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On this week's show we look at where some Americans are spending nearly $100 a month on streaming services. We also look at some new tech from Sony that promises big improvements for LED TVs. All that plus your emails and the week's news on this episode of the HDTV and Home Theater Podcast. News: Apple TV+, Jason Sudeikis confirm fourth season of ‘Ted Lasso' Lawsuits Hit TCL & Hisense: Are Their QLED TVs A Total Scam? Sony Launches Its First New 4K Blu-ray Player In Over Five Years Other: Spectrum is finally offering a streaming-only subscription for Dodgers Many Americans Spend Over $100 per Month on Subscription Services A recent survey by Bango reveals that nearly 25% of Americans spend over $100 per month on subscription services, including streaming platforms and retail memberships like Amazon Prime. This trend marks a shift from the perception of subscriptions as cost-effective alternatives to traditional cable and satellite services, as consumers face rising costs—streaming plans alone have increased by over 20% in the past two years. To manage expenses, many consumers are turning to subscription bundles, with the average American holding 5.4 subscriptions, including 2 that come through bundled packages. A significant portion of these bundles is linked to mobile phone plans, with 55% of subscribers benefiting from such arrangements. Additionally, 44% of users report receiving services for free through bundles that they previously paid for. Convenience is another critical factor driving consumers toward bundles, as 41% express frustration with managing multiple subscriptions across different apps. A strong demand exists for unified platforms, with 63% of subscribers seeking more options like Verizon's +play. Sony Develops Next-Generation Display System Full Press Release Sony has developed a next-generation display system featuring a high-density LED backlight with independent drive RGB (red, green, and blue) control, designed for large screens. This innovative technology allows each RGB color to emit light independently, resulting in high color purity and the ability to reproduce a vibrant, wide color gamut. Key features of this display system include: Wide Color Gamut Performance: The system covers over 99% of the DCI-P3 color space and about 90% of the ITU-R BT.2020 standard, ensuring enhanced color reproduction. Advanced Backlight Control Technology: Sony's proprietary technology allows for precise control of light gradation, enabling subtle hues and detailed shading across the entire brightness range. This is particularly beneficial for cinematic productions, where accurate color representation is crucial for conveying narrative expression. Accurate Color Reproduction by a Dedicated Control Processor By individually controlling the brightness of the densely packed RGB LEDs, it is possible to render bright areas vividly without white clipping and to delicately depict the nuances of light in dark areas without black crushing. Additionally, the display system is equipped with approximately twice the processing power and pixel correction technology compared to conventional local dimming processing, allowing the reproduction of subtle color differences and accurate colors without color shifts. The display system aims to enhance film production and home viewing experiences, aligning with Sony's commitment to supporting creators through professional-grade monitors used for color grading and reference. Mass production of this new display system is set to begin in 2025, with plans for integration into consumer televisions and displays for content creation.
These cafe lights come with WS2811s inside. Power them with 12V, and you can send them 5V NeoPixel signals to light up individual 3 RGB LEDs inside for a nice, bright outdoor look. They're weatherproof and even come with a weatherproof connector, so they'll survive outdoor installation. They'll work great in Arduino, CircuitPython, or WLED. We're excited to get these installed for the holidays! Coming soon. #adafruit #neopixel #ws2811 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
In this episode of the PickPlace Podcast, Chris and Melissa discuss the challenges and intricacies of working with RGB LEDs, specifically the popular surface-mount DotStar LEDs from Adafruit. They dive into issues like handling cut strips versus continuous reels, the importance of sourcing directly from original manufacturers, and the need for moisture control when using these components in manufacturing. They also provide practical tips for engineers on cost-saving and quality assurance strategies when sourcing these parts for large-scale production.Show Links:https://www.adafruit.com/product/2343https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/RGB-LEDs-Built-in-IC_OPSCO-Optoelectronics-SK9822-A_C5378730.htmlhttps://docs.circuithub.com/en/articles/3350195-consigning-cut-stripshttps://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/adafruit-industries-llc/2343/5761204http://www.normandled.com/product/view/id/876.htmlpickplacepodcast.com
This week's EYE ON NPI looks miiiiiighty familiar with those of us who love our colorful lights, it's Würth Elektronik's RGB WL-ICLED Integrated Controller Within LED (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/w/wurth-electronics/wl-icled-integrated-controller-within-led). WE's take on the 'smart LED' has taken over the electronics industry over the past 15 years. These ubiquitous LEDs can save you time, pins, and cost by simplifying the addition of up to a couple-dozen colorful LEDs, especially when the PCB size is at a premium. Back in my day, if you wanted to add a lot of colorful LEDs to a design, you'd have to use a dedicated LED driver chip. That is, unless your microcontroller had tons of pins, and 10mA drive current - and even then there's a total current-draw limit for the chip package. We still stock some breakouts for these like the TLC5947 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1429) a 'chainable' SPI board that could drive 8 RGB LEDs and PWM them all for you, often with a set-able constant-current. There's still need for chips like this, but they're often kinda large, and they're not free, so using them was not a light matter. Then came the first - or close to the first - low cost chainable LED driver: the LPD8806 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/306). We wrote a library for this chip in 2011 (https://github.com/adafruit/LPD8806/commits/master/?after=1951478c2c2a8317feab9997cdfddba3728a245a+69), the way this chip worked is it could control two RGB LEDs per, with all PWM handled internally and you only needed 2 pins! This was inexpensive and worked great, but the chips were still a bit large, 14-SOICs. They were superseded by the WS2811 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1060) which came up with using a Manchester encoding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_code) for transport over a single line. These used even less space, and only a single pin, with an SOIC-8 package. However, the real ingenuity is when folks realized they could put the chip INSIDE the LED: and thus was born what we call "NeoPixel" (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?s=N4IgTCBcDaIHYFMD2AHAlgDwQGxAXQF8g) a fully chainable smart LED that only uses one pin and no external components. Now all's been right in the world, with dozens of different shapes, configurations and sizes of 'WS2812-compatible' LEDs. But there was one thing missing: a reliable source of smart LEDs. And we should know because we use a lot of these chips: and we try to warn folks that low cost LEDs have differing LED color and brightnesses, are hard to solder and rework, and suffer high failure rates in the field. Worst of all, when one fails all the ones down the line also fail! Until today you just had to cross your fingers and hope that the reel you got was from a 'good batch'. That's why we were excited to see Würth Elektronik's RGB WL-ICLED in DigiKey's NPI list, because WE is known for high quality, reliable products. Unlike most NeoPixel compatibles, this datasheet specifies the LED brightnesses and spectra. It also has RoHS, REACh and Halogen compliance. Finally, you know you'll be getting consistent quality, where each LED solders just as well as last week's or last year's batch. The WL-ICLEDs are available in 4 sizes, including the common 5x5mm and 2x2mm. Würth Elektronik also designed a cool FeatherWing (https://github.com/WurthElektronik/FeatherWings/tree/main/ICLEDFeatherWing) with hundreds of the 2x2mm ICLEDs to demo how to display animations, text, and graphics. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tCo7FSO1Gk) If you want a NeoPixel compatible LED, with trace-ability, high reliability and known functionality check out Würth Elektronik's RGB WL-ICLED (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/w/wurth-electronics/wl-icled-integrated-controller-within-led) available right now at DigiKey! Order today and you'll get your ready-to-assemble rainbows by tomorrow afternoon.
Our annual MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide series kicks off with ideas of things to give or get from David Ginsburg, Jeff Gamet, Mike T. Rose, and host Chuck Joiner. From affordable to expensive, practical to less practical, there is something for everyone…and we're just getting started! (Part 1) This edition of MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard. Updated daily with the best articles on the web to help you do more with your Apple gear and adjacent tech, access MacVoices Magazine content on Flipboard, on the web, or in your favorite RSS reader. Show Notes: MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide 2023 on Flipboard Chapters: 0:00:00 The start of MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide for 2023.0:07:01 Discovering the Beautiful Art of the Fantasy Kingdom0:08:27 Unexpectedly Cool Gift Recommendations0:12:35 The Durable and Practical Rothko Tech Bag0:12:56 iPad Sizes and Compatibility0:16:22 Apple Watch as a Safety Device0:18:26 Sonos Move: Original vs. Move 20:21:09 Raspberry Pi 5: A Tinkerer's Delight0:23:27 Consider Raspberry Pi 4 for immediate gift-giving0:27:02 Raspberry Pi 5: Significantly faster and worth the wait0:28:08 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B: Dual 4K HDMI Output0:29:27 Versatile Charging Solution for Different Devices0:31:21 Highly Recommended for Charging Various Devices0:32:26 Aircard - Familiar Name, Indestructible Design0:35:24 Twinkly Lights - Digital Twin of Physical Lights, HomeKit Compatible Links: David Ginsburg's Picks: Anker Power Bank, 24,000mAh Portable Charger 65W Battery Packhttps://amzn.to/47xfvWw Sonos Move - Battery-Powered Smart Speaker https://amzn.to/3SEyXwg Sonos Move 2 https://amzn.to/3QKxe66 Jeff Gamet's Picks:The Mysteries Hardcover by Bill Watterson (Author), Bill Watterson and John Kascht (Illustrator) https://amzn.to/3QWiemC Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 2019 Quad Core 64 Bit WiFi Bluetooth (4GB) https://amzn.to/40Az1yW Raspberry Pi 5 https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/ Mike T. Rose's Picks: Rothco Vintage Canvas Tech Bag https://amzn.to/47Ane6d Rolling Square, inCharge XL, 6-in-1 Multi Charging Cable, 100W Ultra-Fast Charging Power, 6.5ft/2m, Summit Yellow https://amzn.to/46t2cWd Rolling Square inCharge X Portable Keychain Charger Cable, 6-in-1 Multi Charging Cable with 100W Ultra-Fast Charging Power, Lava Black https://amzn.to/3sGS3XM Rolling Square Aircard - Bluetooth Card Sized GPS Tracker with Business Card NFC/QR Code & Find My Network Compatibility - 2.2mm Super Thin https://amzn.to/49yeHSZ Chuck Joiner's Picks: Apple Watch Series 9 https://amzn.to/3QY4bNG Apple's Crash Detection saves another life: mine https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/04/apples-crash-detection-saves-another-life-mine Twinkly Strings App Controlled 157 Feet Smart Christmas Lights with 600 RGB LEDs and Green Wire for Indoor and Outdoor Decorative Lighting https://amzn.to/3ueqYfc MacVoices #20074: CES – Twinkly Takes Holiday Lights to the Next Level https://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-20074-ces-twinkly-takes-holiday-lights-to-the-next-level/ MacVoices #23038: CES – Twinkly Introduces Tiles, New Software, and Gamer Support https://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-23038-ces-twinkly-introduces-tiles-new-software-and-gamer-support/ Guests: Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, jeffgamet on LinkedIn., @jgamet@mastodon.social on Mastodon, and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud. Michael T. Rose began his Mac-centric career with a decade-plus stint in editorial technology at Entertainment Weekly & LIFE magazines, starting as a college intern right around when the Mac IIx was launched. After leaving the print publishing world, Mike worked as an IT lead and creative director for an NYC events and marketing agency. In 2013 he switched trains once again, and now enjoys his #dreamjob at Salesforce as a lead solution engineer. From 2006 to early 2015, Mike was a proud editor and contributor at The Unofficial Apple Web Log (TUAW), now folded into Engadget. Mike & his family live in Brooklyn, NY. You can find him on Twitter, and you can also hear him on The Aftershow with Kelly Guimont. Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? 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Our annual MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide series kicks off with ideas of things to give or get from David Ginsburg, Jeff Gamet, Mike T. Rose, and host Chuck Joiner. From affordable to expensive, practical to less practical, there is something for everyone…and we're just getting started! (Part 1) This edition of MacVoices is supported by MacVoices Magazine, our free magazine on Flipboard. Updated daily with the best articles on the web to help you do more with your Apple gear and adjacent tech, access MacVoices Magazine content on Flipboard, on the web, or in your favorite RSS reader. Show Notes: MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide 2023 on Flipboard https://flipboard.com/@chuckjoiner/2023-macvoices-holiday-gift-guide-hrivlnr7z Chapters: 0:00:00 The start of MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide for 2023. 0:07:01 Discovering the Beautiful Art of the Fantasy Kingdom 0:08:27 Unexpectedly Cool Gift Recommendations 0:12:35 The Durable and Practical Rothko Tech Bag 0:12:56 iPad Sizes and Compatibility 0:16:22 Apple Watch as a Safety Device 0:18:26 Sonos Move: Original vs. Move 2 0:21:09 Raspberry Pi 5: A Tinkerer's Delight 0:23:27 Consider Raspberry Pi 4 for immediate gift-giving 0:27:02 Raspberry Pi 5: Significantly faster and worth the wait 0:28:08 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B: Dual 4K HDMI Output 0:29:27 Versatile Charging Solution for Different Devices 0:31:21 Highly Recommended for Charging Various Devices 0:32:26 Aircard - Familiar Name, Indestructible Design 0:35:24 Twinkly Lights - Digital Twin of Physical Lights, HomeKit Compatible Links: David Ginsburg's Picks: Anker Power Bank, 24,000mAh Portable Charger 65W Battery Pack https://amzn.to/47xfvWw Sonos Move - Battery-Powered Smart Speaker https://amzn.to/3SEyXwg Sonos Move 2 https://amzn.to/3QKxe66 Jeff Gamet's Picks: The Mysteries Hardcover by Bill Watterson (Author), Bill Watterson and John Kascht (Illustrator) https://amzn.to/3QWiemC Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 2019 Quad Core 64 Bit WiFi Bluetooth (4GB) https://amzn.to/40Az1yW Raspberry Pi 5 https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-5/ Mike T. Rose's Picks: Rothco Vintage Canvas Tech Bag https://amzn.to/47Ane6d Rolling Square, inCharge XL, 6-in-1 Multi Charging Cable, 100W Ultra-Fast Charging Power, 6.5ft/2m, Summit Yellow https://amzn.to/46t2cWd Rolling Square inCharge X Portable Keychain Charger Cable, 6-in-1 Multi Charging Cable with 100W Ultra-Fast Charging Power, Lava Black https://amzn.to/3sGS3XM Rolling Square Aircard - Bluetooth Card Sized GPS Tracker with Business Card NFC/QR Code & Find My Network Compatibility - 2.2mm Super Thin https://amzn.to/49yeHSZ Chuck Joiner's Picks: Apple Watch Series 9 https://amzn.to/3QY4bNG Apple's Crash Detection saves another life: mine https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/11/04/apples-crash-detection-saves-another-life-mine Twinkly Strings App Controlled 157 Feet Smart Christmas Lights with 600 RGB LEDs and Green Wire for Indoor and Outdoor Decorative Lighting https://amzn.to/3ueqYfc MacVoices #20074: CES – Twinkly Takes Holiday Lights to the Next Level https://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-20074-ces-twinkly-takes-holiday-lights-to-the-next-level/ MacVoices #23038: CES – Twinkly Introduces Tiles, New Software, and Gamer Support https://www.macvoices.com/macvoices-23038-ces-twinkly-introduces-tiles-new-software-and-gamer-support/ Guests: Jeff Gamet is a technology blogger, podcaster, author, and public speaker. Previously, he was The Mac Observer's Managing Editor, and the TextExpander Evangelist for Smile. He has presented at Macworld Expo, RSA Conference, several WordCamp events, along with many other conferences. You can find him on several podcasts such as The Mac Show, The Big Show, MacVoices, Mac OS Ken, This Week in iOS, and more. Jeff is easy to find on social media as @jgamet on Twitter and Instagram, jeffgamet on LinkedIn., @jgamet@mastodon.social on Mastodon, and on his YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/jgamet. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud. Michael T. Rose began his Mac-centric career with a decade-plus stint in editorial technology at Entertainment Weekly & LIFE magazines, starting as a college intern right around when the Mac IIx was launched. After leaving the print publishing world, Mike worked as an IT lead and creative director for an NYC events and marketing agency. In 2013 he switched trains once again, and now enjoys his #dreamjob at Salesforce as a lead solution engineer. From 2006 to early 2015, Mike was a proud editor and contributor at The Unofficial Apple Web Log (TUAW), now folded into Engadget. Mike & his family live in Brooklyn, NY. You can find him on Twitter, and you can also hear him on The Aftershow with Kelly Guimont. Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web: http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe: Audio in iTunes Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss 00:00:00 The start of MacVoices Holiday Gift Guide for 2023. 00:07:00 Discovering the Beautiful Art of the Fantasy Kingdom 00:08:27 Unexpectedly Cool Gift Recommendations 00:12:35 The Durable and Practical Rothko Tech Bag 00:12:55 iPad Sizes and Compatibility 00:16:21 Apple Watch as a Safety Device 00:18:26 Sonos Move: Original vs. Move 2 00:21:09 Raspberry Pi 5: A Tinkerer's Delight 00:23:27 Consider Raspberry Pi 4 for immediate gift-giving 00:27:01 Raspberry Pi 5: Significantly faster and worth the wait 00:28:07 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B: Dual 4K HDMI Output 00:29:26 Versatile Charging Solution for Different Devices 00:31:20 Highly Recommended for Charging Various Devices 00:32:25 Aircard - Familiar Name, Indestructible Design 00:35:24 Twinkly Lights - Digital Twin of Physical Lights, HomeKit Compatible
Introduction Hosts: MrX Dave Morriss We recorded this on Saturday March 11th 2023. This time we met in person, first at a pub called The Steading close to the entrance to the Midlothian Snowsports Centre where we had something to eat and drink - though they only serve breakfast items before 12 noon. Then we adjourned to Dave's Citroen car (Studio C) in the car park and recorded a chat. The last of these chats was over Mumble in September 2022, so it was great to be away from home and to meet in person again after a long time of COVID avoidance. Topics discussed Google Docs - Dave and MrX use this to build shared notes to help organise these sessions There are issues with cut and paste when using Firefox – it doesn't work! It can be fixed by selecting about:config in a new tab. Change the attribute dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to true. Is email still relevant in 2023? Google Wave - Google's possible email replacement seemed not to have lasted very long Alternative access to Gmail using the IMAP protocol Folders versus labels. Tom Scott's video “I tried using AI. It scared me.” Dave's experiences with email: Digital Equipment Corporation's Vax VMS used DECmail, which needed DECNet networking. The UK Academic network (JANET) initially used its own Coloured Book protocols, including Grey Book mail. This ran over an X.25 network. Gradual transition to TCP/IP and SMTP mail (over JANET Internet Protocol Service, “JIPS”). In early Unix days (Ultrix) there was MH (Message Handler) Later, this was replaced by nmh. A GUI interface was available called xmh A very flexible open-source front end called exmh was crafted using Tcl/Tk Using procmail allowed an enormous number of capabilities, like sophisticated filtering, spam detection and automatic replies. Now using Thunderbird, and has been for maybe 15 years. MrX used Eudora in the past, but mostly uses Outlook now. Both agree that many useful features of email, available in the past, have gone. Both of us still find email relevant however! Calendars: MrX misses the calendar on the Psion Organiser Dave used to use an X-Windows tool called ical on Ultrix (no relation to the later iCalendar standard). Moved to Thunderbird and its calendar called Lightning. Both have used the Google Calendar, Dave uses a Thunderbird add-on to share family calendars Lifetime of storage media: SD cards can last a fairly long time, but getting the right type is important. Using older-style cards in new projects might turn out to be a false economy. Hard disks can last a long time if the right sort is used. One thing that shortens their life is getting them hot. MrX has used Western Digital Passport hard drives for some time, and they have been very reliable – none have failed. There are different drives from Western Digital which have different performances and they are colour coded. See the Western Digital website for details. Complexity and single points of failure: Chip shortages and lack of resilience: Modern components that do a single job used to consist of multiple discrete components that could be replaced individually. Now, if a component fails it has to be replaced in its entirety, and because of the shortage of chips it uses it may be unavailable. Older devices and components may still use older less specialised parts and so can be repaired. Unnecessary reliance on GPS in devices, cloud services in Smart Home equipment, etc. For example, managing enormous warehouses requires a lot of services that may not be too resilient, and could fail catastrophically. Coronal Mass Ejection (CME): Such an event could destroy many satellites (such as those providing GPS). It could also cause a massive overload of the power grid. Transformers used in the grid can be damaged or destroyed and replacing them in a timely fashion can be difficult. Carrington event in September 1859 telegraph machines reportedly shocked operators and caused small fires. March 1989 CME caused a power outage in Quebec, Canada. Recent YouTube video from Anton Petrov: Wow! Sun Just Produced a Carrington Like Event, But We Got Super Lucky Keeping systems up to date: MrX has had problems getting various RPis updated and running. Dave has had similar problems making the jump from Raspbian to Raspberry Pi OS. In some cases the operating system on the Pis have needed to be completely reinstalled, and the work in installing and reconfiguring software has proved to be too much! MrX's PiFace Control and Display board is giving problems, as is the simpler PiFace Digital. It looks as if the company has gone out of business unfortunately. Dave has a Pico RGB Base from Pimoroni, a 14-key board with RGB LEDs which could be used as a way of controlling things. Dave's Magic Mirror system (a Pi 3A+ attached to a monitor) failed because the Pi needed to be upgraded and then the Node.js code didn't seem to be maintained any more! Needs work!! MrX's desktop PC is small and quiet, but since it's in a cold room, tends not to get used too much in the winter! Dave's PC is in an extension (addition) to the house and tends to get used quite a lot, but in cold winter weather, less so. YouTube list: We were going to mention a few YouTube channels we'd watched lately, but felt we'd already talked long enough! Rather than just adding the list to the notes, as we discussed, we will leave this section to the next time we make a recording such as this. Completing HPR shows: MrX has a show he has recorded but is held up preparing notes to go with it. Dave tends to write draft notes first, then build the recording around them, but this approach isn't necessarily faster! Links Google: Google Wave Accessing Gmail with IMAP Early mail tools: MH Message Handling System MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, Jerry Peek, 1996 nmh - Message Handling System procmail mail filter Solar storms / Coronal Mass Ejections: Wikipedia article on Coronal Mass Ejections (CME). Wikipedia article on the Carrington event in September 1859. Wikipedia article on the March 1989 CME. List of solar storms Transformer shortage in the USA
You asked, so here it is! Are the NYXI Hyperion my new favourite Joy-Cons?! NYXI have plenty of Joy-Con alternatives available for the Nintendo Switch but their latest model, that many of you have request we look at, are the NYXI Hyperion. Well, wait no more because NYXI sent us over a pair to check out. The original Joy-Cons for the Nintendo Switch aren't the most comfortable and if you're playing your Switch in handheld mode for extended periods of time they can cause cramping and discomfort. That's where products like the NYXI Hyperion Joy-Con alternatives come in, these are much larger with better ergonomics, which make handheld play much nicer. They have rumble, gyro, turbo, macros, assignable back paddles, RGB LEDs and more! Bear in mind this is my first impressions video, after some weeks of extensive testing I will make a full review testing deadzone etc. Get 10% off on NYXI's website using our discount link here: https://shln.top/3FayR7i
Die Heizung automatisch steuern, Rollläden nach Wetterlage hoch und runter fahren und Lampen schalten – es gibt viele Gründe für ein Smart Home. Die gängigen Lösungen vieler Hersteller setzen meist auf einen Cloud-Dienst, was aber mehrere Haken hat: Da fließen Daten auf fremde Server und man ist vom Anbieter abhängig. Geht der Pleite oder stellt den Service ein, funktioniert womöglich das vernetzte Heim nicht mehr wie gewünscht. Aber auch ohne den Worst-Case-Fall endet der Komfort dort, wo ein Smart-Home-Hersteller ein gewünschtes Feature nicht implementiert hat. Hier kommen Open-Source-Projekte ins Spiel, die aus genau diesen Nöten entstanden sind: fehlende Features, mangelnde Interoperabilität und unsichere Halbwertzeit. Die Community hat aus dem Bedürfnis eigene Smart-Home-Probleme zu lösen freie Firmware, wie Tasmota entwickelt und mit Schnittstellen wie dem Protokoll MQTT ausgestattet. Die offenen Systeme verwandeln manch eine Insellösung zu einem kommunikativen Zahnrad im Smart-Home-Gefüge und machen nervige Apps überflüssig. Im c't uplink erklärt c't-Redakteur Andrijan Möcker, welche offene Firmware es gibt und worin sie sich unterscheiden. Sein Kollege Jan Mahn erläutert, welche Smart-Home-Komponenten sich für freie Firmware eignen und wo diese sogar vorinstalliert ist. Und c't-Redakteurin Pina Merkert zeigt, wie man mit WLED kinderleicht Farbverläufe und Animationen auf RGB-LEDs steuert. Außerdem haben sie Lichtschalter, Aktoren, Heizungssteuerungen und Platinen mitgebracht, die sie im Studio samt ihrer Firmware vorführen. Gemeinsam mit Moderator Keywan Tonekaboni sprechen sie über Vor- und Nachteile von WLAN- und ZigBee-Geräten, wie es um den zukünftigen Industriestandard Matter steht und wie auch Cloud-Liebhaber von Geräten mit offener Firmware profitieren. Mit dabei: Andrijan Möcker, Jan Mahn, Pina Merkert und Keywan Tonekaboni
Die Heizung automatisch steuern, Rollläden nach Wetterlage hoch und runter fahren und Lampen schalten – es gibt viele Gründe für ein Smart Home. Die gängigen Lösungen vieler Hersteller setzen meist auf einen Cloud-Dienst, was aber mehrere Haken hat: Da fließen Daten auf fremde Server und man ist vom Anbieter abhängig. Geht der Pleite oder stellt den Service ein, funktioniert womöglich das vernetzte Heim nicht mehr wie gewünscht. Aber auch ohne den Worst-Case-Fall endet der Komfort dort, wo ein Smart-Home-Hersteller ein gewünschtes Feature nicht implementiert hat. Hier kommen Open-Source-Projekte ins Spiel, die aus genau diesen Nöten entstanden sind: fehlende Features, mangelnde Interoperabilität und unsichere Halbwertzeit. Die Community hat aus dem Bedürfnis eigene Smart-Home-Probleme zu lösen freie Firmware, wie Tasmota entwickelt und mit Schnittstellen wie dem Protokoll MQTT ausgestattet. Die offenen Systeme verwandeln manch eine Insellösung zu einem kommunikativen Zahnrad im Smart-Home-Gefüge und machen nervige Apps überflüssig. Im c't uplink erklärt c't-Redakteur Andrijan Möcker, welche offene Firmware es gibt und worin sie sich unterscheiden. Sein Kollege Jan Mahn erläutert, welche Smart-Home-Komponenten sich für freie Firmware eignen und wo diese sogar vorinstalliert ist. Und c't-Redakteurin Pina Merkert zeigt, wie man mit WLED kinderleicht Farbverläufe und Animationen auf RGB-LEDs steuert. Außerdem haben sie Lichtschalter, Aktoren, Heizungssteuerungen und Platinen mitgebracht, die sie im Studio samt ihrer Firmware vorführen. Gemeinsam mit Moderator Keywan Tonekaboni sprechen sie über Vor- und Nachteile von WLAN- und ZigBee-Geräten, wie es um den zukünftigen Industriestandard Matter steht und wie auch Cloud-Liebhaber von Geräten mit offener Firmware profitieren.
Die Heizung automatisch steuern, Rollläden nach Wetterlage hoch und runter fahren und Lampen schalten – es gibt viele Gründe für ein Smart Home. Die gängigen Lösungen vieler Hersteller setzen meist auf einen Cloud-Dienst, was aber mehrere Haken hat: Da fließen Daten auf fremde Server und man ist vom Anbieter abhängig. Geht der Pleite oder stellt den Service ein, funktioniert womöglich das vernetzte Heim nicht mehr wie gewünscht. Aber auch ohne den Worst-Case-Fall endet der Komfort dort, wo ein Smart-Home-Hersteller ein gewünschtes Feature nicht implementiert hat. Hier kommen Open-Source-Projekte ins Spiel, die aus genau diesen Nöten entstanden sind: fehlende Features, mangelnde Interoperabilität und unsichere Halbwertzeit. Die Community hat aus dem Bedürfnis eigene Smart-Home-Probleme zu lösen freie Firmware, wie Tasmota entwickelt und mit Schnittstellen wie dem Protokoll MQTT ausgestattet. Die offenen Systeme verwandeln manch eine Insellösung zu einem kommunikativen Zahnrad im Smart-Home-Gefüge und machen nervige Apps überflüssig. Im c't uplink erklärt c't-Redakteur Andrijan Möcker, welche offene Firmware es gibt und worin sie sich unterscheiden. Sein Kollege Jan Mahn erläutert, welche Smart-Home-Komponenten sich für freie Firmware eignen und wo diese sogar vorinstalliert ist. Und c't-Redakteurin Pina Merkert zeigt, wie man mit WLED kinderleicht Farbverläufe und Animationen auf RGB-LEDs steuert. Außerdem haben sie Lichtschalter, Aktoren, Heizungssteuerungen und Platinen mitgebracht, die sie im Studio samt ihrer Firmware vorführen. Gemeinsam mit Moderator Keywan Tonekaboni sprechen sie über Vor- und Nachteile von WLAN- und ZigBee-Geräten, wie es um den zukünftigen Industriestandard Matter steht und wie auch Cloud-Liebhaber von Geräten mit offener Firmware profitieren. Mit dabei: Andrijan Möcker, Jan Mahn, Pina Merkert und Keywan Tonekaboni
One of the most significant issues that computer users encounter is a lack of storage. Whether that be because you're using a laptop that only came with a 256 GB drive, or you're a content creator that produces over 100 GB of content per day, storage shows up as a problem for nearly everyone at some point. For years, the best solution has been an external hard drive, though that has been quickly changing to an external SSD, and Avram has some of the best ways to get there.Why an external SSD enclosure?Sure, you can go out right now and purchase an external SSD at Walmart and bring it home and start using it immediately. However, as the price of SSDs drops and the performance increases, it might actually become less expensive to build your own.Also, an enclosure gives you the ability to swap drives out, giving you the ability to use a single enclosure for myriad drives. This can be useful for content creators who store their active raw footage and then archive it after a project is completed (this is what we do for CES coverage). A single enclosure would make it easy to swap out the drive and keep using the single enclosure, reducing cost.The differences in enclosuresObviously, there are going to be a lot of feature differences between available models. Some support a larger variety of drives. Some provide faster drive access, either through interface or bus enhancements. Some provide screens to monitor the health and status of the drive inside. Some even provide battery backup.The enclosures to considerSo, which enclosures are out there, and which should you consider?SSK SHE-C325This enclosure runs on USB 3.1 Gen 2, giving up to 10 Gbps access speeds. It fits NVMe PCIe 2242, 2260, and 2280 sized drives. All of the required cables are in the box, including USB a to C and USB C to C, making it easy to get started. The body has a slide out tray to place the drive into and you're good to go. The best part is the enclosure runs about $20 on Amazon.This one is not great for reuse, however. There's a screw hole to secure the case and drive, and has a thermal pad that kind of conforms to the drive that is in it over time. Plus, it is a pretty tight fit, so you won't want to use this over and over for swapping drives in and out unless you've got a lot of patience.Plugable USBC-NVMEIf you're looking for an enclosure to swap drives in and out, this one from Plugable is one to look into. It is designed to be tool-free, making the swap easy. It also includes all of the cables you need to take advantage of the USB 3.1 Gen 2 speeds and connections. The body fits the same NVMe PCIe 2242, 2260, and 2280 sized drives as the previous case, and it runs about $35 on Amazon.DOCKCASE Visual 10sThis is the creme de la creme of fancy SSD enclosures. In addition to USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds and connections, this one also includes an LCD screen that gives you information about the drive. It shows when the drive is in use, but also can predict the lifespan of the drive to prevent data loss as a drive nears the end of its writable life. The 5 second and 10 seconds models can be had for around $50 and around $60 respectively.There's another feature included that we don't quite understand, and hope we can grasp. It includes a battery inside to provide an additional 10 seconds of power in order to complete an operation in progress. Essentially, it gives enough power to complete a cache flush before powering down. Now, the question is, why would you need this? Unless you're in the last few bytes of a write operation, the overall data is still corrupted.The reality is, if an SSD loses power abnormally during a write operation, it can damage the drive. In fact, each instance increases the likelihood of a full SSD failure, meaning you'd lose all data on the drive. That extra few seconds to flush the drive cache can extend the life of the drive significantly.ASUS ROG STRIX ArionHere's an enclosure for all of you RGB fans out there. It's the same USB 3.2 Gen 2 we've come to expect on these enclosures, but it also fits a larger array of drives, adding 2230 to the existing NVMe PCIe 2242, 2260, and 2280 sized drives we've come to expect.However, the Arion also adds in the ASUS RGB lighting. The ROG logo on the front, as well as the fin across the top, both have the ability to light up and glow in a variety of colors and patterns. It uses the company's Armoury Crate software to customize, so if you're already an ASUS Armoury Crate user, this will fit right into your lighting environment.Unfortunately, the drive enclosure costs the same as the DOCKCASE Visual 10s, coming in around $60, but doesn't have the screen or the battery backup - only the RGB LEDs.
Paul Debevec is Netflix's Director of Research for Creative Algorithms and Technology, overseeing R&D for visual effects and virtual production with computer vision, graphics, and machine learning. In 2002, his Light Stage 3 system surrounded actors with LEDs displaying images of virtual sets and environments for lighting-accurate compositing. Techniques from Paul's work have been used to create key visual effects sequences in The Matrix, Spider-Man 2, Benjamin Button, Avatar, Gravity, Furious 7, Blade Runner: 2049, Gemini Man, Free Guy, and numerous video games. Paul's techniques for HDR imaging, image-based lighting, and photoreal digital actors have been recognized with two Academy Awards and the SMPTE Progress Medal. Paul is a Governor of the Visual Effects Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Visual Effects Society, and an Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Southern California Computer Science. More info at: www.debevec.org Highlights of the Episode:0:00 Introduction1:52 Paul's early days7:39 Image based lighting and HDR12:44 Some early adaptations17:19 3D rendering in natural light19:01 Rendering Synthetic Objects into Real Scenes23:04 The Campanelli movie27:56 Facade: Reconstructing polyhedra models 32:16 High dynamic range imaging34:52 Light Stage: 360° of illumination39:47 Real world image based lighting42:08 Virtual HRI Maps software named after Arnold46:52 LED lighting environment from 20 years ago52:49 Optimal linear color correction matrices55:53 Working on Light fields with Google59:27 Exciting future for filmmaking01:02:18 Democratizing new technology01:05:02 Advice for aspiring filmmakers01:09:17 Go to a Siggraph conference near you Quotes: “When I look at the kind of work that made Star Wars possible, that made The Matrix possible, that made Gravity possible. It's folks who had this creative vision and realized maybe the technology can meet it there; but then they really took technology where there wasn't any real solid reason to believe it was gonna be possible to do it. And they just made it happen anyway.” - Paul Debevec “The goal is to try to create tools for filmmakers and every so often this beautiful marriage of art and technology comes together. There's things ripe for the picking that maybe no one's quite seen yet that they're gonna get, and it's gonna blow everybody away and it's gonna be the next Matrix or the next Gravity.”- Paul Debevec “LED panels that have a wider color gamut have worse color rendition, they light stuff funnier because they have to put the RGB LEDs further out in weird parts of the spectrum to do that. But it dramatically increases the polarization. I think we're not too far away from people releasing panels that will have that additional color and it, and it's probably gonna be white and we know how to drive it.”- Paul Debevec “You can invert that matrix and apply the inverse of that matrix to your in-camera pixels in the frustum so that your frustum now looks like it has bad color rendition. So without having to separate foreground and background, you put it all through that post correction matrix. It fixes considerably three quarters of color rendition and skin looks a heck of a lot better.” - Paul Debevec Connecting with the Guest:Twitter: https://twitter.com/debfx Website: http://www.pauldebevec.com/ Siggraph: https://www.siggraph.org/ Connecting with CG Pro:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/becomecgproInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/becomecgpro/Website: https://www.becomecgpro.com/Twitter: https://twitter.com/becomecgpro RSVP here for upcoming CG Pro Podcasts: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/cg-pro-39748423833 #virtualproduction #technology #filmmaking
This week's EYE ON NPI is chillin' and listening to some vibin' beats - we're featuring Nordic's jam-packed nRF5340 Audio Development Kit (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/n/nordic-semi/nrf5340-audio-development-kit) that will get you going fast with Bluetooth Low Energy audio development with a lovely kit that has everything you need to build both basic and advanced BTLE audio demos that exercise all the new capabilities of BT 4.x and 5.x's native audio streaming technology Audio was one of the first killer app's for Bluetooth adoption. Who doesn't remember when ubiquitous 'hands-free' headsets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headset_(audio)#Bluetooth_wireless_headsets) started popping up in every business guy's ear. For mobile devices, these headsets turned out be quick to pair, and allowed people to talk, or listen to music, while driving or working without wires. Bluetooth classic audio is still incredibly popular today: not just used in headsets but also in Bluetooth speakers (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/klein-tools-inc/AEPJS2/11570486), hearing aids, wireless mics, home voice agents, and more! When the audio profile was first invented, there were a few, totally reasonable restrictions placed on how it was used. First, it's a point-to-point connection - also called source-sink connection. There's a supplier source of audio - say the MP3 player - and a destination sink like a speaker. Second, the compression codec had to match the processor and battery capabilities of late 90's technology. The first classic codec was called SBC, although recently there are newer codecs that can do a better job with reducing lossyness and, of course, can take advantage of the Moore's-law improvements in memory and processor capabilities. Unfortunately, as one can expect in such a technology space, many of the codecs are patented, licensed, and require per-device fees. Also, unless you know what to look for, it's harder to compare two headsets with different codecs, as another variable that affects audio quality and delay. While many non-audio/non-keyboard devices have thankfully moved from BT classic to BTLE, mostly in order to avoid Apple's MFI program, there's been a bit of a lag in getting audio devices to switch over from classic to LE due to the high inertia of technological laziness. However, in the last few years, a Really Good Reason to move over has been invented: AirPods! (https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MME73AM/A/airpods-3rd-generation) Yep, when Apple came out with their new wireless Bluetooth earbuds, they had to come up with a custom BTLE protocol - because there's two sinks and one source, and even if you created two connections (one for left and one for right) the source would have to work hard to synchronize audio. Sure Apple can put the time and money into that kind of development, but what about everyone else who wanted to make similar products? That's why when BTLE audio came 'free' with multi-point transmission and synchronization and an improved free codec, folks' ears started perking up. With Nordic's new nRF5340 ADK (https://www.digikey.com/short/vm7q7fwz), creating advanced BTLE Audio applications is super fast. The nRF5340 is a dual core ARM processor, which means it's easy to have one core dedicated to codec management and DMA audio streaming, and the other core for interfacing and control. The free software examples (https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/nrf/applications/nrf5340_audio/README.html) come with two main demos right now: a synchronous example for making wireless earbuds, and a broadcast example for sending audio to multiple sinks. Note that for these examples you'll often want two ADKs so you can stream audio to both ADKs as a way to mimic earbuds, for example. And, have you heard the good news? Digi-key has a TON of the nRF5340 Audio Development Kit (https://www.digikey.com/short/vm7q7fwz) in stock right now for immediate shipment. Each ADK has all the accessory hardware needed to immediately bootstrap your BTLE example project. (Hint, it's also a great dev board for general nRF5340 development, with SD card, built in debugger, power management, Arduino-esque headers, RGB LEDs, and user interface buttons. Pick up two of these dev kits today and you can be jammin' and boppin' by tomorrow afternoon!
Zocken am Mac? Das soll wohl ein Scherz sein! Einerseits ja, andererseits auch wieder nicht. Wir wollen die Möglichkeiten diskutieren. Seit je her wird, wenn es um Games geht, in erster Linie Windows genannt. Wer die aktuellen großen Titel spielen will (so genannte AAA-Games) kommt um einen hochgerüsteten und mit RGB-LEDs ausgestatteten Windows-PC nicht herum. Ok, Letzteres ist nur ein Spaß, aber meistens sind Gaming-PCs ja doch sehr individualisiert. Apple bietet seit einigen Jahren den eigenen Spiele-Dienst Apple Arcade an. Dieser wird mittlerweile als Teil des Service-Bundles "Apple One" vermarktet. Im Einzelabo für 4,99 Euro im Monat bekommt man Zugriff auf über 200 Spiele, die allesamt ohne Werbung und In-App-Käufe auskommen. AAA-Titel finden sich darin freilich nicht. Auch wenn es ein breites Angebot an Genres gibt, ist die Anmutung der meisten Spiele doch eher auf Lego/Duplo-Niveau. Im Bereich Action finden sich keine Ego-Shooter und bei den Adventures findet sich keine Lara Croft oder Alien Isolation. Ältere Top-Titel gibt es für den Mac. Allerdings nicht im Abo-Preis. Call Of Duty, Battlefield, Destiny, No Mans Sky und viele Weitere finden sich nur über Gog.com oder Steam. Wir wollen uns darüber unterhalten, ob Apple da noch Boden gut machen kann - zum Beispiel mit einer eigenen Konsole (der erste Versuch einer solchen ist ja leider kläglich gescheitert). Wie sehr ihr das. Kann sich Apple doch noch zu einer ernstzunehmenden Gaming-Plattform entwickeln oder steht man sich in Kalifornien wegen der Kinder- und Familienfreundlichkeit der angebotenen Spiele selber im Weg?
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Recorded September 17, 2021 Fire up your RGB LEDs, put on your headset, and get caffeinated! For this month's episode of On Topic, the AV SuperFriends are joined by Josh Kell, CEO of Horizon AVL System Integration, to talk about eSports. Josh has been working with Larry on a new eSports arena at UNCG and he provides a fascinating look at developing an eSports program holistically and not just piling a bunch of computers into a room and calling it good. Despite this being an AV-focused show, the technology itself isn't the most important aspect of eSports and we talk about laying the groundwork for a successful, long-term, and competitive eSports program, tying into existing academic programs on your campus, dogged persistence to get buy-in from university leadership, and ensuring everyone understands that eSports is not just video games. We also give a preview of the two workshops the AV SuperFriends are leading at InfoComm 2021. Join us on Tuesday, October 26 for the Higher Ed AV Project Life Cycle Crash Course, and the Higher Ed AV Design Challenge: Developing Flexible Institutional AV Standards. Links for Josh: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-kell-50a24735/ Tweeters: https://twitter.com/AVLKell Company: https://horizonavl.com
AV SuperFriends On Topic Episode 13: Moron Refresh RateRecorded September 17, 2021Fire up your RGB LEDs, put on your headset, and get caffeinated! For this month's episode of On Topic, the AV SuperFriends are joined by Josh Kell, CEO of Horizon AVL System Integration, to talk about eSports. Josh has been working with Larry on a new eSports arena at UNCG and he provides a fascinating look at developing an eSports program holistically and not just piling a bunch of computers into a room and calling it good. Despite this being an AV-focused show, the technology itself isn't the most important aspect of eSports and we talk about laying the groundwork for a successful, long-term, and competitive eSports program, tying into existing academic programs on your campus, dogged persistence to get buy-in from university leadership, and ensuring everyone understands that eSports is not just video games.We also give a preview of the two workshops the AV SuperFriends are leading at InfoComm 2021. Join us on Tuesday, October 26 for the Higher Ed AV Project Life Cycle Crash Course, and the Higher Ed AV Design Challenge: Developing Flexible Institutional AV Standards. Links for Josh:• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-kell-50a24735/• Tweeters: https://twitter.com/AVLKell• Company: https://horizonavl.com
Anodized Aluminum Metal Keyboard Plate for 60% / GH60 Cases (0:07) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5133?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Anodized Black Aluminum Metal Keyboard Plate for GH60 Cases (0:07) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5075?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Anodized Purple Aluminum Metal Keyboard Plate for GH60 Case (0:07) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5074?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Felt Padding for 60% / GH60 Keyboard Cases (0:54) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5136?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Light Up Key Switch Keychain - White LED - MX Compatible Switches (1:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5168?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Light Up Key Switch Keychain - Blue LED - MX Compatible Switches (1:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5169?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Light Up Key Switch Keychain - Green LED - MX Compatible Switches (1:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5167?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Light Up Key Switch Keychain - Red LED - MX Compatible Switches (1:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5166?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Strain Gauge Load Cell - 4 Wires - 5Kg - 80mm long (3:11) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5230?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Strain Gauge Load Cell - 4 Wires - 10Kg - 80mm long (3:11) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5231?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Small Lock-style Solenoid 6VDC @ 600mAh with 2-pin JST (3:45) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5135?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Simple USB C Socket Breakout (5:04) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5180?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Tri-Color USB Controlled Hemisphere Alarm Light with Buzzer (6:21) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5126?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Sealed Tri-Color USB Controlled Hemisphere Alarm Light (6:21) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5127?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts 2.9" Flexible 296x128 Monochrome eInk / ePaper Display - UC8151D Chipset (8:17) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4262?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Small Inductive Coil and 10 Wireless LED Kit - 5V (9:14) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5140?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Large Inductive Coil and 10 Wireless LED Kit - 24V (9:14) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5141?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit LED Glasses Front Panel - 116 RGB LEDs with I2C Driver - STEMMA QT / Qwiic (14:57) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5210?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts
Anodized Aluminum Metal Keyboard Plate for 60% / GH60 Cases (0:07) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5133?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Anodized Black Aluminum Metal Keyboard Plate for GH60 Cases (0:07) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5075?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Anodized Purple Aluminum Metal Keyboard Plate for GH60 Case (0:07) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5074?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Felt Padding for 60% / GH60 Keyboard Cases (0:54) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5136?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Light Up Key Switch Keychain - White LED - MX Compatible Switches (1:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5168?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Light Up Key Switch Keychain - Blue LED - MX Compatible Switches (1:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5169?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Light Up Key Switch Keychain - Green LED - MX Compatible Switches (1:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5167?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Light Up Key Switch Keychain - Red LED - MX Compatible Switches (1:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5166?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Strain Gauge Load Cell - 4 Wires - 5Kg - 80mm long (3:11) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5230?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Strain Gauge Load Cell - 4 Wires - 10Kg - 80mm long (3:11) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5231?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Small Lock-style Solenoid 6VDC @ 600mAh with 2-pin JST (3:45) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5135?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Simple USB C Socket Breakout (5:04) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5180?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Tri-Color USB Controlled Hemisphere Alarm Light with Buzzer (6:21) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5126?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Sealed Tri-Color USB Controlled Hemisphere Alarm Light (6:21) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5127?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts 2.9" Flexible 296x128 Monochrome eInk / ePaper Display - UC8151D Chipset (8:17) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4262?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Small Inductive Coil and 10 Wireless LED Kit - 5V (9:14) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5140?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Large Inductive Coil and 10 Wireless LED Kit - 24V (9:14) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5141?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit LED Glasses Front Panel - 116 RGB LEDs with I2C Driver - STEMMA QT / Qwiic (14:57) https://www.adafruit.com/product/5210?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts ----------------------------------------- Shop for all of the newest Adafruit products: http://adafru.it/new Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
If it's got RGB LEDs you know we will put some rainbow swirls on 'em! Here we are testing the LED Glasses breakout and also our new ATtiny8x7 breakout with seesaw. The LED glasses are using the IS32FL3741 to drive 116 LEDs. The seesaw board is able to drive up to 60 neopixels over I2C. #adafruit #neopixels #IS32FL3741 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
When you start putting a ton of RGB LEDs on a board, the price of 'smart' pixel LEDs like NeoPixels & DotStars starts to add up. That's why we fancy this IS31FL3741 breakout, which has 117 RGB common-anode LEDs, each one controlled with 8-bit-per-channel PWM. At a penny or two per, we can sell this board for a reasonable price and its fully controllable over I2C. #comingsoon #adafruit #IS31FL3741 Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
We finally sent out the IS31FL3741 breakout board with the 351 RGB LEDs - and we were thinking it would be fun to turn them into a set of glasses. We'll show how we had PaintYourDragon do a layout design for us and then how we're routing the 1000+ airwires! https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/07/30/large-price-increases-for-silicon-chips-from-official-distributors/ Also we had a short article about official disti price increases which we think is pretty important - we'll talk about why. The Great Search - 9 DoF IMU sensors / LSM9DS1 Alternative https://www.digikey.com/short/2jn5wfhp Given the news about LSM9DS1 price hikes (and BNO0xx unavailability) we're looking for alternatives to this chip. While there isn't a drop-in replacement, we'll chat about some things to look for in IMU sensors and algorithms you can use to create orientation-aware electronic hardware. #adafruit #deskofladyada #thegreatsearch Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
We've been using the IS31FL3731 for a while to do monochromatic LED driving/dimming. But for RGB LED driving, we need moar channels! So we're trying out the IS31FL3741, which can handle an astonishing 351 individually-dimmable LEDs in 39x9 matrix. Divide by three for RGB LEDs, and you've got a 13x9 24-bit color display, all controllable over I2C! Next we'll design a STEMMA QT breakout... #adafruit #IS31FL3731 #LED Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
We sure love smart addressable LEDs here at Adafruit - like NeoPixels (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?s=N4IgTCBcDaIHYFMD2AHAlgDwQGxAXQF8g0 and DotStars (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?s=N4IgTCBcDaICYHsAuBnJBDATiAugXyA) But our new project is going to use the IS31FL3741 (https://www.digikey.com/short/8q0nmn25) driver to control a large quantity of RGB LEDs. Let's find a low cost SMT RGB LED that we can use with this chip! —————————————- Catch live airings of The Great Search in the Desk of Ladyada broadcasts – playlist https://youtu.be/46zAO_3-ozY —————————————– Visit the Adafruit shop online – http://www.adafruit.com LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/
This week we've got a few things we've been hacking on. We tested out jepler's ESP32S2 camera support in CircuitPython. It works really well! Now that we have OV7670 and OV2640 camera modules supported we can move on to designing some hardware. We also wrote up a ISSI IS31FL374x (https://www.digikey.com/short/8q0nmn25) driver which is a more powerful version of the IS31FL3731 chips what we've used for our charlieplex wings. This driver can handle 160 independent RGB LEDs with constant-current adjustment and 8-bit PWM per LED. We would use these for boards that have more than ~50 NeoPixels/Dotstars because 'smart' LEDs are about 10 cents each on reel. The Great Search - Non-Addressable SMT RGB LED https://www.digikey.com/short/vf2hvqtv We sure love smart addressable LEDs here at Adafruit - like NeoPixels (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?s=N4IgTCBcDaIHYFMD2AHAlgDwQGxAXQF8g0 and DotStars (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?s=N4IgTCBcDaICYHsAuBnJBDATiAugXyA) But our new project is going to use the IS31FL3741 (https://www.digikey.com/short/8q0nmn25) driver to control a large quantity of RGB LEDs. Lets find a low cost SMT RGB LED that we can use with this chip! #adafruit #askanengineer #thegreatsearch Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
A lot of folks like using Adafruit parts for their Keeb builds - but with the itsybitsy not being pin-compatible with the pro micro pinout, it really wasnt very easy without some sort of adapter plate. now we're seeing lots of people use circuitpython for keebs, which is awesome! why not try our hands at spinning up a pro-micro-compatible RP2040 board? the RP2040 is plenty powerful, low cost and makes for an excellent keeb driver chip. we tried to mix together the things we liked most about the sparkfun pro micro rp2040 (Qwiic/QT I2C port on the end, so good!) the Elite-C (castellated pads & pins for D+ and D-!) and our existing 2040 boards (boot button can be used for user, 8MB QSPI flash, onboard NeoPixel, jumper for skipping the diode/fuse for high power RGB LEDs or USB hosting). we even got it to all fit on a 2 layer PCB with 7/7 routing - just needed to make the smallest caps and resistors 0402. ground plane didnt suffer too much either - take a look! (hat tip to JLCPCB who fixed up their gerber render to manage castellated pads) #adafruit #keeb #keyboard Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams pull back the curtain on a week of excellent hacks. We saw an awesome use of RGB LEDs as a data channel on a drone, and the secrets of an IP camera's OS laid bare with some neat reverse engineering tools. There's an AI project for the Linux terminal that guesses at the commands you actually want to run. And after considering how far autopilot has come in the aerospace industry, we jump into a look at the gotchas you'll find when working with models of 3D scanned objects.
Gameduino 3X Dazzler for Feather M4 by Excamera Labs (0:06) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4969?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts M5Stack ESP32 Timer Camera X with 8 MB PSRAM (2:34) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4959?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts NeoPixel Mini 3535 RGB LEDs w/ Integrated Driver Chip - Black - Pack of 100 (3:14) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4957?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts USB C SMT / THM Jack Connector - Power Only - Pack of 10 (3:54) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4907?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Piezoelectric Ribbon Sensor - 2 feet / 600mm long (4:54) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4931?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Silicone Sheath NeoPixel LED Strip - 60 LEDs/m - 1 meter (6:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4915?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit ItsyBitsy RP2040 (8:51) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4888?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts -------------------------------------- Shop for all of the newest Adafruit products: http://adafru.it/new Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
Gameduino 3X Dazzler for Feather M4 by Excamera Labs (0:06) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4969?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts M5Stack ESP32 Timer Camera X with 8 MB PSRAM (2:34) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4959?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts NeoPixel Mini 3535 RGB LEDs w/ Integrated Driver Chip - Black - Pack of 100 (3:14) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4957?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts USB C SMT / THM Jack Connector - Power Only - Pack of 10 (3:54) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4907?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Piezoelectric Ribbon Sensor - 2 feet / 600mm long (4:54) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4931?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Silicone Sheath NeoPixel LED Strip - 60 LEDs/m - 1 meter (6:28) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4915?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts Adafruit ItsyBitsy RP2040 (8:51) https://www.adafruit.com/product/4888?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=videodescrip&utm_campaign=newproducts -------------------------------------- Shop for all of the newest Adafruit products: http://adafru.it/new Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
Find all your LEDs @ adafruit: https://www.adafruit.com/category/37 A moment of reflection on RGB LEDs and what to do about them #adafruit #collinslabnotes Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT I'm just coming off a bunch of research and writing about direct view LED, so it would be reasonable to think I know my stuff. But this is technology that's evolving rapidly, and when you get into the weeds, there's still a whole bunch to learn and understand about LED. Gary Feather is the CTO at the Atlanta-based LED display manufacturer NanoLumens, which has been an innovator for many years in the large format display space. We've gone back and forth through the years, by email, discussing advances. He offered to put his headset on and have a podcast chat about some of the emerging and changing technologies he's seeing. We go into several things, most notably the rationale and use of displays that have engineered coatings that protect the screens from day to day abuse, whether that's accidental or intended. Gary has an electrical engineering degree, so acronyms and technical terms roll off his tongue like snarky remarks do with me. The result is a discussion that's maybe a little more technical than normal. But if you are into direct view LED, you'll learn some good stuff over the 30 or so minutes. Subscribe to this podcast: iTunes * Google Play * RSS TRANSCRIPT So Gary, thanks for joining me. I just recently finished a big report on Direct View LEDs. So I think of myself as something of a Mr. Smarty Pants about this stuff, but you sent me an email while you're rattled through a whole bunch of things that are happening in the space, and then I thought to myself, oh I really don't know much about this industry at all. The more you learn the less, so one of the things you talked about it, and first of all, let me back up here and just explain who you are and what you do with NanoLumens. Gary Feather: Sure. I'm Gary Feather, the Chief Technology Officer at NanoLumens. I've been with NanoLumens for seven years. I left Sharp corporation in the LCD business to get there, and we really had a great opportunity to see the evolution of LED display from discrete devices, SMT devices, and now the new evolutions we're seeing in the market. So one of the areas when I was over in China, about three years ago, I saw the first iterations of LED Display modules that had some sort of an epoxy coating on them, which is since being described in ways like an adhesive onboard or glue onboard. You're suggesting, or at least your email was suggesting that we're going to be seeing a much more of a shift to that sort of thing. Gary Feather: The industry is looking for wider application of LED displays and with that comes durability and reliability requirements. A surface that is coated is going to be dramatically more durable than one that has physical soldered devices. So generally the surfaces become an important aspect for both installations, as well as utilization of the display in active environments. Now, the idea with coating these things is because they're there, the LED chips are soldered on that they can easily be bumped off and they can be extraordinarily difficult to repair. I've seen lots of LED displays wherein the corners a few of the LED chips have been flaked off and other ones have been scraped off. So this certainly protects it. The concern that was being raised, at least in the early days of it was the image quality is not as good and there were worries about how the heat got out. Has all that stuff been resolved? Gary Feather: Like any problem you're trying to solve, you mitigate certain aspects to make them viable. Let's go way back to the LCD panels space. When LCDs first came out, the reflectivity of the screen was a problem. And so we used what was calLED the triacetate cellulose film on the surface so that it looked more anti-reflective. So surfaces have been an issue we've been addressing in the display industry really since the beginning of the industry. Now we have a really exciting space to work in. We have a surface that we engineer with the materials we choose, Silicons through all varieties of epoxy materials of which then the processing allows a surface treatment to be customized to that, which optimizes the application of the display. So I would suggest while it's not part of the display, it has the capability to greatly enhance display performance now and dramatically improve over time in the future. Is there any issue with the coating trapping the heat at all or does it go at the back? Gary Feather: Certainly the coating is an insulator. The management of heat and thermal calculations allow different approaches to get the heat out of the devices. Heat is a product of the efficacy of the LED, How many Candelas you get per watt, and then the brightness of the display is your Candelas per meter square. So depending on how bright you want the display and what the efficacy of the device is and what the physical size of the device is, management of heat then use those three parameters. That's an interesting aspect as we look at smaller LED dye, going from a standard size to the mini-LED to the micro-LED, the challenges of getting the heat properly out of that device to keep the junction temperatures in the range to ensure the reliability of the dye itself under operation. The other worry I've heard or at least had raised was the whole idea that because these are module tiles that you put on a kitchen or bathroom wall or whatever that if it's coated, you can't just replace an individual dead LED dye, you've got to replace the whole module. Is that genuinely an issue or a bit of a red herring? Gary Feather: Most anything can be repaired. The question is trying to monetize the value of that. So do you have an LCD or an OLED television? I do. Gary Feather: And how often have you repaired that? Let me count: zero. Gary Feather: Okay, so we know where we want to go, and so the red herring maybe is to live in a world where we repair things as a starting point. So we design it to be repaired. We design it to be disassembLED and we design it to then be worked on. That generally adds dramatic cost to a product. So as the maturation of the systems reach the levels that we know they will hit, a philosophy of repair has to be disregarded and you have to look at the fact that solutions will last for the life of the product and meet the customer's requirements. I don't want to downplay this as an issue. I just want to say we know the destination and we know we've moved magnitudes on that from the past where people were repairing things daily to monthly to yearly, and now sometimes never repaired at all. And these transitions we're talking about, they are critical to building a sustainable competitive market where LED if you will, Inorganic LED is able to rival any of the other display technologies that are out there. So when I first started seeing these glue onboard or hardened LED modules and cabinets, I thought, okay, this is the way the industry is going to go, and I've been watching it for three years now and I've seen a number of smaller to midsize Chinese manufacturers come out with products, but I haven't seen any of the major manufacturers come out with anything with the arguable exception of the microLEDish products from the big guys like Sony and Samsung and LG that have some sort of coating on it, but there doesn't seem to be much in the middle, is that going to change? Gary Feather: So you're saying other than the leaders in the market with regard to a vision for the future, putting coatings on their boards so that they meet these requirements you haven't seen the other smaller companies, which aren't major players doing it? I think you've answered your question. What I mean though, is I have seen four super-premium products, like Samsung's The Wall, Sony's Crystal LED, and LG’s Magnit, they have some sort of coating. I've seen from Cedar and CreateLEDs and companies like that, they have coated products, but I don't think I've seen stuff from Absen and Yuna Lumen and Layrd and some of those companies who are pretty big players. Gary Feather: Well, YunaLumen showed at ISE a year and a half ago or so roughly, the coated boards. Everyone has initiated an effort. They have to decide why they are doing it, what purpose are they adding, what benefit do they add to the display and why is this better than the other solution? So let's take a few other areas of why. If I want to wipe down a surface and in today's environment, wiping down surfaces may be an important aspect, I have to have a surface that's solid, that allows me to wipe it down. So now you see displays, LED displays for indoor that have IP5X and 6X ratings on the front. That would have been unheard of just a couple of years ago. So inherently we've increased the moisture capabilities of these displays. In addition to the fact that we've allowed you to have a surface that is cleanable, and that may be for dust and dirt, but it also may be for germicidal purposes and others related to our current environment with regard to the pandemic. So I think you see a lot of emphases too, as to the durability, you can hit it with a hammer. Not hard, but you can hit it with a hammer. You can try to pick off a part, but you can't. But now, more importantly, you're able to wipe down the surface and moisture condensation. Somebody accidentally splashing something on the display isn't going to have a negative effect because there are no open electrical circuits on the face of the display anymore. So these number of forcing functions will drive to the right solution. Let's talk a little bit about that surface though, so you talked about: It's an engineered surface and on the early CLEDis product or Sony micro-LED, in 2017, if you looked at it off, you could see dimples in the process they use to coat it. That was what they were using at that time. But the idea was you, if you realize you can have a shiny surface or a gloss surface, you can have a matte surface and these have been demonstrated at shows or you could have an engineered surface because within an epoxy material, over Silicon, which is much softer, but with an epoxy material, I can then go back and re-engineer that surface to accomplish a number of things with regard to the viewing and potentially optical effects of that surface to optimize the operation of the device. So I think the coding in general and the terminology used of glue onboard is probably not a good descriptor, but an engineered coated surface has a significant potential to change the way that adds value to the LED display. Yeah, the whole description of glue on board just seems to cheapen the product in a way. Gary Feather: I would agree with that, Yes. It sounds like a hack and I know that's not really the case. So is the whole idea of an engineered coating to be table stakes moving forward, like if you're going to have a large format display you really should have that? Gary Feather: Only in particular configurations. Outdoor displays, which still use coat. SMT devices and discrete LEDs, because they're adequate for and allow the performance and durability for the environments. There isn't a good reason to coat that display because the characteristics we're talking about achieving aren't necessarily even used in that application. They may have louvers for coating, to cover the sun. They have their own maintenance approach that they take to those displays. So I think you focus on mostly indoor display applications and those in which are in close proximity to people and/or in atrium areas where you're going to have weather conditions resulting in condensation and others and you want to build a more robust indoor solution for an atrium class area. NanoLumens did this gorgeous long LED video wall on a walkway at Charlotte North Carolina's International Airport, and that's going back two-three years now, I assume that doesn't have a coating on it, but that would be a good example of something that would benefit from that because of all the people walking along with the roller bags and everything? Gary Feather: Absolutely and that falls into that category of durability, and you want to be integrated with the display as some people have put films on the surface of the displays to result in that. It's literally a peel and sticks either by the tile or by the display, and that tends not to be, when it's not integrated, not to be a good solution for the durability, reliability that we talked about. Yeah. I've seen some of that. It didn't look very good. So tell me about Flip chips and SMT. Gary Feather: As you know, we're probably in what I call the fourth generation for LED exploitation into digital signage and as you highlighted early with the Magnit projects and others with LG, we have commercially moved into a space where LED inorganic devices for displays actually will move into the classic space we see with LCD type solutions in OLED. The transition though is, we started with all these monochromatic LED almost tubes at one point and in the first generation and all of us saw lots of signs that were either the yellowish colored signs or whitish colored signs that were monochromatic and then moved to the discreet LEDs in a triad position and that's your generation too. And it's a great solution mixing the colors with RGB and then that migrated to a more svelte designed with SMT, sticking them all in a flat package and soldering them down to the board. In all those cases, you are taking a dye, putting it in a package, testing it and statistically picking out the good from the bad, throwing away the bad ones after it was finished and determining what is then good for the next level of assembly. So you can see we're integrating things a little bit more each step. Now from SMT, we've got a two-step we're going to do here. SMT parts, if I don't have high confidence in pre-testing my flip-chip parts, then I can mount the flip-chip devices into an SMT package and have an RGB LED in an array to make a pixel in a package, and then I can pre-test it. Now, the reason somebody does that is if there are particular constraints with regard to the Chroma or the Luma, that is the exact wavelength and the exact brightness of the device, and you stick them down there without pretesting, the likelihood you'll get the performance you want is very small. So by pre-testing parts then you know that they're in the band you want, and what's typically calLED binning in our industry, and you can assure that when you put the whole display together, all the individual elements meet the requirements you have for a particular wavelength, a plus or minus so many nanometers and then a particular brightness or elimination from that device. So with that in mind, you can't jump all the way in. Now, if you can pretest in a flip-chip configuration the devices in what's classically now calLED a cartridge, then I'm able to check the devices before I mount them and then put them down. So here's where we need to realize that magic just occurred in the system. When we talk about a chip much like your home phone going from wired to your cellular phone being wireless, the golden copper wire bonds are going to disappear in the flip-chip. Now, the reason I care about that is because the number one reliability problem I have is associated with the metalization and the wire bonding, so I lose the wire bonding. I lose the epoxy. I lost all the assembly issues that made SMT dye mount wire bonds may be less reliable. And I moved to effectively weld two-terminal devices down at a surface, with no wire bonds and no chance of breakage. So a dramatic shift in that area, it means I might be able to pre-test the part, I put the part down by welding it, put it in an SMT package and I build something that's pretty much going to endure any kind of environment. So is the Flip chip and SMT, is this what's more commonly broadly known as a chip on board? Gary Feather: I think as you wrote an excellent piece the terminology has been used differently by everybody and I just cannot claim that you and I have the same terminology, but let's take this slowly. If the die is pre-packaged effectively into a format where it's bumped and ready to be mounted on a surface, that is flipped chip by definition, forget where it's going, but you're going to flip-chip the part. Now we've been flip chipping semiconductor dyes since the 80s. We bump them in a process, they have little bumps on them. Then we actually flip them upside down rather than wire bonding and reflow the whole device. I ran a facility in Texas instruments that did that very function. So the technology isn't new, but the issue being, you remove wire bonds, which is good. Now, how do I want to do that? As I said before, put them all in one package, just in one package and test it or put it on the whole board. If I put it on the whole board and let's say a typical board size is something like 150x337 millimeters. So I might break that down into a couple of chunks but I'll have 5,000 pixels on any one board. If I can't pre-test stuff, it would be hard to put down 5,000 at one time. So I flipped a chip a package and I tested them, but if I can pre-test them now I put them directly on the board and these are the options that we have today in the world today that go onto a polyamide board material. So you're mounting it right onto what you would classically call a PCB or a printed circuit board and that's good actually down to pixel pitches, probably around six-tenths to four-tenths where you can literally flip chip and then COB. So flip-chip, don't put them in an SMT package, flip chip put them right on the surface of the board. And when you do that, you get a C of RGB LEDs, besides C of RGB LEDs that are welded in place, not wire-bonded. Most of the early Sony solutions there, their particular displays were wire-bonded. So by removing that variable now, and you can pre-test the devices. Now you can put down more than three at a time and get them right. You may be able to put 3000 down and get them right. So the shift from the flip-chip is a methodology. COB is an implementation. You can see OB dye or you can see OB flip-chip. I strongly suggest you see the flip-chip. Okay. So what does all this mean in terms of manufacturing and for the end-users? Gary Feather: As we look at the application of the move towards flip-chip and the move towards COB, let's talk about flip chip first. A packaging company that sells LEDs taped in the reel, so you might put 2,500 on a reel will have classically bought a package from a packaging maker, they would have purchased the dye on a wafer from a wafer manufacturer, and then they would have wire bond machines and they would have sealant stations to put an array of these down, put the dye in the package with epoxy, bond the wires out and fill it up with material. So you can see in the supply chain, you have wafer manufacturers, you have package manufacturers, you have packaging companies that put them on a reel and then they send it to a company that does the SMT process. So that would be basically the standard process today. So there's another two step process for this: the company that's selling the taped devices with the LEDs on them wants a better device at a lower cost and by putting a flip chip into the package, as opposed to die, he can increase the reliability, the durability, if he's able to pretest that he can improve his yield and subsequently, he can still sell a package, but it's a flip-chip package as opposed to dye mounted package. So he can win on that. Now, when he does that, what he realizes is he can vertically integrate backward and try to pick up some of what's going on in the dye, cause he needs to know more about that function. And when he does that, he forms relationships with these LED manual factors and the companies building the flip chip devices. Then what immediately happens the company doing the flip-chip devices realizes why don't they just build the whole solution? Because why are they shipping things off to somebody to put it in this classic package? So from that perspective, the company building the LED might get absorbed quite a bit because he's been taken over by the guy making the die. So that's one area. The other area is your SMT company. So while they need to put parts on the back, if the front is COB, they really have no idea how to do any of that, they no longer can take flip-chip devices, put them on a board because it's not an SMT part anymore and build an array of those nd then reflow all those devices as appropriate and then coat those devices. So companies in the supply chain that classically did one side did the other side and then shipped it off to the company are now in a situation where they have to consider, they have to go somewhere else to have that work done. They don't have that tool and equipment. So the supply chain is evolving and streamlining as well? Gary Feather: Right and what you'd expect, and let's move all the way down to let's say LCD TVs, the glass is built with the switch, the optical light switch in it as part of making the solution by a company like Sharp or a company like Samsung or others, OLED fits in the same category. So as you can integrate more of these pieces together, certainly the overall output is improved in yield, the costs go down, the automation increases and subsequently it allows you to build a different model for that. So many people that were doing Parts of this job got absorbed into the totally more integrated solution. In this case, eventually a CPB based solution with inorganic devices placed in a more effective way on a large area board with results that give you the display performance you're looking for, that will result in a large area displays built that a factory, completely not tiLED in the 110, 120, 130 inch range with inorganic LEDs that you buy much like you buy an LCD or an OLED TV today is just bigger than those tech technologies can support and are not tiLED anymore, but completely finished and a finished product at home. And that's what you're seeing with the solutions from the big people, as you highlighted before Samsung and LG. Does all this make it easier for a company to spin itself up as an LED display manufacturer when they're not really manufacturing, they're just saying they're a manufacturer? Gary Feather: I list in our internal strategic competitive list 30 key companies that I think are integrated manufacturers. There are about 140 that are out there. So indeed today in LED-based displays, there are many people that are brokering talent from other people to provide solutions to customers and adding very little value to the actual solution. So in one way, it does allow that. On the other way, these companies may decide they want to be vertically integrated all the way to the customers. And so they may not open that up. So we have yet to see how that actually works as they fail. There are factories that are doing many LEDs today and some microLED capabilities, but the new factories built, we're in the 50 to 70,000 square feet, and they allow processing of a lot of materials. So I assume any serious customers will be considered until those factories are full. Let's talk about costs that have been coming down through the years. And I assume that's a function of buyer volume and manufacturing advances and everything else is this whole kind of shift going to also lower costs? Gary Feather: Absolutely. The integration of these functions will lower costs. Part of the cost is yield. If the yield increases, that's immediate money into your pocket, but let's look at the whole solution. We talk about how we have the LEDs certainly, and we have drivers for the LEDs that support that and then the controlling system that goes with that. The automation of these systems from this, these are mostly now today, pulse width modulation non-persistent displays that are constant current devices. So that's what we build. So basically we build a light bulb that goes on and off fast enough so you see the mixing of the RGB the way you'd like. As we look at the drivers, what's happened with the drivers is they used to be inaccurate and imprecise. And they were almost like analog, even though they're digital from device to device based on lead length drive, performance, voltage, and many other noise factors. So today, if you look at the newest release devices from the leaders in the industry, we have now integrated solutions in drivers that are so much more advanced. So what used to be in a single, it would take, say 64 packages are now in a single package associated with performance. So as you would guess, the cost has dropped as the level of integration has gone up much the same way with Silicon devices. So one of the big cost drivers in this is driver technology and driver technology continues to advance at a level that's quite phenomenal is the ability to control the LED and controlling the LED is absolutely the critical part of being able to create incredible images with LED technology. There's nothing like the speed, the performance, the color of an LED, and with the right driver in an amazing world opens up what people can do with these devices to give the user a perception that you otherwise never felt. Yeah, in doing the recent report I did on LED, I got the sense that the marketplace is shifting from being fixated with pixel pitch, and who's got the finest pixel pitch displays and so on to a more mature market that understands visual quality is everything and you need to have a great control system, great drivers and everything else. Gary Feather: That's absolutely true. Also, let's go back, this is the need, The need of the display initially was a sign and the sign basically is communicating fairly bold things in very large spaces, but the market shifted starting in 2014 to video displays. So what we're trying to do is replace and or meet the kind of performance with an OLED device. They realize it's all about what the user perceives and having worked with creatives In the Hollywood structure with regard to images and within the whole physical sciences, the best stories are told in the dark. So the black are so important for you to feel the life-like nature of an image and we are just now addressing contrast ratios that begin to be a priority to realize very little reflected light of the display results in our blacks because we're off, obviously when we're black, we're not like an LCD trying to hold back the light, so more like an OLED. But once the black is attained and reflected light is mitigated and the contrast ratio. it's higher, the image comes alive. So that's one factor. The other is a bit depth. As you go down for the brightness, the eye becomes so much more capable to see the black areas and you've got to make sure you don't stair step that, that it's a nice blend because that's what reality is. As you look at things and the result is it's the second area bit depth is accurate and precise. This resulted in images that do appear lifelike and there are about four other parameters, but those two I think is what really brings an image to life and allows for a story well told. This is all pretty technical for a lot of people. If I'm a reseller or particularly if I'm an end-user, how valuable is it to understand and get into the technical weeds on this stuff? Or is this something they don't really need to know? Gary Feather: I don't think they need to know it at all. In all honesty, not for any reason other than seeing is believing and you want simple messages to people about simple things. As I said, we're going wireless with the way we connect devices, that's a big deal. We're trying to emulate a lead contrast ratio, that's a big deal. We moved to the control set. You get the right color in the right spaces. No fake colors along the way in color matching across the whole CIE space that you've covered. That's a big deal. People can get that right color, reliable, durable, and looks real. That's probably the message. The details of that are having the marketing spend to give that information to people. So they get it in a way that's valuable to their customers because when you're done, you want to look at it and be wowed with what and that's the only thing the customer sees. All the technology you and I are talking about is effectively what is behind the product to assure that's attainable From my perspective, I think it's always good, particularly if you're making a six-figure decision to have at least a decent understanding of what's under the hood matters. Gary Feather: Right and I think we can put together information for people to ask the right questions to basically audit what they're getting to make sure they're not buying last year, the year before last solutions, which will be limiting and they're moving into the solutions that are not limiting going forward. All right, Gary, that was terrific. I think we should do this again sometime. Very insightful. Gary Feather: It's an interesting market and you're going to see, I think about a hundred million in flip chips this year at retail and probably as much as 500 million in 2022. So this shift is occurring pretty fast in a $6 to $7 billion industry. So I think that elements an important takeaway. Building durable products for long life, that's a great takeaway. And I think maybe the most important element is that LED now we'll begin to stand side by side in a larger format for what we've seen in the past with LCD and OLED. Okay, Gary. Thank you. Gary Feather: Thank you, Dave. Appreciate it.
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In this episode we talk about our latest projects. A few of the topics are 3D printers, Strawberry color, Model airplanes, RGB LEDs, Paramotors and a CNC router.
While interest in desktop PCs has waned in recent years, those who are still interested in desktops often build them themselves. That gives the ability to not only have the PC you want, but also to use it as an art piece. There are PC builders who go all out and customize their cases, turning them into spaceships or even scenes from videogames. However, that is not in the cards for everyone. One thing that can help customize and PC build, however, is RGB LEDs.For most, some slight customizations here and there are the way to go. However, when Avram and his team get involved, they go all out. Instead of just picking the best of the best components, the team decided to build a PC with as much lighting as they could possibly fit into a Mini ITX case. They call this build the RGBaby.This build is based around the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, which obviously does not have lighting on it, but that's pretty much where it ends. Event the processor cooler, the Corsair H100i features lighting on the processor and two lighted fans on the top. The video card is a ZOTAC RTX 2080 AMP Extreme, which features LED strips across the front. The system RAM is HyperX Fury RGB adding a companion stripe to the lights on the video card. All of this is mounted to an ASUS ROG Strix B450-I motherboard, which features RGB LEDs across the edge.The RGBaby is a companion to the previous build, the RGBeast. This build, which took place at the beginning of 2019, was similar, but larger. Because of the bigger case, they were able to accommodate a lot more components that needed to be skipped this time because of the smaller form factor.To see the entire RGBaby build, check out the article on Tom's Hardware.
While interest in desktop PCs has waned in recent years, those who are still interested in desktops often build them themselves. That gives the ability to not only have the PC you want, but also to use it as an art piece. There are PC builders who go all out and customize their cases, turning them into spaceships or even scenes from videogames. However, that is not in the cards for everyone. One thing that can help customize and PC build, however, is RGB LEDs.For most, some slight customizations here and there are the way to go. However, when Avram and his team get involved, they go all out. Instead of just picking the best of the best components, the team decided to build a PC with as much lighting as they could possibly fit into a Mini ITX case. They call this build the RGBaby.This build is based around the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X, which obviously does not have lighting on it, but that's pretty much where it ends. Event the processor cooler, the Corsair H100i features lighting on the processor and two lighted fans on the top. The video card is a ZOTAC RTX 2080 AMP Extreme, which features LED strips across the front. The system RAM is HyperX Fury RGB adding a companion stripe to the lights on the video card. All of this is mounted to an ASUS ROG Strix B450-I motherboard, which features RGB LEDs across the edge.The RGBaby is a companion to the previous build, the RGBeast. This build, which took place at the beginning of 2019, was similar, but larger. Because of the bigger case, they were able to accommodate a lot more components that needed to be skipped this time because of the smaller form factor.To see the entire RGBaby build, check out the article on Tom's Hardware.
Nick and Matt (Dan mostly listened) talk about the NAB product announcements that they found most interesting. Lots of RGB LED light talk (Aputure, Litepanel Gemini, and Hive), the Zoom F6, the Sharp 8K camera, and a discussion about the Arri LF Mini that quickly devolves into Nick complaining about Apple.We got tacos from Funky Truckeria, which is a super tasty taco joint in Norton, OH.
iBand helps you to get lucid dreams by sending audio visual stimuli. It does so by using the RGB LEDs packed on its headband and iBand+ pillow speakers.
Woah, two eps in the space of a month? Stop the presses! Hold the phone! Pet the hedgehog! Wat? In this episode, Alexander is back: Industry news: New fixtures / gear GLP JDC1s now feature “Aggressive mode”, which increases the brightness 180% when the RGB LEDs are not in use World’s first 50-watt 7-color: emitter New short-arc lamps: Osram SharXS Brilliant Series. 1000, 1200, 1500. They have a CRI of 92, which is pretty high. I’d love to see TM-30-15 specifications on these. Fun question: when was the last time you saw a jacketed arc lamp? Like, a decade? LightConverse is now L8. Alex riffs on how he feels about LightConverse. Tea Time: Alex’s thoughts about the Reputation Tour: redux Lighting trivia! Craig gets it right Lighting Term of the Day Scroller
This week on the Friday News Update: - Xiaomi announce the Mi Mix 3, with dual cameras in a sliding panel at the back of the phone, enabling a 93% screen to body ratio, a high DxOMark score and up to 10GB of RAM - The Black Shark Helo gaming phone is announced, with a game controller in the box, RGB LEDs on the sides of the phone and up to 10GB of RAM - HTC open preorders for the Exodus 1, a cryptocurrency phone... that you can only buy in cryptocurrency - Misfit and Mobvoi each announce new smartwatches, the Vapor 2 and TicWatch C2, with GPS, NFC and... the old Snapdragon Wear 2100 Get every episode of the Friday News Update with the Friday News Update Alexa Flash Briefing Buy the Mi Mix 3 (China): https://item.mi.com/product/10000123.html Buy the Black Shark Helo (China): https://item.mi.com/product/10000122.html Buy the HTC Exodus 1: https://www.htcexodus.com Buy the Misfit Vapor 2: https://misfit.com/products/misfit-vapor-2 Buy the Ticwatch C2: https://www.mobvoi.com/products/ticwatchc2
CryptoCurrency has been in the news these past couple months and in this episode we take a candid look at some of the craziness surrounding why digital money is popular and how a typical gaming rig, with RGB LEDs, can make you money.
In this tutorial we describe using RGB LEDs of the Common Cathode Type. We will describe setting up the circuit, talk about the LED and discuss the code used to adjust the hue.
Discussion: In this video, I’ll explain what parts you'll need to complete this Arduino Crash Course. Immediately below this discussion section, there is a summary checklist of links for these parts. You're welcome to check it out! The links take you to Jameco, a United States based electronics supplier. I'm actually one of their affiliates. So, if you decide to click any of those links below, you’ll be helping to make me a multi-millionaire and continue to buy fuel for my yacht. So that would be awesome. All joking aside, you might already have a lot of this stuff laying around. It just depends on how much you've been into electronics thus far. The first thing you'll need is an Arduino UNO. As you may or may not know, Arduino has all types of derivatives out there. An Arduino UNO There is a company named Arduino that made the board. That is the official Arduino, but Arduino is open-source hardware. In other words, the Arduino company made the board’s schematics and everything publicly available. Therefore, anybody can take access that information and replicate the board. Anyone can duplicate it, modify it, and even legally sell it. That’s why there are so many derivatives, or clones, out there of an Arduino UNO board. They are basically the exact same thing as your official Arduino UNO. Sometimes you’ll find that maybe one or two customizations have been made. My recommendation to you is to get an authentic, official Arduino UNO from the Arduino company while working through this course. The reason is because that prevents any discrepancies and concerns about hardware when following the tutorials. If you're following everything in the lesson, and something is amiss, then you can at least know it's not the hardware. You’ll know that you have the same hardware with which I’m working. Again... that’s just my recommendation. Now, if you already have an Arduino clone or derivative, feel free to use it. It will probably work just fine. The next thing you'll need is a USB cable to plug your Arduino into your computer. Basic procedure is to write code on the computer and then transfer that code, uploading it to the Arduino board. An AB USB cord The USB we’ll be using in this course is an A-B type. One end looks like your typical USB that just plugs into a computer, and the other end is almost square - or maybe more like a little house, depending on your imagination. This other end is what would typically go into the back of a printer. You will also need light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. An LED It’s best to get at least 10 of the five millimeter type. Any color of mix of colors is fine. I usually use red or white. Next on the list are resistors. Resistors Resistors, as the name suggests, resist the flow of current in a circuit. The bigger the number of the resistor, the more current they resist. When it resists current, the resistor takes that electrical energy and transforms it into heat energy. Therefore, it’s important to note resistors can get hot. Just file that away as a quick mental note for later down the line when we begin setting up circuits. You may not notice it that much for the lower level things we will be doing. However, I wanted to make you aware just in case. This is the list of required resistors: ten 220 Ohm resistors and two 10,000 Ohm resistors (also referred to as 10 K resistors). You’ll also need a potentiometer. Potentiometers It really doesn't matter what size you get. I’ll be using a 10 K potentiometer for this course. If you have one around, you can just use that. A potentiometer is similar to a resistor, but it's resistance can vary. That allows you to create something called a voltage divider. We won't get into that now. Just know that you need a potentiometer of any size. Next, you'll use a solderless breadboard. No, we won’t be cutting bread - although food does sound really good right now…. But I digress, a solderless breadboard is a circuit board where you can connect electrical components together without having to solder them. It has a bunch of little holes in it, and in the holes are all these little copper clips. A solderless breadboard The holes are aligned in a bunch of rows and columns. The columns are electrically connected, but the rows are not. So, you stick the leads of your electrical components, such as an LED, into the holes for the metal clips. This will complete the circuit, connecting the electronics. This is an example of how you'll use the breadboard. Don’t worry, it’s a lot easier than it sounds. For prototyping, like we'll be doing, it's a great tool since it permits quick and easy setup and changes to your circuit. The next required items are jumper wires. Jumper wires These fit down into the little holes on a breadboard and into the little holes on the Arduino board. (We'll be talking about the Arduino board more later, but those are called the headers.) Anyway, the jumper wires allow you to extend your electrical connections, giving you some extra space with which to work. You'll need 12. Two momentary push-buttons are also on the course list. A push button This button is normally off. That means if you're not pressing the button, no electrical connection is made between either side of the button. The button is off until you push it. When you’re holding the button down, though, an electrical connection is made. Once you remove your finger, the button pops back out again, breaking the electrical connection. They come in all different styles. However, if you follow the links below, you'll get an idea for what to look. Finally, you'll need some alligator clips. Alligator clips These help you connect leads together if, for some reason, we need to connect them in a way a little different than using the holes on the solderless breadboard. It may seems like quite a bit of equipment, but it’s really not that bad. I kept convenience in mind when creating this list. All of these items are relatively cheap. There are a couple of other things you'll need, though. I assume that you already have a computer running Windows, Mac, some type of Mac software, or Linux. Of course, an internet connection is also required because you'll have to download the Arduino software. I’ll explain the Arduino software in a later lesson. There are few things that are optional. These are not covered in this crash course, but they would be fun to have in order to experiment with your code. This is the optional equipment. You could get a photoresistor, a temperature sensor, maybe some additional potentiometers, and an RGB LED. RGB means red, green, blue LED. It's kind of an all in one, and they are pretty neat use. I believe that's it for the required and optional equipment. Again, the parts list is below. I’m looking forward to jumping into the course with you. See you in the next video! Hardware List for the Arduino Crash Course Below is the list of items you will need to get you through the course. The quantities of each provide a little leeway in case your cat eats an LED or you loose a resistor in your shag carpet. I have made every effort to keep this list minimal to provide the lowest cost to entry. NOTE: The links below take you to Jameco, of whom I am an affiliate. The cost to you is the same, but I get a small commission for purchases that helps me keep the site running and allows me to buy giant yachts. I use Jameco for a bunch of stuff - I like and trust them. I also use Digikey, Mouser, Adafruit, Makershed and Sparkfun. Required: Arduino Compatible Board USB Cable to plug in Arduino (A/B type - one end is typical USB, the other is what would go into a printer) LEDs AKA Light Emitting Diodes (10) 10K potentiometer (1) 220 Ohm Resistor (10) 10K Ohm Resistor (2) Jumper Wires (12) Solderless Breadboard (1) Pushbutton (2) Alligator Clips (3) Another option is to buy our Kit-on-a-Shield for Arduino: Click here to learn more. You'll need this stuff too: Now there are certain things I am assuming you have access to that you will also need, these include the below items. A computer running Windows, Mac OS, or Linux An internet connection to download the Arduino Software Optional stuff: While the list above will meet all your needs, sometimes having a little extra stuff to play with makes for a more fun and diverse learning experience. Below are items you can easily experiment with alongside this course: Photo Resistor Additional potentiometers RGB LEDs - red, green and blue all in one LED matrix Temperature sensors Arduino Kit just for this course from Jameco: I have had the pleasure of working with Jameco to create a kit that provides all the needed items for the Arduino Crash Course. You can check it out here.
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