A VIEWER sent me this Jurassic Park TINY TV | Can I FIX It?
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This was sent in by Stuart to my PO Box. Thanks Stuart!
It's a Tiny TV Jurassic Park, erm thing.
It appears to have no power and won't turn on. Although pressing reset gives us a white screen...
Let's see if we can work out what's wrong with it!
Hope you enjoy!
Steve
PS. I'm not an expert in repairs at all. I do this for fun, and it may not be the best or safest way to go about repairing broken stuff. I'm pretty good at melting plastic though. Please don't copy me - I'm an idiot.
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I'm FINALLY famous! In the same video as Dave! Haha
Thanks for trying Steve. I'd have loved to have seen it working as it seems a usa exclusive one. Knew I should have got 2 of them instead of an among us figure for my nephew!
Cheers again, Stuart.
You are not famous
Nice to see you! Get a picture with Dave and you will level up :)
@@Anderyo I know him now. Are you jealous of his fame?
@@Anderyo aren't you a treat?
NOOOOOO, the spoiler !
Could try heating the blob chip from the back to re-flow the solder connections, worth a try.
good idea, does it ever work?
was about to comment that
@@murraymadness4674 Only one way to find out.
Won't work, they're wire bonded (like normal ICs), not soldered like BGAs.
@@j.f.christ8421 still worth a shot though
Congratulations on rolling over the counter Steve. I like your solution to the 100's. 😅👍
😂 thanks Chris!
While I honestly don’t like to see you fail it’s comforting to know you do ! Love the videos .
come on Steve do it! for the content baby!!
While pressing the 'blob chip' you were also flexing the board. May be broken traces.
I was thinking the same. There was a particular joint above the chip that was moving a LOT. Might be worth investigation
I really love what you've done with the channel! So much character!
I really hoped this was going to be a fix! I know you can find the videos of the Jurassic Park tv' on YT but, it would have been interesting to see you pull them off the flash chip. (I've done it from a couple of old toys with screens) It's definitely worth learning how to do!
can't fix em all, oh well. still cool to see inside it, great video!
Alternative Comment: Bob, The Builder: 'Can we fix it?'. Steve: 'Well, we can try!'.
I agree you should’ve heated the blob ship up. I see if you can reconnect the saddle joints.
That was a killer cover of Duran Duran!
It doesn't matter at this point but when you have buttons, you can test the voltage drop across a button, so you can analyze if when you press it the voltage goes out. Usually the buttons are pulled up by a resistor or internally of a MCU.
4:55 That is the contact switch for the "demo mode".
When you remove the plastic tab and the contact closes the device operates normally.
They made a South Park version of this. I saw it in the toy department at Walmart next to the Legos one day. Let that sink in.
Good E for Effort
Bloody hell Steve, all this time I’ve been watching and I didn’t realise you were just up the road in Bolton! 😂
Just wanted to say thank after watching a lot of your videos I had ago at fixing a broken security camera I had and was able to get it working so again thanks.😊
Thats a delightful item!
Guess in this Jurassic Park it wasn’t Meteors that wiped out the dinosaurs it was instead the deadly Black Blop.
You know Dr. Meddows suggested the same thing in the 1988 version of the BLOB. Small world isn't it?
I loved the PM Dawn jam. nice one!
I subscribed because you showed your fail. Great job being real.
Cotton bud with some acetone to see if the blob is soluble in acetone. If so, you might be able to get past the potting material.
It's resin. Your main choices are brute force or nitric acid.
Although the screen connections looked ok putting the pressure on the blob chip could be affecting the screens connection as they are underneath on other side of the pcb.
Worth a try?
View to a Kill got me I'm a fan now 😂
I have four of these tiny TVs mine are Original batman, back to the future, south park and friends. The remote died on the south park one but the TV still works. I'm curious if you take out that 8 pin rectangular chip which holds the videos that are shown and put it into another one of these TVs. I'm also curious if it's possible to extract the video files and play them back in VLC on a PC
Have you tried using the remote control? As with some 'real' TVs 'on' means standby. You need to use the remote to turn it on...
As well as heating the chip, you could try some freezer spray on the blob chip. It won't fix it but proves the point that the fault is in the chip. Freezer spray is great for fiinding dodgy components. Use a little at a time otherwise you won't isolate the fault.
Still just here for the raps and the songs! Awesome content :D
Hi dave and steve
Thats the tv thing from willow the wisp
Evil Edna! 📺😅
Use the screen and case for a RP Pico and make your own tiny TV.
Could you be shirt-circuiting the reset button when pressing the blob chip? It looks like the board is bending quite a bit?
Could you heat up the blob chip and hold it down with your plastic tool as you were doing when the screen came on? Hold it till it cools so it will stay in place. Just a wild thought. Sort of melt it in place but not too much to damage it
Likely wont do anything. A COB (chip on board) aka blob is a raw semiconductor dice (no package) glued to the board and has gold wires welded from it to the board and it does not use any solder. Then its covered by epoxy to protect it against light and reverse engineering
Oh man, only now realised you’re so near by! Fancy fixing a commodore PET? :)
Can you reflow through blob chip?
What have you got to lose ? Not working anyway what’s the worse it still doesn’t work?
you could try heating the blob?
Love your videos made me start my Channel ! 😊
I would absolutely remove the blob and see what else is under it. Could be a standard processor that has a few unsoldered leads. I mean it is broken presently. What else could you possibly do to it...
The blob is the cheapest way of producing a chip. A raw semiconductor dice which has no package (and is likely a APPLICATION SPECIFIC IC OR ASIC) and its glued to the board and has gold wires welded from the tiny mm size pads on the dice to the board. Covered by epoxy to protect it from light and rev engineering. Because you dont need metal pins and a package it saves a few cents
Great video as always. Incidentally I read recently that paleontologists have discovered a dinosaur that appears to have eaten nothing but curry during its life… they are going to name it Mega Sore Arse. 😂 regards
😅
OH MY GOD
hey mate, I am in west australia, i have a psp1000 that has a problem with the back light for the screen, ive replaced the screen, and tried a small yt fix but got nowhere, would you be interested in looking at it?
Unlucky Steve can’t win them all mate 😊
The wires are so thin on those chips under those blobs
S1 is a Switch the S stands for "S"witch. Forrest Mims' books has all that elementary info....
Why is a "blob chip" impossible? Is it worth scraping back the blob and checking continuity, or does the voltage check round the board rule out continuity issues?
Because the epoxy is impossible to remove without destroying what's underneath, and what's underneath is a bare chip with very very fine wires welded from the chip to the PCB.
But yes, you can chip bits off to look for broken traces etc. But if you get anywhere near the chip or the wires it's all over.
@@j.f.christ8421 ah right. Thanks for the explanation!
@@JamesStocksits the cheapest way of producing a chip. A raw semiconductor dice is glued to the pcb and has gold wires welded from it to the board and then covered by epoxy to protect it from light and rev engineering... Without the packaging process this saves the manufacturer a few cents
In another video that presents this, he powers up the tv thought the remote control. Not from buttons.
You’re the best Dave !!!!😂😂😂
the power for the backlight is aparently getting to the screen but the video signal isnt. Could it be the connection between the screen and the board that is faulty/ intemittent. You really need an oscilloscope fpr jobs like these. Then you could have seen if there was activity on the significant pins of the memory chip for example.
Nice.
try heating up the blob chip cause it could be as simple as a bad connection
What donyou charge steave ??. Got some small bits if your interested, 1 is unusual 😮!!??
Can we have a full version of 'A View to a Kill' please?
to me it looks like the screen in the back not the blob chip. try resolder it.
Good video!
Vince up and give that chip a try. LOL
That's the tiniest Remote and TV I've ever seen in my life. You'll need a magnifying glass to see the tiniest screen. 📺
It's a shame this is dead. These things are cool when working.
Try the power botton
Try it, it's not working anyways. And, someone needs to figure out a fix for the blob chips. Seems to be a consistent issue.
Fixing them is easy if you have the equipment, which of course no-one can afford. And even then no-one has a good method of removing the epoxy without doing damage, it's pretty tough stuff.
Mr Blobby strikes again.
You should try putting it together completely. That may have been the entire issue.
Anyone else watching this thinking we’ve missed a trick here. What if instead of going from video to DVD, DVD to Blu-ray and now Blu-ray to streaming service where nothing is ever available…what if we went a different way with digital route.
Instead of downloading a film and streaming via a cable to a TV or through an internet enabled TV….what if digital films came loaded on there own memory chip, a memory chip that also has a tiny lcd screen and either a WiFi card or HDMI hook up. So you have multiple ways of playing a film- either watching it directly on the chip or you connect it to your TV via cable or WiFi and watch it that way? Bring back the physical medium to digital entertainment? 😂
I mean that’s what I thought when I saw this thing. You make it say credit card sized but the thickness of a phone (gotta squeeze a battery in there!). Sure you can download stuff to your phone but it’s not the same, plus at any moment the Apple/Amazon/Netflix could remove it from there servers for whatever reason and it’s gone, or you have to pay another fee to watch it again!
Just a thought. I mean streaming, Spotify and everything are cool but I still listen to most of my music on my old minidisc player! Physical media, just feels better, feels like you own what you’re listening/watching 🤷
That happened with music. You had HitClips that needed a player, but there were stand-alone things as well. I'm sure TechMoan has covered them. VideoNow was the video version. I have seen magazines where they put an entire video player (screen, battery etc) just to play an advert.
Possible with e-ink, we've basically got those as supermarket price labels.
bake it ..its worth a try
"reflow" the blob chip (heat it with your hit air gun)
What exactly is under those blobby chips
A bare IC and very very fine wires.
A raw semiconductor that is glued to the pcb and bonded with welded gold wire. It is the cheapest way of producing chips
Life will find a way to skip to 3:30 lmao. As if we would do that..
As a last resort I would suggest reflowing the blob chip using hot air from the back side of the board.
Blob chips aren't soldered on.
@@j.f.christ8421 There has to be some sort of electrical connection between the circuit board traces and the corresponding sections of the blob chip. There is no way that the pcb was manufactured with the blob chip already installed. Anyway what harm could it do to heat up the board from the backside and pressing the blob chip down while allowing the board to cool? The device has already been determined as a no fix.
@@DracoMcGuyver You can heat the chip up, but you're just wasting your time.
These are made exactly the same way you make a normal IC, the electrical connections are tiny (and I mean really tiny) wires welded to the IC & the PCB. It saves a fraction of a cent doing it this way over just soldering a chip in.
Look up "UV EPROM", they have a window where you can see what all this looks like under the epoxy.
The slotmachine has cost you some of that cosmic luck.
U have to use the remote control for it to work duh
12:30 do it!!!
Bake it
Do it d it do it
You could reflow it...
He keeps working with an open cut thumb, what a bloke. 🙂
We want to see you ruin the blob chip and try and replace the chip underneath.
I have two of these with different films, neither worked right from the get-go. I contacted the company and their support basically told me to piss off.
Same here. I was hoping this was a fix for it as I hate to have it displayed as non working.
@@sizzal31 One of mine will display a test pattern and play a shut-off sound when powering down, but nothing else happens.
This is an absolute disaster!
Am I the only one to notice 18 Volts on the multimeter for absolutly no reason ?
No just fyi
Am i the only one here because of Shane's reference on Kill Tony?
scrape it away !!!!!!
Wow I'm disappointed 😂
🍊"China China China" 🍊
Is this guy rapping?
I liked the rapping clip. But this is a pointless toy product
You used too much hot air near the center chip, when there is that type of chip that is simply covered with that black glue, it is better to avoid using hot air
Did you just rhyme 4 with four?
Tsk tsk.
Who's Steve?
In the end-of-the-world movie "2012", the humans survived the apocalypse by boarding arks made in China... (yes, in the movie the arks were made in China)
HAHAHAHAHA...RIP humanity.
It's either those or Noah's Ark from Kentucky.
@@j.f.christ8421 Well, if them's my choices, it's still RIP humanity.
@@ellesmerewildwood4858 Hey, at least the Chinese arks won't smell of elephant pee. Maybe.
Hey, Steve, I think the LCD connector was on the board opposite the blob, could there be a bad connection on the connector, and pressing the blob manipulates it?
Really appreciate you sharing the successes as well as the failures, Steve! Too many RUclipsrs only show their successes & conceal the real challenge of DIY repair. It's especially important in these days of anti-right-to-repair efforts on the part of the corps.
Yay, I'm so proud of the counter! It always the first place I look when your videos load up haha. Also, looks like you need to update the other counter and add another 1k!
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Stupid blobs. I wonder if maybe a leg of the IC under the blob wasn't soldered well and then the blob stuff got in under a leg or two, preventing contact. Then when you're applying pressure, you're connecting one of the legs but maybe another leg has too much blob under it for pressure to resolve? Shame its so hard to remove blob.
BTW, speaking of Dave, you wouldn't believe it but I was repairing a TOMY Super Cup football game (video 'soon') and guess what fell out of the box? A DAVE. I was going to call him Steve and put him in resin, but there's a fine line between imitation and tribute so I gave him a proper burial.
😂 Dave 2! Love it.
Yeah, I might still try and remove that blob. I've been told you can melt it off with some chemically stuff or something. Sounds like hard work though! 😅
@@StezStixFixI'd be well up for watching a video of you melting a blob off!!
Thank you for hiding spoiler information, wish everyone would do that!
@@StezStixFix Try a heat gun to soften it first. From what i've heard about the chemical way, it takes harsh and nasty chemicals that you definitely don't want to be breathing in (some can also damage the board)
@@iaincowell9747 You can't get the epoxy off without causing damage.
Well done darling. You publish all your stuff, even if it doesn’t work and also, you turn up in your work like an artist. You are a lovely man. Blessed be 💕
Blessed be?? The Hooded Man shall come to the forest....To be Herne's son and do his bidding.....
@@Simon-xc5oy Prophecies of Gildas
@@janskeet1382 Ahhh.....its an old English Pagan greeting so being a child / teen of the 80s I was taken back to Richard Carpenters Robin of Sherwood....a true classic. No clue about Prophesies of Gildas....sorry....
@@Simon-xc5oy Yes, I’m an old English Pagen. The Prophesies of Gildas are quoted in Carpenter’s Robin of Sherwood.
@@janskeet1382 Ahh I see. Just know it as Pagan etc and through Robin of Sherwood. It all seems a long time ago now..since the 80s and such great television....Most of the cast are in their 60s and 70s now...how time flies.
This might just be me but I think when pressed the board seemed to bend along a distinct line under the blob chip, is it the board itself?
Thought the same. Maybe broken lines?
something stupid that i found interesting regarding the blue mat, the circular indentation to the right of Dave is to hold a loupe! I saw this on one of My Mate Vince's videos.
I always wonder, do people get there items back when they send them in? Or are they alway making a one way trip?
Blobby Blobby Blobby!!!
(Only those in the UK of a ... certain age will have any idea what that was...!)
😂 bring back mr blobby!
Please don't 😂
No for the love of God don't use too give me nightmares 😂
Oh yeah we all know.
I'm from the U.S but i learned about Mr. Blobby from an episode of Expedition Theme Park on RUclips.
It's almost never the blob chip that fails. The most likely culprit is the screen.
Hi from Australia.. i really like watching u have a go at fixing stuff.. i stumbled across your channel by accident and love it!! Im a 50 yr old female who isnt into this stuff but for some reason find this realy interesting and have a chuckle at the little jokes u make.. keep up the great work!