Oh! I know this! The perfect Father's Day gift for an engineer is another Geerling Engineering video!
@michaelvilain84572 жыл бұрын
That was terrific. My dad is no longer with us but I could imagine him reacting similarly to something like this. I passed this link to this to friends and clients with engineer dads.
@SorinOltean772 жыл бұрын
You guys have such a wonderful relation, one every father-son should have!
@Ratchet_effect2 жыл бұрын
Happy Father's Day to all us Dads alive & those gone but not forgotten 😇 I have that exact same Wall-E USB Hub Also a Monkey both came from Avon 10+ years ago 👍🏻
@ChrisFredriksson2 жыл бұрын
Loved the clock, really beautiful! But the best part of the video was you two chatting and showing off stuff on the desk, the drone footage and all other info. Love the video big time! ❤
@stevenwright9915 ай бұрын
Man... I love these videos, you should do like a monthly video tour of youre dads desk... he's got all kinds of goodies and parts on his desk 🤠👌
@HaskellMoore Жыл бұрын
That's really a cool radio. But even better is the relationship between you and your father!
@draz1c8442 жыл бұрын
Great video, lovely dad & son relationship, so heart-warming! P.S: Joe reminds me of "Bob Gunton" a little bit hahaha (I might be crazy though lol)
@TheJimmyCartel2 жыл бұрын
Your dad's got a pretty cool job :)
@GeerlingEngineering2 жыл бұрын
I think so too! Lots of hands-on electronics work, with a huge variety of equipment.
@dmacpher Жыл бұрын
Haha - love the SDR in the background
@MarcoGPUtuber2 жыл бұрын
It's woodgrain. LGR approves!
@dfmayes Жыл бұрын
Looks like walnut.
@johnstraatmann96182 жыл бұрын
Love the Easy-to-Read clock!
@johnstraatmann96182 жыл бұрын
Lol, the other *other* right!
@GeerlingEngineering2 жыл бұрын
Haha
@WobblycogsUk2 жыл бұрын
I'd be interested in seeing inside that radio if your Dad does take it apart. I'm particularly interested in how the box is built as it appears to have an unusual construction. None of the parts of the box are hard to make but getting the fit and finish just right is going to be tough. They've got a potential issue with cross grain expansion on the back, it's fighting against the long grain on the sides. Cool gadget though, I'd certainly pleased to get one.
@JeffGeerling2 жыл бұрын
Definitely! My Dad did take it apart already (he's trying to debug that RF circuit), and I'm thinking of doing a follow-up.
@leetaylor3304 Жыл бұрын
How? How did you receive yours? I’ve been waiting two years for mine to be delivered, like many many other people.
@GReadyPrints2 жыл бұрын
Awesome video I think I'll make this for myself 🤣👍👍👍
@GeerlingEngineering2 жыл бұрын
It looks like the Nixie Clock site has a lot of kits available, it would be neat if they could make the insides part of a kit for a bit less so you could 3D print or craft your own outer case for it, since that seems to be their production hold up!
@GReadyPrints2 жыл бұрын
@@GeerlingEngineering i agree 👍 hey thank your dad for me for having an amazing son 😎💪👍
@alexlandherr2 жыл бұрын
I have the same model of SDR, though I use it for recording satellite images from NOAA satellites.
@LunaWuna Жыл бұрын
I recognize SDR# :) I've played with SDRs for years
@LunaWuna Жыл бұрын
He is using an RTL-SDR stick and those are cheap af and very impressive for the price (30 dollars ish)
@sterling1989Ай бұрын
I really want one of these but the website is closed and backers still don't have their radios. What a shame.
@JeffGeerlingАй бұрын
Yeah, sadly it seems like the way they built it (the custom wood crafstmanship) killed off getting the units shipped out to all backers. Some people got them, but they ran out of money paying the woodworkers, and never fulfilled the original pledges :( That's the annoying risk of Kickstarter, and also why I try to be up-front about the risks of backing Kickstarter projects. It would be neat if they released the source and design files so people could build their own if they could source nixie tubes. Even a 3D printed case would be perfectly adequate (IMHO).
@sterling1989Ай бұрын
@@JeffGeerling I agree. Red shirt Jeff could make a tutorial video about building one!
@Juste.Futari9 ай бұрын
Hey, I was wondering if you still have the paper instructions that came with this beautiful piece. I displaced mine, thinking I can always find it online, buuuuuut for once it backfired because the website is down. Now I need the instructions for re-setup and can't find them!
@GeerlingEngineering9 ай бұрын
We do! Can you email the address on our Channel About page and I'll get it to you?
@brandonhowsare27183 ай бұрын
Sadly, Retio is 3years behind and still hasn’t shipped to most of its backers. They are exporting production to china now so most of us KS backers will likely never see this product with our own eyes except for the few who did get theirs shipped to them in early production before they ran into issues.
@JeffGeerling3 ай бұрын
Yeah, one of the slow failures I've seen play out on Kickstarter. It's been a while since I talked to the team behind it, but I remember they mentioned the details (especially the wood finishing) were what held up production. It required a skilled woodworker to make every enclosure. We revisited the Retio later I think in our 'Where does AM radio go from here?' video, and my Dad mentioned more from using it a while (the radio tuner's not great, though Bluetooth worked okay).
@BMC117 Жыл бұрын
That radio looks like something that would come out of fallout four
@OscarInAsia Жыл бұрын
Well, at least you got one. Apparently thousands of folks on Kickstarter (myself included) have been waiting 2 years for it. It now looks like the company has sent them to China for final assembly.... Or the company did a runner and plan to blame China for the problems.
@JeffGeerling Жыл бұрын
My Dad and I did a teardown of the Retio (hopefully a post soon on that!), and I know exactly why it's taken so long to ship-the wood enclosure is extremely finicky to finish, and would probably take a fairly skilled woodworker at least half an hour to cut and finish. And that's a very optimistic estimate! I hope they can figure out a way to get past that, because the unit is very nice overall, with the exception of the radio functionality (which we'll discuss in that follow-up video).
@aguegu314 Жыл бұрын
China is kinda the last resort to the problems.
@frankbohnen23472 жыл бұрын
"When the batteries die, you stop" 😉 I guess, unwanted comedy.
@bobroberts2371 Жыл бұрын
Error message: It is getting dark and my batteries are low. . . . .
@kyleallred9842 жыл бұрын
And I thought sourcing the nixie tubes would be the bottle neck.
@GeerlingEngineering2 жыл бұрын
That's the crazy thing-apparently they have a lot of PCBs and the electronics ready to go, the bottleneck is woodworkers, since a number have left the SF area in the past year or so.
@yomboprime2 жыл бұрын
Didn't you tear it apart before? Beware, someone could have sneaked in a microphone and a cell phone module. Although your dad can detect that without opening it, i guess.
@GeerlingEngineering2 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, I just got word my Dad will be tearing it open to see if he can get that radio distortion sorted out ;)
@eslib2 Жыл бұрын
The kickstarter for this product has been hell!!!! Been two years and nothing yet. How did you get it? BS
@ingenfestbrems Жыл бұрын
I’m just saying your father have good music taste Earth Wind and Fire 🔥 Let’s groove 🥓⚡️⚡️🥓🥓⚡️🥓🥓
@snorkupine210 Жыл бұрын
The sound quality and reception is poor and the controls don't respond quickly. Threw mine in the trash. The cool tubes aren't enough for me to enjoy it.
@Tntdruid2 жыл бұрын
13 days too late lol
@justinbustin6777 ай бұрын
Trouble making them is because of the nixie tubes. No one really makes them.