There is absolutely no point scrubbing the part numbers off any part now. All major components have ID code in them, often accessible over JTAG. So as long as I can spot JTAG pins I can just hook up a generic JTAG programmer (like Altera USB Blaster + OpenOCD) and pull the JTAG ID out of the part. Then it will be very trivial to figure out the part number.
Love my dad for that. Too bad I've forgotten half of it now...But now I have reuptaken electronics as a hobby and it's slowly coming back. Some of it anyway.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Normally I'm extremely annoyed by kids being in video blogs but Sagan is enjoyable to make an appearance. He's well behaved, intelligent and you two make a great team because you're both soo excitable. I'm jealous that I didn't get videos with my Dad and I doing experiments when I was little. Now that he's gone, I would love to be able to watch those videos as the 20 year old memories are fading.
LPC2478FBD208 LPC2478 PQFP-208 - is my guess and that Micronta meter brings me back to the old days. I had one when I first started electronics in the 70's. My little brother pinned it plugging into the wall, broke my heart but dad bought the newer model Micronta 22-204A and I was back in business. Great mailbag Dave nice to see you and Sagan back at it again. Cheers ...
That was a blast from the past, I had one of these cameras, and yes the quality was pretty poor. I had a PAL frame grabber card for my Mac and that was how digitised the pictures. As I recall the video frame was interlaced so it wasn't much good at capturing anything moving .
I don't think so. Notice in the video that just pressing enter got him past the operator password prompt like it said in the letter, but not past the admin password prompt.
"It looks like a whole town." - Sagan - Satellite views of cities and urban areas are uncannily similar to integrated circuits. Kids are smarter than what adults usually give them credit for. :)
Video Floppy was a professional-grade still video format developed by Sony in the early '80s for the original Mavica and ProMavica series of still video cameras. It has 25 tracks, each of which stores a single NTSC or PAL video frame divided into two fields. It was popular with TV stations for storing single frames of video for various uses. Smith Corona word processors also used the discs for data storage. HiVF was a backwards compatible format which provided improvements in video quality.
Hi , Dave. Great review for the canyse data logger. a nice industrial product for maintenance and troubleshooting of various systems. Made in Slovenia. Needed such a gadget while at work years back... no way. To Gorazd - congratulations, awesome design !
Parents don't want their kids to just randomly yell swear words in the malls or while visiting friends and family. So, that's why most try to avoid swearing at all until their kids can learn that's they shouldn't swear.
A little contact cleaner and that Russian Meter would be ready to go again. I am very impressed! I would love to have that as part of a collection. Its so fun collecting things like that. It is something we use in all apects of the electronics field and have been using for years. They are so cool.
Looks like silver plating, so it's probably ok, even now after all these years.But contact cleaner wouldn't hurt anyway.As the russian guy above (retoxxx1), says, it's a very robust construction.
Dave, I think the optocouplers are in sockets because on a cnc you have so many moving wires going through a cable chain, and there is potential for wire breakage. I've had trouble with that myself 24v motors and 5v inputs. I blew a few opto's before i discovered the problem. I ended up puting sockets in myself after re-soldering new opto's in for the 5th time. at first i thought it was just cheap optos.
As a matter of fact, the two germanium diodes(9:25) are for rectifying (AC range), not for protection. I own a similar one(40 years old). Because the multimeter was heavily abused, I had to change them several times.
Dave, I have an older version of your first multimeter. No fuse either with no standoff for the holder. I used it last week while stringing out field power cords in the north forty for a week-long astronomical star party in Oklahoma. I like the quick response of an analog meter over the El Cheapo digital meter I also carry in my field electronics toolbox.
OMG !! I comment quite a lot on your vids Dave but this one is quite special. You have the Sinclair multi-meter (x2) there and when I was 21 (52 now), I got this for my birthday. Get this though, I got the 200MHz freq counter too which came in the same case as the multi-meter. Sitting side by side they looked great. I tested my counter on the standard at work (GEC) and to 8 digits it was bang on. I trashed my set when I had them powered from the same PSU and connected the -ve terminal of the multi-meter to the wrong part of an immersion heater. (I was young and you hadn't made your video on 'How not to destroy your scope'. I got the multi-meter working again but it wasn't the same. The counter was fried though if I remember it right. Also, I had the Tandy (Radio Shack) 20K/V analog meter you showed shortly after. Boy what a blast from the past this mail bag has been. Way to go.....!!!! With your CANYSEY item when you had the scrolling text, the paper should have been leaning back so it looked like it was from Star Wars. lol
I had an email today from a friend whose first job was designing electronics for Bristol Aircraft using point contact transistors in the early 50's. They were wondering how many people there could still be around who had worked with these devices at that time.
Jeez, its cool to see how fast your kid's linguistic and cognitive skills are improving. I'll be honest, I used to mind him tagging along a little, but not anymore. Great kid you got there.
I'm a little more hardcore, my first meter (ie. - not one I borrowed from Dad) was the Radio Shack Archer Kit model 28-4014A from that same era that has a huge display and a 'range doubler' feature that was actually pretty useful if the voltage/current you were reading fell on the upper range of the meter and moved it back into the center where it could be more accurately read. It still have the box and assembly instruction booklet that came with it. I haven't used it in years but I keep it around for likely the same reason you still have yours
Dave, about those Sinclair Multimeters, I did use one, though it had a black case, in fact I had 2, I modified the second one with a then modern true RMS IC to create a combined Frequency/TRMS meter. That was in 1975! Those meters were then State of the Art! And very portable! I wish I knew where I left them! cheers!
Do the Lumintop(TM) batteries still charge correctly from the end terminals? Are there any current limits (to charging "normally") imposed by the USB charger circuitry built in? Questions to answer on the next EEVBlog, I think!
Had one of those ion cameras when I was at school, it's battery life was terrible and we had an external pack for it that took 8 AA batteries which still didn't last long. We got the pictures off using a video blaster card in a 486 PC.
Dave's first multimeter was the same as mine :) Bought it from Tandy too in the mid 80s, still got it, still works though the original probes are long gone!
I wonder if the purple color is for dealing with use outdoors so you can still see the digits? I've seen that on some things for (occasional) outdoor use...
All too easy to take the piss out of the Sinclair DMM but in the context of it's time the thing was a miracle! At that time digital was the holy grail for amateur electronic hobbyists, and what professional instruments there were around, cost a fortune. So for a 'pocket' DMM to be 'affordable' to the average hobbyist was almost too good to be true. Even so, I couldn't afford even that! Even an Avo was well out of my reach, so I made do with the best of Japanese analogue tech, TEK 100,000 ohms per volt no less!
That Sinclair PCB would have been roller tinned, not tin plated, then wave soldered - having no solder resist was the norm in the '70s. The case was borrowed from their Oxford calculator range.
9:28 D2 (Д2) Point germanium diodes. Introduced in 1957 and produced until USSR collapse in 1991 (well, during production it's changed its case several times and production quality was improved) Datasheet: www.155la3.ru/datafiles/d2.pdf
For the display of CNC controller a lot better would be DVI-I that can transmit both analog and digital signal, it would probably require a bit of reengineering, but would resolve the problem with one connector.
Scratching up the top of that big flatpack so much with what looks like a grinding tool to hide its partcode in the Hind Technology CNC unit to the level it had concerns the crap out of me for its reliability! I'm think ESD and yes OK the device is probably ok but is it really? You dont know! If we were to build one of these controllers into my update CNC machines project and it shits itself right in the middle of a fixed leadtime big job a few months/years later all because of that kind of handling then we're sure not going to be happy ... eh Dave..?
31:42 I have one monitor that still has a VGA connector on it, and that was obsolete long before this video was posted here. I only use it with my old AMD box, and that's only when I have it doing something processor-intensive that would burn my Pi. The UI on that piece of kit looks like Win95 rubbish, and it was a Kickstarter only 2 years ago?
Dunno. If you look at the underside of it, you can see the metallic sheen covering the calculator button cut-outs! Could be some aluminiumised vinyl or something.
That might literally be _the_ cutest kid on UA-cam. Tough call between him and AvE's daughter. Very bright for his age, he might be giving dad a run for his money in a few short years.
Did you try typing in the password "blank" spelled out? The way he emphasized and underlined it almost makes it seem like intentionally set the password to the word blank and not empty.
Stuff sent to the EEVBLOG has to be both mail and Sagan proof. I just did a search for that Sinclair multimeter and found an add for it in June 1978 Popular Science, it was $49.99 which was very cheap for a digital multimeter back then and that thing was much better than the passive analog multimeters most of us were using.
I was honestly somewhat surprised at the lack of commentary related to the usb chargeable flashlight (it's batteries) since they most likely consumes somewhere upwards of 1-1,5A at 5v. I get very iffy everytime i charge my phone (samsung galaxy s6) because the micro usb plug gets almost burning hot to the touch when being charged from the wall.
The only Korean multimeter manufacturer I could think of was GoldStar/LG, who spun off that division in the late 90s, but all of their instruments were top-notch.
Love the blog! I don't know jack about electronics but your very entertaining and I enjoy your videos. I'm trying bff to spread your one liners over here in Massachusetts. That's a bobby dazzler!
Hey Dave, I'd love to hear your opinion on the cheap-a*se kinda packaging for logic chips where they just pinch them through aluminum foil wrapped around a piece of styrofoam, as one often gets from ebay. I mean, as opposed to proper conductive foam and in an anti-static bag (of course you don't get 'em in the latter either, usually). Maybe you already did some test re that?
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CNC controllers tend to not have drivers onboard as you don't know how big the motors will be.
I was thinking Mike might be interested in that CNC controller so I just looked through the comments and there you are :)
why you copy my picture
+mikeselectricstuff I wonder you influenced their choice of enclosure.
I'd think possibly no, I think this type of enclosure is quite common in EU. See them quite often...
Its Always A treat to have Sagan in the Lab...He is a Smart Young Man. Looking forward to More Videos From you Dave..Cheers!
Sucking up to Dave for a reason?
Oh Leon..cheers to you too!
There is absolutely no point scrubbing the part numbers off any part now. All major components have ID code in them, often accessible over JTAG. So as long as I can spot JTAG pins I can just hook up a generic JTAG programmer (like Altera USB Blaster + OpenOCD) and pull the JTAG ID out of the part. Then it will be very trivial to figure out the part number.
陈北宗 That’s why I add fake JTAG pins to my board designs.
@@WurstPeterl Nasty
Dang, I'm so envious. Wish I had had a dad who was into electronics and introduced me to the stuff when I was a kid.
You can always have another dad now...
Love my dad for that. Too bad I've forgotten half of it now...But now I have reuptaken electronics as a hobby and it's slowly coming back. Some of it anyway.
In 10 years we hear "Welcome to the the new EEVBlog. Im your host, Sagan Jones. And this is episode number one!"
HIs tagline will be, "Don't take it apart, turn it on!"
No, "Turn it on, and take it apart!" :v
That will be Sagan's reply after his daddy buys him his first car for his 18th birthday.
Actually, I think it will be the WiSEblog (Wireless and Sensory Engineering blog)
You should totally make a map so you and sagan can put all the locations of the senders on there :)
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Normally I'm extremely annoyed by kids being in video blogs but Sagan is enjoyable to make an appearance. He's well behaved, intelligent and you two make a great team because you're both soo excitable. I'm jealous that I didn't get videos with my Dad and I doing experiments when I was little. Now that he's gone, I would love to be able to watch those videos as the 20 year old memories are fading.
LPC2478FBD208 LPC2478 PQFP-208 - is my guess and that Micronta meter brings me back to the old days. I had one when I first started electronics in the 70's.
My little brother pinned it plugging into the wall, broke my heart but dad bought the newer model Micronta 22-204A and I was back in business. Great mailbag
Dave nice to see you and Sagan back at it again. Cheers ...
Don't disassemble the Canon Ion analogue camera until you make a retro-review or something, I want to see how it works!
Yep, will try it first.
That was a blast from the past, I had one of these cameras, and yes the quality was pretty poor. I had a PAL frame grabber card for my Mac and that was how digitised the pictures. As I recall the video frame was interlaced so it wasn't much good at capturing anything moving .
I also had the Sinclair Multimeter and the companion frequency counter
The Password is literally, "blank"
HA.. That's exactly what came to mind
Sasha Whitefur yep... that's a fail on the guy who sent it
I don't think so. Notice in the video that just pressing enter got him past the operator password prompt like it said in the letter, but not past the admin password prompt.
Hmm. Good point, John Doe.
My router once had "iWontTellYou". as a password.
Those sinclair meters looks suspiciously calculator-shaped.
It's the case from their Oxford calculators. Not the first time they used a case designed for something else.
Would be cool to find the exact calculator model that the case was made for.
Are you really trying to say the great Sir Sinclair would cut corners to save a buck or two, how dare you ;-)
"It looks like a whole town." - Sagan - Satellite views of cities and urban areas are uncannily similar to integrated circuits. Kids are smarter than what adults usually give them credit for. :)
Video Floppy was a professional-grade still video format developed by Sony in the early '80s for the original Mavica and ProMavica series of still video cameras. It has 25 tracks, each of which stores a single NTSC or PAL video frame divided into two fields. It was popular with TV stations for storing single frames of video for various uses. Smith Corona word processors also used the discs for data storage. HiVF was a backwards compatible format which provided improvements in video quality.
So awesome to see the younger generation involved and interested in this stuff. I hope the little guy visits again in the future.
Good to see you are passing on your tongue position tips to the younger generation
Nah it's also used for several adjustment procedures
I hope I have a kid as awesome as Sagan some day. Hopefully I can be as good of a parent as you Dave!
So do I.
lol the kid actually kind of bugs me :/
Sorry, but I agree... I get nervous when the kid's grabbing stuff and ripping things apart.Cute kid otherwise...
One of the real reasons to watch Mailbag, is to see Sagan such a funny little kid :)
The case for the datalogger is actually a commercially available case manufactured by Bopla and is called BOS-Streamline.
Hi , Dave. Great review for the canyse data logger. a nice industrial product for maintenance and troubleshooting of various systems. Made in Slovenia. Needed such a gadget while at work years back... no way. To Gorazd - congratulations, awesome design !
Thanks Tardus. :)
I bet the CNC controller CPU is an LPC2478 NXP ARM7TDMI-S :)
looks very similar
There is a file named "Eevblog" on the thumb drive of the cnc controller (can be seen at 38:48). Please show us what it contains. :D
5:32 hehe Dave wanted to swear, but couldn't because of Sagan.
Parents don't want their kids to just randomly yell swear words in the malls or while visiting friends and family. So, that's why most try to avoid swearing at all until their kids can learn that's they shouldn't swear.
They can definitely teach them not to swear. Majorly by not swearing themselves.
I had one of those Sinclair DMMs - think it was my first DMM, fairly quickly replaced by a Kaise one, which was one of the first autoranging LCD DMMs
Sagan in the mailbag section, that's an instant thumbs up..
Got to give it to Sinclair to do things so cheap even the Chinese were probably impressed.
*****
Sounds like "government" these days lol.
It's fun to see how much he's grown...been 14 years since my son was his age.
12:00 - I wonder what type of enclosures Sinclair used for their calculators /
hi from slovenia !
I am 15 years old and I love your videos. Keep up good work I have a lot to learn!!!
Your son is so adorable! I hope he ends up enjoying electronics as much as you!
A little contact cleaner and that Russian Meter would be ready to go again. I am very impressed! I would love to have that as part of a collection. Its so fun collecting things like that. It is something we use in all apects of the electronics field and have been using for years. They are so cool.
прибор очень надежен, не требует питания на измерении напряжения, он и через 30 лет будет работать
Looks like silver plating, so it's probably ok, even now after all these years.But contact cleaner wouldn't hurt anyway.As the russian guy above (retoxxx1), says, it's a very robust construction.
No there is no silvering. I have a bunch of these diodes lying. Disassemble the old Black and white TVs. Needed components for the hobby.
retoxxx1, Sorry, didn't mean the diode. Wouldn't do anything with any contact cleaner there, looks soldered he, he... I meant the selection switch.
Wow, you can tell Sagan is growing; he's getting more fluent.
He'll be competing with you on UA-cam one of these days.
Make sure you check if there are any fun photos on those floppies!
Dave, I think the optocouplers are in sockets because on a cnc you have so many moving wires going through a cable chain, and there is potential for wire breakage. I've had trouble with that myself 24v motors and 5v inputs. I blew a few opto's before i discovered the problem. I ended up puting sockets in myself after re-soldering new opto's in for the 5th time. at first i thought it was just cheap optos.
I'm really interested in seeing you use the Canon Ion before tearing it down. Curious about the quality, framerate and length of the produced videos.
Great to see Sagan again - so cute and obviously very bright!
Great video. Good Ole father and son bonding. :-). I scored a beautiful RCA VTVM. Check it out tomorrow.
As a matter of fact, the two germanium diodes(9:25) are for rectifying (AC range), not for protection. I own a similar one(40 years old). Because the multimeter was heavily abused, I had to change them several times.
Dave, I have an older version of your first multimeter. No fuse either with no standoff for the holder. I used it last week while stringing out field power cords in the north forty for a week-long astronomical star party in Oklahoma. I like the quick response of an analog meter over the El Cheapo digital meter I also carry in my field electronics toolbox.
OMG !! I comment quite a lot on your vids Dave but this one is quite special. You have the Sinclair multi-meter (x2) there and when I was 21 (52 now), I got this for my birthday. Get this though, I got the 200MHz freq counter too which came in the same case as the multi-meter. Sitting side by side they looked great. I tested my counter on the standard at work (GEC) and to 8 digits it was bang on.
I trashed my set when I had them powered from the same PSU and connected the -ve terminal of the multi-meter to the wrong part of an immersion heater. (I was young and you hadn't made your video on 'How not to destroy your scope'. I got the multi-meter working again but it wasn't the same. The counter was fried though if I remember it right.
Also, I had the Tandy (Radio Shack) 20K/V analog meter you showed shortly after. Boy what a blast from the past this mail bag has been. Way to go.....!!!!
With your CANYSEY item when you had the scrolling text, the paper should have been leaning back so it looked like it was from Star Wars. lol
I kind of liked the child-free version of eevblog over the last few months. A little sad to see it go away. Keep up the good work Dave!
Dave, you're an awesome Dad! Two thumbs up! :)
I had an email today from a friend whose first job was designing electronics for Bristol Aircraft using point contact transistors in the early 50's. They were wondering how many people there could still be around who had worked with these devices at that time.
That Video floppy is *fascinating*, I'll have to look it up!
Jeez, its cool to see how fast your kid's linguistic and cognitive skills are improving. I'll be honest, I used to mind him tagging along a little, but not anymore. Great kid you got there.
I lost it when you pulled out your first multimeter. I was like I have seen that before, It can't be, I have the exact same model of multimeter.
I remember the canon ion camera , they sold a kit with a video capture board to digitise the images
Sagan is such a smart cute fella!
HDMI is not designed for high noise enviroments like motor drivers and electromagnetics interference. Thats why they use vga for industrial purposes.
I'm a little more hardcore, my first meter (ie. - not one I borrowed from Dad) was the Radio Shack Archer Kit model 28-4014A from that same era that has a huge display and a 'range doubler' feature that was actually pretty useful if the voltage/current you were reading fell on the upper range of the meter and moved it back into the center where it could be more accurately read. It still have the box and assembly instruction booklet that came with it. I haven't used it in years but I keep it around for likely the same reason you still have yours
54:00 First jpeg standard was in 1992 Dave, with the group having met since 1986. So it probably had been thought of by 1991.
In Soviet Russia Warranty Voids You!
Dave, about those Sinclair Multimeters, I did use one, though it had a black case, in fact I had 2, I modified the second one with a then modern true RMS IC to create a combined Frequency/TRMS meter. That was in 1975! Those meters were then State of the Art! And very portable!
I wish I knew where I left them!
cheers!
Do the Lumintop(TM) batteries still charge correctly from the end terminals? Are there any current limits (to charging "normally") imposed by the USB charger circuitry built in? Questions to answer on the next EEVBlog, I think!
Had one of those ion cameras when I was at school, it's battery life was terrible and we had an external pack for it that took 8 AA batteries which still didn't last long. We got the pictures off using a video blaster card in a 486 PC.
Dave's first multimeter was the same as mine :) Bought it from Tandy too in the mid 80s, still got it, still works though the original probes are long gone!
Did you name your son after Carl Sagan our lord and savor?
Yep
just reminds me how long iv been watching the show, i remember when he was really small, the first time you put him on the show
+Adam Workey its pronounced (hay-zeus)
@ Adam Workey -- nope...
I'm an atheist, not a pagan. Thanks for playing.
Hi Dave when u was "davescrolling" the instructions for the data logger it looked like it said that the blue on-screen button was a sleep button
I wonder if the purple color is for dealing with use outdoors so you can still see the digits? I've seen that on some things for (occasional) outdoor use...
All too easy to take the piss out of the Sinclair DMM but in the context of it's time the thing was a miracle! At that time digital was the holy grail for amateur electronic hobbyists, and what professional instruments there were around, cost a fortune. So for a 'pocket' DMM to be 'affordable' to the average hobbyist was almost too good to be true. Even so, I couldn't afford even that! Even an Avo was well out of my reach, so I made do with the best of Japanese analogue tech, TEK 100,000 ohms per volt no less!
That Sinclair PCB would have been roller tinned, not tin plated, then wave soldered - having no solder resist was the norm in the '70s. The case was borrowed from their Oxford calculator range.
Sagan is adorable :) I hope he follows in his dads footsteps when he is older
9:28 D2 (Д2) Point germanium diodes.
Introduced in 1957 and produced until USSR collapse in 1991 (well, during production it's changed its case several times and production quality was improved)
Datasheet: www.155la3.ru/datafiles/d2.pdf
22 thats a standart case that you can buy, also the products of my work are using that case, but with some grey rubber
Sagan needs to be a regular; he makes mailbag so amusing to watch :D
For the display of CNC controller a lot better would be DVI-I that can transmit both analog and digital signal, it would probably require a bit of reengineering, but would resolve the problem with one connector.
Scratching up the top of that big flatpack so much with what looks like a grinding tool to hide its partcode in the Hind Technology CNC unit to the level it had concerns the crap out of me for its reliability! I'm think ESD and yes OK the device is probably ok but is it really? You dont know! If we were to build one of these controllers into my update CNC machines project and it shits itself right in the middle of a fixed leadtime big job a few months/years later all because of that kind of handling then we're sure not going to be happy ... eh Dave..?
38:46 - There is a file called "EEVblog.tap"! Lets find out what does this do!
31:42 I have one monitor that still has a VGA connector on it, and that was obsolete long before this video was posted here. I only use it with my old AMD box, and that's only when I have it doing something processor-intensive that would burn my Pi. The UI on that piece of kit looks like Win95 rubbish, and it was a Kickstarter only 2 years ago?
That Sinclair meter, it appears to have an aluminium front panel... all around the input jacks!
That's what I thought for a second but no one's going to be that stupid. It's just the metal of the jacks you're seeing.
Dunno.
If you look at the underside of it, you can see the metallic sheen covering the calculator button cut-outs!
Could be some aluminiumised vinyl or something.
+NoName Looks like the back of the silver grey PVC (?) sheet on the front to me - no metal involved.
Cheers, so no metal involved in it then.
Yey! Sagan is back! Welcome back, little mate!
I think the mysterious chip at 40mins is the STM32f405ZGT6
I have fond memories of the Canon ION, used to grab the frames with my Vidi Amiga. :-)
That might literally be _the_ cutest kid on UA-cam. Tough call between him and AvE's daughter. Very bright for his age, he might be giving dad a run for his money in a few short years.
38:47 missing the EEVblog Tap like a pro...
Did you try typing in the password "blank" spelled out? The way he emphasized and underlined it almost makes it seem like intentionally set the password to the word blank and not empty.
Stuff sent to the EEVBLOG has to be both mail and Sagan proof.
I just did a search for that Sinclair multimeter and found an add for it in June 1978 Popular Science, it was $49.99 which was very cheap for a digital multimeter back then and that thing was much better than the passive analog multimeters most of us were using.
Sagan is a riot. Love his curiosity.
Dave you need to hook that Hind wifi module up to a 3v serial port because it looks suspiciously like a first generation esp8266.
The note with the CNC controller says, "The password is blanK, Just press enter on login", so isn't "blanK" the password?
Snap Dave - my first multimeter was one of those Tandy/Radio Shack ones - I've still got mine as well!!
I was honestly somewhat surprised at the lack of commentary related to the usb chargeable flashlight (it's batteries) since they most likely consumes somewhere upwards of 1-1,5A at 5v. I get very iffy everytime i charge my phone (samsung galaxy s6) because the micro usb plug gets almost burning hot to the touch when being charged from the wall.
WS I the onlu one that saw the EEVblog CNC file in the f6 menu?
The only Korean multimeter manufacturer I could think of was GoldStar/LG, who spun off that division in the late 90s, but all of their instruments were top-notch.
What an honour to be named after the bloody brilliant Carl Sagan. :)
Sagan has inherited the way of saying 'Awesome' from his father. In a couple of days will have mastered Bob's your uncle!
The DeLorean doesn't work in down under, obviously. You'd have to put it onto the base upside down.
Dave, did you notice the inside of those Sinclaires, it is a modified calculator housing
Do try to keep up at the back.
Love the blog! I don't know jack about electronics but your very entertaining and I enjoy your videos. I'm trying bff to spread your one liners over here in Massachusetts. That's a bobby dazzler!
Hey Dave, I'd love to hear your opinion on the cheap-a*se kinda packaging for logic chips where they just pinch them through aluminum foil wrapped around a piece of styrofoam, as one often gets from ebay. I mean, as opposed to proper conductive foam and in an anti-static bag (of course you don't get 'em in the latter either, usually).
Maybe you already did some test re that?
Did you try blank as the password it might be literally blank for the admin password for the kickstarter controller? :)
I was hoping to see how crusty the Sinclair MM was. Hopefully before the video ends.
Still have that RadioHack meter, and guess what...BANG ON. Better than those made today for that those harbor freight specials.
I tend to listen to videos while I work, wasn't sure what was going on there at the beginning...
Oh, I remember that "Project Sagan" video when he was born. And now he is five and a half years old!
Life is going too fast.
We need to organise sending a bunch of the same device to create a really strange mailbag.
Maybe the password is BLANK as in type in BLANK if it doesn't accept an blank password
I think the password is the word "blank". Did you try literally typing "blank"?
did you try Admin for the password? The first one might not be anything but the 2nd one could be Admin.
I started watching you when Sagan was a baby. I feel old!
To make the Delorean work you would have to turn it upside down as you are in Australia.