BOLTR: Le Clapper

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[@briangarrow448]

Pretty sure I worked with that fellow when I was in construction. He had a woman in every town with a pulp/paper mill, power plant, or refinery. Referred to his gal friends as his trap line. Trapping, clapping, it's all the same...

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

*facepalm* trapline. It's official; I've heard everything.

[@bigpapi3636]

Brian Garrow Good one! My buddy liked to fly fish. He referred to his circuit of girlfriends as "catch and release"

[@salamisalesexpress]

"Trap line" for catching beaver... thats a new one.

[@Wildman9]

With my buddy ,he says he has to go pack some boxes!Meaning throw the ole hot dog down the hallway!

[@thomas316]

Worked with a bloke who used to play away and brag about it. Actually I didn't know whether to believe him, wasn't much of a looker but clearly had the instincts of a champion when I met his wife... Made an amateur error though, hotel concierge called his wife while he was working away saying the young lady he was with had handed in the jacket he forgot as she left the hotel. Wife went [expletive] thermonuclear obviously, took everything and left him. Happiest part of the story in a way.

[@eranzitro9446]

Finally some industrial equipment

[@inonehand]

My dad had one of these connected to the TV in my parents bed room. Every night the TV would turn on in the middle of the night, eventually my parents figured out that the Clapper would turn on the TV in the middle of the night because my dad would fart in his sleep and one of them would register as a clap. Hopefully the technology has improved in the 20+ years since then.

[@vladdrac2899]

XD

[@stevenlockhart9255]

I dont believe you.

[@waderedsox]

that was one of my first electronics projects in high school, made one of those from a bag of transistors and caps, was tons of fun........ SHOCKINGLY IT FUCKING WORKED TOO gave me way too much fucking confidence........ now after the flaming Christmas tree incident of 07 im not allowed near electrical outlets..........

[@waderedsox]

side note.... i dont think theres any computer voodoo there, the one i built in high school DEFINITLEY didnt have anything like that it was all just simple components, and bear in mind, i think they came out in the 70s didnt they? i could probably dig the one i made out somewhere if it was of intrest maybe it has some sort of cap with something that bleeds it off slowly and if the cap manages to fill up before it bleeds off it trips the relay. i would think that a clap would create a pretty large voltage spike in a microphone. just my two cents

[@waderedsox]

i changed my mind, im dumb youre right that particular one deff has electronicals..... XD the lights are clearly lighting in response to the sounds

[@tylisirn]

Just because a product came out long time ago doesn't mean they still make it the same way.

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

AvE loves the Clapper because It obeys pixie-wranglin' laws You can cheer, you can shout, And perhaps dance about, But kindly hold your applause

[@wimderix]

Great!!!!

[@fluffyhead6377]

*Aboot.

[@non-nefarious]

Had the tree lights hooked up to one of those one year. It also worked when the dog barked. He'd bark the lights on and bark the lights off. He was capable of putting on quite a light show.

[@_JoeMomma]

This is why I love this channel so much. No bullshit, no stupid intro with edm blasting in the background, no music constantly playing during video. AvE’s videos are pure

[@andrewlit2202]

Part of the reason it has that delay is to wait for a third clap. You can control both outlets independently, with 2 claps for the top one and 3 for the bottom!

[@sacasanova]

My Cuban mother in law is so loud she triggers these when she talks.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

Oi Carumba!

[@sacasanova]

Loud and proud is the Cuban way.

[@ot0m0t0]

She is way back in Cuba and triggering them? Damn...

[@SWhite-hp5xq]

Signs of the clap around her lips?

[@sacasanova]

S. White have some respect please.

[@6061]

I remember when I was a kid, yelling/screaming at it really loud for a few seconds straight would turn it on and off. Give that a try.

[@kwaksalwerkwaker-naak8475]

Endless Loop Warning!!...don't use ze Clapper on ye old PopCorn Machine.

[@Ishiku__aka_xchoibitschibihil]

Kwaksalwer Kwaker-naak diabolical!

[@mephInc]

Sounds like a hoot

[@KILO993]

"Mowin' somebody elses lawn and catching the clap" lmfao. I choked on my coffee

[@madhatter3737]

I remember some time ago when I was younger I bought one of those "Clappers", it was much larger than this one shown, maybe over the years they've been able to downsize the thing, but I was young and dumb and loved to listen to my music while trying to fall asleep, than one day my parents were out of town I decided to throw a party and without thinking about it I cranked my stereo up, yup' you guessed it the stereo went through the clapper, at a decent sound level the stereo began to turn itself on and off with the beat of the music, it was crazy, I couldn't just turn the head unit off I had to jerk everything away from the wall to be able to unplug the damn thing to stop the madness, regardless to say I threw the "Clapper" out and never again used or wanted one, but on the positive side of life the "Clapper" does serve a purpose now a days as it reminds us that Christmas is almost here with all their commercials..........................

[@1DrnkCnuk]

I might not understand a lot of the jargon you say on account of me knowing barely anything on tools and machinery, but I'm really happy I found your channel and am learning tons about tools. Thanks a bunch from Ontario!

[@Mikidy303]

I love the sound of innocent children's laughter. AvE came close, you could tell the sheer joy he was experiencing. Kind of Clappy clap clap video both in the story at the beginning and the product.

[@j.m.74]

Sometimes the shorter vidjayos can be the most entertaining. I needed a good laugh today, and your amusement at this device's 'more skookum than expected' nature was just what the doctor ordered... Thx AvE, stay awesome!

[@MazeFrame]

This thing + lamps + the right kind of music = Instant disco!

[@fletcher3913]

You brought back an old memory. I gave my Dad one of those for Christmas way back when the first came out. He wasn't impressed but the rest of the family spent the rest of the evening playing with it, taking turns clapping the tree lights on and off, and laughing and have a fun time. Best gift I ever got my Dad 8-).

[@walmartsuxhard]

I have owned a clapper for around 6 years and I wouldn't want to go without it now. Very nice to be able to clap the lights on/off from the bed.

[@vzgsxr]

Haha, i love hearing the excitement in AVE's voice. Makes me laugh 😂

[@Ricopolico]

I always say that once you reach a certain age, you got a story about everything. Guess I'm not as old as I thought.

[@mikeholt3545]

"I don't know why this wee little thing makes me laugh so much." Words I've heard on many occasions.

[@thespanielinquisition7167]

What happens if you use it to turn on a record player which then plays Queen's We Will Rock You

[@WeighedWilson]

when that happens the dreaded divide be zero error is transmitted via Morse code until the world ends.

[@iamezza]

It will turn off and stop playing and you will be sad

[@irrelevant6845]

AVE needs to make a cd filled with his funny stories, anecdotes and life lessons for us to listen to when on long toad trips.

[@TheInfoworks]

I'm sure Big Clive lives on Tunnocks Tea Cakes. Cheers

[@lifeRobrandom]

I like the little devious laugh at the end especially after the story

[@stevejohnson1685]

In the late 1970's, I met the guy who invented the Clapper - primarily a sales / marketing guy, but had a good feel for what was in the air at the moment. He also merchandised those fiber-optic lamps, and a bunch of other stuff as well. Some friends and I were making remote-controlled robots, and were driving one around at the Chicago Consumer Electronics Show. He commissioned one from us on the spot, and was really pleasant to deal with. He had an office on Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, and a huge house, a converted fire station, across the river in Weekauken, New Jersey. Nice guy (Almost as nice as AvE)!

[@rattleheadx]

Why the heck are we not watching this thing switch the Bridgeport on and off until it lets the magic smoke out?! Git ta hackin' that thing! :D

[@nikm2089]

AvE opened that clapper like an absolute champ

[@tmaq9726]

Back in the late 80s we got one and had fun with it, and i decided to yell, YO JOE!, and the damn thing worked, fun times....

[@sergiomissaglia6380]

I imagine that if you had one of these during your wedding night your room would have turned out to be a discothèque

[@milan1969]

Genius and witty. Another great vidjeo from AvE! Keep it up!!

[@UTubeHandlesSuck]

More than 10 years before "The Clapper" my father hauled in a gizmo (picked up in some truck stop in the wee hours of the AM) called the "Whistle Switch." Same thing but came with a squeeze bulb activated whistle what wasn't necessary because any sharp sound would activate it. Plugged it in intending to mess with mom, and it beat him to the punch- the sound of her hand-washing silverware in the sink set the light to blinking. It chooched with great enthusiasm, sending the pixies into a frenzy.

[@sascosmit]

I still have ptsd from trying to build one of these years ago. The thing had a mind if its own and for the life in me I couldn't sweet talk it into working. Even a hammer couldn't convince it to listen.

[@SurajGrewal]

Meanwhile, my 555 microcontroller combo activated when I walk, at lowest sensitivity

[@seanflanagan5674]

Scott Smith, I'm guessing that you applied the hammer directly, rather than beside the device?

[@MattOGormanSmith]

electret microphone capsules aren't the best thing to learn soldering on

[@Pijawek]

I actually managed to pull it off on my first attempt. But it turned out that it cohldn't distinguish between claps and gunfire, which made watching action movies intereating.

[@jan-roarbernhardsen7626]

Always when i look at your videos i learn something new. You teach in a great way, and to listen to your knowledge is great. To see your interest and your passion for what you work with is inspiring. All children should have a teacher like you. To explain and show is one of the best way of learning. I belive a lot of children would bring more knowledge in their growing up, if teacher had your way of explaining things. Even i can sit and listen true long videos, that i never belive i would look at, but because you make it interesting the time just go: And after i have a knowledge that i did not have before your video. Have a great week

[@Live4Ibanez]

Clapper more skookum than most tools at home depot.

[@devlad]

Clive's grabbing a Bridgeport now, and once again, the Kinder Easter Bunny is getting it

[@marshfield01]

As a used car salesman, I can confirm AvE is correct.

[@TheTigero]

What I love most about this is how classic it is. Seems like it just works. No settings, router passwords, registration... And the design looks brilliant, clean PCB... Nothing scabby anywhere.

[@474191649]

I bought one of these a few years back and anything that triggered the dog to bark twice would turn the lamp on. Too much fun.

[@infoanorexic]

Most have heard the ad jingle. Years ago, I was driving my middle school bus route, I hear one of the 6th grade boys singing the jingle. Substituted "clap" with "jack" ...

[@jerry125538]

Great vidjo, my wife gave me the clapper a couple years back for christmas.... The gift that keeps on giving

[@okkrom]

Tabarnak! You have the best stories in the tube!

[@bigmacca99]

Love the AC/DC reference “shes got the jack”

[@microbuilder]

6:12 Its the little things in life! ...like knowing the only clap youve got, is the one that your hands make.

[@mechanicmike7954]

"Hey! Hey!" Made me fucking giggle for some reason

[@DanielPinel]

Instant router reset during award shows.

[@SuperKingslaw]

My sister used to turn our granny's clapper on and off by screaming "Bobby Brown" at the top of her lungs.

[@TheStp77]

This is why i love these vids, you can take one of the cheesiest gadgets on tv and actually say wait a min. This thing aint half bad!

[@thomas316]

TheStp77 Sadly as no one watches telly any more...who knows?

[@MrJWalker88]

So Jay loses Daisy, that flapper, When she can't reach the switch from the crapper. On the loo, in the dark, Daisy loses the spark. Gatsby should've just gotten 'The Clapper.'

[@Aceoffroad4x4]

"I don't know why it makes me laugh..?" 🤣

[@atcpowers5]

This thing is a game changer. Had one since age 7 and would not trade it for anything. One plug for mood lighting other for the seductive music. Also is great in university dorms… Nothing like knowing who’s got their game on…

[@Nox.INkRecords]

Just found your channel. Got hooked!

[@shannonHWryan]

I had one when I was a little kid. Hunting through Legos in a metal canister will set them off.

[@jayjay-kz8yw]

Looks like I'll be buying one.Thanks

[@NotRite225]

Be knocking the bottom out, the lamp goes in and out like poltergeist ... now I want one

[@saxwastaken]

I dont know what's going on in any of these videos but i watch them anyway.

[@TheKennyboyd]

U rule I can watch your videos all day.

[@edstirling]

my parents told me that someone in my brother's high school class hooked one of these up to trigger the stage lights for the superlatives presentation so everytime somebody got recognized for being most likely to be incarcerated in a foreign country or what have you the lights would go off and on and off and on etc.

[@busterlee8438]

love the humor... gets a box with the clap.... tells herpagonnacyphillaids story. this channel Chooches SKOOKUM.

[@BangBangBang.]

Oh this is the clapper that grandpa talks about when he gets drunk after Sunday dinner

[@kandkmotorsports]

with this and the"hoo haa raddler" there is a joke in there somewhere!

[@eddievanhorn5497]

My neighbor had one of those. Her cat had a seizure and fell from a cst tree and the light went off. She thought for a second that the power went off and her cat was psychic. True story. Cant make that shit up.

[@skungpid]

I knew one of the enginerds who invented the Clapper (the original one). Pretty interesting fellow. He said he came up with it because of an argument with his wife and getting out of bed to turn off the lights. Why he didn't just get a lamp w/ a closer switch...who knows. Sadly he passed away around 5 yrs ago. RIP Art.

[@micahkeleher8668]

My four-year-old daughter said she wanted one of these for Christmas. Looks like she's getting one for her stocking

[@pileofstuff]

Got one of these a few years back for a laugh, but it really is pretty half-decent. All I use it for is the solstice tree, so only a few hundred LEDs. It does false-positive on account of the dog's toenails when he walks past the tree sometimes, though.

[@Zakardis]

I went through half a dozen of the clappers burning out on a 75 watt lamp before I just got a different brand with a remote fob.

[@JuliansRandomProject]

Growing up, my Dad would yell at us kids so loud the lights would be goiing On Off On Off :D

[@KowboyUSA]

Gonorrhea is nothing to clapper about.

[@seantap1415]

If only she was that easy....I laughed out loud.

[@Fat-Gnome]

Quite a few years ago, my mother had one of these and we found out the small sharp sound of a lapdog barking would activate it.

[@witespy]

I took one of these part when I was little kid .tried to repair it at school during recess , Plugged it in to test it out. And tripped the breaker for the whole wing of the school. Lol

[@subigirlawd_7307]

It was fun watching you have fun with that thing....

[@hyland1984]

You should call it "the clap trap"' - given to every client who attends the Monday morning clinic after ploughing through a weekend of jelly tots

[@sleepwalker3520]

Cheers for turning me on to the workshop

[@Saor_Alba]

I went to Uddingston Grammar School.The factory where Tunnock's Teacakes are made is in Uddingston in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. :)

[@rabbitphobia]

What a swell guy giving your bride the clap and with an encore or two, I'm guessing.

[@treemanevergreen]

A human hand clap has a pretty well defined frequency range. The delay is probably the fast Fourier transform and applying the filters. Or it could just be the buffer time to check if you'll clap some more.

[@bluefoxtv1566]

Bought one of these years ago and it works great and the best thing is that i don't need a phone or to connect it to the internet to control the lights.

[@dank.9742]

I pretty much watch all your vids for the stories and entertainment. And I learna thing or two

[@gravelcreekfarms3850]

Gonasyphaherpalaids love it. Way more descriptive than “she’s got the hi5 “ Hook that up to the old hitachi Thanks for all the videos

[@noanoxan]

When I was a kid, I used to think it'd be funny as hell if someone rigged a stadium's lights with a clapper, right before a home game. I still think it'd be funny as hell.

[@zwz.zdenek]

Wouldn't work. At least this one. The sound of thousands clapping is completely different to the single clap this is made to detect.

[@HardKnocksForge]

Ghonnaherpasyphalaids? Is that worse than herpaghonnasyphawarts positive?

[@mephInc]

Herpaghonnasyphilitis is the precursor to full blown herpaghonnasyphilaids

[@CatInTheHand]

Still not sure what he said there.

[@NextGenesis88]

Ghonnasyphaherpalaids. We used to say it back in high school. It’s no good to catch, but at least you went out with a bang.

[@xyoungdipsetx]

Hard Knocks Forge I said the same thing had me laughing

[@ahnojunkmail]

Most surprising AvE video ever.

[@AppleiReviewer]

Best episode by far, this is fucking amazing

[@tyhuffman5447]

I bet Barney can toggle it on and off with his barks.

[@AliasUndercover]

Who'd a thunk THE CLAPPER would be something you approve of. I guess that explains why they've been selling the damn things since God was a boy...

[@TexR6S]

He was giggling like a school girl at that thing. Now I wanna buy one.

[@esoterik0]

IIRC the clapper is actually measuring the time between the claps for activation. The μc is detecting the clap based on, IIRC, a first derivative characteristic, that was easy to detect in the μc (looking for a sharp rise ... peak detector?).

[@calebdavies526]

I had one of these in my room maybe 10 years ago, anytime i would cough it would come on

[@aSinisterKiid]

The LEDs seemed to coincide with a few indicators. It appeared that the left LED would turn on at any sound and the right LED would light up along with it at any sound that was NOT a clap (your voice, the motor running, backround noise). But when you did the slow clap just once, the left LED lit up to the sound and the middle LED lit up as though it recognized that sound profile. Upon your second clap the left and middle LED lit up and after the short processing delay it turned on. So it appears those LEDs are visual indicators to what the brainbox is hearing. Pretty dang cool.

[@lukerediger8431]

Neutral goes straight to the plug cause you never switch neutral, it in theory, should always be at 0 potential voltage to earth. You switch the hot cause that's where the potential is. Otherwise, If the light burns out, with the switch off, you'd still have the hot energizing the fixture, which is dangerous because when you screw in the new bulb, the current will pass through the center contact, filament, and exit from the screw base into you. Switching the hot ensures, in theory, there is no potential in the fixture when it's switched off, and in theory, safe to change the bulb. IE the potential voltage is stopped behind the switch, before it gets to the light. If you switch the neutral, the potential is stopped after it goes through the fixture at the other side of the switch. Meaning it looks safe cause the device is off, but the whole thing is live and ready to bite you. In theory, Switching hot means the circuit on the fixture side of the switch is at 0 potential volts, switching neutral means the circuit is primed and ready to go, it just needs a drain which, if you aren't careful will be the person working on what looks like a dead circuit. I say in theory, cause I've yet to be in a house that doesn't have at least one funky circuit. So it's a best practice that solves 99% of the problem, but don't bet your life on it.

[@johncox9660]

Fun vidjeo Thanks for posting.

[@stanleyhape8427]

I have one of these . it's awesome !! Old school smart home technology.👍👍

[@TheUncleRuckus]

Awesome video as always. Can't believe I'm just now finding your channel. The clapper can also be turned on and off with tongue clicks, finger snapping, lip smacking and a few other sounds as long as it's a high enough pitch and the sound is in the right sequence.

[@dom8420]

5:35 the guys guy his hand stuck in the lathe and you standing there frantically clapping

[@Broken_Yugo]

Incandescent lights will also greatly reduce the rating of switch contacts, since they're practically a dead short when the filament is cold.

[@Jay-ik1pt]

AvE - Le Clapper may not actually be using that watt your Killawatt shows. I've been told that those tools aren't very accurate at the very low end of the scale because the burden resistance is too.... large to get an accurate reading? My memory escapes me on the specifics. I don't have a Killawatt to test, just a chinesium clone but suffice to say that, if true, its probably over-reporting on watt-fractional loads. I suppose a guy could test it by hooking up a known load and seeing what it shows. Anyway, that was cool. I didn't know they even still sold those.

[@arduinoversusevil2025]

The dyson charger shows 0w quiescent.

[@Jay-ik1pt]

Well, there you go. I wonder if I've got any loads small enough to test against my chinesium clone. It'd be interesting to compare it to what the fruke reports.

[@windsunh2o]

You're talking about having small loads in an AvE comment section? Brave man.

[@jamesg1367]

@Jason Green - I've got the same model Kill A Watt as AvE's. You're right, it's a bit off at the very low end but mine seems to err in the other direction. Based on a coupla quick tests.

[@bloodyricho1]

Didn't the tea cake guy cover that in one of his vijeos? Can't remember what he was testing but he fabricobbled something up to get a more accurate reading

[@ExStaticBass]

Man that takes me back a ways. I remember those from the 80s when they were first advertised on TV. I also seem to remember some that had dual switching which is to say that some would switch one outlet for two claps and the other for three. One would hope that they've fixed the problem with false triggering as they seem to have done with that one but who really knows right? Great stuff man, great stuff...

[@bluefoxtv1566]

I have a new one and it can also switch tow things and if you set the sensitivity to low it wont false trigger that often.

[@Charliegsand]

my grandfather had a large house and one of these in every room. when someone rang the doorbell his two dogs would bark like crazy. it was pretty funny to see from the outside as the lights flickered on & off goingfrom room to room as the dogs ran through the house to the front door.

[@saeedabulhusn4625]

San-you, San-me, San-it for always