Somewhere in the US a board just lit up. The feds are on the way. That was the tracker on a truck load of warheads when it went missing in 2015. Was fun while the channel lasted. See you in 25 to 40 years.
The feds are gonna visit him for other reasons, namely seeing if he can intercept any Russian signals from their satellites or listen in on conversations
That Barrel "Office Of Civil Defense" " Department of defense " DRINKING WATER ! My inner 13 year old self is fascinated by all the cool things around your shop. Great content as always ...
We used to have a wonderful similar store in Portland, "Whacky Willie's". Wonderful, weird industrial and surplus surplus. Their building was sold and now it's a vast, highly secure, climate-controlled storehouse for wine bottle storage for the uber-wealthy.
All kinds of people in the Cincinnati area give away copy machines they don’t use anymore. Many have giant paper hoppers on one side and massive post processing units for stapling at any angle or punch any combination of holes. They are full of bearings, shafts, stepper motors, brushless motors, dc motors, power supplies, relays, gears, springs, cable harnesses with standard and exotic connectors, casters, clutches, limit switches, bushings, cables, drawer slides, casters, endless photo switches. Some big harnesses if you get a 220V commercial machine. Also lots of optical stuff that looks cool but I can’t think of a good use yet. I would keep it a secret but I’ve already collected 8 and still have one to take apart.
I remember doing a cleanout at work where we threw away about every type of corporate laser printer ever made. Same deal, tons of motors and parts but way too much even for me!
When I worked on a system like this (in Minnetonka maybe this was gen1 :D ) it was mostly used for truckers going to oilfeilds so they could get all the appropriate info for the pump and for safety (if you leave the truck theres an auto 911 call timer). this was before cell/iot networks were ubiquitous when everything was done with paper and landlines.
Watching from St. John’s Newfoundland Canada! Watch most of your videos even though I have no idea about electronics. Came for the boat stayed for the randomness keep it up !
Ahh yes, the old XRS trackers, that was a MN based company that all but evaporated after being acquired by Omnitracs. Lots of I/O on those units. The TX/RX/GND/3.3V header is TTL so likely a console port. The SWD and JTAG ports can be used to download/upload firmware. Would be interesting to see if you could decode ORBCOMM packets from that unit somehow. I believe the ORBCOMM frequencies were in the 1.6Ghz range, you may be able to reuse that antenna for a GOES project? Looks like a fun tear down! Let me know if it ends up in the pile, I may be interested in taking a crack at it :-)
The antenna could be fun for other stuff, but you can also buy those PCB antennas on Amazon really cheap. I've used a few similar ones combined with various reflectors for GOES and other weather satellites. I'd like to figure out more uses for the ORBCOMM modem, but I'm not really sure where to start with it and have a lot on the to-do list!
Good score. I can't remember one of these types of videos where you got that much documentation or had this many options of where to go. It's Kind of cool how it can transmit/receive in so many places.
WOW! I just love reverse engineering stuff. I have one LCD display that I didn't know how it worked. I found some info on google and YT... The display I have, has an additional daughter board the on line info didn't have. So I separated the daughter board from the main board. The only info I found gave a pinout of the connector between the 2 PCBs... So I fired up KiCad and started making footprints of the pin connector, and tracing every line point to point and making a schematic of it. Then I used a digital caliper and measured exactly where everything was in relation to the mounting holes and pin connector. From that I was able to wire it to a esp32 and write code to display text.. All I need to talk to the display is GND, +12V, and the RX input line. The display needs a special start command similar to the MODEM AT command. For the display, to clear screen that command in C is Serial.write(0x5C); // AT command Serial.write(0x40); Serial.write(0x20); Serial.write(0x30);
Just a questions: What kind of website did you use to find some information such as pinouts like connection port like various of components and connections jacks. Thank you.
He mentioned that it uses GPRS, a feature of 2G mobile networks. It died along with 2G. Also it was VERY slow when it was alive. T-Mobile customers know this as EDGE
That was a nice and smooth device exploration. Amazing to see how much documentation is available, I'm pretty sure that's gonna help you to be able to make something cool out of it.
The end of the cable that connects to the antenna might be a CAN BUS connector, but that is only a guess. I would love to see you get downlink data from it.
hmmm it probably supports 1Hz NMEA messages lol. i've seen super fancy pants navigation equipment that support NMEA in addition to whatever other methods they used. i worked a fair bit with mobile navigation stuff, and that long cable with the small box looks like a breakout box of some kind that probably handles interfacing with the receiver. its interesting to me that the antenna is right on top of the receiver though, because i've usually seen it where the receiver is actually inside the rig and the antenna just connects over a regular coax cable (with N fittings). less stuff outside means less stuff to waterproof
Those 4 and 8 pin connectors look like the power connectors you'd see on a PC PSU. You should pick one up cheap and see if any of the connectors fit it. IIRC theyre mostly standard.
Are you able to download those files listed under the Python heading? Could be some interesting stuff in there. Might also find examples in there of how to use Python to interface with the hardware - poll the GPS, spit data out to serial, etc. If this thing can speak ethernet, wifi, and zigbee it could be used as a smart home hub for zigbee devices. GPS could be used as your network time source. Of course you've also got the bonus of cellular and satellite too! Lots of PHY devices on that thing!
You like... man I dont... Like... Words come to an end here. I dont even consider you not being in a some kind of list right now but what I consider is you being the number 1 or not.
.. trucks have a Qualcom that you get your Loads on from Dispatch .. this is for That & Location, tho the Location wasn't always Accurate .. basic keyboard with a small screen at top ..
I used to work for a company that produces cellular vehicle routers but I've never seen that huge yellow connector before and that's one girthy cable LOL! Have you found any video/photos of one of these in operation?
Having the board labeled with the debug pins is a plus. Less poking around and risking releasing the magic smoke. Get yourself a UART board and a Raspberry Pi.
Hook it up to your car for remote start and remote off. Then wait for the wife to goto the grocery store and remote off and see how long it takes her to call you. 😂
What!?....axman surplus still exist!......ooh please can you film inside this shop....Im in Germany and i have only seen fotos of this miraculuos shop....this must be an electronic wonderland...Thx for the Vid!
@@saveitforparts thx for it!....that video is very cool..the legendary cornucopia of possibilities... this shop offers intriguing stuff, it's simply mind-blowing.
An interesting antenna, there's a lot of technology involved in it. I'm looking forward to the next video. I think you may have heard that the Japanese have deployed an amateur radio beacon on the moon. The amateur radio beacon transmits on 437.41 MHz in the 70 cm amateur radio band with 1 W. Apparently, there's an issue; during landing, the beacon didn't land as intended and ended up at a slight angle. As a result, not enough sunlight is reaching the solar panels of the amateur radio beacon, causing it to operate in a limited capacity. When more sunlight hits the solar panels, it should resume normal operation. Perhaps you've already attempted to receive the signal.
I haven't tried that yet. I know they did a lander that kind of came down sideways, I didn't know it had any amateur radio stuff though. I would think they'd disable any extra features like that to save power.
@@saveitforparts The lander has amateur radio equipment on board. I hope it can also be used as a relay; that would be very convenient - an amateur radio relay on the moon. I think that's better than an Earth-Moon-Earth connection. It will take some time before everything can be put into operation.
Hey man I take it you’re in Minnesota right? I’ve been going to axe man since I was a toddler. It’s in my blood. I can say however that I’m one of the few people that actually uses everything they buy from that store. Nowhere like it and I’ve travelled a lot. Anyway can I contact you somehow?
My email should be in the about tab on my channel! I don't always use everything from Ax-man, sometimes I just buy stuff that looks cool and is cheap 😂
I use to work as a heavy fleet mechanic, we had a mobile fleet reporting system I think it was RT something. It would report all kinds of useful telemetry- vehicle hours, speed, location and any fault or problem code the vehicle encountered, just as @fluggaenkoecchicbolsen posted below. Air bag deployment, on and on. The issue we had was the tall concrete buildings all around the area these vehicles traveled (an airport) would basically absorb the signal. This is right up your alley, the unit transmitted to a satellite then back to the shop. We wound up installing a signal carrier on the highest building. It was a very expensive system.
www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/portals/0/pdfs/exactView_RT_Slick_Sheet.pdf Some how this link was lost, I hope you get this one. The company may have Been RTA...
YAY!!! More satellite stuff! MORE HACKING! WHOOOOOO! Hack it like you've got a hacksaw. Also, please make a new cyberdeck. The other one is lacking features, and is probably really old by now, also, BECAUSE YOU CAN.
Somewhere in the US a board just lit up. The feds are on the way. That was the tracker on a truck load of warheads when it went missing in 2015. Was fun while the channel lasted. See you in 25 to 40 years.
The feds are gonna visit him for other reasons, namely seeing if he can intercept any Russian signals from their satellites or listen in on conversations
That Barrel "Office Of Civil Defense" " Department of defense " DRINKING WATER !
My inner 13 year old self is fascinated by all the cool things around your shop. Great content as always ...
I need a tour of @saveitforparts' civil defense collection.
I wish I had an AxMan
Same, I live in Florida and there's nothing here lol
Me too. We have a chen's chinese buffet and a "water and Ice" which is just as good. 🙂
Heck, I'd settle for the local "Dr" Venture having an occasional yard sale.
Me too, we need one down here on the gulf coast!!
I'd settle for a Goodwill computer parts store, like the one they have in Houston, TX on Westheimer Rd
This is such an underrated channel.
We used to have a wonderful similar store in Portland, "Whacky Willie's". Wonderful, weird industrial and surplus surplus. Their building was sold and now it's a vast, highly secure, climate-controlled storehouse for wine bottle storage for the uber-wealthy.
All that info being on the device is amazing
Right? These days you'd be lucky to get a 3rd-party phone app that kind of worked.
Like ET, as soon as you powered it up you probably *_PHONED HOME!!!_*
I used a lot of DIGI radio modems on my UAV's and DIGI is still in business.
Quite likely the cellular account associated with the cellular modem was turned off after it was removed from the vehicle.
Everyone in Minnesota knows that Ax-Man is a treasure of a store. Yet another awesome video
All kinds of people in the Cincinnati area give away copy machines they don’t use anymore. Many have giant paper hoppers on one side and massive post processing units for stapling at any angle or punch any combination of holes. They are full of bearings, shafts, stepper motors, brushless motors, dc motors, power supplies, relays, gears, springs, cable harnesses with standard and exotic connectors, casters, clutches, limit switches, bushings, cables, drawer slides, casters, endless photo switches. Some big harnesses if you get a 220V commercial machine. Also lots of optical stuff that looks cool but I can’t think of a good use yet. I would keep it a secret but I’ve already collected 8 and still have one to take apart.
I remember doing a cleanout at work where we threw away about every type of corporate laser printer ever made. Same deal, tons of motors and parts but way too much even for me!
Honestly, this is an awesome channel with a great future.
You turn it on and somewhere in an old office on an old computer a truck tracker sign starts blinking, making the staff crazy how is that still alive.
When I worked on a system like this (in Minnetonka maybe this was gen1 :D ) it was mostly used for truckers going to oilfeilds so they could get all the appropriate info for the pump and for safety (if you leave the truck theres an auto 911 call timer). this was before cell/iot networks were ubiquitous when everything was done with paper and landlines.
Watching from St. John’s Newfoundland Canada! Watch most of your videos even though I have no idea about electronics. Came for the boat stayed for the randomness keep it up !
Ahh yes, the old XRS trackers, that was a MN based company that all but evaporated after being acquired by Omnitracs. Lots of I/O on those units. The TX/RX/GND/3.3V header is TTL so likely a console port. The SWD and JTAG ports can be used to download/upload firmware. Would be interesting to see if you could decode ORBCOMM packets from that unit somehow. I believe the ORBCOMM frequencies were in the 1.6Ghz range, you may be able to reuse that antenna for a GOES project? Looks like a fun tear down! Let me know if it ends up in the pile, I may be interested in taking a crack at it :-)
The antenna could be fun for other stuff, but you can also buy those PCB antennas on Amazon really cheap. I've used a few similar ones combined with various reflectors for GOES and other weather satellites. I'd like to figure out more uses for the ORBCOMM modem, but I'm not really sure where to start with it and have a lot on the to-do list!
isnt the 1.6 frequency the same one they use at skinwalker ranch?
Good score. I can't remember one of these types of videos where you got that much documentation or had this many options of where to go. It's Kind of cool how it can transmit/receive in so many places.
Thanks!
So this is how SkyNet started in this timeline... cool!
WOW! I just love reverse engineering stuff.
I have one LCD display that I didn't know how it worked. I found some info on google and YT... The display I have, has an additional daughter board the on line info didn't have. So I separated the daughter board from the main board.
The only info I found gave a pinout of the connector between the 2 PCBs...
So I fired up KiCad and started making footprints of the pin connector,
and tracing every line point to point and making a schematic of it.
Then I used a digital caliper and measured exactly where everything was in relation to
the mounting holes and pin connector.
From that I was able to wire it to a esp32 and write code to display text..
All I need to talk to the display is GND, +12V, and the RX input line.
The display needs a special start command similar to the MODEM AT command.
For the display, to clear screen that command in C is
Serial.write(0x5C); // AT command
Serial.write(0x40);
Serial.write(0x20);
Serial.write(0x30);
That's cool!
Neat thing. Power connector is EPS 12v, though using standard ATX PSU probably not a good idea considering the pinout
Awww man you’re taking me back to the days of working in IT for a trucking/logistics company 😂
Just a questions: What kind of website did you use to find some information such as pinouts like connection port like various of components and connections jacks. Thank you.
I say you build a solar powered autonomous ORV release it into the wild, and track it with that tracker.
I wonder if the sim card is still live. Maybe stick it in an old phone and see if it has a data connection.
Definitely try it
He mentioned that it uses GPRS, a feature of 2G mobile networks. It died along with 2G. Also it was VERY slow when it was alive. T-Mobile customers know this as EDGE
@@eurithmicsrocks I was going to say T-Mobile 2g is still active
2G is not dead. I was on it briefly the other week. It was 3G/HSPA that was killed. 2G remains for IoT things
T-Mobile still has edge live and they keep delaying their shut down date
That was a nice and smooth device exploration. Amazing to see how much documentation is available, I'm pretty sure that's gonna help you to be able to make something cool out of it.
The end of the cable that connects to the antenna might be a CAN BUS connector,
but that is only a guess. I would love to see you get downlink data from it.
hmmm it probably supports 1Hz NMEA messages lol. i've seen super fancy pants navigation equipment that support NMEA in addition to whatever other methods they used. i worked a fair bit with mobile navigation stuff, and that long cable with the small box looks like a breakout box of some kind that probably handles interfacing with the receiver. its interesting to me that the antenna is right on top of the receiver though, because i've usually seen it where the receiver is actually inside the rig and the antenna just connects over a regular coax cable (with N fittings). less stuff outside means less stuff to waterproof
I love this type of curiosity teardown.
And I agree with the other folks who wish they have an AxMan type store in their city.
Lots of gold!
A cool little beast!
3:11 Must.Put.In.Cyberdeck! how cool would that be? Cellular internet and satellite coms on the go??
Super interesting 🎉 thanks for all the great info, i could use a lot of this in the future 🎉
Those 4 and 8 pin connectors look like the power connectors you'd see on a PC PSU.
You should pick one up cheap and see if any of the connectors fit it. IIRC theyre mostly standard.
I was surprised how far you got with that well done sir.!
It would make a great movie prop system, including the OS and whitepages.
That was really interesting! Nice find - thanks for sharing 🍷
If I were you I'd use this as the biggest most overkill NMEA gps receiver for wifi wardriving
Axeman is the only thing I miss about Minneapolis
Are you able to download those files listed under the Python heading? Could be some interesting stuff in there. Might also find examples in there of how to use Python to interface with the hardware - poll the GPS, spit data out to serial, etc.
If this thing can speak ethernet, wifi, and zigbee it could be used as a smart home hub for zigbee devices. GPS could be used as your network time source. Of course you've also got the bonus of cellular and satellite too! Lots of PHY devices on that thing!
Very cool!
Love you content man, i don't know nothing about satellites but i wish to know more and here i am haha
Shot out from Brazil!
Glad you like it, thanks!
Dunno about the pinout but "A secrecy order from the American federation of scientists" could be an interesting rabbit hole to jump down.
So secret, they publish on internet. And its good that they also state they're secret, by putting the word secret in their name. very very secretive,
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Now that's the kind of video I like. Still a bit short. 😃
I'm quite sure the bottom of the unit is not plastic but aluminium and those risers are to cool the CPU
You like... man I dont... Like... Words come to an end here. I dont even consider you not being in a some kind of list right now but what I consider is you being the number 1 or not.
.. trucks have a Qualcom that you get your Loads on from Dispatch .. this is for That & Location, tho the Location wasn't always Accurate .. basic keyboard with a small screen at top ..
I used to work for a company that produces cellular vehicle routers but I've never seen that huge yellow connector before and that's one girthy cable LOL! Have you found any video/photos of one of these in operation?
I haven't seen this exact type, but I've noticed similar domes on top of semi trucks. This one is a few years old and probably obsolete.
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Man that was really interesting. Thanks
I bet that GPS unit is functional.. Always a use for that. Resale value of $10 bucks maybe?
Wish I had that for my van ! I would make it work
Oh god rads next to drinking water. He’s started with the subliminal messages! 😂💀
They’re not Hookers, they’re “Friends of the Road” Bubs 😉
dude this is awesome, im definitely subscribing to you
Good Job!
Having the board labeled with the debug pins is a plus. Less poking around and risking releasing the magic smoke.
Get yourself a UART board and a Raspberry Pi.
спасибо, хорошая работа.
Thanks for the interesting content. Greetings from Russia
Hook it up to your car for remote start and remote off. Then wait for the wife to goto the grocery store and remote off and see how long it takes her to call you. 😂
The 8 and 4 pin connectors on that look like PCIE/EPS power
What!?....axman surplus still exist!......ooh please can you film inside this shop....Im in Germany and i have only seen fotos of this miraculuos shop....this must be an electronic wonderland...Thx for the Vid!
I did a tour of the St Paul store here! ua-cam.com/video/U-uJPIhAUu4/v-deo.html
@@saveitforparts thx for it!....that video is very cool..the legendary cornucopia of possibilities... this shop offers intriguing stuff, it's simply mind-blowing.
7:13 Argentina present. But I don't think that's what you were looking for lol
😎😎thanks
Secrecy order lol😂
I didn't know Digi made such hardware.
Was this item supposed to be on every truck or at the base?
Big companies or agencies usually have something like this on every truck. Probably ever Fedex / US Mail / Amazon / etc.
It might be from before gps made public?!
An interesting antenna, there's a lot of technology involved in it. I'm looking forward to the next video. I think you may have heard that the Japanese have deployed an amateur radio beacon on the moon. The amateur radio beacon transmits on 437.41 MHz in the 70 cm amateur radio band with 1 W. Apparently, there's an issue; during landing, the beacon didn't land as intended and ended up at a slight angle. As a result, not enough sunlight is reaching the solar panels of the amateur radio beacon, causing it to operate in a limited capacity. When more sunlight hits the solar panels, it should resume normal operation. Perhaps you've already attempted to receive the signal.
I haven't tried that yet. I know they did a lander that kind of came down sideways, I didn't know it had any amateur radio stuff though. I would think they'd disable any extra features like that to save power.
@@saveitforparts The lander has amateur radio equipment on board. I hope it can also be used as a relay; that would be very convenient - an amateur radio relay on the moon. I think that's better than an Earth-Moon-Earth connection. It will take some time before everything can be put into operation.
As a neanderthal who thinks the telegraph the work of the devil, I think it might make a cool hat. Really just commenting for the algorithm.
the barrel behind him looks like a giant smoke grenade
Maybe put it on that old boat that you were restorating.
Hey man I take it you’re in Minnesota right? I’ve been going to axe man since I was a toddler. It’s in my blood. I can say however that I’m one of the few people that actually uses everything they buy from that store. Nowhere like it and I’ve travelled a lot.
Anyway can I contact you somehow?
My email should be in the about tab on my channel! I don't always use everything from Ax-man, sometimes I just buy stuff that looks cool and is cheap 😂
Wondering if you could use it as a satellite internet line
I'd need some kind of account with the satellite provider.
I think most sat internet services run up in the Ku/Ka band..this device would not be compatible with it with the current onboard antennas.
Which Ax-Man? Were there more?
This one was at the St. Paul location. I didn't see any more, but you never know what kind of stuff they'll have!
my guess would be that if you were a bit more dangerous with reversing that orbcomm platform would be rife for whitehatting
It has some interesting potential, although I don't quite know how to interface with it without custom software.
Would love to have u help me with my cb radio
FBI on there way don't hack their truck lol
its a fleet tracker for cargo
That looks exactly like the GPS unit someone i know tossed in a dumpster near Cossetta's, after it got ripped out of a food truck
That's the kind of thing I'd pull out of a dumpster and drag home :-P
next time, i know who to call for proper disposal @@saveitforparts
I use to work as a heavy fleet mechanic, we had a mobile fleet reporting system I think it was RT something. It would report all kinds of useful telemetry- vehicle hours, speed, location and any fault or problem code the vehicle encountered, just as @fluggaenkoecchicbolsen posted below. Air bag deployment, on and on. The issue we had was the tall concrete buildings all around the area these vehicles traveled (an airport) would basically absorb the signal. This is right up your alley, the unit transmitted to a satellite then back to the shop. We wound up installing a signal carrier on the highest building. It was a very expensive system.
This unit could be 20 plus years old.
www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/portals/0/pdfs/exactView_RT_Slick_Sheet.pdf
take a look at this PDF... I didn't, got stuff to do. Good luck!
www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/portals/0/pdfs/exactView_RT_Slick_Sheet.pdf
Some how this link was lost, I hope you get this one. The company may have Been RTA...
Hi do you have any high gain 1.2ghz patch or yagi antennas you’d like to sell me??
I dont' have any spare ones at the moment! There are some cheap PCB versions on Amazon that I've had OK luck with.
YAY!!! More satellite stuff! MORE HACKING! WHOOOOOO! Hack it like you've got a hacksaw. Also, please make a new cyberdeck. The other one is lacking features, and is probably really old by now, also, BECAUSE YOU CAN.
It is lacking features, and I do want to build another one. It's one of those bigger projects that's going to take some time though.
@@saveitforparts I’m sure it will be awesome!!
imagine if you pluged the sim card into a phone and having free data
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SPAM, its all I can afford.
I would so love for you to be my neighbour.
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as a wink and nod, are you able to "flat plane" the earth's rotational speed for the "flat earther" folks that may be hanging afoot?
Not sure what that is!
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