while opening today's mailbag monday haul i will be enjoying access brewing's juice of the oats
oatmeal stout they describe it as an easy drinking dark ale with the aroma of coffee and chocolate
whose creamy smooth body comes from the usage of oats in the mash
i've had this one several times before and it is really nice fast becoming one of my favorites
yes that is nice right what do we have here we have type c mail small board it says huh
that's fortuitous if it is what it is there's a couple of different things
in there first of all there is these type c interface boards so on this
side it looks like there is a couple of bypass capacitors and the data pins and on this side
we have four pins broken out which are going to be power ground data plus data minus
and then the other pins just along the edge there so it looks like these would be best used for
just for power i would expect or for creating adapters to
you know usb a usb b micro mini nano or whatever the other usb connectors are so that's cool
and this other package link it out there has a usb type-c male on one side and female on the other
side and then it has all of the pins broken out so what do we have here we have ground a283 vcc
a5 data plus and minus v c again a 10 a 11 ground and s ground which would be the shield
ground okay so do they all go right through i'm assuming the ground goes right through
no they don't okay so you have to jumper them through for whatever application you want
that's interesting so i could potentially break out from either the male or the female
just take wires out to some other cable as well huh i could see that having some
applications when you need a weird adapter or something
six pieces usb 3.1 type-c mail diy solder cable plug connector socket attached pcb
um i got these from first.ing whoever that is they seem to have sold a whole bunch of stuff though um
i paid 2.72 canadian with free shipping for these but these aren't exactly the ones that i got the
ones that i got have four pads broken out these ones just have the grounded voltage broken out
oh well it doesn't matter that's mostly what i'm going to be using them for anyway what does this
have to say maximum voltage 30 volts rated current 5 amps sounds good also from the same seller 24
plus 2p usb 3.1 type c male female test pcb board adapter socket 2.54 millimeters blah blah
same seller three dollars and 16 cents canadian with free shipping looks like they've also got
just the mail or just the female to a breakout
but i thought that one would be just a little bit more versatile and
it's cheaper than buying both the male and the female so why not any useful information down here
no not really it's f4 fiberglass it's green it's male to female whatever i think that'll just be
a handy little uh way to make up a a quick weird adapter should i happen to need it at some point
next thing let's go with this one that's nice and rattly and heavy it says connector
oh this is a bunch of the wago style connectors
which i tend to use a lot for just temporary connection things like these ones here
but these guys are
eight pins okay so i'm assuming it is all one circuit across the whole thing yeah all the way
to them in parallel okay that makes sense because if they weren't if they were four and four they'd
probably be different colors that way i'll just be able to uh have multiple things connected
instead of just uh just a couple like that okay thirty slash fifty slash one hundred pieces
universal cable wire connectors two two two type fast home compact wire connection push in wire
terminal block two to eight pin i got thirty pieces of the eight uh pin i guess for eleven
dollars and seventeen cents oh yeah here we go um remember i mentioned that if they weren't
all just one big parallel happy family there they would probably have different colors to denote
which is the circuit so this one looks like it's got several different circuits and each color
just denotes where one circuit is anyway back to this one they claim a rated current of 32 amps
um they can be either solid or stranded conductors between 0.8 millimeters up to 5 2.5 millimeters or
28 to 12 awg there's just a little bit of detail of what happens inside these
there's a springy piece of conductive metal that goes across there and then the levers
just push down on individual bits to make them get out of the way so you can put your wire in
and then they spring back into place and grip onto it they're pretty neat connector
next in we have computer cable it says okay it seems like a reasonable thing
yeah it is a cable and a mini cd which i don't think i have a player for well no
i probably do somewhere anyway this is a usb 2 dmx 512
cable so i'm gonna guess that that is an rs485 chip and that is probably a usb to serial chip
fairly standard stuff there's nothing too fancy on the hardware level of uh dmx 512 it's using
uh rs-485 because it's a fairly robust uh transport protocol and uh
is fairly resistant to electrical interference and then there's this thing which probably has some
clunky windows software of unknown origin on it so i won't be using that because of
course there's no windows computers in this linux household usb to dmx interface adapter cable 3
6 10 12 feet length stage light pc dmx 512 controller dimmer dmx usb signal conversion
cable wow that's a lot of keywords um i got the one meter one i got the one with the clear
usb body so and yeah it cost me about twelve dollars and twenty three cents canadian i don't
remember there being shipping on it at the time there might have been i'm not sure regardless it
was probably the cheapest one that i could find at the time because that tends to be how i shop
it says it supports android or windows 8 or windows 7 or xp or windows 2000 or linux without i
or mac os i'm hoping it supports linux with a u seems to be using an ftdi chip inside of it okay
this is the cd has drivers yeah an installation video okay and it has freestyle software
please go to freestyle.bu to download it okay let's just take a look at this freestyle over here
uh download for windows only boo yes okay i'll have to go and find some uh linux software that'll
that'll run with this thing and uh play with it at some time in the future okay next in we have
electronic components it says right
this one and one of the other ones were shipped from the uk from the same
uh warehouse i'm assuming so it's probably similar to that uh
warehouse in mississauga where a lot of this stuff gets drop shipped from
two different little modules in little static bags let's see what we have here that looks like
a breadboard power supply and that one looks like a different breadboard power supply
what's different between these two now this one has 117 3.3 volt
and the 5 volt version a couple capacitors what looks like a little fuse over there
a couple of leds and a switch between 5 and 3 volts okay it's got a 12 volt barrel jack input
or a usb input and then it goes onto the rails of your breadboard like that
and it provides power into the rails of the breadboard this one looks like it
so this one says five volts in ground down here and this one says vc and ground so you can have
five volts down here no matter what's happening with this switch and then this one i'm guessing
depending on which way that switch is set depends whether you get five or three volts on there okay
and the other one is slightly different again it's got the barrel jack and the usb input a couple of
uh filtering caps on it same one one one seven at three volts and five volts this one's got a three
millimeter led on it and some wii capacitors there looks like diode this one though has two switches
so each side of your you can uh either have three volts on both five volts on both or three volts
on one and five volts on the other one i'm not particularly a huge fan of these things i have
another type here that i've got several of these ones
tend to come in in the starter kits with a breadboard just like that one
and these guys have usb is it micros i think uh this one's got a usb actually
wait a minute that's usb output isn't it but it's got the same uh 1117s on there
this one's got an on off switch and to select between five volts and 3.3 volts you move these
little jumpers functionally they're all the same this one has a fuse on it which i really like
because i'm pretty confident that's a fuse a little gold and black guy there
the rest of them don't and i know this type doesn't because i have over current to the output
not on this particular one on this one and blown up one of these regulators and had to replace it
so on this one i've replaced the jumper plugs with poly fuses just to protect the
outputs a little bit more anyway i thought i'd get a couple of different ones just to
have some variety so that i can talk about them a little bit especially for beginners
because these kind of things always come in beginner kits i don't know i like i like to
put out a warning about these things now and again but maybe we'll do a destructive test on on these
ones and just see which one survives better i'm not sure what i'm going to do with them yet
i spotted the variety and i thought i'd take a look at them compared to the ones i already had
that's basically it solderos mb 102 breadboard power supply mini usb 3.3 5 volt dc 7 to 12v
new from satisfy electronics actually i got both of them from there um this one the white one was a
dollar 79 canadian and that one was a dollar 22 or 99 whole american pennies um yeah they had a bit
of shipping on them uh but they only charged me for one shipping because i bulked them together so
yay me i guess ah they also have that one in the uh in the listing as well they should
have both very similar specs because they're both based on this on the same 1117 regulator
uh under 700 milliamps 3 volts or 5 volts yeah yeah should be the same specs they don't
write it out but they're basically just different form factors of the same thing
and the last thing is it says cnc clip hmm 3d printer parts maybe
oh it's these things these are little work hold down clamps um woodworkers use them machinists
use them a little bit they're more of a workshop kind of a thing basically if you're making a jig
and you want to just hold your work down in a repeatable manner
that's what these guys do um if you're like screen printing circuit boards or something like that
that would hold let to hold them down in a repeatable and kind of high pressure sort of a way
i got two sets of these so four of them i think i'm probably going to mount some on my drill press
just to hold stuff down while i'm drilling it just to keep my hands out of harm's way not that i'm
the most safety conscious person in the world but yeah i'd like to keep all 10 of them if i could
manage to do it so far anyway i spotted those for relatively cheap and i figured i
ought to have a few of them four pieces cnc work table clamp fastening platen engraver shape
toggle router fixture man these guys get a lot of keywords into one title i got these from china's
cnc zone underscore us i don't know who they think they're fooling with that underscore us
uh anyways uh four dollars and two cents canadian at auction for the four of them just searching
around a little bit yeah it looks like uh that auction was a pretty good deal for these things
compared to what they normally go for okay yeah that's uh pretty much what we'd already figured
out okay i hope those will come in handy for uh just fixturing stuff on my drill press and whatnot
we shall see in the future well that was fun and as usual fairly wide ranging quickly go through
the shipping times these toggle hold downs took 23 days these wiggle style connectors took 32 days
these uh two different types of usbc connectors or adapters i guess took 21 days the breadboard
power supplies were 24 days and from aliexpress this usb to dmx cable was 18 days
as i mentioned i'm gonna uh do some exp some experiments with dmx so i thought having
more different ways to connect to it would be cool um workshop stuff um just a demonstration having a
variety of different uh ones and they were those can were cheap i could have used these little usb
adapters last week when i was testing this guy out but oh well you never know when these things
are going to show up and these are just going to uh come in handy for future projects and budging
around and stuff maybe on the railroad if i ever decide to get back to that i'm not sure but uh
i don't know the three conductor ones have always come in handy so i think these ones
will probably as well anyway um hope you uh hope you enjoyed that thanks for watching as always
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