live-broadcast-chat

[woven mirage]

Fun!

[split gazelle]

great projects everyone! and great job hosting @haughty quiver !

[robust horizon]

awwww next time mouse

[waxen thistle]

Thanks @haughty quiver for hosting!

[verbal river]

Here's the webpage for my Eurorack synth designs: https://len42.github.io/Synth/

[drowsy inlet]

super coolness all. thanks for sharing!

[haughty quiver]

thanks very much everyone -- terrific, inspiring projects

[formal ferry]

Okay, lots of projects and code to go riffling around in.

[open girder]

ASK AN ENGINEER 2/16/2022 LIVE! https://youtu.be/YL7Zg-kNphU

[turbid hill]

Ok now we need the engine in enigneer

[ionic garnet]

Thanks @haughty quiver Since I am somewhat famous for a high risk tolerance and fearlessness, it's impossible that I chickened out at the last minute! But the reality is when I heard few minutes I wanted to see others more than explain mine. With the new LiveUpdate feature I am adding it will be a more complete demo. I was cheekey calling the feature LiveUpdate because I inevented that in the mid 1990's at Symantec and it's still in use today!

[haughty quiver]

so great!

[ionic garnet]

I was also humbled by the advanced projects others had. Although I have a get out of jail card: I was one of the inventors of Jibo!

[short chasm]

thank you!

[turbid hill]

So I got my Greaseweazle 7 plus via usps mail. need the fluper duper and the feather hat for floppy interface

[verbal river]

"advanced" Ha, you couldn't see the back of my project. 😄

[dim knot]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

[open girder]

10% discount code, code is: VEML http://www.adafruit.com #askanengineer @open girder

[cinder wind]

I caught part of that stream, I loved Limor's analogy that Adafruit & Pimoroni aren't competitors really but more like skaters at a skatepark, riffing on each others "tricks", improving them. So good!

[waxen thistle]

We all see farther when we stand on each other's shoulders.

[ionic garnet]

peeps be beefin over everything

[simple shard]

I have a VEML on my Majora's Mask PCB, I use it to adjust the maximum brightness on the LEDs

[ionic garnet]

Love you and Pimorony. Their Tiny 2040 was big for me in early days.

[simple shard]

The Circuit Python for the VEML is pretty solid and easy to use.

[formal ferry]

The Pimoroni Hyperpixel saved my Pip-Boy project that I was about to give up on after years of development, but the other 75% of the development boards are from Adafruit.

[dim knot]

The Great Search: Positive to negative 12V power - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zivv78kv2n0

[open girder]

yah - pimoroni and adafruit are good examples of bringing folks together, we'll try and do more shows like that - pt

[dim knot]

https://www.reddit.com/r/adafruit/

[cinder wind]

I often do "site:reddit.com searchterm" on Google to use google search to search reddit

[ionic garnet]

I agree the invoices are aces

[short chasm]

what's the product number for the cookies?

[split gazelle]

These are amazing

[open surge]

I want that belt!

[cinder wind]

where else do we wear pants? it means going outside I think

[short chasm]

i'll be at HOPE! it'll be my first one 🙂

[ionic garnet]

I was a CTO at a company in San Francisco. Before a VC meeting, the CEO said: Rich you should dye your hair blue. Civil disobedience: I died it green

[drowsy inlet]

would be hilarious if, when you pushed the belt button, a quarter fell to the floor

[ionic garnet]

the things we did to raise vc money in the late 1990s!

[drowsy inlet]

have a magnet or such holding the coin and the button push deactivates to drop

[ionic garnet]

Oh boy.... I worked on half a dozen of such products in the 1980s/90s

[drowsy inlet]

so reminds me of Adventure

[ionic garnet]

I still work on audio visualization tools

[split gazelle]

Amazing

[cinder wind]

ooo pt's got a 1010music nanobox!

[urban gale]

I remember something called Cthugha for PC. soo good

[ionic garnet]

I remember in L.A. and Silicon Valley the merging of science experts and artistic people to create the music visualization was super exciting and cutting edge

LIKE

More like Lucy in the SKy

[verbal river]

"Just slightly ahead of our time."

[urban gale]

I feel like the Peter Max iSongbooks were a callback to these

[pearl shoal]

I had one of those! They were awesome!

AM only

[viral sail]

Apollo-era Panasonic

[shy topaz]

Nothing but Trumpers and bible thumpers on AM anymore.

[cinder wind]

omg this whole Toot-a-loop thing deserves a modern remake using open-source tools, MP3s, and 3d printing

[urban gale]

there's still a lot of public radio on AM

[pearl shoal]

I can still feel the weight of that thing

[split gazelle]

Was thinking the same thing

[cinder wind]

no black glass rectangles in the Toot-a-loop world

[ionic garnet]

Build your own AM radio broadcaster (please conult with the FCC first!)

I know low power FM is ok

[cinder wind]

do it! 🙂

[delicate fractal]

A couple of weeks ago, we were talking about Active Surplus in Toronto... today, I found the store started by some ex-Active-employees: they have the gorilla!! https://thegorillastore.com/ 609 College St, basically at Clinton St.

[ionic garnet]

I have to be careful. In the 1970s someone impersonating me at my family home got a talking to from men in a black van claiming to be FCC

[dim knot]

https://www.adafruitdaily.com/

[digital crescent]

@paper peak is there a way to make the HttpServer that you showed tonight non-blocking?

[pearl shoal]

FYI, please keep Chris Young in your thoughts - he's been in the hospital w/pneumonia & is finally getting out today

[dim knot]

https://circuitpython.org/

[paper peak]

that is another thing to do, and we were going to wait on writing a Learn Guide until I made it use non-blocking, probably with asyncio. The version I put up is pretty much a proof of concept.

[cinder wind]

Perl!

[upper sandal]

@paper peak did you look at https://github.com/Neradoc/circuitpython-native-wsgiserver ?

[paper peak]

i just started to, was going to ping you in #circuitpython-dev

[upper sandal]

I was in the works of pushing it to the bundle today 😛

[open surge]

Thanks @open girder for the podcast shout out! 2 more weeks...

https://circuitpythonshow.com/

[ionic garnet]

they claimed that SOMEONE was operating a CB linear amplifier. I heard that teenage boy took delivery of their message, but in a few days reports of a roving amplified CB was appearing all over the state of Connecticut. But what kind of twisted teenager would build a linear amp from a library book and somehow make it work (inefficiently). I will look into doing AM as long as FCC will allow it. For reason they think I built that linear amp!

[delicate fractal]

I am joining the stream late, but as I recall, the CPython built-in http server used to be blocking but in more recent versions is non-blocking. Is this just a matter of upgrading your libraries?

[ionic garnet]

what should I buy on the site tonight?

[cinder wind]

The Adafruit Cinematic Universe

[ionic garnet]

picked up the VEML7700 already

[dim knot]

https://learn.adafruit.com/guides/latest

[ionic garnet]

You guyz have guidez

[digital crescent]

still really cool

[paper peak]

i am not using the CPython libraries; they are much more complicated and large

[waxen thistle]

It's dangerous to go alone. Take this....learn.adafruit.com

[ionic garnet]

and I love your guides. Though I suspect Kattni dreads my piddly comments. I've been in software biz so long I really appreciate peep who take time to give feedback. So @clear matrix you forgive me right?

[delicate fractal]

are you making a clean-sheet implementation?

[digital crescent]

this is cool too!

[clear matrix]

I always appreciate feedback! Guides are pretty one way in that regard, so it's nice to hear that folks are using and getting something out of them!

[haughty quiver]

@open girder that toot-a-loop font! 😍

[open girder]

@haughty quiver the toot-a-loop effort looks kinda like panasonic was doing a world's fair of electronics, what was possible at the time, and it was super weird/cool -pt

https://clickamericana.com/toys-and-games/toot-a-loop-panasonics-craziest-color-radio-portables-1972

[haughty quiver]

Amazing

[open girder]

i think we can help bring back imagining more like this 🙂

[urban gale]

My mom had one of those bowling-ball radios. Panasonic Pet was it?

[waxen thistle]

For a personal project, I looked up radios designed in the Mid-century modern/googie/retrofuturism style ... and there are so many bright, colorful designs.

[delicate fractal]

Today I learned that I've been misspelling and mispronouncing zoetrope all my life!

[split gazelle]

Reminds me a little of the ikea/teenage engineering collab

[hasty frigate]

Thanks for adding some displayio-text examples to the LED glasses guide!

[waxen thistle]

This was so much fun to play with as a kid (8-track player):

https://blogs.panasonic.com.au/consumer/media/2014/06/27-Fri-BLOG-Flashback-Dynamite5.jpg

And it was mechanically solid.....it was a very strong, sturdy plunger. It's beyond words how much fun it was to put it and feel it mechanically change the tracks.

[delicate fractal]

I always wanted a Turntable Walkman https://youtu.be/zpukXRm0Dxk

[robust horizon]

pi 400s are in stock! https://www.adafruit.com/product/4795

[hasty frigate]

QUESTION: My kids got me a gift Adabox for the Holidays. It’s just a single box, and I’m looking forward to this Spring. I’m concerned that the list is closed, and I’m not signed up yet for a subscription past by gifted box. Does the gifted box guarantee me a spot for the Summer box?

[dim knot]

Adafruit Grand Central M4 Express featuring the SAMD51 https://www.adafruit.com/product/4064

Grove Cable Pigtail - 2mm pitch 100mm long https://www.adafruit.com/product/5244

[verbal river]

well it's called SAMD51 so of course it takes 51 weeks

[dim knot]

IDE Molex 4 Pin Socket Cable - 30cm long https://www.adafruit.com/product/5365

Adafruit KB2040 - RP2040 Kee Boar Driver https://www.adafruit.com/product/5302

[ionic garnet]

YAY

[upper sandal]

pink is the new Adafruit black

[cinder wind]

The "RP" in RP2040 stands for "radical pink"

[grand tusk]

🐽

[delicate fractal]

Why just the 2040 boards? I'd love to see more boards with interesting colours!

[ionic garnet]

Love the pinl boards. Sends a statement to women of the world and more importantly to the men: Women make great engineers!

it's fungible 1

[dim knot]

Adafruit Right Angle VEML7700 Lux Sensor - I2C Light Sensor - STEMMA QT / Qwiic https://www.adafruit.com/product/5378

[ionic garnet]

i had that in my cart until it exceeded $100, so I prioritized more urgent needs

[cinder wind]

woo hoo @clear matrix!

[upper sandal]

I kind of want a deep green board, you could say it's minted

[waxen thistle]

Thanks @clear matrix for making such an awesome board!

[split gazelle]

Yay @clear matrix !

[grand tusk]

120 kattni-lux?

[upper sandal]

(not the traditional green)

[dull fox]

im trying to add l2 r2 buttons and psp 1000series joysitck on my pigrrl zero with using a zero 2 w and i dont know how to do it

im trying to add l2 r2 buttons and psp 1000series joysitck on my pigrrl zero with using a zero 2 w and i dont know how to do it

[short chasm]

Question: I have an issue saving CircuitPython code to a Feather M0 Express, which includes libraries to run a SSD1306 OLED. I believe there wasn't enough memory... does that seem right? I had no issues uploading similar Arduino code to the same board. And no issues uploading the CircuitPython code to the Feather RP2040.

[cinder wind]

yeah too small in CircuitPython 7. You can do it in CircuitPython 6 though. Specifically not enough RAM

[delicate fractal]

My son wants to learn to program, and I don't know where to start. Ideas?

[drowsy inlet]

python

or could get a CPX and use MakeCode block programming

[simple shard]

Lego Mindstorms Ev3 platform and FIRST Lego League FIRSTInspires.org

[wary fern]

I started by learning python on codecademy. Free and got me right into writing code from the first lesson. He should checkout hackclub.com if he starts to get into it.

[open surge]

@delicate fractal I agree with Python or CircuitPython, like the CircuitPlayground Express mentioned above

[short chasm]

since my question was answered by tod, I just wanna say that i love adafruit and the community. great job everyone

[open surge]

nothing like seeing your code light up an LED or make a sound

[echo canopy]

Question @open girder

Adafruit Kee Boar — can you connect a USB keyboard ⌨️ and with Arduino do different commands based on keys?

[dull fox]

im trying to add l2 r2 buttons and psp 1000series joysitck on my pigrrl zero with using a zero 2 w and i dont know how to do it

[waxen thistle]

@delicate fractal I suggest taking a look at Microsoft's MakeCode. It's a very friendly way to introduce a non-coder to a programming mentality in a friendly, approachable way -- you code by clicking and dragging "blocks" around. And you can expand with accessing the code directly too.

And it's compatible with a multitude of Adafruit boards.

[delicate fractal]

Do you think the codeacademy python course will work well for a 13-year-old?

[dull fox]

im trying to add l2 r2 buttons and psp 1000series joysitck on my pigrrl zero with using a zero 2 w and i dont know how to do it

[open surge]

@delicate fractal It's hard to say, everyone learns differently. Some like videos, some like books, etc.

[wary fern]

Question: I have a three pin toggle switch that I am trying to run power for a raspberry pi zero w through but it seems to be restricting the current. It is rated for 4A and the pi shouldn't be using more than 2.5A. Any ideas what might be going on? I am powering the pi by feeding 5v and GND to the gpio pins.

[ionic garnet]

Question: what is the best, simplest, fairly efficient way to ensure the proper voltage? I fried neopixels by accidentally plugging into 12VDC. I want to step down or simply block the wrong voltage. Suggestions

[shy topaz]

I have a couple projects using the PS2 keyboard library. They also work with USB keyboards using an adapter.

[quiet bay]

Question: @open girder I noticed in one of the temp sensor datasheets, the AHT20, it says that it needs to be rehydrated for a certain amount of time above a certain humidity. Is this done on the breakout boards that you guys carry? Is it is a problem if it isn't done?

[delicate fractal]

I was thinking videos might be better, but I worry that JP's Makecode Minutes are too short, and everything else I've seen was way too long!

[wary fern]

I started with codecademy at 14 years old. It's very engaging and kept me hooked compared to books and other courses I tried in the past which I found boring. JS might be a good starter lang too as they can easily make visual stuff in the form of websites.

[scenic prawn]

Question for PT. Can I sort sensors, boards, or x by price?

[ionic garnet]

I stopped buying ATSAMD21s and now stick to ATSAMD51 cortex M4 based boards

the best solution is for me to stop being stupid and plugging in a power supply clearly labeled 12V!!!

[quiet bay]

Awesome, thanks!

[ionic garnet]

and I love the way the first pixel acts as a fuse. It saved the other rings connected but killed off that first board

[cinder wind]

as long as I can sort by PCB color

[viral sail]

The Adafruit Great Search - coming soon.

[wary fern]

Question: what do you guys think of rust for embedded development?

[turbid hill]

Question: now that I have my greaseweazle and floppys and cables when will you have the Flooper duper and the feather hat boards for floppys ready

[split gazelle]

thanks for a great show!

[verbal river]

Bye

[viral sail]

Thanks and good night. 🌕

[ionic garnet]

Bye! Bought stuff. Effective marketing and good content as always @open girder

[urban gale]

Great show! Thanks all!

[delicate fractal]

Sending NFT-Time-codes? 😄

[grand tusk]

You go, Chris!

[waxen thistle]

Thanks for another excellent evening of shows @open girder -- and thanks to @haughty quiver for hosting Show & Tell! You're all awesome, keep making it a great day.

[dense cliff]

👍

[cinder wind]

Thanks Limor & pt!

[drowsy inlet]

Thanks @open girder !

[short chasm]

.... and scene.

[delicate fractal]

Exit, Stage Right!

[haughty quiver]

Thanks all!!

[turbid hill]

Ditto

[ionic garnet]

I had told myself I would not buy anything on the show tonight. I can't even implement 90% of what I've already bought. I do love supporting @open girder. Plus I have been hatching a plan to use my accumulated excess to offer chances for people (young or old, female or male or...a chance to experience the thrill of commanding some electrons to due their bidding! Maybe there's a tax benefit to creating a charitable instrument but that is not as important to me as providing some young women and men in middle school or up a chace to fall in love with making. Or perhaps at a retirement home or rehab center where people need things to occupy their minds and present career and hobby opportunities. I guess this also rationalizes why I need over $100 of stuff per week without even knowing how I will use it! I bet many/most of us here have a similar issue. I need a 12-step meeting: Hi I'm Rich. I'm an Adafruit addict codependent on neopixels. I've been purchase free for 0 days amd taking it one step at time I forecast perhaps I could go 2 maybe up to 6 days without indulging. Is there a medication for this expensive habit?

[delicate fractal]

I'm pretty sure what you have is terminal. Sorry.

[turbid hill]

yeah my addiction is well entrenched

[ionic garnet]

It's ok. My habit is staying flat at $100 a day. Of course, if there would be a new MCU or other cool technology introduced this could rise. For reals: I sketched out a budget for a couple of my ideas: a hackathon at the company that I am CTO of to have our different development regions around the globe to have a fun, friendly, informative social experience in small teams ompete on maker crafts pitting Latin America against Eastern Europe against Vietnam. We did something like this at Jibo and it was awe inspiring. Or the above idea of teaching/gifting/providing experiences with electronics to people ready to fall in love, find a career path, ot just exercise their minds. When I sketched out my ideas for this in Nov 2020, I estimated $1000 a month or more and would need to perhap get investors/co-contributors. No big deal, as a startup CTO I raise money a lot! For now I've toned done the order of magnitude and keeping it self-funded. My partner Sue loves to yell out: The box from your girlfriend in NYC sent you another box of gifts." I am really insulted when she insuiates Limor is my girlfriend without any regard for how magnetic and adorable Phil is. Haven't we moved past these ancient gender bias assumptions. Or doesn't shee realize I have great fondness for Limor and Phil but it's the buzz I get from making that I am having a social cheating relationship with! Admit it, ypu too have marveled at the Pink Feather RP2040 or the Feather ESP32-S2 w/TFT. What about the aptly named QT Py ESP32-S2 in just the right shade of purple PCB?

[delicate fractal]

g'nite!

[strong acorn]

I think of a well-stocked electronics "lab" just like someone who works on mechanical stuff would have cabinets and drawers full of tools and fasteners and the like. When you need a part for something, it's there and you don't have to wait a week or whatever. 🙂

(that said, I do have way too many microcontrollers... need to find a good home for some of them)

[ionic garnet]

see you all. Just made an exquisite nightime smoothy. Fresh pineapple (half), a cup of fresh strawberries and fresh blueberries (roughly 1/2 cup each), one fresh mandalin tangerine, a drop of pulpy orange juice to give it a liquid-quality, and 3 big scoops of vanilla frozen yogurt. Then blended with this magical hand chopper, juicer, food processor thingy. I make these often but don't always have fresh pineapple or one of the other fruits so I keep frozen ones in case I am Jonesing for one of my protein, fruity shakes. I used to add a little protein powder but I frown on chemically-products like that. Anyhow, the large proportion of a just-cut pineapple was the magic tonight. Here's a "Where's Ada" game. I will explain

In the shot there are numerous Adafruit, Pimoroni, and various compoents scatted across the desk on top of and around my vanity copy of a product I co-invented on the cover of Time Magazine. I have many copies of this particular issue, In faxt I bought out newstands at SFO the day it came out. But lots of juicy little tidbits of maker stuff along with Pinestrawbluemandarinberryapple froyo smoothy.

I sense a tummy ache in my near future. Half a pineapple plus two cups other fresh fruirs and 3 huge scoops of Vanilla Frozen Yogurt has gotta be a little above moderate levels.

[steep dew]

and a random dollar bill just floating about 😄

[clear matrix]

@cinder wind @waxen thistle @split gazelle 😊 Thank you!

[clear matrix]

That was @nova totem! I started the guide, so I show up as the author. Mark also wrote the code to get displayio working with the glasses!

[nova totem]

@hasty frigate If you have any questions just send me a ping on here

[lavish patrol]

Greetings, good people. 👋

[drowsy inlet]

hello all

[lavish patrol]

Bleeps, Bloops and Lars are imminent...

[haughty quiver]

ever get that feeling that there's something you're supposed to be doing right now?

[lavish patrol]

Happens to me all the time...

[haughty quiver]

me too. OH THE SHOW!

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[ionic garnet]

hi friends!

[cinder wind]

Hi John! I spy a Perfect Circuit shirt!

[burnt aspen]

Hi @lavish patrol

[lavish patrol]

...

[ionic garnet]

and when we say Live we mean LIVE

[lavish patrol]

Good evening.

[burnt aspen]

why not chat in the youtube Andy ?

[sterile forge]

Hello JP from Florida

[lavish patrol]

Because I'm chatting on Discord. 😉

[clever summit]

👋 🇸🇪

[burnt aspen]

oh haha, hej Jonny

[clever summit]

Keyboard battery dead....

[burnt aspen]

whoops

get a wired one for a while 😉

[ionic garnet]

This week's Product Spend of thr Week!

I bought that friend and still don't know what it's for!

[smoky island]

🥣

[cinder wind]

And they say you can't buy friends...

[ionic garnet]

I put in 35 years writing serial code why do I want to go back? Legacy hardware probably the most viable reason

I bought two Todbot

[drowsy inlet]

no sound @haughty quiver

[lavish patrol]

Audio @haughty quiver

[ionic garnet]

no hear

@haughty quiver Mayday

[lavish patrol]

🔈

[dry marten]

Sound sound soud

[viral sail]

There is no sound in space (parsec).

[drowsy inlet]

👂

[lavish patrol]

👂

🦻

[ionic garnet]

if a tree falls in a vacuun did it really fall?

[lavish patrol]

Lol

0db...

[drowsy inlet]

This looks like it's probably the best parsec ever, too

[dry marten]

@haughty quiver your sound is off

[drowsy inlet]

parsec take 2?

[cinder wind]

This is how they did CircuitPython Parsec's in the old days before the talkies

[ionic garnet]

Not one bit

[drowsy inlet]

can hear you now

[ionic garnet]

YES

[lavish patrol]

Audio good. 👍

[burnt aspen]

LOL the audio 🙂

[ionic garnet]

👍

[clever summit]

👍

[drowsy inlet]

we getting all the sounds

[burnt aspen]

now it's 2 Parsecs

[eager matrix]

Yes

[ionic garnet]

ALL SOUNDS are good

[inner spade]

Sound is okay now on YouTube

[burnt aspen]

we get to hear that awesome intro 3 times 🙂

[eager matrix]

Funny, I am working with the same setup right now for a thing for work.

[burnt aspen]

FOR ALL: this is an old video where I built the paperduino (breadboard arduino) https://youtu.be/jyeaQ46Gmg8

[ionic garnet]

love those feather doubler, tripler, quadruplers

[smoky island]

Hooray for displayio based parsecs! 🎉

[ionic garnet]

9.2% better

[eager matrix]

6.5%

[cinder wind]

crimping tool?

[ionic garnet]

that's a 1500 watt crimper

[ionic garnet]

it's a big category

[burnt aspen]

it's a soldering and crimping tool in one 😄

[lavish patrol]

So, you dial the number and you get RickRolled. 😄

[burnt aspen]

hah

[cinder wind]

I love freesound.org

That's so cool John!

[ionic garnet]

cool hacking of good ole 'lectronics

[burnt aspen]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktPZZWgT5s8

thought it was appropriate

[lavish patrol]

Those flairs...

[cinder wind]

🕺

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[burnt aspen]

yea times were weird 😉

[lavish patrol]

Then punk happened. 🙁

[burnt aspen]

yea

[cinder wind]

such a clean build, JP! really clever

[burnt aspen]

I wouldn't even have used ferules in the connection blocks 🙂

just wind the stranded wires up a bit 😄

[cinder wind]

@haughty quiver, have it so every so often when you pick it up, you accidentally "hear" an ongoing conversation from another extension

[burnt aspen]

haha that happened

[lavish patrol]

Party line.

You pick up the phone and you hear "Yah, Neil. I'll just collect some rocks..."

"Beep"

[burnt aspen]

rocks as in dope ?

[lavish patrol]

From the Moon.

[burnt aspen]

oh Neil Armstrong 😄

sorry I was thinking too deep

cool project !

[ionic garnet]

for some reason I am craving the Jim Croce song "Operator"

[lavish patrol]

I've got that ELO song going in my head...

[burnt aspen]

@haughty quiver John for later if you are done streaming, I just wanted to tell you about Paperduino. I once built one on a breadboard https://www.instructables.com/Paperduino-Tiny/

[burnt aspen]

which song of them?

[lavish patrol]

I'll have to get back to you on that one. I can't remember what it's called.

[cinder wind]

Mister Blue Sky?

[burnt aspen]

love that one !

[lavish patrol]

Telephone Line. Could have guessed that one. 😄

[cinder wind]

oh yes! that's a good one

[burnt aspen]

haven't ever heard that one

it's of the earlier days ?

I wasn't probably born or just a wee kid😄

[lavish patrol]

May 1977

[cinder wind]

it sounds so realistic it's giving me flashbacks

[lavish patrol]

Lol

[cinder wind]

do a 900 number!

[burnt aspen]

we used to have 002 for the time and 003 for the weather

[lavish patrol]

@haughty quiver You should do that announcement in Lars' voice...

[cinder wind]

this will be such a great platform for escape rooms. dial the secret number to trigger a relay or light or something too

[lavish patrol]

Great show again, @haughty quiver 👍

[haughty quiver]

?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
FoamyGuy's CircuitPython Stream - 11am ET Saturdays

[clever summit]

👍

[smoky island]

Yep, will be on Saturday morning. Thanks JP.

[burnt aspen]

oh I was 10 then 🙂

[ionic garnet]

Bye y'all. Had to miss the end. Always entertaining and informative John. You make sure those corporate overlords of yours appreciate the appeal and effectiveness of your shows. Cuz I know those are some tough overlords, who by the way, also produce wonderfully compelling content. @haughty quiver @open girder and all you clever and welcoming people who hang here

[solemn cosmos]

@haughty quiver Just watched the now not so live broadcast ... An idea that might be fun to add is dialing a number, getting the "disconnected number" audio and on hangup, it triggers a ring back, that plays a specific song/audio file ... I think that would make for a cool escape room feature. Image calling a number that's real, but pretends its fake, and on hangup (w/delay) it calls you back with another clue or something to that effect. Just a thought.

[haughty quiver]

very cool, @solemn cosmos

[burnt aspen]

@haughty quiver enjoyed your stream yesterday. Did you see I mentioned the paperduino ? I once built it but then on a breadboard. just like you were saying in the stream.

[haughty quiver]

that's awesome -- I just notices the gargantuan reel-to-reel in the background!

[rapid hornet]

notes doc today: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d5-UF1MOCqaHcwvLnhsRvk1Kod6N3632gWZRjJwv22M/edit?usp=sharing

[smoky island]

👋 Happy Friday Scott and everyone.

[nova totem]

Yay for friday

[modern night]

Hey all! Hope everyone's having a great day

[strong acorn]

👋

[eager matrix]

Hi Scott. I hope all is well with you and your partner.

[tropic inlet]

Hi Scott

[simple fractal]

Hey all and Scott

[eager matrix]

Any clues as to what foamy is going to do on Friday's after you are gone?

[simple fractal]

looks like update incoming 🙂

this is my apres ski time 🙂

[smoky island]

I will continue on with Deep Dives on Friday's. Very similar type of content (working on CircuitPython related things). But it's likely we'll spend a little more time in Python land than C land and maybe some working on projects instead of core/libraries.

I have been streaming saturday mornings for a little while now. (VODs all on YT) If you want a sneak peek you can check out one of my prior streams. The Deep Dives will end up being pretty similar.

[eager matrix]

Cool. I'll check them out.

[upper sandal]

[eager matrix]

@smoky island Are your Sat morning vid on the Adafruit channel on YT or somewhere else?

[smoky island]

My prior ones are on my YT: https://www.youtube.com/user/Zobrombee/videos Deep Dives will continue on occurring on the Adafruit YT / Twitch and other platforms though.

[sterile forge]

Hello from south florida

[robust horizon]

@rapid hornet the new performance stuff from micropython (fast path & lookup cache) gives a 19% performance boost in the most contrived example I could come up with compared with 7.2.0-alpha.2, a loop that just accesses a member of an object -- more deets in my latest comment on the 1.18 merge PR.

[sterile forge]

I need USB host so that I can build a midi concentrator that will allow more than one usb deive to be connected through one port.

[robust horizon]

You're welcome -- sometimes I like a week where it's almost all code and no hardware 😊

[timid plover]

I saw a pio asm demo the other day ( in micropython ) - was CP the origin of pio asm ?

[eager matrix]

I haven't had that in a long time.

[upper sandal]

awwww USB host + bluetooth workflow would have been a good combo

[timid plover]

found that demo (from Jul 16, 2021 ) https://youtu.be/sakegmgk9tw?t=438

[sinful meadow]

https://github.com/sdima1357/esp32_usb_soft_host

[simple fractal]

And we do love TinyUSB

[cinder wind]

TinyUSB is one of the best contributions to open source. Thanks Thach!

[rapid hornet]

https://github.com/sekigon-gonnoc/Pico-PIO-USB/

[cinder wind]

ooo which boards?

those ESP32 dev boards? ahh imx

[vivid ore]

This one? https://www.nxp.com/design/development-boards/i-mx-evaluation-and-development-boards/i-mx-rt1060-evaluation-kit:MIMXRT1060-EVK

[cinder wind]

And Teensy has a USB Host library that's functional so you have an existence proof of it actually working

[fresh flame]

So the rp2040's native USB can only do slave?

[modern night]

👀 FPGAs? oh dear my add to cart twitch is acting up..

[timid plover]

https://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/soc/zynq-7000.html

[vapid dagger]

I have a digilent cora-z7 I can help test on

[timid plover]

had to look up: 🙂 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd_sniping

[eager matrix]

Digikey has a good intro to FPGA on YT. Hackaday mentioned it recently.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEBQazB0HUyT1WmMONxRZn9NmQ_9CIKhb

[robust horizon]

we always called it geektrapping

[ionic garnet]

Hi @rapid hornet late but here now~

I am really interested in FPGAs but haven't had time to dive in yet

[grand tusk]

faulty program gone awray

[ionic garnet]

Yes I have watched that Digikey series

did you share what version you bought?

i haven't bought one yet

that's ok

[timid plover]

there are a lot of other more expensive eval kits too 🙂

[turbid hill]

@rapid hornet Thanks for last weeks tips I have the CP working properly on Pi Zero W2 and ESP32-S3, for the ESP I was writing to the wrong flash address

[ionic garnet]

There are some for $50 but no real usb

[timid plover]

made $200 seem inexpensive

[ionic garnet]

I justify my collection. I'm an inventor and startup CTO. I need to keep my hands deep into emerging tech and popular trends

[eager matrix]

I've got one of those in my bin. I'm about to dive in. Digilent has a huge selection of PMOD adaptors.

[rapid hornet]

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/digilent-inc/410-351-10/7652757

[ionic garnet]

Accepted

link?

It's also a new dad thing. There are a number of career and fantasy related things we all go through

[vapid dagger]

Also forgefpga looks interesting for a cheap fpga seesaw https://www.dialog-semiconductor.com/products/greenpak/low-power-low-cost-forgefpga

[tropic inlet]

I am hoping I can use the ST dualsynopsys-usb-otg with CP host and device

I think tiny usb might already have support

[sinful meadow]

it doesn't have host for synopsys yet

[ionic garnet]

I fear it's a big time sink for me

[eager matrix]

The GOWIN FPGA in the board has a USB PHY.

[ionic garnet]

I love this stuff but I have finite mental capacity

[lapis sage]

Oh that's good to know

[ionic garnet]

first I just want to animate rgb leds fast enough for new use cases. Then evolve from there

[lapis sage]

(Terris Leonis from the YouTube chat here)

[cinder wind]

pretty amazing that a $1 MCU can be a USB host

[ionic garnet]

Indeed

we are techies. Our conversations are unscripted and go where they go

[eager matrix]

@rapid hornet I'm the same way - following the shiny things. A former partner likened me to a squirrel about it. I embrace it.

[ionic garnet]

Always follow shiny things. There's a reason they shine. Some will be for naught but you only one good one.

[lapis sage]

For everyone else, here's the link that's on screen https://www.joelw.id.au/FPGA/CheapFPGADevelopmentBoards

[tropic inlet]

Is it planned?

[ionic garnet]

me too

[smoky island]

🔮

[sinful meadow]

@tropic inlet not sure sorry

[tropic inlet]

Thanks,I'm just scanning through issues to see if it's mentioned

[lapis sage]

Ben Eater has a video on how USB keyboard communicate

[rapid hornet]

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

[ionic garnet]

it's a common pattern of impersonating hardware interrupt with polling on reliable frequency

[lapis sage]

@rapid hornet Would it be smart to implement Python classes that represent HID devices at the high level?

[tropic inlet]

@rapid hornet are you going to base it on the TinUsb abstraction or use mixed usb abstractions underneath?

[lapis sage]

One of my projects is to develop a hardware control panel for Kerbal Space Program and I want to plug it in via USB (I was looking at my Teensy for this) and I've been looking at implementing it as a generic HID device so no drivers will be needed on the computer end.

[eager matrix]

@lapis sage Great name. You could also go with TerrorHurts.

[ionic garnet]

back to my comment about fake interrupts, the frequency need not even be precise. It just has to happen with the reliability window you need for the system

of course you have hardware interrupts here

[cinder wind]

You can do that now! CircuitPython has pretty complete HID support

[lapis sage]

@eager matrix Thanks, I've had this username for like fifteen years now

[lapis sage]

Awesome! It looks like I'm gonna be installing CircuitPython on my Teensy

[grim ginkgo]

With n-key rollover?

[rapid hornet]

https://learn.adafruit.com/customizing-usb-devices-in-circuitpython/hid-devices

[ionic garnet]

and lots of nice products to use

I have them all but haven't had time for keyboards yet. But I gave an adabox to my son and law to turn him into an Adafruit fan

[lapis sage]

One of the things I'll need is sending data back to the control panel for displaying e.g. Altitude on 7-seg displays, I was pleased to find that HID supports that kind of communication.

[ionic garnet]

there was a time when you could do anything with any protocol for any of this

[warm pulsar]

@rapid hornet That tutorial is a bit much when people are scared of code... I usually point to something simpler to get people started with.

[ionic garnet]

so much technology, so little time

Can someone give good use cases for USB beyond keyboards, smart speakers, midi? There must be more use cases and it would be good to think them through

[timid plover]

temporary but important distraction - sorry for the gap in notes 🙂

[left pier]

Oh no... its the final countdown

[timid plover]

one example is remote control and raw data exchange

[left pier]

I wonder if we can use CP to control USB to do automation "stuff"... but not sure we need Host for that...

Boom testing !

[lapis sage]

A get_string_descriptor() seems very Pythonic

[left pier]

import parenting

[turbid hill]

Diaper duty calls

[timid plover]

I'm a 'Luna' supporter - but even CP USB users need tools to diagnse USB issues - https://www.crowdsupply.com/great-scott-gadgets/luna

[vapid dagger]

I've been playing with the idea of USB devices for sensors/motors that could be used with either a PC or a Mindstorms like brick

[turbid hill]

What about get serial number

[timid plover]

other hardware tools are much more expensive
https://www.ellisys.com/products/

[warm pulsar]

would you need get endpoint or get message from queue#

[lilac salmon]

I'm waiting on a Luna as well.

[timid plover]

beagle has a usb tool but haven't used it yet

[turbid hill]

Where I work we tweaked the USB to handle 128 endpoints at once

[warm pulsar]

HID has both - in and out -- when you press caps lock, all keyboards receive a message to turn on the "caps lock" led...

[timid plover]

what were the advantages for the multiple endpoints?

[warm pulsar]

not sure about that...

[turbid hill]

We use a device called a zero client that has sound, video, usb, and nic all in one but the ZC is pretty dumb

[simple fractal]

i have one of these https://www.bugblat.com/products/ezsniff/index.html
Also a Luna supporter but i expect it to be here in maybe 2023 🙂

[eager matrix]

I just noticed an RP2040 feather board with wifi for $15.

[lapis sage]

Oh no I want one

[sterile forge]

Multiple endpoints are usually uused for devices like the raspberry pi keyboards. They have the keyboard and a USB hub which can support three devices.

[lilac salmon]

I have the Challenger RP2040. The ESP32-S2 is definitely easier to get the wifi connected.

[turbid hill]

so imagine controlling 32 ZC at once which results in a lot of endpoints, We use the ZC to control screens which are part of big video walls although we have switched over to android based box's with our Usefrul Client as a android app instead.

[warm pulsar]

HID Host over BLE? wait - my brain hurts - you mean connecting a BLE keyboard to a circuitpython BLE board?

That would be a good use case to make the api portable between USB and BLE

That's really nice to make it portable on the device side... KMK leverages that.

[turbid hill]

ZC is Zero Client

[timid plover]

thanks - was searching as you posted 🙂

[turbid hill]

that is one of our main units we support

Centerm C75v2 - Userful - Monitors-anywhere - Multipoint-zero-client

yay vt100

DEC all the way

[simple fractal]

vt100, first enterprise software i worked on, a vt100 emulator for the PC

[ionic garnet]

i love watching your thought process

this is big time geek stuff for nerds like me

[left pier]

Seeing the process is great

[warm pulsar]

really like it. I use mspaint and my mouse at work and have been thinking about a tablet..

[ionic garnet]

that sounds dirty

[warm pulsar]

HID -> ASCII is the reverse of what keymap(international) does (ascii->HID)

[ionic garnet]

musical instruments and control surfaces

[warm pulsar]

german,french keyboards have some keys doing other things...

[eager matrix]

Is it time to @ Katni again to let her know how awesome she is.

[tropic inlet]

async usb host versions?

[warm pulsar]

USB on the device side has different states... connected (and a few other ones I believe). I suspect there are similar things on the host side

what's the model of your magic tablet?

works well on windows?

[cinder wind]

you have scribbling to text converter, yeah? (aka an intern haha)

[left pier]

GIMP to CP Compiler ...

[ionic garnet]

I'm still here. Cool discussion. Nice work.

[timid plover]

thanks again -

[ionic garnet]

thanks Scott

[eager matrix]

Thanks Scott. Have a great weekend.

[left pier]

https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuos

Thanks Scott !

[turbid hill]

Thanks for the chit chat

[cinder wind]

Thank Scott! Congrats on the pending release of Scott 2.0

[lapis sage]

Thanks for the stream!

[left pier]

https://github.com/adafruit/deep-dive-notes

[modern night]

Thanks for the great deep dive! Proper into the weeds and proper distractions 😄 Have a lovely weekend all!

[sinful meadow]

thanks scott 👍

[left pier]

The GH Action worked just in time for you to go on leave

[warm pulsar]

two 🐱 wow

[simple fractal]

thanks Scott and everyone here.

[cinder wind]

RP2040: Multi cat processing

[simple fractal]

pet me Hoooman

[rapid hornet]

thanks all!

[simple fractal]

🙂

[sudden slate]

Great show Scott... the hours don't sometimes work for me, but I try to catch live - today was not a day I could.....

But thanks for the great show 🙂

[smoky island]

I'm getting the stream going now. Working on some PR testing of Turtle library and maybe others 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=QF7xD3hzV7A

[clever summit]

Hi Foamy!

[inner spade]

Hello!

[grand tusk]

Hello

[clever summit]

Seems you forgot to disable the Youtube chat, so you might just as well make me a moderator now.

I am moderator in most of the live streams I visit.

[nova totem]

Won't be around much today I am fighting getting the stream part of the unzip library working still. the straight uzlib.decompress(compressed_stuff) works though

[clever summit]

I got a Github issue for my MagTag sensor example today. Seems I forgot to actually post the working code to Github. Guy was complaining it didn't look like on the Adafruit site and I was like "What? I am on Adafruit?" 🙂

Found myself in the blog eventually.

[inner spade]

Turtle came from the programming language Logo

[clever summit]

Oh, that brings me way back! 🙂

[inner spade]

Worked in an observatory that used it for telescope positioning.

Before adopting Forth.

I used it for a small two wheeled robot

[grand tusk]

Nice robot!

[inner spade]

This version just used pre-stored scripts.

The next version used a Crickit.

[grand tusk]

Yeah, you got it right.

The LED matrix is a component of the midi sequencer I'm working on.

[nova totem]

I get those two reboots fairly often too, never seen a pattern though (or cared to look that deeply)

[noble grove]

My PyPortal double boots as well. I always assumed it was once when the file saved and once when cache flushed.

[nova totem]

I remember Logo and everything growing up but the teachers never knew how to do more then draw shapes

[noble grove]

Why would the teachers want to do more than draw shapes in Logo. They could just use Basic. The purpose of Logo and Turtle is to make graphics easy...

[nova totem]

Did you want a pre-build of the decompress stuff (got the streams working) not sure if you were working on it today (Not quite ready for a PR but i can make a draft or build a uf2).

[noble grove]

Not saying I agree with them, but I understand the mentality.

I guess the only advantage of this over tile grids would be movement on angles other than integer fractions.

[nova totem]

I'll push it to my fork, or if you want a UF2 just tell me for what board. I'm missing all the documentation still so it'll fail some checks

[noble grove]

45 is trivial

30 is not

[grand tusk]

manhattan distance

[inner spade]

Turtle/Logo is a simple precursor to understanding fractals, too.

[nova totem]

I have to run in a few minutes but it is PR #6069. It is a draft as I still have to finish the documentation.

You should be able to pull the PR and build it (for now uzlib is on by default, probably will turn it off for small builds later).

If you look in tests there are some uzlib tests showing the usage of it.

[noble grove]

And understanding graphical fractals is the precursor to understanding other fractal phenomena in nature. (e.g. trees or body, arms, fingers)

[noble grove]

I think if you try to close something that isn't open, it just returns "success" (0)

prepend?

Hilbert cubes are cool

[noble grove]

If you didn't drink so much water, you wouldn't have to go to the bathroom so often. Bladder infections and kidney stones are a small price to pay for keeping us entertained.

Joke

[grand tusk]

uzlib.decompress(data, wbits=0, bufsize=0, /)
Return decompressed data as bytes. wbits is DEFLATE dictionary window size used during compression (8-15, the dictionary size is power of 2 of that value). Additionally, if value is positive, data is assumed to be zlib stream (with zlib header). Otherwise, if it’s negative, it’s assumed to be raw DEFLATE stream. bufsize parameter is for compatibility with CPython and is ignored.

[noble grove]

I love it!

[grand tusk]

Unexpected Maker does that. With lazers.

[noble grove]

Will start working on TurtleAmusingThings.py right away.

[grand tusk]

The response header may have the 'compression level'?

I used the MicroPython 1.16 docs.

[noble grove]

Can you decompress partially to see if there's a manifest?

yeah

Asking out of complete ignorance.

[inner spade]

Python docs talk about header considerations in more detail:

CPython

https://docs.python.org/3/library/zlib.html

[grand tusk]

Too much magic in that wbits parameter.

[noble grove]

Does "Window" refer to an actual gui window, or just a start and end point inside the buffer?

Is there a meta-data browser?

[nova totem]

Sorry only on for a minute but did you look at the examples in the test directory?

I'm not 100% sure either (I just took the code). I did some testing using the zlib CPython library to generate compressed strings

-3 is an error I believe

There may also be something in the original uzlib library https://github.com/pfalcon/uzlib

[grand tusk]

#define GZIP_MAGIC_0 0x1f
#define GZIP_MAGIC_1 0x8b
https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/lib/content_encoding.c

[noble grove]

never mind. babling

[grand tusk]

I think the first two bytes in your data are b'\x1f\x8b'

I think CPython does something different if wbits > 15.

[inner spade]

31 = 0x1F

[grand tusk]

+24 to +31 = 16 + (8 to 15): Uses the low 4 bits of the value as the window size logarithm. The input must include a gzip header and trailer.

(cpython zlib decompress)

"gzip" is often also used to refer to the gzip file format, which is:

a 10-byte header, containing a magic number (1f 8b), the compression method (08 for DEFLATE), 1-byte of header flags, a 4-byte timestamp, compression flags and the operating system ID.
(gzip wikipedia)
-- the header is 10 bytes.

🎉🎆

Maybe find a server that respects the content-encoding header.

Looks like they are using Amazon CloudFront.

[inner spade]

Add a Cartesian plot in the background

[grand tusk]

I'll have to get one of those ESP32-S3 boards in my next order.

I'm building a display for https://api.pota.app/spot/activator -- Ham Radio/Parks on the Air.

You go to a park and make radio contacts.

You try to talk with as many radio operators as possible.

[inner spade]

Thanks for the stream!

[grand tusk]

Thank you!

[sudden slate]

Thanks

[grand tusk]

Looks like a fun game.

[smoky island]

It's quite fun. Although fair warning it does get fairly difficult in the later levels!

@clever summit I think I find the right place to add you as a mod on my youtube channel. Can you share your "channel url" that it is asking for here? You can private message to me as well if you prefer not to post it publicly.

[clever summit]

I do have 56k subscribers so it is very public... 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjHuUmeyloZys59f3SW6eQw

[smoky island]

Thank you! I've added you just now so next week I'll keep the YT chat on and see if I can get it pulled into OBS.

[strong acorn]

I need a push notification for when it's "Random Hacker Time" 😉

[open girder]

Desk of Ladyada - Some LCD and Winamp fun! https://youtu.be/H55Ljn8ya3Y

[digital crescent]

@strong acorn it's starting soon

[pearl shoal]

Hi folks!

[slow spire]

Hi y’all!

[strong acorn]

@digital crescent thank you!

[proven crow]

Heya!

[desert orbit]

Hi! Yay Winamp! Hopefully no llamas were whipped in the production of the project 😂

[pearl shoal]

Great to see @rapid hornet working on USB Host on Friday! I'm knee deep projects that need it right now!

[slow spire]

“Gettin’ long in the tooth”

Nice!

[pearl shoal]

"We welcome Pull Requests" --> Purists

And you could put a STEMMA/QT on it!

[eager matrix]

have you thought about using the FTDI chip that has serail and JTAG like Espressif does in the Kaluga so you can use gdb over usb?

[pearl shoal]

We made AAC devices out of PyPortals - they have been very durable

I have a great video I'll look for of a kid dropping one 🙂

[eager matrix]

The chip Espressif uses is the FT2232HL.

[pearl shoal]

https://youtu.be/WgSq7Nvlj8o?t=827 (cute kiddo dropping the device is at 13:56)

[smoky island]

I'm a few minutes behind but definitely would love to see new pyportal with all in 1 chip

[eager matrix]

It would be cool if the search on Adafruit.com had filters for Active and In-stock like DigiKey does?

[slow spire]

Any insights on what causes the ghosting?

[eager matrix]

Thanks. I didn't notice those checkboxes?

[ionic garnet]

sorry I missed you live. Was daydreaming today about visiting with people, going to concerts, theatre, museums, tech conferences. I need to get out to our development centers in Bolivia, Romania, Vietnam, and yes, Ukraine. Got to start by leaving the house I guess 😉

[cinder wind]

just watched the Winamp demos, so neat @smoky island! Can't wait to try this out

[clever summit]

Hey @smoky island

Oh, I see you managed to mod me! 🙂

[inner spade]

A new family of PyPortals would be very nice. Capacitive touchscreens would also be useful.

It looked like 3 or 4 vertical zones were pointing to different locations in the text stream buffer when scrolling.

[noble grove]

Good afternoon from The Great Communist North

Well enough. I'm not a trucker.

Or a coffee shop owner.

Day off. On call. Phone service.

Had a couple calls already.

That seems better.

Can you split in interactive mode?

Cool.

Nice.

In the second group.

Thanks

Curious.

Is that the split position? Do you need to specify which group you are resetting?

Do you need to destroy the group?

To return to full screen?

Or make it invisible?

Sorry, I missed the (none)

[inner spade]

; Line endings missing

[noble grove]

What the heck is that "usb" symbol?

yes

oic

git

Too deep for me.

Better to have the information and not need it than vs

as long as it doesn't take up much room

[inner spade]

Like a “ merge overlay” ?

Image ‘OR’

Bitmap utilities could be expanded

[noble grove]

Too much detail, not enough overview.

in the doc search

[grand tusk]

👋Snowing here in the beehive state. ⛄

[noble grove]

Sunny here in Toronto. Just above freezing.

Utah?

[grand tusk]

Yeah.

[inner spade]

Weird wintery mix in the dry side of the evergreen state.

[grand tusk]

Greatest snow on Earth is what they tell me.

[noble grove]

We get dumped on Friday

8inches overnight

Nice

YAY!

Should work on a MatrixPortal, yes?

Thanks foamyguy

right

[clever summit]

Thanks for the company!

[noble grove]

Just thinking

[inner spade]

Thanks!

[noble grove]

Not much room on a matrix portal.

[clever summit]

Yeah, don't know what was the issue with that guy, he usually is nice.

[noble grove]

Ah.

[grand tusk]

Thanks

[noble grove]

Have a nice day.

OK

[smoky island]

https://github.com/FoamyGuy/CircuitPython_Screen_Splitter

[grand tusk]

That will be good for the Broadcom port.

[light stump]

Didn’t realize you were streaming! Thanks for finding the bug, poking me on this PR and helping with the fix.

[smoky island]

For sure! Thank you for the fix and implementing that feature to begin with! I'm stoked for the split screen REPL

[light stump]

I’ll make an issue on that minor REPL weirdness and include a couple of photos.

[ionic garnet]

Hi folks!

[inner spade]

Hello!

[haughty quiver]

hi!

[viral sail]

Good afternoon.

[inner spade]

We live in an ever-expanding universe of maker goodies.

[tacit garnet]

Heidi ho neighbors

YT is beatin'

[drowsy inlet]

Good thing for reminders. Forgot today was Tuesday due to US holiday yesterday. Hello all!

[ionic garnet]

that's where the fun is

[drowsy inlet]

And... gone.

[ionic garnet]

out of stock already

[cinder wind]

doh

[ionic garnet]

really useful for Trinkey's like Trinkey RP2040

[cinder wind]

well the bare DIP chip is still in stock https://www.adafruit.com/product/732

[sterile forge]

I just tried to order the product pick and it indicated that it was out of stock

[rotund marsh]

Curious, when you'd use product pick MCP23017 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5346 vs PCA9685 https://www.adafruit.com/product/815 ? MCP23017 breakout is cheaper, less address pins?

[tacit garnet]

Yup. Out of stock.

[short chasm]

trying to remember which project i used a mcp23017 for. but i remember them being awesome

[ionic garnet]

clever little demo!

[cinder wind]

Yup, PCA9685 does PWM. The MCP23017 does not do PWM

[inner spade]

Thanks JP!

[viral sail]

Thanks @haughty quiver

[rotund marsh]

Thanks @haughty quiver and Adafruit Team!

[haughty quiver]

thanks all

Oh no, sorry to hear that we ran out of stock on them!

[drowsy inlet]

thank you

[ionic garnet]

thanks @haughty quiver

within 3 minutes of show start out of stock

[midnight plinth]

@haughty quiver Thank you

[cinder wind]

I2C-based GPIO expanders are rad. I personally think the seesaw boards are more fun because they can do PWM, NeoPixels, analog in, and GPIO. But this chip is cool too

[haughty quiver]

@cinder wind with the perfect upsell! <slaps hood> "What can I do to get you into one of these Seesaws?"

[rotund marsh]

+1 for PWM I2C expanders being very useful, only used a few PCA9685's so far.

[cinder wind]

wow impressive!

[rotund marsh]

Cheers for the info @Todbot. Just realized MCP23017 has 2 interrupt pins, guessing we can use to optionally avoid writing polling code (if perf is a concern) to detect input changes, am looking at examples and datasheet... https://cdn-shop.adafruit.com/datasheets/mcp23017.pdf

[hard hollow]

☕️⚡️

[viral sail]

Good morning.

[rocky reef]

3DHangouts Episode 358 LIVE in 1 min! Floppy Drives, Etch-A-Sketch and Flexy Fish https://www.youtube.com/adafruit/live

[lavish patrol]

Hello, peeps. 😀

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[lavish patrol]

🐡

[shadow epoch]

Those look like really fun projects! Can anyone sell me more time in a day?

[open surge]

morning!

[shell mason]

ready 3d hangout

[rocky reef]

​good morning, afternoon, evening and night folks!

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/ready-im-ready-lets-do-this-prepared-dr-emmet-brown-gif-16482449

[lavish patrol]

All The Things.

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/free

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

[shell mason]

https://tenor.com/view/raz-razputin-aquato-psychonauts-psychonauts2-gif-23081277

[viral sail]

Those disk drive cases are a refreshing alternative to "old computer yellow" which is the standard case color most of that hardware is found in these days.

[lavish patrol]

You make a good case for this project...

[shell mason]

those cases bring back memories of old imacs

https://tenor.com/view/who-asked-who-tf-asked-imac-macintosh-mac-gif-21377763

so many colors

[slim vale]

hey

It's afternoon (17H14) here in France

[viral sail]

The irony of the iMac reference is that iMac release was criticized for being the first mass-market computer to omit the floppy drive as standard equipment.

[slim vale]

do you plan to sell floppy drive and disks ?

[lavish patrol]

Flippy drive. 😄

[shell mason]

with color front cover as well

it could be interest to have front cover changable but also lock the outer color case too

andry or iFloppy drive

[lavish patrol]

Like the case color.

[drowsy inlet]

that digital etch-a-sketch is very cool

[slim vale]

I missed something, what is that ?

ok, i see it's these drawing things

[smoky island]

Neat Etch-a-Sketch! I made a similar one for PyPortal using the temma Rotary encoder breakouts if anyone wants a plug-n-play one that requires no solder wiring. https://github.com/FoamyGuy/CircuitPython_Blink_A_Sketch

[nova totem]

Any idea why ninjaflex may be burning at some points? Comes out in little blobs. On an Ender 5 @ 235C. It did seem worse at slower print speeds

[smoky island]

My case is more primitive as well. I have not honed my snap-fit capabilities so it uses screws. I love the snap fit stuff that you all make!

[slim vale]

I want to know if you're planning something to reduce the shipping cost to Europe

because I can never directly buy adafruit product, I need to use an intermediate

[rocky reef]

https://www.adafruit.com/distributors

[drowsy inlet]

@smoky island Looks like you use encoders, while they mentioned using potentiometers. What's the difference, just digital vs analog?

[open surge]

Rotary encoders can rotate all the way around non-stop

[slim vale]

I saw this solution but that a bit annoying because on Distributors website is a lot harder to find things than on the adafruit website

[drowsy inlet]

Ok, that's what I thought and I didn't see them reaching a stop point, so maybe they're using encoders, too?

[smoky island]

I'm probably not best suited to answer for sure (I'm still relatively green when it comes to electrical components). But I think you're on the right track. Pots are analog and Rotary encoders just keep track of the current value and count up or down depending on which way you turn.

[lavish patrol]

Rotary encoders are a well rounded solution...

[nova totem]

Combing was on so I can try to turn it off. Thanks

[drowsy inlet]

Ah, so they do stop

Thank you for answering. For some reason it looked like it was spinning more than 360

[shell mason]

Rotary Encoders are cool alright

[drowsy inlet]

http://507movements.com/

[lavish patrol]

...aand the lawnmower's back. 😄

[rocky reef]

@slim vale https://www.digikey.com/en/supplier-centers/adafruit

[drowsy inlet]

For sure! It shows animations

[upbeat coral]

I think that fish is the best so far

[winter zinc]

DIgiKey and Mouser have a lot of variety of Adafruit products, and free shipping to Europe on orders over 50 euro

[slim vale]

tanks for your answer

[slim vale]

I used mouser previously

[lavish patrol]

Fish and chips.

[winter zinc]

Digi-Key tend to have a lot more of the newer products
Also Pimoroni from UK, if you order under 150 eur, you don't have to pay import taxes, and shipping is reasonable

[shell mason]

fish makes

[rocky reef]

https://www.thingiverse.com/make:1015122 tusken staff

https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7152-3d-printed-unicorn-horn/ unicorn horn

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5252236 pybade thermal cam

https://www.thingiverse.com/make:1014044 gunblade

https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/7291-circuit-playground-express-snap-fit-mount/ cpx mount

[shell mason]

that remind me gun sword from iron frists movie

[rocky reef]

https://www.thingiverse.com/make:1013219 loki stick

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5250217 clue PyLoton case

[upbeat coral]

Thingiverse tells me I have an ad blocker and won't download files. I don't use ANY ad blockers anywhere

[shell mason]

prop from man with the iron fists movie the one reminded what russel grow acted

creative have it own 3d hub nowdays

[upbeat coral]

Changes ?files to /zip and it downloads

[viral sail]

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

[lavish patrol]

Another great show guys. 👍

[drowsy inlet]

Thanks guys. Great show, as always!

[shell mason]

from man with the iron fists movie https://d2iltjk184xms5.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/file/82860/original.jpg

[rocky reef]

thanks so much for hanging out folks!

[hard hollow]

thanks folks, cya tonight!

[smoky island]

Thanks Noe & Pedro. Another fun show!

[wise iris]

thanks guys!

[upbeat coral]

Thank you for taking time for us

[winter zinc]

Thank you!

[winter zinc]

How do you survive on the internet without adblockers? 😋 😆

[upbeat coral]

@winter zinc If I go to a site and they have ads out the ying yang, I don't go back. Good firewall takes care of the rest.

AND Generally if they have a lot of ads, they're not there for my benefit but for the content creator. I fthey can't or won't do a better job of controlling them well, then I don't need to be there.

[mossy widget]

hi! how do you sign up to share on show and tell again?

[alpine radish]

@mossy widget Someone will share a streamyard link on the live-broadcast-announce or live-broadcast-chat within the next couple of minutes. Click and go there 🙂 Just turn off youtube if you do.

[mossy widget]

ahhh great thanks

[clear matrix]

If it says it's full, keep trying. Folks will drop off after showing their projects to allow others to join!

[mossy widget]

👌

[alpine radish]

Whatcha gonna share?

[tulip canyon]

Hello everyone 👋

[sonic coyote]

@alpine radish macro keypad

[alpine radish]

Woohoo! Love those things! @sonic coyote

Well...they're late.

[upbeat coral]

Hey Y'll

[alpine radish]

Guess ya' can share it here 🙂

[split gazelle]

good evening folks

[viral sail]

Good evening.

[open girder]

Link to join to show and share your project: https://streamyard.com/5esy9u34f3

[mossy widget]

beginnings of a sonar range controled light

[smoky island]

Hello everyone 👋

[open girder]

WE ARE LIVE! SHOW AND TELL! https://youtu.be/uGb2JJcH4Dk

[alpine radish]

I don't build. I smash!

[turbid hill]

@timid plover at Userful, the company I work for we use Zero Clients as the control for Video Walls so each ZC is worth 4 endpoints and if we want to drive a 50 screen wall we needed to access 200 endpoints

[ionic garnet]

Hello

[tulip canyon]

cover the notches

[nova totem]

Good evening everyone

So many hole punched disks when i was younger

[turbid hill]

actually had a special punch tool for making the correct notch

used on apple disks

[rapid hornet]

hi all!

[turbid hill]

yo

[robust horizon]

@turbid hill later on I got one of those as well, but .. hey, let's say I was tickled to see the results of my early life handiwork when I came across that floppy.

[turbid hill]

I got my greaseweazal working last weekend and got some data off some .35 pc disks

[upbeat coral]

You guys need to see what LGR Blerbs (Clint) has. The guy has a massive old school PC library.

[mellow thunder]

I still have operational 3.5 floppys installed still on 3 of my PC's so glad I kept them!

[dim wigeon]

I had one of those for my Commodore 64! 🙂

[nova totem]

I know I have some 3.5" drives but probably sitting in cases "in case"

[dim wigeon]

Also, hi all! 👋 🙂

[tulip canyon]

y'all planned this!

[turbid hill]

When I was first introduced to the Apple 2 (not a +) the teacher who had the machine told me to get two floppy's and I could use the machine, My mom did not understand why I wanted $20CAD at the time to buy two floppy's. My teacher showed me to how to punch the disks so I could double the data I could store.

[tulip canyon]

That orange and blue piece was Frog Design

sweet animation

[smoky island]

🛹

[woven mirage]

Hi! Are these instructions for joining current?
https://learn.adafruit.com/show-and-tell

[clear matrix]

@woven mirage Looks right!

The StreamYard link was posted earlier.

[tulip canyon]

Pop-shove-it?

[nova totem]

The streamyard link above is the one for tonight

[brazen quail]

Cheap laser service where ? @hard hollow

[woven mirage]

Thanks. I may propose to show something next week.

Scott doesn’t age, does he?

[turbid hill]

he is not quite frozen in carbonite

[dim wigeon]

Perhaps silly question, but what does OTG cable stand for? (Allay parenthetical second question: why are there 523,467 different kinds of USB cables anyway? 😂)

[strange mantle]

on the go

[turbid hill]

An OTG or On The Go adapter (sometimes called an OTG cable, or OTG connector) allows you to connect a full sized USB flash drive or USB A cable to your phone or tablet through the Micro USB or USB-C charging port. ... Tansfer photos directly from a compatible camera on to the phone. Connect smartphone directly to printer.

[rapid hornet]

ponoko I think

[dim wigeon]

Thanks! I was unaware of that acronym. Still think there are a ridiculous number of different kinds of USB cable, though.

[rapid hornet]

ya, agreed.

[turbid hill]

Yes too many USB cables

[rapid hornet]

usb a to usb a is particularly weird

[alpine radish]

Hey ya' -- I'm going to teardown a very expensive camera lens this Friday -- is that anything I can post here? I don't want to spam adafruit's awesome server.

[dim wigeon]

One of the reasons I have a 10 port USB Hub on my desk is to have the cables that I need for all the different MCU boards I have.

[turbid hill]

A to A, aka the flat ends we actually use that type at work

[alpine radish]

@sonic coyote in the house!!!!!

[dim wigeon]

USB A to A? I… don’t think I have ever seen one of those.

[smoky island]

You definitely can. The #show-and-tell would be best channel unless you also come on the show on a wednesday.

[turbid hill]

used to talk to a android client

[ashen hound]

what was the name of the PCB course?

[ionic garnet]

I buy those from time to time. They are rare

[alpine radish]

TeachMePCB.com

[clear matrix]

Posting projects and makery things is never spamming the server!

[alpine radish]

The last course ended -- we'll hopefully do another one soon.

[rapid hornet]

(just don't do it in multiple channels)

[dim wigeon]

Ah. That’s why I’ve never seen one. I don’t use anything Android except for my TV.

[smoky island]

@sonic coyote that is an awesome skull PCB. Great job!

[alpine radish]

@clear matrix thanks! I'm always wary. I don't always know etiquette.

[tulip canyon]

Great macro @sonic coyote

[clear matrix]

Thank you for asking! It's much appreciated.

[sonic coyote]

oh man, logitech decided to update right as I started cutting the mic, glad it came back!

[sonic coyote]

Thanks!

[turbid hill]

here is what the cable looks like

[alpine radish]

@clear matrix -- I pinged you over in the @show-n-tell channel just in case you do need to mod it.

Cool projects everyone!

[clear matrix]

You don't need to tag anyone. Your post looks perfectly acceptable!

[alpine radish]

Hopefully Phat Ollie will help

That's a nice keyboard!

[smoky island]

Yay Kinesis Advantage! ⌨️ nice job with the teensy transplant!

[alpine radish]

So much cool stuff. I know y'all are busy @open girder so I'm not asking, but sometimes I wish show-n-tell was an hour! So many inspiring people.

[rapid hornet]

show and tell was an hour for a bit

[turbid hill]

I was thinking of how many stemma boards I could link and run on MC board.

[alpine radish]

Yeah -- I guess since you're depending on the community to show up somewhat randomly, it could be a bit hit and miss.

I'm just saying -- cool, cool stuff.

[nova totem]

@rancid depot real cool idea, radio is a great way to get beginners interested as you get that instant feedback

[open girder]

yah, we're always asked "what does adafruit need", etc. and it's time, would love to be able to do 2 hour show and tells, but gotta also run an adafruit 🙂 all your orders help run all this, so thank you ya'll!

[nova totem]

@split gazelle okay cool but MIDI already hurts my head and now it can also control robots? 🙂

[dim wigeon]

Maybe somebody could find the source code for the calendar, and submit a PR to add hours to the day? 😂

[split gazelle]

midi is your friend, 7 bits of magic

[dim wigeon]

I’ve been kicking around trying to make a version of the Atari punk console 555 timer oscillator thing that is midi controllable.

[haughty quiver]

@dim wigeon neat!

[nova totem]

I have a cool midi project but like many things it's in pieces at the moment awaiting time.

[alpine radish]

@haughty quiver!

[dim wigeon]

@haughty quiver I have a design sort of floating around in my head. I need to write it down on some paper and then actually build it. Also, hi! 👋

[viral sail]

Great projects everyone. Thanks for sharing.

[rancid depot]

thank you all!

[turbid hill]

My one and only 8" floppy
I have no idea what is on it

[tulip canyon]

Thanks everyone, great projects all!

[alpine radish]

@open girder @haughty quiver Any chance ya' want to be a third judge for a PCB design contest I'm running next month?

[upbeat coral]

Thanks to all for giving us your time

[ionic garnet]

thanks. c ya

[alpine radish]

I can email ya' the deets.

[nova totem]

Great projects everyone

[haughty quiver]

@dim wigeon I wonder if you could use the digital pots like https://www.adafruit.com/product/4286 to receive the midi controls and control the 555

[dim wigeon]

Thanks everybody, some great projects tonight!

[alpine radish]

I always love it when I have time to stop by.

Good stuff!

[dim wigeon]

That’s actually what I was thinking. I have a couple of them in my “random sensors and other boards “box. And I’ve just started streaming electronics making stuff on twitch, so that might be a good project to take from schematic to execution on a stream sometime.

[turbid hill]

should remmeber to start the engineer feed

[open girder]

WE ARE LIVE! ASK AN ENGINEER! https://youtu.be/TAvaIo20xV0

10% discount code, code is: tofsensor http://www.adafruit.com

[alpine radish]

Ooh -- that was me JP -- I'm someone!

[dim wigeon]

Question for later: I recently saw a PCB that had SMD components mounted on both sides of the board. How are those manufactured? How do the parts on the first side not melt off when you flip the board over and reflow it again?

[alpine radish]

Surface tension works pretty well for lighter SMD components.

[ashen hound]

The surface tension holds them in place

[alpine radish]

It's also possible to use a different solder with a lower melt temp for the second pass if you have heavy stuff.

[ashen hound]

also they apply some kind of glue to hold certain components in place

[dim wigeon]

Ah. Interesting! Thanks! That totally makes sense.

[alpine radish]

But usually you'll put the heavy parts on first, then the light stuff for the second pass.

[dim wigeon]

I imagine you would also have to be cautious about how much time the board spends in the reflow oven on the second pass.

[alpine radish]

Yes -- some parts can't be reflowed multiple times without damage.

Most things aren't that sensitive.

[ashen hound]

usually double sided boards are a tad expensive if you don't have the volume

[dim wigeon]

I first learned to build electronic things in high school, so surface mount stuff is a whole New World for me. 🙂

[alpine radish]

If you can, always design for one sided placement, you'll save money.

[nova totem]

when i made my first couple PCBs I reflowed things a "few" times due to mistakes, knowing I may wreck it but it was an experiment. But nothing ever went wrong (at least with the reflow)

[alpine radish]

But if you're going for a service like Macrofab where your project is ganged with others, it's going through double sided reflow regardless, so don't worry about it.

Just for large product runs, anytime you can reduce the number of process steps, you'll save money.

[upbeat coral]

Tool's LAMPD. Great tune for this

[nova totem]

given how much snow we have here it will still be winter here

[dim knot]

http://adabox.com/

[ashen hound]

is that giant ball used like a scroller?

I have seen one of those at work. I have played with it like a toy. Never knew what it was used for

[shy topaz]

The ZX80 tape just wrote digital to the cassette.

[hot frigate]

Spaceball is still around!!! They are now 3dconnexion. I have the spacemouse wireless on my desk right now. I bet many of us do.

[turbid hill]

How about the system that backed data up to vhs tape
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArVid

[urban gale]

aw. My mom had a Panasonic Pet

That thing was heavy

[alpine radish]

@open girder I've got a PCB design competition coming up in March and am looking to give away about $500 in prizes. I was thinking about 6 $26 Pinecil Pine64 soldering irons for runner up prizes, Figure $50 ish for shipping everything, that leaves me just shy of $300 in prize money to do something interesting with. Do you happen to have any ideas of any interesting Ada-merch for a 1st/2nd place winner?

Also, I'd love to have you as one of the three judges, but I know you're busy -- so maybe you can recommend a judge to fill the last judge spot? (Super easy -- just pick the one you like the best)

[open girder]

oh! @alpine radish https://www.adafruit.com/minihotplate

[dusk socket]

The ZX 80 you save and retrieved you program on a tape player. it was hard to find each program though.

[nova totem]

The mini hot plate is really useful and could be a good prize

[alpine radish]

Sweet!

It's uh....out of stock.

Is there a way for me to share the competition with you without sharing it with the world? I want to keep it a secret until I release it.

[turbid hill]

The mini hotplate can be found all over the net

[open girder]

sure, email [e-mail] and we'll check it out!

[alpine radish]

Yeah -- but I want to support Ada.

[shut crown]

whats the coupon tonight?

[turbid hill]

tofsensor

[shadow sigil]

@open girder Question: what is the safest way to bend the .05” pins on a TO-92 transistor to .1” for use with a breadboard without damaging the pins?

[open girder]

@alpine radish can always do adafruit gift certs, they can then buy anything ever, and they never expire

lots of things are in and out of stock nearly instantly

kinda how it is for everything at the momeny

[urban gale]

I could never choose between Winamp and Sonique

[viral sail]

WinAmp was the first time I had ever encountered the word "skin" to apply to a design aesthetic. It would end up becoming our company lexicon for design applicaiton.

[turbid hill]

I use the open source version of winamp now WACUP

[urban gale]

Winamp also had the best product tagline

[graceful widget]

Hello world

I miss Macamp

[turbid hill]

I use the last version of winamp pro for android and it still works

[alpine radish]

Email away! We'll do gift cards through you -- that'll be easiest.

[inner spade]

@smoky island 's WinAmp implementation is an excellent example of how skins and front panels can be designed and coded for other projects, too.

[graceful widget]

Cheap way to send Winamp on pi?

[dim wigeon]

There’s a proverb I like that’s similar to PT’s quote: “We do not see the world as it is; we see the world as we are.”

[graceful widget]

Is there a clone that can use Winamp skins?

[tulip canyon]

code+community

[turbid hill]

winamp WACUP exists you can still run winamp

[dim knot]

https://learn.adafruit.com/guides/latest

[graceful widget]

Wacup for Debian?

[echo canopy]

@open girder Did you see the WinAmp story was featured in Gizmodo.com and they mentioned Adafruit?

Just search for WinAmp

[turbid hill]

those blue connecters look crooked

[smoky island]

the pyportal project can use custom skins. While working on it I also found this neat web implementation that even simulates old windows desktop: https://webamp.org/ it can also use the custom skins.

[graceful widget]

Brilliant

[shy topaz]

Use the browser debugger to delete the ad blocker blocker.

[open girder]

oh wow, thanks @echo canopy !

[river hemlock]

Thank you for starting that conversation with Thingiverse. It's so important to not let those decisions go unexamined.

[turbid hill]

You could also use a PiHole system to help manage the ads

[open girder]

thanks @river hemlock yah, trying to get a conversation going with them

[turbid hill]

that fish reminds me of cat in Red Dwarf

[graceful widget]

Meow

Right here, right meow, this is what we need

[upbeat coral]

Twitch locked down?

[open girder]

hi makerbot folks!

our community (and team) noticed if an ad blocker is on, it does not allow downloads, and for downloads when it is possible to download our files - there is an area where ads are (or will be) and a text ad for signing up for amazon prime (attached images).

so - we'll probably need to do a post about this eventually since we'll get asked about it, and wanted to get specifics to get all the facts correct -

1. when did this start?
2. what ad network does thingiverse use for serving ads?
   2a) if there are problematic ads / malware how does a user report it?
3. did you contact any creators/publishers for feedback regarding this?
   3a) could the adafruit team/community provide some feedback?

(that's our note to them)

[graceful widget]

Great

[shut crown]

it would be great to see this resolved

[graceful widget]

It's a start

Meanwhile things work on Cults3d

My stuff is there too, free

[shut crown]

i like https://prusaprinters.org personally

it's prusa's clone of thingiverse

a lot less scummy, and and you get free filament for posting makes

[graceful widget]

Kinda tricky to search, but I've found things there

I use myminifactory too

No easy way to upload all my stuff at once, like Cults3d

That I know of

[tulip canyon]

Archive.org doing great "things"
https://archive.org/details/thingiverse?query=adafruit

[shut crown]

it has import from thingiverse

[graceful widget]

Ah. Smort

[alpine radish]

Speaking of TOFSENSORS.... https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/technical-articles/how-do-time-of-flight-sensors-work-pmdtechnologies-tof-3D-camera/

[dim knot]

26-pin 1mm pitch FPC Flex Cable - 20cm long https://www.adafruit.com/product/5386

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Adafruit 1.47" 320x172 Round Rectangle Color IPS TFT Display - ST7789 https://www.adafruit.com/product/5393

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Oh that's a nice display!

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But can it run Crysis

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Adafruit VL53L4CD Time of Flight Distance Sensor - ~1 to 1300mm - STEMMA QT / Qwiic https://www.adafruit.com/product/5396

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Question for the show: @open girder

Have you seen any data on how many microcontrollers the average person has? Just curious with all of the SAMD, RP2040… Espressif

Thanks

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I've been watching the youtube videos for this "new product" segment and I was always confused as to why it felt like the demos sometimes were a little awkward. I didn't realize this came out of a live show.

[open girder]

yah! @sleek hill these are all live and in one take 🙂

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Adafruit Feather RP2040 - Pink https://www.adafruit.com/product/4884

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That ToF sensor would be great for some robotics work....

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If I could run two of those screens synced from a pi, could be a handy lofi vr

[sleek hill]

COME ON S3 😉

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Stellafane pink

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Good for Nintendo virtualboy

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Adafruit ESP32 Feather V2 - 8MB Flash + 2 MB PSRAM - STEMMA QT https://www.adafruit.com/product/5400

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"charming" that's the word @sleek hill was reaching for. 😉

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Already out of stock... hope to grab one soon though!

[sleek hill]

@opaque hearth - exactly 😄

[open girder]

all good 🙂

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I tried to buy the product pick. It showed the discounted price.
But when I checked out it said that it was out of stock and would not let me order. Where should I send this question?

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Need to roll your own raspberry pi clone.