I wish you would build projects again. You have all the cool things and the knowledge. The Ben Heck Show inspired me to lern about electronics. It didn't got me more money at my job, but i wasn't laid of during a big purge because i could also work on the prototypes. I like your energy. Watching you inspires me to get the dayjob out of my head and get into my hobbys.
I had one of those mini fm radios that ran on 2x CR2032. Ran for ages, too. Ran over it with a lawn mower one summer. Never been able to find one that small again. Too bad, too. I liked that thing.
Have you ever messed with spreading the inductor in those El-cheapo radios to hear the aircraft band? Spreading out the inductor shifts the resonant frequency bandwidth up. The radios with an analog tuning wheel work better than the digital scan ones. Pretty useful if you ever make it up to the Oshkosh air show. Of course, if you aren't next to an airport you may have to tune back and forth for awhile before you hear any aircraft talk to each other (or to the tower). A better antenna helps as well.
There is NO medical "benefit" to be had from shining visible light spectrum low power LEDs on your body. Look up the Spectrochrome medical quackery device. Even those Illumasks and "Laser light" hair rejuenvating hats are complete hogwash.
Ben, @14:30 that SBC is an Atomic Pi... uses an Intel Atom CPU and has a few GPIO. Was originally for a jukebox of some sort that went under then sold to nerds as a Pi replacement. I think thats the story if i am not mistaken.
Heck yeah! I got one a few years back to make a retro games arcade but havent got around to it yet. I would TOTALLY watch a video about the AtomicPi running a pinball machine or something cool. :)
It's very finicky for power. 5v3a, but you need to attach to all the power pins on the bottom connector or else you'll get kernel errors if you do anything outside of OpenWRT. Lubuntu was not happy...
@@BenHeckHacks there are power delivery daughterboards from digital loggers available (they're the ones that bought em up when bosch pulled the plug on the little house robot speaker thing it was supposed to be) there's a small one with a barrel jack and a larger board that breaks out all the gpio, the usb header, the onboard audio system, and so on. i bought mine for octoprint and klipper specifically and it runs about as well as you could hope for.
The EU already implemented a work around for companies like Apple. Devices that are water proof do not need a replaceable battery. This will also affect the usb-c demand, as those devices will use inefficient wireless charging and no usb connection at all.
The Nuvasive device is used to monitor the health and function of nerves and/or muscles. That Dell Thin Client is very much like the ones that use to be in medical centers; an example being Richland Center's Medical Center; the exam rooms have a monitor and a thin client so they can access medical records.
That "Light Relief" unit looks like absolute quackery. The claim is that the IR LEDs heat the skin and soothe pain that way, but those LEDs will be emitting near IR, which is not going to heat anything (unless driven at currents extreme enough that the secondary heat dissipation is actually perceptible or the light output is intense enough to cause heating, which would likely not be too good for that type of LED package.)
I fixed an LED "therapy" device for a friend once. She paid over $100 for it. It was a junky plastic handle with a slug of steel in it to make it feel heavier, a $2 wall wart and about $3 in various red color LEDs. Total parts cost if I built it would have been less than $10, I am guessing their cost at volume was more like $3.
They're making the first batch of x16 units more expensive to pay for the sample boards they sent to mopes like Adrian who doesn't know his from his. Great business model.
I actually bought that 1st radio (maybe in blue) at Dollar Tree around 2004 for detasseling. Got some unbelievable stuff there...usb cables. Parallel "printer" cable, ethernet cable (cat5), kids p/s2 mouse with a switch box that supports 2 PC mice, AV cables, coax splitter and F couplers. All of it for $1. At least the usb cables are decent quality and still have.
That Gypsy is for the Cricut cutter, my mom had one... I think all you could do with it was design things while mobile then save to cartridges and then upload to the printer and cut. needless to say it was never used properly....
_"WHERE IT'S AT... It's got 2 Transistors and a Radio Chip!"_ -Alt-Universe Beck, probably, I dunno. Maybe it's time to hunt for silly electronics on Wish (or Temu), or at one of the various Dollar stores (I _think_ Dollar Tree was the more random-junk one?)
Here’s a build for you, a Street Fighter 6 controller that records the inputs and you can match them against what SF6 records. Dispel the dropped inputs myth…
Companies evolved the weirdest thing, they have an ambiance in the packaging department. Like when me and Becka worked the tool coral, "this here must be organized and sorted and made servicable, but perhaps it was your whole world. God knows you'd have to have been related to Wright Paterson air field. Excuse me Mr. Moffitt fields. So I was wondering if the Nvidia shield joystick had a AA or a LIPO, but it's quite difficult to change, yet the joystick lasts a solid month, no joke. The parts people would have explained Ford vs Ferarri to me.
I would have enjoyed a mix of recycled parts solder together to work. Old GPU with am-fm radio with an screen from a pod smartphone all working together with some arms made of DC motors and legs. All the pins connected.
I vaguely recognized the Stryker brand on that battery. I googled it and they must be medical grade as they are a couple hundred dollars new. Crazy what they can get away with charging for 4 18650 cells.
I work in the medical device industry… the FDA regulations are insane (although warranted). It's not cheap to be fully compliant on everything, 510(k)s are expensive, and heaven forbid anything ever have to change (do it all over again) and that's just the beginning. Applies even to the software (and its code) on medical devices. Why I always cringe hard when people apply that move-fast-and-break-things mentality to medical devices in the US. If your stuff injures or kills people, you better have the systems in place to deal with all that as well. Oh yeah, lawsuits and audits and consulting costs…… $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Would love to see some tear downs on products from Temu…..my wife has bought several electrical products which were surprisingly quite good….re-enforces my theory that China can produce both cheap and good products but for decades has been shipping out the cheapest crap to the west keeping the better stuff for themselves.
The sad reality is that there are some great companies in China producing some fantastic good quality products......just they are swamped by all the terrible ones :(
That battery pack is most likely from some medical device. Stryker is a huge supplier of such things headquartered right here in Kalamazoo. Your battery says Portage, MI but we all consider that a part of Kalamazoo since the two cities have long since grown together.
My SO use to work for a medical billing company and they would charge patients $400+ for a medical device that costs about $20 to make and could be find for cheaper on Wish.
The Wyse/Dell thin client - google parkytowers thin, he documents how to repurpose lots of old thin clients. I've repurposed a couple of different Wyse units as headless servers.
My Garmin hiking GPS takes AA batteries, and that's waterproof... or at least it was, until the rubber boot over the power button finally gave out after like 15+ years. Button still works, though.
Oh man, I had to pop in to Menards last week and noticed the distinct lack of terrible electronics. I didn't have the time, or the desire, to walk around aimlessly and assumed the stuff got moved, probably to make room for the Christmas decorations they should start stocking any day now 😂 I've never been so disappointed to hear about the potential that they're out of the knockoff and elevated sketch level electronics game.
By 2050, the Holiday Season(tm) will finally grow to encompass the whole year. Children will be confused when told there used to be a world without year-round mandatory giving of useless garbage "gifts". Wait, how did the economy even function back then?
I don't know about generally, but my Samsung Galaxy S5 had removable/replacable batteries and an IP67 rating. Too bad it ran out of memory, and I had to replace it with it a more modern, more capable device that does't open.
Looking forward to the Voron video, what kit do you have and who is it from ? My current hobby is making printers from scraps I have left over and then 3d printing parts. It was after building a Rook and I was challenged to use all the older part I had like 10mm steel rods and ender 3 hotend and extruder.
Yeah light therapy does something. I've experienced it first hand anyway. Apparently the US is one of the only countries that doesn't use it very much, except in equine circles.
I wish you would build projects again. You have all the cool things and the knowledge. The Ben Heck Show inspired me to lern about electronics. It didn't got me more money at my job, but i wasn't laid of during a big purge because i could also work on the prototypes. I like your energy. Watching you inspires me to get the dayjob out of my head and get into my hobbys.
I love your videos and teardowns. Good to see you again, Ben!
I could absolutely be down with that jam, let's hope it's royalty-free.
I wonder where those loops come from. There must be CDs full of that stuff for all the globb-top-cheap-o-toys out there.
I had one of those mini fm radios that ran on 2x CR2032. Ran for ages, too. Ran over it with a lawn mower one summer. Never been able to find one that small again. Too bad, too. I liked that thing.
That Apple jab just got you a like!
Ha! Those relays are the ice cube relays that go on the gold relays part of the back wall of the time machine DeLorean. Nice find!
Have you ever messed with spreading the inductor in those El-cheapo radios to hear the aircraft band? Spreading out the inductor shifts the resonant frequency bandwidth up. The radios with an analog tuning wheel work better than the digital scan ones. Pretty useful if you ever make it up to the Oshkosh air show. Of course, if you aren't next to an airport you may have to tune back and forth for awhile before you hear any aircraft talk to each other (or to the tower). A better antenna helps as well.
Really love to see Uncle Ben random talk during tear down.
You could totally do an impeccable Tony Zaret impression. no doubt
That song NEEDS to be your official intro
the silence at 17:25 was gold 😆
That was a pretty good Rerez impression
'This one has TWO transistors. wOw'
closing music is top!
Loving the new outro Ben, keep it up!
"It's like gone man, it's gone"
10/10 for the outro!!!
Yeah that Light Relief isn't a medical product, it's a As Seen On Tv device. It costs like 80 dollars.
There is NO medical "benefit" to be had from shining visible light spectrum low power LEDs on your body. Look up the Spectrochrome medical quackery device.
Even those Illumasks and "Laser light" hair rejuenvating hats are complete hogwash.
That's an awful lot of money to spend on a glorified heating pad.
If I had to hear that on loop for all eternity I'd get so much housecleaning done.
Love the music at t he very end.
Ben, @14:30 that SBC is an Atomic Pi... uses an Intel Atom CPU and has a few GPIO. Was originally for a jukebox of some sort that went under then sold to nerds as a Pi replacement. I think thats the story if i am not mistaken.
Oh sweet! Now I can install stuff on it! Thanks! I should have Google Lens'd it but thought it looked too generic.
Heck yeah! I got one a few years back to make a retro games arcade but havent got around to it yet. I would TOTALLY watch a video about the AtomicPi running a pinball machine or something cool. :)
It's very finicky for power. 5v3a, but you need to attach to all the power pins on the bottom connector or else you'll get kernel errors if you do anything outside of OpenWRT. Lubuntu was not happy...
@@BenHeckHacks there are power delivery daughterboards from digital loggers available (they're the ones that bought em up when bosch pulled the plug on the little house robot speaker thing it was supposed to be)
there's a small one with a barrel jack and a larger board that breaks out all the gpio, the usb header, the onboard audio system, and so on.
i bought mine for octoprint and klipper specifically and it runs about as well as you could hope for.
The EU already implemented a work around for companies like Apple. Devices that are water proof do not need a replaceable battery. This will also affect the usb-c demand, as those devices will use inefficient wireless charging and no usb connection at all.
The Nuvasive device is used to monitor the health and function of nerves and/or muscles. That Dell Thin Client is very much like the ones that use to be in medical centers; an example being Richland Center's Medical Center; the exam rooms have a monitor and a thin client so they can access medical records.
Ben Heck is everyone's cool uncle.
Heck, it's Heck! Cool
The purrfect ending. 😁 I'll probably go to VCF Midwest
That "Light Relief" unit looks like absolute quackery. The claim is that the IR LEDs heat the skin and soothe pain that way, but those LEDs will be emitting near IR, which is not going to heat anything (unless driven at currents extreme enough that the secondary heat dissipation is actually perceptible or the light output is intense enough to cause heating, which would likely not be too good for that type of LED package.)
I fixed an LED "therapy" device for a friend once. She paid over $100 for it. It was a junky plastic handle with a slug of steel in it to make it feel heavier, a $2 wall wart and about $3 in various red color LEDs. Total parts cost if I built it would have been less than $10, I am guessing their cost at volume was more like $3.
They're making the first batch of x16 units more expensive to pay for the sample boards they sent to mopes like Adrian who doesn't know his from his. Great business model.
I actually bought that 1st radio (maybe in blue) at Dollar Tree around 2004 for detasseling. Got some unbelievable stuff there...usb cables. Parallel "printer" cable, ethernet cable (cat5), kids p/s2 mouse with a switch box that supports 2 PC mice, AV cables, coax splitter and F couplers. All of it for $1. At least the usb cables are decent quality and still have.
That’s a revision of the Chintendo Sport Vii 15:20 heh 😏
So you’re right the gypsy thing does connect to a cricket vinyl cutting machine
I like Mad Max II more than original as well :D and Rerez is fun as well as 8 Bit Guy!
your brain is awesome. loved the retrogame on camcorder. brilliant
That Gypsy is for the Cricut cutter, my mom had one... I think all you could do with it was design things while mobile then save to cartridges and then upload to the printer and cut.
needless to say it was never used properly....
nice to see ben is still knocking around doing gr8 videos!
Looking forward to the klipper video!
I just had an idea of what to do with it today - running that $150 Anycubic I bought back in 2020.
Love the new channel intro music Ben.
Trust Ben to have a box of knobs!
Yessss
"do you like castellated glops tops? and getting caught in the rain?"
_Fury Road_ is one of those great films that I never want to watch ever again.
R.I.P., your recent uncle.
BUD!!!!! Love that l'il tiger striped nut!!! Outro jams, Ben. Better get the licence for it quick! It's out there now!😜🤣
_"WHERE IT'S AT... It's got 2 Transistors and a Radio Chip!"_
-Alt-Universe Beck, probably, I dunno.
Maybe it's time to hunt for silly electronics on Wish (or Temu), or at one of the various Dollar stores (I _think_ Dollar Tree was the more random-junk one?)
FM receivers so expensive nowadays, those could be a cheap way to make an RF remote control.
To be fair, those things often do work okay. Not very high quality, but good enough.
Repairdowns are my favorite
That last battery said Stryker, which is a hospital bed manufacturer
superb content as always! hope all is well Ben.
Here’s a build for you, a Street Fighter 6 controller that records the inputs and you can match them against what SF6 records. Dispel the dropped inputs myth…
Time to see if there is a content match about that Famiclone intro
"See you're not a hoarder as long as you put things into little bins and label them."
That sounds like a 1 second loop to me
That electrode impedance meter could have been used for a movie,3D model ,I may copy😎
Companies evolved the weirdest thing, they have an ambiance in the packaging department. Like when me and Becka worked the tool coral, "this here must be organized and sorted and made servicable, but perhaps it was your whole world. God knows you'd have to have been related to Wright Paterson air field. Excuse me Mr. Moffitt fields. So I was wondering if the Nvidia shield joystick had a AA or a LIPO, but it's quite difficult to change, yet the joystick lasts a solid month, no joke. The parts people would have explained Ford vs Ferarri to me.
Miss you bromann welcome back
I like those cheapo fm radios if I'm going to the beach or a festival or something, if I lose it or it breaks it's no real loss
I also remember when Louis Rossmann used to solder 🤣 ✍️💨
Yo, Ben!!
All these thing at the ending... soon a project really great
16:40 "There are light-years between making a prototype and manufacturing it"
17:23
4:14 my dad uses an led light box-thing that lights up extremely bright red lights onto his chest to heal his ribs
I would have enjoyed a mix of recycled parts solder together to work. Old GPU with am-fm radio with an screen from a pod smartphone all working together with some arms made of DC motors and legs. All the pins connected.
Hey, Ben, it's TJ former Spooky guy, glad to see you're doing your thing. 185k subscribers!
Oh hey! Always wondered where you went. Doing OK?
I have a Coconut Pete album somewhere. Broken Lizard put it together a few years ago.
Speaking of IR, did you see the research where you can use specific LED’s and camera without IR filter to see through silicon chips?
I vaguely recognized the Stryker brand on that battery. I googled it and they must be medical grade as they are a couple hundred dollars new. Crazy what they can get away with charging for 4 18650 cells.
Well, medical grade :)
I work in the medical device industry… the FDA regulations are insane (although warranted). It's not cheap to be fully compliant on everything, 510(k)s are expensive, and heaven forbid anything ever have to change (do it all over again) and that's just the beginning. Applies even to the software (and its code) on medical devices. Why I always cringe hard when people apply that move-fast-and-break-things mentality to medical devices in the US. If your stuff injures or kills people, you better have the systems in place to deal with all that as well. Oh yeah, lawsuits and audits and consulting costs…… $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
At least the Chinese console had Soccer II
Would love to see some tear downs on products from Temu…..my wife has bought several electrical products which were surprisingly quite good….re-enforces my theory that China can produce both cheap and good products but for decades has been shipping out the cheapest crap to the west keeping the better stuff for themselves.
The sad reality is that there are some great companies in China producing some fantastic good quality products......just they are swamped by all the terrible ones :(
That battery pack is most likely from some medical device. Stryker is a huge supplier of such things headquartered right here in Kalamazoo. Your battery says Portage, MI but we all consider that a part of Kalamazoo since the two cities have long since grown together.
So .. its an infra-red medical heater.. like a sort of hot water bottle, but with the added complication of batteries, and LEDs and stuff.
But a hot water bottle would actually work.
My SO use to work for a medical billing company and they would charge patients $400+ for a medical device that costs about $20 to make and could be find for cheaper on Wish.
My Samsung s5 active had a changeable battery and had water protection so that's not the reason why its just they are cheep thats it
The Wyse/Dell thin client - google parkytowers thin, he documents how to repurpose lots of old thin clients. I've repurposed a couple of different Wyse units as headless servers.
Ben, Mull-tim-iter will never catch on!
I'm gonna make Fletch happen!
Isn’t that radio chip used for ghost hunting. They scan continuously and the lock on signal is disabled and it picks up the ghosts between channels.
My Garmin hiking GPS takes AA batteries, and that's waterproof... or at least it was, until the rubber boot over the power button finally gave out after like 15+ years. Button still works, though.
Pina Coladaburg? That takes me back. Coconut Pete> Jimmy Buffet and I'll die on this hill.
Don't tell me cause it hurts, the radio have spoken the truth of your uncle. High quality buttons that never should have been dismantled.😁
Oh man, I had to pop in to Menards last week and noticed the distinct lack of terrible electronics. I didn't have the time, or the desire, to walk around aimlessly and assumed the stuff got moved, probably to make room for the Christmas decorations they should start stocking any day now 😂 I've never been so disappointed to hear about the potential that they're out of the knockoff and elevated sketch level electronics game.
By 2050, the Holiday Season(tm) will finally grow to encompass the whole year. Children will be confused when told there used to be a world without year-round mandatory giving of useless garbage "gifts". Wait, how did the economy even function back then?
Oh man, that music. It could probably be used in interrogation situations, if allowed by international law.
I have and have had many thin clients of which most got Android x86, Lakka, or a lightweight linux distro like Slax OS install on them.
do a video with impressions only!
oh yes NICE Hi Ben!!
Should have made this "will this 20 year old GYPSY play DOOM?"
Yeah he should hack it for next project. Altough it can run doom because it even ran on microcontrollers that were only a few megahertz
for a handful of relays
I don't know about generally, but my Samsung Galaxy S5 had removable/replacable batteries and an IP67 rating. Too bad it ran out of memory, and I had to replace it with it a more modern, more capable device that does't open.
I think In 2008, somebody used Ben soldering techniques to make mockup but for sale, with soldered wires with hot glue all around the world. Goodwill
I know they treat premature/jaundiced babies with blue light therapy. No idea how that works, but apparently it does.
So will the Gypsy product and all the other things run Doom though?
Looking forward to the Voron video, what kit do you have and who is it from ? My current hobby is making printers from scraps I have left over and then 3d printing parts. It was after building a Rook and I was challenged to use all the older part I had like 10mm steel rods and ender 3 hotend and extruder.
ypir best is louis rossman or dave jones...... Hey everybody..... iIt's the "ducks guts".
I heard Marshall Tucker who happen to be from my town
I dare you to make WiFi or a mobile jammer
God bless ya Ben from the land of Cheese and Beer !
5:55 I couldn't find studies to back up the IR thing. Some guy tried multiple uses and failed all of them and it's a kind of pseudo medical device.
Yeah light therapy does something. I've experienced it first hand anyway. Apparently the US is one of the only countries that doesn't use it very much, except in equine circles.
Ben, I need more AI cinema.
I saw the date on the chips being from 2009 before he did, hehe.
21:11 this'll get scrum moving