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only a three on the audio. Really smart Wants my audio set too. Oh, that's why it's using the webcam. Hang on.

Sorry, Yeah, yeah, let me change that. now. that should be better. That should be better audio now.

Is it better? As our situation improved? 5x5 says Steve Whoop! Don't know what is Five by five and Scott Johnson in the house? Love the Santa hat? Yep. Sounds good? Yep, Yep. Yes! Mr Bloody webcams. Webcams has such mics in them.

Really? So yeah. I'm using my uh. external Road Jobby here. It's kind of like it's um, it's not going well.

it's propped up. It's like it's all wobbly so it did not rock the bench. Yeah because I normally have it like over there facing the camera like whereas if so, if I'm talking towards the screen over here which is not my usual setup. Anyway, Hello everyone from Chester Virginia hey William Michael Teppo JetBlue whoa whoa It's a string going too quickly? John Smith Oliver Maddow Gilasa Get no one wrong.

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check Check there you go I increased it a bit I Literally pressed the button once. The mic gain button. once. it shouldn't it? It auto gains anyway.

Stream Yard Audio gains it. Hmm Wisconsin that's what she said. hey Mal Hi Beds Jarek from Greece Portugal Emmanuel Hey Bert hey Muhammad Megahertz Orian from Florida Reuben from England Luke from Canada Thomas from Maryland we've we've got Mary Lands here with an s on the end Merrylands not exactly the most upmarket suburb in Sydney Maryland large aging Asian contingent in Maryland Hmm Can I make a portable antidote against tasers? Why have you been tasered recently from Utah Someone from Utah Cable from the nether regions I Like say, nether regions Sergio from Memphis Tennessee I've never been to Memphis Montreal Quebec yeah it is already Christmas Eve Here it is 9 A.M Christmas Eve Yes I started a few minutes early. it is 9 A.M Christmas Eve here Adelaide St Louis Missouri haven't been to St Louis Missouri Either end, there's lots of U.S states I haven't been to hey Dave from Ohio Fred from Great Britain which ain't so great anymore.

that's what I'm hearing. Check out the NORAD track Santa Yes does it every year? Apparently it's an American thing NORAD you know I Don't know if uh, the kids would know what uh NORAD is I don't uh, did we watch? Yes, they did. they did watch Stargate but it's not called NORAD in uh, it's just called Cheyenne Mountain Catch up. Hang on Thank you Mal for the uh, super sticker.

Still don't get super stickers, but it's just. it's just a way to donate and you can choose a an image. A cartoony image or something. So yeah, how many people we got because I got it I Did it on the main Channel this time I thought well you know it's end of year I I Normally only do my live shows on the live Hangouts on the second Channel but this is going to the second Channel as well.

Um, but I thought I would uh so it. It actually tells me there's nine people on Facebook 288 and 228 on the main EV Blue, Channel and 55 on EV blog 2. oh I didn't start Odyssey Oh damn sorry. Odyssey can I do it now? It might be too late.

it might be too late I suspect it's too late. sorry about that. Um, hang on. No, it's probably not too late actually.

But oh yeah, it could be because Stream Yard may not send out the thing anymore. Choose an enticing thumbnail. Why can't you just use the default thumbnail I used last time I Don't get it I'll just I'll just use a face palm icon I'll upload that and live stream. All right, All right.

Stick with me anytime you know, restrict your memory. Why? Why doesn't it Let me create names cannot contain Christmas Eve Special title. Ah, because right, because the file name is the sorry the URL can't contain spaces. That's it there we go create.

All right my it may go live I'm not sure I'll I'll check back in a few minutes Aussie Time zone is cheating. No, we're not cheating. we're just. ah, just ahead of the curve.

Get it? curve? Oh, mirror awake almost bit my inner lip. There happens all the time. By the way. I'm always um because I got not very good teeth as in not very well aligned teeth because I didn't have braces when I was a kid.

So yeah, my teeth aren't very well aligned and uh yeah, it's hard to bite my food properly. uh for starters and uh yeah. and I occasionally bite the inside of my gums and stuff my mouth. sorry.

So yeah, there you go. There's a fact you didn't need to know. Hunter Valley Nice place I.T Manager wasn't that long ago. We went to The Hunter Valley and we went last year.

sorry this year I think we went Romania you're watching Die Hard Tonight which is a Christmas movie. it is a Christmas movie official official. the uh the um um what's he? uh the uh Bruce Willis and family said it is officially a Christmas movie in their household. so that um yeah, they came out recently so that that makes it official Die Hard is a Christmas movie thank you Augusto I'm your second favorite electronics engineer.

The first one is Electro Boom yeah it's hard to beat Electro boom I'll take it no I have not been to Portugal Emmanuel another one from Poland Alameda California We had nuclear whistles Nuclear Wessels name the movie Nuclear Whistles. Who can name the movie whereas nuclear whistles? come on, it's your movie Trivia movie trivia of the week. Thank you M Mvv blog. Um for the super sticker using your own icon there of course with a Santa hat.

Oh, you've upgraded it to the Santa hat. Very good. Don't know if you should have the Pom-Pom at the back or is it a Pom-Pom What does a Santa thing called what is a bubbly thing called Honduras No, you're never too late. Angry Ducky, What? What is a Facebook I Don't know something about picking up chicks.

Isn't it something about raiding chicks? It's all I've heard hello from Tennessee Germany People just keep coming Portugal is everyone's from Portugal Jackson Wisconsin I Haven't been to Jackson Wisconsin either. Just warmed up from negative 41 yesterday to Obama negative 20. huh? You must have the sign wrong. What is negative I Don't understand negative temperatures Why? I don't understand negative temperatures What am I doing today I'm um, there's a family.

uh Eve family Christmas Eve Get together. So after this I've got to go to the bunker. I've got to get some stuff. I've got to get the inflatable slide.

Can't put the inflatable slot like we've got this giant inflatable water slide thing for the kids. So I've gotta and it's warm here today. Apparently it's gonna be. Apparently we're gonna have a hot boxing day and yeah, there's some big warm you know, snap coming through or something.

Warm snap. Is there a no? It's usually it's cold snap. There's no such thing as a warm snap. Is there what is a warm snap called? Hmm Heatwave We've got a heat wave coming through.

That's what it is. There's a cold snap and there's a heat wave. So we've got a heat wave coming through. So yeah, giant inflated water.

so I can't use it in the backyard because the backyard's just a dirt pit at the moment and it's not even flat dirt it it is just Boulders rocks smashed up brick and concrete. so we have to put in the front yard and we don't have much front yard. I don't even know if it'll fit but I'm going to try that. we'll have to put it on the pay like we can't put another paver.

imagine going down the slide and land and landing on there on the concrete pavers or the yeah, um, better move them. move over to the the main channel to see the chat. I've I this consolidates all the chat. This consolidates the chat I'm using strum looking at the chat on stream yard so it consolidates the main Channel Facebook and the second Channel as well.

It doesn't do Odyssey though, so let me, just you reminded me there. Let me check. Odyssey No I don't think the live thing came through on Odyssey so that's interesting. That was worth a test.

It was supposed to work like well. I'm not certain. Well, it obviously if I set up the Odyssey feed after I've started going live then it doesn't work because stream yard doesn't have integration for Odyssey yet expat in Georgia USA Argentina Okay I got a cat up and catch up with the chat. I'm not there? Yeah, another Davey's 15 minutes behind chat live stream.

Yep. Is there anything I could wish for in a curved trace or SMU that currently isn't existing, right? Not really. Um, no, not really. Apart from an affordable cost.

one. any tips for controlling a voltage-controlled oscillator via Pwm? or should I use a DAC Um, no. just a two-stage RC filter on your Pwm is is a perfectly fine DAC I would use a two-stage two stage is nice I did that in my old power supply design. Yeah yeah.

I'm behind on the chat. Go so quick. Can I please explain what an oscilloscope is rainbow sheep I'm not sure if you're trolling or you are that beginner. um I don't think I've ever done a video like what is an oscilloscope that's not really or what? what is a multimeter I don't I don't think I've ever done that.

It's just not a thing that I do. Odyssey stream is up and running Jordy Ah thank you I'm not seeing it. Oh yeah, there it is it. It just popped up.

Okay, yeah, it wasn't there before. All right, no one there yet, no one's chatting. I'll come back later usually I'll I paused it on a sad face. sorry, it's just funny I'll I'll show you I paused it I'm not sure if you're seeing that, but I paused it on a sad face.

That's great. Love it. Let me go back. You've just come here for the chat.

Yeah, yeah, sorry yeah, it's stream yard like I can't leave both window I probably could look I can put it up there. hey I'll put it up on my other monitor so it might see in my peripheral vision if somebody chats in. Odyssey Bulgaria said Santa another one from the nether regions. No I have not seen Styrofyrus that's a channel is it? I've heard of it, but I I can't remember Homegrown green laser diode array driver? No, sorry I haven't seen it.

Laser diode drivers need? um, specific? Um, you know specific ramping requirements and stuff. You've got to be careful. Apparently you can, especially with like, a really critical laser you could. If you don't drive them right, you can come together and ruin it apparently.

Can we Can We hang all politicians for 2023? I Wouldn't go that far. Sack them all because they're not doing their job. They're not doing any job. Didn't want to see that.

but what was that? Omnibus Bill in the U.S It's like 4 000 pages long. They literally don't do anything like they. They couldn't be bothered, they couldn't be bothered putting their ass on the line to sign an individual bill so they slap more in one bill and like, why bother even paying them. Second, all sack of all the bastards are those Cheapo open source oscilloscope chip job is worth getting as a beginner.

No, not really. No, no. um because like for under a hundred bucks If you want something like that for under 100 bucks you can get like a hand Tech USB scope like and they're They're adequate like you know I don't know what the software is like. these are but they're You know they're okay and they're you know, fairly powerful and stuff like that Handtech and O1 and other ones do like sub hundred dollar USB oscilloscope.

So if you're gonna like don't get the Little Dicky LCD thing. you know that little and I'm sure that's the one you're talking about. For 30 bucks it's just no like it's just no, no spend 80 bucks instead of 30 bucks like no, it isn't really worth it I don't think if anyone disagrees, let me know but not Bangladesh hey Infinity Siam from Texas say say hi to Lewis for me Lewis's Lewis Rossman's moved to Texas What is in the dumpster today? Well they did go to the dumpster this morning I Scored a chair last night because we we needed a new chair for home which is where I got my last dumpster chair from um this is EV blog got a new um chair Matt like it's like a carpet mat and within a couple of days it was ruined because the chair we had with the we we didn't realize there were like the you know the center Pole or whatever. it was like it was scraping on the carpet and it would just wear out this big hole in the in the brand new carpet we got I don't think it cost much but you know like because those plastic things don't get those bloody plastic um chair carpet protectors.

they're just get a um yeah we just got a thin piece of carpet and but but it ruined it because we didn't realize that. Yeah Unbelievable. So yeah she wanted she wanted a new chair new chair so I went to the dumpster I got a much better chair so that that replaced that so that's what I got in the dumpster yesterday and I went I Went there this morning. there's nothing there.

Well there's a ton of chairs foreign from Japan Dave doesn't look a day over 30 or an ounce over 10. Stone What's 10 Stone My mum always used stones I honestly don't know what 10 stone is. 10 stone to kilograms 63. No I'm not 63.

Try try an extra 10. try an extra 10. the most I've ever weighed in my entire life is 77. maybe 78 kilos.

That's the most I've ever weighed. But now I'm hovering her in in the low 70s, which I probably should be at I Think because if you've met me, I'm quite slim like you know I'm not. exactly try and ask me to do a vacuum sometime with the stomach like I am I am pretty sleep. Check it out all right, as there's the vacuum.

The egg that's pretty slim. it's pretty slim. Yeah, when I was younger though, I was like the most overweight into my mid-20s was 55 kilos. Seriously.

I was really skinny. so yeah, I can do a decent vacuum. It was hard to do it there. but yeah, I can do a decent vacuum.

Hmm CrossFit I used to do CrossFit but they don't offer a cost. CrossFit uh thing at the gym anymore. They took it away. Now it's grid.

They're re. They're remodeling the gym. There's going to be a new grid. Studio I Put in.

they took away the monkey bars I took away the freaking monkey bars. That was my favorite thing there. They took it away. bastards.

So I put in a when they were remodeling, they're remodeling the new one now. and I put in a suggestion. Give us the monkey bars back. We want some variety On this day in 1987, the Return Voyager Completed the first non-stop aerial flight around the world I Remember that because it was in my Beyond 2000 book I've done a video on that and I think The return Voyager was in there because that's where I remember it from might be on 2000's book.

three of them Edition one, two and three thank you Abdullah Yeah well six foot two is a bit taller I'm five nine so no I haven't bought a pick in place yet I did put a um I I did put a bid in on one and uh it it was by it now I'll make an offer a thing so I made an offer and then then the guy um said no I'm keeping it buddy that was oh man I was all psyched. it's all hyped to go to Canberra rent a truck, go to Canberra pick up this pick and place machine. it had 40 Yamaha feeders I was so I was so hyped to go get it and he said nah I'm keeping it damn damn it's so hard to get here. Any video for the 75th anniversary of the transistor I saw that Fran did a video on that I didn't even know it was 75 years really? I I did a video for the 50th anniversary of uh TTL Logic I think that was quite a few years ago.

Uh, that that's just wankery Brian that's just wankery really feed? Uh, you know. Okay, so you can get a couple of kilowatts for a couple for an hour of half an hour. but somebody does a spin class. Whoop-dee-doo I Forgot about that? When will? episode 741 be released? Yeah, for those who don't know, go and search for Ev blog number 741.

It doesn't exist. It doesn't exist. Um because I I think I had something planned I had like a 741 op amp thing planned and it didn't happen I can't even remember details of it I can't remember why it didn't happen and I just left it so I skipped it just in case. I'd go back to it and well, that was a long time ago.

do I like Pavlova no I'm gonna have to say no I'm not really a Pavlova fan. it's okay, but I like I'm not gonna go ah pev like I know that's unaustralian. but yeah, what happened to the MacGyver project? Series Yeah well. I'm gonna do part three.

Um I want to do that before I'm I'm buggering off on holidays so I want to, um, have some videos backed up. So in the next few days I've got to do a bunch of videos. so I'm going to be bum up. head down, bum up next couple of days getting some videos ready.

Um, there's a video I released this morning. Well no sorry I didn't release this morning I released to patrons this morning. There it is. If you want to watch it, there's also a Secret Squirrel one on my second Channel oh I'm not sure which one's what I know I might have put the wrong.

Why'd I put the wrong URL Hang on, Hang on. Hold on to your hat. There you go, You can go early. You can go first in the comments um yeah I I did a uh 50 minute um no, sorry a 30 minute Camp My edit for the latest video came in at 30 minutes and I didn't like that so I like I ripped out a lot of it actually I ripped out 10 minutes of it which was a lot of content and I got the main Channel video down to 19 minutes and 50 seconds for psychological reasons and but you can go watch the full 30 minute edit over on the main Channel if you want.

oh how do you? thank you um teeny4 for the Super Chat there we go Now they let me put it up I can't just click on the top part stream yard come on. I mean this is basic stuff I don't know about the Lumen pick in place from Steve oh Steve Hall's oh, that's the um right? Yeah, that's the it goes under another name right? So thank you Teeny for um yeah, it goes under another name doesn't it? hmm um yeah. the Lumen pick and place I don't know he's he's just released a new feeder hasn't he? He's just finished the powered feeder so I don't know like oh, did we steal it from New Zealand did we stole it from New Zealand of course we did do I eat Vegemite on a daily basis. not anymore.

no if I'm gonna have something in this peanut butter these days, I'm gonna have a spread. no make it worse. Pav was filled with Vegemite bloody companies like um Cadburys and all sorts of other cups like I I've been tweeting photos of this they they had like a a um chicken, a chicken, a hot chicken full Hot Chicken stuffed with Vegemite piss off and they got Vegemite flavored chocolate piss off like just stop it, stop it Unbelievable Yeah so craft own Vegemite and they're just so yeah. that's unbelievable Cadbury is the worst Cadbury is the freaking worst.

Their marketing department have to justify their freaking existence just saying because they produce like this. 20 different varieties of Cadbury dairy milk chocolate all filled with different bloody that they sell like other brand that they sell like oh my God they think they're Geniuses oh let's let's you know have Vegemite flavored freaking um you know uh dairy milk chocolate. oh and they pat themselves on the back and they take home their big bonus and I piss off and it's always ends up in The Bargain Bin because no one buys this. Ah well people, why do we only see mailbag once a year-ish Not quite.

Um I've got some mailbag here. don't know how much. There's probably four or five items. so I'll do.

I'll have a mailbag I will have a mail bag. Boom. There we go. All right.

it's a bit so better. Um, people don't send enough stuff in. send stuff in. Any recommendations for a non-leaky Pp3 nine volt battery? Um, usually the nine volt batteries don't leak like they're usually like it's it's usually not a problem.

Um, it does happen. I've posted some uh Twitter photos of people send me their uh, leaky photos on Twitter if you send me one I'll always retweet it. Um, yeah, they it's You know it's quite rare to get a nine volt battery fail I wouldn't be concerned. Um I wouldn't be that concerned.

Not as concerned as a double A or AAA I Know that nine volts are just 4A batteries in there, but you can get arpile based versions so not sure which ones are the pile based versions foreign? Yeah, yeah. I'll catch up with the chat. Yeah, yeah, hi. Jennifer Merry Christmas Do I have to pay vat and stuff on International stuff sent to the mailbag? No? Never.

Um. but I did just pay. No. but I can show you what just turned up yesterday.

haven't even opened it yet. There you go Sigilant SDS 2354x HD It's the 12-bit HD Jobby So I've now got four, four, 12-bit Scopes in the lab. Unbelievable. and they sent this too.

but I don't think I'm gonna have time to do a video on it before as in this year. Um, they sent this which is really cool. So I want to do a video on power measurement using Scopes and just go into like I was thinking about doing that and just absolutely coincidentally Siglund sent me this. um oh by the way, um yeah.

the reason I had that made me think of that is because I had to pay GST on this coming in because they put the full invoice amount which is like five thousand dollars or something. um what's the um how much is it it's worth? Yeah yeah, five thousand dollars. So they so in instead of putting like you know, engineering sample or you know, a gift or something like that. No so bloody freaking DHL um hit me with GST on that.

So I paid GST in a customs charge on that. so I paid 10 GST to get the scope that I didn't know they were sending me. but I can claim the GST back because I'm a GST registered business so I can claim that back. but I paid like the import Duty on that and stuff as well.

So yeah so so yeah, bastards that that usually doesn't happen. usually it gets through. um but yeah bastards yeah. I've got a 12-bit collection now.

It's insane Insane. I haven't finished my um, the latest video I feature my MX rodent Schwartz Mx04 scope which is awesome. There's a couple of exclusive videos on my Odyssey Channel about that. um but yeah, so yeah, bastards.

and yeah, 25 vat? Where's that? Is that the UK Because they only call it that in the UK don't they or no, there's some European countries who call it that as well. Value-added text Here it's called GST Goods and Services Tax GST is is it the same over there tastic can you? If you're A if you're a vat registered business, you can claim that back right here because it's only the consumer that is supposed to pay GST here, right? So me as a business I will pay GST for an item but I can claim it back. Um so yeah, it's only the End customer that's supposed to bet. There were import fees as well that I got stung for on that which which wasn't much.

but still, you know, yes, eight bits ought to be enough for anybody. Norway is 25. most of the EU is around 20. wow, Most European countries, yes, 20 25 in Sweden businesses pay none right? Yeah, individuals get drilled businesses paying that.

Yeah, yeah, you can claim it back like yeah, like you have to pay it I I had to pay the 10 GST on that. So I paid the 500 which that was US dollars. So I paid the equipment like eight, nine hundred dollars or something to get that into the country. Yeah, if you're vat registered, you can claim it back.

Yeah yeah, that's right. Like you know, like I paid uh I paid GST on this lab right. I paid GST on this lab right? So that was like twenty thousand dollars, right? GST But I was able to claim it back because at the time I wasn't a business at the time. but I was propriet I was a sole Trader but I was GST registered as a sole Trader So I could actually claim it back.

Yep, Nope. This is the right stream. You can watch it. You can watch the stream on EV blog 2 or EV blog.

Doesn't matter, but you won't see all the chat. You'll only see the EV blog 2 chat. So yeah, sorry, yeah, that is the downside, right? I can see the combined chat, but you guys can't right? you guys would have. If you're watching an EV blog too or EV blog one, you would have to have both windows open following both chats.

Unfortunately, Bloody I've asked them to do this. Stream yard should give you the ability to embed the chat on the screen overlay. I Don't think that's asking much. 21 in Belgium HST Here in Canada harmonize sales tax our Canada's the worst.

It doesn't tend to have like five different types of taxes that in Hungary 27 percent. Yeah, business in the air. 20 for the big man? Yeah, Yep. I I Reckon Biden needs to up his 10.

10 doesn't even cover inflation these days Biden needs to up his 10 for the big man. Really? Trump pays zero percent? Well, you can. If you're an individual that doesn't take a wage, you can pay zero percent I Can pay zero percent tax I just wouldn't take a wage right? Or I could take a fifteen thousand dollar wage because no 18 000. Basically, if I took a wage that's eighteen thousand dollars a year I Pay no income tax.

Zero zilch nada because it is tax free threshold anything under 18 000 a year you pay no tax on. So if I can figure out how to live, if I can figure out how to pay for my expenses in some other way, I can pay no tax PST and GST in certain provinces of Canada Yeah, every time we go to Canada every business owner is about the taxes. Yes I know there are two simultaneous streams I'm putting it, maybe that was a mistake. Maybe I should only have put on the main Channel but I know some people are used to my live streams on the second Channel but I'm getting Consolidated Chat Okay, whoa, hang on Super chats, hang on I Missed two humongous super chats.

Hang on First One Max Factor Big fan here. Watching you for 10 years and learn a lot. Thank you and Merry Christmas to you too! Max Factor That's like the makeup isn't it? Max Factor Is it makeup or something? Am I wrong? Sorry. I'm not used to this volume of okay, Not used to this volume of content chat.

Uh, things. once again, stream yard my God Just simple stuff. Just let me click on that. It shows me up the top.

look look look I'll I'll show you there's nothing that no, there's nothing that look I'll show you right. look. It shows me the super chats up the top right. but I can't click on that I cannot click on that right and then overlay that.

Why not? I've got to scroll through all the comments and try and find it and then I can overlay it like that. Like come on. seriously. Jeez.

Anyway, that's way too generous. Aaron Merry Christmas To you mate, Young Young whipper snapper, that's way too generous. I'm an old whipper snapper I don't need the hundred bucks but thank you thank you that that feeds the family. Um, you should have invested that hundred bucks Aaron Aaron with one R Isn't Aaron supposed to be usually two hours? Aaron with one R Um, should have invested that hundred bucks Aaron It's my advice.

don't don't give it to YouTubers although I know if you enjoy your content I I either I donate to YouTubers as well. Um, but you know General Life Advice: invest that hundred bucks. You'll thank me in 30 years. How did I learn to run yourself as a business? Um I just did it and figured it out.

As I went along, you figure it out. Yep, when I was a teenager, you just figured it out and yeah, I'd make had my kit business, my software business and yeah, yeah, just figure I I ran as a hobby actually no I was I remember I was running it as um like I was trying to run it as a legitimate business. it wasn't a proprietary limited business, but I was putting it on my taxes and everything and then I could realize and then I realized I could. and then I discovered what hobby income is I discovered that there's a tax bracket for hobby income and if you can class it as oh, I'm just doing this for fun.

The the thing the Um test was, if you have quote marks, no reasonable expectation of making a profit, then it's hobby income and you don't pay any tax on it here in Australia So yeah, I was bummed when I learned that I've been paying tax all this time. you know, because like I wasn't charging my time as like like my, you know, like my time as like a wage or anything and the time I spent on it probably didn't pay for the income. So if I actually ran it as a proper business and charge my time and paid myself a wage, I realized that I could have like paid no tax on it because then the expenses of my own wage would have offset that, you know, offset the income. So yeah, anyway, thank you Aaron that was uh, way way too generous.

Geez, you're behind the times Gold hat I Did a live stream on that I did a live stream watching it live and the other Super Chat Thank you Graham watching while sanding polish in the lens for about nine thousand. Like are you like making a replica? How nine thousand? That's cool. Keep it up with the great content Merry Christmas To you and your family from a poem with Oz citizenship I Grew up in Canberra Okay, back in the UK now. so you weren't born here? Oh no, you were born okay, right? So you're born here.

so you're a Um or you or did you become a citizen because you were came here or something. It's confusing back in the UK Now why? Australia's better -20 What's his minor I don't understand negative temperatures at all. Do not understand how you can get a negative temperature I Need to help Lewis Rossman his cursing label printers? Really? Yeah. I Did the recent label printer videos? Really? Yeah.

Lewis Moved to Texas set up his new shop which looks really good. His new shop looks really good and I've I've got I've got a friend who um dig who got one of his scored one of his um internships or whatever they call it. you know, like he because he's teamed up with this. but I don't know.

multi-millionaire billionaire guy and uh, they're offering. if you've got an open source project uh, it has to be open source project that's like fighting against. You know anything you know, fighting against the man you know? um then yeah, um, they will pay you to develop that. and a friend of mine scored one of their Um scholarships last week.

Let's go about other things. He's um, here in Australia So they they wanted him to go there but he can't because he's got a family. so um, yeah, but they're they're but they still hate him and he's going to, um, that pays him to develop his open source software. So so it's cool.

Yeah, so if you've got an open source software that sticks it to the man in some way, there's money to be had. There you go. Glad you're not a mod. yeah Carrie I I know you're a mod on Friends Channel because even yeah, keeping up with chats? Yeah, both both chats.

Yeah, yeah. I rarely have to ban people though. Did I decide whether I'm going to do that five under the still scope shootout? Ah, not at this stage. I've got way too many like I've as I said.

I've got four 12-bit Scopes here and I haven't done videos on the road and Schwartz one yet. the high-end Road and Schwartz one I haven't done proper reviews on the other ones. uh oh I know I've done a playing around I've done like a playing around with the 1000 series and now I just I just got that sigilant. He's got the bloody segland.

Oh I haven't showed you the board. Um, the the segment is generally it's it's the XE I think it's the SDS 1104 XE is the recommended segment these days. Um I can't decide on four channels or more memory. Always go for four channels.

Always go for more channels over anything else. Bandwidth, memory, depth, anything. Always go for four channels. Four channels is going to be much more useful to you forever than the other stuff.

Anyway, go ask on the EV blog forum. Can I apply tax losses? Uh, to previous years? That's somewhat. Uh, Trump is doing. You can, um for like I have no idea about U.S Tax law, right? Um, but apparently everything Trump is doing.

they cannot find anything. They're going through his tax returns. they can't find a damn thing apparently. and you know.

And guys as clean as a whistle, right? It's unbelievable. He's the most vetted person in. he's the most vetted person ever. Financially, they can't find a thing on him.

there's you know there's some things that oh might be a little bit Shady but yeah, no, that's that's an accountant's job is to do stuff that if you've got a good reason to do it, you do it even though later yeah, it might come out that you know. Oh, look okay, the tax department doesn't agree with your reasoning and but that's that that? that's not illegal, that's just what accountants do. Accountants do that all the time. Um, even like myself and my accountant, you know, like we go.

Okay, we're going to do this and it's reasonable based on, you know, um, you know existing tax. Uh, not law, but tax precedent because they publish tax precedence if yeah, Well here in Australia don't know about overseas, but they publish tax precedents and so they give you like example, uh, you know ones that they've done and you can search the database for them and you can go well based on this precedent. We're going to do this and you know, and it's perfectly legal. Sure, the tax department later might say ah, we don't agree with that, but it doesn't make it illegal.

The guy's clean, is a freaking whistle. Unbelievable. Yeah, yeah, it's 18 200 threshold. I'm way behind the chat.

Palms In the house, someone wants a petition to end taxes. Someone's got two browsers going. Yeah yeah. the it.

It looks sci-fi cool doesn't it? It looks sci-fi cool. It's great. I Don't know why they don't use any more. Uh, sci-fi shows.

Really? Crypto or Nft? Don't touch Nfts? they're but Trump want to once again talking about Trump My God He made an absolute killing on that Nft. What do you make like I know five million bucks in a day or something and and he gets a percentage. He gets an ongoing royalty every time they're bought or sold. I guess I Now I wish I would have bought some Trump Nfts because they're gone up I could have flipped them, you know Ace and and he's like Nfts were dead I I had written off Nfts, they were dead and Trump practically single-handedly revised Nfts, revived, revised, revived Nfts and now you know all the normies in the US Um, you know because he came out and said oh, they're like digital trading cards or something and sure And so everyone now understands Nfts.

Oh, they're just digital trading cards. Oh yeah, I can understand that because I got my Babe Ruth trading cards you know, single-handedly revived them. Unbelievable I thought they were dead. Really? Nfts, No, maybe you're an idiot if you buy one of those board ape things.

Oh oh, we have our first. We have our first uh you know High Current comment: We have our first spam bot so block user Boom! Okay, let me scroll back get get to the end of the chat. Oh Super Chat Homer Simpson left a Super Chat Artemis did an AMA mod removed my silly question for Billy Really? they didn't ask me anything and a mod remove your question for Billy the legend that is Billy You know what makes this bird go up Billy makes this bird go up. That's my EV Vlog 2 Channel I'm Billy they Legend and he commented Billy actually commented on my video assuming it's really him.

It's it. It's under his real name on the on the comments so I pinned it. So if you go to my Billy video, there's a comment from Billy there and Billy's just doing his Billy thing. Oh you know Autumn you know Artemis is great.

You know, best luck for the mission. all that sort of stuff. Yeah, it's exactly what you expect from Billy Really? Wow, what a bunch of dicks. The mod removed your question.

Anyway, it's getting warm in here I'm going to turn the air con on. might be some aircon noise. Yeah, it's thought I was getting a bit uncomfortable. It was 26 degrees in here and there's nobody else in the building.

I'm literally the only one in the building. um anyway yeah well that sucks Homer screw them. Really? Was that on the NASA Artemis um thing? uh that was was that on the live stream? Was it? What's this? Lauren of the 20K I don't know what. A 1099k threshold down to 600 bucks.

nightmare for people selling a lot of old stuff at a loss. Really, that's like there shouldn't be any problem. like like if I sell my secondhand stuff, there's no tax on that or whatever. Um I don't know.

Well I assume that's a text legislation thing. Um, although eBay will automatically report you here in Australia if your account earns over five thousand dollars. Oh okay, um sorry. there's been people chatting on the uh Odyssey Thank you for the donations.

Dave is based says Frederick yeah sorry uh Frederick I I cannot read Odyssey comments it's on a separate window. it's not in my main feed here so like and and I can't overlay them either. Um, someone wants to laugh laugh. Lothar collats on Odyssey wants to know I know a few content creators from Down Under and none of them have thus far discussed what it's like to have Christmas at the hottest time of the year.

Kind of curious if that leads to any unique Traditions Um Well on its tradition that on Christmas Day and Boxing Day you go to the beach. so the beaches are packed on Christmas Day and Boxing day and you take your Barbie you take your Esky right, you have a Barbie and you have an Esky with cold beer in it at the beach on a stinking hot 35 40 degree Celsius day usually. um yeah yeah, that's that's what we do here and I can remember I was watching I was watching a like one of those American expat you know videos what it was like to visit Australia and they visited Australia over new over Christmas and New Year's and they were stunned that they went oh on boxing day um or or New Year's Day is Like also a beach day um he said it was strange. we went to the beach and we just sat on the beach all day and we didn't really do anything.

we just sat on the beach swam, chat had a Barbie I we did nothing and this American was like with like it's Americans so used to I don't know everything yeah we sit on the beach all day. what's wrong with that? what's your problem I didn't say the problem I didn't say the problem me anyway I thought that was hilarious this Yang couldn't understand. Here we go Mike Mike's in the house I've had Christmas dinner on the beach in Sydney you have lots of Brits with Santa hats and Speedos yeah yeah when were you in Sydney Mike I didn't know you've ever been to Australia let alone Sydney when did you come to Sydney that that that would have been pre that would have been pre- YouTube right? I'm assuming oh you ordered a uh 786 of I hope it gets there Budgie Smugglers yes sitting on the boys Beach all day wearing his Budgie Smugglers so yeah, when did you visit I assume because otherwise uh we should have met up if it was during the YouTube years. You know you're getting old when you can't hear the flyback Transformer from your old CRT TV anymore Yeah yeah I don't know what my hearing frequency range is now, don't know but yeah I used to be able to hear it.

you have birthday on Christmas loading Oh that sucks. Didn't get a reply from Mike Anyway I didn't show you. let me know if Mike responds I didn't show you this I was going to do a Power analysis video. Oh come on Focus Your Bastard Focus Your bastard Come on.

Focus I've been to Sydney three times. yes pre pre-youtube early 2000s. Okay yeah I thought so Mike otherwise I'm sure you would have arranged to meet up now. come on they are.

they are. It's a D skew fixture. It's a D SKU fix fixture and yet bloody focus and anyway it's got current Loops right it's it's got two different current Loops over here and uh you use this D skew um D SKU board to um uh for when you're doing power measurements because when you do power measurements with your you know all like lots of modern Scopes have power measurement capability built in usually a paid option. um so yeah I was going to demo stuff like that and uh also my Tektronix 3000 um it's got also power analysis for to meet the standard to beat the standard and does the um you know it does the conducted emissions um, checking and stuff like that to see if it meets the compliance standard and gives you the bar graph and whether you're above or below the standard and stuff like that.

so I was gonna. it's gonna do a video on that and and you need to use a D skew board because um your current probe is usually is going to be out of. unless you're lucky, your current probe is going to be out of phase with your voltage probe and that's just going to screw up all your measurements so you know. So so you need to de-sq it First you need to add a delay to your probe to actually um, you can do that manually.

um you know, even if the software doesn't support it, you can most even low end Scopes have a skew feature so you can actually um yeah. so if you're doing any uh, real power analysis stuff, yeah, you're gonna make sure your voltage your currency in. Phase So that's what this D SKU feature is just it. You know you can do it, do it without this, but you know you have to.

sort of. you know it's just nice. Anti-focus technology. Yes, yes, the Logitech C920 with patent-pending anti-focus technology Emir It only took eight weeks to get your approval on the Forum Yeah, sorry about that.

I Do get a lot of email and sometimes it slips through but I was having email problems I only recently just fixed that. so I shouldn't have email problems anymore. mm-hmm yeah I was having obscure like I I had like major manufacturers like Ronan Schwartz and Siglin and others say that they could. They sent me an email and I just never got it.

just never got it yet sometimes it would if it came from someone else like it was weird. So yeah, yeah, it's fixed anyway. um Can Someone remind me that I've got to go at 11 o'clock I cannot do go beyond 11AM because I've got to go pick up stuff and go home. So yeah, I've got an hour left tops Greta Thun Greta Thundberg and the Weft Klaus Klaus Schwab you will eat Z Bugs off.

No, no, it isn't. it isn't It wasn't a spam folder issue. it wasn't a spam folder. it was.

Rejecting the emails and doing all sorts of it was complicated. Ah, that's my gum thing here Z Bugs Y you eight? Z bugs. You'll owe nothing and you'll be happy. Yeah, which which isn't true of course.

but uh, it's fun to you know they they. they do want you to. uh, they do want you to rent things. They want you to be a surf.

They want you to be a Slave Was it dcom SPF um no. it was the simple fact. the way I fixed it somebody, somebody nailed it. Um, is that in Gmail in um sorry.

on my EV blog server I was redirecting I was redirecting I set up a redirect on the EV blog email server I had a redirect which would redirect the email to my Gmail because I do all my Gmail's my interface that I use I don't use my server and it was that redirect which depending on what which email program and server and you've got in the background. yeah, something to do with Dcam I don't know the details SPF I don't know the technical details. but yeah, it was the act of redirecting that mail that caused the fires. In some cases, only a small real small percentage of cases.

So small that I didn't bother doing anything about it for donkeys years until some key manufacturers said look, we can't contact you Raigal was another one said oh, we just can't contact you right yet 99.9 of email was just fine. So yeah, so I said so now I've just um so now I let I let now I have a pop now I have Gmail set up to pull the email from the pop, use pop to pull the email right. Um, apparently IMAP as well. but Gmail doesn't support IMAP Imports or something I don't know.

So I'm using pop to import yeah and that that totally fixed the problem That totally fixed it. So there you go. Yeah, it was that simple. It was that simple I thought a redirect.

but some email programs and servers don't like doing the redirect thing. It reports an error back and doesn't do it. and I don't know. But now now pop Works 100 So who would have thought? Oh, God what am I most excited about your future? Seeing my kids grow up? I Guess as a parent you're basically if you don't have kids, you won't understand.

Um yeah, watching my kids grow up. Sagan's in high school next year? Um, so yep and doing more stuff with the kids like doing more you know, like advanced stuff because I basically let them be kids like like I haven't pushed them into electronics and engineering and stuff like that I've kind of, you know, I've just let them do whatever naturally interests them. but um, yeah, now now you're getting a bit older. I can do specific things with them that they not push stuff on them, but anything they're interested in we can do in more detail.

why are there two live streams active? Because I usually do the Eev blog 2 Channel live but because this is a big yearly thing I decided to do the main Channel and I didn't want this second Channel EV Blog 2 to be left out because people are used to the live stream over there. In fact, some people only subscribe to EV blog 2 for my live stuff. So there you go: Gmail and IMAP is bad is it? Well, yeah, they just didn't give me the option my uh I.T Penguin guy said um yeah, use IMAP but Gmail doesn't support IMAP So I had to use pop the the only bugs that want to eat come from Morton Bay yeah if you don't know Morton Bay Bugs Moreton Bay Bugs are a thing. Any plans for a phone nap for the Forum No not really.

although in the New Year probably over my break I might do some work on it if I'm sitting at the beach and I go and I'm bored and I I might. um I Want to add some stuff I Want to tidy up the Forum I Want to upgrade the Forum I Want to include sponsorships? Um, you know, like like you can get sponsorship on the Forum but I want to like do that so the ads vanish for people who get the sponsorship on the Forum and stuff like that I Want to upgrade the Forum I Want to put more time and effort into The Forum So yeah. I Yeah, that might include a email that might include an app. Well, I don't like I Won't write a specific app for it, but if there is something third party available, send me.

send me a link. Oh I I Just saw that Mike I just got an email about the fully charged show in March Um yeah, it's here in Sydney I Got an email about it and I can get a discount because I'm part of the uh Electric Vehicle Association of Australia Um and uh yeah. I Don't know. Yeah, maybe it's um, um, pretty good Is it yeah? I'll probably go.

Yeah. Okay, I think you've convinced me that I'll go because I'm not necessarily a huge fan of that show. Um, what? What is a Gordon Llewellyn or someone said his name? So yeah, yeah. okay.

I will go Mike I will get tickets I will get I'll get tickets I will go. Yeah so what? what? Like there's talks as well. you can like organize a talk and stuff as well I don't know if I'd give a talk. don't know what I'd give a talk about if you've got any ideas.

Well I could give a talk about for an electric fully charged EV show don't know. shown the data off on my zappy or something. how it Maps the thing but that's pretty boring. Like everyone knows that it's like nothing.

It's nothing really groundbreaking. I could explain I've always wanted to do a video. it's been on my list. It is on my list.

actually. how uh, Regen Breaking works that that that's on my list. How the H Bridge Regen system is going to explain how the H Bridge works and does the Regen in the other direction and stuff? Um yeah. all right Mike I will go.

Got a signal Spectrum Analyzer Enjoy! You turned it into a you hacked your um yeah, your 5000 series MSO scope. Yep, pick one up for 800 bucks and unlocked everything turned into a three thousand dollar scope. Nice. Nice.

Yup, yeah. Bargain. Bargain. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable. like it's You know it's like there's some quirky things about the Rygal Scopes and stuff. and they got bugs and stuff. but geez, if you can pick up a three grand featured scope right under bucks.

Yeah Yeah sorry. Carrie I Haven't been able to do the live streams because like every Saturday there's always some kids thing happening. you know? I've got to take the kids to sports. Gotta do whatever right? There's always you know they have more.

They do multiple Sports and events and Athletics and stuff and I Yeah and and it's always on a Saturday and Sunday I'm not allowed to do any I'm not allowed to come to the lab on a Sunday Um the Angry Ducky your four-year-old daughter Nanny Hello Nanny Nanny Come out of hiding. come out of hiding and talk to Uncle Dave The weird guy in the Hat come and talk to Uncle Dave hello Merry Christmas Nanny I Hope Santa brings you some cool stuff. Do you have any advice for aspiring electrical engineers? Uh yeah. Do what you enjoy.

Don't don't try and follow. Don't try and follow the market. Don't try and follow the trend. Don't try and follow where the jobs are.

Do what you enjoy um and you will be You'll be good to go. Trust me and have a side business. Have a side hustle. always have a side Hustle and make stuff and show show stuff I've done job, interview, tip, videos and all sorts of stuff set at countless times.

Yes I do read Eev blog 2 Channel Chat I Have to keep saying this like every 10 minutes Yes I'm reading both chats I'm using stream yard it pulls in chats from Facebook EV blog too and um, uh, the main EV blog channel. So yes, I'm reading all the chats but there's so many of them that am I excited about artificial intelligence stuff. Um, it's very cool for art. I've been playing around with the Um with the Discord one.

uh, what's it called? yeah, you have to do it through Discord and uh Chris Gamble Put me onto it and it's it's pretty good. It's a pretty good uh Journey that uh and then a journey or whatever mid Journey mid-journey mid-journey on Discord and it's pretty amazing. um for generating art and there's an art in being able to generate the art and I just uh tweeted a Chris Gamble one the other day and it was brilliant. Like images he's able to produce with this mid-journey he's he's got like the pro package and he's just obsessed with generating these AI images now.

So AI images are fantastic and yeah I've seen the GPT bot thing and yeah, you know it's okay I've had a little play around with it but you know mm-hmm it has its Niche uses has its Niche uses Dave You're So based I love your videos where you debunk stuff. Yeah! I've got several debunk video not debunk, just warning videos like Robert Robert Llewellyn that's it. Thank you for the super chats electrokinesis from the United States of America USA us America yeah I yeah I know he was on Red Dwarf or something like that I'd never watched Red Dwarf yeah yeah, shoot me now I've never watched it like I I never got it I never understood Red Dot like I've seen a couple episodes and I never really got it I never really got it. It's not a thing I know I'm gonna be hugely hated for that I'm gonna get hate mail now.

Light Live teardown of an EV drive train. That'll be cool. That'd be cool if I could get something. Wow! Wow! where would I get one from here in? Australia You could probably pick one up on the US on yeah, you know Craigslist or something, right? an EV drivetrain.

Wow Yeah! Live tear down of a a live teardown of an EV uh, regen module like motor drive and Regen module. Yeah, that'd be nice. Wow. Wouldn't know where to get one Wreckers I Don't know, but why? why? why do it at their live show? Why wouldn't I just do you know I just do a video on it right? I've got a bigger audience than than that live show.

You're all right I should get into ambient synthesizing music. Really? you must have totally missed my videos Naturalist and you're not following me on Twitter I'm obsessed with Artemis Mission Billy's the Man. How do I manage to get such neat fines at the trash place? What type of Refuge place is it? I've explained this multiple times. I've even done videos on it.

Um yeah, there's a lot of people who think it's fake. They think I buy this on eBay and I like place it in the dumpster room. Oh my. God There's no need.

This is a corporate business park. Okay, there's lots of high-end companies. This dumpster room. It's locked.

You've got to have the key right. It's not a public dumpster room. If you're a tenant or an owner in one of several buildings in this business park, you're allowed to use the dumpster room right? And you've you've got a key for it. And um, yeah, there's just lots of like.

It serves like over a hundred companies. there's over a come over a hundred high-end companies. You know we're talking. You know, doctors, lawyers, accountants, real estate agents.

we're talking. You know, like every medical specialist on Under the Sun every sort of you know. Um, you know Graphics companies. That's why I scored a huge plotter.

like a huge A0 plotter, right? It works HP a0 plotter because you know some architect firm was had upgraded their plotter and they just wheel it down to the garbage room right and it's fully working right? and I sold that on eBay sold on an eBay for like a thousand bucks or something, right? And and that's how you know. company and all the lease. Uh, computers. they lease all these computers or whatever.

They don't bother sending them back or whatever I don't know how it all works and and they just dump I get I get dozens and dozens of small form-factor computers. The one I'm using right now is a dumpster computer, right? And yeah, yeah, it's that's it's how it works when you've got so many companies who just toss stuff out. Oh yeah, the um, open source? um Asic tools are very cool. We've talked about that on The Amp Hour Podcast.

Yep, yep, it's very, very cool. We've even had people on who've done it on the amp hour. thank you. Alan EV Charge point to car protocol tear down including DC fast charge yeah I Guess if I if I sat down and thought about it, there's many presentations I could do.

but you know, am I going to go to all that effort like that's the thing. Am I going to go to all that effort just to prepare because you know it's a lot of effort to prepare a talk like that and prepare slides and do whatever. Even you know even a Ted even an impromptu tear down you know you gotta like I've got to arrange it all I've got to prep and do all sorts of stuff and then what? 50 people show up and watch me do a live tear down. And who does it help doesn't help me? Maybe I could stream I could record it and put it on my channel.

but you know ultimately it doesn't. You know, Ultimately, it doesn't help me much. I put all that effort in I'm probably better off spending the time and effort on my own. um, making that content I guess although as I said, you could, you could actually uh, you know I could film that and put it on the channel me at the you know.

But but then again, that that's a lot of effort to not only prep that, do it, but also film it and make sure it's all working and filmed at like I'd need a cameraman? like unless it's like some just widescreen static shot or something and it's like oh my God like just like I could take my live production kit because I've got an atem and I could like produce stuff live maybe and actually record it and stuff like that. Maybe I could just you know. but that's that's a lot of effort. It's a lot of effort and who's it helping really? Um, you've got a dead ski Mdo3000 doesn't have? Well, somebody's killed all the inputs I Got no idea.

Usually usually you only kill one input. Let's go. Maybe there's something else at Play it I Find it hard to believe you know you've killed off. You know, two or four both channels or four channels.

I find it. No, it's a four. Channel Joby The 3024 isn't it? No, no, that's a two channel. I I Find it hard to believe you've killed all the channels.

Can I teach you the basics Mario What does this look like? I've got a whole beginners course DC Fundamentals AC Fun Well AC Fundamentals I've only done a couple of videos on DC Fundamentals course. Go and take it. Got an entire course on YouTube DC Fundamentals. You'll learn some stuff there.

Thank you Sahib. Okay, I'm not keeping up with the chat I sit on a lot of years electronic service. What is your advice to me as a serviceman? Well, my first job was a service tech I was a service tech repairing um Ze based security equipment. That was my first job.

That's my first formal job. Um, and then uh. basically design your own stuff. Okay, and I've done a video on this: Stop calling yourself a technician.

Okay, if you're doing engineering work that includes your own personal work, right? Her projects on your side, have a website, design stuff, sell stuff right? If you're doing engineering work, you're an engineer. Engineering is a vocation. It's what you do. Okay, the the title of engineer is what you do.

I Know, informal. Some in countries you can't call yourself an engineer. but you know And and all that, right? But uh, no, it's it's what you do as a vocation. So stop calling yourself a serviceman.

Stop calling yourself a service tech. Stop calling yourself a technician. And if you want to get into engineering, get into engineering, Do it. Just do it.

Do engineering and start calling yourself an engineer because you're doing engineering work. Hmm. Have I heard of photonic induction? Yeah, and he's a mate of mine. I was the one who um who kept contact with him when he vanished and I was the one who said no, he's not dead There was this rumor going around that he's dead.

No. and I contacted him and he wasn't dead. He even sent me uh uh, proof of life photos and everything and I published the uh, proof of life photos for Andy but he seems to have vanished again. Haven't I've been kept that recently.

What do I think about the giant solar project? uh for Singapore and Australia I've done a second Channel video on that. it's titled uh I don't know what. what's the title YouTube High Voltage DC Transmission Search YouTube for I've done a video on everything EV Vlog 2 uh DC Transmission world's largest solar array HV DC Transmission I've done some I did some done some calculations I did some calculations. There you go look I'll say I'll save save you the Google search There's the link.

it's going to come in a second. Yep, hello from Italy I am way behind on the chat I've got to be 15 20 minutes behind on the chat. Oh right. I Gotta kill that kill.

That spam bot nuked it, nuked it from orbit. How much math do you need to be a successful Ee as successful in Ee in the actual workspace? Not much it, but it depends on the field you're in. Some people use, you know, complex calculus every day, right? most engine. you know if you're just designing electronic stuff like I said this before in my video I Don't think in my 30 years in the field I don't think I've ever solved an integral outside of uni, right? I don't think I've ever done it I Don't think I've ever had to do it right.

So like, yeah, but if you're doing an Ee degree, Yes, yes, the math is hard. You have to learn all that, right? But in in general day-to-day use, designing circuits and stuff unless you're designing complex. Control Systems You know, like there's all sorts of things that could use it. But generally speaking, no, you can go your entire career and not use any anything more than owns Ohms Lauren Kirchhoff's laws, right? Really, he can do an awful lot of the the blue.

Air Air filters are so expensive. they're so expensive you've got to buy the genuine ones. No, yeah, I know I'm I'm thinking about that. there's my filter down there I'm thinking about actually putting cardboard in the sides.

so I only use the air filter at the top. like because I've got another filter I've got that Chinese one. um, that I'm using at the moment so this one's currently off. Um, so yeah.

I was like it's got three expensive filters in it I was thinking about just using one, just actually the side ones I was just going to block off. Okay, okay. I'm catching up I've caught up, caught up with the check I've done a video on the cheap air filter. it was in my mailbag.

it's in my last mailbag I can't remember what brand of these Decker d low or something. deco the fan thing too. Yeah, they they also sent me this like they sent me one of these stupid like this isn't a filter, it's just a fan I was gonna I'm just gonna put on Gumtree or something. What are they called Dreo D-r-e-o They're actually okay.

actually quite okay. Dreo Filters: Yeah, yeah. so I've got a filter over there I've got that one just running all the time now and the filters are reasonably priced for those and it seems to work okay. and it's a HEPA filter apparently independently certified.

I've done a video on it. it's independently certified I think that I might have even done a second Channel video review did I No I don't know how do you see the future of the channel. Coverage of different topics has drifted over time already. My Channel's always been an Eclectic Channel What do I want to do next? Same stuff I've always done.

There's nothing new I want to do that I haven't done before, right? I Want to do more electronic stuff I want to get into project stuff I want to but I want to keep up the you know all the other stuff right? It's diff. The thing is I'm inundated with bloody oscilloscopes at the moment, right? and I don't know? Um yeah, but I want to get into uh project stuff again I want to get into more project and electronic stuff again so you might see that in the first half of 2023. That's the plan. and if I can get myself a pick and place machine, there'll be ton of videos on that and Manufacturing and stuff like that if I can get one.

thank you Eric Merry Christmas First video I watched was what is an Fpgai during digital Logic class in Uni 9. Was it nine years ago? Was my Fpga What is an Fpga Nine years ago? Wow. holy crap after two years of partial audience. Wonder if I should have studied software? Yeah yeah, yep, it's a killer Anyway, thank you Eric yeah that Fpga a lot of Unis use my videos like my my Op Amp tutorial is in so many universities.

they all recommend it and the I've heard about the Fpga as one as well that they all recommend that and yeah I hear countless time time and time again that Unis of um yep I recommend my videos. It seems to have hit a chord so just the way I explained it I guess which I thought was an ordinary way to explain it. but I I hmm Abs from the Ukraine hopefully one that's still got the lights on? What's my favorite era of electronics? So I'm I'm not into the old stuff I've never been into valve stuff I'm a transistor kid I've never been into valves so no I would say 80s definitely 80s because I'm an 80s kid