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Aliexpress and Temu do have some unique finds that are worth grabbing. I'm not sure when or if I'll use it but I have it for the occasion.

It should work out of the box without needing a library. The sample sketches in the Arduino IDE should help.

@@britishtechguru Thank you for response. Reason I have asked, we have tried some esp32 libraries that gave error. That`s why asked, what board type needs to be chosen.

@serkanozkani It should be possible to identify the board type by looking at the small text on the board. My ESP32 boards are: ESP32 CH340C Development Board Wifi+Bluetooth Ultra Low Power Core Type-C Lot US ESP32 NodeMCU Development Board ESP32-Dev Kit 38 PIN Expansion WiFi Bluetooth I'm not sure which is in the video but it'll be one of those two. Both came from eBay.

@@britishtechguru Thank you very much!

@@serkanozkani You're welcome. I hope I was at least of some help.

I'm going to put together a simple door unlocking mechanism using one of these and an ATTiny13.

@@britishtechguru not a bad idea. Obviously there are moisture and temperature considerations but I'm pretty sure you've already considered those.

It'll be about 3 feet off the ground behind a splashguard underneath a vehicle. Any wet will just drip straight down. There will be a housing.

LOL. Yes. This is absolutely hilarious.

That was mildly entertaining.... You said: how many rs are in strawberry ChatGPT said: ChatGPT There are three "r"s in the word "strawberry." You said: how many "r"s are in the word strawberry ChatGPT said: ChatGPT There are two "r"s in the word "strawberry." It gave me the right answer then a wrong answer. Very weird.It's baffling that so much money is being invested in something that shows so little promise.

Ah. I don't think any of my meter have a diode setting.

I have 3 meters and no diode setting.

@@britishtechguru Usually the diode function is combined with the continuity beep. However in the video I could not find that setting on your meter.

I have 3 meters plus a pocket oscilloscope. Maybe I should do a comparison video between them. That'd be interesting.

I did a video where I put a known 20W panel beside it and compared the two and compared the output of the two using two identical wattmeters. I showed the missing label on the back of the fake panel and the actual label on the back of the real panel.

I'll do that. Thanks. It would have been so nice if the Chinese had included instructions - even if they were in Chinese.

@@britishtechguru haha, yes I only figured it out by looking at a few pictures that some of the sellers use on a few of the ads. Fairly typical AliExpress experience. ;)

@@m3chanist I've just tried pounding out SOS on all 3 of the ports to no avail. I'll have to check that my button is working now, I guess. I might even have to connect a relay to a microcontroller to send a real message and see if it works.

That's about all it does.

I managed to unblock the nozzle but haven't yet got back to doing any printing. I get maybe a couple of hours at weekends only.

I don't have a machine shop capable of producing the parts nor do I currently have much in the way of machining skills but given time and the equipment it might be possible. It was not, however, something that I was planning. It's interesting though. I almost went with a small machine shop but went for a 3D printer instead.

It took me forever to find things before. Now it should be faster. I also didn't have a list of what was in each tray. Now I do (of the trays I have sorted) so now I can see at a glance whether a project will be a day or a couple of weeks while I wait for parts.

Seems like it! I want to go somewhere and this thing is holding me up. I'd be insane if i had to wait for a slot car to charge.

I bought a pack of 10. I thought about doing a giant LED clock but I'm thinking of an ATTiny13 traffic light setup now.

I was joking about the Chinese licks being different. I bought this set of picks a week or two back and my first attempts at picking easy locks were a failure. In the manner of the bad workman, I blamed the tools lol The real lockpickinglawyer could pick those locks with an orange.

They banned quite a few knives. They found the street gangs used knives since guns are hard to get,

@@britishtechguru well here in the states you can't have brass knuckles or collapsible metal batons but in some states (mine included) you can conceal carry with no type of permit.

They ban most things in Britain. They banned the metafuel blocks from camping stoves as well.

@@jameswilliams6468 Under UK law you cannot carry any weapon where you might reasonably be expected to need to use it.

That’s been the constant propaganda drip… see it, report it

No knife is OK to carry in Britain. Merely being discovered to be in possession of a camping knife merits jail time now. So if you have one and somebody sees it and reports it (which they will if they see it because people have been trained to be snitches for the last 30+ years) then if it's found when the police arrive (no warrant needed in Britain) then it's jail time.

I do my best but I think my phone is just having a hard time. Mind, stuff filmed indoors is challenging as my electronics lab is usually at 102F during the summer. Sweat literally pours off me. What you're hearing is me talking through exhaustion in the heat. I'll try harder. I have to make 7 more videos for this week. I'll make those tomorrow. The first of those (and I'll speak louder and more clearly) will be in the afternoon on the 4th. I'm behind with videos at the moment due to the heat.

Check on the voltage and the power of the solar panel and the voltage range of the converter on the Arduino. The book says 6-20v. I used a 6v 15ma solar panel just to turn the R3 LED on. You can easily use a bigger panel. I would suggest something like a 6V 5W panel. That should run an R3 and a circuit quite well though only when there's sufficient light. I have a project using a 100ma solar panel that transmits an SOS in Morse code via shortwave radio frequencies. That uses an ATTiny85.

@@britishtechguru I will not going going to use R3 but instead a Esp8266

@@AnimeCentral-v9z That will need a 5v voltage regulator. The R3 has one built in.

I could do one. I'm thinking about doing an LED traffic light with an ATTiny13.

Can't remember now. That bread card just failed so I'm rebuilding with a different system.

I do them when I think of them

I prefer books as I'm often well away from an internet connection

I'll have to recheck everything as I've forgotten what I've checked so far. Working my wicked schedule does that to me! (5:45AM to 4:15pm with a 3 1/4 hour break in the middle). And I've been working in excessive heat recently. Thanks for your complements. I feel my channel is more me bumbling about doing things that interest me than any particular plan. I'm not pretentious and won't ever make false claims. I'm very pleased when something works. More often than not it doesn't and I end up making videos exploring why it doesn't work. I think it's probably accurate to say this is a genuine channel rather than a flashy, showy channel.

I had to mortgage the other head back in the 80s in order to pay Thatcher's taxes.

@@britishtechguru Yeah, that tracks.

As far as I recall, the end of the hose was wrapped tightly by wire that I untwisted with a pair of pliers. You won't lose much if you just cut the hose to get the old broken connector off.

I almost went for a really simple solution - writing a python program to generate the C++ code for sending messages as a series of switches and delays. In psuedocode that would look like.... repeat code port on delay port off delay port on delay port off

down to 1/100 of an amp

@@britishtechguru mA is milli amps. 1/100 of an amp is 10 milliamp

I'll try to remember. I don't guarantee I will. I'm a bit sloppy with technical terms to be honest.

I'll have a go at implementing different code either tonight or over the weekend. Apparently getting rid of Arduino delay(), digitalWrite() etc. and using direct port access saved over 300 bytes. Putting the strings into progmem saved a lot too. As of now it compiles nicely on the IDE with plenty spare storage. The question is what happens when I put it into an ATTiny13. I just hope my ATTiny85 programmer will work for the ATTiny13.

I rather suspect the photographers are going for dark moody images just like they were in movies which is why and when I quit movies. A total lack of editorial control means they produce arty farty stuff that nobody wants.

Most magazines now are just a scam to get money from advertisers.

Same as in the USA. Try posting negative comments about your employer and see how long it takes before they become a former employer. Two people did that at my job. They vanished quickly. It's called covering your arse.

It's just a Chinese website.

Yes. Several. But I always write under a pen name, just in case people don't like my book.

Yesterday I could see the way forward. Today I'm just too exhausted.

@@britishtechguru I mean we studied something like circuits and all. I hope everything is ok

Thinks are fine. The heat is exhausting her ein the deep south.

@@britishtechguru oh I see. Great to know everything is fine

@@jasminify My day job is 5:45 - 9:30 and 12:55 - 4:30 most days. They even slipped in one of their random drug tests today to spice things up a little. I wish they'd test the people that really do drugs,

It's a 12-14v power socket. An XT60 that's in my electronics lab. It powers my soldering iron or 3d printer etc.

Did you just not record audio?

@@britishtechguru I don't use it for audio, just a visual reference for my work. The tiny screen on the unit is a poor indicator of the true image quality. Played back through my PC the video is very good.

@@chris101gray3 The video quality is horrendous. The sound lags several seconds behind. It lacks definition. It lacks clarity. It's a toy camera for undiscerning pre-teens. Here's what it did for me: ruclips.net/video/dDCcDSB_ZSA/видео.html

I bought the wide ones to try. I have some smaller boards they'll be great for but the 40 pin Zifs are pretty costly. $10 for 5 or $3.50 each. I'll probably buy 5 and see where that leads or if I stick with female headers instead.

I believe it’s an xt60 though 6A is all it’ll be taking.