etim.net.au/n64rgb/ "The N64 doesn't output RGB video, only encoded composite video and s-video is available on the A/V output port. It's best to use RGB video for the best looking picture. This board can be installed into any model of Nintendo 64. Digital signal from the from the graphics processor enter one side of the N64RGB and analogue RGB video comes out the other side."
For anyone considering one of these, keep in mind the N64 forced software AA in basically every single game, so it's still gonna look like a vaseline smeared mess even with RGB output :) Check out My Life in Gaming on youtube if you wanna know more about getting the best quality out of old consoles.
I am the guy who sent the soviet stuff, nice to see it here in video. I was also surprised that the main chip in multimeter has a newer date than the one stamped on the back. This could be a warranty case, so maybe it was just replaced later. And as far as I know, the original owner of this device was a rather creative engineer, and I have seen a lot of these pale pink wires across his DIY devices, so it also could be his job.
The IC and probably the LCD were retrofitted, seeing the meter itself has a date stamp of April 1988 on the type plate. I assume a flatcable was originally fitted.
The Altera video board thing is an upgrade kit for a Nintendo 64. The N64 doesn't output RGB, only encoded composite and s-video, so with this kit, some very careful soldering, and some extra adapter bits depending on the version of your console, you can make it output analog RGB. One side of the board gets a digital signal straight from the graphics processor, and then converts them to an analog RGB signal for improved video quality on an otherwise original console.
I made a simple Go-No-Go voltage checker for the field techs where I used to work, It just had a Tiny micro and a couple of LED's plus some protection for the power/ADC lines, you taught it the Go/No-Go limits by shorting a pad on the PCB and it stored the ADC values in EEPROM then it was mounted in a clear connector shell so they could see the LED's. It was for use on a 24v vehicle CCTV system and didn't need to be massively accurate.
You never stopped learning - that delay line amazes me. Who would have thought that you can store data in a solid state acoustic wave over multiple reflection reliably?
If you think that Soviet multimeter is howyadoin', you ought to see the 1992 RITM-2 synthesiser I'm currently restoring. Wooden chassis, the mains fuse is literally a piece of bare fuse wire soldered across the power switch, and all the primary-side power wiring is the same tiny hookup wire used on the PCB. The hinges that hold the keyboard are a household cupboard hinge that's been cut in half with a metal shear to make two (resourceful!). The main PCB looks like it was etched in someone's kitchen, down to being covered in scratches and gouges from where someone's scrubbed off the resist with a brillo pad or something. The circuit is basically a Moog Prodigy with one VCO lopped off, to the point that the schematics are laid out almost identically to the Moog ones. I could go on and on, there's something hilariously wonky about almost every single part of this thing.
Those soviet stuffs are pure amazing. There is a youtube channel named Msylvain59 who teardowns all old missiles etc. Cable lacing and coating on these pcb's are plain perfect.
My brother taught me how to lace wiring with running knots back in the late 60's- he was an Air Force electronics tech. I've still got a partial spool of waxed lacing cord he gave me from back then.
HISTORIC, First mailbag from the new lab. Looks great Dave, so neat ~ and I love those three Simson analog meters on your right. Loved the Byte prints, that really took me back, '78, '79. Always look forward to the mailbag! Thanks...
Does UA-cam now allow videos to be edited after uploading? Because there's a bunch of stuff overlaid on the video showing exactly what it is and how it's installed. But your comment and the others saying the same thing imply that that stuff wasn't in the video originally.
Lovin' the old Soviet calculators. I have a few in my own collection! It's fascinating how anachronistic some of the parts feel, like parts from a few eras were just laced together (always the wire lacing), and almost always done in what seems to be the most labor intensive manner too! I love it!
most likely, the russian booklet that comes with the calculator lists all the locations' addresses throughout the USSR where you can repair the stuff under warranty
That multimeter looks like a direct copy of the Fluke 8020A, an early example of which is sitting here waiting for me to get around to replacing the failed LCD.
I instantly recognized Tim Worthington’s N64RGB. FYI: He’s a fellow Aussie, world-renowned for his products like N64RGB and NESRGB. :) I recently flashed one with Peter Bartmann’s “Deblur” firmware using an Altera ByteBlaster/USB Blaster. I still prefer Marshall Hect’s UltraHDMI, but it makes no attempt to deinterlace the few 480i games that are out there, so Tim’s board still has a reason to exist. Without it we had to find early model N64s that needed an analog RGB amp but this one taps into the digital output of the GPU and can restore RGB to the later models. These guys are better known by other names: Viletim/eTim, borti4938, MarshallH. The CS# pad is for TTL level CSYNC and the other one is for 75-ohm impedance CSYNC (standard for consumer RGB-compatible televisions).
The 63.943uS delay line is the chroma (colour) delay for something that decodes PAL colour TV signals, likely a TV or VCR. You can tell because that's the period of a PAL horizontal scan line, & is required to provide the chroma phase signal from the previous scan line that the PAL system uses to stabilise the colours in each scan line, making it superior to the older NTSC system - NTSC equipment doesn't use a delay line.
Yes PDL is obviously PAL Delay Line. The delay is not exactly one horizontal scan line time (64 microseconds) but 283.5 periods of the subcarrier (4.43361875 MHz). Only the chrominance signal goes through the delay line. That simple relationship to the subcarrier frequency aids the separation of the two colour difference signals that are quadrature modulated on the subcarrier.
ON the Russian scientific calculator, I wonder if the resistors at the top might have been for a display light, or more exotically, a display heater to get contrast back in very cold conditions, after all it might get used in very cold places.
the "f1" shirt...is Will Power..aussie guy who won indy500 this year...ill take one if you dont need them all! :P your new corner is looking good!..the battery current boards are great idea! definatly 'pool room' material!
I can imagine the designer on that N64 mod board had that tape placed there to cover his mistake. "It's very important, if you don't the electrons will fall out!"
The only real difference you will see in a fibre connection, or ADSL, throughput wise, is by shortening the distance between the ISP multiplexer and the modem. Unless there is a fault on the copper pair going into the premises, then changing the copper pair is unlikely to reduce the signal loss, which results in a lower throughput. Length of run is nearly always the deciding factor is a stable signal, which determines the throughput. Cat 6 and other cabling being talked about is mainly when referring to Ethernet, which isn't used, until after the modem in the home.
Thank you Dave!!! Great as always and great to see ya in the new spot!! I DIG IT! The coolest thing I have ever seen though is that analog delay line. HOLY CRAP that is awesome!!!! :-O
The name of the calculator appears to be simply "Elektronika" - I can only read cyrillic letters, so I don't know if there's any more grammatical meaning to it. But I guess it's an obvious enough name! The multimeter says "Mikromultimetr Zifrovoiy, elektronika MMZ-01" or something like that, the ц character doesn't have a latin analogue, the closest is like Z as in pizza. Edit: Love the CCCP emblem on the backside of the calculator! Below, it says (approximately) "Mikrokalkylator Elektronika".
The translation suggesions is actually the same one made on Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tse_(Cyrillic) ), I myself got the same translation from a Russian teacher who has been helping me learn. That said I agree with you, the "ts" avoids the conflict with Ze. I think it depends on what your point of view is; here in scandinavia, we use a pretty pronounced "ts" sound in "pizza", so for me the translation always made perfect sense (our "z" is very different from English). @@george.b.
@@Mythricia1988 I guess that's the most usual pronunciation of "pizza" most everywhere :) and yeah, local transliteration customs can be kinda different. Estonians, for instance, use "õ" for ы, which I think is pretty weird, but in their context it makes sense. My particular point of view, however, is derived from transliteration standards: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian The article you linked even states: "In English, Tse is commonly romanized as ⟨ts⟩. However, in proper names (personal names, toponyms, etc.) and titles it may also be rendered as ⟨c⟩"
Congrats with the new location and successfully refurnishing the mailbag 'corner' , like the analog meters ! Waiting for the subtitling before watching this video, almost can't wait but want to know what u ramble ;)
You might try painting the walls behind the shelves a darker color. It'll make you and your "background" of stuff pop a bit more. Looks a bit "how you doing" at the moment.
And because of this single youtube comment, Dave immediately drove to his local... bunnings? masters?(idk what hardware store they have down under) and bought paint, rollers, etc, drove back, and took everything that he had put up on the shelves back down , took the shelves down, and painted the walls a slightly darker color.
13:18 I would very much guess its a led, since they have a much more stable Vf at extremely low currents than zeners do, to get a stable voltage for the cpu. You could see them in many calculators back then and even long way into the -90.
I think the КР572ПВ5 (KR572PV5) chip on the Soviet multimeter has been replaced at some point - the date code on the back of the unit says 1988, and other chips around it have an '87 date code.
What's with those delay lines? At the age of 10 or so, I disassembled an old video camera, and the only strange part, I couldn't make a sense of turned out to be a delay line nearly 10 years later in on of your other mailbag videos :)
"The European PAL standard for color broadcasts compares the signal from two successive lines of the image in order to avoid color shifting due to small phase shifts. By comparing two lines, one of which is inverted, the shifting is averaged and the resulting signal more closely matches the original signal, even in the presence of interference. In order to compare the two lines, a piezoelectric delay unit which delays the signal by a time that is equal to the duration of each line, 64 µs, is inserted in one of the two signal paths that are compared." -Wikipedia
Hi, Dave Jones. There isn't sufficient material on the internet to learn about Boost to Battery topology, it'd be great if you could make a tutorial on the same.
I didn't have time for a 30 minute video, but I didn't want to miss any of it, so I ran it at 2.0x speed and enabled the auto-generated closed captions. It was great! Though the speech was often hard to understand, the captions were easily readable. A 30 minute Mailbag in 15 minutes: Win!
Fantastic mailbag this week ! (10:53) Igor is pronounced "eeguh" (rhymes with eager), I believe. (At least the Russian pronunciation). I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong. (17:03) - I don't think it was a case of : "couldn't be bothered doing a ribbon", much rather an excuse for another job or position at the factory, (perhaps for Igor's cousin?). Remember, in a command economy, such as it was back then in the Soviet Union, profit was not the motivating factor, nor the driving force.
Loving it, Looks the same as it did, but cleaner and tidier... Also, the sound is better, it's not as echo'd, has a 'soundbox' effect.. but I like it, no background noise like on the other...
The new mailbag corner looks so tidy. I'm curious how long this condition will last.
Color looks a bit muted though.
Steven M. - Lights aren't set up properly yet.
it looks weird. Hope it gets messy soon.
Until the end of the video
a few mailbag videos
That little board is an RGB mod for the Nintendo 64! just look at the board number on the bottom left! Lol
I was gonna say that as I noticed the n64rgb at the bottom
etim.net.au/n64rgb/ "The N64 doesn't output RGB video, only encoded composite video and s-video is available on the A/V output port. It's best to use RGB video for the best looking picture. This board can be installed into any model of Nintendo 64. Digital signal from the from the graphics processor enter one side of the N64RGB and analogue RGB video comes out the other side."
For anyone considering one of these, keep in mind the N64 forced software AA in basically every single game, so it's still gonna look like a vaseline smeared mess even with RGB output :)
Check out My Life in Gaming on youtube if you wanna know more about getting the best quality out of old consoles.
That's what I thought when o saw the altera and the RGB
but on new tv make image a bit more clear but not doing black magic still loks like shit xD
11:44: service center addresses
Megumi_kun -spoiler alert.
@@HighestRank Dave asked for it anyway, why would you consider it a "spoiler"?
I don't even read a single letter Яussian and I guessed that much.
And phone numbers
Byte magazine - a first class publication! Thanks for the memories Dave!
I am the guy who sent the soviet stuff, nice to see it here in video. I was also surprised that the main chip in multimeter has a newer date than the one stamped on the back. This could be a warranty case, so maybe it was just replaced later. And as far as I know, the original owner of this device was a rather creative engineer, and I have seen a lot of these pale pink wires across his DIY devices, so it also could be his job.
Thanks.
That calculator looks very much like a typical TI scientific calculator. I wonder if it's a clone of one, or just has similar styling?
I bet that schmitt family is easily triggered.
see yourself out
Quality stuff right there
Yeah, they get amped op about anything.
Once they're angry, they're hard to calm down
Resistance is futile.
11:44 its a repair shop address book of all USSR 13:33 its a palladium-silver capacitor (some like NP0)
in the brochure to the soviet calculator are the addresses of all official repair shops of the USSR
The card that came with the calculator is a list of addresses of authorized repair centers.
The IC and probably the LCD were retrofitted, seeing the meter itself has a date stamp of April 1988 on the type plate. I assume a flatcable was originally fitted.
big sheet with electronica mk51 is probably list of service centers around the country.
Ah! Makes sense.
this is #1148 ?
EEVblog #1147 - Mailbag
EEVblog #1147 - 1 Cent Regulator! That's MAD!
Oops, will fix that.
Fun, like being back in past, the lightning and sound are so out of date this is such fun!
Suggestion: Maybe reshoot the mailbag outro, just for continuity's sake.
Soviet IC date codes indicates the month of the year not the week. :)
That 1991 display driver may have been one of the last Soviet chips made...
That's a rgb board from Tim Worthington for a Nintendo 64. (He's from Australia too by the way.)
18:20 In Soviet Russia, multimeters probe you..? :D
The Altera video board thing is an upgrade kit for a Nintendo 64. The N64 doesn't output RGB, only encoded composite and s-video, so with this kit, some very careful soldering, and some extra adapter bits depending on the version of your console, you can make it output analog RGB.
One side of the board gets a digital signal straight from the graphics processor, and then converts them to an analog RGB signal for improved video quality on an otherwise original console.
The IC in that Casio calculator reminds me a bit of the ones in perestroika-era Soviet calculators where they were bonded to a glass carrier.
Love the in-line battery current PCB ... simple practical idea for a tricky job.
23:40 the board is for adding RGB to the N64
I made a simple Go-No-Go voltage checker for the field techs where I used to work, It just had a Tiny micro and a couple of LED's plus some protection for the power/ADC lines, you taught it the Go/No-Go limits by shorting a pad on the PCB and it stored the ADC values in EEPROM then it was mounted in a clear connector shell so they could see the LED's. It was for use on a 24v vehicle CCTV system and didn't need to be massively accurate.
New mailbag nook looks great Dave!
Love those square Russki ceramic caps in that moldymeter.
You never stopped learning - that delay line amazes me. Who would have thought that you can store data in a solid state acoustic wave over multiple reflection reliably?
I loved Byte magazine. Learned a lot about a lot of things. The Circuit Cellar column was always a good challenge to understand.
Hi, I was born in Poland in 1977 and I remember those switches when I was disassembling stuff as a kid.
If you think that Soviet multimeter is howyadoin', you ought to see the 1992 RITM-2 synthesiser I'm currently restoring. Wooden chassis, the mains fuse is literally a piece of bare fuse wire soldered across the power switch, and all the primary-side power wiring is the same tiny hookup wire used on the PCB. The hinges that hold the keyboard are a household cupboard hinge that's been cut in half with a metal shear to make two (resourceful!). The main PCB looks like it was etched in someone's kitchen, down to being covered in scratches and gouges from where someone's scrubbed off the resist with a brillo pad or something. The circuit is basically a Moog Prodigy with one VCO lopped off, to the point that the schematics are laid out almost identically to the Moog ones.
I could go on and on, there's something hilariously wonky about almost every single part of this thing.
Those soviet stuffs are pure amazing. There is a youtube channel named Msylvain59 who teardowns all old missiles etc. Cable lacing and coating on these pcb's are plain perfect.
Thanks m8. I just checked him out and subbed. Interesting things.
^Likewise^
Thx for the reference
I'm following msylvain59 too. I always find Soviet electronics amazing because they look half-handmade and very professional at the same time
In Soviet Russia meter probes you!
My brother taught me how to lace wiring with running knots back in the late 60's- he was an Air Force electronics tech. I've still got a partial spool of waxed lacing cord he gave me from back then.
that train runs on magic smoke
Love that the outro clip is still in the old mailbag spot ;)
HISTORIC, First mailbag from the new lab. Looks great Dave, so neat ~ and I love those three Simson analog meters on your right. Loved the Byte prints, that really took me back, '78, '79. Always look forward to the mailbag! Thanks...
22:49 that is a Nintendo 64 RGB mod kit
yep etim.net.au/n64rgb/instructions-new/
"N64RGB12" on the pcb is the giveaway
if i pay for the postage, can i have it? i have been wanting one for a while
Does UA-cam now allow videos to be edited after uploading? Because there's a bunch of stuff overlaid on the video showing exactly what it is and how it's installed. But your comment and the others saying the same thing imply that that stuff wasn't in the video originally.
Lovin' the old Soviet calculators. I have a few in my own collection! It's fascinating how anachronistic some of the parts feel, like parts from a few eras were just laced together (always the wire lacing), and almost always done in what seems to be the most labor intensive manner too! I love it!
I have a piece of dual sided copper clad with wires soldered to both sides for inline current measurement, really useful!
most likely, the russian booklet that comes with the calculator lists all the locations' addresses throughout the USSR where you can repair the stuff under warranty
that 5v rail display would make for an interesting inclusion for a retro pc build
Never noticed before that the last part is pre-recorded. The new lab makes it obvious :-)
That multimeter looks like a direct copy of the Fluke 8020A, an early example of which is sitting here waiting for me to get around to replacing the failed LCD.
Ohgod, that little board is going to be inserted into so many spare corners of panelized boards... That is one heck of a good idea...
A bunch of cool stuff. Great video!
Used to love Byte ... and Dr Dobbs ... and going way back, Creative Computing
I instantly recognized Tim Worthington’s N64RGB. FYI: He’s a fellow Aussie, world-renowned for his products like N64RGB and NESRGB. :)
I recently flashed one with Peter Bartmann’s “Deblur” firmware using an Altera ByteBlaster/USB Blaster. I still prefer Marshall Hect’s UltraHDMI, but it makes no attempt to deinterlace the few 480i games that are out there, so Tim’s board still has a reason to exist. Without it we had to find early model N64s that needed an analog RGB amp but this one taps into the digital output of the GPU and can restore RGB to the later models.
These guys are better known by other names:
Viletim/eTim, borti4938, MarshallH.
The CS# pad is for TTL level CSYNC and the other one is for 75-ohm impedance CSYNC (standard for consumer RGB-compatible televisions).
@EEVblog that multimeter was manufactured on April 1988.
Digital Micromultimerer MMC-01, costed 95RUB
The 63.943uS delay line is the chroma (colour) delay for something that decodes PAL colour TV signals, likely a TV or VCR. You can tell because that's the period of a PAL horizontal scan line, & is required to provide the chroma phase signal from the previous scan line that the PAL system uses to stabilise the colours in each scan line, making it superior to the older NTSC system - NTSC equipment doesn't use a delay line.
Yes PDL is obviously PAL Delay Line. The delay is not exactly one horizontal scan line time (64 microseconds) but 283.5 periods of the subcarrier (4.43361875 MHz). Only the chrominance signal goes through the delay line. That simple relationship to the subcarrier frequency aids the separation of the two colour difference signals that are quadrature modulated on the subcarrier.
Ooh! I used to read Byte Magazine all the time. The program listings were loads of fun. :)
I still have my Casio Datacal 50 in a box somewhere... got it back in the early 90' I think..
ON the Russian scientific calculator, I wonder if the resistors at the top might have been for a display light, or more exotically, a display heater to get contrast back in very cold conditions, after all it might get used in very cold places.
10:21 the first tab you lifted was supposed to be tucked inside the box and not folded over the top.
RGB and Composite sync, not chip select. Hook it up to a TV and see what shows up on screen!
Dave. Soviet electronic often came with the schematic bundled in.
The back panel of that Soviet DMM shows it was made in 1988. Either the chip with "9104" was put in after or that number is not a date code
I really like this corner setup, much better looking than your previous setup
the russian calculator and meter are made by Electronika, the text on the back of the meter says micromultimetr
МК stands for micro calculator, I think. And that piece of paper is a list of repair shops across the Soviet Union.
I have to check out my old Byte mags now.
the "f1" shirt...is Will Power..aussie guy who won indy500 this year...ill take one if you dont need them all! :P
your new corner is looking good!..the battery current boards are great idea! definatly 'pool room' material!
Love how you moved back to the old lab for the end screen XD
love your new lab mate!!!!
I can imagine the designer on that N64 mod board had that tape placed there to cover his mistake. "It's very important, if you don't the electrons will fall out!"
The only real difference you will see in a fibre connection, or ADSL, throughput wise, is by shortening the distance between the ISP multiplexer and the modem. Unless there is a fault on the copper pair going into the premises, then changing the copper pair is unlikely to reduce the signal loss, which results in a lower throughput. Length of run is nearly always the deciding factor is a stable signal, which determines the throughput. Cat 6 and other cabling being talked about is mainly when referring to Ethernet, which isn't used, until after the modem in the home.
I used to write software once in a while for Steve Ciarcia's column in BYTE.
watch tomorrow's videos today ! ( in select timezones )
Thank you Dave!!! Great as always and great to see ya in the new spot!! I DIG IT! The coolest thing I have ever seen though is that analog delay line. HOLY CRAP that is awesome!!!! :-O
12:40 … might the resistors be for contrast adjustment based on ambient temperature? So you can still read something in Siberia?
Calculator: Thermistor for lcd contrast in cold Europe.
I guess the only thing he couldn't reproduce was the totally messed up color-code of the drawn resistor! (Is that a RED body?) (3:19)
That driver chip looks like it was recently replaced. Everything else has conformal coating except that one chip.
Page that came with calculator contains warranty service addresses.
The name of the calculator appears to be simply "Elektronika" - I can only read cyrillic letters, so I don't know if there's any more grammatical meaning to it. But I guess it's an obvious enough name!
The multimeter says "Mikromultimetr Zifrovoiy, elektronika MMZ-01" or something like that, the ц character doesn't have a latin analogue, the closest is like Z as in pizza.
Edit:
Love the CCCP emblem on the backside of the calculator! Below, it says (approximately) "Mikrokalkylator Elektronika".
The translation suggesions is actually the same one made on Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tse_(Cyrillic) ), I myself got the same translation from a Russian teacher who has been helping me learn. That said I agree with you, the "ts" avoids the conflict with Ze. I think it depends on what your point of view is; here in scandinavia, we use a pretty pronounced "ts" sound in "pizza", so for me the translation always made perfect sense (our "z" is very different from English). @@george.b.
@@Mythricia1988 I guess that's the most usual pronunciation of "pizza" most everywhere :) and yeah, local transliteration customs can be kinda different. Estonians, for instance, use "õ" for ы, which I think is pretty weird, but in their context it makes sense. My particular point of view, however, is derived from transliteration standards: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization_of_Russian
The article you linked even states: "In English, Tse is commonly romanized as ⟨ts⟩. However, in proper names (personal names, toponyms, etc.) and titles it may also be rendered as ⟨c⟩"
...in the words of Andrew Tanenbaum, "the nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from".
I think you need more and different light at this part of your new lab. But the set up looks cool, a lot of space.
Congrats with the new location and successfully refurnishing the mailbag 'corner' , like the analog meters !
Waiting for the subtitling before watching this video, almost can't wait but want to know what u ramble ;)
Talking about chips in the old days, in the 90s IBM used to have an ASIC tool called "Build Gates" :-)
It places were MK51 calculator can be repaired (service centres adress and phone ). No its not crystal its zener diode
Dave has obviously been to the Sunshine Tafe beauty academy :-)
And I almost won the lot on the Price is Right!
That Russki "Multimetr" was built in April of 1988. Just a tiny bit older than me :D
New mailbag setup is cool
pity all the best stuff is no longer made in Nippon
You might try painting the walls behind the shelves a darker color. It'll make you and your "background" of stuff pop a bit more. Looks a bit "how you doing" at the moment.
Was going to comment the same thing or at least some sort of color on the walls.
And because of this single youtube comment, Dave immediately drove to his local... bunnings? masters?(idk what hardware store they have down under) and bought paint, rollers, etc, drove back, and took everything that he had put up on the shelves back down , took the shelves down, and painted the walls a slightly darker color.
Yep this shot needs some colors imho
The lighting is not sorted yet for starters.
@@EEVblog i'd go for a fluo pink for the table esd mat 👌
13:18 I would very much guess its a led, since they have a much more stable Vf at extremely low currents than zeners do, to get a stable voltage for the cpu. You could see them in many calculators back then and even long way into the -90.
Always love mailbag!
I think the КР572ПВ5 (KR572PV5) chip on the Soviet multimeter has been replaced at some point - the date code on the back of the unit says 1988, and other chips around it have an '87 date code.
Loved Byte. Still have my issues, starting with the .01 centennial issue.
I have one of those datacal 50 units!
Looking good with the new mailbag corner. Like it. Needs a bit more crap on the shelves tho ;)
What's with those delay lines? At the age of 10 or so, I disassembled an old video camera, and the only strange part, I couldn't make a sense of turned out to be a delay line nearly 10 years later in on of your other mailbag videos :)
"The European PAL standard for color broadcasts compares the signal from two successive lines of the image in order to avoid color shifting due to small phase shifts. By comparing two lines, one of which is inverted, the shifting is averaged and the resulting signal more closely matches the original signal, even in the presence of interference. In order to compare the two lines, a piezoelectric delay unit which delays the signal by a time that is equal to the duration of each line, 64 µs, is inserted in one of the two signal paths that are compared."
-Wikipedia
13:57 my first DMM!!!
Careful with that knife at 29:46, YT might think this is a knife advocacy channel!
Hi, Dave Jones. There isn't sufficient material on the internet to learn about Boost to Battery topology, it'd be great if you could make a tutorial on the same.
I didn't have time for a 30 minute video, but I didn't want to miss any of it, so I ran it at 2.0x speed and enabled the auto-generated closed captions. It was great! Though the speech was often hard to understand, the captions were easily readable. A 30 minute Mailbag in 15 minutes: Win!
Isn't that odd green device an LED? Also the soldering on that multimeter was shocking
24:09 "Invoved" video quality? Is that good or bad? Do I .. do I want one of these?
29:42 I see my opened package on that piece of 'old' footage. (from #1133)
22:16 Jeez! I'd sure like to receive a Nintendo 64 RGB video mod _by accident!_ 😏
found a link for it. lol etim.net.au/n64rgb/
I've never seen a chip on..? Whatever that is before with the in plane leads going to a cutout like that.
It look like someone tried to write their telephone # on the 'telephone' button with a green marking-pen! (19:28)
new setup looks really good :D
You can use your phone and google translate to live translate text with camera.
Fantastic mailbag this week !
(10:53) Igor is pronounced "eeguh" (rhymes with eager), I believe.
(At least the Russian pronunciation).
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
(17:03) - I don't think it was a case of : "couldn't be bothered doing a ribbon", much rather an excuse for another job or position at the factory, (perhaps for Igor's cousin?).
Remember, in a command economy, such as it was back then in the Soviet Union, profit was not the motivating factor, nor the driving force.
Loving it, Looks the same as it did, but cleaner and tidier... Also, the sound is better, it's not as echo'd, has a 'soundbox' effect.. but I like it, no background noise like on the other...
Extra brownie points for anyone who spotted the old lab setup in there ;)