Glad you got my package, just picked out a few things I thought you might enjoy. The Knipex knife is called a "Cable Knife" and is mostly a tool for electricians. No, I'm not sick of your big knife, just thought you might enjoy a couple of variations. The Martor safety box cutter is also very useful as a letter opener. BTW, the multi-meters were still working last time I put batteries in them, they were being thrown in the dumpster during a lab cleanout. You will notice the Philips still had an old Westinghouse tool control label on it.
I own mostly Knippex tools, and Wiha + Proxxon screwdrivers. The Knippex is made from such a high quality steal, that even after years of use they look like new. OK, granted, in German speaking countries we have more ease access to these quality Knipex stuff.
Tape some of those solar cells to the road, maybe you'll get a few million in grant money :D Also wow, definitely gonna grab one of those Pi to DE0 boards, that's pretty neat edit: dammit, the kickstarter was unsuccessful :( nooo
Hello LeiserGeist! Don't worry, we will produce a small batch anyway! The connector should be available in a few months at our website. Hopefully there are some others out there who enjoy this combination as much as we do. Controlling the FPGA with a Smartphone for example is pretty cool in our opinion. Especially when it takes only one day to make useful FPGA projects! We would be glad to be able to share this experience with you! Please check out our facebook-page / website sometimes, we will publish an update about the progress every few weeks to keep you up-to-date. A tutorial how you can extend your Raspberry Pi with 60 more GPIOs/PWMs is currently under construction. The code is available at our GitHub page already. @EEVblog / Dave: Thanks for the feedback! We indeed use the connector without the plastic plate, but it's very likely that someone doesn't want to remove the plate. We will find a solution for that. Again a big thank you and Greetings from Austria Joe
i like this segment so much that whenever i greet anyone with 'Hi' ..."WELCOME TO EVERYONE'S FAVORITE SEGMENT...THE MAILBAG!" comes out involuntarily 😅😅
Loved the solar stuff - especially the solar powerbank! Such a simple but brilliant idea. Didn't like the cruelty to the to multimeters - ripped apart with no thought of trying to repair or preserve them. Shame on you Dave :P
Those Knipex channel locks are a super slick tool! I'm a wireman in Alaska and they have gotten me out of a few sticky situations! Those and my Klein "11 in 1" screw driver are some of my two most used tools in my box!
one way to reassemble a device that uses heat-staked posts: slice off the heat-staked portion, then use tiny self-tapping screws right into the posts. the thinner the screws, the better, else the posts may crack, which gives a lousy attachment.
The O'tatmo lighted bracelet thing would also be popular with athletes/fitness enthusiasts who go running/jogging before daybreak or at/around sunset along public streets/roads. And cyclists. A few years ago, I bought something similar, but instead of a clasp, it used a spring to wrap around one's arm or leg. After using mine around the leg of my trousers to starve the cog/chain on my bicycle, it fell off and the spring was damaged when a car drove over it behind me. I picked it up and later extracted the light circuit and light pipe and affixed both (as a unit) to my brain bucket (bicycle helmet). Mine is a single color - red.
I just looked it up !!! lol Gloving .........The act of putting a condom on a hand and then fisting an anus with that hand as to not get poop directly on the hand.Michelle and I are trying more butt stuff but don't want to get shit everywhere.
The printed solar cells are really interesting. I'm really often camping. And I mean the only have your backpack camping. For these kind of camping these cells are really really nice. It's okay to haven't the best efficiency. I can simply use a double and longer one. Looks great. Will check this out.
That's the kind of knife you'd get arrested for in the UK. I hope it was delivered by post. I think I'd be a bit wary about carrying it in any public place - like on the way home after buying it.
Dave, could you do a video defining all the aussie slang? I think i understand most of it but phrases like "suck of the sav" are quite strange to me as a yank
The expression is "fair suck of the sav!" and is an appeal for fairness. A sav is a saveloy sausage on a stick, battered and deep fried (before we cared about cholesterol) and slathered in tomato sauce (ketchup). The sauce soaks into the batter, and as kids, you'd suck the damn things to make them last as long as possible. My guess would be the expression evokes two kids sharing a battered sav, rather than some sexual innuendo. Variants are "fair suck of the sausage", "fair suck of the sauce bottle" and "fair crack of the whip".
Joe Schmoe yank here.. A lot of the time you can find fairly good translations so to speak if Aussie and Queens English slangs on Google. Fairly close anyway. I know enough Aussie and English that I'm fairly used to their slang by now, but when I first started watching Dave had to always have Google open for some definitions. Though, if you watch AvE from Canada... Google won't help with decoding his slang. Man has his own damn language! Lol!
Joe Schmoe - Not only language but science. If his feelings don't fit, change the rules. Besides, according to him Dave is just a corrupt shill taking money under the table for good reviews. Citing that ass here is blasphemy.
Crocellian: And, yet, Dave not-so-subtly flashed that company's Kickstarter page after receiving that obvious custom suck-up. Kudos to Dave, however, to ripping that company a new one by empirically testing the efficiency (or lack thereof) of their printed PV product. It's almost like this company just heard Dave was a famous EE RU-vidr, but not much else.
Those Knipex pliers/wrench are my favorite tools I own. I have a Knipex Cobra that I've used at least a dozen times to remove rounded bolts instead of destroying a socket hammering it on or where a socket wont easily fit. They chooch hard, that's for sure.
The philips chips seem to be 0Q not 00, which I have seen in a lot of philips old stuff, must have been their own internal chips designations. Also didn't fluke cooperate with philips on quite a few things? I can remember seeing a fluke/philips oscilloscope... These green caps in the other meter I have seen a lot in multimedia electronics, still rather recently.
Dennis Lubert I believe that Fluke bought the Philips test and measurement division completely. It happened right before Fluke introduced its ScopeMeter series, which were actually a Philips design, and actually had the Philips logo molded into the rear housing.
that cobra pipe wrench is the best pipe grips/pliers in the world, even just that one thing given to you amongst all the million other things..its amazing the position your in now, like you dont have to buy any tools/tech if you can wait like a month at most, just mention in a video you were looking at or needed something, and someone will send it you ina few weeks xd
I have one of those "Hakko" soldering pencil temp measuring devices and could never get it to give a sensible reading. Recently (after 6 weeks) received a replacement pencil for my genuine Hakko 936 soldering station. It lasted 1 hour and then the plastic handle melted. You gotta love the Chinese. Then you have German tools which are fantastic. I have one of those Knipex channel lock pliers and it is the best ones I have ever used.
I had that Thandar Counter and its companion Multimeter in the same case style way back in the 80's. I tested the counter on a known control frequency and it was bang on. They looked great together, well right up to the point I blew the arse out of the Multimeter. I got them working again but they weren't the same.
Dave, Wiha is a German manufacturer, making probably the *best* tools for electronics and such. Wiha is pronounced almost like what Donkeys say when they are braying. I know, I am a "professional": *Wi-Haa, Wi-Haa, Wi-Haa*
The Thandar frequency counter looks very much like the old Sinclair DMM. the case of which was from the Sinclair calculator with a stick on cover over the hole where the buttons would have been and a slot milled in for the switch. Would be interesting to peel the top cover or have a look at the underside of the top of the case. Edit just went back and it is a re-purposed calculator case.
5:00 I would argue the light bulbs are getting brighter as they warm, not the panels changing with temperature as much. fluoro tends to take quite a while to get to full brightness.
The MPSSE engine "scripting" on the FTDI chips is an incredibly powerful means of generating arbitrary digital patterns if you use the low level D2XX driver function calls. I use this all the time through Labview rather than writing micro controller code. Well worth the initial learning overhead.
Hi Dave, Love the Mailbag, please keep the Dundee nive I use on a daily basis my old Philips PM2505 analog meter and that still works perfect. PS I love old Analog multimeters.
It would be interesting to see the Digital Discovery review. It can go up to 800 MS/s using the High Speed Adapter and cables (I believe you have them included with the unit). Thanks.
Is that frequency counter a rebadged Sinclair, or a Sinclair knockoff? It looks a lot like the Sinclair multimeter you tear down in another video. The Sinclair also used plastic fasteners like that, and directly soldered the circuit board to the input connectors at the bottom.
I recently made a unit that outputs SPI, I2C and UART to test serial decoding on the new Siglent scope I recently reviewed, its just an arduino pro mini.
I'd actually be quite interested in seeing a teardown of the LED bracelet. What microcontroller does it use? Those look like WS2812 LEDs - does it run them at 3.7V, or does it have some sort of boost converter?
Thanks for the interesting video! I think the name of the chip at 29:17 is not 00 00 67, it is 0Q 00 67. But hey, no problem, it is written very small, so I had to pause the video to read it correct. Greetings from Switzerland
Oh how I love my HP 48GX. I went back to school a few years back, in a discreet maths class we were working with large prime numbers for cryptography. The professor was writing large numbers and asking if they were prime. She thought she had chosen numbers large enough that a calculator couldn't determine if it was prime or not. My 20+ year old HP didn't sneeze at the numbers she had while the rest of the class using their crap modern Ti's couldn't muster an answer. She wouldn't let me use my HP on the tests after that...
I wish I could figure out how much those solar cells would be in US, it would be lovely to test them in AZ, where 90% of our weather is consistently hot or sunny
The gold and red microruler is for Chinese New Year I would think, not just for the wank. Gold and Red is a pretty important colour combo over there, especially around the new year. There's even an egg and tomato dish intended to display the two colours. Also that looks like OQ0067 on the IC in the PM2718, not OOOO67. Maybe you'll be getting some prescription glasses in the mailbag soon. ;- )
Im a master plumber and Knipex makes some of the best adjustable pliers money can buy js they are the shit in my biz ! To a plumber they are the beez kneez! Howdy from West TX !
Used to use the Aardvark I2C/SPI Host Adapter. But the Digilent one seems far better at a lower price for signal generation applications. I just wish the Digilent one had USB 3 in order to use computer's memory for logic analyser buffer. I use the Saleae one at work due to that feature since I often need to capture very long sequences.
Umm..right...well...for around 48 USD/W from what I can tell these printed organic cells are not even in the ballpark of making any sense (especially since that is just the price of the "panel")...I guess maybe to bring along as a fold out thing for camping, or maybe on clothing...but...There are portable solar panels, even fold out version for a lot less per W, and as a complete package in a durable casing...I'm not sure these actually take up less space even if rolled, for the same power. I haven't read a lot into this so I guess there is probably ongoing industrialization of the technology, but I don't see this as being competitive until it goes under 1 USD/W. Just my 2 cents!
4 C cells to power that Phillips meter? You could fly to Uranus on 4 C cells! Gaffer tape is nothing to sneeze at. I dragged my trumpet out of storage a few days ago and found the lead pipe had split; a bit of gaffer tape made it playable.
Florescent and led lighting don't emit the right solar radiation to allow the cells to produce power. Found that out a while back when I was still using incandescent bulbs.
You are joking? Incandescent bulbs are worst for testing solar cells, they produce mostly heat radiation, which can not be converted to electricity by most semiconductors. I have very good experiences with testing solar cells with LEDs. The small ones of solar garden lights even easily with my 5W pocket torch on the keyring. Just light the cell for some seconds and see the light come on afterwards. Of course for full power you need quite some LED power, according to a rough calculation not less than 30W electrical per dm² (10W of light per dm² equals 1000W/m²). The sun is really strong compared to most of our light sources. With a tiny standard 5mm LED you will not do much.
You have to be careful that the output spectrum of your source is compatible with the frequencies absorbed by the organic solar panels. Sunlight is very broad spectrum. LEDs vary depending on the semiconductors used. Fluorescent has a few very narrow bands. Incandescent is fairly broad but increases the further towards the red end.
