live-broadcast-chat

[rocky reef]

pruner stick messed up time

[woeful pond]

@rocky reef The pruner stick was great, it was the buffering.

[teal river]

Pruner stick pruned the stream

[hard hollow]

the livestream totally got pruned! I'm reuploading the local recording, should be public within the hour

[shadow epoch]

2 more hours! getting some popcorn ready?

[teal river]

I just have Salisbury steak pie

[shadow epoch]

what the heck is that?

Like chicken pot pie only with salisbury steak?

[turbid hill]

almost engineer time

better check that my shopping cart is ready for the secret code

[lilac tusk]

I guess JP is taking us into the twilight zone tonight

[clear matrix]

Adabox Unboxing is tonight, folks. There won't be a discount code this evening.

[turbid hill]

what..... must hold my sniffles in

then will use this to cheer up, got a 555 plushy (2 actually) and new camera for creating videos

need to make a plushy family photo showing all of them

[teal river]

Yup!

[teal river]

Ohh, I forgot! I also forget, does the unboxing take over both S&T and AAE?

[clear matrix]

Nope, Show and Tell happens as usual!

[teal river]

Yay!

Now, do I want to watch live or wait for my box to arrive...

[nova totem]

I'll watch it and then can start planning for what to do with it

[teal river]

Hehehe

Yeah I think I'll watch

[turbid hill]

I think Hans the 555 timer got to close to the vicious rabbit that can rip a man out of his armor in seconds.

[teal river]

https://tenor.com/view/princess-rous-rodent-bride-gif-20657438

^ Hans right now

[turbid hill]

Lol

[upbeat coral]

Hey y'll

[tulip canyon]

Howdy everyone

[turbid hill]

yo

[teal river]

Hewwo!

[split gazelle]

good evening folks

[nova totem]

Evening everybody

[ashen dove]

Good evening

[viscid bolt]

Good evening

[sage aspen]

Hello everyone

[open girder]

Link to join to show and share your project: https://streamyard.com/rghg8rupdc

[teal river]

Haha, hi Jayy

[nimble jackal]

Show AND Tell is this economy? 😆

[shadow epoch]

whhaaaa

[teal river]

AHH I LOVE IT

That is the coolest

[waxen thistle]

Good evening all you wonderful folks!

[open girder]

WE ARE LIVE! SHOW AND TELL! https://youtu.be/W1d0-NsCcU0

[waxen thistle]

[twitch isn't live]

[teal river]

That's clever and cool and I love everything about it

Haha

I'm working on robots to talk to and hug and be friends

[shadow epoch]

@north harness that jay-o-lantern is epic!

[teal river]

Baymax would take over the world with hugs

[turbid hill]

I have a lot of his books

and his little breadboard kits

[teal river]

Feather RP2040, ItsyBitsy RP2040, QTPy RP2040... I love it :D

[turbid hill]

this is the breadboard kit he made

[teal river]

I started with CircuitPython and going backwards to Python and it's so helpful

[nova totem]

You haven't used the pico long enough if you haven't miscounted the pins at least once

[turbid hill]

so true

[teal river]

I've mixed up sides XD

[turbid hill]

that is why I got the pico card

[waxen thistle]

Simon Monk is such wonderful foundation of the modern microcontroller world -- so many people have been positively impacted by his work.

[smoky island]

Ooo, the BLE code editor is looking great! Really nice mobile layout.

[rapid hornet]

saving and loading over ble!

[teal river]

I just use another Pico to see where the pins are XD

[nova totem]

That looks so great @sage aspen. Great work

[lilac tusk]

Loving the ble workflow

[waxen thistle]

Very nice @sage aspen !

[teal river]

Yay BLE!

[sage aspen]

Thank you

[waxen thistle]

Pedro's cloaking device: active.

[teal river]

Hehehe, I love it

[nova totem]

Given what the timestick does I'm worried for Pedro now

[waxen thistle]

Pedro got accidentally pruned is walking the dog.

[tulip canyon]

"Modular ABS block company"

[smoky island]

Assistant developer 😺

[split gazelle]

amazing @rapid hornet

[nova totem]

That's so much faster now

[waxen thistle]

CPyOS

[lilac tusk]

Module Abs company bring you abs when you need core strength

[turbid hill]

this the Pico card you can get at at adafruit

[lilac tusk]

Brilliant

[rapid hornet]

thanks folks!

[lilac tusk]

Everyone is ready…

[rapid hornet]

that was 480x270

[lilac tusk]

To enter the twilight zone

[rapid hornet]

low fi 16x9

[lilac tusk]

I know I am

[cinder wind]

That was awesome @rapid hornet

[waxen thistle]

That outside pyramid shell looks like the Aggro Crag from Guts. 🏔️

[nova totem]

That's even more then you had on the C64

[lilac tusk]

And all these amazing projects are taking me there

[rapid hornet]

@cinder wind it's all displayio so I'm excited to see what you can do with it

[cinder wind]

mostly bouncing @haughty quiver heads, probably

[lilac tusk]

I can’t wait till I get my TreeHouse Terminal board in and built up! 🙂

Will bring it on Show N Tell

[rapid hornet]

nice!

[lilac tusk]

Just in time for the blinkiest time of the year

[rapid hornet]

>>> import gc
>>> gc.mem_free()
33162176

[lilac tusk]

Ohhh nice

[rapid hornet]

just cause I have it set to 32 megabytes

[teal river]

Das a lotta RAM!

[turbid hill]

I think you can fit in the standard blink program

[lilac tusk]

Just enough Ram to blink some neopixels

[turbid hill]

yep few bytes to spare

[lilac tusk]

But.. can it run doom?

[turbid hill]

Lol

[lilac tusk]

I saw where someone squeezed doom into a RPi Pico

Lemme see if I can find it

[cinder wind]

Almost time to write the 100% Python RP2040 emulator so we can run RP2040 code in CircuitPython on the Raspberry Pi

[waxen thistle]

🎃

[lilac tusk]

https://forum.pi-top.com/t/raspberry-pi-pico-discussion/608

Someone lists off what they’ve seen done but I can’t find the video 😦

[ebon stratus]

@teal river are you the doctor that was just on?

[teal river]

I am :D

[waxen thistle]

I don't remember what I had for dinner....

[lilac tusk]

Hold up! Not only is there a Doctor in the house but Bob’s your uncle!

[ebon stratus]

cool. now I know who I'm bugging all the time

[teal river]

Did I have dinner?

[waxen thistle]

What is...food?

[teal river]

Yay saving good items from the trash!

[lilac tusk]

Taco Soup for dinner here

[ebon stratus]

Food is the stuff you have with Dr. Pepper or Mountain Dew

[teal river]

Hehe, wigglebutt

Appropriate name

[lilac tusk]

I need a board named this, it’s decided

[teal river]

I'll have one too XD

[lilac tusk]

Maybe it’s a stepper controller

Seems appropriate

writes down wigglebutt board idea

[teal river]

WiFi knows just when to quit :P

Spoop!

Ahh!

[lilac tusk]

At quitting time?

It is 5 o’clock somewhere

[teal river]

I should build a spoop box for Halloween

[smoky island]

Love it @nova totem 💀 That is great

[lilac tusk]

You totally should

[woeful pond]

@nova totem Nice Mark!

[split gazelle]

"good" lololol very cool @nova totem

[teal river]

Lovely spoop

[nova totem]

Full instructions on building it are here: https://hackaday.io/project/182367-jump-scare-tombstone

[tulip canyon]

Great stuff everyone. Thanks for sharing

[teal river]

Mine is Preparing for shipment, but I'mma watch tonight and join the chat fun!

[nova totem]

Thanks @smoky island @woeful pond @split gazelle

[ebon stratus]

spoop box? Something for dog walking?

[teal river]

Zipties that don't work? :O

I didn't know that was possible

[cinder wind]

Hi Limor! Hi pt! Great to see you! Happy halloween!

[teal river]

Bai!

https://tenor.com/view/spooky-scary-skeleton-skeletons-spooky-scary-skeletons-gif-14585469

[open girder]

https://www.adafruit.com/adabox20shipping

[waxen thistle]

Thanks everyone for sharing your awesome projects!

Now, time to reconfigure time and space for JP's Workshop & L.A.R.S for Adabox 20 unboxing!

[ebon stratus]

lil dancing skeleton. Ha ha ha. Cute

[grand tusk]

Why are we here?

[teal river]

https://tenor.com/view/revenge-of-schrodingers-cat-funny-animals-scardy-cat-surprise-cat-in-a-box-gif-10713828

^Spoop box

[teal river]

Adjustment complete!

Charging the broadcast crystals...

[waxen thistle]

Dividing by zero...

[teal river]

Error! Rolling back to previous universe...

[waxen thistle]

Save file corrupted.

[teal river]

Installing new universe...

[fallow fractal]

reticulating splines

[waxen thistle]

All lifeforms have been reverted to the default: Lars clones.

[teal river]

https://tenor.com/view/jaiden-animation-gif-18484706

Spoop bloops!

[fallow fractal]

oooh the font

[ebon stratus]

here we gooooooo

[teal river]

I hope it's all black and white 4:3

[waxen thistle]

Do not adjust your stream, we control the horizontal and the vertical.

[proper trench]

😵‍💫

[lilac tusk]

We are about to enter

The twilight zone

[ebon stratus]

can I adjust the Z axis?

[proper trench]

the eyelight zone

[thin vessel]

black and white might not be the best for a product with rgb leds

[waxen thistle]

Now we have all the time in the world to read!!!! holds up broken glasses

[nova totem]

I still think of last years Adabox unboxing

[thin vessel]

you can adjust the Z axis by moving closer to screen

[teal river]

Box!

[lilac tusk]

we interrupt your box video to bring you an important announcement

[open girder]

ADABOX 020 UNBOXING LIVE! https://youtu.be/ZX1kYCWFlgc

[teal river]

We interrupt your box video to bring you these boxes

[open girder]

https://www.adafruit.com/adabox20shipping

[slow spire]

Hi!

[proper trench]

🥡

[teal river]

Hewwo!

So excited to get my box ahhhh

[lilac tusk]

herro 😄

[waxen thistle]

I LOVE THIS.

[teal river]

The Twilight JP!

[grand tusk]

wow

[robust horizon]

anticipation intensifies

[lilac tusk]

i will one day have the available funds to get an Adabox

[teal river]

Ahhhh this is awesome

[opaque hearth]

Sterling impression

[turbid hill]

is that JP

[nimble jackal]

NICE

[glossy flicker]

LOL oh man! I knew it was gonna be great, but this is fantastic! 😂

[lilac tusk]

for now, i enjoy the unboxing

[slow spire]

Rod Serling, for those who weren't born in the 60s. 😄

[teal river]

giggles like a crazy person

[lilac tusk]

the lars light zone

[proper trench]

😵‍💫

[upper sandal]

who is that ? all I can see is eyebrows

[lilac tusk]

the adabox zone?!?! 😄

[teal river]

How can anyone not have seen the original show?!

[lilac tusk]

i heard this in my head when i first saw the graphics this afternoon

yessss

[cinder wind]

ahaha Jon Serling is perfect

[split gazelle]

nailed it again

[proper trench]

👀

[teal river]

I don't think JP can do bad

[grand tusk]

👓

[tulip canyon]

Me watching right now...

[teal river]

He's a chameleon, he can become any character!

[slow spire]

Nailed it. Can't believe how close this is. Rod Serling was host of the Twilight Zone.

[robust horizon]

116 = 2 * 2 * 29. What will happen on February 2, 2029? It's a code.

[lilac tusk]

yes

you nailed it!

[tame dew]

@haughty quiver never fails to surprise with his costumes and production value

[ivory kiln]

l love it! JP is just brilliant with these unboxings!!

[lethal lagoon]

happy halloween week yall!

[glossy void]

"probably have your box by now".... sigh.

[lilac tusk]

i'm glad i'm old enough to recognize the twilight zone theme

[nimble jackal]

howling

[grand tusk]

It's the bighead guy.

[low fractal]

It’s a cookbook!

[lethal lagoon]

yayyyyy always look forward to @haughty quiver halloween adabox unboxing, so good!!!

[cinder wind]

that's just what JP looks like without the makeup

[lilac tusk]

also glad digikey exists in the twilight zone

[upper sandal]

the puppet, its eyes are following me !

[teal river]

JP!

[thin vessel]

last adabox took 11 days in UPS, so I knew I wasn't going to get this one by halloween when they mentioned issues last week

[lilac tusk]

and adafruit as well

[slow spire]

Original big-head alien for reference. So good.

[open girder]

@glossy void there is a supply chain and shipping crisis, we're doing the best we can and they are shipping, it takes a little longer than it was before the death and chaos over the last 18 months

[ebon stratus]

Love the alien JP

[open girder]

if this is the worst thing ever, please pause the subscription / resume next year

[teal river]

The Twilight Box!

[slow spire]

Congrats, @haughty quiver for routing around any costume/makeup supply chain issues.

[glossy void]

I know. Thank you. I'm ... not complaining. But I can sigh. Definitely not mad about it!

[nova totem]

i've used that tissue paper to stuff in gift bags

[upbeat coral]

Yes save the paper and sticker!

[robust horizon]

next time let's just "ASMR adabox paper crinkling no dialog"

[teal river]

I'm one of the people who saves the paper and sticker. I haven't used any yet... The last one I got, the sticker wasn't attached on one side, so I was able to get the contents out without trying too hard XD

I love the pink bubble wrap

[lilac tusk]

yeeee

[teal river]

JP is buggin' out!

[proper trench]

🧋

[lilac tusk]

i love the glasses so much

[grand tusk]

I hope I get the dragon.

[open girder]

@glossy void all good, there are people that are being jerks to our team so we're trying to manage expectations the best we can

[teal river]

When do the trades start?

[lilac tusk]

nice job @proper trench on the design 🙂

[proper trench]

trade with friends

[upper sandal]

oh no ! his glasses have a bug

[proper trench]

@lilac tusk the graphics is all drag0n!

[upbeat coral]

Love the knife action

[lilac tusk]

and mr @low fractal

[proper trench]

i did the routing, it was definitely a Thing. took many many hours to route - maybe the longest of any board we've done!

[lilac tusk]

😄

[lethal lagoon]

YES so excited to get my box, the glasses look amaaaazing

[open girder]

the zip ties we have are not all the same, so folks might need to adapt them when the box arrives (supply chain issue)

[sage aspen]

He got the BundleFly glasses

[ivory kiln]

LMAO!! SLAPPY!!

[teal river]

Well worth the work!

[nova totem]

I'm going to have to work on my CP native framebuffer for these glasses.

[vagrant flax]

I love these glasses ❤️

[proper trench]

thank you! we wanted to make cool LED frames

we also had to work with what was available in the market

many components are 1 year lead time, so we had to figure out what 'ingredients' we had

[lilac tusk]

excellent execution

[robust horizon]

I still don't have a set of the glasses for myself. Maybe someday soon.

[proper trench]

and what we could make

[vagrant flax]

Wow! That is amazing 😄

[drowsy inlet]

wow awesome box contents!

[teal river]

I think the chonk plastic frames was a clever work-around

[glossy void]

I’ve got my non wearable from a couple of years ago to tide me over to delivery.

[proper trench]

also, we designed the PCB after we got the plastic frames

[fallow fractal]

is there a website that can take a list of parts and spit out a circuit you could make with em?

[lilac tusk]

i'm just constantly impressed and inspired by how you've continued to make cool stuff despite the pandemic part shortages

[proper trench]

its 'backwards' engineered from how you might think

[cinder wind]

zipties! shakes fist

[proper trench]

ya for example we wanted a color TFT originally for macropad - but couldn't get any. so found an OLED

[teal river]

I'm sure someone can design a 3D printed clip to attach the board to the frames

[vagrant flax]

That explains a lot though, they fit perfectly, and they're pretty comfortable too

[lilac tusk]

yeah, TFTs are hard to get right now

[turbid hill]

there was a real fly there

[robust horizon]

these frames aren't too shabby if you're into the 3d printing https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4970785

[lilac tusk]

i was lucky to find good ones on Aliexpress

[proper trench]

🪰

[vagrant flax]

Oh yeah! I got some of those printed. I think my head is too big for those though 😢

[woeful pond]

Vincent Price, the Fly

[nova totem]

The 3d printed frames are real easy to print/assemble too

[teal river]

Ohh, that would have been cool... But the OLED is still really nice. Maybe another revision after everything stops being insane?

[slow spire]

I cheated, and ordered the individual parts as soon as they were available, which I tend to do when a new Adafruit product first comes available. # protip

[vagrant flax]

The chonky frames were more comfortable for me

[grand tusk]

Let's put a breakout game on your face.

[proper trench]

FUN FACT: the 'frames' are also known as 'kpop fashion frames'

[lethal lagoon]

ahhhahaha I am still accidentally scaring myself with the little roach that came in the October box like 2 years ago 😅

[robust horizon]

@grand tusk honestly that idea is amazing and I'd love to see it

[upper sandal]

I would use red/blue 3D glasses for that ! I have a few laying around

[proper trench]

they are (apparently) all the rage in k-pop singers/fans

[teal river]

That fly walking around on JP's bench was creepy

[cinder wind]

Now I can be kpop star

[lilac tusk]

i'm glad kpop is providing value to the maker community lol

[proper trench]

:heart fingers:

🎵

[slow spire]

That's a good costume idea! Maybe with a few papier maché bricks

[nova totem]

I watched an entire show and tell through the glasses, you can see pretty good

[teal river]

I really hope I get the cat or dragon

[fickle prism]

I have been wanting these since the 1st hint. so excited to get my box. once it has passed the preparing for shimpment status

[glossy void]

i hope i get the cat, or the wolf. or the dragon. or the bug.

[proper trench]

sask, verrry sooooon!

[turbid hill]

I like the little rubber flys

[grand tusk]

So all this talk about dinosaurs was a red herring?

[proper trench]

one box has a velociraptor in it

but its random

[teal river]

This demon sounds like a robot :O

[grand tusk]

ah cool

[lilac tusk]

i'm hoping my job will give me a big enough pay raise to get the next adabox

[teal river]

https://tenor.com/view/stevenuniverse-star-gif-4782048

I want it

[slow spire]

From a memorable Twilight Zone episode with William Shatner.

[waxen thistle]

🪰

[teal river]

I would pay extra for velociraptor

[upper sandal]

https://tenor.com/view/you-bred-raptors-raptor-raptors-bred-jurassic-world-gif-13500978

[lilac tusk]

ability to keep appendages with the velociraptor not guaranteed

[teal river]

It probably turns you into a raptor

[proper trench]

well tbh the velociraptor is why adabox is delayed

got loose

[teal river]

lol

[proper trench]

made a real mess of the stored packaging

[teal river]

This is what happens when you try to play God!

[waxen thistle]

They're clever from what I hear.

[glossy flicker]

oopsie!

[turbid hill]

nom nom nom

[proper trench]

also, velociraptors are not ESD safe

[upper sandal]

I see, you had to shoooooot her shoooooot her

[proper trench]

touched everything, now we have to re-test the boards 😦

[woeful pond]

Life always find a way

[lilac tusk]

i heard packing peanuts are good for calming velociraptors

but not so great for the environment or ESD

[cinder wind]

the acceloraptors are ESD safe though

[teal river]

Anti-static packing peanuts

[proper trench]

note you can use LiPoly with the EYELIGHTS

but you hvae to solder the jumper on the back

[waxen thistle]

Thankfully, JP sent Lars to intervene and stop the velociraptor.

[proper trench]

this is so folks dont need to have a lipoly near their face - its better for kids too

[slow spire]

The gyroraptors can get dizzy.

[teal river]

Considering how often children whap their faces into things, I would feel better not giving them a LiPo to potentially damage

[waxen thistle]

How do you find a velociraptor?

Distanceraptor divided by the timeraptor.

[lilac tusk]

yeah, agreed

[proper trench]

[lilac tusk]

or the derivative of the acceleraptor

[tulip canyon]

I still haven't hacked on the CLUE board because it came with the PERFECT DEMO!

[lilac tusk]

dodges flying calculus book

[slow spire]

Good LED videography, @haughty quiver ! Always a challenge.

[teal river]

So what was the reason for the glasses being random? Too much logistically to make each option separately available?

[upper sandal]

scrolling letters look nice on it

[teal river]

I mean for regular orders

[lilac tusk]

i bet it's more fun

never truly knowing what you get

[outer siren]

any idea how long the LED glasses runs on the 3 A batteries? (and yeah, definitely safer than LiPo)

[teal river]

Random can be fun, and it does encourage trading and making friends XD

[proper trench]

@outer siren 6-8 hours

[lilac tusk]

like going to get a kids meal. you don't know if you'll get a new kids meal toy or ones they couldn't get rid of 2 years ago

[outer siren]

thanks!

[proper trench]

it does depend on how many you light up and the 'brightness' setting

but many hours

[lilac tusk]

honestly, i'm not impressed with humanity as a whole so full brightness it is

[proper trench]

🔅 🔆

[tulip canyon]

a broken escalator is still stairs
a broken ziptie is still a plastic lashing

[proper trench]

we spent some time trying to figure out how to do 'hinged' PCBs but mr ladyada had the idea to use a 'substrate' glasses and it works waaaaaaaay better

[slow spire]

A USB battery pack, and a USB A to USB C cable is a sustainable, rechargeable option that could provide more hours of wear. https://www.adafruit.com/product/4474

[proper trench]

glasses hinges are way fiddlier than i like, to work with

@slow spire you can also use NiMH batts!

[teal river]

I feel like using PCB for the arms and nose bridge might have not been as comfortable as the polished plastic of the frames you chose

[cinder wind]

The substrate glasses is a pretty great solution. Temple pieces need to bend to the head a bit, hard for PCBs to do

[proper trench]

yah thats the other thing, these have a nice wide nose bridge

[glossy void]

and definitely trim those ends so you don't put an eye out.

[lilac tusk]

great choice honestly

[slow spire]

Maybe 4 NiMH?

[proper trench]

you can do 3 or 4 nimh

[lilac tusk]

these glasses would be great for like a Masquerade

[proper trench]

AAA batteries are pretty nice, we like those

[waxen thistle]

And now there are four zip tie tails randomly scattered in JP's workshop....

[grand tusk]

Which is creepier, Lars or the guy with the red bow tie?

[upper sandal]

(that's the secret of nimh)

[glossy void]

or for expressing yourself at thanksgiving...

[lilac tusk]

yes

why speak when you can just stream your views across your glasses

lol

[grand tusk]

Just four?

[turbid hill]

The only issue I see is if you depend on prescription glasses already, I have some magnifiers for my glasses that have a small rubber clamp that goes over my nose bridge. Might look at moding the glasses to have that

[teal river]

Lars

[upper sandal]

scroll passive-aggressive messages on your glasses at family reunions

[proper trench]

i wear these over my prefscription glasses

they're really chunky, fit fine

[lilac tusk]

chonky

[teal river]

I'd imagine those frames would fit over most glasses

[proper trench]

these are the Chunkiest KPop Glasses money can buy

[lilac tusk]

i have some chonky glasses but these look like they would fit great

[turbid hill]

have to test not everyone has same head size

[grand tusk]

The controller board is nice. I'm gonna try the FunHouse.

[teal river]

One size fits most

[proper trench]

we tested two head sizes. me (small) and mr ladyada (large)

[turbid hill]

cool

[slow spire]

Under my workbench: those plus DuPont connectors, bits of header, wire insulation, lead-free solder balls, hot glue, and who knows what else.

[green bison]

What about nobbly heads?

[proper trench]

iz ok

[upper sandal]

and now, it's tested with a JP size head

[woeful pond]

cool!

[cinder wind]

imma use a big inductive coil to power the glasses. and hire a guy to walk in front of me to blast my face with EM waves

[teal river]

They seem to fit JP fine, but I have no idea where he fits in the spectrum of human scale

[cinder wind]

JP is a standard-sized human

[teal river]

Whoa that dance out

[lilac tusk]

dang moves

[teal river]

That's what I suspected, but I couldn't tell if he was 5'5" or 6'5", lol

[woeful pond]

lol

[lilac tusk]

HAHAHAA

[teal river]

JP has transformed!

[lilac tusk]

oh no JP!

[woeful pond]

I saw that episode of Twilight Zone

[grand tusk]

reverted

[ivory kiln]

A neck strap would be great for a place to hang the battery pack! So It is clipped at the back of ur neck.

[cinder wind]

... turns out we were the ugly ones the whole time

[woeful pond]

@cinder wind Correct!

[low fractal]

Whatever silkscreen design you get, your face’ll stick like that.

[slow spire]

Alien medical staff from Twilight Zone.

[lilac tusk]

JP is slowly transforming into the bundlefly?

xD

[teal river]

Hehehehe]

[vagrant flax]

😂

[grand tusk]

Yay!

[sudden slate]

I can't watch tonight - I don't want spoilers, since mine hasn't even shipped yet, but it's nice to see Odd Jayy on Show and Tell 😂

[lilac tusk]

Wow! great unboxing.

[teal river]

JP the tri-eye guy!

[robust horizon]

hahahahaa

[turbid hill]

lol

[split gazelle]

👏

[lilac tusk]

hahahahaha

[lethal lagoon]

WOW that was amaaaazing

[woeful pond]

lol

[glossy flicker]

LOL 😂

[waxen thistle]

The amount of spirit gum used tonight 🙂

[lilac tusk]

wasn't expecting that

[open girder]

YAY!

[lethal lagoon]

bwahaha

[proper trench]

SO GOOOD JP

[grand tusk]

Hey even Lars has glasses!

[teal river]

If you have extra zipties you can fix that XD

[slow spire]

From Twilight Zone episode, "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"

[open girder]

thanks everyone these are always giant effort, and it's been the hardest time to do adabox over the last 18 months, we appreciate the support 🙂

[teal river]

shakes fist at plague and world economic reboot

[outer siren]

wow. who would have thought that zip ties would be so hard to get? this is crazy.......

[split gazelle]

all the catastrophes

[lilac tusk]

thanks Adafruit for continuing to bring great products regardless

[waxen thistle]

A Iomega Zip Disk is not an appropriate substitute for zip ties.

[proper trench]

do not use velociraptor to attach LED glasses

(if you happened to get the one dino raptor)

[lilac tusk]

hehe

[teal river]

So there's literally one of them?

[proper trench]

yes one adabox subscriber gets a velociraptor

randomly

[grand tusk]

whoa!

[cloud ginkgo]

missed opportunity for a 3rd glasses lense

[lilac tusk]

will they die?

[proper trench]

i mean, the box will be larger than usual

[lilac tusk]

maybe..

[proper trench]

so they'll know

[teal river]

crosses all fingers and limbs

[vagrant flax]

[lilac tusk]

will they have fun?

[proper trench]

yes super fun

[teal river]

I miss having a raptor in the house

[lilac tusk]

great way to get ahead on the holiday weight loss plans

[ebon stratus]

Ooooooh 🦖

[waxen thistle]

ooooo, UPS notification -- I have a box 6ft tall, 3 feet wide, and several hundred pounds from Adafruit! They're holding it at the depot, which now is hiring for all positions after an unfortunate....accident involving a dinosaur?

[lilac tusk]

either you run it off or the raptor takes a bite out of your waist

either way.

[slow spire]

@proper trench @open girder Now that Adabox 20 has been revealed, when you all have a free moment 🙂 maybe a writeup of the hurdles, especially parts availability, would be good for the blog

[cinder wind]

Thanks @low fractal for code & cool silkscreen!

[proper trench]

@slow spire we chat about part shortages and difficulties on desk of ladyada

[low fractal]

@cinder wind Rawr!

[open girder]

@slow spire yah, we'll talk about it for sure 🙂

[proper trench]

but its definitely "Fun"

[slow spire]

I watch every episode.

[proper trench]

and "Exciting"

we have learned to order the 'rare' parts very early

and then tell people about it

[waxen thistle]

Scarcity and limitations breed innovation and creativity!

[vagrant flax]

ooh

[grand tusk]

ding ding!

[lilac tusk]

i have the last 9 of a 3.3V buck that i use

with... nov 2022 lead times..

super fun

[teal river]

I think Adafruit has navigated the maelstrom pretty dang well

[proper trench]

for this box, we happened to already have nrf52840 modules on hand

[glossy flicker]

@proper trench and by "rare" that includes zip ties, eh? 😂

[proper trench]

and we could not do TFTs, but wanted to do 'eyes'

the zip ties were an exciting "something got swapped after it was approved" type thing

[glossy flicker]

heh

[slow spire]

Yeah, that's why I order interesting new Adafruit products when they come out, even if I don't have an immediate plan for them. I've done that since the before time. 🙂

[glossy flicker]

I would imagine that being very frustrating...

[vagrant flax]

same lol

[teal river]

At least zipties are something that you can get cheap and easy

[glossy flicker]

but you folks always end up pulling it off even in the toughest of times! Kudos!

[teal river]

Well, if they're in stock...

[proper trench]

tbh you can use twine/wire

[teal river]

I'd probably use wire if I didn't have zipties

[waxen thistle]

Harbor Freight, Home Depot, Lowes, etc carry zip ties of all sorts and sizes 🙂

[proper trench]

but yah baiscally these latest adaboxes had to do without SAMDs and no TFT

[grand tusk]

green pipe cleaners

[teal river]

It's like a bucket of water :O

[cinder wind]

breadboard solid-core wire works great as impromptu twist-ties

[proper trench]

so thats sorta 'dictated' the designs. we happened to have RP2040's on hand from an early order - so macropad was RP2040

[waxen thistle]

I love that HD carries neon zip ties, very stylish!

[teal river]

This would 100% match a bug mask

[green bison]

For when you're already at the rave but really need to secure something

[proper trench]

we are basially shipping a kickstarter every 3 months, so its interesting to see what can be done

[lilac tusk]

rp2040 has been a big thing propping my operation up

[slow spire]

Other options to zip ties to consider could include hot glue, double-sided foam super-strong VHB tape, and, um... rubber bands.

[lilac tusk]

it's the only thing i can get all the parts for..

[proper trench]

for this box, we knew that 2020 RGB LEDs were not affected by the silicon shortage. so once we secured the LED driver chips, we were 'good to go'

[teal river]

RP2040 is life, RP2040 is love

[grand tusk]

Ah, math.

[glossy void]

@proper trench I think you have been completely rocking it.

[proper trench]

thank you @glossy void !

[lilac tusk]

i have a whopping 20 SAMD21 left from a previous product run

[teal river]

Are NeoPixels affected by the shortages?

[slow spire]

Yeah, congrats, @proper trench !

[proper trench]

we have been seeing many many maker companies struggle - if you need a part and you cant get it...you may not get it till 2023

[lilac tusk]

prepping some new boards with those..

[cloud ginkgo]

kind of sad it won't make halloween tho 😦

[green bison]

I'm really glad I had my work buy 5 pis 2 months ago

[proper trench]

neopixels were not possible within the bom pricing

they're 10 cents each

[glossy void]

The good news is, creepy LED costuming is NEVER out of season.

[tulip canyon]

Imagine waiting for supply-chain issues only to watch your goods go up in flames...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/environmental-concerns-container-ship-fire-1.6224957

[proper trench]

and the yield is not as good

[lilac tusk]

but ya know.. i can prototype but no launches until maybe middle of next year

[proper trench]

so the 116 LEDs would overwhelm the BOM pricing

[grand tusk]

JP's got skills!

[lilac tusk]

so rp2040 it is. not sure how much more creative you can get lol

[slow spire]

And I wouldn't be surprised if certain NeoPixels and DotStars are impacted.

[ivory kiln]

Lol, I gotta watch goosebumps later. Gotta love slappy!

[waxen thistle]

I was looking at some parts lists for electronics textbooks -- and it's almost impossible to get any one entire list.

[proper trench]

eventually yes neopixels will be impacted

[lilac tusk]

i need to order another reel

[cinder wind]

oh no Lars looks angry. he never looks angry //s

[teal river]

Buy everything now

[proper trench]

another thing is...tbh, i would not like to make a board with 116 neopixels - one bad pixels will take out the full design

[lilac tusk]

i've got like 500 left..

[glossy void]

wait, can i just stop by JP's place and borrow one of the glasses until mine get here?

[split gazelle]

oh lars

[grand tusk]

...i see LED people...

[proper trench]

where as with a matrix design, if an LED breaks off, the rest work

also, the quiescent current for neopixels is 1ma per

[teal river]

Lars is mildly less terrifying behind those glasses...

[lilac tusk]

power dissipation of neopixels is a lot

[upbeat matrix]

My CC was charged for the adabox last week but it hasn't shipped yet. Is that to be expected? I realize you're running late and that's ok, but it seems like the CC wouldn't be charged until shortly before shipping. But if not then i'll stop worrying.

[proper trench]

so most of your power would kill

@upbeat matrix yes we charge all the cards at once, but we're shipping over the next week(s)

[slow spire]

I did see a WS2812 or APA102C variant somewhere that had some dead pixel protection. (I'm sure you're all over those variants.)

[lilac tusk]

i had to put a disclaimer not to run above 50% power because the heat of 50 sk6812mini at full power and color saturation desoldered the whole board

[proper trench]

yah they are hot

[lilac tusk]

granted, the person had it face down on a table

[proper trench]

but basically there's a lot of reason not to use neopixels, een tho it would have made the routing a looooooooot easier

[lilac tusk]

yeah

[vagrant flax]

yeah I think these photograph well too

[proper trench]

[waxen thistle]

Very nice ada-unboxing, @haughty quiver !

[tulip canyon]

NOT A SINGLE THIRD EYE BLIND JOKE. Not impressed.

[proper trench]

NICE WORK JP - looking great

[waxen thistle]

Now with these new glasses, I'll be able to read all the books I want! 📚 👓

[novel night]

ROFL

[open girder]

good work JP!

[teal river]

Triclops glasses when?

[novel night]

Nice...

[slow spire]

[grand tusk]

DigiKey Rocks!

[proper trench]

DIGIKEY SHIPPED EVERYTHING ON TIME AND PERFECTLY 🙂

[woeful pond]

@haughty quiver Epic Unboxing John!

[opaque hearth]

Fantastic show John Park !!! 👁️

[split gazelle]

standing ovation to @haughty quiver

[tulip canyon]

Thank you @open girder and @haughty quiver

[proper trench]

YAY

[lilac tusk]

great show @haughty quiver ! thanks @proper trench and @open girder and @low fractal for a great show, great product, and design, and just amazing content and products in general!

[grand tusk]

Thanks JP!

[open girder]

YAY!

[proper trench]

THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT EVERYONE! ITS A GREAT BOX AND WORTH THE WAIT

[vagrant flax]

Thanks JP and everyone at Adafruit! 😄

[teal river]

https://tenor.com/view/hahaha-standing-ovation-applause-gif-12978607

[upbeat coral]

Thanks to ALL for giving us your time

[fallow fractal]

thanks!

[waxen thistle]

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/twilightzone/images/0/0e/TimeEnoughAtLast.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110515022721

[glossy flicker]

Thank you, @haughty quiver ! So much fun and awesomeness!

[proper trench]

TIME ENOUGH FOR ADABOX AT LAST

[lilac tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-yoda-babyyoda-gif-20491479

[teal river]

I shall now resume my repeated refreshing of the orders page to see if my box shipped yet

[slow spire]

Thanks, @haughty quiver ! Once again, you up the character/costume/makeup game.

[cinder wind]

Well Done, Mr @haughty quiver. Very fun!

[ebon stratus]

@haughty quiver @proper trench Nice presentation. Thank you all

[nimble jackal]

Gtreat job

[haughty quiver]

Thanks all, this was tons of fun!

[teal river]

JP, master of references!

[ivory kiln]

Sweet! I can't wait to get my hands on mine. 😄

[opaque hearth]

@low fractal great designs!

[waxen thistle]

Thanks @open girder and for another excellent adabox.

[turbid hill]

Better than the Twilight Zone

[proper trench]

🙂

[slow spire]

And thanks, @proper trench and @open girder for making these fun projects happen, even in these times!

[proper trench]

we'll cover some of the Exciting Challenges we have with adabox on Desk of Ladyada

sometimes the electronics engineering is the easiest part

[low fractal]

@opaque hearth Thank you!

[teal river]

Something that might be fun for a different version -- having a full mask with LEDs and awesome themed silkscreens. Imagine a full face dragon mask with LEDs on the horns and stuff for animation!

[inner spade]

Another excellent unboxing @haughty quiver! Nice fly wrangling, as well.

[grand tusk]

Someone tell JP that the flies were not on the BOM.

[teal river]

Not the real ones anyway...

[slow spire]

Kinda wondering how Apple is getting the M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBooks out the door with their complicated BoMs.

[ebon stratus]

@teal river. I saw a full face led mask that adafruit sells made by a third party

[slow spire]

I mean, a few unavailable parts could lead to forced board revisions.

[teal river]

Well, I think they had already allocated the slots for their chips before things really hit the fan... And they probably can outbid everybody and buy what they need if push comes to shove. They might also have a number of sources that sell to them before anyone else

[teal river]

The one that kinda looks like a fencing mask?

[thin vessel]

While it's UPS fault and not adafruit's, in the last 2+ years or so ground shipping time across the country has crept up and up, I generally don't get my box before the unboxing video goes up anymore. Used to be I'd get get adafruit orders in like 3 days.

[ebon stratus]

Is that what you mean? https://www.adafruit.com/product/4845

[teal river]

Yeah

I haven't gotten any AdaBox before the unboxing, but this is only my 3rd one

And I'm in Philly, and apparently they start shipping the furthest orders first to maximize the chance they get it in time, but... Y'know, life is life and things happen

As long as it gets here that's all I really care about

[ivory kiln]

Ya exactly @teal river It'll be more then worth the wait, & better to be patient & wait then to not get it.

[thin vessel]

I know they were shipping the international ones first, don't know if they try to manage the US ones that way. It isn't just distance, but depends on what distribution centers are closest. The 3ish days I used to get orders in shows that, I think they took a direct path from NY to CA, but those days seem to be gone

[lilac tusk]

They certainly aren’t running Dijkstra’s anymore

(Shortest path routing joke)

[grand tusk]

Wha is the discount on the card?

[haughty quiver]

Always!

[woeful pond]

@haughty quiver Epic Unboxing!!

[grand tusk]

He was really in the zone tonight.

[thin vessel]

For adafruit to try to get everyone their boxes close to the same time, it would be complicated. Probably have to retrieve actual ship times to everyone, group by zip code or something, and ship in order of where takes longest.

[ivory kiln]

@proper trench @open girder have you considered making a secondary board for the AdaBox 020 LED driver board that could connect via the stemma plug but have all of the solder pads of a regular board?

[grand tusk]

Like a Seesaw board?

[slow spire]

The Twilight Zone intro I most remember:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORbseYAkzRM

[lilac tusk]

You could technically use any Adafruit microcontroller board that has a Stemma port and battery charger

[teal river]

FeatherGlasses

[lilac tusk]

I think the FeatherS2 has some nice capabilities

[teal river]

Could use the upcoming Feather ESP32-S2 for WiFi enabled ones :D

[lilac tusk]

Feather RP2040 would be good

[teal river]

Or a FeatherS2 if you don't need Feather compatible pinout

[slow spire]

GrandCentral glasses

[lilac tusk]

Lots of opportunities really

[teal river]

You can also solder a STEMMA cable to an ItsyBitsy RP2040 or Pico

[ivory kiln]

But not be able to take advantage of all of the processing power & stuff that has been packed on to the driver board.

[slow spire]

@ivory kiln This might be an option: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4516

[grand tusk]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5233

[ivory kiln]

I'm thinking of with how narrow that board is, yet so capable. It's a rare combination. A complimenting board like I'm taking about could really help in making smaller more space constrained projects.

[slow spire]

@ivory kiln What's on your list of priorities for such a board?

[ivory kiln]

The project that is at the head of my thinking are Doctor Who sonic screw drivers. There so narrow, that

[teal river]

Custom board best board

I'm designing a board that's barely wider than the RP2040

[ionic garnet]

sorry missed y'all live today. I just wanted to day the whole idea of Jibo, the robot I co-invented, was to be a friendly, non military robot!

[ivory kiln]

& I'm sure people could think of lots of other prop ideas well beyond Doctor Who too.

[slow spire]

@ivory kiln https://www.adafruit.com/product/4481

[ivory kiln]

That's cool @teal river are you going to be able to mas produce & sell them? or just a few for you.

[ionic garnet]

is there a show live now

?

YouTube is being flakey

for days mpw

[slow spire]

ItsyBitsy's are 0.7"/18mm wide

[ionic garnet]

I can't click on notifications

[teal river]

I suppose I could mass produce? But I was planning on just doing a couple for myself. Probably will open source it

[ivory kiln]

I have one of those, I'm guessing that board is more powerful, & capable.

[teal river]

I'm gonna try for under 10mm wide

[slow spire]

@ionic garnet There was an Adabox unboxing tonight, during the time normally allotted for Ask an Engineer.

[teal river]

Nothing currently live

[ionic garnet]

Yeah I missed that. I am CTO of 2 companies and I got a panicked CEO call. Then had to interview a Python engineer in Vietnam

busy day

[slow spire]

?showtimes

[arctic abyss]

Desk of Ladyada - Random hacker times
JP's Product Pick of the Week - 4pm ET Tuesdays
3D Hangouts - 11am ET Wednesdays
Show & Tell - 7:30pm ET Wednesdays
Ask an Engineer - 8pm ET Wednesdays
John Park's Workshop - 4pm ET Thursdays
Deep Dive w/Scott - 5pm ET Fridays

[ionic garnet]

panicked CEO == just another day!

[upper sandal]

it's the same chip as the glasses one, same power, bunch of pins, no on-board sensors

no battery port

[slow spire]

Wow!

[ivory kiln]

Ya, was thinking of being able to take advantage of all of it. Processing power, & all those sensors.

[upper sandal]

actually the glasses driver might be the only nrf52840 board with a stemma connector

ah there's the clue too

[sudden slate]

Where's Ladyada's silver play button for reaching 100k subs on YT?

[upper sandal]

they should have a 3D printed play button with blinky LEDs

[sudden slate]

I agree

[green bison]

PCB play button?

[sudden slate]

https://tenor.com/view/игратькнопка-youtube-play-button-pressing-youtube-logo-gif-16506967

[rapid hornet]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTkp4THXHew

[open girder]

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is here! https://youtu.be/oTkp4THXHew

[split gazelle]

morning! 🥧🙃

[mellow thunder]

New Pi, me oh my!!!!

[split gazelle]

I was playing with blinka a bit, was able to get the basics running 🐍

[open girder]

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is here! Sign up to be notified when it's in stock! https://adafruit.com/piz2w

[sharp sierra]

New pi!

[rapid hornet]

[teal river]

Ahhhhh!!! Excite!!!

[grand tusk]

512MB RAM: not much for Linux, awesome for CircuitPython.

[green bison]

Are the Deep Dive topics of the last few weeks based on a different pi? Or do they use the same chip?

[rapid hornet]

I've been working on the pi 4

which is a newer chip

I fully intend on supporting the chip from the pi 3 though

it shouldn't be toooooo different

[lilac tusk]

Famous last words?

Lol

[green bison]

thanks!

[rapid hornet]

It'll just mean I have more deep dives to do

[lilac tusk]

Yay 🙂

[glass stag]

Howdy all

[lavish patrol]

Greetings, all.

[haughty quiver]

hi!

[lilac tusk]

I see you made it out of the adabox zone

Unscathed too

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[inner spade]

Hello!

[ionic garnet]

I was up last night when Lady Ada went live with the Pi Zero W 2 vid. I got on the waiting list immediately!

Hey JP

[haughty quiver]

please standby while I deal with technical malfunction

[ionic garnet]

say what? Technology never fails!

they wouldn't launch software if it wasn't rock solid

right?

guess it depends what type of rock we are talking about

[haughty quiver]

system audio went cablooie

[ionic garnet]

oy. I always have a backup audio interface not too far away

but won't help if system prob

[lavish patrol]

The internets have been max flaky this week.

[ionic garnet]

cablooie is technical description of most common problem on interwebs

[lilac tusk]

Went KaBlam?

https://tenor.com/view/kablam-nicktoons-gif-9728341

[ionic garnet]

remnants of watching Batman as a kid in the 60s/70s

[lavish patrol]

Where's the kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom...

[ionic garnet]

probably more of a whoopsie

[lilac tusk]

Cablooie is like looney toons era

[ionic garnet]

the other common ailment

[lilac tusk]

“Where’s the big cablooie”

[ionic garnet]

ACME explosives company

[lilac tusk]

In my best Marvin the Martian impersonation

[ionic garnet]

nice

we'll entertain oursleves

[lavish patrol]

It's the Halloween jitters. I blame this guy...

[haughty quiver]

alright, lets see if this things works!

[ionic garnet]

we are ready to be QA

oh wait, there is no more QA. We'll write your unit tests

[inner spade]

Bleeps and Bloops ™️ on YT. 📺

[ionic garnet]

Bleepin' goodness

[lilac tusk]

Larskin

[lavish patrol]

Yay!

[lilac tusk]

Murder pumpkin

[lavish patrol]

Jack-O-Lars

[sterile forge]

@inner spade How are things going with you. Have not seen you on line in a while.

[ionic garnet]

I am so unhip I don't get the Lars references. I thought he was the drummer in Metallica. Scary dude he

or perhaps I'm too hip

[lavish patrol]

Lars is all the rage.

[proven crow]

Hey JP! Feeling under the weather, so this is the perfect treat!

[ionic garnet]

Larsfluenza

[inner spade]

Going very well. Lots of projects and deadlines. How are you?

[ionic garnet]

Love the Beasties!!!!

[sterile forge]

Pretty Good

[ionic garnet]

working good

[inner spade]

Microphone audio is very good, smooth and in sync, peaking at -6dB.

[ionic garnet]

more important, JP's hair is perfect

[sterile forge]

JP saying hello from SE PA

[ionic garnet]

all Atom-based right?

[drowsy inlet]

unboxing was awesome

[proven crow]

So excited for my AdaBox!

[ionic garnet]

I caught it 30 mins delayed

nope

it's the worst thing that's ever happened to me! JK

[proven crow]

sadly, no adabox for me 😦

(yet)

[ionic garnet]

which means no discount

4us

[ionic garnet]

Love the puppy

[cinder wind]

Nice costume, JP. You look nearly human!

[sterile forge]

Rod Serling from Twilight Zone.

[proven crow]

Thanks 🙂

[ionic garnet]

"to serve man" -- I was in some gifted program as a 5th grader and read that story in class

and the lottery short story with the bridge

[proven crow]

Love this music, honestly

[ionic garnet]

yea the music marks good times ahead

good topic

[proven crow]

Keyboard shortcuts are great when they work, which is maybe 1/2 of the time

[glossy flicker]

Excellent timing - since @haughty quiver asked, I just got my AdaBox shipping notification 🎉

[ionic garnet]

My desk right now. Neopixel much Rich?

[proven crow]

visible envy

[lavish patrol]

Colorful, it is.

[ionic garnet]

thanks. This is 1/8 of currently deployed animations in my office. Getting sunburn

[lavish patrol]

Lol

@cinder wind 👍

[proven crow]

At least it's a good way to get a sunburn!

[ionic garnet]

I've been doing experiments in diffusion

and fft based visualizations

Grogoo. I think

[lavish patrol]

I wonder if that could work for vacuforming. HDPE I mean.

[ionic garnet]

nice

[cinder wind]

The Cylon animated BMP is the best

[proven crow]

That's 3 more pairs of LED glasses than I have!

[sterile forge]

The status of my ADABox is Preparing for Shipment

[glossy flicker]

@sterile forge hope it ships soon! 🤞

[sterile forge]

I do too!!

[ionic garnet]

me too

would love to wear my led glasses to inspire all the kiddies to become fellow nerds!

on Halloween

[cinder wind]

JP lives in this magical realm where Halloween stores are open year-round

[lavish patrol]

Lurch? Is that you? 😄

[ionic garnet]

what, no Lurch emoticon?

[sterile forge]

You Rang Again.

[ionic garnet]

I'm inside the house

[proven crow]

snap

[lavish patrol]

I think John is about to give us a Big Clive moment.

[proven crow]

Pi 0 2 is in stock @ adafruit!

[ionic garnet]

really?

Wow!

oh no. He's violating the shrink wrap license agreement

[echo ledge]

No not the W

[cinder wind]

To doorbell is hacking you!

[echo ledge]

Oops yes I see it now, sorry

[lavish patrol]

You use the Fran Blache method of re-inserting the screws. Then they last longer.

[ionic garnet]

he removes the batteries and unscrews the back. There's a stirring behind him. The doorbell rings...

[proven crow]

I love iFixit

[lavish patrol]

That's just Lars.

[ionic garnet]

phew. I thought it was something terrifying

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[cinder wind]

I've not found any online hacking resources for that Gemmy Eyeball Doorbell, but this fellow is a real connoisseur of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNWwoTDrIEg

[ionic garnet]

wow

[cinder wind]

Huh, quite a lot of hand assembly needed for the internals of that

[waxen bough]

That melted milk jug skull making sounds pretty cool!

[drowsy inlet]

is there a screw under the pcb?

[inner spade]

https://learn.adafruit.com/milk-jug-glow-skull

[ionic garnet]

YES

[upper sandal]

"maybe time to pull the eyeball out" what you don't want to hear from your eye doctor

[green bison]

I think the "maybe" is the most unsettling part of that sentence!

[fair fulcrum]

🤣

👁️

[lavish patrol]

👀

The old, screw under the hot glue trick...

[shell mason]

lars mask lets go

[eager matrix]

I made a cool thing for a friends Halloween costume a few years ago. He took a box and painted it to look like it was lead . He wanted yellow/orange LEDs at the bottom and he put Jolly Rancher over them so that they glowed as if they were radio active. I also added a processor and a speaker to add random clicks like a geiger counter. It was pretty cool.

[cinder wind]

Jolly Ranchers as LED diffusers is brilliant. I'm totally stealing that

[clear matrix]

Sticky diffusion ftw.

[eager matrix]

@cinder wind That's why I posted it. It was really easy and it looked awesome.

[cinder wind]

four transistors on there, two per motor, two per motor per direction (forward, backward)

[shell mason]

some spooky thing if you know brain worm from clone wars

[eager matrix]

Right now I'm working on using el-wire to make a lightning effect. If you pair white&blue or white&purple and flash them really fast (white on for 20ms followed by the other one for 20 ms), it really look like lightning. Sparkfun has a shield to control 8 el-wires and I got an Metro ESP32-S2 from Adafruit and wires the el-wires where I could find them. I'm putting it together after this cast.

[lavish patrol]

@eager matrix Cool.

[eager matrix]

Printed this today to make I easy to solder the connectors.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1725308

[balmy steppe]

I remember always taking things apart when I was a kid. I don't think I ever really put them back together back then though lol

[ionic garnet]

same

[lavish patrol]

If ever I did it, the thing never quite worked the same.

[eager matrix]

I'll totally do show and tell next week. How do I get in the queue?

[clear matrix]

Hang out in this channel before Show and Tell, and then click on the StreamYard link that will be posted when it begins.

[eager matrix]

Awesome thanks.

[clear matrix]

If it says the queue is full, keep trying throughout - folks will often drop off after they show their project, which clears up a space.

[eager matrix]

Saw this a few days ago - https://www.hackster.io/zachary_fields/boo-lues-fire-breathing-pumpkin-8639e7

[cinder wind]

hey it still works!

[lavish patrol]

Thanks, @haughty quiver 😀

[ionic garnet]

bye JP

[lavish patrol]

👋

[drowsy inlet]

thanks!

[tribal iris]

did they do an ask an engineer last night? i can't find any of the wed shows for yesterday on youtube

[clear matrix]

Show and Tell was followed by the Adabox Unboxing. There was no AaE.

[tribal iris]

thanks

AaE is my cliff notes for the other shows

[inner spade]

Thanks @haughty quiver! I enjoy these hands-on project sessions. Have a great Halloween!

[haughty quiver]

thanks kindly @inner spade! Have a spooky one!

[next compass]

@haughty quiver As much as I look forward to receiving my Adabox I just as much can't wait for Adabox unwrap show with John. Absolute perfect Rod Serling and I'm still haveing a laugh about the Rocky Horror unwrap.

[next compass]

@haughty quiver OK I should have said unboxing.....oh my dizzy brain.

[teal river]

I miss Henry and June

[lilac tusk]

Same

KaBlam was so good

[haughty quiver]

thanks so much! Have fun with your AdaBox when it arrives.

[teal river]

keeps refreshing page

[shadow epoch]

Me too @teal river me too

So working on my Hallowing Friend instead. Thought I might put it in the https://learn.adafruit.com/hallowing-tombstone but that doesn't work with the dome which I love, or into a foam punkin, or a squishmallow. Right now Rockwell only has a small purple case and cannot sit up on her own. I think she deserves more, don't you?

[teal river]

Spoopy

Not sure what to do with mine, lol. I did get the dome

[shadow epoch]

Maybe this could be converted easily? https://learn.adafruit.com/purple-people-eater

Doesn't have to be a doorbell. Looks like the dome fits?

[teal river]

Haha, that would work

[shadow epoch]

I'm sure @hard hollow is too busy to change the model to snap fit in the Hallowing M0, right? 😉

[rapid hornet]

Notes doc for today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Pqt5uE3bSE0N1eSIZyWQBpjgE9B_KJ8bjKqOHH1LG4A/edit?usp=sharing

[green bison]

Can't wait to watch later

Thanks for the role btw makes me feel fancy

[lilac tusk]

I can hear this

[simple fractal]

Will probably miss most of today. Out getting my ski boots fitted.

I think that’s the first sky in weeks.

[warm pulsar]

LOL

[open girder]

ok ! scott dressed up and so did all of adafruit, enjoy 🙂 https://flickr.com/photos/adafruit/albums/72157720137899105

[lilac tusk]

This is wholesome

[upper sandal]

a talking dinosaur !

[odd zodiac]

Hi all from Cornwall

[sudden gate]

THIS is Great fun!

[warm pulsar]

before things really get goig... for testing that PR locally (that flash stuff) do I simply point the module to my repo/branch, update, then compile and test the hardware?

[lilac tusk]

Just on the other side of beefwall?

[open girder]

@rapid hornet has a costume that runs circuitpython

[upper sandal]

a talking Blinka !

[digital crescent]

nice costume

[upbeat galleon]

hello hello

where's scott

[odd zodiac]

@lilac tusk mostly Vegans here, except me.

[strong acorn]

is the cat scared of snakes?

[nova totem]

Nice!

[warm pulsar]

thanks. great costume!

[nova totem]

if you can do the whole deep dive in those glasses i will truly be impressed

[timid plover]

any hope of getting eye tracking interface to the glasses

[lilac tusk]

And Blinka is the costume the RUNS circuitpython (in a processing sense)

[teal river]

Hewwo! Is that a Blinka kigurumi?!?!

[brazen quail]

Hola from Florida ! :-D

[timid plover]

is it just accelerometer now ?

[nova totem]

I watched/participated in show and tell in them, 30 minutes was about my limit before my eyes were buggy

[sudden gate]

Looks comfy ❤️

[teal river]

Hehe, the rubber band is nerdy and I love it

[clear matrix]

File an issue with your head 😆

[ornate coyote]

Oh, nice wardrobe @rapid hornet !!!!

[nova totem]

There would then be is much more then 1 issue to file!

[timid plover]

does the eye 'filter out' the LED grid on the glasses?

[eager matrix]

Oh man I got a nice laugh when I opened this on YT.

Hi Scott!

[tame dew]

@rapid hornet the costume is just plain awesome. Thank you, Becca!

[teal river]

I want that kigurumi XD

Ohh, it's a dino

[green bison]

that's a great costume

[timid plover]

ok - the brain eventually see without the horizontal lines that the LED frame puts in front of your eyes

[green bison]

is that a character I should know?

[upper sandal]

[nova totem]

I kept seeing it cause while you can see it does cover quite a bit of your vision

[cinder wind]

wait @rapid hornet I thought you were going to dress up in a costume

[green bison]

ahhh you're blinka! That's a character I should know. Didn't catch the emoji connection

[eager matrix]

I'm working on a cool el-wire lightning effect that I'm going to wear tonight. I'll prob do show&tell with it on Wed.

[teal river]

Found a very similar one https://www.4kigurumi.com/purple-dinosaur-kigurumi-halloween-onesie

[warm pulsar]

Oh No! Blinka ate Scott!

[tame dew]

Gaze following is going to need a camera in front of the eyes and some compute power, so… let’s just be happy with accelerometer uses.

[teal river]

Man, the eye movements seem so natural

[balmy tinsel]

Love the costume!

[tame dew]

Scott shed his human skin for the true being underneath.

[teal river]

Haha, I love that

Scott, the cyborg dinosaur

[modern night]

Howdy all! Hope everyone's having a fun day!

[teal river]

Doesn't Barney have a green belly?

https://adafru.it/Discord

[digital crescent]

Did anyone order a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W?

[cinder wind]

to be true Blinka, you can't use your arms during this deep dive

[teal river]

I tried

[upbeat galleon]

@digital crescent mine arrives tomorrow :o

[digital crescent]

nice, what are you going to use it for?

[tame dew]

This is Blinka, because Barney does indeed have a green belly.

[teal river]

When I get one, I'll use it for a cyberdeck

[upbeat galleon]

@digital crescent some kind of little midi controller and noise maker

[tame dew]

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/digital/video/hero/Movies/MiscCategory7/B005HP1AIY_BarneyABCs_UXLG1._SX1080_.jpg

[green bison]

definitely don't want to infringe on barney's IP, he's ruthless

[upbeat galleon]

blinka codes with tongue

[sudden gate]

Excellent… would enjoy for Blinka support on Pi Zero 2w

[teal river]

I wonder why it's LPDDR2 and not LPDDR3

[tame dew]

So the RAM was the customization by Raspberry Pi Foundation?

[lilac tusk]

Probably price and space

[teal river]

That'd be fair, LPDDR3 is probs still a fair bit more expensive...

[upper sandal]

I have a small camera build that could be duplicated with a Zero2 upgrade

[tame dew]

Doubt the increased bus speed of LPDDR3 would be usable?

[teal river]

I'd love if they came out with a Zero that went all out on efficiency with newer parts

[clear matrix]

Only your tail then?

[lilac tusk]

Also a consideration is if the MPU supports LPDDR3

[ornate coyote]

@rapid hornet but the USB is still not a full USB right, still just OTG? Like it can't detect a device swap like in the ZeroW ?

[lilac tusk]

Or if as mentioned, it would not be able to be fully utilized

[cinder wind]

USB HOST YES

[upper sandal]

what's a device swap ?

[teal river]

I think the lower end of LPDDR3 and higher end of LPDDR2 match up, so bus speed probs wouldn't be an issue

[teal river]

This is the big thing. I thought the 3 had LPDDR3, but turns out it does not

[tame dew]

Ah, the trading company! Thank you for the clarification @rapid hornet

[eager matrix]

I found this cool thing on Thingiverse and it fantastic.

[lilac tusk]

Yeah, I’m surprised a lot of MPU don’t support LPDDR3 or better

Though, for an SBC it’s not always that critical or even that much of a big deal for their applications

[teal river]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdeay/the-dune-screenplay-was-written-in-ms-dos

[cinder wind]

I would love to help get USB MIDI host working on TinyUSB

[teal river]

I have a DOS machine I use for writing retro things

[lilac tusk]

I had a professor in university named Doss

Lol

[tame dew]

Oscar winning? I’m confused.

[lilac tusk]

He wrote Oscar winning movies

[teal river]

Writer is the Oscar winner

Then he wrote Dune

[lilac tusk]

Not that dune won Oscar’s

[tame dew]

“Zork” clone in CircuitPython!

[tame dew]

I totally read that headline wrong.

[teal river]

Haha, it happens

[timid plover]

welcome back 🙂

[teal river]

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5210

[upper sandal]

EyeLights yes

[teal river]

grrr I'm trying to help, bot!

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5217

[tame dew]

Since it would have had to be the 1984 David Lynch version. Or an Emmy for the SyFy mini-series(es)

[teal river]

Scott is escaping from Blinka's tummy!

[modern night]

"Make things work" things are highly underrated. Rubber bands, Duct Tape, Glue, Binder clips, etc

[tame dew]

Blinka stillsuit

[teal river]

This are the things that hold the universe together