Custom extra weird trashy lamp build. Blue orb with green pulsars

This slightly shady lamp (exposed live connections on the LED holders) was just made for fun out of random things from eBay.
It was also an opportunity to answer more of the questions asked by Patreons.
This was also shamelessly a "therapy" project for me while I get over a bug that I picked up while visiting Glasgow. (I'm feeling a lot better now.)
I mentioned Steve Summers' struggle with workshop subsidence. Here's a video about that:-
• My Shop is FALLING DOW...
And his gofundme to help towards the repair costs:-
www.gofundme.c...
Keeping in mind that this LED lamp is not quite safety compliant (not suitable for a first project or around kids) you can get the parts for it on eBay using the following search links:-
The lamp kit that got repurposed:-
www.ebay.com/s...
Guide price around $1.50.
The set of pre-terminated crimp connectors:-
www.ebay.com/s...
Guide price around $4 for a set of 50.
5mm flickering effect LEDs:-
www.ebay.com/s...
Guide price around $7 for a pack of 100.
5mm diffused LEDs:-
www.ebay.com/s...
Guide price around $2 for a pack of 100.
Remember that the flickering LED is in parallel with the matching LED in the base, so the technology (forward voltage) will have to be the same. Blue, white, green are 3V and yellow and red are 2V.
If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:-
www.bigclive.co...
This also keeps the channel independent of KZbin's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty.

[@Bleats_Sinodai]

18:09 Thank you Clive, it's refreshing to see someone older than me who understands the problem isn't "pc culture" but a lack of conditions to allow young people to develop into great professionals.

[@jek__]

por que no los dos?

[@eglandon16]

As a technician (avionics in the navy and now manufacturing at Intel) I watch channels like yours, HVAC repairs, 3d printing, and metal working - so completely understand watching technical stuff outside of my field but they all do fit as hobbies for me

[@raymondmucklow3793]

Never long and rambly, I really enjoy these projects. Nice effect also. My son has a green and blue lava lamp, that would go well with it. Very cool. Cheers

[@BRUXXUS]

Totally agree with getting a job somewhere to learn skills! One of my many hobbies was cake decorating. Learned basics from my mom and grandma. :) People started asking me to make cakes for them and I would go to this little family owned bakery that also sold decorating supplies and the owner taught decorating classes. One time I went in and asked if they needed some part time help. I sent some pics of cakes I'd made and she offered me a job. I worked there for about a year and learned a TON about cake art. Also... oddly enough, my experience in carpentry helped a lot... you'd be surprised how much in common woodworking, welding, and cake decorating has in common. 😄

[@BRUXXUS]

Oh, and I love this project! The result is pretty interesting too! I love the blue wash with the focused green dots.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Ace of Cakes was a good demonstration of how structural knowledge was need in the bigger cakes.

[@SimonSideburns]

@@bigclivedotcom For someone who doesn't have a TV you seem to know a lot about TV programmes. How?

[@iandawkins2182]

Nice and relaxing. Well done Big Man. Glad to see you had your "Dark & Stormy" to hand, get well soon.

[@Roadhardd]

You spoke of KZbin channels you watch for relaxation. I’m certain there are many that you are their relaxation channel like myself. Thanks for all the content!

[@paper__crane]

You hit on something with technical workers relaxing by watching technical videos different than their field. I'm a computer programmer by trade but watch your videos while relaxing.

[@JerryEricsson]

Must be the third year now that I have watched this video. I am getting old, having passed my 71st birthday last May, and it seems that the mind that was so very sharp for so many years now has began to forget things, for example I had forgotten that I saw this one till I went to comment and found that I had commented a couple times before. but I did want to note that the glow of the blue lights hold a special magic for me. The first house I ever saw with Christmas Lights was a home just north of Thunder Hawk South Dakota. When we passed it, my mom would comment that her old teacher lived there. Now we didn't have power in our farm house so seeing lights around the roofline of a modern ranch home (in the 1950's) was amazing, and that glow that the lights produced was just amazing to my young mind, so much so that I have remembered it to this very day. My home in town, a 1950's ranch home is decorated for Christmas with blue LED lights that give that wonderful magical glow that I love so very much. It is lonely now at Christmas, my wife passed on 2 years ago, the year of dying in our family, I lost both my sisters, my favorite brother-in-law and at long last my lovely wife of 51 years and 4 days.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Sorry it's been a rough year. The forgetting things may actually be just because of the sheer volume of knowledge on the Internet. I don't memorise as much as I used to. I just treat Google as an extension of my brain with data on demand.

[@frankowalker4662]

Watching (well, listening to) this while fault finding a PVR PSU. It keeps the frustration levels at bay. I'll re-cap it and hope for the best. Cool night-light.

[@BastiElektronik]

I love these long videos! Every time when I'm soldering or tinkering, I put on one of your long videos (eg DPT of Villainy) just to have something to listen to. Thank you! Your channel kicked off my interest in electronics

[@MrPixntex]

no its not a wast of time, it had me intrigued i had to watch all of the video. I would like to see more projects like this please, i know i am late to the show but now i have found you I am finding it more and more interesting...............!

[@profrumpo]

Most relaxing watching another BC project, many thanks. Quite a nice result too with the blue light beneath and the green pulsing lights, when the tendrils are spread out it must make a nice pattern on the ceiling if you are adding it to your ceiling chandelier.

[@MrWarwick15]

Brilliant Clive! I love how you solder with all your digits! It's like a 'Vulcan Salute' of sorts! Spock would be proud of you! Thanks. Rich.

[@justdam6508]

clive, the reason the phone cuts out around 30 mins is that most mobile phones use a fat32. fat32 has a maximum file size of 4GB (4 minus 2 bytes) so when it reaches around 4GB the video must end

[@echothehusky]

I love watching these long videos, you are good at holding our attention!

[@mduvigneaud]

Yeah! Clove is a super awesome smart dude! :D

[@mduvigneaud]

@@jeremys6387 Yeah, gotta love autoincorrect. :\

[@MuharRajiv911]

He streams

[@RaithUK]

I think that was a very soothing project with a cool outcome. Nice one Clive.

[@osjakie]

Well done, that's one funky looking light!

[@STONEDay]

Watching this 1.25x speed while enjoying some recently legal Canadian flowers is fascinating. Have you ever tried herbal flowers? No no it's not a grab a drink kind of video over here it's a roll some herbal flowers kind of video. =) Alcohol makes my body hurt. =(

[@Peter_S_]

Cheers from Colorado were we also have a propensity for legal herbal flowers. Indicas for research, sativas for builds.

[@ColinJonesPonder]

FAT32 has a maximum file size of 4GB and is the most popular filesystem for flash drives (up to 64GB), so they keep the filesize compliant. This is not necessarily absolute fact, it's just what makes most sense to me. The hour and a bit flew by. A surprisingly good watch.

[@NiHaoMike64]

@@newscotlandtv Actually, phones tend to use some Flash specific filesystem like F2FS.

[@buckcherry2564]

To the person asking about 'wokeness' being a problem in trades. The only problem I have encountered is anti-woke people starting interpersonal problems with other employees. Anyone can be trained to do the job and do it well, especially trade jobs. Their 'wokeness' or being politically correct doesnt affect their work at all. I have found that firing the problem people and maintaining a group of people that can all work together respectfully if far more productive than making sure I only hire people that can tolerate a caustic work environment. As ex-Army, none of that behavior bothers me personally, but if I have customers walking through, I know that they can walk off and talk to someone and I dont have to direct someone to "keep her away from Plantation Dave, he might say something that loses me this contract". To Clive, well deflected and brought to a relevant point.

[@MrFurriephillips]

South Main Auto is a wonderful channel. AvE pretty fab. DeBoss Garage no nonsense diesel mechanic. Dangar Marine (Stu is the ultimate laid-back Aussie), varied output, restoring an old trawler with a Detroit Diesel engine - a genuine and sweet guy. Project Brupeg - sweet couple restoring a fairly big, previously sunken trawler, into a research vessel. Doug @ SV Seeker, is pretty chill, when he’s not prankscaring his viewers & his junk-rigged steel origami boat is very unique. Sampson Boat Co, is a Brit doing a classy boat restore. Finally, Acorn To Arabella.

[@Peter_S_]

If you like mechanic channels, you might want to have a look at Garage 54.

[@user-bu2zp5le2k]

Clive you are far too entertaining to fall asleep to this is an absolute chill out video but you're more unless a sense like Bob Ross and ultimate favorite of mine you're putting happy little electronic components together I'm going to put this happy little capacitor here this smiling fuzzy little diode here I mean classic my friend classic

[@schwartzenheimer1]

Very relaxing, we like it!

[@mysock351C]

Speaking of old electronics, Zenith and Sharp used to make some truely indestructible stuff. I used to try and play peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in our old top-loader VCR and other than needing a fresh set of belts afterwards, it kept on trucking. My aunt still has the microwave my parents bought when I was born, which would make it close to 40 years old, and use it regularly. Impressive lifespan from a single magnetron.

[@hughaskew6550]

I think that it would look quite interesting in a small shaded table lamp with the blue lighting the shade and the green mostly shooting out of the open top and putting flickering dots on the wall and ceiling.

[@johnpossum556]

Some brain looking slime on it and it could pass for a ST:TOS alien.

[@navexelac2]

Thanks clive. I bought this DIY LED bulb kit to make my own regular DIY bulb. Too bad it won't be warm white to satisfy you, it'll be white white and it won't be built the way your build is. It will be a regular bulb. Still cool, cannot wait to receive it and build it.

[@navexelac2]

@Dave Micolichek Ya can do that. Me i'd rather it be white. It's all based on preferences and what you like it to look like ^^. Yeah i know you can buy one at the store, but i like making my own stuff. It's fun, has me do things so i am not bored. It even gets me to learn things too! I got another curious question, Clive changed a resistor. What would happen if i change the 10 ohm resistor to a smaller value? Is it bad for the LEDS? I know the resistor is a 2W resistor, so it HAS to be a 2W resistor.

[@navexelac2]

@Dave Micolichek Alright, thank you. If anyone would like to add anything, feel free to ^^ I can link the LEDs i bought too, see if you guys have better suggestions for white LEDs.

[@poopandfartjokes]

Your “long rambly” videos are always great Clive. You always motivate me to do my own little projects 👍

[@n7565j]

If you could water proof that rig, it would look awesome in a fish tank... Imagine that setup at night calmly flickering in a fish tank with bigclive telling us how he made it softly in the background... you'd be sound a sleep in minutes ;-) Excellent project Mr BC, thank you sir!!!

[@paulwatkins2601]

I love watching your vids long or short keep it up

[@frogz]

0:25 "the hole is there for another reason" context... is wrong in any form

[@tvsinesperanto7446]

@8:21 - Fun Fact - When I was a toddler, I was fascinated by power outlets and would often try to stick things, including electrically conductive things, into power points. My dad used to try to dissuade me by telling me that evil "Imps' (amps?) lived in there and would get me . Didn't help. So one day he hooked a wire to the coil of his car and got me to "helpfully" hold onto it while he turned the engine over. 45 years later, I still drink free beer on my old man's tab on that guilt trip. Never looked at a power outlet the same way though.

[@johnjones5943]

Ah mercury arc rectifiers how many people remember them I do !!!

[@timvandevander4804]

I’m currently going to school for mechanical and architectural engineering. When he said that people in technically involved careers tend to relax to other careers I realized it XD

[@pantherplatform]

I love these project ones

[@Stjaernljus]

The 30 minute video limit is for import/export reasons as cameras that are capable of recording for longer videos than that are classified as video recorders and in many parts of the world those have a higher customs duty.

[@elonmask50]

Time well spent

[@McTroyd]

Good stuff! Ordinarily, I'd have thought putting the flickering LEDs on the PCB would have been better for visual effect... but didn't consider the flashing. One Blue LED drops out of the connection and the whole thing goes bang in short order.....

[@lostjohnny9000]

Best thumbnail ever.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Now you mention it, it does look pretty good. Like an intergalactic alien jellyfish.

[@lostjohnny9000]

The white connectors seem to be glowing. I've noticed those white JST connectors are often very UV fluorescent.

[@bridgendesar]

Hey boss man, looking for a recommendation for a rechargeable worklight that won't fall to bits if it blows over in the wind, what do you use?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Most of the LED work lights are pretty rugged little things, but you do have to pay a bit more for units with decent battery capacity unless you hack them afterwards.

[@matthewbeddow3278]

Thanks Clive. I like the effect, I think I would have perhaps had the leads shorter or twisted them in twos but yeah its nice , unusual. I love your long videos great stuff. I hope you feel better soon .

[@CaffeinatedTech]

That would look cool inside a lamp shade.

[@I_am_Allan]

So Mr. Clive, you prefer a warm light? For some reason, I LOVE a cool light... everywhere. My bedroom, my living room, kitchen, bathroom. EVERYTHING has to be cool for me.

[@Dutch3DMaster]

About the solar panels thing in Australia: Solar panels actually tend to loose a lot of their efficiency when they get hot (which is why in The Netherlands some companies are now trying to build solar panels with water running through them to cool the panels, and in return have the water running through a heat exchange system to heat water inside your home.) Also, the monumental buildings that can not have solar panels or solar collectors for hot water installed, are subject of some kind of the same research from companies trying to come up with failsafe systems in which the roof tiles are equipped with channels that have water running through them so, as the tiles heat up in summer, they heat the water inside the roof tiles. (My parents have solar panels and this year the DC/AC converter might fail or due to it's decreasing inefficiency be up for renewal, which will be interesting to see what that will do for the price compared to the amount of energy we saved over the years since 2012). Biggest drawback of huge amounts of solar panels: the local mains grid (in The Netherlands this problem might be bigger) can become unstable, because all the solar panel installations might be trying to deliver all the unused energy back in such a big amount that safety systems are concerned the voltage is to high and shut off the neighbourhood ring, or, in case a big cloud blocks the sun this can cause such a huge voltage drop that the same systems might think they are signalling a short circuit in the grid and shut off the neighbourhood ring in the same way. The unfortunate thing of solar panels with a DC/AC converter is that the converter listens in on the mains grid frequency and synchronizes itself with it and then starts running slightly a-synchronous in order for it to be able to push the unused energy back in the grid. When the mains grid suffers a failure somewhere due to a malfunction of whatever sort and is shut off, the converter shuts off immediately as well, in order to stop engineers working in the neighbourhood substation from getting shocked from either your home connection or even the primary side of the transformer where usually the high voltage goes in. So, if the sun is shining fiercely during a power outage? You have no power even though you might have an excess of it being generated at the DC side of the converter. Interesting feature of the converter: it can sense short circuits in the mains grid from kilometers away (it measures voltage constantly). When a big part around Rotterdam came to be without power, the massive short circuit that preceeded it (more than 100 kilometers of powerlines and several substations away) caused the converter to send an email that it had detected a voltage and frequency drop (when voltage and/or frequency becomes to low for to long a period of time, it can also switch off). I, for one have been incredibly fascinated knowing a part of my city or a different city connected to the same substation going off-grid temporarily causing a dip in the grid in the part of my city where I live.

[@nolifewoodzy]

I like it. I would make a couple of them and all with different color combinations.

[@nicholaspratt7934]

About ½ mile from us just South of Lincoln they are using 240 acres of farmland to support 188,664 solar modules generating 49.9MW!

[@josh580]

19:00 people are becoming devalued. Especially the younger generations.

[@GadgetBoy]

Oh Clive! You need to do some fairy lights with the flickering LEDs!

[@Seegalgalguntijak]

Clive, what do you do with these projects once they're finished? Do you actually use these "trashy" lights somewhere to light anything up, or throw colourful light onto something?

[@bigclivedotcom]

This one is currently in a ceiling light in my hall.

[@MrGigglez2010]

I think that it's beautiful ❤️

[@wimseffelaar8950]

Love this project!

[@DaveLennonCopeland]

Oh... another patreon only set of questions?? I also missed your last live Clive video(s) due to no announcement, ah well. Your always good to watch and or listen to, even though I'm not an electrician... :)

[@bigclivedotcom]

Same ones. I'm still working through a single list of questions.

[@petersage5157]

Hi Clive. You keep mentioning your background in industrial and fairground electronics, but your builds on this channel tend to be low current/low power circuits. It would be lovely to see you build something more robust that draws on your industrial background.

[@bigclivedotcom]

There's not much demand for that here these days.

[@MrChief101]

Relatively fun both to watch and hear! Plus indeed an interesting look. Do they stay on 24/7?

[@bigclivedotcom]

I changed it to off-white flickering LEDs and it's lit for several hours each evening in the hallway.

[@kimvibk9242]

That Dark & Stormy looked a bit anemic...do you use white rum? Personally, I prefer a very dark rum (Navy Rum) and a twist of lemon.

[@captainchaos3053]

I had a good old fashioned apprenticeship all be it in a different trade but I have to say it was a nightmare in so many ways but we'll worth it.

[@robertgaines-tulsa]

I can hear the rain on your roof through my subwoofer from time to time. It's different.

[@randaljensen9423]

It appears that you are correct (about the 30 minute limit) it's a 'file size' limitation. I found a KZbin video, that walks thru a process to 'fix' it, using an app called 'Open Camera'. The vid is about 5 years old, but probably still relevant... :-)

[@bigclivedotcom]

I use open camera, but have not changed that setting in case it causes an operating system conflict over file sizes.

[@randaljensen9423]

​@@bigclivedotcom BIG OOPS... I forgot to put in the video link, or you would have known that, my bad... ;-( kzbin.info/www/bejne/f366loWEhKmKns0 The settings that are outlined in the video, breaks the video into 'chunks' smaller than the 4GB limit.

[@SamRoebuckisTheBest]

Very good project👍

[@gavincurtis]

Those are JST series connectors .....ultra inexpensive but force you to use a special crimp tool that cost almost $700. Thankfully a $30 crimper exists from Amazon that works about as nice as their fancy $700 one. Assembling a PCB as we speak that I am using them with.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Which crimp tool? I've been testing a few and the iwiss 2820M beat the expensive Engineer PA-09.

[@gavincurtis]

It is indeed the iWiss tool. The one where they basically used a grinder to narrow the crimping area. I am impressed how well made the iWiss tools are. Works great on the JST connectors for prototyping quantity production.

[@gotsm9959]

On android the default record limit on android or windows tablet/smartphone is do to with fragmentation prevention. You can override video recording length limts but you will need to defrag .

[@kewakl8891]

@0:41:28 I use several factory automation programming (PLC/HMI) software packages that say to disable anti-virus software for installation. I don't do it. The software installs and runs.

[@boboften9952]

IT IS A SCAM. HIJACKING YOUR INFORMATION. HIJACKING YOUR MACHINE. it's a trap. IT'S A TRAP.

[@digitalsparky]

I wonder what this'd look like using this LED light, but instead having all of the lights on the board, then attaching a bunch of fibreglass strands to get a flickery fibreglass lamp :P.

[@ManWithBeard1990]

You mention the camera cutting the video at a fixed file size. Is the file size around 4GB? If so, this is likely to make sure the file will still work with an SD card that came formatted with a FAT32 filesystem. It's a system that dates back to way back when hard drives weren't that big, let alone file sizes. It's still commonly used because Macs only have read-only support for NTFS. Perhaps, if you reformat it, it'll remove the limitation.

[@Gymjunnky]

Hey mate big fan watched every vid U have made and wanted to mention 2 coincidence 1) I watch your channel to relax lol 😆 2) Australian solar . Not sure if I have been here but the amount of solar panels on residential homes shops supermarkets is prominent I think it's like 30% of every building in Oz has solar pannles but when you here it looks like 90% everyone has like 5k+ solar systems that feed the grid every we're U look ... PS if U ever want to come here I would love to show U around and have a really uncomfortable spear bed and room with your name on it free .. cheers mate Gym_

[@GWorxOz]

Circumcision was fairly routine up until the 1960's.

[@boboften9952]

New wave in wand for use at the airport ?

[@branhicks]

I wonder if you formatted your SD card NTFS if the 30-minute problem would end..?

[@bigclivedotcom]

I tend to use the built in memory. Modern devices have a decent amount now.

[@drteeth7054]

BC, you dare ever stop 'rambling' and I am off. It is during your rambles that the really interesting stuff comes out. So much so, that I download your longer ones.

[@TomCee53]

On your comments about nuclear reactors, I quite agree, and I’m glad that the USA is a bit smarter. All operators have a degree, preferably in Physics,and are trained continuously. My Son-in-law is one such, and the other good news is that they are paid quite well.

[@tinplategeek1058]

Clive, it might be an idea to find out if your Dad was of German origin. Handy to have another passport these days for freedom to work/travel.

[@LoftechUK]

Great idea.

[@2soldierman2]

Set up a sandbox for the scanner thing

[@6F6G]

Some heatshrink over each connector should make it slightly safer.

[@stonedsavage7814]

Can you possibly find a way to make led tape or leds flicker randomly like a dying CFL tube? (big fan of horror and abandoned buildings with power still on)

[@tncorgi92]

I don't know much about microprocessors or Arduino but it seems like there'd be a way to generate random on-off signals with chips. Clive with his experience in making props for TV probably would know right off.

[@michaeltempsch5282]

@@tncorgi92 yep, any micro I've come across has had a random function.

[@logangraham2956]

perhaps generators would be wise to use a bridge rectifier if they ever use non-gendered plugs , that way if you plug it in backwards the electricity will simply not flow.

[@nightshadelenar]

41:20 that's where you just get a cheap, well used laptop that you don't connect to the internet to use for it.

[@newtekie1]

The camera cutting out at ~30 Minutes is definitely because of file size. A lot of memory cards, SD Cards etc., used to use the FAT file system. In fact, a lot of them even today still use FAT. FAT had a file size limit of 4GB. So camera software was just designed to limit their file sizes to 4GB to make sure the FAT limitation wouldn't be a problem. And manufacturers are lazy and never updated their software. Now that exFAT is the standard the 4GB limit is gone, but the software is slow to adapt.

[@bradleyborg9889]

I was born in 1989 and myself and most people close to my age were circumcised as a standard in the United States. They stopped doing it by default around 94-95, i think.

[@ChrisTopher-wl6pd]

Yeah but unfortunately its still being done. :( It does alot more harm than people realize. A great deal of men are harmed badly but since its so taboo for men to talk of such things, you don't hear about it unless you've been one of the unlucky ones and had to learn the hard way.

[@imark7777777]

"Remove antivirus" is most likely a bad translation of the generic disable your antivirus so the install will function, then re-enable.

[@deividt321]

The HOPI stopped flickering when you turned the light off.... ???

[@grange172]

Out of curiosity what are the career fields among Clive's viewership? Welder/Fabricator here.

[@bigclivedotcom]

It's a huge range covering everything technical. From software to steel.

[@boboften9952]

Honey I Built You A Bunch of Electric Flowers. Here Hold this Wire.

[@paulpantsoff6584]

I'd rather know than wonder if the ol' man was adopted

[@ohlongjoh]

59:20 lookin lit haha

[@danielson101]

how hot is iron?

[@bigclivedotcom]

350C.

[@0xc0ffea]

Virtual machine Clive !

[@cult-member]

Fun! I love projects like that My last lighting project- I made a chandelier. Very fro fro. Retired artist, pretend engineer. But this is very cool! I'm bookmarking (need to catch up on news &a nap. So many things yet to do ;) Many thanks

[@rimmersbryggeri]

Maybe you could have cloud or rain energy panels rather than solar panels on the isle of man.

[@iamdarkyoshi]

Speaking about the corona virus, gamer's nexus got demonitized from saying the words "corona virus"

[@osamadz5884]

Hello, can you advise me the best books of electronics i mean the old school electronic (with out uc)

[@bigclivedotcom]

I learned electronics by reading electronics magazines. These days it helps to try a few electronic project websites and see if one clicks with you.

[@osamadz5884]

@@bigclivedotcom I know, but i asked about books because the websites make me sleepy and quickly get bored , and thanks for the advice

[@chazM6116]

Time limits are due to TAX less tax on a stills camera then a movie one

[@dinojene1183]

add a esp 2866 to control the light

[@sarkybugger5009]

Are you back at home, Clive? I'll pop that box in the post. ;o)

[@bigclivedotcom]

I am back on the Isle of Man again.

[@BensWorkshop]

I was told the non camcorder recording being limited to roughly half an hour was down to WTO tariff codes. My camcorder records in roughly 10 minute blocks of files, but will keep going laying down 1 file after another such that they can be put together with no drops up to a maximum of the SD card it will take (64GB) or roughly 6 hours of continuous video.

[@sapereaude391]

Off topic but fairly recently I bought a pair of Xuron wire cutters on your kind of recommendation. I just ordered a bundle of stuff from Amazon, mainly for some soldering bits but amongst which was a pair of wire cutters which were identical to the Xuron pair, right down to the packaging, except for being branded Xupcn. I wondered if they were fakes or something so I tried to visit the site URL on the packaging xupcn.com but it redirected to your KZbin channel. What gives?

[@bigclivedotcom]

I featured the Xupcn side cutters in a video and a channel supporter bought the domain and directed it here.

[@sapereaude391]

@@bigclivedotcom Ah, okay, thanks. So, are Xuron and Xupcn the same company? And why is the domain on the packaging if the company didn't own it?

[@bigclivedotcom]

@@sapereaude391 They're a clone and they changed the name to something similar looking.

[@ohlongjoh]

don't you also have a channel about space?

[@bigclivedotcom]

No. That's Scott Manley.

[@mrsheesh3743]

Fun project, enjoyed watching as always. The blue does seem to overpower the green, might be interesting to have a mix of green & blue on the PCB? Get well soon!

[@jjppmm29]

me an the 30 other people in here; "its a JST connector" TBH I wonder how a person orders those things without knowing what the hell they are called... then again... I do the same thing, with the same part never the less XD

[@Peter_S_]

Those are XH series connectors, manufactured by JST. You order them by looking up "JST XH" and if you look at Clive's supply link you'll see it goes to a eBay search link for "50 JST XH 2.5 with Wires". JST is a giant company that makes a very wide range of connector products. www.jst.com/home8.html

[@AubreyKeck]

what about the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers?

[@kazumahikineet3090]

Looks trashy but I like it.