this video is being released on November 11th which is Remembrance Day in Canada
and the Commonwealth Veterans Day in United States and has similar
observations in most countries of the world
November 11th will be marked with somber ceremonies of remembrance of the war
veterans who did not return home to their countries after the war that they
fought in and today I'm going to be enjoying this Allegiant logger Canadian
lager which is brewed by white water brewing in Ontario in partnership with
the Royal Canadian Legion with proceeds going to the Legion to support the
veterans programs across Canada and now to opening the mail I'm after the dismal
failure of that little privacy sticker thing I'm trying something that that I
saw somebody suggest most of these are printed these labels are printed on
thermal paper so I am attempting to use my heat gun to obliterate the my address
so that you guys don't stalk me oh and I just obliterated the description oh well
let's just go with it this is expansion board module I cut
through the bag Oh looks like a micro controller of some sort with header pins
ah it's an stm32 board that's team 32 f103 to be specific but it's inning
Arduino ish well arduino nano ish type form factor so okay this is a board that
I haven't had before but it looks like we have all manner of
of gpio on it if I could keep from dropping the bloody thing
let's look this guy up and see what else we can find out about it
stm32 f103 c8 t6 armed stm32 minimum system development
board module for arduino new from C's it'd be six seven two one nine six zero
currently they're selling it for two forty-five plus eighty six Canadian
cents shipping I got it for two dollars and seventy cents with free shipping so
that's yeah pretty cool to the same thing I guess so what do we say about it
down here it's an I'm thirty-two cortex 72 megahertz
Wow 64 K flash so that's a lot more than your average Arduino between 4 and 16
megahertz crystal um okay so you're not sure what it's good on it fine be like
that okay I guess I should do a little bit of investigating about this so
apparently you can't program this thing using that USB you've got to use an
external FTDI or something similar or serial USB USB device okay and hook it
up like that the other thing you have to do is add this line into your boards
manager your other boards and okay that and then go into the board manager and
install it and then once you have choose it off the list
hmm I don't have a portrait okay so I'll have to go and hook it up and I'll see
if I can get this blink sketch to jump onto it
okay I did a little bit further reading and found out that this jumper the
jumper on that side needs to be in the boot mode one position the jumpers have
to look like that to program it and then both of them back in that direction the
boot mode 0 to actually run a program so so all the tutorials that I found said
to use an FTDI I tried it a few times and couldn't get it to work but I pulled
out my old faithful ceej 340 and connected that up to
program I feel a jumper in programming mode sent the blink sketch to it and
then when we take the programming wears off with that back into normal mode not
as power it from here just for convenience oh look it's a blink sketch
it works so the basics serial programming set the serial programming
in the arduino ide TX and RX on a eight and a nine over here boom done this USB
port here is just a power port it's not for programming i'm gonna play with this
in depth more later but that's the short strokes right under the next thing next
we have CH a multifunctional tool hmm cutting through the inside big in the
last round a bit more gentle it's in a squashed box okay
I was several months ago I was looking for a new and different everyday carry
so I bought a whole bunch of really cheap ones on auction and this is one of
those it's a little multi-tool with a carabiner built into it so it's got a
couple of inches measurement up there it's got a little abrasive there it has
this little rotating thing with a small straight blade screwdriver medium that
looks like it might try and double as a Phillips screwdriver another one over
there and that says wire strip but I think that's when you that's a wire
stripper when used in conjunction with this little blade here here's a random
piece of wire put that through there and
hmm well I mean it does it I guess okay that's something what else do we
have here oh this the claim is a wrench for 5/16 1/2 inch and 3/8 nuts okay I
don't have any of those handy I'll take your word for it it's probably not all
that great there's a quarter inch and five sixteenths nut kinda driver a
little pry thing okay um I'm sure it could be used as a bottle opener
all right twenty and one they say let's see what they call twenty things on
their listing twenty in one stainless steel screwdriver wrench keychain EVC
pocket multi-tool from CNC motor shop they're selling it for two dollars and
forty seven cents at the moment I got it for two dollars and thirty cents so
that's not that much of a deal I guess but whatever it's it's interesting let's
see what the twenty things are okay we have a measuring ruler we have a wire
stripper with a bottle opener three bottle opener oh okay I can see that
it's kind of weak but quick release a box opener five is a box opener oh it's
all serrated edge there didn't even notice quarter-inch small
Phillips flat eyeglass screwdriver yeah it's a little bit thick for that word
foot spoke wrench ah that's what that is okay
that might work nail cleaner all right razor sharp cutting blue thirteen yeah
it's on the inside what the hell are you gonna use that for except for wire
stripping medium Phillips 5/16 pry bar three-eighths half inch 9/16 and a file
I think I'm gonna keep looking the one thing that this thing can't be
is a knife this little serrated a is pretty weak sauce it's not even sharp
really how well it was a cheap experiment I guess next thing we have
drill times one that is not a drill but in some ways it's better than a drill
it's an assortment of Kaulitz for dremel and dremel like tools get a variety of
different shank sizes which is good and okay let me just grab the dremel
actually I grabbed a couple of them and grabbed the standard high-power one and
one of these old battery operated ones see if these collets fit I assume they
will they don't oh you bastard see if it fits this little guy not thinking so no
well not as standardized as I thought so the standard dremel coats are four
point three millimeters in a shank and these ones are 4.8 tin piece brass drill
chuck call it bits 0.5 to three point two millimeters four point three
millimeter shank that's what I ordered that's what it says however that's what
I actually measure the real ones that I've got see says so right there four
point three meet millimeters that's the ones I ordered paid dollar sixty four
currently he's got them on auction they're trying to sell for 263 but
whatever from this guy 10 per 365 that's upsetting
unfortunately I bought them so long ago that I can't open a claim anymore for
him sending me the wrong damn ones you can get four point three and four
point eight and four point eight is what I actually got but I ordered four point
three dammit wire one times
wire where he's in there that he's aware it looks like one of those thermocouple
no not thermocouples um resistive temperature sensors and waterproof again
you may recall the last time I had one of these it was a little bit larger one
bright proved its waterproofing this by measuring my beer I'm not gonna bother
doing this again and go back to that video hard open this last one I'll link
it up there and you can see my experiments with it and how it works and
everything basically it's a resistor it's calibrated it changes its its
resistance based on the temperature it changes very fast it's relatively
accurate waterproof temperature sensor temp probes there mister NTC 10k be
39:52 nifty meter 10 meter 20 meter I got a one meter this is from SKT flier I
bought it from him at auction for 53 whole cents Canadian and considering he
sung it for qt7 right now that's not bad however other sellers are selling them
right now for even cheaper for like three of them for a buck 12 so shop
around the prices have changed and this is actually the thicker one it's not the
thinner one but it serves the same purpose and the last thing in is case
times one much a small case it's not a case at all oh okay I see what this is
this is a 3.5 millimeter aka standard eighth inch headphone jack on that the
end to three school terminals on this side that would have come in handy for
the little audio amplifier project I was playing with last week just to not have
to solder up Jack's and put clip leads and stuff on I could have just plugged
straight into there and wired straight into my board and be done with it
I think that'll come in nice and handy actually 3.5 millimeter stereo Feeny
objects av screw video AV balon terminal plug adapter got this from passion 201
three one four I got this for 72 cents at auction currently they're selling it
for dollar 30 so not a huge saving but any savings is better than nothing right
now this I want to take a little bit of exception to that a balun is the short
for a balanced unbalanced they're normally that is a transformer in the
middle of something to put a balanced circuit on one side an unbalanced
circuit on the other side this is not that these are the 3.5 millimeter jack
is an unbalanced circuit and this is just straight wired through inside with
no components in there at all and it's just straight screw terminals out so it
is not a bell and but this right here is the accurate and fairly true description
and a bunch of people are selling these things as you can see this seemed like
such a good idea that I've been scooping up a couple more on auction and they'll
come in eventually but as I said I think they're going to be really handy we're
in tinkering with audio projects on bread boards and stuff so here are
today's mail big Monday items as always a mixed bag and unfortunately this week
a couple of disappointments but that happens
when when you're buying stuff is cheap as possible just to just for fun
you never know sometimes it's gonna work out and it'll be awesome like this and
this and sometimes it'll be a disappointment so be it
no you know so you don't have to waste your couple of bucks I'm wasting mine
actually I'm kind of wasting my patreon it's a couple of bucks but be educated
don't waste your time on these things um so the this guy took five weeks to get
here the stm32 took 27 days the temperature sensor the thermistor took
one month the Kaulitz took 17 days so I guess that's good that
they came fairly quickly it sucks that they're the wrong size and they're not
what I was what I was expecting and oh yeah this thing took exactly 30 days as
well I sold karabiner thing that's fine we'll just pretend those didn't happen
and we'll focus on these guys because they are going to be useful I don't know
what I'm gonna do with that needs the kind of power this stm32 has in it but
when I come up with that sort of a project at some point in the future I'll
have one well thank you so much for watching thanks as always to my patreon
supporters for helping me finance this silliness and thank you so much to the
veterans I'll talk to you later