Hi everyone! Welcome to today's video. Today is going to be a really fun video!
Are you done? Today is going to be really fun because I'm going to take you around
in my day. Now something that's kind of funny is last time I did this I was wearing this exact
same shirt and you know what thing is I actually haven't worn it since that day. um so yeah just
putting that out there. Today, I do have a few things planned. I have a podcast episode that I'm
going to be filming um for a podcast in Mexico, so that's going to be pretty cool. And then,
I'm trying to think of what else I have going on today. Then, I'm going to be focusing a little bit
on editing a circuits video that I filmed like two weekends ago. So, the way that this works is that
I pretty much always film on the weekends. I'm super busy with work so typically what will happen
is I will film on the weekends and I will try to plan, for example, on Friday or Saturday and then
film on Sunday and then, I edit whenever I can throughout the week or the following weekend. Or,
you know, whatever and I also try not to give myself deadlines. That way, I don't burn out,
but I really want to get to that today at least
getting the outline done so we'll do that and then I have the fun part of the video
which is going to be you're going to come with me to um the store and we're going to
go buy some stuff. I got a bunch of new electronic components, let me show you.
Okay, so I already have a bunch stored and I have some little drawers that I use but nothing's
really labeled. The only things that are labeled are my resistors because my husband did that for
me. Um, so I want to label these and I want to put them away nicely and you can see it's just a bunch
of different components that I got the other day when I had one glass of wine and went shopping.
I want to get some more drawers for these to put them away and store them nicely, and um I
want to organize them, label them, probably not today but that's what the drawers are for and
then eventually I want to make a video about my components. Just a tour of everything that I have
going on. So, another thing I want to do is go to the electronic store today and just see what cool
stuff that I find. I love doing that, it's one of my hobbies to just literally go to the electronic
stores and hang around and see what I find. What cool stuff there is . Um, what stuff I should just
buy and then put away and then not look at until years later when I'm like "oh you know
what would be cool to make? oh I do have that already." That's literally the way I operate.
So today's video is going to take a lot of editing because since this is a circuits video, there is a
lot of background information that I still need to add. All I did was record the actual demos
and the circuit clips, but I still need to add in a bunch of stuff for background information,
background knowledge and things regarding all of the math that I did. So, what I do when I'm
creating one of these is, (and excuse my mess on the back I just saw it, I have to do laundry)
as I'm building my circuits um for the demo if something doesn't look right or
if I ended up changing something, whatever it may be, I write it all down on my ipad.
So, I have everything here now. All I need to do is come back to it
and take a look at the outline I had for the video, what different clips I filmed and that's
how I know how I'm going to piece it all together as well as whether there's any information here
that I need to make sure it's included just for completion and for good context really.
Now I have a podcast interview, my dog is scratching himself excessively. You good? What's
going on? Yes, I have a podcast interview. So I have my lighting set up and my background set up.
My room's a mess so I'm gonna just do it this way. Maybe I'll film a little bit of that, um let's go.
*Answering question in Spanish regarding STEM Education*
Okay, we are done with that it was a little stressful.
It's really hard for me to do interviews in Spanish still because even though I
grew up for the beginning part of my life in Mexico, I moved to the us when I was about
seven years old and then I focused on learning English. Um and after that English became my
primary language and I didn't really speak Spanish with anybody other than my mom and
my dad when I was younger. So even today my siblings and I speak English, I speak English
at work, all my friends and I speak English. So when I started doing these things, these talks, in
Spanish... speaking Spanish formally in a little bit of a stressful setting was kind of hard for me
because I would forget what I wanted to say. Well, not forget what I wanted to say,
but more so forget the words of how to say what I wanted to say while I was already halfway through
the sentence and then I'm just kind of like oh how do I fix it. Do I start over? What do I do? So
practice has been helping a lot. Taking these up more often so that I can get more practice
has been really helpful, even if a little stressful. But, it's important for me to
share my experiences and to continue sharing you know my work not just with English-speaking
people but also people in Latin American countries because that's really important to me. It's where
I'm from. I'm from Mexico. I am Mexican through and through so it's extremely important for me to
share my knowledge and my experience with them as well. So that went well. I think as good as it was
gonna go! And now I'm gonna go to the electronics store let's go! As you can see, I love this store.
So it was closed for covid and they recently just reopened in person, but I was shopping with them
online because I really wanted to help support them um the store is all electronics if you're in
la it's located in van nuys. I'll show you! I'll show you inside don't worry don't worry my gosh!
This is what the store looks like, as you can see it is quite old, however, they have a really good
mix of old and new components. They also have a really awesome selection of vintage equipment
that is just really really fun to look at. Look at this laptop and they also have a really cool
old apple computer, there it is. So I like to come in here and just see what they have.
This is my favorite section which is where they have their different selection of resistors,
capacitors, etc. They have pretty much everything that you could possibly ever need especially for
more specialized type of things. I didn't really need anything today, but I really wanted to come
and just look around. I like to see what they have. I like to see what's available
and sometimes I do pick up some of these things just to play around with them
and see what they do or what I can do with them. I especially like looking at all the
different kinds of resistors like this one, it kind of looks like an eraser.
These are really really cool, too. I really just like to come and look and
pick up some things and find awesome things, like look at this capacitor, how huge is that.
I tried to have a photo shoot in the store it didn't really go well so I'm just going
to put the pictures here because I'm not going to be posting them anywhere else I couldn't get
the angles right and I just kept thinking they were going to catch me so I did an awkward job.
Got home.
I'm all sweaty and sticky, that was a long drive.
I'm gonna let my dogs out as you can hear, they don't want to be stuck in here anymore.
Hey, boys excuse me. Good boys, good boys.
While I was at the electronics store, um I didn't really find much that I needed. Well I didn't need
anything. I have too much already, but anyway I was only gonna get like two little things
let me show you. I was only going to get these two little things, I mostly went just
for fun. I found this board for a dollar fifty and they were selling it for spare parts basically,
particularly what I really wanted was this one right here.
So I'm going to desolder that off later, I'll show you better when I'm
inside because it looks kind of dark and then I got this, this is just a
speaker.
It was too little and I only had a debit card so he (the worker) said I have to get something else
which is why I decided to get this. Just a basic kit for a beginner and I decided I was
going to do a giveaway with it. By the time you see this the giveaway will be long finished um
but if you don't follow me on instagram be sure to because that's where I post most of my giveaways!
Yeah it just comes with a lot of fun stuff so like some capacitors, some leds,
breadboard, some wires, fun stuff like that. Setting up for a photo shoot
that way I can do my giveaway post.
Typically I don't do things this last minute, but kind of just felt like it because
why not? All right I'll show you the final post once I'm done with it. This is what I typically
do for thumbnails as well as certain instagram posts, I just take a video and keep stopping
and posing .This helps me just not take so many different pictures and that was the end result.
For desoldering that component I told you guys about, first I needed my safety glasses. Safety
first! I put on some music and got to work. I actually find soldering as well as desoldering
to be pretty relaxing maybe because it gives me something to do without really having to
think too hard about it, but I always have a really good time when I do it.
I got the part I wanted. Now I'm just cleaning up. I always make a mess when I work on my workbench.
Here it is! I'm so tired now. I did so much today and I'm ready to just chill. So I'm going to be
reading my book. This book is kind of crazy, but it's really good and now I'm just going to relax,
wash my face, maybe watch a movie. My husband is going out tonight and I'm not, so I kind of
just have the rest of the afternoon to chill, do some self-care and I will see you next time!