Cuts toward himself with a giant knife "I know what I'm doing" Punches himself in the face opening bubblewrap "this is bloody dangerous"
@Nordic_Mechanic8 жыл бұрын
+Aj Koorstra If you ban knives, ban pillows !
@Jacklsovakia18 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, he's a professional Australian.
@BenjaminGoose8 жыл бұрын
+Aj Koorstra Don't worry, he's a brick dunny.
@pwnedbyscope8 жыл бұрын
+Veikra New Jersey has already banned a number if knives pretty much anything with an assisted opening is illegal, as well as being a felony to own one=(
@Nordic_Mechanic8 жыл бұрын
pwnedbyscope Cause banning them means criminal will follow laws and get rid of them. Nice thinking lol
@KB1UIF8 жыл бұрын
Dave that box must be the latest "See Moss" device. Sorry couldn't resist ;-)
@DeanHerbertMooCow8 жыл бұрын
The earth wire is a very common thing in Japan. All home appliances use it. You need to manually screw it into the wall socket.
@EEVblog8 жыл бұрын
+Dean Herbert Woah, really?
@timothylamb78618 жыл бұрын
+EEVblog bfy.tw/4HOY ;)
@infinity3068 жыл бұрын
+Dean Herbert used to be that way in us early I believe, til we modernized and added grounding prongs. probably around 60-70 years ago.. LOL
@donpalmera8 жыл бұрын
+Dean Herbert Home appliances like fridges, washing machines etc usually have a separate earth wire that goes into the frame and needs to inserted into a screw terminal under the socket. Stuff like air conditioners have a proper 3 pin plug that goes into a 3 pin socket... and then power leads for monitors, computers etc have that dangling wire that's meant to attached to the same terminal as the one for washing machines etc or a 3 pin plug but the sockets that are not for air conditioners up on the wall or in the washing machine/fridge bay never have that terminal or are 2 pin so the connector has a plastic insulator.
@drkastenbrot8 жыл бұрын
who would even come up with that. stupidest system ever
@jamesgrimwood12858 жыл бұрын
I live near Leeds! :-) I want to see a spoof mailbag where you open your actual mail... "And here's a bill from my electric company." "Oh we've had one of these before, it's a piece of junk from the local pizza place" :-)
@Jeff1214568 жыл бұрын
+James Grimwood Guess you missed the lingerie mailbag.
@ThatLinuxGamer8 жыл бұрын
+James Grimwood I live near Leeds too! In York, like Leeds only smaller and better. Yorkshire represent.
@titangaminguk1058 жыл бұрын
Yorkshire is definitely represented leeds ftw
@turboslag8 жыл бұрын
+James Grimwood I used to live near Leeds too! In between Leeds and York actually, for about 10 years. Loved the place, I may even go back to live there.
@sickparrot38 жыл бұрын
+James Grimwood Do you remember M&B Radio down by the station? the holy land of surplus electronics.
@ZomB19867 жыл бұрын
The Tektronics code is: -Up/down: binary (LSB first) '00101010' = ASCII 'T' -Thickness: '00000011' = ASCII '♥' -Spacing: (maybe I'm over-thinking things) '000 111 00' = '8' (not quite 'K' as I hoped)
@built2last318 жыл бұрын
hackaday sent u some good California weed lol
@DoRC8 жыл бұрын
Damn that etherscope is still a legit tool and is worth quite a bit. I wonder how much trouble that person got in for taking it.
@DoRC8 жыл бұрын
I'd kill to have that in my premise kit:)
@0toleranz8 жыл бұрын
+Kenny Downs yea, me too :o
@pbp67418 жыл бұрын
"I'm Australian. I know what I'm doing." ... Hits himself in jaw.
@KennethScharf8 жыл бұрын
The VFD segments may be multi colored, and that's why they look strange.
@hubmartin8 жыл бұрын
+Kenneth Scharf Exactly my thoughts. Sad that Dave did not tried turn that thing on.
@imdeadserious61028 жыл бұрын
if you look you can see an obvious set of 3 colors (gold, silver, copper/bronze which I'm guessing are either multipliers or just a higher value set depending) and then where there are single digits that are (basically) always on have a more off-color then the same color ones in the corresponding row/column depending on what section you are looking at. (Kind of surprised save didn't mention this but did mention the LEDs)
@nixietubes2 жыл бұрын
Yes...
@TheVespap200e8 жыл бұрын
Dave, you really need to sharpen that weapon that you use to open your mail! A dull knife is a dangerous knife! 😀
@draggonhedd8 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave! For the VFD, I don't think they're discolored, so much as different colored phosphors! If you find a picture of one of these displays in action, every section has a different color when it's lit up. You should power-on test it!
@rish28919938 жыл бұрын
The first guy in the world to say " bubble wrap is dangerous" XD
@GreenAppelPie8 жыл бұрын
Definitely needs safety warnings printed on it
@uwezimmermann54278 жыл бұрын
The different shades on the VFD segments is not only wear but also different coloring. If you have a uv flashlight you might actually see the different emission colors through the glass...
@TheModernVictorian8 жыл бұрын
Hi Dave, I dont know if you learned it already, but a thatched cottage is a type of old house, usually worth a buck load these days, which were built usually with "straw" or dry grass roofs and walls made of timber and a type of concrete/dry grass mix.
@somethingelse2lookat5028 жыл бұрын
Great mailbag! I actually pop popcorn for these. I had that original Sony disc player when it first came out. Installed it in my car, Skipped with every tiny bump. But it was the only game in town so it was still real cool.
@ratdude7478 жыл бұрын
The first one's ground wire in the plug isn't tied to the plug contacts, but to a ground wire in the cable. The idea for these (and also the compatible 100VAC Japanese plugs) is that the wire has a ring/fork terminal that is attached to the screw on the outlet cover. I've seen this on old appliances (washing machine, etc.).
@stonent8 жыл бұрын
We still use an Etherscope like that, but I think ours is an Etherscope II but looks very similar except it has a compact flash port for data storage as well as pcmcia. It runs Linux and can do cable testing and you can put in a wifi card as well. It can do impedance testing of twisted pair wiring, wire map, some signal loss, time domain reflectometry for cable length and distance to damaged or shorted cable. When you're running tests the relays are clicking off and on, probably connecting the wires to the FPGA for testing before switching back to that broadcom chip . You can also do network capture for offline analysis.
@SudosFTW8 жыл бұрын
I have one of those D-50s in really rough shape. I've superglued the plastic window back on and there's dings and scratches everywhere. it got really beat up when it was in storage and Hurricane Sandy came through and destroyed the shed it was sitting in with a bunch of my other stuff. Good to mention in the teardown you do for it that it uses the same analog circuitry to an extent as their first actual retail CD player on a smaller scale... this is why it cost so much when new. Mine still has the 9V battery pack that uses C batteries, and the 9v wart is... someplace.... but I can power it off any of them so long as I make sure it's at least an amp. I got mine for $20 in box at a yard sale back in 2009, looked just like that one. but mine has a datecode of october 1985.
@loughkb8 жыл бұрын
I just sold my old D50 Discman on ebay last month. Had the battery holder/carry case with it too. Sold for $45.
@deeplightstudio8 жыл бұрын
The reason why the slash wasn't colored on the front of the shirt is because that's a "button logo" so basically it's just a simple black & white rendition of the logo wrapped in a circle
@deeplightstudio8 жыл бұрын
And as far as the code, I assumed it was binary (there are 8 lines total) assuming bottom row is 0 and top row is 1, you get 00101010 which is decimal 42, or the ascii character * (asterisk)
@jacksat22528 жыл бұрын
Couldn't that yellow color on the white back be from nicotine (cigarettes)?
@unclebarry788 жыл бұрын
That was my first thought.
@DuzzExor8 жыл бұрын
From what I saw of pachinko places in Japan the last time I was there, it being from cigarettes is very likely.
@Jeff1214568 жыл бұрын
+yasim delzeyne Except that the darkest spots were around lights that were most likely on more often, like the top LEDs.
@dennissmithjr.53708 жыл бұрын
Love your channel Dave, my 8 year old boy watches with me and now walks around saying, "what a bobby dazzler". Thanks for your channel!
@RCTanksTrucks2478 жыл бұрын
"several sucks of the sav" LOL, love it mate
@Cornet_Tooter8 жыл бұрын
"I'm Australian, I know what I'm doing!" I'm sure Steve Irwin said the same thing :(
@ricoswave23268 жыл бұрын
The Radio Shack analog dB meters were ubiquitous back in the day. You couldn't walk into a studio or lab without finding on in a drawer. They actually weren't bad for roughing in. The digital ones were crap though. We ended up purchasing a terrasonde toolbox (?) when our RS analog unit went MIA.
@b-rentareilly82048 жыл бұрын
The different coloured segments in the VFD are exactly that, different coloured segments when lit.
@antsgamingvideosn2b8 жыл бұрын
Been reading about the Joey in this month's Silicon Chip. A very successful KickStarter project!
@groovejet338 жыл бұрын
I especially like the Reverse Engineering videos, and the scope videos because Daves so knowlegable about these things. EEV is always the first subscribed videos i look for when i sit down on a night after work. Yeh Bloody Ripper!!!
@power-max8 жыл бұрын
There appears to be about 1500---2000 pixels in that dot matrix on the VFD. (32 vertical counted)
@KingNast8 жыл бұрын
It was 64 columns, so 2048
@jalexge8 жыл бұрын
It looks like the "code" on the shirt at 23:21 is a binary representation of the number "42". The stripes on the top are 1s and the stripes on the bottom are 0s, giving 00101010, 42 in decimal.
@CoolerQ8 жыл бұрын
Dave, why don't you get a nice big high-res LCD to mount on your wall, so you can tell what the HD video will look like while you're shooting? Or even just a little portable monitor? (e.g. Blackmagic Video Assist for US$500)
@ahobby8 жыл бұрын
That magazine helped me remind myself to convert my IEEE spectrum magazine from the digital to the print version. Thanks :p
@naota3k8 жыл бұрын
"I know I'm cutting towards myself, but we Aussies come from the southern hemisphere, so we HAVE to do it that way."
@dhpbear26 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing the VFD elements are are different colors not just blue (when lit)!
@abpccpba8 жыл бұрын
I have been to a Pachinko game room. This one was at a train station complex. Men sitting at a machine smoking cigarettes. The large room was full of dense smoke; could not see the back wall.
@DatBlueHusky8 жыл бұрын
that fluke etherscope thing is worth $1500 lol
@etechguy10098 жыл бұрын
Worth it mate. ;)
@NivagSwerdna8 жыл бұрын
+30GB So someone takes an asset from work they don't understand and send it to Dave to tear apart. Face palm.
@grame1418 жыл бұрын
+30GB Hey, did anyone see the Fluke etherscope from the store room? It's gone missing...
@billa86717 жыл бұрын
i think Emma got her ass fired for that one
@robertkilbourne3238 жыл бұрын
Utica is in what is called 'Upstate New York' as opposed to 'New York City' which is at the extreme southeast corner of New York State. NY state is actually quite large and shares the border with Ontario, Canada at Lake Erie. Utica is directly east of Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse.
@crustyHO8 жыл бұрын
14:22 Best soundclip from EEVblog yet!
@dishmanw8 жыл бұрын
+EEVblog The first programmable calculator that I had was an HP 33C with an LED display. It was a nice rugged calculator.
@cjs19828 жыл бұрын
Dave: The RadioShack VU meter from the looks of it dates back to the late 90s or early 2000s. I remember selling these. glad we discontinued it; the analog one was better.
@MatMabee8 жыл бұрын
Dave! Have you gotten any old CB radios for your teardowns? I have an old Sony ICB-1000W CB radio made in 1976 I'm thinking of sending in. Shipping will cost an arm and a leg because I'm in the states, but I'd really like to see a teardown on the sucker.
@EEVblog8 жыл бұрын
+Mathew Mabee Tore own two in a video not long ago.
@nickguy68208 жыл бұрын
About the FPGAs in Ethernet test sets: You want something that can generate packets at line rate (1Gb for e.g.), and receive them, generate CRCs / checksums, and track statistics. That's a LOT to ask of a CPU, much less an embedded processor. FPGA is really the only reasonable choice.
@GoldSrc_8 жыл бұрын
Yes, I would love to see a teardown of that CD player, that one should have one of those big ass pick up laser. My friends think I'm weird because I like CD players lol, the older the better and more interesting to see them working.
@christopherguy12177 жыл бұрын
That HP-41CX is exactly like the one I have and still use! Just keep a supply of N cell batteries to power it. The HP-15C I have is probably the most ergonomic calculator ever produced, you can operate it very well holding it in your hands with just your thumbs, I guess that's why they command hundreds of dollars on eBay.
@SelinicaHarbinger8 жыл бұрын
I think it's pachinko parlors. I'm pretty sure the external ground lead is also a thing that is still around in japan, like the grounded to two pin adapters that were common in the US. I've got one of the machines, but it sadly lacks a cord of any sort, just a jack on the back for power in and I guess something out.
@RichardGalambos8 жыл бұрын
I was just about to mention cutting towards yourself... LOL!! Love it!
@ChipGuy8 жыл бұрын
XC2V1000: AFAIK back in 2005 that was a $1000-$2000 class FPGA. Now obsolete, but 1 million system gates. Big beast back in the day. WOW.
@ILoveFreeBSD8 жыл бұрын
a small typo in the video description you wrote Sony "M-50" Discman instead of "D-50"
@jergenmehyugen90658 жыл бұрын
That Hackaday puck looks to be a sealed Terrarium. As long as you keep it with some light it should stay green. It's a little self sufficient ecosystem in the palm of your hand.
@EEVblog8 жыл бұрын
+Jergen MehYugen Oh, cool. So sunlight, unlike in my lab!
@Pieh08 жыл бұрын
20:42 Official Hackaday Weed, 420blazeit
@drkastenbrot8 жыл бұрын
The TX logo is a very good design, certainly fits into the modern style. But the customers sure prefer the old one.
@WaltonPete8 жыл бұрын
"...all their social media channels and all that sort of wank." - love it!
@OsmosisHD8 жыл бұрын
The network analyzer by Fluke. Could it be Jtagged and loaded up with PFsense linux firewall OS? It kinda looks like a full embedded x86 barebone assuming it has 2x 1Gbit LAN ports. Would be pretty sweet. a compact firewall with its own LCD screen build in
@IanTester8 жыл бұрын
+Osmosis Firstly, he already said the SoC is a Intel Xscale. That's ARM, not x86. Secondly, I doubt it has direct access to the Ethernet, or if it did you'd have to write a device driver for it (perhaps even loading something custom on the FPGA to get access). Good luck getting info out of Fluke and/or reverse engineering it. In the end it's just not worth it. Much cheaper and easier to get something from RouterBoard.
@ethanmye-rs8 жыл бұрын
No way the color LEDs produced UV, unless they were originally UV leds, which is unlikely. Can you pull one off and test it?
@DrakkarCalethiel8 жыл бұрын
It's almost 1 am in Austria and I should sleep... not with me! Not before I have seen the new mailbag! :D
@TheEPROM98 жыл бұрын
The soul of the machine escaped.
@ChristopherMeadors8 жыл бұрын
The code on the shirt is binary, 11010101. In decimal that's 213. Likely a reference to the Tektronix 213 oscilloscope.
@L337g4m3r8 жыл бұрын
I don't know why but while seeing that I thought about the line "that's not a knife, THIS is a knife!". Even the accent matches...
@I_T_T3 жыл бұрын
"I'd rather you actually have a new scope... that it's actually fast and responsive" Ouch :-D
So if you want to get your item on mailbag faster send it to Dave in a giant box so he opens it first to clear shelf space. :)
@PuchMaxi8 жыл бұрын
Dave, watch out on the Sony D-50 Discman! It appears to have a center negative pin?!
@Antebellum18608 жыл бұрын
Wow! That is one impressive knife; it's almost bigger than you are. I'm not complaining mind you, I am simply impressed.
@bellshooter8 жыл бұрын
The Sony Disc Player was awesome, shame you didn't get the battery pack/case as well. I remember buying one of the first shipment to arrive in UK, don't remember the date just that I gazumped one ordered but not collected from a high street store in west London by flashing the £300 ish cash wanted for unit including battery case.
@-Graham8 жыл бұрын
Wow! Never seen a VFD dot matrix display before!
@AKADriver8 жыл бұрын
The Pachinko machine being made by Samsung is interesting. Pachinko is a uniquely Japanese thing... but Pachinko parlors are frequently run by people who are ethnically Korean.
@Node78 жыл бұрын
The Tek t-shirt is 00101010 which is 42 in decimal. A reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
@ollopa18 жыл бұрын
This would be a part of the machine as there is one per machine. It would be mounted at the top of the machine.
@ramrod1268 жыл бұрын
You got Utica right. I live fairly close to there.
@7head7metal78 жыл бұрын
Don't know why, but I really like these friendly little insults in broad australian accent, makes me smile everytime my country is mentioned :D
@TilmanBaumann8 жыл бұрын
I wonder why those orange caps in the network analyser have those little pointy noses. Are they supposed to do something, for soldering perhaps? Or are they perhaps just some result of some production process?
@Graham_Langley8 жыл бұрын
+Tilman Baumann They're tantalum caps so they need something to indicate polarity.
@TilmanBaumann8 жыл бұрын
Thanks. That makes sense.
@JohannaMueller578 жыл бұрын
lol, i was just thinking "don't cut towards yourself" just before you mentioned it.
@CaptainCheezmo8 жыл бұрын
That Pachinko data counter... I don't think the VFD display sections are discoloured. I think they're actually *coloured* Like green/amber/red.
@floriandaler53278 жыл бұрын
Nice security note. Everyone needs this. You really know what are you doing. Love your video.
@AmirHakimiRezaei8 жыл бұрын
+Florian Daßler what
@floriandaler53278 жыл бұрын
+Amir Hakimi-Rezaei The security info at the start where he sayd that he knows what he is doing.
@gtwing86638 жыл бұрын
7:40 Hoped you liked the smell of my farts
@opiniondiscarded66505 жыл бұрын
How do those tits fart?
@coldwire36848 жыл бұрын
Dave is channeling Crocodile Dundee today with that knife
@thekaiser43338 жыл бұрын
The coded Tektronics message is : Buy more stuff.
@zaprodk8 жыл бұрын
Dave, too bad to see that VFD almost destroyed :( Could i take it off your hands for my collection? I could power it up :D
@AndreasA.S.7 жыл бұрын
discolour, maybe smoke, the segments dont look worn-out, maybe they are just different colours, doing a search on google images kinda shows that ' "win-view" sangyo '
@DjResR8 жыл бұрын
Japanese has electrical system with separate thumb screw terminal for earth connection that is planned to be replaced with American system. Also their gaming place could had blacklight (UV-A) lighting in use, I don't think that red LED emits UV that much.
@GreenAppelPie8 жыл бұрын
What with all the ranges on the sound level meter? I purchased on for work for simple testing, we needed to verify a 70db beeper, any there wasn't any range select, just on/off.
@Graham_Langley8 жыл бұрын
+GreenAppelPie It probably auto-ranged.
@GreenAppelPie8 жыл бұрын
Well yeah, I'm just wondering why that old one had like 60-70-80-90-100ish ranges. It just seems so archaic, even for the time. I'm thinking I might've missed something.
@Graham_Langley8 жыл бұрын
+GreenAppelPie Remember that dBs are logarithmic, so in order to get decent resolution at the bottom end you'd have to vary the gain before rectification. The analogue meter one has a linear meter with a logarithmic dB scale. This digital one will have to do the conversion electronically.
@makershackers8 жыл бұрын
I'd say the t-shirt represents 42 as a binary word. 0 for a downward bar, 1 for a upward bar... 0b00101010 42 I learn a lot from your videos, thank you!
@3enjoy38 жыл бұрын
Found this channel by accident. I know nothing about electronics. I feel so inadequate by his knowledge AND enthusiasm! :(
@tvfrondapl67138 жыл бұрын
the discoloration is likely due to cigarette smoke. there are no anti-smoking laws in Japan so pachinko parlours are filled with it.
@mikehorrod43678 жыл бұрын
Nice fluke hot bar reference. The signal paths recent video in mind?
@EEVblog8 жыл бұрын
+Mike Horrod No, I've done a video repairing those before.
@chiverslandsurveyor8 жыл бұрын
The shirts a second...they had to get rid of them somehow. Thanks for all the great content.
@Graham_Langley8 жыл бұрын
+Ogletree & Chivers Land Surveyors That's what I thought too.
@thebad3008 жыл бұрын
it is a legal loop hole to gamble and the earth ground is common it takes the place of the 3rd prong and screws to the outlet american game show had a giant version called plinko
@4n0nym0usly8 жыл бұрын
+EEVBlog, Dave I'd like to see you do a video on what you do with all your e-waste in Australia.
@RichardHeadGaming8 жыл бұрын
I remember using the trash-80 and swearing against radio shack electronics.
@muh1h18 жыл бұрын
can someone actually explain the difference between a capacitor and a supercap to me? because i know they have a much higher capacity/volume, but i have no idea how they achieve that. Is it a specialt technology or just lower tolarances but the same principle?
@mUbase8 жыл бұрын
So whats the code on the T shirt?? The only thing I can see is something similar to the Waffen SS logo!! :O
@Ghozer7 жыл бұрын
I think it's "Dave Jones" initially when he lifted it up, looking at the number of segments, vs comparing the E's etc.... - i'd have to look more into it though
@leadfootlawnmower27628 жыл бұрын
the 2nd mailbag guy. bill lives almost 4 hours from me. first time ive seen a mailbag sent from that close to me. HAHA
@jccaleffi8 жыл бұрын
With the size of this knife looks like you were expecting a bear inside the box!!!
@PhillipTorrickeBarton8 жыл бұрын
"Pachinko Parlour" and you pronounced it pretty much spot on.
@MrMaxeemum8 жыл бұрын
Dave, I like your videos but I would prefer "Turn it on then tear it apart" instead of "Don't turn it on, tear it apart" . It would have been good to see the VFD powered up, not sure about the discoloration due to use , maybe it was purposely coloured. It would have been good to see diagnosis of why the VFD could not have been repaired. same with the Network analyser. Please show the Sony CD player working before killing it or at least try to get it working. P.S. I want to see more repair videos.
@h0uz3t00b8 жыл бұрын
Yeah, Dirk Winning, I know that guy! He get's a bunch of people together for a Repair Cafe every two months! :-)
@marcusbuchner16158 жыл бұрын
Nice VFD there. Anyone got an Idea why you would want to keep heating these all the time? Because that's what my stereo does, wasting power on standby. 8W for nothing. But when I turn it completely off and on, its there nearly instantly, so I dont get the point.
@turboslag8 жыл бұрын
I'm not convinced that Dave didn't know what a Thatch Cottage is?! It's a cottage with a thatch roof, ie, made from straw.
@Graham_Langley8 жыл бұрын
+turboslag May even be The Thatched Cottage.
@turboslag8 жыл бұрын
Graham Langley True.
@novcze8 жыл бұрын
these white relays in network analyzer could be latching relays, worth salvaging imo