Hi Welcome to everyone's favorite segment: Mailbag: Monday or it could be adequately described as Monster Mailbag Monday because yes, I've got 11 items. Check them out plus a couple of postcards. Crazy! So I'm just going to go through them one by 1 and yes it is. Monday Check it out! So there we go.

I'm starting at 1:40 p.m. Let's see how long it takes to shoot this mailbag. Monday For those curious and we'll start with this one because it says urgent Open ASAP Well okay, very first Mailbag Monday I know this one it is from Freddy Templeton He has queued me up. He's from Southampton in the Old Dart and Sir that crazy Aussie blog Thank you very much.

Um, and let's crack this open. This is Oscar and electronic components because I know that this one ends in like 3 or 4 days time. It's a Kickstarter project so sorry to ruin the uh excitement of open in this thing thing, but he sent me his open his uh Kickstarter project which is Oscar hello Oscar including oh look at that a lovely laser um printed acrylic thing logo thing for Oscar There we go. There's the Pcbs.

looks like are they two identical ones? No, they're not. They're different. They're different. Let's take a look at them.

Aha, that explains it. Version one and version two of the the board and what is it? Well, it's an open screen adapter which uh, drives a generic um LCD screen from a Thunderbolt, Um or display port connection. and unfortunately I don't have a Thunderbolt or display port connection nor an LCD to hook it up. And uh Freddy knows that so he's just sent me the blank uh, Pcbs just to show off the project.

So there you go. That is the Version One board and yes, it is full. Open Source Hardware Where's Oh Yes? look I Love the Uh Name. By the way, it incorporates the Um, the O and the yeah, the Open Source Hardware symbol in the name.

It's just brilliant. Anyway, Uh, Retina iPad display to display port. There you go. Freddy Templeton That is uh, Version One and quite a few changes to Version Two here.

By the looks of it, they've got like a uh, general purpose IO interface here, which they didn't seem to have before did they? Anyway, Um, yeah, that is the latest board and considering that I don't have anything to uh, use them with and I won't be I have no need to build one up. I will, um, ship it to the first person who wants it. So if you want the blank boards, if you have a use for these, um, drop it. In the comments: first person there gets them and there's their Kickstarter project.

Oscar They're almost at their goal. They want 15,000 Yes, they're from the Old Dart of course and they've almost up to 122,000 4 days left. So they're almost there. And there you go.

There's Freddy look happy, smiling dude. look at that and this has been developed by four of them at the University of Southampton uh and Freddy I guess is the Uh is the head guy behind it and there you go. uses an 18 Mega uh, 32 u4. There you go USB interface of course plus uh, all miscellaneous stuff.

It doesn't actually do any I don't believe it does any uh reprocessing of the stuff. It's pretty much just the Um here. they've drawn it like a chip, but this is actually the Uh flat screen. uh well, the Um screen flat Flex connector here for the Um Retina Display So if you want to use one of the I don't even know where you get these retina displays from I don't know can you buy them on eBay I haven't actually looked and uh, basically they got a backlight driver DC todc uh converter here driving all that and uh, some.

So a couple of DC to DC converters, couple of regulators, all that sort of thing. So it's more like just a you know, a a display interface board with the processing. So I'm not exactly sure what the uh atmail process is actually doing I'd have to check out the entire project I won't do that. You guys can check it out if you're interested, so thank you very much Freddy for sending this in and I will forward the boards on to somebody who can actually use them.

I Hope you meet your Target and if you are after driving one of these uh, Retina high resolution Retina iPad displays from your display port uh proc display port or your um Thunderbolt connection then by all means check it out and next up completely at random. we have one from the United States of America from Popla Bluff MD which I believe is Missouri and I can't quite read that uh name pet something last name but thank you very much. Gift under white paper. it uh weighs a bit.

It rattles so rattling is always good. What do we get? And here's a little tip for young maale bag players: If you're going to put a box inside, make sure you've taken your personal address off it. otherwise. uh, it gets showing on the blog.

There you go if you want your personal address. Sean That's just fine. Oh, look at that one. United States dollar stuck down, stuck down with tape.

It may get damaged. Oh thank you very much. look at that $1 us one funny money. look at that green cottony paper stuff crap include items: four indicator lamps, blue lenses, lenses, indicator lamps, two caps, two diodes hi enjoy the blog, cleaning videos and your uh, educating videos.

Thank you very much. Lawrence Awesome! So look just miscellaneous stuff. We have ourselves a stud Mount diode. Look at that.

it's a 1 4527 don't know the specs off hand but that but that's going to be like you know, 50 amps or something. Really big, beefy like that. It unscrews. There we go.

Beautiful. Yes! I Just checked 40 amps, 600 volts, Bit of a beast that one. and yeah. mounted.

yeah. The other connection, the top one there. and the other connection is the case. which is of course, the metal.

so you'd bolt this onto whatever. you could have a big cable coming off it. whatever you wanted to. Usually, it's mounted on a big block like this to act as a heat.

SN and it's also got a surge current of 500 amps. Awesome! So why does it need to be mounted on a block like this? Well, uh, one old crusty data sheet I had a typical forward voltage of 1.4 volts. Well, 1.4 Vols and uh, what was it? Uh, 40 40 amps capable I think it said 35 amps? Oh well. let's go with that.

We're looking at 56 Watts Folks 56 Watts You got to dissipate. You're pissing away that in the diode? Unbelievable. And check out these weird ass dummy loads that fit a bayonet lamp fitting. Go figure.

And yes, they are. 2K I Have actually measured them? Huh? They are. obviously. you know.

dummy load that has to be put in place in order for the system to work. When you don't want a lamp, you just want a reliable dummy load to plug in place to get a system up and running. I Don't know something like that. and we got some really old school GE indicator lamps.

Look at that that's got like blue. It's like a blue tinted front on that. There we go. Woo! Check it out and check out that.

it's a bizarre multi-tool some sort of serrated edge and uh, some staggered Arrangement that can do different size nuts there. H Bottle Opener: We have ourselves a uh Phillips lead replacement bulb. Look at that. We could, uh, try and crack that open.

It's not going to be much in there. assume there's a constant current driver board on the bottom there. Oh oh hello, hello, it just popped off. We didn't have to.

uh, crack that open there? Oh no. wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle. No, can't get the board out. But yeah, I can see.

like is that? yeah, it looks. no, there's like four dodes down in there. They using got a bridge rectifier happening, couple of power resistors down there, but that's about all she wrote. so maybe there's not actually a constant current generator inside that thing.

Yeah, all we've got is four diodes, presumably a bridge rectifier uh, configuration and some dropper resistors on the back. Look at that. just all bodged on there. Oh Phillips and a terribly unexciting big ass, uh, 5% power resist and a cap.

So thank you very much Lawrence wonder what I can spend my George Washington on H running tally 27 minutes to do two items? This ain't an easy game, folks. Next up. Robert J Keller PC From once again the United States of America and uh the Yanks love sending stuff and I love getting stuff from you Yanks Tada Let's have a look what we got. It's in a pouch.

Dave Here is a replacement rubber feet for the Hp41c. Enjoy! Awesome! Thank you very I Just happen to use that in the previous segment. Fantastic! Enclosed is a mailbag item. Fantastic! Thank you very much.

Bob Keller Done it again. Home address he's a ham Bob's a ham. Awesome Awesome thank you very much. Bob Enclosed is a socalled video camera that I got on a per premium from office supply store I Suspect it must um either worth the free sorry I can't read hand.

I'm hopeless at reading handwriting. uh free price but Neel through it may be intent to look inside. Love the came up thank you Bob and he's um on the Forum Rjk 538 on the Forum Awesome thank you very much Bob Let's take a look at this heap of crap video camera. Oh oh oh oh my skin crawls, my eyes burn.

oh that is shocking. Oh that just going to go wash my hands. This is just the cheapness has rubbed off on me. VGA Resolution quarter VGA Woohoo it's all.

Happening Here Folks Oh I'm telling you, words cannot begin to describe how cheap this thing looks and feels. Oh my goodness. even. Oh, even just snapping that open God What! They get the spring out of a bloody bike or something.

You know, a kickstand on a bike that's just H Shocking Digital movie. Massive. 3 megapixels. Woohoo! It's all happening.

1.8 in TFT LCD There some batteries in it. Dare we power this heap of up? Welcome. It works. Are there any dead pixels on there? I Wouldn't be surprised to see dead pixels H Oh, there we go.

It works. It's even got a macro switch in there which kind of works. It's flipping something over the shutter there. we go into macro mode and it does actually Focus macro wise.

but oh wow, that's the worst resolution. I've SC seen in H 15 years or something. Oh, that is just awful. G And of course you're not going to get a Glass lens on that.

It's just the sensor sitting right in the middle like that. What a heap of little lead light. Don't even know how to turn that on. There's no button for it.

Oh my. God there's just a mode thing and that's that's it. I'm surprised they're actually measuring the battery level. Oh, just just incredible digital Zoom obviously.

but H and like, of course there's no swivel on the El Oh man, look, does anyone at all want to see inside this piece of? leave it in The comments if you do, I might do a tear down of the world's shittiest cheapest camcorder. G And it came with leads. Are you kidding me? Oh, hate to think what's inside this stuff. It's probably not copper, it's probably wet string Dave The dingo.

Well I got here Australia not Austria still gets here. Love it. Cracks of people up at the post office that crazy Aussie BL they know me and it's a CD oh it's from by the way I Fly by Wireless Levitation Productions that's just a brilliant name. Fantastic in uh New Zealand hey a New Zealand cousin sorry had to do it.

Let's have a look. you have a note. hi Dave I got this is an unwanted work Christmas gift raffle thingy yeah Chris cringle right if I found interesting with archive footage and all. maybe you've seen already.

so passing on I Remember learning Rpn on the Hp35 at high school. Six form a fun stuff I Fly by Wireless thank you very much Origins Oh look circuit no I haven't seen it. look look I got some Transformer stuff. old school, old school valve stuffff Origins oh what is it? Look at this in the beginning.

they had friendship about $500 and a vision for what to go. Ah Bill and Dave awesome. Create an extraordinary company and telling to people Fantastic Origins No I haven't heard about it and I haven't seen. it only goes for 26 minutes unfortunately.

Um but I wonder I s yeah it's done by Hulet Packard Okay, fantastic there you go. Origins I wonder if there's any copyright on it? maybe someone's uploaded it to YouTube I wonder if I can get permission to upload it? Maybe I might ask? HP Um, grateful to the colleagues and Friends a guy? Yep, there we go. Hey, every everyone's in it. Oh jeez, are they are they all in it.

Everyone's in it. Every man in his dog presumably. Wow. Okay, this is really interesting I wonder if uh, it's available for download? I'll have to check.

if not, I'll ask if I can get permission to upload it I Had a quick look and uh, it turns out that it's it's a promotional thing. You can order a copy from Hulet Packer but I don't think they're selling it so it's free and uh, somebody has already uploaded it on to YouTube at least in part. So maybe I'll I'll I'll ask him you know if I can, uh, officially upload this onto uh, the Eev blog website for well, for all time. Awesome! Uh I just realized it's actually Huet Packard not agilant or bloody key Siders they're going to to become so I don't know anyone at Huet Packard anymore like the old the computer huet Packard if anyone does, give me a decent contact there.

so I can get permission to upload this thing now. this one's been hanging around for a while and unfortunately, uh, this is one that Sean often comes to me to the post office to pick up. uh to check on the mailbag. Um, and well, he's had a go opening it so all I know is that it's from Sweden and uh, it's got Electronics and plastic inside so sorry about that.

Um yeah. I think this is the oldest one I've got in the mail bag here. It's been here for quite some time anyway. So hi to all my Swedish viewers, we got a note.

Oh, we got 3D printed stuff. What is that? Oh it's a it's it's A Is it a mouse? It's a mouse. It's a 3D printed Mouse cover. Yeah, there's the two switches that press down onto the micro switches and uh, why they how they got that flat surface completely flat on there and yet all the rest of it is.

that's weird. It's almost like a wig or something like that is bizarre. Anyway, Let's uh, have a look at the rest of it. Yep, yeah, look, it's A.

it's a 3D printed There we go. they've integrated it custom made 3D printed Mouse oh that's that's great and that's really ergonomic I like that. Oh it's not very. It's not very smooth sailing on the bottom that's for sure, but that is neat.

Hi Dave I've been working on a project which I thought would cool to have in your mailbag. Maybe you can even do a small tear down core. idea is to use a piece of B with a treadmill or other exercise bike and a PC or console so that you can both exercise and play a game at the same time. Basically, you walk on the treadmill, walk in the game.

Huh? Recent demo: What do you have in the package? It's supposed to be a working 3D printable Mouse Okay The firmware on it should work if you hook it up to a mini USB cable. The mouse is just proof of concept. have to excuse the quality. Oh good goodness as the main thing is found inside the mouse.

to get it out, find it easy to press the white enclosure, take a look at the PCB They will tell me what you think about the whole project. I Feel it's rather Niche and you might not even have a treadmill. I Don't understand what the deal with a mouse and the treadmill is anyway. Um, ah oh okay.

there's a um Wireless module RF wireless module on there. um that he's not using yet? There you go. The sensor is a high-end laser sensor ad NS 9500 for those playing along at Home Micro. it's got a ATX Mega 32 in there exactly as we saw at our previous segment.

and uh, the pie Ofb or made by P Ofb Manufacturing in China Yeah, of course. Anyway, um, it's then I do a Kickstarter if he he's currently in marketing mode to see what he thinks. Well, I don't think there's much market for a 3D printed do-it-yourself Mouse Quite frankly. um, but you know, let's have a look inside There we go.

We're getting closer to being in. There's our two little micro switches down to a header main header on the board down in there. Neat. I Like it.

the little post and that just all slips together like that. So there you go. there's Daniel's tread gaming board, which of course really has nothing to do with the mouse. He's just sort of.

you know, did this mouse mucking around. It's really about the uh, uh, the treadmill application and using we nunchucks and uh, stuff like that. So that's what he's got the two um slots for I I Assume they're the KNE the Wii nunchucks. Um, yep, and that's you know, for those into that sort of thing.

That looks rather neat. So check out his website. I'll provide links down below if you, uh, haven't seen it. So actually, that looks like a really interesting project.

I Just checked out the website and I H recommend. Uh, you do if you're into this sort of gaming stuff. basically. yeah, gaming on a treadmill with a big projection screen in front of you and you can use your knee.

We nunchuck and do all sorts of weird and wonderful things and uh, interact while you're running on the treadmill getting fit. There's got to be a niche for that, surely. But yeah, excellent, thank you very much. Daniel And there's our Mouse module down in there.

It's on its own. Uh, little board just solded through hole pins but of it on the bottom? Yep, there we go. There's our little laser module down in there, shoots it out and uh, you know basically how all Optical mice pretty much work these days and a matching Optics uh package on there to focus it. Next up, one from Phil Crawley from rout 6 Workshop in London in the Old Dart Again, good on you Phil Thank you very much electronic components.

Well let's no, it's not in the center there. Ah, it's one of these end open things Is it yeah? I Get fooled every time. Oh look, let's open the endon here. Shall we? Here We go there, we go.

ask First Here we go a another package inside letters business card from Route 6 Workshop let's have a look letter. It looks like a schematic and we have oh it's a DVI to DVI DVI to DVI but there's got to be circuitry in there. Um yeah, it's a DVI to DVI It's a gender changer. That's it.

Okay, next maybe I need the gender changer for what's in here? perhaps no cable and we've got a weird ass Neutrix connector. not sure what that that's sucker is. that's weird huh? I think I'm going to and some cables I think I'm going to have to read the note and of course it all makes sense once you actually read the note from Phil I'm a broadcasting engineer and yeah he's all worked on all sorts of old school stuff. Interestingly, he's got a uh Broadcast Engineering podcast.

There you go: Engineers Bench I didn't know about it. Check it out: Engineers Bench.com Awesome! Um, En Clos are a couple of JY fiber Optic Parts lots of Studio cabling now done over fiber using Fusion splicers. Um, yep. I've used those before and you'll find the multicore loose tube cable with 24 fiber cores containing mineral oil.

Fiber pin tailes with the LC connector are pre-terminated by splicing them. you can get much better lost fibers? yeah, typically you know. sub5 DB I think when I was working on fiber optic stuff, we were aiming for like2 DB or something like that I can't remember I don't know. it was a long time ago and a galaxy far far away.

Um, uh, he's throwing in a Neutrix optical con. ah bulkhead There it is Okay. Check out the dust cover that engages as you remove the fiber from the connector. interesting and the DVI hot plug.

Here we go. It's a spoofer. It's like a a dongle type thing. The editing software we um, sell a Avid Media Composer does crazy stuff as it sensors change and monitor even if you disconnect and reconnect one of your DVI displays and it's just like restarting.

Oh, that's a complete fail. There you go. Um, so he stuff and he got this manufactured uh lifts P pin 16 and keeps it tied to VCC via resistor one H low Factory in China makes them in quantities of 300 and they only charge five quid. AO Awesome Thank you very much Phil And this folks is.

Optical Connector porn. Look at this. Here's our little fiber optic. uh, plug and fiber optic cable.

There we go. I've taken the cap off usually they what came with a cap on the end just to protect it and watch this. As I Push it in I'll see if I can, uh no we may not. Oh, let me turn the exposure up I got fixed exposure and fixed Focus here.

let's see if we can see it. engage, push that shutter. look at that. look at that you can see that dust shutter flip.

See it. see that metal there I Can't point there. there it is. It flips up like that and then the pins come up and engage and locks that in place.

Ah Beautiful! Optical Connector porn. Love it. There it is. again closer as I Plug it in, see that pop up and to reveal Tada There's the fiber at the back there.

Look at that. A thing of beauty and a joy forever. And there's the inner part of the fiber. And we've got There you go.

There's our multicore fibers. all nicely colorcoded, fantastic. And for those who know your fiber optic, there we go. It's a Draa com Tech Woohooo! and this one comes from Nick Blanas if I'm pronouncing that incorrectly sorry uh from the Netherlands that crazy Aussie BL That'll get here every time.

so thank you very much Nick Let's have a look in here. Oh I'll call you Nick good on your neque. No waers mate, let's have a look. We just got some don't know what, that padded material something like that? Yeah, a beino Nano! There we go from seed Studios A Awesome! Nick is 15 years old from the Netherlands hello all viewers in one and a half years.

I'll be going to the University of Technology here in uh ID Hoven to attend e Awesome! I'm writing this to tell you that I appreciate your videos very much. Awesome! Fantastic! I've been interested in electronics since I was less than 8 years old. A terrific me too. I Would tap paper clips to my door, use the tape to attach teeth strip wire to them, have a lead light up when the door was opened.

Awesome! Shortly after receiving my first solder on the age of N I got mitted to DJ O Amford A Young hacker space with minimum age requirement of 12. Fantastic! I Know people from Amford because uh, Agilant Agilant Alium have a Uh facility in um Amford. So there you go. I'm currently working on lots of projects involving Arduino boards.

a recent project of mine designing and build Nixie tube clock. Excellent! I Started the thread on the Forum so you can keep track of my projects He sent me a bear doino Nano which I designed. he designed it two years ago. Fantastic! So I set out to try Mak an Uino.

It's even smaller than the tiny Fto doino. Needless to say, I succeeded. The board measures 21 By4 for the first couple of prototypes I hand applied the solder pace which is a real pain. geez I wasn't doing solder paste at your age.

Oh man. Unbelievable! Uh later on to visit local Fab Lab and got some stencils laser cart to my see look kids these days I mean you know it was only what 13 when he designed this bear doino board and already's getting laser cut uh stencils for SMD Geez when I was a boy it was through hole SMD was H wasn't even a glint in the eye H To my surprise C Studio accepted my request to get them manufacturing and selling the board for me. Awesome! Thank you very much Nick Ique Productions on the Forum Awesome! There's his Nixie Tube Clock project. Excellent! Hooked up to our breadboard but looks of it and uh, a drawbridge.

schematic I Drew in elementary school n CAD excellent and be weo version one. there's his version one of the board on yeah, all through. whole stuff fantastic and he's got it down to this. and well, there's the size of my finger so yep, that's pretty awesome.

Nick Fantastic! Unfortunately, the only disadvantage of this of course is the PIN pitch. It's not standard 0.1 anymore. You just you know, when you get down this small you can't use standard uh pin pitch. but that is that is fantastic work to design that a couple of years back when you're only 13 years old and get it manufactured and selling it through seed.

Studios Awesome! Two thumbs up! Nick And we have what looks like just a letter from Mattius I can't pronounce your last name from Finland Oh, this could take some slice it open. Hang on, idiot test. Surely I'm being put to a test here I'm sure of it. Oh man.

I think I failed I think I failed miserably and another youngster only 17 years old matus from Finland he's uh, loves the channel. thank you very much apologize. You're bad English English is better than mine. In fact, your handwriting is better than mine I think it's uh, he's on a r My internet radio station is called Maza radio um and greetings from Finland it's 30 below zero.

That's just ridiculous. but he's still smiling. Fantastic! And what is Massa radio? For those who can, uh, read, finish there. Go for it.

Now this one was a little bit, uh, confusing I thought oh okay great. I got an Aussie one and well sure enough it is from Australia There you go our Flinders Lane Post Office. It's a an Australia post box and uh was posted here but on the back the return address is Gerard vogle in Santa Clara California in the United States of America and America America People hate it. The angs hate it when I say that.

So I continue to do it just to rile people up. So thank you very much. let's have a look what's inside and Tada oh jeez a Cyprus Kit Hello that's pretty serious Cyprus uh three development kit easy USB FX 3 Po that looks serious feels serious I mean well it's got a 5V DC adapter on there so it's not obviously not just powered from uh, the USB port so it's got to be pretty grunty. Let's have a look at that.

So we got our plug plack silly American bloody plug on it. That's no good, but that's okay. 5 Vol adapter and this looks like serious business. Here we go.

Oh check it out. Got the highs speed board interconnects there. There we go, got nothing else with it so no add-on modules. So there you go.

the Fx3 from Cyprus Oh there we go. Usb3 look at oh of course that's what it's that's what it's actually for. USB 3 we got AI solves battery backed uh real time clock on the back presumably. but yeah, it's a USB development.

the USB 3.0 development kit Awesome! hi Dave it's something that I hope you'll be able to put to better use than I could a package will arrive before my postcard. Thank you very much Gerard I Don't know why you can't use it. There you go a well. a USB 3 I Guess if you're not into developing projects with Usb3, then it's of no use.

Obviously that is the key uh requirement of this uh uh controller which will, uh, take a look at. But uh yeah, it's all about that Usb3 interface. Probably not many on the market that do a full speed I Assume it's full speed Usb3 interface and this is what's on the board. There we go.

They got the Fx3 uh, general purpose interface. Uh, it's not really a processor, it's just an interface chip for USB generic. Uh, you know, interface device that you can hook up to your microcontroller or your Fpga or whatever. It's got Rs232.

It's got to have that uh, I2s headers. So there you go. It supports I2s audio. There's an E Squ Prom socket general purpose interface connector there doesn't tell you what that one is, presumably that's part of that A J tag of course.

and uh 5V power jack. So it's all about that Usb3 interface. so obviously there're uh, and of course you could feed in. you know, really highs speeded stuff.

These are high speed board in interconnects. They'd be all running controlled impedance pairs. probably over to the USB 3 chip over here. let's check it out.

And here you go: Peripheral Controller: That was the word I was after. Um, the phrase I was after. yeah, it's a USB 3 designed to hook up to in this case. uh, you know pretty much anything they're telling you.

you know HD video. You can hook it up to your Fpga or anything to stream, um, Asic or whatever image sensors, all that sort of stuff. So something like this would be absolutely ideal for the Tagano Microscope we just saw, for example. In fact, it wouldn't surprise me if the Tagano microscope used one of these Fx3 processors in there to stream that HD image data full HD at 60 frames per second across the USB 3 interface like that.

So there's probably only a few devices on the market that'll do that full speed. So there you go. Check out the Cyprus Easy USB Fx3 bit of a beast. and there you go.

It does actually have an arm n in it to control it. This is the block diagram, but uh, basically the highspeed, uh, general purpose interface bus. over here. it's got the UR SPI I Squ C, and uh, what else have we got? We got easy check yep and USB 2 on the go, but it's got USB 3 as well with 52k SRAM embedded on the sucker.

So quite a powerful little beast if you want to hook up USB 3 to your product. If you got that amount of data to transfer, well, you know I mean you're not going to roll your own solution. You're going to use one of these off the-shelf per peripheral chips. No doubt about it.

and this one's from Vision Act Do do in Slovenia Don't get many from Slovenia so thank you very much. Oh okay yes I know what this is. Check it out. It's a tablet.

Yes I think I was keyed up on this one. if I Remember rightly let's have a look I think it might be quite quite impressive. Die die bloody bubble wrap tape and all sorts of it's not Amazon Frustration Free Packaging Tada It is a tablet. Look at this.

IP67 Dust and water resistant WiFi E In display months of autonomy, it is a Vision Elect tablet so pull upwards. Here we go. It could be Amazon on like frustration free packaging once you get it out of the oh oh oh you got to rip it look oh look at that V-shaped V for victory tap into the world of Vision Elect. Now what do you do when you there we go Oh I don't know that's a silly but I understand the V oh look at that touch to start.

Okay, hang on. might take a few seconds or we got very Amazon Like everyone's copying the Amazon Kindle type uh packaging. here we go touched to wh Big fail there can see my see my bare feet. All right let's go here we go Touch the start might take a few seconds.

disconnected Power Saving one 2, 3, 4, 5 disconnected Power saving Oh oh has it No, it's taking more than a few seconds I think we have a fail huh? h no Hello Touch anywhere else it looks like that's a almost looks like it's a sticker on there. but it's not. That's just the uh high resolution in in display. but apparently this thing is a waterproof and uh IP67 Well I do have USB power here on the bench so let's oh something beeped oh hello, we're in there we go.

It was just out of juice as you'd expect. There you go. Well you shouldn't I mean it's supposed to it proclaimed proudly proclaimed a long battery life so it looks like this one was drier than a dead dingo's donger. Thank you for charging the V Tablet how kind you're welcome I Couldn't wait to charge you.

but yeah I believe um from memory. Uh yes, they did contact me about this and this is like a development platform for a for exactly a tablet like this. For an eink uh tablet that is, you know IP67 rated. So you develop your apps on here and you can run them and you can run your specialized uh applications I think it's you know it's got Wi-Fi and everything else uh, sort of built in of course so that you can uh, communicate with whatever product you want.

So I believe they have a larger one as well, but this is the little little itty bitty one and uh, it does look very sexy. And here you go: Vision.com I think I was calling Vision elect? No, it's Vision act ECT and uh yeah, it's an electronic E in eaper development. Uh, platform development kit? Basically in a matter of minutes. our electronic paper devices enable beginners and professionals to use their web development schools and develop new electronic paper products in minutes.

because well, you just buy the platform, it's ready to go here. So your idea? Yeah, blah blah blah. Why us? No need to develop firmware? It shouldn't be hard. You can develop Hardware products with JavaScript HTML and CSS in your browser just like any other web app.

Awesome. robust with Incredible battery life newspaper reader for your outdoor hot tub. Yeah, could do it. I Don't know.

Will it survive? You're making a claim? There. Will it? Actually, it might be IP67 rated, but that might not. That's not going to be full immersion in a hot tub at what you know. What's a hot TI running out 35 or something crazy like that? Ah, 35 shouldn't be too bad.

But anyway, fully water, waterproof and won't break easily. Well, I could break it. Let me tell you. um, it brings great sunlight, readability plus only charg the device every long period of time.

Think weeks, not hours. Prototyping production. Do both. Thinking about going from your lab into production, we got you cover.

you can prototype and test on your PC with our development kit and you're ready. Just deploy our infrastructure to scale. There you go Neat. Check them out.

It's got Wi-Fi uh LiPo battery of course accelerometer. Of course you got to be able to you know tilt and swivel and throw the thing around and be able to interact and uh, you can get them in different sizes. There you go. There's no buttons at all on the thing.

this is the 6-in tablet here. They got a shot inside. Maybe if people want to see a tear down inside this thing I could do a separate tear down. They've also got a 9.7 in one and only mono.

of course it's not a color uh in display. There you go well Linux Base There's a little penguin. Fantastic! All the Nerds out there getting very excited Epson does it have an ex Epson uh e in uh well. Epson drivers or whatever real life on V platform W it's all here.

It's tons of stuff. There you go I think it only costs a couple hundred Professional development kit 749 for the 6in development kit. So yeah it's a bit pricey but if you looking to develop a product well you know it's pretty cheap. the Hardware's ready to go.

It's only a oneoff cost but yeah bit pricey. It's not sort of real hobbyist level. Okay let's see if we can get it to do something. Now Here we go there we go.

I Gave it 5 minutes of juice and uh no, no disconnected power saving. It's flickering. No, no disconnected. No, it's not enough power.

Clearly it's probably trying to maybe start up the Wi-Fi module or something. It's just going. sorry, don't have enough juice. no.

Well I would have expected like an an example app on here of course which they have I'm in touch to start. so yeah, more charging and while that one's charging, we'll find out more about. Eric Is that Eric I don't know. Looks like um, sort of a clip art Eric But these are um RF modules And here we go: Low Power RF modules The Eric get it? um easy radio sub 1 gig.

uh RF transceiver and you know s just plug them in and they just go. You know you don't have to dick around with anything. Oh, my tablet's beeping over there. it's doing something.

No, no, it's just telling me to continue to charge secure data transmission uh frequencies for worldwide Market You got to. You know, if you're serious about it, you've got to get the right uh module for your market and program by application, memory and program. B low power options. There we go.

AES 128bit data encryption Awesome! And uh, do they support all of Europe A? Yep, Asia Pacific yep o offering current consumption as low as 32 microamps. low power operation. Is that transmitting small burst? Of course, small burst of data? Nothing. uh, incredibly serious in uh, 32 microamps? Really? So let's oh, oh, look, look at that isn't that sexy.

We got ourselves a shoulder bag oh I can carry this around the local shopping center and I can look pretty Schmick in my uh I'll get my Ugg boots on and I'll walk around my local shopping center with my tote bag. Um, Europe's leading supplier of short range radios Wireless Mike There, that's Wireless Mike Okay, that's Wireless Mike Cliff Art Wireless Mike And uh, introducing the Eric There's all their marketing wank. There you go. Fantastic.

all proven, blah, blah blah. all that sort of jazz and that's what you want I mean look, they got some single in line package versions of them and uh, concept. prototype development. They do all sorts of stuff.

Arduino BS To communicate wirelessly using proprietary radio links. Fantastic. So you got an Uino? You want to? No fuss RF solution that just plugs in and works then? well. Something like this is worth checking out because there's nothing worse and around trying to get your own protocol and get something working and things like that.

No, just don't dick around just using off-the-shelf module. So fancy packaging. Jeez, and they going to town Wireless Mike again are obsessed with wireless mic and I think I've seen some of their videos on their website and yeah, they've gotten like an animated animated wireless mic this, but it's very nicely presented. Please remove my head and plug me into the USB port I have lots of oh my goodness oh my goodness.

Okay there we go all right. this is gone into the sad Department please remove my head he's a USB stick. There you go and his legs move and you can sit him on the side of the thing and well he can. Oh I just broke his arm, broke his arm a there we go USB stick H doesn't plug into here.

obviously it just plugs into your PC he's dead sorry Eric killed you mate. No worries I Just got likely got all the data sheets and all the software and examples and stuff like that. but these are the little modules. Neat.

Check them out and of course these are dead easy to use you know, ground. and VCC even got a built-in regulator on the board there and it handle. It's got the band pass filter, you just hook it up to the antenna and serial data in and out and that's you know. It's got a carrier detect uh pin so you could hook that up to Led to tell you that your characters carrier is active that you're receiving it and it's got a busy so you can you know your processor modules busy I Can't do anything at the moment, just dead easy to use Seral In and Out takes care of all the Prototype uh protocol for you and also um it does.

I don't know if this particular one. Yes, optional data encryption. There you go. That's this particular module here that we're playing with and uh yeah, optional.

um AES 128bit encryption and and Network digital channel select all that sort of jazz you know. Fantastic. Off the shelf. just works.

Worth every cent. These modules, but I pluged the battery in, plug the antennas in here and uh, well, leads light up. but I expected them to sort of be preprogram to Auto Link and uh one to be the transmitter one to be the receiver and well I don't know I because there's no paper manual I don't want to have to plug in. dead era here.

um H I don't know and there's the module there, but check it out, they've actually got it in a spring socket. Look at that. I mean these are individual individual Springs Going to the Uh Half Moon pads on the module in there like standard thing. You can actually surface mount this thing.

you can, uh, solder it down to your board surface mount pads on your board or you can, uh, use through hole links or you can actually put it in a socket like that. That is very sexy I Like that. I Can only assume that these actually come preconfigured just for a Serial in-out application. And no surprises for finding a USB to serial converter Ftdi on there.

It's the Ft 230x Q and of course you know these boards are probably uh, come preconfigured instead of like the demo app with the buttons I was kind of expecting maybe they just come. uh, preconfigured to accept serial in and out so you just plug the serial in. they appear as serial ports and Bam you can send data between two computers. Easy now.

Unfortunately, to test these requires a bit more time than I've got for the mail bag today. So if you want to see me play around with these things, then uh, leave it in the comments and might do a future video on it because really, you know to do it justice. You got to, you know, test out the range you got to serial in, serial out, test out the encryption and and stuff like that. maybe uh, measure some stuff with Spectrum analyzer things like that.

Yeah, that's a fairly decent involved video to try these things out. but thank you very much guys for sending the Eric Awesome! If you were wondering what Eric stood for, it's easy Radio Integrated Controller Eric is dead. Got anything yet? look it. it actually reacted to that I think not disconnected power saving.

What? the I don't know said it was like a third charged or something I don't know what's going on Oh Aloha from Tropical Paradise been there. Got the T-shirt hey Dave I love your channel. Even though I am not an electrical engineer, something about your segment is just fun. I Wanted to watch I to watch went to Hawaii uh for two weeks.

just had to send a card. thank you very much Taylor Awesome little robot and it's a penguin from USA World End How do you pronounce that? Um, there you go. It's the patagonic penguin who knew it reaches 55 cm in height. It builds his nest in small caves as soil depressions or digging through.

Grassroots The egg laying is around late October Each female usually lays two eggs and pigeons. pigeons Yes, baby penguins are born after 40 days of incubation. I'm currently on hi Dave currently on a trip through South America and thought I'd finally drop your card after seeing so many episodes of your show. Chances are you're going to pick my card during a mailbag episode and I am sending you one from the southern tip of South America Awesome! Never been to South America in the uh small Harbor Town of Y as I try to pronounce incorrectly before as I do with all names I normally live in Berlin Germany so get in here.

was quite a trip it was. thank you very much Adrian Awesome! Well this is boring anyway. for those keeping tabs there, you go just over 2 hours to shoot that mail bag. Look, it's got two battery bars and I just disconnected it touched to start.

Disconnected. Power saving Yeah, Okay, touch touch. What do I have to touch? The word touch Unbelievable. It's got have been on charge for I don't know.

45 minutes now. Something like that. Oh fail. There's one neat thing I Like about the design aspect of this thing is that look, it's got little um strap holders on there so that the thing can you know have a neck, uh you know, hang around your neck and then it's on the correct end so it just flips up like that so you can read it and then it can just hang from your chest.

Fantastic! I Give up going home. catch you next time.