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hello my name is Stevie Beecham frissina and I'm here with the inventors of the Firefly LED guitar pick Brandon Williams and Peter home right welcome guys six for coming so this is a prototype of the Firefly LED guitar pick and it actually has a built in algorithm inside of it that learns your playing style so can you guys tell me a little bit about how it works yeah well it's got an accelerometer in it which senses playing motion either picking or strumming faster slow and accelerometer drives the Bank of LEDs in it so the accelerometer essentially that creates a link between the lights and the music that's being played which with the nearly instantaneous response times means that it can kind of dynamically adjust as you slow down you're playing or speed up you're playing the flashing of the light follows the rhythm of the music pretty smoothly so how did you guys get the idea to make this LED smart pick well we were talking about how to make an LED guitar pick kind of how to take an LED guitar pick idea and just make it blow minds we were just talking about it at lunch one day and we thought evolution sensing perfect you know and having a you know things we can head to that LEDs you know and then we're thinking like flashing guitar pegs but then we wanted to take it one step further you know and have like the you know the L a dict our pic that flashes when you strum and then we added you know the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries this it's just like a huge thing now it grew but I mean the core idea was that there's not really a lot of lighting effects out there that are so intimately tied to the music I mean this is impossible to separate from the rhythm of the music so we just thought that would be a really cool addition to the sorts of options that are out there for creative lighting effects so this is a tiny pic how were you guys able to fit all the electronics inside this tiny piece of plastic so it's a three millimeter pic about so all the electronics inside of it and the board have to be and the battery have to all fit inside yeah not easy and not easy not easy or sitting that's a really long time to get all this stuff worked out and so we have like a 2 millimeter battery inside of it and like a really thin circuit board we have a little sample this is the new prototype of this circuit board right yeah it's like gonna be the production thickness I mean if you ignore the components the board itself is a quarter millimeter thick and the prototype board is about 1.5 a lot thicker but yeah and this is the thinnest circuit board that any fab PCB fab offers race day what is the battery life on the pic how long does the battery lasts how long does it take to charge with the USB connection yes it's the battery life is really dependent on you know how bright we have the Odie's because the LEDs use about 95% of the power and the playing in the plane yet so if you're doing like a lot of fast Jeremy so if you're doing all fast drumming currently as it is now you should be able to get you know one to two hours of play until the audience a little bit about the Kickstarter and how they can find you guys right well you can find the Kickstarter @ks dot Firefly pick com that's probably the easiest way to get to it our goal is $30,000 but it's going well we're at 80% funded and we got two weeks left two weeks left everybody go to Kickstarter check it out support the Firefly pick and it's awesome thanks thank you guys for coming in we appreciate coming and shutting it off it's a Firefly pick on Kickstarter everybody check it out you