@Camaro 68 I'm still finding it hilarious four days after seeing it for the first time. I swear, one of these days someone is going to mention "Menards" to me and I will use this in some manner in conversation. The problem is, there are no Menards anywhere near me so it's not likely to come up in conversation anytime soon.
When I was a kid in the early 80s, I remember reading something in a book that said in the future electronic devices would be so inexpensive that we’d find them as prizes in cereal boxes. Just about.
@@electronerd These things really aren't all that expensive to produce, not even the higher end ones, they just shove a bunch of other tech in them (and a better screen, screens are expensive) and that runs the price up. Plus with how old the tech is now I'm not surprised at all to see one this cheap. Then the software development and marketing of the devices really ramps up the cost. But the hardware itself? Pretty cheap to make. I'll stick with my mech watches though, don't have to plug those in.
Friend of mine was the maintenance man for a company that makes bluetooth wireless everything, and he rescued a bunch of "defective" stuff from the dumpster during his tenure... I have some headphones that supposedly came from a batch that had a few battery problems. He straight up told everyone he gave them to that if they caught fire to just dump them and don't tell anyone. Been working fine for a number of years now.
Years ago I bought a set of cheap, chinese earbuds from Amazon and was showing them off to a coworker. His immediate response was "I don't think I would trust cheap 50mah LiPo cells directly in my ear canals." I had not considered that and lived in fear for months before getting a set of actual AirPods.
@@pv2xeek watch some Louis Rossmann videos on yt. You’ll learn that apple devices are for the most part built like shit and should be trusted very lil more than bargain bin China electronics.
"I can use this screen for something worthwhile." I seem to remember someone showing us how difficult it was to use a random screen we scrapped out of an electronic device, and telling us that we should just use screens that are "known". Who could that have been? "Heck," I don't know.
THAT'S WHAT IT WAS! It was so familiar and I could not place it. I thought it was from like the Wii main menu or some royalty free thing. It was freaking MAPLE STORY! Thank you!
This was great. I could definitely watch more pro/hobbyist style breakdowns of cheap electronics. Looks like these things had some good salvageable parts, too.
I'm surprised how often I find references to Ashens. I had been following another channel for a while when I discovered the channel name was a reference to a random joke in one of the old food specials.
except that by law *(in most countries) even without a sim, cel providers are required to give access to emergency 911 dialing. Kids get these as a toy and just inundate emergency services with false calls. Often times they have a shortcut like 'keep pressing the crown button for x time' (lookin at you apple) that dials automatically, even without sim.
@@frollard They could also call 911 at home with your phone. You wouldn't buy this to them if you couldn't trust to use a phone. This seems like a decent and cheap communication device.
@@oKrikket They could, but most people protect or monitor their phone - and assume something like this (or an old phone with no sim) is incapable of calling thus deeming it safe.
Don't do this. Don't ruin a child's Christmas. If they want/expect an apple watch or Samsung watch get them what they want. If you can't then don't even bother with something this cheap.
Apart from the camera and the SIM and SD slots, as far as I can tell it's exactly the same as the Lilygo T-Watch, which is an open-source smart watch I bought two of a while ago and did nothing with.
Uhhhh so apart from the COMPLETE ELECTRONICS you wanna say. Liligo is an ESP32 and this is MediaTek, one of those feature phone all-in-one chips. I bought an identical MediaTek watch for $6 from China a few years ago because i knew Bunnie Huang was reverse engineering a similar chip, so i was hoping there would be some progress, but while i was tinkering with it, it died. Or was accidentally deaded by me. More like a long chain of accidents, including someone (not me) sitting down on it and then a long chain of attempted repairs (by me) which each broke it a little more. An actually open-source watch would be a huge head start, but there's no way i can afford a $30 device like that.
@@SianaGearz haha fair point! The entire design of it other than the main board is identical though... I took a chance when ordering them because it wasn't clear whether the screen was an always-on energy efficient display or not... It is not (and in hindsight if it wasn't specified I should have assumed it wouldn't be...) Now I don't know what to do with them... They didn't come with usable firmware so unless I make my own or some community project forms around it, it's useless to me...
@@vicnet Well i assume there are at least functionality demos. Makes me wonder though, there's an abundance of cheap Nokia clone LCDs - monochrome, 84x48 and 96x68 varieties. Phones used to run them always-on and would still last a week and a half. Why isn't someone making a mass market smartwatch based on those?
@@SianaGearz They do come pre-flashed with some demo code, but most of it is just a mock-up so other than telling the time it doesn't do anything useful. I haven't checked the status of the official repo in a while but I doubt I'll revisit them. Pebble was kinda "the" king of the always-on smartwatch before they got bought and killed by Fitbit. Now there's some Chinese brands like Amazfit that make always-on e-ink smartwatches but the idea of an open-source one really appealed to me... Ah well, good lesson in avoiding impulse purchases I guess... They didn't cost me much but I do feel bad every time I see them in my drawer 😂
Not kidding, I would listen to a 8hr playlist of Ben Heck commentary, jokes and show tunes while I work. It would make working in a grocery store so much more fun and customers would look at me funny when I inevitably randomly bust out in laughter.
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I've played and taken a lot of these apart. They are amazing for the price, looking at the hardware. The issue is the crappy software. It would be nice to have a good open source OS for this.
Man that watch was more than meets the eye and more than I expected for the price. I really enjoyed the video, and the fact that is related to the junk mail one, thanks Ben. Keep it up!
I enjoyed how surprised he was to find a battery in the earbud case, partly because that that's a prime feature of every one of these types of earbuds, including all the knockoffs, but mainly because the light on it was lit up.
That startup chime on the watch is exactly the same one that a cheap "phone watch" from 2006 had, that I bought out of curiosity. It was bulky and ugly compared to this one and MUCH more expensive! It had a resistive touchscreen as well and a little stylus that you could store in a small compartment on the strap. I guess those things will never cease to exist :D
I'm hearing the Menards jungle from my childhood. 🎶 Save big money at my nards!🎶 (Not sure if they still use the same jingle since I haven't set one of their ads in over a decade or two.)
I use those earbuds daily. I'm actually very fond of them. I did think you put the earbuds in at a strange angle, but then again, you know your ears better than I do. I'm not audiphile but personally I'm fully satisfied with their sound.
You can usually pull the antenna out of the armband, it's one of those kapton PCBs, and then pull it through the slot in the enclosure and extract the main PCB. As far as i can tell, they solder the antenna wire to the PCB before they try to install it into the enclosure, but they sometimes glue the antenna into the armband, so you can be out of luck.
There was a moment where I thought they had actually put damping material behind the driver but that was just the battery. I was able to get a lightning cable for my Bose QC15's, which was somewhat surprising, so there might also be a USB C cable for them (off Ebay).
The Big 3 where we're located are Home Depot, Lowe's and Menards. They are a hybrid between a hardware store and a "home improvement" store. They are places to shop for Christmas on a Budget, and then you lie to your gift recipients that you bought it at a high-end store like Macy's (formerly Marshall Fields).
Yeah, it's like ashens but you're tearing it down seeing what's inside and giving more in depth comments about it. Really like this video super entertaining and inspiring. Gives me a fun ideas to get this cheap good stuffs to play with.
Question about the headphones: My wife bought those last year from Menards. She noticed one side discharges faster than the other. Any design reason you think that would be or just cheap electronics/one battery has less capacity than the other?
I’m from New England but I work at a camp in indy for a week every June. They look like your version of ocean state job lot. I love their green buckets lol Oh and that game system was sold at cvs for $10 a few years ago. It’s like one of those 1000 in one nes carts but as a portable
I bought a $10 Bluetooth speaker at menards a few months ago, and it actually sounds better than my old $50 speaker. Sometimes the ultra cheap electronics they have are surprisingly good. Also it's a great place for getting audio and video cables, especially super cheap speaker wire.
TXD and RXD labeled pins (plus vcc and gnd) RXD is probably Rx and TXD is probably tx, the pins needed for a uart serial connection. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Was surprised to see the MyArcade/DreamGEAR finally show up in a Ben Heck video! I got one last year with the intention of hacking it to be useful. I never got around to hacking it to be useful.
The chip inside of the headphones could very well be the same one that they use in a lot of other cheap Bluetooth devices. I have torn apart a Bluetooth robot and selfie trigger from Five Below, and there was a single chip inside with the same SMD package.
You act as if you have bought junk when in fact you have found treasure. Soon you will have a full Iron Man style suit made of these items, and it will be a joy to behold!
Menards, for a few straight years from 2015 through at least 2017 sold a totally unbranded projector with built in DVD player on Black Friday for around $30, and I managed to buy one. It's cheaply built as expected, and the projection quality isn't that great. But, it's region free, can play MP4 files off a USB drive or SD card, and has a hidden feature... NES emulation. I was able to get a ROM of SMB to start, but the emulation was pretty bad and the particular projector that Menards sold that day covered up the two USB ports needed for game controllers.
surprising quality for the price. going by the silkscreened date on the pcb I imagine when this thing was a brand new design it was probably a few benjamins more.
Well, in other parts of the world 11 USD isn't really crazy cheap, I could get 3 lunches at a normal place for that much in my country. But it's still mighty impressive because even better smartwatches from Xiaomi cost around 20-25 dollars
Its like 20 30 dollars for 20 cigarettes in my country :( im saving up to leave and find somewhere better but i cant afford to save much money cos my cost of livings so much!! Sad but true still i shall try my best to leave one day
You laugh at that little handheld gaming console but my 4 year old is in LOVE with that. It fits his hands perfectly and the fact that it has so many games makes it perfect for long car trips. He only gets video games on car rides and about a few hours a week and he prefers that over my old gameboy DS. It's usually between that and the AT games sega handheld. All said, if anyone's looking for gift ideas for a 4/5 year old, keep that little machine in mind. It also has survived quite a few drops.
do you think it would be possible to figure out the pinouts on those test pads for that NOAC? I'm assuming those test pads can be wired directly to the pins on a cartridge, and the screen doesn't look like it's using composite, so it would potentially be a very nice portable nes mod with a new 3D printed body
Menards is great when you want Harbor Freight quality at near-Home Depot prices, with no chance of ever finding replacement parts. My mom wanted to buy an $800 snowblower from Menards last year. Thankfully she listened to me and bought a used Ariens for the same price.
I'm astonished that for 12$ it has a proper removable battery, all the 100-200 dollar android powered smartwatches with fancy round OLED screens that I've ever taken apart use a flimsy ribbon cable for the battery, and on some it's even soldered directly to the main board!
I had a smartwatch like this, $8 directly from china, just to tear it down too. Same melody on start, same OS, but a smaller display. It was a glorified bluetooth headset with tacked-on features, required a dubious app to make it run, the batttery lasted half a day, and the timekeeping was WAY off. I didnt expect anything for $8 though. Amazing that they could even produce and ship this item for a profit. Your watch was much higher quality, and even had a removable battery and SIM slot.
1:57 I'm very sure that the unbranded version of that would just show a generic "Welcome" at that point instead of the Sylvania logo. 4:46 I feel as though Sylvania is just licencing out their logo or just slapping it on whatever cheap items they find on alibaba.com that they think would sell. 5:19 My dad tried the unbranded version of that, and it only supports 2G service. 13:49 I detect an NES on a chip setup with an integrated bootleg cartridge.
I've gotten one of these, they're all over alibaba, wish, etc. That sticker, when you removed the back cover, is actually covering up your speaker (and the grill is supposed to go over the speaker). I'm guessing someone just randomly slapped the sticker in, or due to the speaker actually being ridiculously loud, as a means to muffle the sound.
You can fit nano sims in micro slots, just fiddly, the contact size and pattern is exactly the same from the first credit card sozed sims all the way to the nano, so any smaller one will work in a bibber, just hard to get it in and out
I guess for an elderly person who does not like smart phones, or want to carry a phone on them period, then this could be a cheap solution long as it has 3G for something like AT&T's Cricket Wireless service just to have something on them in case of emergency.
I had a watch similar to this. Never got the Bluetooth software to work reliably. I'm looking forward to the pinetime from pine64. Similar specs but you can easily write and flash firmware.
I bought those same earbuds. The "Roam" name is accurate, so long as you don't roam more than 5 feet from your sound source. Dropped one in a full sink (accidentally, honest!), dried it out, and it still worked fine. I no longer use them. Went back to wired ones that sound better.
That watch is very cool. The earpods are so cheap you can't expect much but I'm very envious. No such luck finding such cool gadgets so cheap around my area.
Oh god I can't believe it. Sylvania basically rebranded and/or reconfigured an existing smart watch design using the same MediaTek processor. I have one of my own. They're apparently somewhat hackable, but I haven't for the life of me been able to reflash it.
Menards the sound you hear when you kick a pirate in his family jewels.
I laughed too much at this...
OMG This needs more upvotes! puhaha
@Camaro 68 I'm still finding it hilarious four days after seeing it for the first time. I swear, one of these days someone is going to mention "Menards" to me and I will use this in some manner in conversation. The problem is, there are no Menards anywhere near me so it's not likely to come up in conversation anytime soon.
I'll sue for big money, I'll sue for big money, of you kick Menards..."
I hear this with an Irish accent
When I was a kid in the early 80s, I remember reading something in a book that said in the future electronic devices would be so inexpensive that we’d find them as prizes in cereal boxes. Just about.
Well, they once gave out raspberry pi zeroes for free in a magazine. I think that's close enough?
@@purplegill10 Pretty sure that was a Pi Zero launch promotion.
@@Saavik256 It was
The worthwhile quality electronics are still expensive though.
I got a little star wars electronic robot thing from a cereal box once
I'm not a smart man, but I'm fairly positive you need to get Doom running on that watch.
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The perfect camera for capturing pictures of big foot.
Or UFO's
Great Video!
@@devrim-oguz Any flying object photographed with that camera would be unidentifiable.
@@bradnoyes7955 yeah but... oh now i get it
It's like a Big Clive video, but instead of Poundland - it's Menards
Woke
Ashens as well
Little LGR with that game system
Big Clive fan lmao
Let me just get myyyyyyy spudger... And it went bang.
For $11...that watch is a damn good deal. Even a “basic” watch that ONLY tells time cost that much at Wal-Mart....
I wonder if it's repurposed salvage or something
I got 2 of them the other day. Not sure if for gifts or just to screw around with though.
The basic watch is better
It makes you wonder what kind of margins the big tech companies are making on their better watches
@@electronerd These things really aren't all that expensive to produce, not even the higher end ones, they just shove a bunch of other tech in them (and a better screen, screens are expensive) and that runs the price up. Plus with how old the tech is now I'm not surprised at all to see one this cheap. Then the software development and marketing of the devices really ramps up the cost. But the hardware itself? Pretty cheap to make.
I'll stick with my mech watches though, don't have to plug those in.
I love the idea of having a lithium ion battery almost in your ear canal 😂
Friend of mine was the maintenance man for a company that makes bluetooth wireless everything, and he rescued a bunch of "defective" stuff from the dumpster during his tenure... I have some headphones that supposedly came from a batch that had a few battery problems. He straight up told everyone he gave them to that if they caught fire to just dump them and don't tell anyone. Been working fine for a number of years now.
Years ago I bought a set of cheap, chinese earbuds from Amazon and was showing them off to a coworker. His immediate response was "I don't think I would trust cheap 50mah LiPo cells directly in my ear canals." I had not considered that and lived in fear for months before getting a set of actual AirPods.
@@pv2xeek watch some Louis Rossmann videos on yt. You’ll learn that apple devices are for the most part built like shit and should be trusted very lil more than bargain bin China electronics.
@@alvarojm750 That's becayse apple uses the trash bin to source their parts and children to assemble them.
"I can use this screen for something worthwhile." I seem to remember someone showing us how difficult it was to use a random screen we scrapped out of an electronic device, and telling us that we should just use screens that are "known". Who could that have been? "Heck," I don't know.
"I could give this to my little brother"
2 seconds later
"I licked the screen"
Older brother test passed
Ben is being a window licker.
I really liked this video. Its not every day we get to see 'local' cheap stuff torn down and looked over.
The Menards jingle is forever etched into my memory. "Save big money at Menaaaarrrdddsss!"
When you have a house it's more like "Spend all your money at Menardssssssss"
@@BenHeckHacks 😂
Bro try working there. Haven't worked there in years and the damned jingle gives me PTSD
Ben shows a little more respect when it comes to opening those cheapo headphones than Dankpods does.
The handheld gaming device looked like the 1 Grit opened it however.
The menu theme for that awful handheld is from an old Korean mmorpg called Maple Story.
THAT'S WHAT IT WAS! It was so familiar and I could not place it. I thought it was from like the Wii main menu or some royalty free thing. It was freaking MAPLE STORY! Thank you!
Henesys!
Whoah
LOL at the maniacal laughing when you unbox the gamepad ....and Ben MOISTURIZE your cuticles you crazy genius.
This was great. I could definitely watch more pro/hobbyist style breakdowns of cheap electronics. Looks like these things had some good salvageable parts, too.
About the "police colors" headphones, flashing Blue and Red is the standard for indicating Bluetooth pairing mode.
Apple: No there is no space for a SD-Card slot in a Phone, Tablet or Laptop.
So true
First he reads us his junk mail, then tooootallly redeems himself with cheapo electronic tear downs.
This video gets 100 miles per gallon
As a fellow brit, good to hear a callout to my master of tat Ashens. Just released his second movie this week too.
I'm surprised how often I find references to Ashens. I had been following another channel for a while when I discovered the channel name was a reference to a random joke in one of the old food specials.
He makes a lot of references to other channels. Ashens, EEVBlog, AVE, etc
I watched the gamechild movie on release and am really excited to see the new one
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I see you are a fan of SummoningSalt as well
I second that
Perfect stocking stuffers for kids who are going to loose them anyway.
except that by law *(in most countries) even without a sim, cel providers are required to give access to emergency 911 dialing. Kids get these as a toy and just inundate emergency services with false calls. Often times they have a shortcut like 'keep pressing the crown button for x time' (lookin at you apple) that dials automatically, even without sim.
@@frollard They could also call 911 at home with your phone.
You wouldn't buy this to them if you couldn't trust to use a phone. This seems like a decent and cheap communication device.
@@oKrikket They could, but most people protect or monitor their phone - and assume something like this (or an old phone with no sim) is incapable of calling thus deeming it safe.
Don't do this. Don't ruin a child's Christmas. If they want/expect an apple watch or Samsung watch get them what they want. If you can't then don't even bother with something this cheap.
If you only ever buy a kid cheap garbage, they will treat their things like cheap garbage.
Apart from the camera and the SIM and SD slots, as far as I can tell it's exactly the same as the Lilygo T-Watch, which is an open-source smart watch I bought two of a while ago and did nothing with.
Uhhhh so apart from the COMPLETE ELECTRONICS you wanna say. Liligo is an ESP32 and this is MediaTek, one of those feature phone all-in-one chips.
I bought an identical MediaTek watch for $6 from China a few years ago because i knew Bunnie Huang was reverse engineering a similar chip, so i was hoping there would be some progress, but while i was tinkering with it, it died. Or was accidentally deaded by me. More like a long chain of accidents, including someone (not me) sitting down on it and then a long chain of attempted repairs (by me) which each broke it a little more. An actually open-source watch would be a huge head start, but there's no way i can afford a $30 device like that.
@@SianaGearz haha fair point! The entire design of it other than the main board is identical though...
I took a chance when ordering them because it wasn't clear whether the screen was an always-on energy efficient display or not... It is not (and in hindsight if it wasn't specified I should have assumed it wouldn't be...)
Now I don't know what to do with them... They didn't come with usable firmware so unless I make my own or some community project forms around it, it's useless to me...
@@vicnet Well i assume there are at least functionality demos.
Makes me wonder though, there's an abundance of cheap Nokia clone LCDs - monochrome, 84x48 and 96x68 varieties. Phones used to run them always-on and would still last a week and a half. Why isn't someone making a mass market smartwatch based on those?
@@SianaGearz They do come pre-flashed with some demo code, but most of it is just a mock-up so other than telling the time it doesn't do anything useful. I haven't checked the status of the official repo in a while but I doubt I'll revisit them.
Pebble was kinda "the" king of the always-on smartwatch before they got bought and killed by Fitbit. Now there's some Chinese brands like Amazfit that make always-on e-ink smartwatches but the idea of an open-source one really appealed to me...
Ah well, good lesson in avoiding impulse purchases I guess... They didn't cost me much but I do feel bad every time I see them in my drawer 😂
"Save big money at Menards!"
I wonder how much current you can draw off that " tiny little lipo™ "
"can I get a Apple watch"
"you have a Apple watch"
the "apple" waatch
Nice profile pic
@@pompshuffle562 Thanks, lol
"The one that always comments on my Halo Reach t-shirt."
That absolutely sounds like the Monona Menards.
That watch was quite impressive for the price, I mean nothing I'd actually use but still.
Not kidding, I would listen to a 8hr playlist of Ben Heck commentary, jokes and show tunes while I work. It would make working in a grocery store so much more fun and customers would look at me funny when I inevitably randomly bust out in laughter.
I've played and taken a lot of these apart. They are amazing for the price, looking at the hardware. The issue is the crappy software. It would be nice to have a good open source OS for this.
next video:
how to make a 11 dollar smart watch into a 40 dollar one!! 😂
Hey Ben, just FYI at 3:05 your mothers phone number is visible.
Ben, you can edit the video through UA-cam, and blackout the number.
Yeah I can't see much
@@pompshuffle562 I just double checked by dropping down to 1/4 speed, and the whole number is definitely in frame.
@@realifethunder Yeah I see it. In the last video he said where he lived and then said his neighbors name effectively doxing him too
@@pompshuffle562 thankfully his community is pretty small and chill but still hope he fixes it
Ben, at 3:12 your mother's phone number is clearly visible. I case you weren't aware.
Yeah I jumped into the comments to make sure this was posted
Time to call her?
I sent him an email in case this comment doesn't reach him
I can't see it, just wanted to see if it is blocked out completely
looks like it's been blurred out, alright
Man, now I feel the need to run to Menards! It's just a ~20 min bicycle ride.
You know its a good day when Ben uploads 2 videos so rapidly together
Thank you junk mail for giving us this hilarious entertainment :D
Anyone who also watches dank pods instantly recognizes those earbuds as the free whish headphones
I love how he just cuts to the handheld already chopped to bits.
Me: “Hope he doesn’t use a screwdriver for separating the back, that would leave those nasty marks”
Ben: \*cuts to the chopped game*
Man that watch was more than meets the eye and more than I expected for the price.
I really enjoyed the video, and the fact that is related to the junk mail one, thanks Ben. Keep it up!
I enjoyed how surprised he was to find a battery in the earbud case, partly because that that's a prime feature of every one of these types of earbuds, including all the knockoffs, but mainly because the light on it was lit up.
Ben..... your videos make my heart happy. Thanks man.
That startup chime on the watch is exactly the same one that a cheap "phone watch" from 2006 had, that I bought out of curiosity. It was bulky and ugly compared to this one and MUCH more expensive! It had a resistive touchscreen as well and a little stylus that you could store in a small compartment on the strap. I guess those things will never cease to exist :D
When you said "M'nards", sound like you're talking about your nards. As in "I need a $11 bluetooth 'smart watch' like I need a kick in m'nards".
I'm hearing the Menards jungle from my childhood. 🎶 Save big money at my nards!🎶 (Not sure if they still use the same jingle since I haven't set one of their ads in over a decade or two.)
@@MatthewStinar They still do.
I use those earbuds daily. I'm actually very fond of them. I did think you put the earbuds in at a strange angle, but then again, you know your ears better than I do. I'm not audiphile but personally I'm fully satisfied with their sound.
You should check out Menards' action cam. It's marked as 720p on the box, 1080p in the camera's menus, and only records in 480.
Your mom is so sweet. Maybe that watch _would,_ in fact, be useful for people like her!
LOL, the ringtone that plays when you turn on the watch is the same as on my fathers' cheap Chinese feature phone. XD
You can usually pull the antenna out of the armband, it's one of those kapton PCBs, and then pull it through the slot in the enclosure and extract the main PCB. As far as i can tell, they solder the antenna wire to the PCB before they try to install it into the enclosure, but they sometimes glue the antenna into the armband, so you can be out of luck.
There was a moment where I thought they had actually put damping material behind the driver but that was just the battery.
I was able to get a lightning cable for my Bose QC15's, which was somewhat surprising, so there might also be a USB C cable for them (off Ebay).
The Big 3 where we're located are Home Depot, Lowe's and Menards. They are a hybrid between a hardware store and a "home improvement" store. They are places to shop for Christmas on a Budget, and then you lie to your gift recipients that you bought it at a high-end store like Macy's (formerly Marshall Fields).
those my arcade systems are surprisingly good, i have the bubble bobble one and its pretty decent for its price
It looks pretty good for the price
Yeah, it's like ashens but you're tearing it down seeing what's inside and giving more in depth comments about it. Really like this video super entertaining and inspiring. Gives me a fun ideas to get this cheap good stuffs to play with.
Question about the headphones: My wife bought those last year from Menards. She noticed one side discharges faster than the other. Any design reason you think that would be or just cheap electronics/one battery has less capacity than the other?
Is there a reason for the black pcb? Aren't those more expensive to produce?
I’m from New England but I work at a camp in indy for a week every June. They look like your version of ocean state job lot. I love their green buckets lol
Oh and that game system was sold at cvs for $10 a few years ago. It’s like one of those 1000 in one nes carts but as a portable
Menards cheap tear downs idea I’d definitely watch more of.
A vibration motor? You mean... a... *TAPTIC ENGINE* 'Vibration, re-imagined'
I bought a $10 Bluetooth speaker at menards a few months ago, and it actually sounds better than my old $50 speaker. Sometimes the ultra cheap electronics they have are surprisingly good. Also it's a great place for getting audio and video cables, especially super cheap speaker wire.
TXD and RXD labeled pins (plus vcc and gnd) RXD is probably Rx and TXD is probably tx, the pins needed for a uart serial connection. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Ben, I hope you are able to use the screen, that's a cheap screen that will be handy with electronic projects.
I bought that 3-Led "Bulb" next to those watches, and it's incredible. Brightest light in my garage.
That smartwatch was designed by a guy who fell in to a coma at the OG iPhone reveal
Was surprised to see the MyArcade/DreamGEAR finally show up in a Ben Heck video! I got one last year with the intention of hacking it to be useful. I never got around to hacking it to be useful.
Haha the whole time you were pulling the arcade handheld apart i was thinking, is he going to check if there is a cover over the face?
The chip inside of the headphones could very well be the same one that they use in a lot of other cheap Bluetooth devices. I have torn apart a Bluetooth robot and selfie trigger from Five Below, and there was a single chip inside with the same SMD package.
You act as if you have bought junk when in fact you have found treasure. Soon you will have a full Iron Man style suit made of these items, and it will be a joy to behold!
My heart goes out to all the kids out there that get one of these things for Christmas because their family can't afford anything more.
Got one of those little video game thingy's as a stocking stuffer for my grandson off Ebay 2 years ago.
It's still working!!
Damn it Ben, You're better than that. Always check under the stickers for hidden screws.
Menards, for a few straight years from 2015 through at least 2017 sold a totally unbranded projector with built in DVD player on Black Friday for around $30, and I managed to buy one. It's cheaply built as expected, and the projection quality isn't that great. But, it's region free, can play MP4 files off a USB drive or SD card, and has a hidden feature... NES emulation. I was able to get a ROM of SMB to start, but the emulation was pretty bad and the particular projector that Menards sold that day covered up the two USB ports needed for game controllers.
Well, that was hands down beter then "Reading junk mail" video
I work at menards and love this video thank youuuuu!!!
surprising quality for the price. going by the silkscreened date on the pcb I imagine when this thing was a brand new design it was probably a few benjamins more.
"$11 for all that! Crazy world we live in...."
Well, in other parts of the world 11 USD isn't really crazy cheap, I could get 3 lunches at a normal place for that much in my country. But it's still mighty impressive because even better smartwatches from Xiaomi cost around 20-25 dollars
$11 is a full day's pay in some countries
Its like 20 30 dollars for 20 cigarettes in my country :( im saving up to leave and find somewhere better but i cant afford to save much money cos my cost of livings so much!! Sad but true still i shall try my best to leave one day
Aww, your mums so sweet! She should do the next spam mail video!
You laugh at that little handheld gaming console but my 4 year old is in LOVE with that. It fits his hands perfectly and the fact that it has so many games makes it perfect for long car trips. He only gets video games on car rides and about a few hours a week and he prefers that over my old gameboy DS. It's usually between that and the AT games sega handheld.
All said, if anyone's looking for gift ideas for a 4/5 year old, keep that little machine in mind. It also has survived quite a few drops.
$11?! You certainly saved BIG money 😉
do you think it would be possible to figure out the pinouts on those test pads for that NOAC?
I'm assuming those test pads can be wired directly to the pins on a cartridge, and the screen doesn't look like it's using composite, so it would potentially be a very nice portable nes mod with a new 3D printed body
Menards is great when you want Harbor Freight quality at near-Home Depot prices, with no chance of ever finding replacement parts.
My mom wanted to buy an $800 snowblower from Menards last year. Thankfully she listened to me and bought a used Ariens for the same price.
I was thinking this video Ben was being a mix of Ashens and Big Clive.
I'm astonished that for 12$ it has a proper removable battery, all the 100-200 dollar android powered smartwatches with fancy round OLED screens that I've ever taken apart use a flimsy ribbon cable for the battery, and on some it's even soldered directly to the main board!
I really wanna know if you can program that processor and get something to display on the screen! Would be super neat
I had a smartwatch like this, $8 directly from china, just to tear it down too. Same melody on start, same OS, but a smaller display. It was a glorified bluetooth headset with tacked-on features, required a dubious app to make it run, the batttery lasted half a day, and the timekeeping was WAY off. I didnt expect anything for $8 though. Amazing that they could even produce and ship this item for a profit. Your watch was much higher quality, and even had a removable battery and SIM slot.
Dude, two episodes in one day? Awesome
1:57 I'm very sure that the unbranded version of that would just show a generic "Welcome" at that point instead of the Sylvania logo.
4:46 I feel as though Sylvania is just licencing out their logo or just slapping it on whatever cheap items they find on alibaba.com that they think would sell.
5:19 My dad tried the unbranded version of that, and it only supports 2G service.
13:49 I detect an NES on a chip setup with an integrated bootleg cartridge.
I could almost touch your grief when you realized how the portable was put together.
Ashens + BigClive all in one.
Big Brain comment here.
Did you buy the Shur-Fine mac and cheese at Menards or Woodman's? Or Shopko?
What a coincidence, they just put on of those stores in near me. Never had a chance to go check it out yet.
your mom is so wholesome, i love it
I've gotten one of these, they're all over alibaba, wish, etc. That sticker, when you removed the back cover, is actually covering up your speaker (and the grill is supposed to go over the speaker). I'm guessing someone just randomly slapped the sticker in, or due to the speaker actually being ridiculously loud, as a means to muffle the sound.
Yesss!!! I see those cheap products at work there all the time and I've always wanted to see their insides lol
You can fit nano sims in micro slots, just fiddly, the contact size and pattern is exactly the same from the first credit card sozed sims all the way to the nano, so any smaller one will work in a bibber, just hard to get it in and out
Haha I love your turn of phrase.
12:45 Ashens reference was spot on, he posted a handheld garbage review the other day :)
I guess for an elderly person who does not like smart phones, or want to carry a phone on them period, then this could be a cheap solution long as it has 3G for something like AT&T's Cricket Wireless service just to have something on them in case of emergency.
I had a watch similar to this. Never got the Bluetooth software to work reliably.
I'm looking forward to the pinetime from pine64. Similar specs but you can easily write and flash firmware.
The menu music is from maplestory on that portable game device. That music plays when you’re in the free market.
The processor is an ARM7 processer that costs less than 3 dollars for normal people. It has a built in 2G modem and other features.
I bought those same earbuds. The "Roam" name is accurate, so long as you don't roam more than 5 feet from your sound source.
Dropped one in a full sink (accidentally, honest!), dried it out, and it still worked fine.
I no longer use them. Went back to wired ones that sound better.
That watch is very cool. The earpods are so cheap you can't expect much but I'm very envious. No such luck finding such cool gadgets so cheap around my area.
Oh god I can't believe it. Sylvania basically rebranded and/or reconfigured an existing smart watch design using the same MediaTek processor. I have one of my own. They're apparently somewhat hackable, but I haven't for the life of me been able to reflash it.