Hi just a quick blab video I Wanted to show you this because I thought it was quite interesting and funny I got my monthly bill from Australia Post for all my packing and shipping stuff for my multimeters and micro currents and stuff and this was my last. I invoice was. you know last month was that seven hundred and eighty six dollars wasn't much at all. but I opened the letter and I get Tada.

Twelve thousand, two hundred and seventy seven dollars and eighty cents. Thank you very much. And yeah, your heart skips a bit of a beat and that is is a lot of money. It seems like a lot of money you might think Oh they've made a mistake, but no they haven't I remembered that I had to I had a huge backlog of orders and stuff in May that I shipped.

it was like an A four hundred, five hundred meters and microcurrents and various stuff. So um, and all these are all the different shipments and these are the different, you know, multiples. Sometimes a ship in three or four per a day or are ten and was and or and or me I shipped a lot of these as well. and yeah, sure enough, you know you add them all up and it's like twelve thousand dollars.

so it's like it's totally legit. That's how much I spent on shipping just for the month of May and I thought, what can you get for that sort of, you know, twelve thousand Australian dollars by the way. and as somebody mentioned on well sort of alluded to on Twitter I checked it out. I Can launch my own tubes.

That satellite not. CubeSat I Cube sets are rather much more expensive than this. They're actually twice the weight and you know, twice the size or something. This is a tube set from a company cord into Orbital Systems I'm not sure if they've actually launched anything yet.

Anyway, they've been going a couple of years and they're sold like hundreds of these things. You can actually buy a kit for eight thousand US dollars I can for that less cost which is under eleven thousand Australian dollars. I Can actually launch my own satellite to low-earth orbit for the same it cost as just shipping those multimeters and that microcurrents around the world. Unbelievable.

I Just thought that was a real interesting comparison. Anyway, you can get this kit and you get the PCBs Well, you get the Gerber files for making your own boards inside, but you get a transceiver in it. You get the battery pack, the solar cells, power management controller, micro computer, whatever that is. I Don't know there's software in tennis.

You get like everything. It's a complete kit and it weighs is a half a kilogram. This leaves okay, so you can have an extra quarter of a kilo for you're adding your own stuff to it. But I Just thought that was really interesting.

They launched it on the Neptune Modular rocket and oh, I actually provide a link down below if you want to have a look at this but that is fascinating. You can actually there you go. There's a details the solar cells and the dipole antenna and everything else. and oh there we go.

It's an Arduino five Net media basic sector that whatever that is some variation flavor of Arduino or something or an Arduino mini right? either of those two anyway. I Just thought that is interesting. That's what you can get for the same cost you can launch a satellite to space. Brilliant! Catch you next time.