tonight's mail opening is accompanied by an opening
of juice of the oats oatmeal stout from oxis brewing in winnipeg
they describe it as an easy drinking dark ale with the aroma of coffee and chocolate
you would think that after doing 120 of these meal bags i would remember when to turn the
camera on and when not to so i opened this which is a spudger a really really thin spudger 0.11
millimeters that is super duper thin very flexible i guess that would be for you know getting in
around little corners where glued down stuff is is if you push on it this way especially if you're
holding it there it can be fairly stiff and it can get into some very skinny places and it looks like
it can uh i don't know what what those weaves be good for just poking into little corners and stuff
i don't know let's uh let's go take a look at the uh the listing hopefully i did that right when
i recorded it two pieces ultra thin spudger soft lcd screen repair pry opening tool for cell phone
got this from hmpc 2005. i didn't pay shipping for it uh i'll be it appears
that they've changed their listing i also didn't pay 997 canadian for it i paid 349 american which
is you know about half that much and i only got one of them in the package you bastards
so they call it a 0.01 millimeter it's actually 0.1 millimeters thick
stainless steel ultra thin yeah okay stainless steel maybe i don't believe them for anything
anymore so that is the shape of it and the one that i've got doesn't have all this laser etching
on it it's just got the that thing there the logo on it so i'll have to have words with these guys
if it's not been so long since that time outside of the complaints window we'll see next biggest
one it says open pry card that sounds like yet another spudger and it is exactly that this is
another one that says it's 0.1 millimeters thick and it definitely feels like that
um screen disassembler curved okay again just for getting into thin skinny little places right i'll
add that to the collection and uh let's see how much this one cost mobile phone curved lcd screen
spudger open pry card tools ultra thin flexible got this one from oh my goodness jang iping
1982 okay uh 2.40 which is what i paid in canadian funds and 86 cents shipping
i don't remember i looked back through the details and i didn't see myself paying that shipping on
this one so it must have changed since i bought it as so many of these things do not too much of
a description down here just more pictures of them using it to gently pry away inside a phone that
might be all right though for just for uh getting around weird curvy bits spring steel they call it
not stainless steel 0.1 millimeters which is what it actually is okay good toughness easy to
rebound in bending and then a whole bunch of badly translated stuff i was kind of hoping all these
spudgers would be spread out a little bit over a few more weeks but whatever let's see if this
is another spudger this one doesn't say doesn't have a customs declaration it was shipped from
a warehouse in canada oh it's a bunch of looks like dc to dc converters based on the lm2596
yeah that's exactly what it is these are dc to dc converters now i don't remember off top
my head if these are booster buck but i guess we could just quickly try them before rather than uh
resorting to just checking the listing immediately all right there is eight
volts on the input and let's see what happens when we adjust that nothing let me go that way
seven it looks like it's a buck converter then
all right so that is looks like five buck converters nice let's see what i paid for them
one times new lm2596hv lm2596s dc to dc step down constant current constant
voltage adjustable power supply module got these from otaku-10
currently they are selling them for dollar 30 each american order 62 canadian
with 2.50 shipping it was free shipping again back when i bought them so they described this
as constant current constant voltage even though it's only got a voltage adjustment on
it it isn't constant current it's just constant voltage but again i i knew that going in i could
tell from the picture that it only had the one pod anyways input voltage between four and a half
and 35 volts output between one and a quarter and 26 volts based on those so about three and a bit
volts drop three and a half volts drop across the device okay and it keeps talking about different
current limits uh two and a half normally uh three with three amps with a heat sink on it
that's not surprising i tend to not use these for super high current loads i think the most recent
one that i used was probably just powering the the extra illumination on my 3d printer
just to take it down to to whatever i needed for the led strips 5 volts i think from a 12 volt
supply something like that anyway they're just a handy thing to have around and this seemed like
a pretty good price especially back when it was free shipping okay next in says it is a converter
oh usb rj45 extension adapter so if this is what i think it is this allows you to use
basically ethernet cable just just the wire doesn't need it's not connected to actual ethernet
but just to use uh whatever ethernet cable you have to extend
a usb to another room or over some distance i guess hmm there is something i'm going to have to
play with um because normally usb has a bit of a distance limit i'll have to go and look it up but
you can't go forever but most buildings these days especially commercial buildings but a lot of
houses have yeah ethernet cat5 or cat6 cable run around the building from room to room so if you
wanted to hook up i don't know usb webcam or usb audio interface or something in a different room
then that would be a fairly straightforward way to do it if it works guess what i'm going to be doing
in an upcoming video this was an auction item excellent uh usb extension ethernet rj45 cat5e
cat 6 cable and adapter extender over repeater set now this from cool man love it 2020
at auction as i said for the princely sum of a dollar 81 canadian with free shipping the
downside is the usb 2.0 the upside is that's good enough for a lot of things
usb 2.0 mail to rj45 interface the other cable is usb 2.0 female to rj45
this thing claims to be able to extend your usb device up to 150 feet away wow
as opposed to you know the what does it say up here one and a half meters five feet for normal
usb i've had them go further than that i've had them go three or four meters without having to
use a hub powered hub to regenerate signal but still that's uh that's pretty impressive if it
works obviously i'm going to have to tear it apart take a look inside it and give it some testing
coming soon to a youtube channel near you and the last and largest package this one is not as much
of a surprise as a lot of them because i recognize who it came from this package came from baiapai.ca
they are one of the better one of the more affordable canadian sellers of raspberry pi stock
i'm hoping that this is yes it is a raspberry pi 3 model b plus
and since i was paying the shipping anyway a pie pickle at the time i ordered these i
didn't realize i was going to be getting a couple of pie picos from sponsors so now i
think i've got three of them i'm going to have to actually dive into these and see if i can come up
with some interesting things to do with them that 100 other people haven't already done on youtube
but the main reason for this purchase was to get a a pi 3 a little bit more powerful pie
than the ones i already have the ones that i already have are the zero w which i'm currently
using against recommendations uh with octoprint on my 3d printer and i have an old model one i think
very very old one technically belongs to my son which i had been using just for a home theater
pc with kodi on it but it's gotten really really slow and sluggish so i think this guy's going to
go with the 3d printer with octopi on it and then the b plus is no the uh what is the other
one uh the zero w is going to be relegated to home theater pc duties i'm assuming most of the people
watching this channel know what a raspberry pi is but for the couple of you
that may not be familiar with it this is a single board computer um this little guy
has four usb ports it has wired ethernet it is hdmi audio that usb is a power jack um
this is a camera connection and i think i've got a pi camera around here somewhere
matter of fact i know i do and this is a display for putting um a tft or lcd display on it
probably something very similar to the uh display on dustin's uh free touch deck here
or this kind of a form factor or something like that right but in my case that's not
what i'm doing with it at least initially it's going to be going just into a 3d printed case
and will accompany my 3d printer raspberry pi 3 model b plus this is a legacy one this is not the
current model but they're still available and yeah this is what raspberry pi's go for in canada 48.95
that is what i paid plus shipping oh it's currently out of stock well okay i'll link
to it anyway you can browse around the website and the raspberry pi pico 5.25 cents canadian
again it's toted as like a two dollar microcontroller but that's two us dollars
in the united states plus shipping so that's just the situation oh they are back in stock now they
were in and out of stock quite a bit i was i just happened to lock out when i ordered them that they
happen to have some in stock so yeah there we go um so that is a microcontroller
in the same way that the arduino or the stm32s or or the esp8266 or esp32 are microcontrollers
this one doesn't have all the fancy wifi and everything else on it but it is quite a powerful
little unit and one of these days i'll get around to actually playing with them
so there we go another mailbag monday wrapped up um quickly the shipping times uh
the spudgers each took 33 days to get here these uh buck converters took 26 days and this also took
26 days to get here okay and the two raspberry pies because they came from within canada from
a canadian cellar they took about 10 days to get here which is fairly typical for personal
post across canada what else is there to say uh thanks for watching everybody as usual thank you
to my patreon supporters for helping me keep the mailbags rolling in and buying me a beer or two
questions and comments down below in the comment section i'm sure there are people
that have things to say about this as usual um yeah thanks for watching i will talk to you later