Greetings programmers, Jim McKeeth here. This is a test of some different content. The hacker
boxes is this monthly subscription box I'm getting for a while. I have one right here and I've toyed
with doing like box opening videos or something like that. And I thought about posting all my own
YouTube channel, which I post to very irregularly. In my mind, I was thinking it's not related to
Embarcadero products, so I shouldn't put it on the main YouTube channel.
But I realized some of you might find this interesting as well. So hacker boxes,
it's a monthly subscription box each month to get a box. This is the current box of the month.
If you buy the individual boxes, they're $79. But if you subscribe, you get a discount or right
now they have an even better discount going on for the box. And I think it's free shipping as well,
but each box has a collection of, electronic gewgaws in them, usually involving soldering and
my solder skills are really rusty. So I thought that would be a good way to get up to speed
on soldering and experiment with some fun kits. Each box has a theme and a couple projects in it.
Along with a guide, let's see, here's the guide up on the
Instructables. They have a guide that walks you through assembling it all.
So I'm going to go ahead and share the first video, kind of an unboxing video I made
for number 68. And if you like this sort of content, and would would like to see more of it,
give it a thumbs up. I'm not fishing for thumbs up right now, but genuinely want to use it as an
engagement indicator. So if I have more thumbs up and positive comments, then thumbs down a negative
comments by a significant margin. Then I'll look at doing more content like this more
non Embarcadero related content that I think you might be interested in as a
member of the developer community. One note about this first video. SAO
is a colorful acronym, similar to RTFM. So if you don't like colorful acronyms,
find that offensive, then skip this video. You can give her a thumbs up anyway, it's not the
usual video, it just so happens, that's this one. And I said, you know what? We'll just go for it.
And see if everybody thinks, oh yeah, here's this is the last month, which are not last month,
a couple months ago. I got this one, mostly simple to actually have the the uh,
phone stand on my desk right here, but sorry. Shiny. It looked interesting. So I clicked on it,
anyway, so if you're interested in this, if you'd like to see more content like this,
give it a thumbs up, say so in the comments and I will share, built build guides and other unboxing.
This is what I do for fun to relax. And also, like I said, to
improve my soldering skills, it's a chance for me to get up and get away from working on the
computer, but still something I really enjoy. So if it's something you think would be interesting
thumbs up and I'll see you in a future video. So if you're like, yeah, either way don't thumbs
up or thumbs down or anything like that, but if on the other hand, if you're like, oh no, all content
on the channel should definitely be related to Embarcadero, then give it a thumbs down.
And, then we'll know not to do this anymore. All right. So thanks and hope you enjoy it.
Got the new Hacker Box. I'm excited their back to the black branded boxes month, which is. Nice.
So these are SOA badges or boards.
The SOA is an acronym for, $#!^ Add-On". Apparently there. Um,
I got some nice tweezers. I like this. I just, I have these like this already. Oh,
that's interesting that the blister pack is made for either type of tweezer
but I had some of these were like this started, but I like that they include things like this
in here, because then it makes it more, uh, Usable for a long term, I guess I'm thinking
that's interesting. Okay. So I guess it clips on both sides of it. There
a add-on showcase board.
I got two of those, a bunch of,
LEDs and a USB to TTL programming board. I'm sure. Headers some stickers.
And then this is I'm guessing stickers to attach the $#!^ add-on ad on boards
and then the collector card. And I will point out this is number 68.
Hackers, a Las Vegas summer camp. Nice. I love hologram stickers.
So I'm going to go through. The, the individual bag here,
LEDs and stuff. Okay. This is just a nice vinyl sticker, I guess,
or a Silicon rubbery sticker, not a SOA.
This is a, um, okay, so this is again, a nice thick sticker and that's a coin type thing. It's
not a, a SOA. All right. So those three things are just cools. So then I have a Pikachu SOA.
I got to solder the headers and then the LED's on here and these are SMD surface Mount. So that's
going to be fun. Like all these are surface Mount, which I've not done search about. Okay.
Oh, that's a good one. Uh, yeah, that's uh, going to start some fights. Isn't it.
Interesting. So these are just generic SOAs, attach anything here to turn it into SOA.
This is the new SOA standard, I guess, for understanding correctly. So I got a few of those.
Just go back like five. just go by collides. And
also I could take any of these and it, hundred of that. That's kind of slick. This is a really nice,
uh, fairly substantial. It's an actual casino poker chip. Oh, I guess it's cause Los Vegas.
And then in here I've got more stuff. I love these kits even if I don't put it together right away.
It's just so much fun. Just look through it till your thing, battery,
uh, hacker boxes, SMD challenge. Okay. So there I can practice my. SMD skills. This is the wifi. So
a hacker box, wifi SLA. There is no cloud, which I have the sticker possibly. No, it's not on
mine. Well, yeah. Yep. It is on the mug. Well, if I can get that right angle, you can see it.
Yep. Right there. You can kind of see it easier and trying to move the camera. Oh, then here's.
Hackers summer camp, Las Vegas, SOA, a crazy looking skull, SOA,
a hacker boxes, skull, SOA bit head led eyes go on other side, SOA header goes on this side.
Kooky co-PI. Well,
that is a poo emoji, SOA, or, emoji add-on.amusing.
And then a bunch of LEDs. So actually I was just looking at these the other day. They're not that
expensive, but I wanted to get them, get some and have them, um, put on. So the acrylic fancy nail,
they do acrylic and they get it as a liquid, a powder and a liquid they combine.
And then it becomes a, um, goop that they can then mold. And I was talking to them about putting LEDs
in there. They said, oh, we could do that. So if I get some of these and solder them together
and they come in really small sizes, these are pretty small. Or they might come
now that's a pretty small letter because Ooh. Yeah. So get some of those and solder them
together into a. Shape that I could put on my nail and then run. So I was looking at them. They have
some that have a big coil, so it's an induction charging so that they see induction power. Right.
I was thinking, it'd be cool to run wires down it and like a battery pack on the back of my wrist.
Just cause for the back of my hand maybe or something, I don't know, just because
it's crazy and kind of over the top, which is what I'm all about. Anyway, lots of LEDs there
to solder to those things. This is going to be a fun little project because we've got,
I guess it's a good thing. They did include the tweezers because you're gonna be holding those
things to the tweezers. Good one there.
Fun fun. There it is. Hacker box 68.
That was fun to unbox and make a video of, uh, put it together here shortly. .