opening the meal always pairs well with opening a beer and tonight's beer
would be infernal Fusion machine black ale from desperately villain Brewing
they describe this black ale as a fusion of classic Irish dry Stout and a bold
North American Stout with a little bit of espresso flavor from the roasted malt hmm
great here we go with the nail first thing in says it is a keyboard cap remover
I think I ordered one of those
yeah that's exactly what it is let's put that down over the keycaps on your
keyboard and yoink them up in case you want to either change the keycaps replace them
um if you've got a mechanical keyboard you can use that to get the keycaps out of the way if
you want to change the actual Keys themselves or if you simply want to clean underneath the keys
and get all the hairballs and schmuts and dried whatever out of there that can be useful too it
seems like a fairly Stout little thing hopefully it works let's just try it on this random gunchy
old Chinese keyboard I've got kicking around here yeah that worked pretty well cool
clean underneath there and get back to it keyboard keycap polar remover with unloading
steel cleaning tool keycap um sure I don't know what some of those keywords mean but regardless
I got the black one they're also available in white red or yellow when they're not sold out
cost me an entire dollar 67 Canadian woohoo there are other styles of keycap remover available as
well and there are 3D printable ones in the same form factor but I thought the one with the
metal Grabbers on it would be the better choice there is this kind that's got the metal on them
as well but they're like twice what I paid for this thing so as always I'll buy the cheapest
thing first and if I find them using it a lot and then it breaks maybe I'll buy a more expensive one
we're off to a good start so far let's see what's next this thing says integrated circuit yep yep
oh that's not ices that is a bunch of colored LEDs various oh
these are not your common LEDs these ones are a rectangular LEDs these ones are good for putting
together if you want a really tight bar graph kind of display uh let's fiddle around here
or something like that that's how tight they'll fit together actually tighter than standard holes
in the breadboard and yeah if you want to make some sort of a bar graph display they
are really cool or you can put them together linearly to make a straight line displays or
Arrow displays or things like that that's very Nifty and the clear ones look like they are a
cool White Okay so we've got boo Yo cool white uh red and green 100 pieces two by
three by four square LED two three four red LED light emitting diode yellow green white blue
yeah whatever um I paid 2.23 cents for the lot of 100 of them and of course I bought two of them
um because the shipping is a ridiculous percentage of the price so I figured it'd combine shipping
and get a couple at once plus these tend to be fairly difficult to find you don't see them at
that many sellers so I figured I'd grab a couple of bags of them while I was able to find them
other than the form factor they are just LEDs of their respective
colors so there's 20 pieces of each of the five colors in the two kits that I bought
right this is going very good let's see if we can keep the street going this
next thing says I see baseboard okay cut into it without cutting anything
that is not an icy baseboard that is a bunch of potentiometers
specifically 500k potentiometers and if I remember correctly I bought these because
um when I was messing around with the 555 noise maker what was that thing called the Atari pump
console circuit most of the circuit diagrams that I saw called for 500k pod of course I didn't have
any so now I do I hate being caught out without the parts that a project wants
soy stockpile in pieces 500k ohm panel pot B 500k 15 mm the rotary potentiometer linear taper
ideally I would have had the log taper as well but I couldn't find them for this kind of a
cheap price I paid 3.42 cents Canadian with free shipping but for the kind of tinkering
that I'm doing I think the linear taper ones will come in handy just as well nothing super special
about them they're just standard 500k pots half watt power dissipation but these are were never
intended to be high power again maximum voltage 200 yeah whatever they're only ever going to be
used for like 12 volts or less kind of thing so I think these shall do just fine to add to
my collection of parts for when I need them okay carrying on here this thing says protective case
oh wow it is huge bubble pack in it that's pretty cool and of course I cut through it so it's
completely deflated it and made it useless awesome how do I get into this well I guess just that way
this camera accessories this is oh this is like a rubbery how many layers of packaging are there
on this thing wow um this is a kind of rubbery case for my DGA DJI pocket uh DJ Pocket go camera
let me go grab it hang on yeah this camera here this is the sort of factory storage case
that came with it but when it's in operation it's kind of hanging out here in the world
so I guess how does this go on here so hmm that's going to be interesting to get in there I'm gonna
have to really stretch that rubber okay um or something but anyway that goes on there
and I guess this so just slip over the head of it to protect it when it's
not in use that seems kind of janky and I guess it protects the lens and protects that
from getting bash around a little bit okay and then that just goes on to there somehow
you have to struggle to get that on there hang on it's not as bad as I thought Earth
get on there
okay that still works that still goes on there and does it so if I take that
cover off I assume that's what that's for anyways does it power on yes it does alrighty
and I can still operate it yeah and it still does the thing
cool oh it's handheld gimbals for osmo pocket two camera silicone case two pieces with lanyard
uh I don't think it came with a lanyard but it does have a linear Detachment so maybe
I'll let that slide 531 plus a buck two shipping okay yeah so that is what that piece is for it
just uh covers the lens when it's not in use it doesn't protect the gimbal arm though but
at least it protects the uh protects the lens and yeah there it is with the lanyard that it didn't
come with although to be fair the picture here doesn't show oh lanyard anyway it just says it hmm
and not much else to see down here except for disclaimers
and stuff and some more pictures which are basically the same pictures as up top side
is this package which appears to have actually been shipped from the U.S
um what does it say here oh pulse oximeter
oh a medical device if we can believe the customs declaration and a note that I cut in half okay but
yes it is in fact a fingertip pulse oximeter wow this note is actually useful information
how to use the thing and troubleshooting issues cool you must use strong fresh batteries okay
hey save ten percent with the next order cool anyway back to this a fingertip pulse oximeter
if you've been to a doctor's office lately or a hospital or something like this you may have
encountered something oh crap it's damaged uh something like this basically you stick your
finger in there and it displays your pulse and your blood oxygen percentage and given the disease
that's been floating around the last couple years and the fact that a few people in my household
caught it a while ago I figured something like this might be a useful thing to have around now
then I think oh yeah this is just the little bezel or the little uh screen kind of uh protection it's
not the actual physical screen so that's not a big deal and I'll just pull the protector off there
sorry no sexy music this time anyway uh this thing needs a couple of AAA batteries
if you happen to have a few of kicking around here
these aren't the highest quality but they are fresh from the dollar store so we'll give this
thing a quick check and just see how unhealthy I really am right now hopefully get in there
hopefully it doesn't say that I'm dead or anything so push stick my finger in there push the button
it says 96 percent and 65 beats per minute pulse but you can't really see that oh there we go
there I guess you can you just got to get the
lighting right it's a lot easier to see in real life
oh and it's updating life too that's cool pulse oximeter finger with two AAA batteries or either
alone but oxygen saturation I got the option with no batteries for 80d American or 1202 Canadian
the extra batteries would have cost another dollar American or you could buy batteries
from these guys for way too much anyway this shipped from New York and it was free shipping
I can't remember the last time I saw something shipping from the US to Canada for free shipping
that's just amazing anyway it's just a cheap medical device and hopefully it will be useful
a little bit of information on how to use it okay
film over the screen or it would be worry done and done
and there we have the contents of today's mailbag Monday haul quite a variety this time
some rectangular LEDs the kind you don't see very often so I stocked up keycap polar useful for
maintenance on the keyboards pots for stock and future projects and just to have around
this little silicone case for my uh from my camera I think might be interesting useful
um just to keep it protected while using it not quite sure about this little hood for the top
here because as you can see it doesn't really protect the motion components but anyway oh
it'll prevent it from getting banged around and this pulse oximeter I think it'll be interesting
and useful to have around here you know as my wife and I get older and as diseases floating around in
public cause your oxygen levels to do weird things maybe I don't know we'll see maybe just being a
hypochondriac anyway um thanks for watching um questions and comments down below as usual
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full and rolling in and of course for helping keep my beer fridge full I really appreciate that
well thanks to everybody for watching once again I will talk to you later