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Skeleton shaver teardown

To be fair, this made short work of completely shaving my head.  A task complicated by my very dense and fine hair that feels closer to fur than hair.

But that circuitry is squirmily min...

Patreon stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0lDmuXET4

Simple scavenged component project

This is just a fun, but still very useful, project that uses scavenged components to create a backup "comfort" light source for use in very dark areas or during power outages.  There's no circ...

Bigger Sansi ceramic lamp

This was a real beast to get apart.  I thought the screws on the front were going to release everything, but there are a significant number of plastic sections that clip tightly together.

Furr Bear

For those who knew Furr from the live stream chat, I've just received the news that he passed away peacefully this evening.

It's an MBC stream this week

Here's a link to the weekend stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVWwFGANJYc

Patreon stream link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fXV0tVIEOs

Heavy ceramic substrate LED lamp

An odd find on eBay.  It's a lamp that uses a thick and heavy ceramic PCB for the LEDs to suck the heat away from them quickly for convection air cooling.

It was unrealistically cheap fo...

Moonshine vs Sodastream

The first rule of moonshine club is...

This is the next drinks carbonation video, although I'm not sure I'd class undiluted moonshine as a drink.  More a pandemic-grade sanitiser or PCB ...

Unusual refrigerant diverter valve

A rather interesting device that allows liquid refrigerant to be diverted to either, both or none of the outlet ports.

in the near future I may be testing to see whether YouTube prioritises v...

Mercedes Benz light

I'm not sure that Mercedes would be too keen to actually endorse this product.

I did learn something new about the particular driver chip in this unit when I tried to hack it.  One varia...

Weekend stream

Here's the link to the weekend stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o29D98xHJ1Q

Weird eBay light

What do we do with all these spare microcontroller pins?  We'll just add loads of extra LEDs with a single resistor for them all as a feature.

Not a bad little light.  Strange polic...

Patreon live stream link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yprg6ievg2o

Very unusual rechargeable UVC light

The most pleasing thing about this light is the use of a modern LED driver chip to run a vintage mercury discharge lamp.

The circuitry has some strange features, and one very shady one.

New and exotic Chinese factory tool

I've seen these being used in small lamp factories in China where they assemble the lamps manually.

It's a specialist crimping tool that uses ten spikes to crimp the metal cap onto the plasti...

Uncharitable Nokero clone

I made a video about the original Nokero light about two years ago, and unfortunately may have caused them supply issues by releasing it during the pandemic.

I deliberately avoided making a v...

Weekend stream link

Here's the link to the weekend stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON-HFIdlJ3E

Impressive light sensitive pigment

After testing the UV detection card I took a look online for the UV sensitive colour changing pigment it used, and found that you can buy it as a bare pigment powder.

I think the rather drama...

Quiet Patreon Stream

Here's the link for the quiet Patreon stream.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsJ97bypM4

Releasing video early

I'm probably going to jump the recent exploding ioniser video to the front of the queue and release it tonight.  I kinda want to see the reactions.

I made a "short"

No literally...  A short about a short.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ni0F-_NZge0

More fake products that apparently explode

This video turned out slightly more exciting than I expected.

It started off as testing two more fake ionisers, but one had a very special extra feature.

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Weekend Stream

Here's the link to the weekend stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVvkclcoZ_o

Really good side glow fibre optic

For a product like this from a pound shop, I wasn't expecting the linearity of the light along the length to be so good.  It seems to be really well engineered side glow fibre optic.

The...

Patreon stream link

Here's the link to the quiet Patreon stream:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLjJ8SvT3yM

Huge Poundland lamp autopsy

There's only one thing better than a Poundland lamp and that's a very dead one for our exploration.

The circuitry in this is actually quite weird, and with a mystery component that I can't id...

Testing a UV/UVC test card

Just a quick video to show the two modes of this card in operation.

It's designed to give a visual indication that your UV source is emitting roughly in the right spectrum.  The test met...

Inside a Wago connector and a clone

Although I've featured Wago terminals and their clones in the past, I've never really explored the internal mechanism in detail.

I have now.  And the clone was actually surprisingly good...

Rogue keychain power bank

Having quite enjoyed exploring some other keychain power banks I thought I'd check out some other ones from eBay.

Let's just say that this one has a disappointing feature, and it's very fortu...