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Well, my Not a Hello, everyone.

And welcome Thio.

Another edition of Robots Weekly.

Ah, once again, always with me is Chris Williams.

Hi, everyone.

How's it going?

Uh, we're, uh We're doing a special weekend episode.

And sorry for the delay.

We, as always, had technical issues.

And luckily, this time we're actually recording and like, last time with Vic.

Um, once again we have in the studio or on the hangout.

Brick Waldron.

Um, he is the is the man behind Johnny five in more ways than one.

Yeah, he created a library, if you haven't heard of it yet called Johnny five, which is a firm, ana based right application robotics framework is that I don't even know how to best describe it's something crazy.

Why don't you each component framework?

Yes.

There you go.

All the buzz words, exactly.

Robots.

Yeah, and he's a ah corgi queer, remember?

And t c 39 AA member who puts out awesome awesome notes for all of us to consume after the fact.

And he's the 1st 1 in javascript planned to propose to his now fiancee soon to be wife?

Hopefully, no.

With a robot.

So we actually got married in January.

This is like the part where we're like, OK, I guess we have to get married with our friends and family now.

Nice.

So you're already married?

So it's now wife.

Not now.

Fiance.

Uh, he's either way, You're still the only one who actually proposed to somebody with a robot.

The robot.

Exactly.

And that is it.

I haven't put it in like a glass case.

Make it locked in.

That is perfect.

And you could He sits on a shelf.

It's a nice place.

And equally, I would say that Rick has the best hair in Java script.

So, uh, this been challengers to that thing right now?

Pavel from Vegas definitely has me beat.

Um, and prior to that brought me Sharp did not stand with a full on Mohawk for awhile, so he definitely didn't need that, though.

All right, well, let's let's kind of get this.

This kick started and Ah, So this is the episode 2.1 a retry with Rick Waldron?

Um, I am.

And today we're gonna be talking about Ah, International Robots Day and Johnny five and everything else that he has to you.

Ah, to talk about.

So, Rick, tell us a little bit about the Johnny five project.

Um, Well, so hopefully by now, most people listening know about it.

I'm ideally.

And for those of you that are learning about it for the very first time right now, that's exciting.

I encourage you to check out the repo, which is now conveniently located at an address that I could pronounce the actual real words.

Get home dot com slash our waldron flesh.

Join with a dash between Johnny five.

I recently had my get hub user name upgraded from no vowels to adequate number of owls s.

Oh, yes, it masters my twitter handle, uh, to all those people who I drove insane over the air when they just assume that they could type r w a L T R O.

And I apologize.

But now you can Now it's intuitive.

What's the back story with that?

Did somebody get in there, get into the get hubs before you did?

No, you're okay.

Here's the bags.

You just wanted to screw with people.

Uh, one of my favorite bands from Norway.

There I, uh, Norwegian rock n roll band called Turbo.

Nay, bro, Uh, sometimes they have there alone on, like, posters in album Mark Sands vowels.

So when I created my get help account, I think I was probably listening to their apocalypse Do dabble or something.

And I was like, Oh, yeah, no vowels.

That's awesome.

And, um, uh, I'm sorry that I did that for, like, a month later.

I actually registered the r w ale, the our when, uh, user name.

And but that boy already had a bunch of stuff along, get hopes.

It was like, Oh, man, it seems we have a pain in the butt.

The switch over.

I'll just It will be a big deal knowing online total care.

No one's ever look at this crap.

Anyway.

Uh, turns out that none of those things were true.

And I was a pain in the ass for people typing for at least two or three gators.

So I apologize.

It's fixed now.

Um, I won't do it again.

Don't wait joint.

You can find it.

They're easily typed.

Boom.

There you go.

Oh, and by the way, I was inspired to make the change by a Corey Frank who also works at both Cool with me who had done the same thing he had, like North 37 or something.

And he just wanted narf, which is this last name backwards.

And he was like, Hey, that process is actually really easy.

You just send them an email and asked them if they can, like, kill whatever.

Like a, like do a switch or something.

And then there's now a button, and it's so much easier.

It's awesome.

Anyway, why did they killed our Waldron?

And I did a switch of user name from my other count, and it was done in like and they do redirects for you.

Hey.

Wow, that's also great.

So I didn't have any of my, like, local get and fame files or, you know, like in the dot get directory of Yeah, you have my repose.

It just automatically does the redirects for you.

Amazing.

Okay, so that's what we're here to power the gate.

Taub's Yes, exactly.

Uh, you want talk about getting home?

Talk to Holden.

If you want to talk about how robots doctor me before Krystal, forget anybody.

You're all invited.

Um, so a li I had, like, this agenda that I had brought up at version two of this was, I guess, technically our bird won our first release of this show.

Uh, mostly, I wanted to talk about contributions from other people.

Like, who cares what I'm doing right now?

Uh, because I'm more excited about what other people are doing with Giant, but, uh, so one of the big things and this has been kind of like a thorn in a project side for a very long time was, uh, wireless nous for the ability to not be tendered to, ah, host machine in in any way.

And I gotta think Jeff Haas sounded analysis on Twitter for basically being one of, like, the greatest human beings I've ever met.

That's a pretty incredible um, you didn't like industrial design In his spare time, He's also has become the de facto maintainer of Vermont, a pro coal and maintain standard for Moloch, and has been working on a prom pickle configurable for model, which allow you just sort of, like, pick and choose support for a variety of of of use, case driven hardware scenarios, like if I want just analog sensors and servos.

I can pick those things that are total output, a built for model that I could then flash to them the device.

So he's working on that.

But, um, in meantime, he's just a all around awesome guy.

He's also the author of Breakout Js What You Tell her to Johnny five but is geared more towards the browser mute and using Web sockets doctor devices.

So check that out as well.

Also, qualify as has never But, um, because he uses node after from the browser to sir anyway, so he could be into a very awesome fact that technically, experience should just work.

Just work.

No only means just work as long as the firmware is up to date, which is actually not easy to German.

Nor is it easy to correct.

Uh, but Jeff, being the ultimate brilliant genius mad scientist that he is, came over my house.

One from the evening had a gathering of people friends school Otto, Juan Pablo Barrett, Icka, Matt Bergman, Jeff Hoffs.

I think that's everybody there.

I swear there's more people in my house.

I think that's about it.

If I forgot, who else was at my house that night.

I totally sorry.

Walked us through, like setting up expertise.

And turned out it does.

Just works once you get that the firmware correctly installed on.

And he has this little program that the processing sketched, there's a little stand alone program that you could run that you can configure the programmer and receiver experience.

So we did that.

And then I was so inspired by our success that I finally built my remaining bong bought that I had to still saying in the package, Uh and, well, let me show you.

This is exciting.

It is a multi board, uh, wireless.

Well, with ex bees experience.

Stay right there.

I'm gonna take something.

Mmm.

Ah.

There.

Oh, so now I'm going to, uh, one second here, right?

Well, only you somebody.

Somebody just don't worry.

I got it.

Okay.

Right.

You're coming with me now.

All right.

This guy's got a little bit of power, so it's move around because you could see some control set up over here.

This control speed, this is how it's talking way.

Have the control board, and then the baht, which is It's he Yeah, I'm here.

All right, So now using my handy dandy little tinker kit.

Do a stick.

Oh, the dog.

Don't drink it.

Attacks run away.

It's my dog.

Well, don't bump It addressed, Dan.

Well, yeah, It's me.

Still over here pretty tight, right?

Yeah.

Awesome stuff.

Yeah, Yeah.

Get back over here.

Back right up.

Nice.

Who knew we had such a live audience?

How exciting is that, Right?

This is exactly why Was no spots now with Johnny five.

Um, So how much of a range do you get with that?

Uh, it depends on it.

Depends on the X device.

I'm using Steris One, which is, uh I mean, I can control that pretty much all the way to my kitchen, which I don't really know It is, but I'll give you an idea.

Should be between.

I was really excited about how this switching things working.

Let me get you down there.

Okay?

Office, kitchen.

And I get controlling from the office to about the kitchen, and it starts to get water.

So it's about 20 some odd feet 20.

Okay.

But I also bought, like, the the Really like low, and I'm sorry, but that's the Lewin devices to get just you know, to start off with, right?

So there's that, and that's really exciting.

Then the next really big, exciting thing, uh, was my directional motor support, courtesy of Andrew Future, who's actually from Australia.

And I believe he was the, um uh, one of the quarter was the coordinator for Don't want stay in Sydney.

He's ability.

A whole slew of blocks down there, One of which he needed bi directional motor sport because he got himself, uh, motor controller board from Spark Fun.

Um, and the old motor class was just It was like, uh, basically, like, whipped it up in a day.

It was pretty boring and not that fun.

And I had really done anything with it, and he took it to a whole new level.

Uh, bringing in full on bidirectional motor sport Just incredible, because that means, you know, control.

You know, bipolar visi motors beyond.

Just like little toy motors, Right?

Right.

Then I went and got one of these guys, right?

Yeah, e not servos who know this thing's birthday requires a whole lot of battery power.

So because with for Tripoli block I replaced that sticks triple A block.

Who in the tool, man.

Taylor.

More power anyway.

A guy that cocaine problem, didn't he?

Yes, he did.

Wait, he didn't Really.

Everyone indoors that around exactly.

Children indoors?

No.

So the exciting thing is, though, is that we have not only have you think this is plugged it because I don't feel like switching around the divorce.

I only have the one set, but this could also be wire looked.

And it has been what?

Our lives in the past.

I've done that.

But more importantly, it brings a whole new set off capabilities to 25.

And this brings me back to my my RC car days when we used to do a lot of this kind of stuff with the speed controllers and hooking up servos and motors.