Hi welcome to everyone's favorite segment mailbag and Merry Christmas to everyone. Let's get straight into it. Thank you very much! Manned Lamps Not Man Labs Manned Labs with Addy Fragile. Do Not Drop your FedEx have dropped that.

You've all seen those videos of what some of the two career employees do the packages. but my, um my FedEx guys actually a fellow canner. So yeah Korea guys here. like once a great but yeah, you do see those horror videos anyway.

this Schmick Manned Labs kit one your personal learning kit Fell electronics. It's even got a carry handle on the top shrink-wrap for our protection video pack and they got videos to go with it. Wow! this looks some this looks very very professional. I'm thoroughly impressed by the packaging.

Does it come in? - yeah it might be two separate things. So what is it? Not here? I Just found it. Not here. might have come from the kit I Don't know.

This is what's going on here. Breadboard carry. That's a breadboard carry case. There's your breadboard.

You carry your breath, carry your breadboard around. All the bread boards got little studs on it. check it out and it clips into here like this. Ah, there you go.

So you build it. You build up your stuff on here on your breadboard and then you just fold it over like that. and how do you carry it? Oh well. Things that fall down everywhere.

This is the most professional electronics kit I've ever seen. Gopu in Man is that dope? What is that? Yeah good. I Guess. sorry if I'm pronouncing your name wrong.

Um from Manda Labs Mansi's last name I guess I'm an Labs Well that's it. It's a Sai professionally produced. It's incredible. How do you open the main case? I think I'll it's gonna stun on the side.

Hang on this instructions here. Was it open here? Open here. Does it lift up? No. I swear it says open here.

Look what says open Here I Open it. This is I Feel hopeless. This is obviously kid up here you go. There's a thumb thing here.

it says open here on the sides but you don't open, they're open CP Modi Mader coils of wire. nice relay. it's got some switches I've got some Eveready batteries not least. alkaline rubbish.

Fantastic. Good old sink. Carbon good. Look at this Wow unboxing your imagination step-by-step Hello and welcome to Mana! A do-it-yourself electronic lab at home.

We have a USB stick. Cool. Thank you very much Man Labs. Wow, this is like wow.

that's all well. pots. There you go. This is ridiculously good.

Wow, this is so professional. There's our multimeter leads. Yeah, hats off, this is it. Seriously well presented? Probably.

- I Know my my catters have come out all might strippers. They're actually wire strippers. They've actually Hey I think there's a screw. There's a random screwing there.

Yeah, it's almost too good. You know it's like I Do appreciate the effort, but let me know if you're I'm not gonna say it. See, you know what's wrong, but it's just like so much. if it's going into the packaging in the modular construction.

would would anyone actually fold it back up and carry it themselves? I Don't know if I would have didn't done that as a kid. My problem? You know everything would be like scattered everywhere by the time I got to play around with it. but like it? Yeah like it died of playing around with it. Everything's like just all over the shop.

Got a pot already. got the solders? What are the wires soldered on to them? The tin copper wires go straight into your breadboard. Nice. So what's in here I can see that I'm not gonna.

oh that's that's a fibrous, weird-looking envelope. It's like a fiber envelopes. not quite to Vic envelope but it's like a bunch of LEDs are coming out. this funky-looking blue ones.

They look really like, almost like an aqua blue. like the look of those dear customer you know endeavor to strive for the best quality, best quality always. We have partnered with a new lead manufacturer and hence we have upgraded our stuff. Please note that the updater LEDs our industrial grade quality.

We focus on longer life and better performance. even your one hung in sin market cheapy LEDs are gonna last forever. Really almost. You know it's not easy today.

Sometimes you only put in like 10 20 million strong because most LEDs are rated for you know, at least 20 milliamps. So the breadboard level I Don't see why LED life would be a big deal with okay, they're taking it seriously. so just a quick look at this up front and there's our little breadboard in there. So you build your stuff on there and then you just close it over.

but there's no catch or anything like that. I Guess this is not a carry handle I Actually think that you're supposed to put it over like that and that sort of holds everything in place. That's kind of cool that works. And these books that come with it.

This is not fair low vision, but these are. these are really fantastically textured. like a PVC kind of, you know I think it is I think it's like a PVC kind of thing. and and the paper feels like it almost doesn't feel like paper.

it feels like something else. It's ridiculously high quality. This is just Wow rubbing glass with silk to generate. There you go are they start with it I Wish they wouldn't start with the atoms.

this is the hole. Oh They've got water. There you go. The big controversy at the moment about Walter's lecture on the Eevblog floor I might have to link that one in down below if I actually remember it.

Anyway, they start off with charge and and is this the first book yet? Electronics Series Kit One This is the big debate in electronics whether or not you should teach the basics. The basics being whether you says start from the physics level or whether you should start from there. you know. here's how to flush a lid.

Here's a battery. It has voltage. Don't worry about what voltage is, don't worry about all the electrons and all that sort of crap. Don't worry about that.

just build something first. And that's the big debate because you know if you go to university, you learn engineering they teach you from the first couple of years is just all physics, maths, everything else show. Yeah, they do some electronics as well, but yeah a good lot of it is. Just yeah.

here's where they should have started, but they tell you what charge is and all that sort of stuff. Wow This looks a impress Anyway, they didn't dwell on that much so that's great anyway. super high quality photos and everything like it's just like wow. Resistance here we go I'm so yeah.

here we go like a conductor. depends on the cross-sectional area and stuff like that like a row La. Like you don't need that sort of stuff in a beginner thing. You know that's how you learn it.

You know it's sort of like a university level. You know by like teaching stuff like that. So LEDs they didn't go into and nonlinearity stuff there. I Don't think from the brief second I just flipped through that you know here we go: Dual Heat You know they're talking about dual heat and things like that like a fuse.

Yeah, the obligatory Ohm's law triangle. Fantastic. Now potentiometers work. Oh geez, enough to show you whole lot.

But circuit combinations? Yeah, we've got series in wave. I'm sure we're gonna have parallel the switches, beauty capacitors. They show you the physical work instruction that's really good. Don't go into.

you know they talk about cool ohms and and chai. You know their relationship between charge and voltage. you know? I'm not not sure that's needed at this sort of, you know level. but anyway, everyone's opinions vary, so let us know in the comments down below.

Oh, we've got and or gates, base emitter junctions, coil, magnetic field so this is your more advanced stuff. There you got your truth tables. fantastic boolean, lot bit of history in there if logic gates. Anyway, it's ridiculously high quality Here we go that you know history of diodes and the formation of diodes.

and they're talking about, you know, silicon. And yeah, when you start drawing the atoms and stuff like that for a beginner kit is somebody just you know. a little seven-year-old kid wants to flash their leads and stuff like that like they don't care about the phosphorous atom and the extra electron and the doping and the boron. And and you know it's like it's essential stuff when you get more advanced in electronics.

But yeah, they're precautions melted a diode. too much forward current I Love too much reverse voltage I Like that. That's nice. So yeah, let us know in the comments what your preferred thing is.

You know, should it begin a kit like this, have stuff like that You know a lot of people say oh, it can't hurt and stuff like that others will say oh no, it just. you know it'll bore people and like it'll put them off and stuff like that. But this is this scene. This is fantastic.

I'm Wow. The amount of effort that's gone into this and the box. Of course it's crazy. This is this.

All here is mostly wasted space. All that in there. They just had the breadboard in the top there, the manual down the bottom. Anyway, you lift that up.

there you go. shrink wrapped for our protection. The mastic. $2 Jovi it's you know it's fine.

It's good enough. but you know, a kit like this, it's fine. Got our pretend jumper wires in there. That's an interesting way to give you your rights.

Pair red, black and green wire. as I said, we're gonna relay none that alkaline rubbish. Good old heavy-duty That's not the heavy-duty leak proof. Now that leaky.

an alkaline rubbish. And then you've got battery snaps and you got yourself a micro switch there. Got the obligatory motor and well, that's it for that. We have to take the rest out here.

Look at this. Bobby Dazzle Multitec cutters. Terrific. she said big ass spring on G Yes you? yeah? Hey for a kid to get that on their hand, like their hand around, that is like almost impossible I Can barely do it.

There are various kits of components here. Oh yeah, trainees in there. A couple of good, older, the older carbon trimmers. fantastic plug into the be brought more transistors down there.

fantastic obligatory resistors which aren't They don't have labels on them to tell you the values, but I'm sure they've got the color code in there to tell you how to do the business. What do we got in the bottom 100 propeller for our motor? fantastic and don't eat the disc in bags, trap for young players and the whole bunch of leads which we got replacements for a couple of went in for table low ones and it's about all she wrote. Well, you could say that that kit is kind of like. it's a thoroughly impressive, but you could say it's overkill for such a beginner thing.

But yeah, hats off to a good one if I'm pronouncing that correctly. GoPro unmanned for that's the most professional like beginner kit. I've seen Fantastic. but it's all about the video.

Let's go the videotape. All right. this is what. Islands on the disk it's got all the SanDisk the that sort of comes with all that like was sandbox.

man it's just delete all that like it's just silly. Anyway, contents in here. Kit one standard edition: Claim your content, Claim your content, You go I'm Oh yeah, that's just the note that came with that. claim your digital lessons something like that.

Looks like they've got an online thing as well. your very own Google classroom. We can meet your peers and other makers, share and discuss ideas, blah blah blah blah blah. participate in quizzes, contests, and all that sort of fun that stuff so we don't want that for now.

We just want our like, where's our PDF form for quick reference. All right. So this seems like a PowerPoint thing. potential symbol, ground, digital multimeter, how to plug in all that sort of jazz.

And okay, so each thing sort of like a step by step for each type of one. Let's go have a look what it says: four transistors, shall we? Transistors could be interesting presents. the transistor transfer plus resistance, all that sort of stuff. Yeah, bulky, but they give you a history and the first single point transistor.

which is nice, but you know you could argue that you know Europe Like a seven year old or a ten year old or something. you're playing with this thing and like it. Yeah, but yeah, hats off for wanting to do that sort of thing. You know how to download data sheets for that? That's great.

base, emitter collector, curve, surface, all that sort of stuff. Terrific. Can the transistor test up the fabled transistor tester? Institute on a multimeter? I've commented on that plenty of times. Once again Tuesday Yeah, you can understand that.

Saul you need to do for transistor and stuff like that. Nan is getting a bit fancier and you know emitter current, his base current plus collector current and you know you're like high school kids are probably going to understand this stuff. but your you know your rank bit like be beta There it is right It to be a a mix of too much theory sort of mixed with practice. Here it seems like yeah yeah, it's just a little bit too much I think there but nice.

nice though they've gone to a lot of effort. Let's go into our level one reference: Basic Electrical Theory Introduction to Electricity Charges Currents an MP force Well, let's go to the videotape. Oh Unfortunately, it seems to be like there's something wrong with his USB stick like it's not reading properly I don't know. Is it a Shenzhen Marco Market clone ripoff fake thing because it's like I've never had a problem with my USB reader before.

Yeah, something weird with that USB stick I was able to plug it into like a USB 2 port on the front to the USB 3 and it worked. Ok, so I'll copy the files locally. So let's play the first one. Introduction to Electricity Charges I might play the whole thing I'll just probably skip through it, but here we go.

It's pretty professional. We tried manned labs. Electricity in charge. very eighties kinda nineties.

You know in this video I'm going to introduce we'll do electricity system and electricity is all around us. We have two plights pans and TV sets. We have radios, calculators and computers. We have mobile phones and touchpad devices.

And you must know that you can think just because of electricity. The colors you see, it's completely cheesy. Please don't do the light. the cuttings I Hate.

This is like like every Kickstarter every crowdfunding video nowadays. They hire professionals to shoot it. Very professionally shot and edited by the way. Absolutely brilliant and they put a lot of effort into this.

But yeah, they all tell you the same thing. Are you to shoot? You know, talk off camera like this and then shoot a different angle and they set up multiple cameras. It's just wank. Don't do it right.

You know, Just like, talk to the camera, talking head. That's fine. and what's all this pop-up yeah, oh we, oh, whatever the hell it was. That's just no, no.

And the music? no. just no educational content. Straight up. talk to camera.

That's all we want. It's because of electricity. We can walk because of electricity I Know system is driven. but citizen atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions exist because of electricity.

We have cars, We have planes, We have trains that can only capture the how the curse of electricity. And right now you are watching this video and it is also because of electricity. So I can understand what they're trying to do, the background of electricity and all that sort of stuff I did yeah it's just cheezle II produced I'm sorry please tell me if you agree down below. what do you think of this kind of contents very well but you it's very sleek.

What? I We are here to decode it. just submitted my surgery Mr.. What? You go further and can you please tell us how electricity came to be? Notice for the first thing. Yeah sure there was a person in it and I who is I show the other guy you're talking I'm sorry I shouldn't Oh baby Robin Yep So what next? So you see this glass rod has got positive and there's no I study.

Also discovered that if you rub balloon with your head at my own head I know that English isn't his first language and it's you know it's difficult to come across. Yeah, it needs to be a bit more fluid though. that's all. But you know.

Yeah, so he's just demonstrating SUNY was then we've got the graphics. The graphics are good. Nokia yes is same. See this is a week and here's the debate.

You know it's do you teach kids are they want to build. They've got this electronic kit and I want to like build electronics. They want to see motors spin and lights flash and this is the first thing that they've got to sit through learning about positive and negative charges and what is electricity and all that stuff? I don't I'm I'm in the camp. We're just get them excited first and then fill in the details later.

Let me know down in the comments if you're in that camp as well. Maybe it's just because that's how I started out. you know, And that's how a good lot of of my audience started out. As you know, in the hobbyist, we just took us part of stuff.

we took the stuff apart. we just, you know, built things, made stuff work and flash. We didn't care about the theory and all that sort of stuff and it. and they're trying to do that here.

And I can understand why because it's the textbook class way of doing it. You know it's the way they've got these guys never taught at University and I can think of Charge? Yeah, Negative? fine. it's only getting a four-seat work. One coulomb doesn't work.

See, we're talking tongs. Hang on six times. Denver Strip bar - 99. This is the first thing and this is the first video charge is Q See, they don't need to know that we're the five electrons.

Negative not n YZ always an integer, not sorry I'm not I'm out. It's very well produced content, but beginners don't want to see that. So let's go into battery in voltage. better in voltage.

This should be a bit more practical. Energy Energy: Where does this energy come from? Similarly, Nine Nine Volts with voltage. Done it before. So let's do it.

I'll use this nine volt battery and I will touch its two terminals. I I fully encourage kids to try that. By the way, it's not tasty at all. Yeah, that's that's great inside of the battery.

Oh Okay, they're trying to be yeah. okay. glowing and Led Chloe Your first lead I Want to glow My first lead. This is going to be your first experiment on Red Bull Say like this is our first one like we only just got the reference because you're going to light up the first LED of your life LEDs are really fascinating and you should have done this.

Ancestors Mr.. Nick Holonyak, the father of Vanity I can know what I want you to do Signs up to that candidate Schematic: If you look at the circle, back to it does it will all of three symbols in a The symbol of a battery which is 9, Voit the symbol of an LED so you can choose LED of any color, the symbol of resistance, and the value of resistance which is used as 330. Ohm, We need to learn how these symbols are connected. So I'm going to read out the schematic for you.

The positive terminal of the battery which is VCC is connected to the positive terminal of an LED. So the negative terminal of an LED is connected with one of the ends over 330 ohm register and the right end of the register D is actually connected to grab resistor can be by will help us do this Hey this is great for step is to connect up back three on the breadboard for this like I never get origins row oh there we go. Nice nice graphics, one legs of this register in the same column where the negative terminal of the LEDs connected and connect its other leg I might mention either white anyone knows in the circuit of the LED emitter drive or negative T 1 which is equal to three point three eight volt voltage drops across the resistor is equal to V 2 which is become an enforcer of the physicist kill chop and we call it a charge-offs voltage law. And if ya like I do beginners flash and lead to need to know Kirchoff's voltage law.

Riddle me that Yeah, leave it in the comments I mean some people think that this is how it should be taught, others don't necessarily agree, but hats off. it's very nicely produced content if pretty cheesy. yeah, leave your comments down below. Like this whole set was exceptionally produced, thoroughly professionally produced from Go To Whoa, It's just whether or not you like that sort of style.

Let us know in the comments so if you'd like to check it out, it's over at M-- and labs Calm. Thank you very much for sending it in As I said like extremely professional I'd I'd argue that it's almost too they like they've tried too much, tried too hard to make it good. Analyze math and physics. Ok, if you want to get into the physics are we're talking nano amps and the powers of 10 and all that sort of stuff, it's probably I don't know, like it's at this sort of.

Some of the stuff in here is more towards the high school level you know, knowledge rather than our kids and and stuff like that. So, but yeah, exceptionally well produced. Learn to prototype a We didn't get any LED displays That's what I want to build I want to build stuff like that so it is quite different. Quite different to say.

the Tandy you know / RadioShack hundred in one, you know, 200, 150 and one kits and stuff like that. The premium edition I assume we got the Premium Edition for one hundred and sixty Nine hundred and sixty-five electronic components and tools, stuff like that, plus nine hours of video, library and documentation and all that sort of stuff. As I said, they you know had some first-rate production on this sort of stuff, so if you want to check it out, link it down below. Thanks from Australia Thank you very much Bren I think it's Brenda Martin brick Brent It's a bit hard to read anyway from refueling Queensland No knife David says you know I'm gonna use the knife wrap down there at the right angle Paul Supposed to pull oh is this gonna hang on dear Dave No knife.

My ol' bag will be less interesting with a dead host. Okay love from Brick It is brick. It is okay. um okay.

what? Wait Oh is in no more Knife on the episode I know exactly what I'm doing I'm Australian It's like we practically born with one of those no walkers. Alright, so I'm gonna pull this. Do I have to pull them at the same time. There was no instruction.

pull and pull. Yep and then fail. There we go. Seemed like it seemed like a mesh bag.

still completely. Oh it's not. Is it it's not? Is it? Thank you very much from Wow Turn off you strike non Australians Well if you're not into mountaineering, you may not know. Mountain designs adventure store here.

Go out there. any weird? Okay Australian White I don't know but if you seem I wasn't in my edit it was on. My second channel was on my second channel where my harness my Kenyan in harness failed and this is this is a pencil. This is a petal.

It's a pencil Cal Addressed to exactly the same as my one that failed. So I didn't fail. A lot of people took me that. why couldn't the harness didn't fail? These gear loops on here failed.

Looks like these ones have the same McGill um if they might have the same plastic underneath. Anyway, this one's used so I know it wasn't Note: wasn't me? no I thought there was a note Anyway, a pencil. well I used Petzl harness. So how old is this one? Does it have like a a date code thing on it? Main in France for you harness aficionados, if you can decode the date code on that baby, bring all means yeah, it's up.

A lot of people complained that I shouldn't have been using my harness. so I think it was 15 years old I thought it was like 12 years old or something like that. It's my canyoning harness. A lot of people said oh, you shouldn't be past the expected life expectancy of the harness.

and that's true if I was using it for climbing that was designed to prevent a fall. But because I use it for canyoning where you you're simply abseiling, you're falling under controlled descent. At no time in canyoning is a harness going to prevent a fall so there was no risk of that. Um, so it's actually very common for Kenyan in at least here in Australia Don't know about canyoneering in the US but it's very common for people to be using like 20 year old harnesses and you know, like really crusty old stuff.

It's just. it's just part of the community. You know it's part of the thing I know it's not good to encourage and I don't encourage it I don't encourage using any harness past its design Plastics Recommended Manufacturer recommended Life which I think is like five years for a Petzl climbing harness or even less depends on how many Falls you sustain and you know all that sort of jazz. But yeah, anyway I'm yeah all the gear lives because the the PVC go I think that there's some sort of Polly put the kettle on plastic.

these ones actually have a material over them. but yeah, my Petzel Khalid dress harness. Maybe it's an older one or just you know, a slightly different variant. actually just didn't have the material.

it's just got this feels like the same stuff. some sort of Polly put the kettle on material and the last canyoning trip I went on I'll link in the video on my second channel where I was just standing there and my my stuff. my heat spare carabine is my prusik loops and my knife and everything to start like fell off the harness. Then the first one failed, then the second one, then the third one and I moved my gear around and then the fourth one failed all on the one trip.

So obviously something had happened. No, it wasn't left in the UV It's stored in great conditions, all that sort of stuff, but something over time and possibly just soaking in Canyon water? maybe. But like most of 99.99% of the time is just sitting. you know, clean and dry in my bunker so you know it's anyway.

Yeah, how does climbing harnesses? Thank you very much? I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this second hand harness. am I supposed to use this one I did the the other one I trusted cuz it was marking. Actually it was a friend of mine and he left overseas and he just left the harness with me. but if I knew the history for that harness.

So anyway, um yeah, don't use your harnesses. greater than their expected life. Thank you very much Brick. Well that would be interesting.

Give this a try, wouldn't that people like complain I Don't eat the stuff people send in your mail bags. They might poison you. Well what if I actually went and trusted my life to a harness that was sent into the mailbag. Hmm.

I could be interesting video I know what I'm doing I'm a professional cutting edge products made by makers from Tindy. You like it to tend to give you a sticker if you put a makeup product on there I don't know. Anyway, thank you very much nobody for sending this one in. Got a lot of good news.

We have a tindy all right. Someone's got a little project this salon on tindy which is great I Love looking at little projects. We've got awesome chippies. Whole bunch of chippies! PCB So what? I see 2014 minis or the word basic programming Do we have a Wow Okay, we have I think we have a kid computer, a little mini pick computer the RC 2014 um oh yes I think I know this.

it's um yes Spencer Owen random from random Ibis hotel somewhere in Sydney I was supposed to meet Spencer at the RC 2014 to Earth. That's right. there was a torrent. I signed up to the meetup.

he was sure in the world it was like a vintage computer the kind of you know aficionados meet up and stuff like that and I wanted to go and I had tickets tickets to go because it was. you got tickets through a you know, a site or whatever and and I had tickets to go. but unfortunately I had to cancel at the last minute due to family stuff. Anyway, it's yes, he bought it all the way over here from the old dad so he could give it to me at the 2014 Meetup it's the smallest in that I see 2014 lineup it's a 280 based retro 280 based Ozzy Lady said not 280z 8900 ad based retro computer kit which runs Microsoft basic from Roman 32k around 7.3 Meg clock connect the FTDI cable for 115 K board Favorite terminal emulator Enjoy! Thank you very much Spencer this is fantastic.

Unfortunately I think I'd love to do a live video building this but unfortunately I'm banned from doing live videos on YouTube on any of my YouTube channels and I'm also banned from saying and promoting anything else if you know what I mean. So thanks YouTube Anyway, um yeah. fantastic. So I may not be able to build this one up.

Oh look I really want to build it up but seriously, it is like 3 o'clock it's 3 p.m. on Christmas Eve and I want to release the video today so unfortunately this is not gonna happen. I'm as much as I want to do it I'm going to have to save this for another day after. Christmas sorry about that.

Ah C 2014 Co Uk for those playing along at home and the store is Semak the Monkey Ok I'm a ZX Spectrum ROM on Twitter And here's the board and it actually uses a genuine Z ID None of that, you know, newfangled rubbish. You get a real Zed 80 + ik 62 to 5/6 32k of SRAM 512 K bit of EEPROM there and it's all through-hole Absolutely no surface mount rubbish. Fantastic. See got a gigantic header bus right up here.

Terrific! ROM select and oh oh there. Okay right. run select. they're pointing in there okay for those headers so you can select a different pages in your ROM and whatnot and it was also in.

You've got a Oh interface and some miscellaneous logic and that's all she wrote. neat I liked at the RC 20:14 Oh, you can plug it into a Raspberry Pi zero. There you go. Terrific! So I look forward to building that puppy alive when my I'm not sure when it expires the ban on my eevblog to channel yeah, it's ridiculous.

So I got banned and I can't live stream so I wasn't banned for live streaming I was banned for some other stupid copyright thing and one of them and what they do. The only thing that they do to you is revoke your privileges to livestream. So I can't do that on can't live stream on any of my channels. and I'm not allowed to tell you anywhere else that I might do something like that.

anyway. Ridiculous. thank you very much. Spencer So please remind me to do a live stream build of this baby and I'll link it in down below.

Oh Cute! It comes with all the chippies and all the bits and you get some tinder E stickers and you get some RC 2014 stickers and all that sort of stuff and studying. So here we go. That tells you how do went which wants to install first and everything else. that's really quite nice.

Ah, use resistor offcuts for the links. Yeah, absolutely gotta have a drawer full of resistor offcuts if powering from FTDI cable ground portion for basic. all that sort of. Jess that's pretty and we've got a bomb.

And the assembly guide, well, isn't that nice. And there is. the schematic. Simple, easy peasy, lemon squeezy.

Thank you very much. Flavio McGill Baltazar Valentin I'm sorry, thank you very much. Let's go let's have a look. this one's been here a little bit.

apologies there is a nice speaking of things: Sardines I don't think I've had sardines here on the blog before. thank you very much. and I don't know what that is Codfish what? I have no idea what that is. once again, it's yeah, it's tuned to codfish I think that's at least I don't know.

Well that's not a bad idea to have like leads with the bullet connectors at each end and then just have like various adapter II thing so you can go to like banana place you can go to easy Hooks you can go to crocodile clips you can go to little there. there you go, there's the pogo pins. Nice. That's so a whole bunch of stuff would have preferred to see though they that doesn't seem to be.

they're not silicone lead so I would have preferred to see silicone. that would have been nice but uh-oh they're just up there pins like square pins. You can plug them into the point one inch headers and stuff like that so that's quite a cute idea. I like it and he might get into selling them if you want to check it out.

Email address down below no website, another website rubbish thank you very much Nicolas Malou from Canada wait all my Canadian viewers. Um, from Mono? Maybe from Monoprice? No. I don't think so. No, no, no, it's got nothing to do with that.

So she's shrink-wrap for our protection. How do we close you like they're random fuzzy? Like they're random bits of pieces. What on earth is that? some sort of panel alarm panel thingamabob? Don't get it. Do not use an aircraft.

bad. So we have it. Having a bit of avionics kit? Quick. Oh, it's got a fun straw and opener here.

Quick. two-minute teardown. G'day from Canuckistan. thank you very much.

Nikolas Are they visited in 2013? Kolandra will find in the box two related devices over lunch: Mergency Locator beacon. Ah, that one made out of the old 100 analog 120 1.5 megahertz I am powered from a regular 9-volt battery. Yeah, I don't know they're still in use. Yeah.

I don't want to, don't want to pair it up I've done a video actually powering these up without the antenna and stuff and in like within a concrete building so it couldn't escape and stuff like that. But there you go. Get the plastic off there, have a good squeeze inside and the other device is an altitude encoder. It's a pressure sensor in an oven and it will convert a pressure sensor signal in a digital encoding into a gray code.

Oh okay, that hooks up with the transponder in the aircraft and the that's how they can get the altitude from the to the air traffic control. There you go. I'm schematics to build your device, plugging in the altitude encoded displayed altitude in feet to test the encoder. Well, I'm sorry I'm gonna go to that sort of a detail, but schematics can be downloaded here.

Pic can be downloaded here thank you very much. Nicholas And there's the altitude decoder schematic that you can hook up to this puppy here and get. It's there. You go.

Lower just anyway. Two-minute teardown. I Like that, a thumb screw that? oh, it's complete. It's completely uneventful.

Pop-open tiger. Let's have a look at the altitude encoder manufactured by NACO Avionics in Fort Washington Pennsylvania There you go. So Louie Oh Mooned and I've got a genuine mod resistor on there - thank you very much for playing and hid our soldering on the header in there. looks a bit how are you doing but let's oh bloody forgot one hate it when you forget a screw.

There we go and there's our little oven. There's our crystal is going to be inside there. Well, whatever it is. Yeah, we've got a set of trenny doubt that's a regulator.

It's gonna be a no. Yeah, no, that is the block. There you go. So here's the external.

how did you? You know the air pressure comes in from outside the aircraft and goes into the block there. and it is temperature regulated? Of course that would just be a transistor. I Can't readily read the part number on that right now. but yeah, that inside the block and that just maintains it at a temperature.

So there'd be a thermocouple. Where's where's the thermocouple? Must be on the other side of the block? Is it? Yep, there it is. Down On the other side, there's our temp sensor there. Yep.

- N63 87 for those playing along at home. and that was just it all inside the foam block and that just regulates at a temperature. Oh Lt One double I for Ult fanboys and what else. We got in here into cell 70 109.

Actually I'm kind of surprised that doesn't have conformal coating I would have thought that'd be. you know, fairly standard in aircraft avionics, but no, apparently not. And this is interesting because the inter-cell ICL 70 109 is just an ADC that hooks into a microprocessor bus. but there's no micro on here.

There's just the two seven, one six EEPROM here. a couple of UL in 2, W 3, you know. I Oh, like a transistor arrays and that's it. So what things probably happening here is this is set up as an EEPROM based finite state machine to interface with the ADC and that reminds me I said this on a previous video in that I have I wrote a finite state machine compiler back in the day to do basically what I think is happening here there.

they might be using it as a finite State Machine or some sort of interface. you know, like a that doesn't need a micro controller or micro processor in there. so that's you know, just uses lookup stuff. So anyway, you probably have to do a video on that if I never find the old source code for that.

anyway. so I think that's what's going on there. So that's rather interesting in that it's just a non microprocessor based thing. So this is a emergency locator bead in Beacon Hundred and Twenty Five Point Five Megahertz.

the old analog system I've done tear downs of course on EPIRBs which is rather interesting again. and it has the nine volt battery snap. So as I seen, there's like a cover on the back and it's I Don't know if it just used a 9-volt battery in the thing, but you know you would have want to like. Usually these things use like, you know, proprietary Lithium or a lithium primary batteries.

But anyway, yeah, there's not much in there at all. Yep, that's an analog transmitter. All right. You got a crystal, you got a trimmer slug in there, and is that a Yep, Yep, presumably.

And yeah, so it's a like there's a trans, an RF output transistor, another trenee there to oscillate, and then another couple in there. and that's probably your output driver transistor. and like, Bob's your uncle. how'd it goes? So yeah.

guaranteed to work, guaranteed to be reliable. I'm sure that one's actually got looks like some conformal coating on the bottom. kinda sorta looks like it's not I Don't actually 100% sure you can see a bit of the shine there, but it's nothing on the top. It's the EO T10 and details for those playing along at home.

And yeah, I don't know about that. Like just the did the toggle switch there. you know. on/off Anyway, like the difference between off and on is just that.

Like you know you think about, make it a bit harder. not--but. anyway, external antenna I don't know what. um is.

why would you armor does that? Got like a saltwater activation or dunno, there's no external thing. so I'm not sure what the deal is there. There's a reset button that that's a mechanical. Wow, that's a mechanical is going on there.

How does that? How does that work? What? What is that? Okay, I Only presume that this is that this comes on when it's activated and then this is to reset it. But then you can just switch it off. So and there's two screw terminals here. they go off to something else.

So is that the salt water any sort of like activation thing there directly across the terminals there? So I like it goes to some crash or water detection thing perhaps? What is that? and how does that? How does that activate? Aha Acceleration switch. There you go. Tecna Inc Is it that's an acceleration switch? So yeah, well, what? So this drops down onto those contacts. there went like if the plane crashes, presumably like I says that's that's all it is.

There's two contacts in there and I presume that that little metal widget in there drops down under acceleration and that will just push it back. That's just a lever that pushes it back off. That's interesting, right? So this makes sense. Now when you know like you've got arm like that, like off is like I presume you could access this somewhere either in the cockpit or outside the plane or something like that.

So in normal flight you would arm the things so don't know you if you'd leave it off when the plane is like not flying and then party a checklist when you start up is to UM your emergency locator beacon. That kind of makes us sense because it's all kind of like user accessible. otherwise the battery drain if you just kept it on all the time. But anyway, you're keeping an arm and then and then it relies on this acceleration switch to activate if the plane crashes and given that it's those two terminals are directly there that could go off to some other saltwater activation or any other sort of device, to what secondary device to activate it as well.

or you know, if you gently land your plane on the on the water or whatever. I'm you have to make an emergency landing and you're stuck somewhere you don't like, Then it could be any number of reasons you could land it anywhere. Um, and you might want to switch it on manually. So there you go that it's fascinating.

Thank you very much for sending that in. that's that's that's got some yeah, greasy kind of stuff. Not sure what the death was. this field was something.

No. is that is that sealed? No I don't think you know it's got a thing up there. Anyway, there you go. an activation switch.

So I'm not sure how I'm sure they've designed that. You know I've been X amount of g-forces on there. you know, a hundred GS or something or he's going to slam that into the context and presumably it like is it does it stay down there? You wouldn't rely on those contacts would you? Is it like a one-shot kind of thing? I'm not sure what the deal is, but anyway, yep it's good. simple, but this would have been super reliable and effective.

I'm sure this one could have been sitting here for a long time. so it looks like a smiley face that looks like a smiley face. Scan that and correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, I'm sorry this one could have been me for a while.

Um, they've completely wrapped it in tight just to annoy the hell out of the office event. Whatever is in here from falling out. So sorry if this has been it looks it was under the pile. Stuff that's been in you forever Oh David Been watching for several years now.

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You are free to use it as you wish or reaper it to mine for you. Please be careful which computer you run this on. a somewhat annoying to remove. Well Ok, strongly recommend you avoid GPL Suffer and Linux as they are a cancer on Unix.

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it's a high-quality German font I Hope you enjoyed as much as I do. Well, it is a very nice, high quality font. Rather impressed. The 1072 TI should not exist I Still don't understand that.

Is there something about the 1070 Ti? just that model and sorry, don't get it. Unfortunately, Jessie hasn't included any URL or anything to the software and I don't have an air-gapped suitably our gap computer in the current lab at the moment that I would feel confident running this thing on. So so hopefully Jessie can contact me and give us a link to the BSD code for this thing and we'll album. I'll link it in down below.

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