My english is awful and my electronics even more, but you, with your very clear explanations, make both very easy to understand for me. Thanks.

@richard_wenner

3 жыл бұрын

Well I can't detect it this end. Thank you.

Several Chinese words that pronounced xiao: 小 : small 晓: know something 孝: be good to one's parents 笑: laugh 校: school 啸: shouting out loud 消: usually vanish, e.g. 消失 xiaoshi 宵: night time 硝: saltpeter 削: shave something with a knife 枭: usually an owl 哮: roaring

@bsheldon2000

3 жыл бұрын

I automatically thought it was probably small.

@stephenthrower440

3 жыл бұрын

you beat me to the meaning. I spent 7 years in China

@bsheldon2000

3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenthrower440 I am in the early stages of learning. 小 tiny, was one of the first ten words I learned, right after the easy to remember 大 big, person with arms wide.

@kmark4163

3 жыл бұрын

xiao=小=small

@baganatube

3 жыл бұрын

That's why Chinese characters exist. Romanized Chinese words all look the same. In addition to Barack's list, here are some more Xiao's for daily uses: 效: effectiveness 销: sell 肖: portrait 淆: to confuse 箫: the musical instrument mentioned in the video 霄: sky 嚣: noisy 骁: brave

Glad you're back and once again providing such high quality content! Very informative, detailed and understandable on currently available toys/stuff/modules and electronics. It's such a BONUS to NOT be bombarded by crappy music and irrelevant adverts constantly.

Welcome back. It’s getting late, so I will finish this video tomorrow. Glad you were off building something and not hit by the bug!

As a Chinese, let me tell you what Xiao means. Xiao can mean small. This board is so small, Xiao means small, I think my understanding should be correct.

No problem life gets in the way of some things we do. Glad to see you made this video. Thank you, always worth the wait.

Really wanted to learn about Seeeduino XIAO so was really glad this came out :)

That was the most easy to understand tutorial I found so far on any Arduino videos.

glad to see other microcontrollers being used. thanks for this.

Glad to see you back. I enjoy and learn a lot from your videos.

So glad to see a new video and that you are well! Very good presentation, and great intro to the xieo! I wouldn’t be as nuts as I am now about mcu’s if I hadn’t started watching you a bit over a year ago - hope to share a little on the forum sometime. Thanks for your vMentorship sir!!

Sir, this is the best video EVER about Seeeduino. Thank you very much for making this video.

Thanks, look forward to seeing more of the xiao. Very easy to understand, no accent diction.

Another great video, that shows me news from the electronic world, that I would never know without your video. Many thanks for that!

If nobody has ever told you...I think you are just AWESOME!!!Just a foutain of information !!!BRAVA!!!

First time i've heard of the xiao, Thank you. enjoyed. and learned a lot!

this one of the best channels on youtube, very practical and detailed learning, on behalf of myself and everybody here , i thank you very much sir on these great tutorial videos.

Actually bought one of these lil guys the other day, thanks as always for the excellent video and tutorials!

Glad to see you again! Thanks for the video.

You're videos are always a big help. Thanks 🙏

Another great video, well explained and so relaxed in style. I watch them to chill as well as learn.

The best Duino advisor !

it cannot be better , well done thank you

So impressed with your presentations. Keep up the fantastic workmate!

Your video is very superb! Very well made with informative and clearly explained contents. Yes, the XIAO likely refers to small as other have mentioned.

Thank thee ;-) This is the first reference I have seen of the 12 (vs 10) ADC. Good job

As usual, always very clear 👍👍👍👍👍

WOW! What an amazing little device. I can't wait to procure one to experiment with. Thanks for a great video as usual. Hope to see more projects using the Seeeduino Xiao

@jbeard3390

2 жыл бұрын

I want to build an adjustable desk with linear actuators with a arduino and a potentiometer as a height value based on the value. I know i can just use a double position switch but i won't learn what i want from that. So back to the ardiuno. I wrote all the code for it got out working as intended but never build the actual desk. But this bew seediuno will let me get a more accurate height adjustment. It was actually a really fun programming project for a beginniner like myself.

Your content is always A+, i thankyou for your contribution to knowledge .

I have been waiting for your videos

Thanks for sharing! Great video. The perfect level of detail.

Thank you for explaining so simple

happy to see your new video

Awesome intro to the XIAO. Thanks. :)

Thank you. This is great

Really educative! Thanks for time. Best regards.

Tnx a million, fantastic videos... I don't remember when my jaw has dropped! It's incredible.

hello bill, I am Werner from southern Germany. I love to watch your video. These are very well done and very educational. Thank you keep it up - I'm always there. Greetings Werner

Another great video. Thank you

Wow this thing is so beefy, i am excited to get mine. I am not suprised i didnt know about it, i dropped the hobby after highschool and just found some of my old stuff, its even smaller than the micro mega board! Insane!

Very nice explanation and cool video! 😊

Beauty unleashed

Packs a lot into such a small board !

Right on time. Just got a seeduino!

@pierluigizattra2983

3 жыл бұрын

How coincidental sir ah! 🤣

Thanks Again for your Good information 👍

👍 very useful information. Thanks for sharing such new technology. Appreciable.🙏

Great tutorial. Interesting option to the Arduino products. Thanks for the excellent information.

I love using xiao for projects. It's everything you need but nothing more. No silly bullshit features and no wasted space.

Bill, This is a very exciting microcontroller. It's capabilities in memory and processing speed versus the standard Arduino are impressive. And for a much cheaper price and size factor as well! My thought with any new microcontroller that outperforms the Arduino has always been that they don't have the documentation (educational material) out there like the Arduino Uno has. Your point in this video about a lot of the code from the Arduino being compatible with the XIAO makes the XIAO leaps and bounds above the rest of the microcontrollers that have been introduced lately. A XIAO tutorial series like Paul McWhorter's New Arduino Tutorials still wouldn't go amiss. It wouldn't even have to be as developed as that to launch the XIAO off. It could just be short videos showing differences between using the XIAO for that video versus the Arduino Uno if there are any differences at all. Thank you for introducing us to such a promising and interesting new microcontroller. As always I enjoyed your thorough explanation of everything you put up on the screen. I didn't feel rushed and like I had time to absorb what you were teaching us.

Hoping you would give a tour of your extended workshop. Great learning channel. Excellent job!

Very good video many thanks 😊

Good & useful explanation

Thank you! very good video!

I just ordered a 3 pack of the Xiao. This should be fun.

nope, it's call xiao because the word “小” it means small..

@RobertMcKenzie

3 жыл бұрын

LOL I also headed here to see if anyone had corrected him on meaning of 'xiao'.

@perchepourquoi508

3 жыл бұрын

@@RobertMcKenzie yep me too

@duncanwalduck7715

3 жыл бұрын

Hmm, 'piccolo' would mean small flute, according to English Wikipedia, but 'small [Italian - detected]' according to Google translate. At least he got the pronunciation right: until now I've always been saying what I see - (ouch) 'Zhau' - despite the fact that a guy, Xiang, whom I knew is now Shane colloquially.

@SeanAlcorn

Жыл бұрын

@@duncanwalduck7715 - yeah points for pronouncing the x correctly. I’ve lost count of the number of incorrect pronounciations of Xi Jing Ping that I have heard!

Hi Bill very nice thanks for the video

That look great, thank-you.

Xiao is amazing !!

Hello !, I appreciate your tech contents, I like your clear English pronunciation to comprehend easily as a foreigner. I am not a Chinese but Xiao (小), a Chinese character means small, tiny, mini,...such as in XiaoMi (pronounced Xiao also has many other characters having other meanings though) . So I guess Seeeduino XIAO was named from it.

27:40 to tone down an LED output for photography / filming, three quick methods: Sharpie - dab a sharpie on the LED. The ink can be cleaned off later with alcohol on a swab. May require a couple of applications 20 seconds apart to build up a blob of dark ink over the emitter. Nail varnish/laquer - use an opaque neutral colour like (nonmetallic) grey. This is permanent. Works best if you place a drop on a hard surface and let it partly dry before transferring to the LED. Correction fluid (WhiteOut/Tippex) this is extremely messy and permanent.

Thanks. Excellent video.

This is a cool little micro controller. 👍

I've been thinking about getting a XIAO so this video was very helpful -- thank you. Seeed Studio also offer a useful looking expansion board with socket for XIAO, Grove connectors, battery charge circuit and 0.96" OLED screen.

DIGIKEY already stocking some parts from them, recognised it from a real time clock module I ordered yesterday.

Thanks Bill!

The best thing for me it has 10 analog inputs. Perfect for my robot with 5 axis limbs

This is just soooo small!! I guess I can even make a product with this board!

Now that's a confused search result! Tried to find them on Amazon and got the strangest mix of dried caterpillars, Asian flutes, herbs and seeds!

Brilliant. Thank you for the simplicity. I'd like to learn how to use relays with this 3.3v logic

@sugarbooty

2 жыл бұрын

You can buy relay boards that have the circuitry built in to switch them with 3.3v, you just connect them to 5v and can have a 3.3v signal wire that switches them

@superliegebeest544

2 жыл бұрын

Samething I run into I have a uno en have it working so far. But everything is on 5v. I want to use a nano board but how I get it.from 3.3 to 5v

I love your videos. Enjoying to watch. Well paced. Now I want this seeeduino xiao too. Mighty little microcontroller. I'd love to play with it. I review ARM Single Board Computers and servers on YT. So little time for Arduino like boards. I've got loads of microcontrollers, but my viewers are not interested in them. Well, they seem not to be interested in much anymore lately. Sometimes I wonder if I wouldn't better do something else I like. But then I find something else to make a video about and stay working with SBCs. A human can only do so much, even when in lock-down I've got a shortage of time. Greetings.

Excellent video, as always; roll on some shields

Excellent. Thanks

Recently I've been impressed with the "WeAct Studio" STM32F4x1 MiniF4. Not dissimilar to this, but with more io, and higher maximum clock rate. Works well with Arduino, and MicroPython, but I've been using them for embedded Rust. As a nice bonus, if you buy two, you can program one to be an (Arm CMSIS-DAP) in-circuit debug probe for the other one! Good build quality and design. They also have some very nice STM32H7 boards.

@Tim_Small

3 жыл бұрын

Btw, there are already lower quality pirate copies on the market, but I'd urge people to go for the originals, they're good quality, and cheap enough already!

Thanks for this. I've tried to transfer these projects to an ESP32 using MicroPython but have only got LCD1602 displays and can't find the drivers (sad). This is a brilliant channel, please keep this up I'm learning so much.

Hiya, yes as some have mentioned, Xiao is also used for little / small. My Daughter (whose Mum is Chinese) has a Cousin called Xiao Xin Yue 'Xin Yue' being her name and she was a little baby... My Daughter's name came from Wales (where I grew up).

Next time you want to film the little LED effect, I think a thin transparent piece of green or blue plastic or saran wrap would filter out the blue/green LED and accentuate the red/yellow LED more. Thank you for the informational videos!!!

I love using the XIAO. I just wish they did a XIAO Pro with a couple of extra pins on each side.

Nice workshop @2:00, cool video :)

Good video, thanks! One note. You appear to have the anode and cathode reversed inside the LED body.

cool thingy! Just what I need to nail my upgrade project for instrument. I need a higher frequency analog input monitoring, and was looking forward ESP32, but arduino-compatible code in this little thing is what I need! thank you \

great video. I see the have expanded their lineup now, and its actually a little confusing which model to pick.

Anyone else irked with the pliers situation? Lol Great vid

Delightful as usual. Welcome back! Thank you. May I ask - What program do you use to create your graphics (eg wire drawing) please?

@lehnertak

3 жыл бұрын

I also am curious about this. Bill's graphics are excellent. I want to copy his approach.

@pierluigizattra2983

3 жыл бұрын

Agree with you Richard! Hello Bill from a viewer in Melbourne AU. Do share your secret with us when convenient.

@J4FChannel

3 жыл бұрын

+1!!!!

@captainpugwash4100

3 жыл бұрын

Bill has mentioned elsewhere that he uses “Keynote” for graphics.

@lehnertak

3 жыл бұрын

@@captainpugwash4100 Can the wiring simulations be done in Keynote? I will have to figure that out.

Thank god, finally someone explains what you can do on a forum.

Master!!!!!!

Love having you back. You must spend countless hours rehearsing for these videos. They are so well thought out and perfectly executed. OK, enough for the accolades. Now my question. I am trying to measure and monitor a voltage between 0.1mv and 5mv. The arduino uno does not seem to be able to measure less than 4.9mv and not sure how to use the internal ref that would let me measure lower voltages. Is there a simple way to measure 0.1 to 5mv range? Perhaps the seeeduino xiao?

@connerblah

2 жыл бұрын

If you need a high resolution reading of that range, you'll probably need an amplifier circuit. For something that low I'd do it anyway. Then you can use whatever microcontroller you want!

Fantastic Sir

Wish Amazon would quit delaying my "same day delivery" hah, day 3 here we go, hopefully they arrive today.

Xiao also means small in Chinese....that was my first thought as its a small micro controller.

@typingcat

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, at first I had no idea, but when he kept saying "small", that popped up in my mind. 小. Its Korean pronunciation is "so", and the Japanese pronunciation is "shou".

@AgentOffice

3 жыл бұрын

Then what is Xiaomi

@geoffd8127

3 жыл бұрын

@@AgentOffice 小米?

@jamesmillerjo

3 жыл бұрын

@HollyT Previous one

@bd4vow

3 жыл бұрын

@@AgentOffice XIAOMI means Tiny Rice, Which is the primary daily food of most of Chinese people.

OMG... Im still playing around with the ESP32 and he shows up with the next awesome MC. And as usual: A few hours later every shop is out of stock. :-) (I have to get a lot faster next time...) By the way - excellent video!

You should check out the arduino Pico from mellbell. More expensive but another alternative to a small microcontroller. Great content!

The Xiao is a great board and should be pin compatible with the Adafruit QT Py. The QT Py replaces the built-in LED with a neopixel(or dotstar) but aside from that, they are practically the same board with the RGB Led adding a bit over a dollar to the total cost of the board. And since one is an official Adafruit project, support for the Xiao should be pretty good going forward.

wonderful video

good video.

Why the down votes. This was quite useful. I've bought a set. Just what I was looking for to build a tacky Christmas sweater. 😆

@brunof1734

3 жыл бұрын

Because there are people that rather buy made in Europe that listening to propaganda to buy cheap plastic toys that are manufactured by children or slaves

Great stuff

Thank you for introducing us to this power-house. I see that they are becoming rare and the price is climbing, so I just bought 10 boards. I wonder if my OLEDs will work or do I need some level-shifters? I see it's easy to drive an LED so I wonder how much current a pin can source. I see they have additional development and wireless boards available. Are you going to explore those too?

Xiao supports HID mode as well. That's huge.

Thanks!

@Dronebotworkshop

4 ай бұрын

And thank you as well!

Great vid. Xiao means small in Mandarin ;) makes sense to me :)