems do XD

[teal river]

The only hiccups in performance I've had were from too much RAM usage, and occasionally Netflix hiccups

[turbid hill]

looks like macropads will be soon back in stock

[teal river]

Disney Adafruit Museum!

[ionic garnet]

a lot has to do with the internal monitor. Of course you need it if only monitor, but on mult-monitor it cooks. Also Chrome is doing something to it

Closing tabs helps despite having 64GB of RAM and the fastest CPU offered

intel that is

the M1 smokes it for most tasks

[teal river]

I've noticed that even Opera can slow down a system with too many tabs and/or windows open and plenty of extra RAM

[slow spire]

Sweeeeet 🌈

[ionic garnet]

love that like led matrix

[teal river]

That is a beautiful board

[ionic garnet]

saw this show live today

gonna order one

[turbid hill]

yeah I picked 2 up

[ionic garnet]

nice

[slow spire]

@dim knot Product#?

[teal river]

I can't order this week, hoping they'll be around next week

[haughty quiver]

@slow spire https://www.adafruit.com/product/5201

[turbid hill]

our hero with the PID

[teal river]

Ohhh, spoopy lizard pal

Cute undead croc

[haughty quiver]

It's the coolest board with the most difficult to remember name.

[teal river]

I just did a search for "matrix" and by "recently added" and it was close to the top :D

[turbid hill]

this is where my wishlist grows

[slow spire]

Thanks, @haughty quiver ! And it’s… it’s … in stock! Ordering.

[teal river]

crosses finger for next week

[haughty quiver]

@slow spire it's really snazzy! I've been working on a little demo controlling it with the iPod click wheel

[teal river]

I reeeaaallly want one of those iPod click wheels

[cinder wind]

I put a quartz rock in an Altoids tin and it totally didn't oscillate unless I shook it

[lilac tusk]

Same

[turbid hill]

I have this company award that looks to be about same size base as the matrix I want to put it under the award and shine lights through the glass award

[slow spire]

@haughty quiver Was 5201 a prototype for the glasses?

[haughty quiver]

that's my suspicion. I think Limor said it was a good way for her to start figuring out that driver before adding the complexities of glasses geometry to it.

[ebon stratus]

@cinder wind how many hertz did you shake it up to? LOL

[slow spire]

Yep

[cinder wind]

this was probably my problem

[ionic garnet]

runny low on those rgb matrix boards in case you want to order

[turbid hill]

The adalogger is one board I have not bought yet since not sure what to do with it.

[ionic garnet]

just grabbed two

[teal river]

You could use it for grabbing temperature data in your house to see how it shifts and how efficient your heating/cooling actually is

[turbid hill]

Oh I did my first smd soldering, I put the 2mb flash in the qt-py controller

[ionic garnet]

i haven't bought one yet either

[haughty quiver]

congrats @turbid hill that rocks!

[ionic garnet]

i love stemma. I can't solder!

i seem incompetent at it

[turbid hill]

I do relize I need to put a pointy tip in the pencil and switch to finer solder

[ionic garnet]

never been mechanical

I tried all kinds of pens, flux, potions, spells

[turbid hill]

Lol spells

[teal river]

You could probably make a robot to solder for you!

[ionic garnet]

i live in Massachusetts now., You know about witches and MA

Yes!

[turbid hill]

they say the salam witch's were stoned on a fungus spore in the barley they grew

[ionic garnet]

I worked on every part of Jibo but never soldered a thing. Even when there were only 3 engineers

cool

me too

[teal river]

I think those plastic pages are called "card sleeve pages"

[ionic garnet]

or some other MA product