These BG videos are brilliant. How anybody can make an enthralling video about unboxing and hacking such tat is beyond me. BC succeeds every time and produces a winner! Thanks BC!
Poor choice of LED color, but otherwise not that bad. These are almost certainly meant to fire at the prompting of trick or treaters at the door. As such since you'd use them once a year and in most neighborhoods groups don't camp out on your stoop all night... the lack of extensive novelty probably isn't an issue. Different kids would just hit and run through the evening. Entertaining for them and for you hiding in the bushes chuckling at how successfully you startled them when you jumped out in a mask and cloak while they were busy scoffing at your cheap-assed Poundland Spooky Lights.
For something hung as at Halloween party by a door it's great. This isn't something that you hang in your living room and watch for hours which is what our dissector seems to be expecting.
Dead Frt West Ah the good old peanut allergies: Natures version of population control. If your child cannot be around peanut oils without dying, sorry to say, but that kid is not gonna make it. At least that's how it was before we started protecting the weak and useless, ensuring that they will out-number "normal" people 1000/1. Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual, dammit! lol I am all for the Democratic values we *used to* stand for, but when you start protecting those who would be killed off through their own weakness or stupidity, you end up with a weak, stupid society, which is exactly what we've got in the West now. I mean, for chrissakes, we put "compressed gas" warnings on bottles of pop and "hot liquid" warnings on cups of coffee. If you can't live without "stupidity warnings" like that, far as I'm concerned, you can go pound sand.
The name of the philosophy you're espousing, INF1D3L010, is "Lebensunwertes Leben", and was the justification used by the Nazis to empty the hospitals and mental wards into the back of a truck and pipe in the exhaust. You may find promoting the death of people with disabilities to be socially unwelcome in civilized society.
This is perfect for inflicting on shop staff who have to have demo units playing ALL DAY LONG. Like the staff who for weeks have to suffer full sized Santas talking and playing the same Christmas song over and over and over. They look so worn out after only few days.......
Worked at Costco doing demos. That was the most annoying part of the job. Standing at the same corner all day hearing these things going off. Constantly.
For halloween, I prefer the high voltage generator (definitely not for making a stun gun, oh no) you examined in a previous video. Wired to the door knocker so the kids do all the howling. *Get off my lawn!*
These cheap blob chip circuits usually use resistor to set the clock speed. Increasing the resistance should make it run slower, and if you use the right value, you could make the jacobs ladder sound like 50Hz instead of 60.
Brief photosensitive seizure warning at 1:34 until about 2:00. [it's brief but was enough to cause vomiting, numbness and dizziness. Big Clive lights them again later but they are no longer strobing! yay!]
Clive one day you are going to have to show us your junk box with all the things that get taken apart. That one and the Christmas ones that keep playing the same bunch of sounds just drives me nuts and makes me want to cup it into little tiny bits.
A lot of effort gone into manufacturing something for what is basically a one night 'Celebration '. Halloween & Christmas are all getting mixed up now, I've seen Halloween tinsel & spooky baubles in Poundland too! Also solar Christmas light strings, they're not going to run for long at the darkest time of the year!
I appreciate that they made the packaging spooky in a way that is unrelated to how the product itself is spooky, in that it looks like a mouth with teeth I also like how theres a whole electronic chip and speaker setup designed to reproduce electric zapping sounds lol
I don't understand this I can think of a million ways it could have been better by doing less. I.e the electric sounds only as a Frankenstein thing with steampunk covers, then do another with the bat flapping sound with bat led covers etc, they could have done a whole line of the things, spooky laughing and pumpkin covers.
The construction and PCB-producing methods used here look ancient. They remind me of pulling apart my wired Remote Control toys as a kid way back in the '90s. Everything inside those toys very closely resembled what was inside that confuser box. I have to wonder... Did they use NOS parts from the '90s? lol
Another ten minutes of enjoyment and relaxing teardown & reverse engineering, thanks Clive! I wonder if the terrible sounds quality is due to the speaker or it is just because they are using the cheapest crappiest DAC possible in that CON...
I guess it's the shitty speaker and amp. And also low sampling rate, to fit more PCM samples to the ROM. The DAC won't be stellar either, but doubt its quality is the bottleneck.
Well, technically, PWM is a form of DAC in this application. The speaker's impedance itself will naturally act as a low-pass filter. Very cheap design. I personally think the sample rate will be the worst quality-limiting factor here. Sounds like 8 kHz PCM sampling rate.
might be worth the effort to fit a better speaker (possibly via an amplification stage) - see what happens. Could be useful for other purposes . . . . (scaring the neighbours in the wee small hours!)
Umm, any ideas for engineering reasons why would they the piezo instead of an electret mike? Price? Ease of processing of the output signal? More suitable sensitivity characteristics?
Electret mic elements can be quite cheap but the amplifier would need 2 or 3 extra components and the electret element would draw a constant 200uA typically.
It will detect movement/concussion as well as just sound, so if you move the box without making a sound it will still trigger. Piezo speakers are often used as DIY drum pads for example.
cold white is the best light ... but to mess with your theory; I grew up in a warm climate and have lived in a cold climate for a decade or so; still despise all things beige ... like cars, cloth, paint, and lighting ... though I do have a bit of nostalgia for those old sodium lights in streets and apartment complexes from my youth and I believe they tested some green ones on a street or few (still prefer non-yellow spectrum for most anything).
Take a string of ordinary lights, splice an FS2 fluorescent starter into the cord, and it produces a wonderful random flickering effect that's great for Halloween
Hey Clive Hows about using your electronic wizardry to do a how-to on converting florescent tube lights into random flickering horror light props for halloween? I'd love that!
No need to smoke in China; the air quality is already pretty bad there. I once read a report from a journalist who was travelling via bus in China. The reporter claimed that the fact that the exhaust gases, which were going *into* the passenger compartment, did not noticeably lower air quality compared to the outside. That made me wonder...if you were smoking a *filter* cigarette in a "typical Chinese factory", might that not be actually beneficial?
Has some lights and a-recorded sound trigger on a motion sensor or on a security light that detects motion and maybe you can have some higher amperage household appliances come on with the use of a relay
While I'm one of the heathens who generally like cold white LEDs, I can't imagine what they where thinking combining it with he "nicotine stained" covers. That really begs for the warm white.
I have a couple of spooky light bulbs that look like the bulbs on this string. They flicker randomly and can be switched so it functions like a normal light bulb. One bulb I modded to run on batteries. Doesn't play any sound effects. I have a sound box that you put inside a jack o lantern and it lights up and play sounds. The audio quality is very good (16khz) The chip on your string of lights may use the same type of audio chip. Mine is a 16 pin chip that may be reprogrammable.
Be nice if you could just get the plastic globes by themselves. I think that placed over the lamps of a string of incandescent steady Christmas lights, they'd give a pretty gloomy effect.
Hey Clive, I was just watching a video you made a while ago about some props you made for a Sci-Fi show back in 2003, involving 8 LED sets of flip-flops wired into a hand-etched circuit board. Would love to see you do a video on how to wire up those flip-flops circuits, I was thinking of building one of my own for a computer case I'm building.
In my experience cheap sound generator chips use an RC oscillator, which is very sensitive to voltage changes. Raise the voltage, and it'll play everything quicker. Lowering the voltage is more interesting - i had one module that would still run on half voltage, and the playback would be also at 50% speed. Combined with the super gritty 4 or 8 bit samples and the low sample rate, it would sound monstrous.
@@bubba99009 Reminds me of a white wall in a smoker's paradise. I have seen some low-income homes with windows that had years of prehistoric amber on them.......err, cigarette tar, I guess. Gross!
-Halloween's going strictly commercial these days... gone are the days of the simplicity of ducking for apples or the old treacle scone on a string from the branch of the tree out the back in the ghostly glow of a 500w halogen light in the mist & the local kids dressing up going from door to door.
gazyounglive God, I miss those days! Still can remember walking from door to door in my skeleton warrior costume with my friends... Today, well it is mostly money making. Just sad!
Gazyounglive+ Ah yes ducking for apples. Apples’ floating in a tub of water, the first kid in line with a bad cold gets the snot rinsed out of his nose and every kid behind him sticks his face into it and catches his cold. Sometimes I wonder how we ever got through our childhood.
Now wire up a real HV generator, and put a (small) Jacob’s Ladder on top of the unit, and have it activate when the “electricity” sound plays - much more fun that way!
I think the Microphone picks up ultra-sonic frequencies, like the TV remotes of the 70's which could be affected by jangling keys/change. Thus, you can pick up the jangling of the change the little scamps have been collecting before they get to your door. Damn, mentioned 70's TVs showing my age now. Come to think of it those TVs were annoying too, would change channel etc. just when you didn't want them to.
Chuck the gizzards and the lights in the bin and use the box / battery holder for your arduino project. An arduino runs quite well from 3 AA batteries.
I don't think Dollar tree is really a fair counterpart to Poundland. Five Below is probably closer (they have a lot more junky electronic garbage), but still not the same.
Last year Poundland sold a Halloween spooky bulb that looked a bit like the firefly garden lamps but with a base so they could stand vertically. There were six LEDs on a stiff wire string inside powered by three AA cells and the current was limited by a 4.7R resistor in series. (A teardown in two sentences). For £1 they have to be better value than this £5 offering. Poundland is turning into Poundsland.
Didn't see those in my local "Pound"land when I looked around it earlier on. How much were they, out of curiosity? :-) Any more than £1, and I'd have to call a rip-off. BoM can't be any more than 40p for production in volume! :-o
Ignore all the contents. That looks like a pretty decent project box for anything requiring 4.5V (or 3.6V). Edit: £5? I could have (previously) done better at Maplin.
When you look at the construction and the tiny purchase cost of these things, they are I suppose good value for money, this could be used as a security device.
Guess they have one sound chip in China, exactly the same sound from my Halloween mystery Lantern here in Canada . The noise detection relies on kids being very loud at the door
Hey +bigclivedotcom, if you're interested in taking a wireless mouse apart (break it for lots of sharp edges to make it a splatter video!) to investigate what exactly made it fail (won't disclose here to retain your Sherlock Holmesian experience), which postal address should I us to make it happen?
Would be interesting to hear the tinny noises through a decent sound system just to hear if they are still sampling in 8 bit @ 8kHz or have used a soundcard grade 16 bit COB. As for the butt plugs you can get 10 x mobile vibrator motors from eBay under £2
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"HELP ME" screams the electronic box, just as Clive starts to dissect it... ;-D
@MultiVogon --> The best help it could receive *_is_* BC dissecting it. lol
"lets just turn that off" lol, the brutality of a surgeon
"FINALLY, SWEET RELEASE"
Cold white LEDs - the scariest thing I've seen
Plus a horribly distorted, tinny sounding speaker. Hell!
My entire family was slaughtered by faint sound cold led's HAVE SOME RESPECT
Juan Brits made in China... always scary
Yeah I just SHIT my pants and started hyperventilating...lol
@@cardboardboxification :...Aint that the truth..lol
Imagine breaking into someones house and then beeing greated by strange sounds and a flashing string of buttplugs...
Good thing I am not a burglar.
Omg memory's. My mate smoked so much in his kitchen he had tinted windows nicotine colour.
These BG videos are brilliant. How anybody can make an enthralling video about unboxing and hacking such tat is beyond me. BC succeeds every time and produces a winner! Thanks BC!
The spookiest lights are the Aliexpress specials straight from Shenzen, especially ones providing 300 volts of spookyness to where ever when ever!
if you touch them you might accidentally turn into a spooky skeleton too.
Kevin Miedema
LOL and flickering brightly with a neat X-Ray Effect !
Poor choice of LED color, but otherwise not that bad. These are almost certainly meant to fire at the prompting of trick or treaters at the door. As such since you'd use them once a year and in most neighborhoods groups don't camp out on your stoop all night... the lack of extensive novelty probably isn't an issue. Different kids would just hit and run through the evening.
Entertaining for them and for you hiding in the bushes chuckling at how successfully you startled them when you jumped out in a mask and cloak while they were busy scoffing at your cheap-assed Poundland Spooky Lights.
For something hung as at Halloween party by a door it's great.
This isn't something that you hang in your living room and watch for hours which is what our dissector seems to be expecting.
I'm going to play a loop of our orange menace addressing his minions- it's the scariest thing I've ever heard.
Big Clive, never stop being a kid at heart, or anywhere else for that matter! Love your videos
Yeah, they totally don't look like a string of unripe aubergines... :P
The flickering. "Trick or treat!"
Why is that kid having a fit?
Peanut allergy, lol. "Does it contain peanuts?! He can't have peanuts! Do you have something without peanuts?!" brat last Halloween.
Trick or treat is an American hijacking of a good old Celtic festival.
Lol convulsing on the porch thanks to flickering lights 😜
Dead Frt West
Ah the good old peanut allergies: Natures version of population control. If your child cannot be around peanut oils without dying, sorry to say, but that kid is not gonna make it. At least that's how it was before we started protecting the weak and useless, ensuring that they will out-number "normal" people 1000/1. Idiocracy wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual, dammit! lol
I am all for the Democratic values we *used to* stand for, but when you start protecting those who would be killed off through their own weakness or stupidity, you end up with a weak, stupid society, which is exactly what we've got in the West now. I mean, for chrissakes, we put "compressed gas" warnings on bottles of pop and "hot liquid" warnings on cups of coffee. If you can't live without "stupidity warnings" like that, far as I'm concerned, you can go pound sand.
The name of the philosophy you're espousing, INF1D3L010, is "Lebensunwertes Leben", and was the justification used by the Nazis to empty the hospitals and mental wards into the back of a truck and pipe in the exhaust. You may find promoting the death of people with disabilities to be socially unwelcome in civilized society.
This is perfect for inflicting on shop staff who have to have demo units playing ALL DAY LONG. Like the staff who for weeks have to suffer full sized Santas talking and playing the same Christmas song over and over and over. They look so worn out after only few days.......
Worked at Costco doing demos. That was the most annoying part of the job. Standing at the same corner all day hearing these things going off. Constantly.
Pretty cool, cant believe it has Coldplays album on it.
Mmm, pizza electric, the most delicious kind of electric.
When I'm scared on Halloween I'm going to listen to this again and Big Clive's calming voice will reassure me it's all just electronic trickery 😱😱😱
As someone with a sensitivity to strobing lights, if I was subjected to those for very long, along with the sounds, I'd have a massive headache.
Imagine wiring that up to a 200 watt house amp and speakers? Scare the living shit out of people. I love it.
2:41 "...I'm guessing the sensor may be based on the optical, ah lets open it" 🍻 🤣👍🏻
For halloween, I prefer the high voltage generator (definitely not for making a stun gun, oh no) you examined in a previous video. Wired to the door knocker so the kids do all the howling.
*Get off my lawn!*
It is 60 hertz buzzing, not appropiate as an EU import...
These cheap blob chip circuits usually use resistor to set the clock speed. Increasing the resistance should make it run slower, and if you use the right value, you could make the jacobs ladder sound like 50Hz instead of 60.
Even the lights brexit
love this time of the year. You get to see alll the new LED tech thats made it into decorations .
Brief photosensitive seizure warning at 1:34 until about 2:00.
[it's brief but was enough to cause vomiting, numbness and dizziness. Big Clive lights them again later but they are no longer strobing! yay!]
Clive one day you are going to have to show us your junk box with all the things that get taken apart.
That one and the Christmas ones that keep playing the same bunch of sounds just drives me nuts and makes me want to cup it into little tiny bits.
A lot of effort gone into manufacturing something for what is basically a one night 'Celebration '.
Halloween & Christmas are all getting mixed up now, I've seen Halloween tinsel & spooky baubles in Poundland too!
Also solar Christmas light strings, they're not going to run for long at the darkest time of the year!
Let's just hope that it's not like the flashing eyed skull I bought from Poundland years ago....
It's possessed!
Well, if you bought it then yes, it's your possession.
I appreciate that they made the packaging spooky in a way that is unrelated to how the product itself is spooky, in that it looks like a mouth with teeth
I also like how theres a whole electronic chip and speaker setup designed to reproduce electric zapping sounds lol
I don't understand this I can think of a million ways it could have been better by doing less. I.e the electric sounds only as a Frankenstein thing with steampunk covers, then do another with the bat flapping sound with bat led covers etc, they could have done a whole line of the things, spooky laughing and pumpkin covers.
The construction and PCB-producing methods used here look ancient. They remind me of pulling apart my wired Remote Control toys as a kid way back in the '90s. Everything inside those toys very closely resembled what was inside that confuser box. I have to wonder... Did they use NOS parts from the '90s? lol
I just saw the title and thought "Ooo a new Ashens video"... Honestly happy either way.
Maybe try under and over volting that cob 'controller' to see if that makes the sound more interesting.
Love how the annoying sound effects kept interrupting you.
Nicotine does not stain. It's colorless, odorless crystalline powder in it's pure form.
Tar, on the other hand...
Regardless; the effect of a disgusting smoker
@@Ekriirke do you... drive? ;)
I'm able, but I bike
nevermind then... :))
Its a colorless to brownish oily liquid. How did you come up with it being a crystalline powder? Did you mistake it for caffeine?
Epileptics must absolutely LOVE Halloween....
Another ten minutes of enjoyment and relaxing teardown & reverse engineering, thanks Clive!
I wonder if the terrible sounds quality is due to the speaker or it is just because they are using the cheapest crappiest DAC possible in that CON...
I guess it's the shitty speaker and amp. And also low sampling rate, to fit more PCM samples to the ROM. The DAC won't be stellar either, but doubt its quality is the bottleneck.
DAC? DAC????? We don't need to steenkin' DACs. Pulse width modulation.is good enough for something like this.
Well, technically, PWM is a form of DAC in this application. The speaker's impedance itself will naturally act as a low-pass filter. Very cheap design. I personally think the sample rate will be the worst quality-limiting factor here. Sounds like 8 kHz PCM sampling rate.
might be worth the effort to fit a better speaker (possibly via an amplification stage) - see what happens. Could be useful for other purposes . . . . (scaring the neighbours in the wee small hours!)
Yeah, would be interesting!
Umm, any ideas for engineering reasons why would they the piezo instead of an electret mike? Price? Ease of processing of the output signal? More suitable sensitivity characteristics?
Electret mic elements can be quite cheap but the amplifier would need 2 or 3 extra components and the electret element would draw a constant 200uA typically.
It will detect movement/concussion as well as just sound, so if you move the box without making a sound it will still trigger. Piezo speakers are often used as DIY drum pads for example.
cold white is the best light ... but to mess with your theory; I grew up in a warm climate and have lived in a cold climate for a decade or so; still despise all things beige ... like cars, cloth, paint, and lighting ... though I do have a bit of nostalgia for those old sodium lights in streets and apartment complexes from my youth and I believe they tested some green ones on a street or few (still prefer non-yellow spectrum for most anything).
Take a string of ordinary lights, splice an FS2 fluorescent starter into the cord, and it produces a wonderful random flickering effect that's great for Halloween
Well, that sounds unsafe... lol
can you use a higher wattage starter such as a fs4 or a fs64 for bigger bulbs?
hey I could save money perhaps, could it be done for 97p perhaps?
Do it with a 4 channel Christmas light string! Forget the little box, and hook up a lamp starter in series to each of the channels!
Is the starter installed in parallel or in series???.
Hey Clive
Hows about using your electronic wizardry to do a how-to on converting florescent tube lights into random flickering horror light props for halloween? I'd love that!
Turns out it is not painted at all but it is the chinese factory workers smoking at work.
its an outrage, the factory owners should b ashamed , letting 6 year olds smoke on duty
@@baxter22071990 Imagine the "smoking chamber" where they just sit smoking with the bulbs hanging on a rope... xD
No need to smoke in China; the air quality is already pretty bad there.
I once read a report from a journalist who was travelling via bus in China. The reporter claimed that the fact that the exhaust gases, which were going *into* the passenger compartment, did not noticeably lower air quality compared to the outside. That made me wonder...if you were smoking a *filter* cigarette in a "typical Chinese factory", might that not be actually beneficial?
They are supposed to look like a set of chompers in the package, I agree.
At around the 6 minute mark, when you turned the sound back on it woke my cats from a sound sleep and they freaked out.
Has some lights and a-recorded sound trigger on a motion sensor or on a security light that detects motion and maybe you can have some higher amperage household appliances come on with the use of a relay
Makes sense to be sound activated. Halloween is a night activity. And the box is usually well hidden...
While I'm one of the heathens who generally like cold white LEDs, I can't imagine what they where thinking combining it with he "nicotine stained" covers. That really begs for the warm white.
I have a couple of spooky light bulbs that look like the bulbs on this string. They flicker randomly and can be switched so it functions like a normal light bulb. One bulb I modded to run on batteries. Doesn't play any sound effects.
I have a sound box that you put inside a jack o lantern and it lights up and play sounds. The audio quality is very good (16khz) The chip on your string of lights may use the same type of audio chip. Mine is a 16 pin chip that may be reprogrammable.
Big Clive should do audio books. Love his voice.
@bigclivedotcom - I have a brand new hive smartlight that failed straight out of the box . Would you be interested in having it sent in?
That sound sensing circuit is identical to my LED light sensing circuits! Neat :D
Be nice if you could just get the plastic globes by themselves.
I think that placed over the lamps of a string of incandescent steady Christmas lights, they'd give a pretty gloomy effect.
Hey Clive, I was just watching a video you made a while ago about some props you made for a Sci-Fi show back in 2003, involving 8 LED sets of flip-flops wired into a hand-etched circuit board. Would love to see you do a video on how to wire up those flip-flops circuits, I was thinking of building one of my own for a computer case I'm building.
Clive have you already got time to try repair your Amecal meter while filming your attempts ?(the one with the dial that is spinning freely)
The transistor with the piezoelectric that turns it on, does it get latched on for the entire duration of sound effects/lights till they go off?
I wonder what would happen if you overpowered it?
Would it just burn out or would something truly scary happen?
In my experience cheap sound generator chips use an RC oscillator, which is very sensitive to voltage changes. Raise the voltage, and it'll play everything quicker. Lowering the voltage is more interesting - i had one module that would still run on half voltage, and the playback would be also at 50% speed. Combined with the super gritty 4 or 8 bit samples and the low sample rate, it would sound monstrous.
LimaVictor I want to see this now.
But Ashens, what happend to your hands? They are spooky!
So I'm sitting here waiting for him to start taking it apart and he precedes that by peeking into it's orifices.
Wow that sucks. The bulb sockets light up, not the actual bulbs, lol!
Yea don't care for the caps at all. Not sure what nicotine stained bulbs have to do with Halloween anyway.
bubba99009 all the kids love a pack of cigs in the bag
@@bubba99009 Reminds me of a white wall in a smoker's paradise. I have seen some low-income homes with windows that had years of prehistoric amber on them.......err, cigarette tar, I guess. Gross!
@@bubba99009 Kind of reminds me of some sort of alien egg sacks.
-Halloween's going strictly commercial these days... gone are the days of the simplicity of ducking for apples or the old treacle scone on a string from the branch of the tree out the back in the ghostly glow of a 500w halogen light in the mist & the local kids dressing up going from door to door.
gazyounglive God, I miss those days! Still can remember walking from door to door in my skeleton warrior costume with my friends... Today, well it is mostly money making. Just sad!
Gazyounglive+ Ah yes ducking for apples. Apples’ floating in a tub of water, the first kid in line with a bad cold gets the snot rinsed out of his nose and every kid behind him sticks his face into it and catches his cold. Sometimes I wonder how we ever got through our childhood.
july8xx Yeah, I often asked that myself aswell.
Now wire up a real HV generator, and put a (small) Jacob’s Ladder on top of the unit, and have it activate when the “electricity” sound plays - much more fun that way!
You're correct, it's 100% for noise detection.
Some (or all) of the sounds are taken from recordings of a Tesla spirit radio, probably from RUclips.
That "squeaky door" sounded just a bit like a loo being flushed. :-O
If the epileptic fits don't kill you, the neighbours-so-annoyed-by-the-noise-that-they-grab-machetes-and-come-at-you certainly will.
Did this really cost only 1 pound or is this one of their higher priced items
I think the Microphone picks up ultra-sonic frequencies, like the TV remotes of the 70's which could be affected by jangling keys/change. Thus, you can pick up the jangling of the change the little scamps have been collecting before they get to your door.
Damn, mentioned 70's TVs showing my age now. Come to think of it those TVs were annoying too, would change channel etc. just when you didn't want them to.
I have a spooky led video about to also come out. I am glad that it's not on the same product XD
Very spoopy
Is spoopy when you are so scared you poo your pants?
@@crawfish069 Yep, that's the definition of spoopy. Shit gets so spooky it makes you go poopy.
Chuck the gizzards and the lights in the bin and use the box / battery holder for your arduino project. An arduino runs quite well from 3 AA batteries.
Any idea as to the percentage of your subs who haven't a Poundland to shop at?
Pretty much all The Americans. But we have Dollar tree, and a Dollar is worth less than a pound, so Dollar Tree merchandise is even shittier.
I don't think Dollar tree is really a fair counterpart to Poundland. Five Below is probably closer (they have a lot more junky electronic garbage), but still not the same.
Could you show us an oscillator that would drive that piezo as an atomizer?
Snipping the lights off this, and hiding it in someone's house could be pretty amusing.
“I’m guessing...” *spooky interrupting sound*
“I’m guessing...” *another spooky interrupting sound*
“I’m guessing...” *yet another spooky interrupting sound*
*rips apart box* 😂
What part of the circuit was causing the flickering and how did you by-pass it? Was it the chip?
i used to have these, i disconnected them from everything and just hooked it directly up to a 12v supply. less noise and more light :)
Last year Poundland sold a Halloween spooky bulb that looked a bit like the firefly garden lamps but with a base so they could stand vertically. There were six LEDs on a stiff wire string inside powered by three AA cells and the current was limited by a 4.7R resistor in series. (A teardown in two sentences).
For £1 they have to be better value than this £5 offering.
Poundland is turning into Poundsland.
Didn't see those in my local "Pound"land when I looked around it earlier on. How much were they, out of curiosity? :-)
Any more than £1, and I'd have to call a rip-off. BoM can't be any more than 40p for production in volume! :-o
could you test the speaker with some more hifidelity equipment?
Might be interesting.
Ignore all the contents. That looks like a pretty decent project box for anything requiring 4.5V (or 3.6V). Edit: £5? I could have (previously) done better at Maplin.
One minute playing with new toy... let's open it! :) Greetings from Poland :)
Hi Clive, what was the side button for?
I think that they have been using the same sound chip for at least five years.
When you look at the construction and the tiny purchase cost of these things, they are I suppose good value for money, this could be used as a security device.
Looks quite hackable and the box seems to be very spacious. As is, it's rather annoying though. Some decent parts for the money.
Guess they have one sound chip in China, exactly the same sound from my Halloween mystery Lantern here in Canada . The noise detection relies on kids being very loud at the door
are those kodak batteries any good? i've seen them so cheap -at the price of non-alkaline batteries- so i was hesitant to buy em
I've not had a problem with them. Don't get the zinc chloride ones though.
Request please! 12 and 24 volt immersion heaters for use with solar panels. They sound good but are they?
Hey +bigclivedotcom, if you're interested in taking a wireless mouse apart (break it for lots of sharp edges to make it a splatter video!) to investigate what exactly made it fail (won't disclose here to retain your Sherlock Holmesian experience), which postal address should I us to make it happen?
Stick them outside near your front door on Halloween so any approaching kids set it off or when they ring the bell it will give them a scare!
Would be interesting to hear the tinny noises through a decent sound system just to hear if they are still sampling in 8 bit @ 8kHz or have used a soundcard grade 16 bit COB. As for the butt plugs you can get 10 x mobile vibrator motors from eBay under £2
Got a link? Asking for a friend 😁
Happy to oblige :-) www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=mobile+vibrator+motor&_sacat=0
Fun. Should be random flickering, not steady strobing, especially withelectic arc mode.
too bad you didn't measure the quiescent current. I wonder how efficient this sensing part is.
Pumpkin spice latte season already, next thing you'll know it will be the Xmas Cola trucks.
I know this is a stupid question, but that's a really nice mini-driver you've got there. What brand is it?
Poundland , for real..
Thanks, but I'd rather hear it from him.
@@MFKR696 , OK but that's where you get them, have some myself.
Ah ic. I suppose I'll look into them then.
If you could make the warm lights have a breathing mode it would be better in my mind.
My set said "We are the conservatives and we own you" I think had the Thersa May edition.
Far too frightening! 😁
Or Corbyn: We have come to redistribute your sweets.
Or the Trump Edition: "Make Halloween great again!"
I got the Hilary Clinton edition.
All the sounds got deleted.
I'd give you the Australian version but the sound seem to be very unstable.
Should play Thriller very nicely to that.
The real spooky thing is the batteries were dead the entire time...
Just think to get those sounds recorded it probably took more money than it took to make the device itself.
Is it £1 ,from a poundshop or Managers special at £3.74 ?
It's £5.
Has anyone else noticed the little light symbol he uses for the LEDs looks like a "=3" face?
Now that you mention it it does! Also your icon is adorable !!
Poundland... is that in poundtown?