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[@williamhart4896]

Welcome back to your channel nice that you have been busy with work as that's always a good thing for your budget . Hopefully the weather trends will treat you well .

[@MickMake]

Thanks mate!

[@johnczaia9124]

Very interesting re: Magic Number, didn't know that yet. Thanks for taking the time to explain, Mick!

[@MickMake]

A pleasure

[@esmannr]

Busy with contract work is usually good. NICE!

[@electronic7979]

👍👍👍

[@winstonsmith478]

The problem with "commonly available" cell phone batteries is finding one that isn't counterfeit junk. Few buyers have the capability like many of us do to actually test capacity, so Chinese counterfeiters have a field day on Amazon, eBay, and, in my experience, even reputable battery sources. So, basically, the one you get with your phone or, in this case, a Pi power source is the last authentic cell you'll ever see. Lithium ion counterfeiting is rampant.

[@MickMake]

True, when there’s a huge market, there will always be counterfeits

[@unknownsauce3768]

I was just going to post in your last vid and check everything was ok. Welcome back!

[@MickMake]

Thanks mate.

[@ProCoder2007]

Awesome! Thank you for the video!

[@renobodyrenobody]

Thanks a lot for this new video, and congrats to your wife.

[@MickMake]

That’ll make her happy. ;-)

[@avejst]

Nice to see you again Thanks for sharing 👍😀

[@MickMake]

Thanks mate!

[@danddbandb]

We missed you... Welcome back.

[@MickMake]

Thanks mate!

[@techman2471]

I noticed Tag-Connect headers on the primary side of the Pi power board. It would be interesting to see if one is a debug port(10 pin) and the 6 pin header programs the STM32. I love those Tag-Connect tools, they are easy to use and I recommend them to all our customers wanting to save space and money.

[@jjab99]

Welcome back again, hope all is well and you can get back to more videos. Have a great day, Joe

[@MickMake]

Thanks Joe, yup certainly will.

[@pepper669]

I'd definitely buy some of those sliders!

[@selvakn.]

Regarding the LoRaWAN module, Are you sure the firmware is for the your region (band)?

[@ChatterontheWire]

You're back, was just looking for vids from you in the last few days wondering if anything was up!

[@MickMake]

Yes, things were up. :-}

[@warpmonkey]

The PiJuice is sorta like a tiny UPS for the Pi :)

[@MickMake]

Yup, pretty much.

[@stylesoftware]

Great to see you back! When I saw your channel pop up I knew what I had been missing :-) BTW - Have you checked that lorawan antenna with an antenna tester? The aliexpress antenna tester (cheapest - not a sponsor - model N1201) finds about half the products I buy have either a completely wrong, or marginally off frequency antenna. I'm often popping the plastic top off and trimming or extending the lead.

[@MickMake]

Yeah used to SWR in CB antennas back in the day. But yup maybe should do a video on that!

[@fac3th3wolf]

Yet more evidence that you're down the street from a concert Audio/video/lighting company. The pattern is called a "gobo". The colors are "gels". Mount the thing on a swinging gimble and you've got a lightshow. If anything you've got a cool shelf decoration.

[@mveldt]

Magic numbers, learned something today 👍

[@JanCiger]

Mick, Python script has NO magic number! It is a text file! For a python script to be executable you need to add #!/usr/bin/env python as the first line. Magic numbers matter only for binaries and even then not all binaries have them (it depends on the file format).

[@MickMake]

Every file has a magic number. The only reason a script file becomes a script is the presence of the hash-bang “magic number” sequence. Also a python script can have #!/usr/bin/python, using /usr/bin/env is a security hole, (although is convenient).

[@twmbarlwmstar]

Had me worried to death, well almost, I do have stage 4 lung cancer but I’m trying to avoid the dying bit. Missed the videos as it always gives me a bit of knowledge (because I’m thick not because you don’t cover the stuff well) and things to think about. Glad you are back. This LORA stuff fascinates me but I haven’t made the leap, there’s an investment and like I say I’m no expert when it comes to SBC.

[@djlorenz11]

What a nice amount of motorized faders! Someone did a new install on a audio mixer... you can make cool things with them, what about a noce motorized teensy midi controller! Maybe with the new crazy teensy4 😬 About the gobo/color wheel, nothing special looks quite old, without the right lamp and lenses it will be difficult to get something done, and if they trashed it, probably it has burnt stepper motors (overheating is typical in moving lights)

[@SB-qm5wg]

never heard it called a hash-bang before. great vid

[@EngineeringVignettes]

I have always called it a sha-bang (or sh-bang) for years... actually decades now... Yes, I'm old.

[@MickMake]

Yeah, I have said it so many times that I didn’t think that some people wouldn’t know what I was saying.

[@SB-qm5wg]

@@MickMake Hi Mick. I'm not complaining, just saying I learned a new word. Cheers :)

[@AJB2K3]

And here we were thinking the Mob had grabbed you again!

[@MickMake]

Ha ha.

[@ingmarm8858]

Yay responding for a jlcpcb voucher :-)

[@MickMake]

And one for you as well! Shoot me an email at [e-mail].

[@ingmarm8858]

@@MickMake Done, thanks Mick.

[@aarontech]

ooh, been sketching up a project with motorised sliders recently, I would be keen to know how many you are wanting to sell and how much you wanted for them :)

[@MickMake]

Not sure yet, I’d definitely want to make a small control board for them. Something that provides an I2C interface.

[@JennyEverywhere]

I guess keying up my ham radio at 100w might just make the Flick scream and explode.

[@MickMake]

Yeah, I reckon it would

[@johntilghman]

Nice dumpsters you have.. Nothing like that around here.. :-(

[@MickMake]

Yeah, some really nice dumpsters if you know where to look

[@MickMake]

Yeah, some really nice dumpsters if you know where to look.

[@tomgeorge3726]

Mick, didn't you have a UNO under the Lorawan Shield, yet had Leonardo selected in the IDE?

[@MickMake]

Yes, I had tried several Arduinos, but didn't show the footage.

[@peterjantzer4767]

Where do find dumpsters like that?? All I ever find is scrap metal and banana peels.

[@MickMake]

Ha ha. You have to know where to look. Mostly industrial office spaces for small companies are a great starting point.

[@Tedd_Andersen]

Life happens :)

[@MrJanulis]

Oh, it's already 46 comments... no more JLCPCB coupons ;( I thought that NZ is close enough to Australia to be on the first row - obviously it is not (OK, OK, I moved to NZ not ONLY for that :) ) Anyway, it's good MickMake is back!

[@MickMake]

Yeah, the were snapped up pretty quickly this time.

[@matthewtscott1]

Hey Mick, I just pulled apart a cyberpower FTTP UPS to find out why it's not working, seems a TOP246YN AC/DC Off-Line Switcher IC Has exploded. I would love to send it to you to examine on your channel, however I have to wait for a Telstra tech to come and replace it. Would you be interested in examining the photos of it? And what's the best way to send them to you?

[@AJB2K3]

We Have Gluten free Beer In the UK ( I drink it because I don't get the morning after Hangover).

[@MickMake]

Yeah, we have it down here too, but it’s pretty expensive. Almost AU$90 per slab!

[@AJB2K3]

@@MickMake $90 a slab, for a beer?

[@MickMake]

Yup. A “slab” being 24x 365mL bottles or cans.

[@MickMake]

EG: www.danmurphys.com.au/product/DM_325966/schnitzer-brau-gluten-free-premium-330ml

[@AJB2K3]

@@MickMake dang I just but 4 bottles a week and thats all.

[@djWakt]

woot, responding for a jlcpcb voucher :)

[@MickMake]

Ah, sorry. They’ve been taken already!

[@interestingspagetti]

Ever considered doing a regular live Q & A stream?? At least when your busy and cannot do a polished vid. You still get the interaction with your regulars?? Just a thought. Maybe cut out the gags. haha. A little less work and you could save the cheese for, i don't know, toast?? Nehoo, great channel

[@MickMake]

I’ve have been doing a regular monthly live stream for my Patrons, but I haven’t done one for the last two.

[@studiognd]

responding for jlcpcb coupon :)

[@MickMake]

Hi, for some reason my original comment didn't go through. Shoot me an email to get your JLCPCB voucher!

[@studiognd]

@@MickMake Hi. I sent my email yesterday. I hope you got it. Waiting for your reply.

[@ytfp]

Not impressed by the pi gadgets, telling that the best finds were in the trash.

[@matthewjbutch]

Glad to see you are doing OK! For the content, I'm happy with whatever I get. I can be hard to keep up too. I prefer quality over quantity. And I prefer the reviews, then the mailbag videos. The roundups are okay, but weekly is too much, and it needs to be tighter. I'd say make them monthly with just the best stuff, and maybe just a small quick hit section at the end.

[@RoyAntaw]

JLC PCB nice.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

The sound desk sliders would be most desirable (I think) if they were made compatible with mackie control surface, eventually. It would probably make sense to have them connected via modern usb so that you can have a network protocol mode or just plain old usb and also a usb-c might have say display port support so you can get the 8channels (and up) sound (and long cable, as that help keep studio sound isolated form noisy computers and stuff). So say sort of like hdmi (not directional) but better. Also you'd get enough power to drive those motors (or are they servos?). While I'd like to suggest rj45 ethernet with power-over ethernet, I doubt it'd be good enough unless used with specific software (although win2012 or win2016 could maybe be cool to do it with). Hence displayport being the choice and over usb-c such as the LatterPanda Streaming cable that supports RNDIS. It could also mean video could later be added per slider if you ever have a tiny screen on each slider (for say setting or a touchscreen slider/dial mode). Then the slider could send its video signal to the computer (e.g. desktop-PC monitor), but could also receive the desktop's video signal to it, such as a 480p display as if the computer has a great many monitors (which could be real or virtualised) controlled (easily) via remoteFX such as from windowsserver2012 and upwards (or server2016). If however, you cannot be bothered to do all that (which is fair enough even though it'd be cool), I think an RS232 might be a insufficient choice when a GPIO could be converted into that RS232 (but not the other way around). That way anything from a simple microcontroller for RS232 or a full raspberry-pi or a fpga could be added. So you can have RS232 but are not limited to it. It feels almost like midi might be a nice addition.

[@MickMake]

I’m actually thinking of a small board that provides I2C and UART/RS485 and is daisy-chainable.

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

@@MickMake That sounds like a cool video.

[@KZgun4hire]

Hmm!!! Cough, cough!!! think you accidentally got the wrong Arduino board shipment that came with the COFFEE!!!!

[@KZgun4hire]

And I'll give you a fair price on the lolly bags!!!