starting off today's mailbag by pouring out a pint of mount joy dry irish stout from stone
angel brewing in winnipeg they describe it as a traditional dark roasty and dry stout with notes
of coffee and chocolate very much in the irish style they've chosen to name this one after the
mount joy brewery in dublin or used to be in dublin it was opened in 1852 and closed in 1957
very nice indeed so the first item in the mailbag is integrated circuit
oh it's my scalpel dough oh no just got to press harder and you know cut in the right spot
gee it's been long enough i'm out of practice of this these are surface mount
eight pin ics okay time to get up magnifier and see what they are
they are eighty tiny 45. i remember correctly last time i got 80 tiny 85 so these are just
a slightly lower powered and i'm assuming lower price alternative to the in the 80 tiny lineup
10 pieces 80 tiny 45-20 su 8-bit microcontroller tiny 45-20 su new got these from ellenwood 1995.
and i paid 19.28 cents canadian and yeah i did take a look and this 10 pack was about 5 bucks
cheaper than the 10 pack of 80 1085s that i got a little while ago so the 80 tiny 85
looks like it's got twice as much sram and twice as much eeprom space as
the 45 they're both eight pin dips with six gpio pins available other than that
they're almost the same so the only real difference is the amount of memory that they have
next in we have screw times one i don't suppose they sent just a single screw in a bag
no it's a bunch of surface mount components this is a package of 33 different resistances
20 pieces each of 1206 surface mount resistors 1206 being the physical size of the thing
and 1206 is the largest of the common sizes of surface mount resistors which makes it easy for
somebody with my big fumbly hands and aging eyes to to work with i've already got a few different
sizes of resistors for if we're doing repairs and kits and stuff like that but if i'm going to
design my own stuff which i may or may not i would like to use the larger ones just because you know
i'm old 660 pieces 1206 smd resistor assortment kit 1 ohm to 1 mega ohm percent 33 values times 20
pieces diy set so these cost five dollars and 83 cents canadian with 56 cents shipping so a little
bit over six dollars not too bad given today's prices for everything not too much to say about
them that hasn't already been said the values go from one ohm all the way up to one meg in fairly
standard steps i think that'll be a handy little assortment pack just to have in stock in the shop
next thing does not say what it is it seems to have come from a canadian reshipping warehouse
so mysteries upon mysteries a couple of things oh hey actual creality branded 3d printer fans
and in the last mailbag i also got a set of fans but they were third party knockoffs these
ones are the real thing and they are both 24 volts because that's what my printer wants
and they are the right size this time this one is a standard fan and this one is the
little squirrel kid blower one that blows out the side we had this discussion a couple weeks
ago i don't think i need to rehash it but now i have spare parts for when not if but when the
fans on my printer die lots of spare parts i figured while i was ordering i meant to order
from a couple of different sources and see if i can get a couple of different brands just
just to try out why not right reality 3d 40 by 40 by 10 millimeter 24 volt high speed dc brushless
4010 nozzle cooling fan for 3d printer ender 3 an official creality 3d product this cost me 6.49
canadian with you know 33 shipping a little bit more expensive than the other knockoff ones but
i don't think that's a a major concern it's not a huge amount different really and the other fan
creality 3d 4010 blur fan 24 volts 6800 revs per minute uh length 1400 millimeters with 2.5
terminals that would be the wire length cooling fan for ender 3 v2 3d printer which is exactly
what i've got also 6.49 this one was free shipping this is the part cooling fan it's the squirrel kg
fan that takes air in that side and blows it out the edge to cool the part on the bed other
vendors are selling the same thing for a few dollars more so as always shop around and save
well so far it's all been fairly standard items let's see this one is it says led beads led
okay maybe these will be more interesting
i do like a good led
interesting bubble wrap wrapped around bubble wrap oh these are larger leds okay
oh these are much larger leds that's cool and they are four pin which means they are some sort of rgb
led looks like these are eight millimeter leds okay just for reference three millimeter five
millimeter and eight millimeter leds they look like they might be standard leds not
uh smart leds they're not addressable 100 pieces ws 2811 apa 106 p 9823 f5 five millimeter f8
eight millimeter round rgb led chipset full color okay so they are addressable leds i was mistaken
this seller has a bunch of different ones but i got the ws 2811 f8 version and these cost me
23.13 with free shipping for the 100 of them so 23 cents each okay that's a little bit expensive but
i think they're fairly unique leds so part number ws2811 f8 full rgb 24 bit uh runs off
to the bs 2811 chipset five volts 120 milliamps 40 milliamps per chip okay that's a little bit
more than an average led a 100 to 120 degree viewing angle eight millimeters which is the
part that attracted my attention so useful information down here it's got
pin outs for the various different ones in the listing on this type ground is the long pin
that one grounds the long pin looks like ground is the long pin on all of these different types
okay so let's uh let's hook one up on a breadboard and see what happens so these
do act just like any standard addressable led i've got my data coming from the arduino nano in this
case i'm using fast led you could use adafruit's library as well or any other library if you want
but in this case it is fast led and i've got it set to ws2811 settings uh so data is coming out of
pin 6 into the end pin on this guy that one being the data input the second pin over from that is
ground the third one is positive voltage which is different from what it showed in all those
drawings in this case we have ground and positive all those drawings showed the longest one as
positive as negative voltage so are these factory seconds or are they just different and the listing
didn't show the right pin outs but i've made a sticker for the bag showing where the positive
voltage is so that i don't forget and waste time the next time i go to play with these things
still they're really cool they're huge rgb leds gotta like that and now the last and largest
package in today's mailbag this one which doesn't even fit on my workbench it feels like there's two
separate boxes inside this so i'll kind of open it up so that i can separate those two apart
yeah it is you see that okay oh slice this open quickly and we'll see what's in there
all right we have two cardboard boxes one of which did not get treated gently in shipping
i hope the contents are okay so open up the mangled one first hope for the best
ah nice little cloth bag now plasticky cloth bag whatever
i think i know what it is because i don't think i ordered anything else that huge but we shall see
that's looking very tripody it's looking like what i think it is there is hmm did not expect a
gopro style mount okay um so that is definitely a tripod stand a couple of extension bits cool
and in here we have an led cable and aha that's what i thought it was it is an led light panel
a photography light panel usb powered with a little so just a push on push off okay
i'm assuming the other one is another one of these because i'm pretty sure i ordered a pair of them
just plug this guy into a usb power source off to the side here oh hey that's bright
cool i think that will uh
obviously intended as photography lighting remember these little newer lights i've got a pair
of them hanging just off to the sides here kind of like that just sort of as fill lights and i'm
thinking that this these big guys will can replace those or with the stands be able to be used in
various different places like when i'm over 3d printer or in other places in my workshop area
so i don't have to use as jankio lighting anymore but anyways i'm going to turn off those two little
fill lights you can see the difference there and then i will hold this guy right under the camera
oh yeah it does make a difference i think it let me turn the little tiny fill lights back on again
can it even overpower them yeah you can definitely notice it so the top of the stand has a couple of
fittings this sort of divided in piece is a standard sort of uh
c-stand lighting thing although it's lightweight stamped metal so it's not that sturdy
but then underneath that is a quarter twenty which all standard camera stuff and
this little gopro style mount clamps on too quite nicely and then that just goes on to there
put it i'm gonna put it this way just because nope it goes better that way okay i'll put it the
way it wants to go within and then just screw it back down and you've got your light mounted cool
84 leds 1680 lumens 1.8 meter height adjustable led camping light with tripod to 7 000 kelvin
brightness stan not really that's not a brightness measurement that's a color temperature measurement
um uh where was i oh yeah stand lantern work light for camping maintain photography the pair of them
cost me 32 dollars canadian 3213 with 43 cents shipping the specs 84 leds we knew that by volts
1 to 2 amps mobile power usb charger computer all can be powered no i wouldn't use something that
draws a full amp plugged into my computer's usb sorry nope 18 watts max 50 000 hours yeah ip65
so not completely waterproof but also not going to explode in the rain the metal bracket aka stand is
1.8 meter shrinkable material iron no it's not it's just cheap stamped aluminum maybe steel
um fireproof plastic maybe i don't know 1680 lumens sure they keep saying it's suitable
for camping and beach and outdoor dinner not really a photography light maybe but it kind
of looks like one i don't know i'm going to use a for photography anyway my cameras have all got
auto uh white balance so it should be able to deal with it okay here we are over in the corner
where some of the railroad stuff is and i'm just going to turn on the two lights there's one
and there is the second one i think that makes a significant difference
and it's a fairly decent light considering that it's just nice and generic so i think
that's pretty cool it's going to be useful there's one of them sitting up there
there is the other one this one's just running off battery so it's a little bit lower voltage
and it's dropping pretty quickly but it is drawing the one amp that it said it was going to i think
all in all that's a pretty good purchase it's going to be handy for when i'm doing photography
and videography away from my workbench and there is the contents of today's mailbag monday haul
quite the variety uh shipping times the longest was these leds took 74 days the fastest
was these uh lights and stands which took 21 days everything else came in in the
mid to high 20s of days so that's not too bad except for these guys i am a little disappointed
that uh the data sheets in the listing for these things had the wrong pin outs but it wasn't that
hard to figure out just by trial and error uh so um i think i discussed what i'm going to use these
things all for the fans are spare parts the resistors are just shop stock these 80 tiny
chips are going to be interesting to play with if i need a low power and cheap microcontroller
these are they're big leds what's not to like and these things um they're not
i mean they're not super rugged or heavy duty they're relatively bright for what they are
um basically for was that about 15 16 for each right 32 bucks for the the set of them
that's not bad just for the lights themselves these stands are lightweight and fairly
fairly flimsy but if you just uh are gentle with them they'll be okay for what they are
you can put just about anything on them needs a quarter 20 which is kind of handy
they kept harping on them being camping lights or outdoor lights i don't know that i would trust
them to be durable in that kind of a situation for indoors for uh just kicking around my shop here
for doing a bit of video lighting i think they'll be just fine especially at the cheap price well
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