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Hi Welcome to everyone's favorite segment Mailbag where I opened my mail. Let's get straight into it. This one has come Express from South Africa Huddle myself African viewers from Ryan Van Varenne and he sent it expressed for a reason because this kind that has a deadline and no it's not a Kickstarter you'll see yes I know what it is. This is gonna be awesome.

Let's have a look, say thank you very much actually all Oh Careful er, this one warrants careful opening I Will be very careful to open it so wait, please excuse the cop-out and let's have a squiz. We want to cut into it. Okay, here we go. I'll show you yes I won't Yeah, definitely have to be very careful.

In fact I will open the back side of it. And the good thing about this Ryan Made it himself and there's a video. There's a YouTube video which all are linked in and he's made this specifically for me. Sorry about this suspense but handmade Tada back to the future out of time number plate made out of wood Awesome! Thank you very much Ryan yes it is CNC milled and painted and with the various colors and he goes through step by step in his YouTube video how he actually made this for me and it's fantastic.

It's worth a look Oh Linking him down below awesome And of course this is a big deal because it is currently Monday October 19th 2015 and in two days time under Wednesday Well at least here in Australia Wednesday The 21st of October 2015 is the day Marty McFly Went into the future. Whoa! Awesome. Apparently Cubs might actually win the World Series hmm will they? I don't know it lived in the comments down below if you reckon they will. So yes, there's all sorts of celebrations all around the world.

except really here in Sydney Unfortunately, I'll tell you what. I was actually excited for this event. I was going to actually book out a cinema and in Titan and don't mention this in the previous video and it may be sorry if I have. Anyway, I was going to book out an entire huge cinemas.

gonna get the Orpheum cinema that has a pipe organ that comes up out of the stage and wah all sorts of play the Back to the Future theme and everything else. Anyway, I was going to book out the entire cinema do a crowdfunding thing have everyone come and then it turns out Universal Studios the that they are signed an exclusive agreement with the Hoyts here in Australia for the exclusive shine of it in October. So I went to Hoyts and said ah, you must have some big thing planned right? What's playing Oh no, we're showing. yeah we're gonna show it on the 21st of October but they're only showing Back to the Future Part 1 Are you me? Oh bloody boots Unbelievable.

They're only showing part 1 anyway. I Got a quote for hiring out a whole cinema which would have been a pretty crap cinemas in just like a shopping centre. It's nothing special and it was all reasonably priced. but I in the air one at a hundred people minimum which was okay.

but I kind of like lost all enthusiasm because Heights are just hopeless so apparently no special events happening. Unfortunately, don't even know what I'll do I'll probably just sit here in the lab and watch all three movies back to back. I might just stream it live Actually, maybe do a google hangout or something like that if anyone else is watching it. Um, maybe I'll try and set that up and uh-huh, but you're nerds can just hang out on beanbags and watch Back to the Future So anyway, that's all I've got.
Unfortunately, although it might be something coming up, but unfortunately I couldn't do it for the 21st of October but hopefully in a few more weeks. something special. Thanks! Ryan Awesome! Let's go straight to the pool room next up. one from myself.

Boomer if I'm pronouncing that correctly I'm almost certainly not is from um needle Castle in Germany I think Anyway, couldn't tied to all my German viewers. Let's check out Marcel has since shell we have a note. Penny: he's 16 years old good know your mouth, so awesome and he's a man. Visit: he visited an engineering school in Germany he likes to work with electrical stuff Raspberry Pi night do we know that's cool I sent you a board that controls the doors.

Any with there you go. Anyway, here is what was in repair, but they're definitely made some nasty stuff. That's important now. the board is useless.

There is some superglue near the RAM and some pins are missing. Ah oopsie. Alright, do a quick teardown, do a quick two-minute look-see So this is what controls the doors in lift. It seems a bit much.

I mean check it out. You know you've got to have all the interface stuff. Of course he's your. Syria The Syrian know what? Syrian Double L on the end it's gonna sleep.

poor. Tronic 4,000 sounds like something from Robocop or something like that. anyway. I guess it's got to have all the records that stuff the serial interface.

the isolated our comms. This would be all the communications interface. It'll be like a serial comms port going to it. Got all our drive out here.

We've got relay outputs which would operate the doors we've got. Well, are these power treaties up here? Well, they've all each regulators. Yeah, their power. Whether or not they're operating as regulars I Don't think so.

you don't need that sort of heat sinking that many Farrar Just pairing some logic and drive stuff on here, so that's a you know, not uncommon arrangement. Got the ER Silpat on the back isolate in it. but interestingly, they didn't bother to bend the leads and put them through holes. They just actually they have to bend.

Did they have to bend. them yet? They had to bend them slightly down. So it's a bit how you're doing. That's not the world's best engineer in there, but yeah, like fairly common technique to: I just put a cutout in the board and mount your power trainees right angle like that.
No worries, don't know what the that board up there is doing. hmm oscillator? what's that for? That's for this Infineon part on the back there I won't even bother looking up that part number. but yeah, that looks like a fairly grunty processor for what it's doing. Mm-hmm genuine bodge.

Check it out. I Don't think I've seen Roee branded caps before. hmm von hand? don't know what that is. that is a decent amount of capacitance to.

I Mean you know they in parallel there? Yeah, it looks like they might be in parallel, but we're talking. you know mm Mike if you got two of them at a hundred volt working on those things. I Mean it looks like it's a 50 volt interface, so maybe it's like a 48 volt line or something to lifts. I Don't know anyone know what? anything? No anyone anything behind lift systems? Next up one from Portugal my Portuguese viewers from Samuel Fiera Marques link: Oh, it rings a bell because the writing rings a bell and the name rings a bell.

Anyway, he's for a mum. yeah, Port Port Ammo in Portugal So let's check it out. He's sick. Let's get the unwieldy knife in there.

We have a note. we have a postcard Algarve that looks nice. Nice little arch action happening there. Very nice little board.

Anyway, because it's tiny, we'll check it out and it looks like Samuel has sinning. This little thing which we'll take a good look at in a minute. Um, hey, ten Megahertz clock generator interesting by the Thomason There's no steals or no review because it wasn't his. he sent this a second time.

huh? It's jitter. Performance is not very good. No, it was precision never less. I'm planning to launch a load you diversion less than 350 seconds.

Thank you very much. That's 10 to the power minus 15. Know that picosecond rubbish? So yeah, yeah, I don't recall that. sorry if it's still sitting on the mailbag shelf.

I might have to go have a look I Want the Tenma clock generator? Um, Anyway, yeah, what he's got here is a small project at the Science in sign I'm sure it's sign as in sine Wave Sine Cross which is an experimental AFE for a frequency counter. Oh okay, let's check it out. and there's the sign Chronos Open Source Hardware of course is the Open Gear logo and nothing on the bottom, but what it is you might be wondering. It can take basically any analog signal and primarily say an example is like a 10 megahertz our reference clock which is typically a sine wave out of generators and stuff like that and generate a digital signal out.

So it's basically a glorified arc comparator and it plugs directly into your breadboard. like that, you can just plug the things straight in and then look so I'm way then, so that's kind of handy or basically any type of that signal it can be. You know anything, any magnitude or whatever, this thing will clean it up, tidy it up, and convert it into a nice usable square wave. If you can feed into your microcontroller or use as a reference Whatever need and there's not much doing in this of course is it uses a Texas Instruments TLV 3501 comparator here.
It's got some hysteresis so you know you don't want to be flapping around at that edge point. Do you know you need hysteresis in your comparators? Absolutely. Just got an AC er coupled input Bob's your uncle straight in and then a nice little digital out nice and you feed in the power player, ground and power via there so the output will be whatever logic level you put into the power pin and he's had it working with signals up to 50 volts RMS and frequencies up to 80 megahertz as well. So handy kit I'll link it in down below.

Thanks Samuel Next up one from the United States of America for my Illinois way once again not Sherman from Highland Parker from Michael Seidman Thank you very much Michael I'm not sure if it's a um if that's just the person who shifted or like as in like the person at a company that shipped it or whatever or whether or not Sir Michael is actually a fan. Let's check it out. It's a package inside a package. Enjoy! Dave Thank you very much.

yes it is from Michael and custom anyway. haha What we got? What do we got? I have no idea what it is I have no idea anyone? anyone. everything has user serviceable parts inside I Like it that looks large, extra large who? by the way. um, t-shirts small or medium at most, yet large and extra-large I'm not that huge I'm pretty tiny so don't really know anything about Michael but thank you very much you said the shirt.

um, there's no note in there any way that I could find. Maybe I'll have another look. Anyway, next up, say I shall Express from Mr.. Xu's thank you very much Mr.

Zhu Ruiz from Shenzhen once again I Have no idea if he's a fan or was just the person that shipped because sometimes I get that. you know people like order stuff online and just get it shipped to me either anonymously or I will leave a note or whatever and then you know I think Mr. Xu's a fan. it's not anyway I don't once again I get very confused here I don't know whether or not I actually get stuff.

that's for mailbag or whether or not I've ordered stuff because I get them shipped to the same place. So yeah, it's a bit silly. anyway. Yes David Australia There you go, so let's have a look.

Oh it's a single ball computer. Alright, let's check it out. Hi Dave wishes and all the best for enjoying. Oh yes, right.

Um, the LA Maker did her. This is from the mal this I knew about this. It's a single ball computer. it's called the Lemon Maker sounds French This is the LA Maker guitar.

Well this little module in here is anyway in an Esso dim type socket and this is like a daughter board carrier which has all sorts of various interfaces and this is one powerful puppy. Let me tell you now, users and actions: S500 ARM processor. It never don't think I've heard of the actions one before. Maybe I have.
Anyway, not really into that sort of thing. Anyway, this is a beast. It's a quad core. I'm corn, I'm Cortex A9 R4.

Call: We've got one gig or two gig. This might be fully populated with the 2gig of Ddr3 memory. It's got eight gig of flash on the thing. This chip over here is a power management device.

It's got GPU built in. very extensive. its power VR our GPU It's an SG x5 double for for those playing along at home. OpenGL Compatible And thing that pricks my ears up is it can do full 1080p, 60 frames per second encoding.

Woohoo! Powerful beast! Alright so the Lawmaking Guitar is just this S Odom module here and I always liked it. so dim based a single ball Computers very nice and of course uses a cheap and easy to get enough you know and like a standard industry standard interface with the S oh dear module. and there's basically a processor, memory and flash and power management on there. and that's basically it.

So if you're going to get this thing and make it, do something. of course if you're going to build it into your product, you just buy the module itself. But if you're going to experiment with it, you need the whole single board motherboard like this. and this has got a whole ton of stuff well gotten.

LVDS Display interface here. We've got a camera interface I'm not sure of the exact camera specs and things like that, but you know it might be using some sort of Miffy interface or something like that. and we've got our souls of Wi-Fi antenna there if we flip it over there. Wi-Fi module and that's an RTL 87, 23 Wi-Fi module.

Of course they are. They just get the module because it's already pre certified and everything else. It's just all the other miscellaneous stuff on the bottom. There's nothing else interesting on there, but what else have we got? We've got ourselves a microSD card slot.

We've got a standard HDMI output and my micro USB 3 interface and our two USB 2.0 s here for those yeah old school legacy stuff. and we've got us all Samar for Tyr pin header for general purpose I/o We've got ourselves a microphone down in there there we go and a audio output as well and infrared receiver DC jack to power a thing, a couple of buttons you're gonna have a couple of buttons to make it do something useful. This little 6 pin header here is a debug UART and a DC as well. We come there we go.

ground, transmit, receive, and some little ADC action happening down in there if you can read that silkscreen and of course the obligatory 10100 Ethernet interface as well. So that puppy is packing. Check it out if you need a really powerful single board computer. Very nice and I really like the fact that today they got the pin outs for the header connector.

very nice. Apply power and it's doing something and we get a lead there. but it didn't shop immediately. It took like a 30 seconds for the lead to do something.
Now it's flashing so up now it's faded out. What? their the photon? Don't know if we got ourselves a Dickey connection there? Yeah, there you go. Now it's working. I was using the wrong adapter in there was that too wide so it wasn't making now contact.

Now again a green LED flash you and it came with no instructions in the box at all in our getting started or software or anything like that. and there's no y microSD card plugged into the thing but it's it's flashing doing something I don't know? Hook it up to a monitor and well I'm getting zippity-doo-dah So yeah, out-of-the-box experience moi and it'll run Android 5 as well as Linux of course. So yeah, if you want a real powerful single ball computer, check it out. But yeah, out of the box experience.

Am I doing something wrong? By the way, you can pair it directly from a lithium ion battery 3.7 volts. Bingo! Just work the header in there in a way you go I don't know if it's got charging circuitry built-in I'd have to have it look quite possibly be surprised if it didn't but that's a nice touch. Next up: one from the old art. this one's from Timnath software I believe that's how you pronounce it.

Um Teignmouth it's not Ty Tee-why in Eva and Timnath maybe I don't know. Um, please do not bend. It looks kind of delicate so it's actually a pattern envelope hooked onto a oh you just saw what it is there. spoiler for those watching in HD So I'll be very careful I won't brutalize it with the croc Dundee knife so those pull tabs nut I'll make one? no I can't see USB lead I guess I need a USB board at a tiny tot board and let's see what's in here.

Obviously something. Anyway, it's like paper overlays. Let's have a look a keyboard. hmm and what? Dave is sent in is a little board to convert your Zenyk spectrum yeah baby into a USB keyboard.

Let's give it a bell, so take one crusty old 1980s vintage Sinclair ZX Spectrum mating Portugal thank you very much and we're in like Flynn Now we can hook up the keyboard. actually this one's in pretty good Nick Wow and I Originally thought what the this doesn't make sense. We've got very low density pitch flat flex cables here. two of them and we've got one.

I'm high up, you know, modern higher density flat flex interface here and I went go search through the envelope and sure enough look he's supplied. It was buried right down in the bottom in that cardboard. Hence the do not been Dave's got is our replacement membrane actually done for this specific thing to convert a ZX spectrum? Because apparently one of the fire modes is the membranes in these things so you know you can't use them anymore. So he's done his own and this is fantastic.

Let's see if we can retrofit it and if you haven't seen Tidmouth Oh, that looks like a half a reasonable beach, but where are the waves? Oh yeah, hmm kind of. And by the way, check it out. That's how you convert a radial electrolytic capacitor into an axial footprint. A beautiful bodge.
Oh, and that, by the way folks, is what it looks like inside a crusty old ZX Spectrum keyboard. And these are tabs of these welded on tabs to hold it down. They've just broken off. Geez, that's really crusty 1980s crustiness in there.

Love it. So I'll just peel that off. Still good because it's not like a carbon back one. Is the actual tactile domes? or, well, they're not.

Are they tactile domes? Know they are tactile domes. They're just regular membranes. But anyway, the contacts are inside there so this rubber is still good. Just going to clean it up a bit and we'll just whip this out.

And we should be able to whip in the new one. Oh I'll go that. Bobby Dazzler Tell you what. That's a jazzy little mod look at that.

It fits through the existing holes. Fantastic! So here we go. Let's give it a bull. Plug it in.

it's a kind of detect it. Bloody new Windows 10 I Don't know. Yeah happened. I don't know how to use bloody Windows 10 Anyway, didn't pop up with anything, but let's give it a bill.

Hey, it's a Bobby does lower space down here Hello world. Can I do exclamation mark? Not entirely sure. Can I do shift caps? Ah not you I can do exclamation marks. It was pretty easy.

It's screaming at me out to the shift. not over here. That's the cap shift. So there you go.

That's a bloody Wiener converting a Sinclair ZX Spectrum into a USB keyboard. but that's sacrilege, right? So thank you very much. Day that is awesome and check out his website Tim a software which I'll link down below. His blog has tons of vintage computer projects like this: interface boards, all sorts of various stuff.

good on your Dave awesome mailbag item. Next up one from New Zealand from Scott Gordon I think it is from Auckland Could I people know my New Zealand Viewers yeah sorry Ed to do it fit Yes love Auckland it's hang on I'm smelling I'm smelling light IDs here smell a late eighties? Yeah, you betcha. We have had these before. Tada, it's A.m.

there you go. Tucson I've had these several times. thank you very much. Oh yeah, it's all yeah, it's all crusty.

Um, all that. yeah. I think all the crap is like like crap quality leather and it's just all imitation. Yeah, it's not real leather.

Yeah, and it's just all sort of crumbled. It's really, really quite bad. Oh I got some goodies though. I've got little boards and all sorts of miscellaneous electronics.

Let's check it out and Scott is sent in some DC DC converter modules as well, one of which is blowin. Let's have a look where can you spot it? Yeah, look at that. that's just only headed like I'd pin completely blowing out of it. This is a 6 pin SP 23 package and yeah, that that's just Wow that's just blowing right out of there and it has had the proverbial ass blown out of it.
Wow And he's got another one that he tried to repair but apparently it didn't didn't work I Guess it's all gonna come down to well. there's not much in it. You know there's like one active part and that's it I don't know that number of hand I Don't think I could be bothered googling that 86 28 for no 60 to 80 for and who that comes from I have no idea I couldn't even find a datasheet on first. Google Anyway, I'm not gonna spend another second on it.

Why doesn't it work? Well, Because it's a cheaper. These are the DC converter from eBay It should work though. it's got one active part. maybe? yeah, that's overstressed.

They have designed it poorly. You have chosen poorly. He's included this. RF transmitter and receiver module.

Check this out. This is the imitation would look yeah. I'm sophisticated I'm carrying this puppy on my keychain and a horse slides open our four channels. Bob's your uncle? Look at that.

What a Bobby does aren't even extends. Its telescopic. Oh, nothing better than an erect antenna. Look at that seriously.

remote detonate. You're bombing style with one of these puppies. Yeah baby, it's got class written all over it. and thanks for these scion to organize Ascot But unfortunately I've already done a video on this teardown of various our vintage 'as of these organizers actually I think I know it's time, you know I've done like 900 videos or something.

it's hard to know well even. I don't remember what I've done and haven't done one of these days. I swear I'm going to shoot a video I'm going to upload it and people have you know, be in a tutorial or I don't know a review or something. whatever and people go.

you've already done a video on that and I'll go dull. It's gonna happen one day. Guarantee it. This is about 1986 vintage and you know what pocket computers were around back then.

But jeez, you know these were the Ducks guts, the Scion organizers, you know. and they had the data packs. You could get all sorts of stuff and applications. very useful in.

um, you know they used them in, you know, warehouse inventory management and you know stuff like that because you know they were SuperDuper Ruggers. you can carry him around real industrial. didn't have the QWERTY keyboard of course that was pretty annoying, but yeah. I lusted after these puppies when you saw him in the magazine ads.

it just looked totally cool. And Scott's been repairing CB radios at Hobby since it was 13 and he runs the yacht radio mods. Calm dock ho nice, calm rubbish co dot NZ website he started back in 97. Wow, that was not long after the interwebs started.

It was which is the second largest CB site on the net. There you go! Fantastic! And he's also got a picture of his lab. What's the old school analog stuff that looks like, you know, Tricky Dick scope down there? Yep, Tricky Dick 60 Meg bandwidth scope and he's got a Tektronix eye 24:32 a digital scope as well. Yeah, it's digital performances pretty useless these days, but you know those things had their time though.
You know back then a digital scope was a analog scope with sort of like digital kind of storage functionality with like a couple of K of memory and you know, clunk clunk clunk and realized clicked and those were the days mixed up. One from D Updegraff Updegraff No worries, um thank you very much. Days from Baltimore in Maryland Maryland sorry Maryland's is a suburb near here. um Maryland in the US every time I hear of Baltimore I Can't help but think of the movie The Sum of All Fears where they nuke Baltimore like the sports stadium at Baltimore So yeah, that's one of the best start nuke explosions ever put on film.

Fantastic! Love The Sum of All Fears. Big fan of that movie. and yeah, that's just you know it's a nuclear aficionado. Um, and I do like a movie set involve nuclear weapons for some bizarre reason.

Anyway, Um, thank you very much d Let's have a squiz Sum of All fears. Jack Ryan Of course let's have a squeeze I Enjoy your entertaining, educational yes, thank you very much. I've sent you a something rather thank you Very nice Dave Dave Thank you very much Dave No yeah, the old guys digi-key recyclable material Love it. And Sydney hey crusty old dime Oh Let your tag.

two minutes teardown and Dave is sending this old Domo litora tag which the screen doesn't sort of work. trust me, it. there is text on there and it says tada, hey Vblog, It actually works. We don't win a chicken dinner.

my ones actually broken. So yeah, yeah, maybe we should tear apart by one instead of this one. This one actually works, but yeah, really, they're not. You know, it's not even worth a two minutes here now because there's nothing you know I mean it's all in the thermal print.

Head down in there, the tiny little tiny little print head on the end of that on the end of that ribbon down there, and the rest is just like a little, um, you know, eight or maybe even a whopping 16-bit processor in there or something with a keypad. Um, that's basically all there is to these things. adder and a motor just to drive the thing along. But apart from that mm-hmm Oh, all right, you twisted my arm.

Let's pull this thing apart. like 20 million billion screws in there or something. I don't know. it was a lot.

Oh no, Hang on. I know it's got a springy. it's a springy thing down in there for this for this puppy. Oh jeez, that's that's rather annoying, isn't it can I get the springy thing out.

Oh, hang on. And there we go. It's even more boring than I Thought we've got chip on board here so there's a little line like the silicon wafer directly stuck on the board. Little bond wires go over and then they just blow it on top.
That's a really cheap production technique. Big cap off the ball and they didn't have ruined. They're not this surface-mount rubbish. Um, a few diodes there.

There we go, end on stuck into the board. That's for a battery protection because that cable there goes off to our battery which they've done with. they're done with PCB by the looks of it. There you go.

PCB terminal There we go. Yep, yep that that's interesting and see that too often. Usually they they mold them in and wire them up with just you know, the wire. actually, you know the bit of wire going in between them I don't That's really quite old-school I Don't know what the date is on this one.

Check it out. That could be the problem with the LCD the dreaded hotbar attachments straight on the board there. So maybe I could try and repair this thing and get it back working with a couple of Springs they almost like seem out of place. There's not much else exciting.

There's going to be a little motor in there which just drives this pinch roller which advances the tape and pushes it out. and Bob's your uncle, that's it Jimmy to tell him thanks Dave Next up one from Finland I Love my Finnish viewers. This is from Juicy J you double this I do see sorry that's just the first thing that popped into my head. Kill Pick Kenan I'm fortunate like it's all from Tam Pierre in Finland Finnish stamps on there there we go.

let's check it out. See what he sent in we have right and a couple of red board so they like spiked. funny funny tight boards? not sure. Nope.

let's have a look and this they look like lights Leds you know Christmas? Yes. Christmasy light things I'm guessing some sort of Christmas light controller. it doesn't tape here look lovely I'm pronouncing it correctly. of course that looks very very nice.

Go there. uh-huh it's pronounced you see they could on you you see? sorry about that and you sees got a master's in EE Ended up working as a SOC chip designer. There you go I'm he's main his primary interest though our circuit and PCB design. Yeah if you're working on chip design not so much.

you know like actual Hardware circuit design as such. So yeah it shows to keep his hobby skills in order. Awesome! And these his first two projects he's gonna sell to a general audience. Check them out.

What they are is little lie. USB LED Drivers very nice I Like it I Like the connectors on there for the strings. Jeez, they're pretty yeah. I don't think I've seen those before.

Oh not, you know. usually like they're a vertical form factor I Like the low profile nature of those. jeez, that's jazzy. In fact, he's really gone low-profile He's done the old board cut out there for the micro USB connector.

That's a fairly common if you want to. You know, really. keep the thing low-profile I Mean that inductors? You know that's the biggest thing there. But yeah, you can actually get really low profile boards if you do stuff like that.
USB just goes right on the end like that and today it works. It's got a little pot in there if I can get in there and we can dim those puppies right down. nice. So thanks.

You see I'll link in know your website down below if people want to check him out. Yes, open-source hardware. We love it. Yes, we got one from Strahl er you bloody beauty is from Lawrence Bilson Yes, he's having a second cycle suck of the South he even admits it.

Um, he's survived and then he got married to Marilyn's again. um, but in Western Australia this time. so thank you very much Lawrence Let's see what he's good and he says, how about a teardown with a spy bug sweeper? yeah I found it if I clean up at the all lab oh it's my life. it's a Fitbit it's a Fitbit and this is another Fitbit I don't know I'm not up on my Fitbit's I'm sorry that one doesn't have anything on the front, huh? Anyway, it's got some track it's got I don't know, let's have a squeeze thanks lunch and Lawrence is sending these fitbit's These are all the rage aren't they? Even though I'm a fitness person I don't like to track my performance so bugger that.

But yeah, we can probably do a separate teardown. This is not going to be a 2-minute teardown. There we go. Got a sensor on the back that would be the to measure your pulse rate optically through the skin.

No worries at all. and there'd be an accelerometer and all sorts of stuff in there. I don't know my Fitbit sorry I don't know exactly what the apps do and what you can log and stuff like that. but yeah, measures heart rate and out of a step.

so if you want to walk or something like that anyway, a couple of charging pins there and that's a rather nice design actually. I Like the curved nature of it and the bottom, it fits around my wrist now. I've got a small wrist. It's always the test and it's all one big rubber integrated thing.

It feels like give It a tug on that, gotta have a good tug. and I don't know what Fitbit Model this is, but does it have a battery in there or anything? No idea. No idea whatsoever. Is that an older model? A bigger model? Whatever.

But yeah, once again, very nicely moulded integral case. I Really like that and is that like a Inc EP per type display? So thanks. Lance We'll leave those three separate teardown. Tuesday Awesome! So thank you for everyone who's sending something to mailbag.

Monday Soria for yours is that still sitting on the shelf I'll endeavor to try and get around to it I Do just open them at random anyway I Think we're out of the big ones I only got little ones. Nothing off a little package though anyway if you want to discuss it, jumping over the Eevblog forum and all that sort of jazz. and if you like it, please give it a big thumbs up. Like yeah, really.
too close to the camera so you can just see my thumb anyway. One of those things catch you next time you.

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25 thoughts on “Eevblog #809 – mailbag”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars I Tinker with Things says:

    You already did a video about doing a video about something again… I have not seen it yet though, but I still have to see ~600 videos.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mitch Mitchell says:

    The Cubs won the Series. =x

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars gazza3166 says:

    tin mouth lol its tynemouth the tyne is a river in newcastle and the mouth is the entrance of the tyne river hence tynemouth

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Dave Blane says:

    the knife — absurd

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Xathian says:

    So Universal signed an exclusivity deal with a chain that clearly didn't give much of a fuck about the event in the first place? Wow.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars BMR Studio says:

    Mailbaaaaaag :))))))

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars makomk says:

    The publicly-available documentation for those Action Semi chips seemed rather non-existent compared to the Allwinner chips other boards use, at least when I last looked.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars tristan digert says:

    +EEVblog Are those baterizer people still bothering you?

    Is Tristan gonna have to choke a bitch?

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Seegal Galguntijak says:

    'Seriell' is German and means serial. 'von Hand' means 'manually'.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Thomas Raab says:

    Several cinemas in Germany had all three BTTF-Movies in a row. But unfortunately i had to get up early the next morning…

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Buford McNairy says:

    Awesome number plate. Would be cool to make a stand for it that would be a flat base with a dowel rod and drill a hole in the bottom right corner of the plate so it's in the position same as the movie when it flies off the car and spins in the road. Would be even cooler to put a motor on/in the base to turn the plate as if spinning .
    Thanks for sharing it with us.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars LHUPA says:

    "Everything Has USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE" What a brillant idea from your fans to send you that shirt! That's the right slogan for you!…

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jay Hubman says:

    dose anyone else notice the other plate in the background

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jares Doverspike says:

    Still disappointed there was no hover-boards or self-tying shoes for my birthday… what a bummer… (Birthday was Oct. 21. Unfortunately I don't live in California, but Florida looks rather similar. Oh well.)

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Edward Haffner says:

    i wonder if anyone ever sends him poop or dick pics lol

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Flowmoshun says:

    A lot of channels I subscribe to have mail segments that are popular. Normally I don't understand why, but I get yours. In your mailbag you open the stuff, and then give us a run down of what it is, how it works, and it's all very informative.

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Tripcore says:

    When the Wind Blows is a good movie based around Nuclear bombs…

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Layne Brown says:

    Love your shirt Dave!

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars PootyboiStudios says:

    "Now that's a knife"

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Patrick says:

    You forgot to link in the led driver guy's site.

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Patrick says:

    So painful watching you use your once sharp knife which now has trouble cutting tape. Please, please, please, sharpen it. Only a few minutes on a stone would bring it back to true joy.

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Patrick says:

    Time to sharpen your knife.

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars SouthCoast Mudlarks says:

    Check out the blatant Digikey plug lol.

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars aly nicholls says:

    brand new membranes for zx spectrum and zx81's are available from sell my retro.
    i got a re-manufactured one(better than stock) for 8 pounds plus post.
    there were also original new old stock ones for purists, but just about any part is available brand new(except the ULA they were tested system pulls), i got a face plate for my keyboard too.

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Afro Head says:

    Great video πŸ˜€

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