I'm not a hundred percent sure where I'm gonna go with this video but I've been
crawling around used stores and thrift stores and dollar stores around around
my area well forever really but I don't usually find electronic stuff there but
in the last little while I have I mean okay a dollar store so you always find
things sort of like this but this is one that I that I found this week it's four
bucks at Dollarama which might be a little bit more than I could get it from
China but I spotted it it decided to grab it I'm hoping it's gonna be bright
enough that I can use it as a work like underneath the railroad and just magnet
it on to some something on the on the underside and just aim it where I want
it's it's got this sort of gimbal on it but it tilts it all over the place and
can you see that in there and in the middle for a light source it's got a
little table with some sort of a phosphor ething I think over top of it
and if I count that correctly it looks like there's ten little chips in there
yeah and it says it runs on three double A batteries so let's toss some in and
just see what it looks like I'm hoping this doesn't turn into a big cloud video
I mean not that there's anything wrong with big guy videos but he does it so
much better why should I start ripping him off
actually the screwdriver is going to be useful but first let's just toss some
batteries into it and see what it looks like see if it's even going to do what I
want so there we go and that's actually fairly bright even with all the lighting
that's already on here it adds enough that you can see it on the camera so
that's kind of neat it's a little bit bluer than the
white LEDs that I've got up there but for a work light that's not too bad I
guess oh that's so the dark corner you know it's just pause and take a look
over to dark corner my wait and see if this does what I want it to do so I just
got it attached to a little spring clamp with its magnet and this is the area
where I was working a couple of weeks ago and wiring up the the train detector
that seemed like even staging so let's see what happens alright turn that on oh
wow yeah that's definitely adequate to work with and being on a clamp or being
stuck to a middle clamp I can put it wherever I need it to be I like that
okay now for the moment you've all been waiting for
let's tear it apart see what's inside
I'm resisting using other people's phrases I almost used Dave Jones's tear
it up hot I almost used a v's let's see what makes our Chooch but I don't want
to copy those guys and you said I'm coming close enough to copying a big cry
of style a video that I don't I don't want to get into that bad habit not
there's anything wrong with those guys I'm subscribed although I have been
watching her for years okay well that was easy wow there's pretty much nothing
there that is there's the entire circuit a resistor a LED cob and yeah that's
kind of got that silicon II viewing stuff on it let's see what that resistor
is I'm guessing it's not very big Oh tweeze
hoon you can see that that is a shadow please way that's awkward
one and a half moment one point four ohms so what does color band scenes only
two bands and a couple of dots of gold on there well that's not a very exciting
circuit I guess I didn't really expect much though
EDB T resistor cob LED and I push on push off all tap switch kind of thing
the matte silver ish reflector
okay well that's that's cool and for the purpose that I intended it that's going
to be just fine that well duh okay I'll screw that back together later
that's all over like five minutes so obviously I don't want you guys to feel
ripped off so some of the other stuff that I've been finding in thrift stores
what's the last thing you expect to find there I certainly didn't expect to find
to breadboards there these are kind of yellowed with age I'm like this is the
one that I've had since the 80s bought at RadioShack way back when a little
adhesive back on it these two aren't exactly the same but they got the same
kind of aid yoing used to do match each other they got the same dovetails on the
sides
then this seam dovetails is this one that I got from trainer yes okay a
couple of others around here that have the seam dovetails on them actually that
seam dovetails on this one no those don't match no seams spots hmm what else
I put on this one you know looks like it will match that one which is another
Chinese ium one okay and those I got for a buck and a half Canadian each which is
pretty good actually these are the 830 tie point ones just glancing over at
ebay on my laptop here they are going for about 257 Canadian at the moment
from China plus you know three to six weeks months waiting so I think I got a
good deal thank you to mg whoever you are for donating those to the thrift
store
that's good addition to my collection and you've probably seen in a bunch of
mail bags that I keep accumulating breadboards and I'm sure more than one
of you wonders why I don't just reuse them well I like to keep some circuits
that I use over and over again on them some that I'm experimenting with this
one is if those of you with really long memories that's Nintendo that I'm trying
near a Nintendo controller that are good hooked up to what is that
Leonardo clone basically only the nano-sized version of it I can't
remember the exact name of it somebody can remind me in the comments
or all throw it up and over anyway I'm planning on turning that into USB
device so I can play emulated all NES games with the original controller which
is buried um it's it's somewhere down here but it's buried you can go back and
look for the video if you want that's just a random five five five because you
always need that that's the 401 seven and five five five circuit this is
thermometer that was quite the sidetrack okay that doesn't matter
so I got that and Hammond project boxes a couple and don't have lids so Hammond
1590 so there's three of those two it leads one with lid and one of the ones
it's about half size I got the whole bunch of them for five bucks I dare you
to go and look it up how much Hammond 1590 aluminium project cases go for it's
horrendous so these things are one two three four
five six seven inches long by one two three four and a half inches wide this
one's four and a half by four and a half yeah they're used this one came with
some so fuse holders in it and some holes in it that's fine that's still a
hell of a score I think you say I don't know when I'll use them but that's like
so many of the things that are in my inventory I will use them eventually for
some project down the line I'm sure we've all got stuff like that kicking
out of shops there's something like I'm justifying it yeah whatever it's it's
just so handy to have stuff ready and waiting for you when inspiration to do a
project strikes
let's just see what's inside this one because it looks like it's got some
stuff riveted on there I haven't opened it up yet oh that's just a little
threaded inserts are those friends yeah they're riveted in threaded inserts that
kind of floating hey haven't seen those before those are kind of cool what does
that look like a number eight or number ten thread or something like that on
there actually does that match the straight of the no okay those those are
number six anyway I think that's what's the bottom
line of this video um keep your eyes open I guess you never
know what you're gonna find in your local thrift stores a red boards and
these hammer boxes could not have predicted that I don't know it's it's
what I'm doing this week thanks for thanks for watching if you give it
anything tell me down in the comments down yonder and I will talk to you later