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I'm not buying the industrial building

The idea of buying an old industrial building for use as a workshop has fallen through.

There were too many unknown variables regarding structural wood and steel components hidden from view in a damp wall.

Slightly disappointed, because it would have been cool, but a modern premises i...

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Patreon mid-week stream link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iAKZklSXPU

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eBay is still selling dangerous Christmas lights

They went to town with this set.  The square pin plug seems to be an attempt to give the impression of UK safety compliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swEYc9K5nOw

In reality, the plug is one...

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eBay oddity

An illuminated vehicle window sign for a Singapore based company?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3LveKu3v0I

Useful to reverse engineer for the interesting PCB layout.

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Exploring a vintage UK arcade roulette machine mech

This is an odd eBay find.  It's the roulette wheel mechanism out of a common British arcade machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxD8mNc5sA

The full machine is a HUGE hexagonal cabinet for si...

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Sneaky extra stream in progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTFVRYPbCM

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Unplanned extra Patreon stream link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTFVRYPbCM

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Bonus stream tonight?

Do you guys want me to do an extra live stream tonight?

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Unusual eBay find

Not a video (yet).  I'd rather have the whole machine, but I think the shipping could be quite awkward.  Especially to an island.

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Inside a cheap bluetooth speaker bulb

A classic eBay bluetooth lamp/bulb/light with speaker.   When you link your phone to it, you can play music through it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM8w4Js2U5s

Quite a neat PCB design. &n...

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Weekend stream link

Here's the link to this weekend's stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuDioJyjwek

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Inflatable solar floating colour changing orb

And it's remote control too.   Unexpected circuitry with some weird quirks that may or may not have been intentional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqTKzGV7IOo

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Inside a proper optical smoke detector

There are strong similarities between the real smoke detectors and the very dodgy eBay ones.  Notably the standard sensing chamber.  But the ones from your local supermarket have very different circuitry.

2021-11-22 03:27:07 +0000 UTC View Post

This weekend's live stream

Here's the link to this weekend's live stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12fMcHRuisU

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Poundland quickie

Just a random video I decided to make for fun:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxyeD5uRuY

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Patreon stream in progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsCmTzV44LA

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The mysterious soldering iron

When I inadvertently left this in shot in the LED fireplace video, a few people asked what it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWw4bLwMaME

It's a portable soldering iron that uses a common vaping p...

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Minimalist Xmas light controller

I could swear I've looked at a similar circuit before.  But I could be wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1GO_B0uy1Y

This is a very minimalist LED string flasher.  I'm wondering if the m...

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Quiet Patreon mid-week stream

Here's the link to your quiet mid-week stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsCmTzV44LA

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I need you guys to provide feedback on this one

This was a very hard video to make.  I wanted to keep it short, but include as much up to date information as possible.  It's the most retakes I've ever done on a video, and also the second time I've attempted to make it.

There's a lot of conflicting information out there, and I k...

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Weekend stream link

Here's the link to the weekend live stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlQnlamhn4s

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Building supercomputers

An extremely frustrating week of multiple attempts at videos that didn't work out quite right.  Hopefully that's me back in the swing of things again.

I've never really featured the supercomputers on the main channel, so this video addresses that.

2021-11-12 06:39:06 +0000 UTC View Post

Testing bulk LED filaments

This video started as a simple test of a pack of bandoliered LED filaments from Aliexpress, but kinda turned into an experiment with driving them all from a capacitive dropper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF...

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Weekend stream link

Here's the link to this weekend's stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNiM4WWtK5s

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Aliexpress LED "purification" light.

I haven't a clue why they call this a purification light.  It looks like a translation incident that has stuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMtubTHJybM

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Electronic YouTuber live stream

I'll be joining some of the other electronic YouTubers for a live stream shortly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCfNq7xnXcs

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Live stream in progress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xAO9NHcMA8

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Midweek Patreon-stream link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xAO9NHcMA8

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A bigger version of the LED fireplace light

I've looked at a smaller version of this before, but it was while travelling with work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzqQM84vUvM

This unit is bigger and the video goes into more detail.

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And another!

Note that the clocks change in the UK this weekend, so double check the time this starts, which is already earlier than normal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLsej3RISaw

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