Thanks, noted!

Yes sir he is being very patriotic make in endia endia best hindpoopism best

What's wrong with the audio quality?

Interesting... Can you send me an email or message on twitter?

They're now open for orders. You can click "order now" from the product page (vicharak.in/axon) or even from robu.in.

Why are u being anti national!!!??? It is make in endia!

@@megajatt123 LOL !🤣🤣🤣 Dude, try making Intel 14th gen and AMD 9800x3d boards here, they'll end up RMA'ing every 3 months !! It has taken motherboard companies 30 years to get to this place. Low power devices like this Rockchip board do not require too much power and are nothing special when looking at the designs which can be copied from elsewhere. RISC-V is where fun will happen in the future but that would mean designing everything inhouse.

@@pamus6242 u dont understand sarcasm do u? Im no brainded bovine excrement consumption enthusiast buddy, i know the realities of that samaajwaadi ganrajya malgaddha

@@pamus6242 98% commercial computers don't need that kinda power. Even a 4th generation intel Core i5 is way more powerful than the workload required by small-medium size business in 2024 (retail systems, billing/report printing systems etc). We can reduce the computer side of the total power consumption of the whole commercial market by at least 10 times if we start using these mini-computers. Reduced power consumption means reduced heat. It's more environment friendly. My only issue with these chinese SoCs are drivers especially the firmware that come as in binary blob. Only they know how many backdoors are inside of these firmware.

@deletevil you've raised a very valid point that also bothers me (I touched it briefly at 11:05). I am not a fan or the devicetree architecture either; and it's a cascading effect of earlier ARM devices adopting that approach (and Android not enforcing UEFI/BIOS only exacerbated it). It's an inferior architecture (regardless of backdoors) & we should've moved out of it a LOT earlier. Thankfully, some newer vendors who want to take pride in their work are moving to UEFI (look up "Arm SystemReady", or more specifically "Arm Base Boot Requirements"). For example upcoming Radxa Orion O6 or even some existing systems like Ampere Altra. I'm happy about this shift & can't wait for it to become mainstream. However, the binary blob (unauditable software blackboxes - regardless of it being Chinese, American, Sugandese or made in neighbors' garage in the same country) is a complicated topic. Like it or not, and EVEN IF you're on an x86 platform... it's always there. Look up what's "Intel Management Engine" or "AMD Platform Security Processor" is and if you have Intel or AMD system, then you are already running an unremovable prospective rootkit/backdoor. So, unless you're starting from etching the silicon, be OK with it. OR... help & support BreakerSpace, cause (eventually) that's where we're going.

Thank you!

🤣

That's great to know... we need a lot of low-level hardware hackers that are willing to go in depth. As a former student of WBUT, curriculum will teach you nothing of actual importance for the future and is already 10-20 years obsolete. You have to chase your dreams yourself & find people with similar passion. If you're based in Kolkata and hands-on learning interests you, then reach out to me (email/twitter); I am looking for interns.

On paper, this wins over Pi in both aspects... as long as you use all the features (NVMe, eMMC, 4K capture etc), as it will be costlier to buy all the HATs for RPi. But if a Raspberry Pi has all the features you need without HATs, then it'll probably be more cost effective. So, it comes down to particular use case & choice. I will personally use this over RPi, as my media streaming server.

@BreakerSpace pi has a largest developer community thats why everybody knows and use it....this sbc would take years if possible to get close even half of that...thats my opinion..which may vary for others

Which Orange Pi board is 1k (INR)? Also, the term single board computer has nothing to do with price, or feature, or performance; it seems like a false assumption.

@@BreakerSpace bought orange pi one few years ago at 900. installed armbian in it and it was all merry with its 512mb ram. anyways, sbc development board means, i need to have more than one lying around, as ecpendables. here price matters.

onek dhonnobaad... hya ei board ta besh notun e bola jaye; dekha jak ki hoy!

thank you, thank you!

Thanks, and that's great to hear that you are interested in DIY electronics & compute! I'd say you find a goal (don't worry about the practicality) and then try to achieve it with the products, tools, components, guides etc. you can find online. It will be a journey, but if you learn to enjoy it, within weeks you'll start to get into the grooves. If you need inspirations, then I'd say make a homelab server (with a Raspberry Pi or better if it's any of its alternatives) to setup your own network attached storage, jellyfin media streaming, vaultwarden password manager, pihole ad blocker and the likes. Keep going deeper to understand the limitations and ways to overcome it, one step at a time. All the best!

✌️

🤣

Yep, you're right! I mentioned this in 6:20. Vicharak hasn't released the image with 6.10 kernel yet for Axon. It is always the challenge with non-UEFI ARM devices (i.e. most of them), you will need the image with new kernel from the vendor (or build one yourself).

Thank you!

Thank you so much!

he is using ubuntu i guess with the default gnome DE

@ oh thanks

It's Fedora, but with gnome DE, yes.

Thanks!

Cheers.. you guys did an amazing job with your first mass market device! Dreaming is easy, criticizing is easier... but karma yoga - actually doing-the-work & shipping it - is hard.

I just wish you had used a different SoC not a Chinese one

Kernel 5.10????? That is so old.

@@InterstellarLord Is there anything you need from the newer kernels? Lots of other boards run on kernel 6.1. We hope that in 2025 we will get full support for the RK3588 in the mainline kernel.

@@LivingLinuxwe are in final stage of releasing an image with 6.1. You’ll see it sooner.

***scratches***

Those are ancient. As old as Asimov.

How did it turn out? If you ever wanna build another one, you can try this simpler way!

Haha... had this one in the pile for decades!

Thanks mate... 🙏

It's absolutely fine to ask, and it's a good reminder for me to make the visuals simpler (more intuitive, rather). In the schematics, you can consider a wire (any single wire) as a short circuit... so it doesn't matter which end of it (or in the middle) you connect. You can simply twist the mic positive, JFET gate and the resistor leg together, or connect them with wires... as long as the wire is not too long or too thin, it should be OK. NOTE: if you're using a JFET that has integrated resistor (like the one in the video), then you don't even need the resistor separately.

@@BreakerSpace That makes sense, I'll see what kind of transistors I have lying around, while I wait for the capsule to arrive 😁Thanks for taking the time to reply, it's much appreciated!

Seems like a man of culture... hat tip to him and thanks to you for watching!

I didn't do any "controlled" or "proper" recording for the voiceover. I did a draft pass, as the project got along, and by the end, it was good enough to make the point of the video. I want people to try and get better results than I did. So, setting a high bar of super polished audio wasn't the goal (at least for this video).

@@BreakerSpace fair enough, you made it work, not much more needed to it

Could've been true if you did some actual research on the topic instead of demanding other people to do the work for yourself, for free. So purely theoretically, you can, but in reality, I'd never allow you to be closer than a hundred miles to a plugged in soldering iron.

@@alexeypolevoybass I'm sorry to make you feels like I'm lazy, I did search it up after watching this, I'm left this comment because I'm just curious how and what other people would do it, also I'm not from a English speaking country, commenting and replying around KZbin is a practice for phrasing and grammer for me.

@@RainKvks if you're swapping in and out electret condenser capsules (regardless of their sizes) then the answer is grossly YES.

you and me both!

The pick-up proximity matters a lot... also 10:30

@ sorry man, I’m not buying that. You are demoing the mic (so you’d think you’d be careful about how far you are), and you can see how close you are to the mic in both shots. There is no mic on the planet where moving back 1” turns a voice from sounding full and professional to sounding like a cheap omni gaming headset. The room reflections were completely absent from one clip, then back for all the others. It’s a head scratcher for sure, but as someone who’s been in audio for decades, your explanation doesn’t make sense.

Someday... ;)

Good to know! Increases output in what way?

“It won’t increase the output directly; phantom power charges the capsule and powers the internal circuitry. The diaphragm’s movement changes the capacitance, which creates the electrical signal. If it works differently, it’s likely not a ‘true condenser’ mic but another type, like an electret condenser.”

Audio totally unconditioned, regardless of where I recorded it. As I said in other comments, I didn't want to post-process the audio in anyway (aside from level adjustments), and intentionally chose large echoy rooms, without pop-filters etc as acid test for the mic. So you can consider it as the worst case scenarios. The mic does actually sounds pretty good (in my subjective opinion) in general.

And if you're real careful at the timestamp you mentioned (19:10) you can smell and touch it too! 😂

@BreakerSpace like 'just woke up, noisy and voluminous, but not that smelly farts' with a touch of parmesan cheese

The initial sound was in a small room without echo; the later ones are in a large untreated room (and I chose not to post-process the audio apart from adjusting levels; as that felt might be disingenuous to the audience). You can take the later part as the worst case scenario. BTW, this entire video is just the demo to prove that condenser mics don't "require" 48V; the ecosystem is just built around some of the conventions and lingering equipment since the vacuum tube days (which needed that high voltage); and we're now just carrying it forward without understanding why.

@BreakerSpace we may not need the voltage, but we do need a preamp correct? In the video, the mics are just using the preamp built into your laptop