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There are also certain appliances that can't run Doom due to a distinct lack of digital logic. Buuuuut who says you can't cheat and hide a computer inside?
Tips for soldering: Good news! Shaking is not actually your problem. I have shaky hands and can solder the smallest smd components with some decent quality flux core wire and a ts80 (and sometimes a lot of patience). 1. Use flux, its the solderers best friend. Check if your solder wire has flux in it. Good electronics solder has flux in the solder wire, often called "flux core". It looks like your solder wire might not. That would explain why your solder joints look so bad. For most things, flux core is enough, but for very small work, you'll want separate flux. 2. Buy a better soldering iron. You are doing yourself no favour at all trying to solder with that iron. The work is so far away from your hand, every movement is amplified. If you want to do small scale electronics (and not soldering high power stuff), you need a suitable iron. Good irons don't even cost that much. I love my TS80 (~90$), especially the short grip-to-tip distance, but the ts101 (~60$) or the pinecil (v2) are valid options as well. I hope this helps.
To add on to this, it's also important to ensure both metals being bonded are at similar temperatures. Cold joints wont make good mechanical connections (the solder may refuse to properly adhere and they snap easy).
You should definitely use flux (a "paste" or liquid that helps you melt the solder more quickly and easy). Also, you should put the tip of the soldering iron on the contact pad holding the cable you want to solder, and then you touch the pad with the solder. There are great tutorials out there on how to solder properly, and it is one of those things where the technique is not intuitive but it is super easy to learn and makes ALL the difference.
Flux also lowers the surface tension of solder, making it kind of like a "soap" for metal instead of water. The liquid metal has a strong affinity for other metal but will otherwise flow freely, and you can use this to your advantage to solder really fine pitch parts rather easily. The smallest I've done by hand is a QFN package with a 0.4mm pin pitch.
5:19 - Here are some tips to solder: 1. BRACE your hand that will be soldering -- don't just hover. Put that elbow on the table :) 2. Think of solder as "heat seeking fluid." You want to heat the surface to be soldered and then let the solder flow to the heat. For WIRES, you put the soldering iron on one side, and then the solder (and maybe flux) on the other. Then the solder will flow through the wire strands to the iron and you'll get a good connection. 3. It doesn't take much solder. You can ALWAYS add more. 4. Do NOT solder by adding solder to the iron. Heat the part, and then add solder so it flows to the iron. If there's not much room, then at the base of the iron is good.
Pro tip - don't strip 2 cm of the wire, strip just 1 or 2 mm and tin the leads. If you want to strip them longer, you can, just clip them after tinning. Also don't be affraid of using a soldering flux. That will help you A LOT (especially with modern lead free solder).
For the soldering: Just use flux, it does magic to your solder joints. I personally use flux in paste format, as liquid flux just vaporizes instantly, and this, even if it's a bit messier, it "wets" the pads better and for longer, leaving you plenty of time to do the joint nicely. Then it's just a matter of some IPA alcohol and an old toothbrush to clean the spent flux. Also, good solder does make the difference. Use 60/40 Sn/Pb solder
because they don't see it like that, they see it as THEIR property that you just bought and are allowed to use also something something godzilla scarred them for life
He's not doing anything illegal. Also lol they used a super common microcontroller the stm32. Funny thing about the stm32 chips are they are even ardhino compatible. This is just nintendo being cost efficient and using easy to work with components
funny enough I designed and built my own alarm with presence/motion sensing and all that roughly 2 months before this thing came out... guess I need to go prep a cake for when lawyers knock on my door :P
I have a friend who also used to say “compooter” (he no longer pronounces it that way) because that’s how he learned it from his parents. He said it was a Mexican thing. But I also have Mexican parents and never heard it being pronounced this way. Must be a regional thing lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Others have done some soldering tips, but I haven't seen what I consider the most fundamental one (though I might have missed it); when soldering, you ideally don't really want the iron to directly melt the solder. You want the parts to get enough heat from the iron, that the parts themselves can melt the solder. As others have mentioned, too, you need some flux core solder, for jobs like the ones in the video (and if you want really shiny joints, some external flux to keep the oxygen off of the pad while it cools, though this is just an aesthetic thing). Another tip is to "tin" your wires, before soldering them to a pad. Touch your iron to the wire, feed in some solder and let the wire melt it (not the iron!) and wick it onto itself, and then cut the wire to an appropriate length. You may also want to tin the pad you're intending to solder to as well, to get rid of the (most likely) higher temp solder used on the PCB initially. For the shakes, try steadying your hand on the table or whatever surface is holding your parts (you may already be doing that in the video, hard to see). Set yourself up for success by spending a bit of time working out how best to position the part so that you can steady yourself on the table and so you're comfortable soldering. Finally, when soldering wires, to make sure your soldering is good (at least for long-term stuff) give your wires a light tug. If you really want to stress test a sacrificial joint, the wire should break *before* the solder joint
That Blog post in the description is SUCH a good read, the entire exploiting tough process was SO well explained!!! I would love to learn more about embedded hacking to be able to find stuff like these on my own
This is was great. I’ve gotten good at soldering over the last 7years and I shake like crazy. Flux is your friend (even tho it does make a mess and add steps. No clean flux is nice but the gooey stuff works even better) but when you use flux and your iron is clean and hot you don’t have to hold still for long you just go in and touch the spot with solder on your iron and the joint makes itself. But yea go in and touch fast and get out, you don’t have to hold still. An additional note after you solder with flux for a bit you start to kinda understand how much heat and solder is needed when and where and then you don’t have to use flux all the time. Also lil less caffeine when soldering helps too
Honestly the best tips to stop shaking when soldering is ensure you have a good amount of space for your arms/hands. Allow yourself to rest your elbow on the table. The more important part though - a good microscope and lighting!! Being able to actually see what you are doing up close will help so so much. Don’t rely on just your naked eye for it
Oh I have a suggestion for the soldering actually What you do is get one of those swing arms used for desk lamps, plus some kind of clamp with a ball joint that you can attach on the end where the lamp goes - I use a SmallRig one I found on amazon, but it doesn't really matter what it is so long as it can reliably clamp down on the soldering iron and allows you to angle and rotate it around as you need to. And then basically you use that setup to hold the soldering iron fixed in place, either leaving both of your hands free to hold, move, and otherwise manipulate the things you're soldering instead, often in a way that allows you to steady your hands, wrists, or arms against your workbench or whatever other surface you're working on, *or* at the very least making the soldering slower and steadier to move around since you don't need to put any time or energy into holding it steady and can focus on just what's required to move it it around. I've had a degree of hand tremors my whole life - relatively mild, but enough that there's some things I just can't reliably do because my hands aren't steady enough, and putting together this kind of setup took me from barely being able to keep the iron steady enough to solder basic wires together to a point where I've been able to successfully solder some SMD components, so for me it was an absolute game changer, and a fairly inexpensive one at that. I absolutely recommend trying it for anyone who struggles with soldering due to unsteady hands - it's basically like those helping hand fixtures but for holding the soldering iron steady rather than the parts you're trying to solder.
If given some time, I could actually look into the audio and see how much I can compress it; the audio is likely a midi file anyway but if it can play basic wav, ogg, mp3, or anything, I can compress the hell out of it and make it a KB
Alarms idea: hack it so we can use it offline (I assume internet connection is mandatory) then put it in your car as a clock. Another idea: load google maps onto the alarmo, get an Internet connection somehow (connect to cars Internet, get a SIM card working) and use it as a navigation device Third idea: make it run stock android.
i shake a lot while soldering too, one truck I found to be useful was taping stuff to the table, be it dev boards or whatever, make sure the board doesn't move, and as for your hand, make sure your elbow isn't flying and is set on a solid surface, and try getting a smaller soldering iron that you can hold as a pen
Here's a fact, did you know you could get Nintendo alarmo just by buying a CD burner if you don't have one and then buy a CD alarm clock and some Nintendo stickers, download the RUclips video as an audio of your Nintendo song of choice and then converted to wave or whatever format your alarm clock supports for burning CDs and then after you burn the cd, take your Nintendo stickers you just bought and place them where you wish and if you want even more decoration, simply for Nintendo stickers on the label of the cd, not on the shiny part! If you place the sticker on the shiny part the disc is ruined forever even if you take it off ! And then when you completed the steps then you have your own Nintendo alarmo
that won't have motion sensing though! But you can build your own PIS-OS clock which does have that... and ATAPI support for CD playback is already planned :P
@@app0the I’m not even going to pretend that I know what you’re talking about but I’m willing to bet that doing *this* is still cheaper than the real thing.
Day one release was a waste of $100 now that it’s been hacked not to bad and almost worth it. A better idea would be to hack it and re-shell it to make it look like Adam from Metroid Dread.
Just randomly saw this video and thought I'd post due to the laughter of the censored images. I was wondering "What's going on?" until you explained it in the beginning. hahaha
I also have ridiculously shaky hands… when soldering, flux is your best friend and it helps to have something to rest your wrist on that is elevated above the part you are soldering.
I would actually buy Alarmo if a whole community were to sprung up and make custom themes for it. I don’t need an alarm clock since I can wake up at 3 am consistently without one, but I’d love this as a decoration.
Hold the soldering iron underneath and let the solder flow down. When the wire is hot enough, the solder will flow nicely. Take away the solder, leave the iron a second longer then remove. The top method you use is applicable for PCBs.
For your soldering, get flux. When you have the wire taped down like that, you can just add flux then heat up the joint and feed in solder, the solder will just snap in place when you use flux. Also get a better iron. You have no idea how big of a difference a good iron that can actually hold a temperature is. Pinecil is pretty low cost and a really excellent iron. Anyways, awesome video. Really great summary of the Alarmo hacking scene so far. This stuff is always super interesting to me.
Thanks for the tip man, I’ll definitely check out that pinecil. Yeah this is an old piece of crap iron that I bought for $10 bucks when I first started my channel, it has terrible temp stability. figured it’s time to upgrade now. And thanks again for the kind words, appreciate you watching :’)
Tweezers, flux, solder wick, and practice! I think we can all use some work on improving our soldering techniques but yours isn't that bad, you just have some oxidation and excess solder
Tip for improving your soldering: Get an iron with a very short finger-to-tip distance, like the TS-80P, that way you're shaking wayyyy less. It makes a big difference. Also use flux and good quality solder and the right tip for the job
I also have insanely shaky hands and it comes out when I solder. My only recommendation which I think you're already doing is always ground the hand, like place the corner of your palm down on the work surface so it's not free floating or anything like that, and just do it a lot. Trace repair is super hard for me which is what you're doing with those wires, so my only suggestion is just practice running wires a LOT and even with shaky hands it gets easier 💖💖
Ayo also I didn't see you use any flux D: you should be using flux, and a healthy amount since it's easy enough to clean! Those joints look pretty rough and my main recommendation is use solder with a lower melting point or increase the temperature of your iron, and use flux so it flows more easily! Flux is used to form a barrier around the solder so it has better insulation and doesn't get oxidized too quickly, effecting how quick the solder solidifies
when soldering try planting the side of your pinky finger on the table/board, I have some shaky ass hands and i manage to do trace and pad repairs so it at least works for me.
would be nifty if they get that Doom port that was made for the rereleased game and watch on there, or maybe something like fastdoom. Maybe that'd save enough space that audio could get going, or just for a better frame rate.
Better soldering: 1. Do not drag solder, it needs to be fresh. It's ruined if it spent more than 2 seconds on your iron. 2. Touch whatever you want to solder with your iron, then add additional, fresh solder to it. Be done in 1 second. 3. Use flux 4. Watch voultar on RUclips 5. Ask me if you have further questions
As for tips for the shaking, do you own a 3D printer and are comfortable with 3D CAD stuff? (New to your channel still so don't know that) You could look into designing a bespoke armrest kind of thing that supports your lower arm in your favorite sauter position, which should take a lot of the possible movement axes out of the equation. =)
I love the idea of using this as the next homebrew platform. I used to make simple little homebrew apps and games for the DS and now I just wanna like... make a weirdly niche video game exclusively for the alarmo lol
Your hand movement seems fine, but you need to use flux. it will really help with keeping the solder in place while it's still molten and and keep it from getting to...blobby like it did in this video. (you also used a bit too much solder too but flux lets you get away with using much less too by the way). It also helps prevent cold solder joints and such and lets it flow better which allows you to use less solder to do the same job. For temp debug wires I suppose you did well enough since you'll probably be removing them anyways. But yeah flux will help keep the solder work nice and clean. ;) Another thing you can do to make this easier is to "pre-tin" the solder pads before putting the wires on. That is you add solder to the pads first, clean excess solder off your iron, then you add the wires by melting the solder on the pads to get the wires to stick on with a bit of added flux when needed. This is mainly how you go about controlling how much solder to add to each pad. Sometimes if I try to add solder to a new pad with the wire in place already I could end up putting too much solder on it too so just pre soldering the pad first lets me get that under control before the wire comes in. And yeah I'm not great on holding my hands steady either and I'm also left handed. (it appears you are too? :P) But I've gotten by with some good flux and and a temp controllable soldering iron. I've managed to replace some batteries on a few N-Card DS flashcarts I have and those things are tiny. Solder pads are even smaller and closer together then what you worked on in this video and using flux for that is pretty much a requirement. I probably need to get a some new solder tips and copper sponge thing used to clean the tips. Mine is pretty used up and is probably why I'm having a hard time keeping the tips clean. :P
Soldering tip! Place the soldering item on what you're heating and move your solder medium not the iron! The solder is likely lighter and easier to manoeuvre :)
This is so cool! I would love to see this hacked so a controller could be used and games could be played on it too. I did the hack with the Game and Watch units where you have to remove the flash memory chip and add a larger one. It was really challenging, but I am glad I did it, basically made it into exactly what I wanted it to be. Hopefully they can do the same with modding the Alarmo :)
Put the soldering iron to the component you're connecting, and then add the solder to the component. Don't just put solder on the iron and then try to spread that onto the component, as that doesn't make a good flowing connection. Also use flux. Basically, the metal on the component oxidises really, really easily, and that resists the solder. Flux has acid to remove this oxidation layer, and also heating up the component makes it more likely to take on the solder.
"i dont see you taking apart your alarm clock so deal with it" lol I laughed at thus because who takes apart their alarm clock? and then I remember the first thing I did when I bought my alarm clock was take it apart because i wanted to see how it worked compared to my watch (it was like 10 dollars so I wasnt worried about breaking it)
I would LOVE to be able to just adjust some of the internal settings on the clock, like the limit on the sleep sounds being only 10 minutes. Why won't Nintendo let us use the sleep sounds all night? Almost nobody falls asleep in 10 minutes. I would also love a mod that lets you set alarm schedules for weekdays and weekends.
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It was only a matter of time
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hi :)
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whens the lawsuit from nintendo jeff
GDPR is a thing in Europe. No need for this scam.
@@CZpersi im guessing a large majority of his viewers are north american
The only acceptable answers to "does it run Doom" are "Yes" and "Not yet"
There are also certain appliances that can't run Doom due to a distinct lack of digital logic. Buuuuut who says you can't cheat and hide a computer inside?
@@LemonbreadSC The raspberry pi pico is all you need, and you can sneak one of those in almost any appliance!
best comment XD
Gotta remember that one and also "T-Shirt quote!"
I'm starting to feel like the "does it run Doom" question is being milked so hard it doesn't seem interesting anymore.
Bro censored mario like he is a 18+ phub character damn 💀
The Italian man with a moustache that always gets the blonde bimbo … 😏
Now it is on github 😂
he blurred it so that he doesn’t get sued by Nintendo
@@TheRedYTPerwhat happened to fair use?
@@mikeliezel1102 Fair use doesn't exist when it comes to Nintendo :(
Tips for soldering:
Good news! Shaking is not actually your problem.
I have shaky hands and can solder the smallest smd components with some decent quality flux core wire and a ts80 (and sometimes a lot of patience).
1. Use flux, its the solderers best friend. Check if your solder wire has flux in it. Good electronics solder has flux in the solder wire, often called "flux core". It looks like your solder wire might not. That would explain why your solder joints look so bad. For most things, flux core is enough, but for very small work, you'll want separate flux.
2. Buy a better soldering iron. You are doing yourself no favour at all trying to solder with that iron. The work is so far away from your hand, every movement is amplified. If you want to do small scale electronics (and not soldering high power stuff), you need a suitable iron. Good irons don't even cost that much. I love my TS80 (~90$), especially the short grip-to-tip distance, but the ts101 (~60$) or the pinecil (v2) are valid options as well.
I hope this helps.
that soldering job was actual gore
To add on to this, it's also important to ensure both metals being bonded are at similar temperatures. Cold joints wont make good mechanical connections (the solder may refuse to properly adhere and they snap easy).
🥺 You have no idea how much that'll help me.
sorry for copying your comment did not see it before I scrolled down
Yes! Switching from a cheap no-name iron to a Hakko with temperature controls was like night and day.
0:19 He had to censor mario 😭😭
nintendo lawyers in overdrive rn
When you show Mario or something related Mario on a hacking tutorial they take the videos down. So now you know why
They care about that guy more than their dead fans.
(And sadly that's not a joke)
copyright, skysuperblock2204 was right
@@skysuperblock2204 I know but it's crazy it's gotten to the point where he needs to censor a gIf of mario walking
The Alarmo homebrewing scene has already began
I expected this, same happened with the game and watch
Crazy missed opportunity on Nintendo's part not to integrate it with Pokemon Sleep
Wait it isn’t? What’s the point then? 😭
Money @@Bambingobongo
my thoughts exactly! it didn't even launch with a pokemon theme, like huh??
I hope the Switch 2 has this level of security
Always get the first gens, and never update or connect to the internet, sooner or later someone will break it
@@sisamusudroka3000 100% agree cause the first gen switches were stupidly easy to softmod
I'm still waiting for the Mariko revisions to be modded software wise
@@electronicsfixerwon’t happen for a very long time I’m afraid
@@electronicsfixertry to get a modchip, very few people are working on a softmod, since the modchip is such a powerful hack
Waking up to Doom seems SO literal now.
Average Californian
Why?
9:54 Your Alarmo alarm clock ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're just collecting error info and then we'll restart for you.
You should definitely use flux (a "paste" or liquid that helps you melt the solder more quickly and easy). Also, you should put the tip of the soldering iron on the contact pad holding the cable you want to solder, and then you touch the pad with the solder. There are great tutorials out there on how to solder properly, and it is one of those things where the technique is not intuitive but it is super easy to learn and makes ALL the difference.
the job of the flux is to protect from the air the soldering point. tin loves to oxidize, making it brittle and non-sticky to the copper
Flux also lowers the surface tension of solder, making it kind of like a "soap" for metal instead of water. The liquid metal has a strong affinity for other metal but will otherwise flow freely, and you can use this to your advantage to solder really fine pitch parts rather easily. The smallest I've done by hand is a QFN package with a 0.4mm pin pitch.
5:19 - Here are some tips to solder:
1. BRACE your hand that will be soldering -- don't just hover. Put that elbow on the table :)
2. Think of solder as "heat seeking fluid." You want to heat the surface to be soldered and then let the solder flow to the heat. For WIRES, you put the soldering iron on one side, and then the solder (and maybe flux) on the other. Then the solder will flow through the wire strands to the iron and you'll get a good connection.
3. It doesn't take much solder. You can ALWAYS add more.
4. Do NOT solder by adding solder to the iron. Heat the part, and then add solder so it flows to the iron. If there's not much room, then at the base of the iron is good.
If you want to make soldering easier, buy some resin flux! It makes the solder flow a lot smoother!
Bigrig!!!
Pro tip - don't strip 2 cm of the wire, strip just 1 or 2 mm and tin the leads. If you want to strip them longer, you can, just clip them after tinning. Also don't be affraid of using a soldering flux. That will help you A LOT (especially with modern lead free solder).
no hack is complete without DOOM(1993) and the BAD APPLE! music video
For the soldering:
Just use flux, it does magic to your solder joints.
I personally use flux in paste format, as liquid flux just vaporizes instantly, and this, even if it's a bit messier, it "wets" the pads better and for longer, leaving you plenty of time to do the joint nicely.
Then it's just a matter of some IPA alcohol and an old toothbrush to clean the spent flux.
Also, good solder does make the difference. Use 60/40 Sn/Pb solder
"Now in the news, Nintendo sends out a patch for an alarm clock.... Really, thats what you found for the morning news?!"
13:13 you had show that really thats dirty move
At least it wasn't a damn rickroll
mother, my easter egg is rotten
"👅👅"
4:48 You need some flux :)
idk why nintendo freaking out, its you property you bought for $99. I would be different with pirating but still. bru.
because they don't see it like that, they see it as THEIR property that you just bought and are allowed to use
also something something godzilla scarred them for life
1:30 “omg I just noticed the time nice.. aw”
Whoever titled his software tool "OpenOCD" deserves a raise.
Nintendo bout to Pearl Harbor your ass
WWIII
They better remember what happened after Pearl Harbor.
FINALLY BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR… well… about a few months… (no seriously its crazy how quickly the alarmo got jailbroken)
the fact this fucking clock runs doom better than my school chromebook
Bluds practically on his knees begging for a lawsuit 💀
Real
He's not doing anything illegal. Also lol they used a super common microcontroller the stm32. Funny thing about the stm32 chips are they are even ardhino compatible. This is just nintendo being cost efficient and using easy to work with components
Is it illegal to hack your own devices in the US?
@brendethedev2858 it's just people that don't understand what they're talking about going, "hurr durr watch out for the nintendoninjas"
corny af comment
"Do you think they'd go after me for a clock?"
I mean... it's Nintendo, so yes.
funny enough I designed and built my own alarm with presence/motion sensing and all that roughly 2 months before this thing came out... guess I need to go prep a cake for when lawyers knock on my door :P
Smh man, just smh 😢😢😮😮
5:53 bro really said "compooter"
Must be new here lol
And "Du-point" wires lol..
It’s so annoying 😭…and “camoodity”
Ah okay so this is a thing
I have a friend who also used to say “compooter” (he no longer pronounces it that way) because that’s how he learned it from his parents. He said it was a Mexican thing. But I also have Mexican parents and never heard it being pronounced this way. Must be a regional thing lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Others have done some soldering tips, but I haven't seen what I consider the most fundamental one (though I might have missed it); when soldering, you ideally don't really want the iron to directly melt the solder. You want the parts to get enough heat from the iron, that the parts themselves can melt the solder. As others have mentioned, too, you need some flux core solder, for jobs like the ones in the video (and if you want really shiny joints, some external flux to keep the oxygen off of the pad while it cools, though this is just an aesthetic thing). Another tip is to "tin" your wires, before soldering them to a pad. Touch your iron to the wire, feed in some solder and let the wire melt it (not the iron!) and wick it onto itself, and then cut the wire to an appropriate length. You may also want to tin the pad you're intending to solder to as well, to get rid of the (most likely) higher temp solder used on the PCB initially. For the shakes, try steadying your hand on the table or whatever surface is holding your parts (you may already be doing that in the video, hard to see). Set yourself up for success by spending a bit of time working out how best to position the part so that you can steady yourself on the table and so you're comfortable soldering. Finally, when soldering wires, to make sure your soldering is good (at least for long-term stuff) give your wires a light tug. If you really want to stress test a sacrificial joint, the wire should break *before* the solder joint
That Blog post in the description is SUCH a good read, the entire exploiting tough process was SO well explained!!!
I would love to learn more about embedded hacking to be able to find stuff like these on my own
4:47 use flux, flux basically makes solder attach to things by itself, genuinely a lifechanger for soldering.
"Oh so its like a fun little alarm clock. How much does it cost? 20$?"
"Oh no its 99$"
not the clawk tuah😭😭
This is was great. I’ve gotten good at soldering over the last 7years and I shake like crazy. Flux is your friend (even tho it does make a mess and add steps. No clean flux is nice but the gooey stuff works even better) but when you use flux and your iron is clean and hot you don’t have to hold still for long you just go in and touch the spot with solder on your iron and the joint makes itself. But yea go in and touch fast and get out, you don’t have to hold still.
An additional note after you solder with flux for a bit you start to kinda understand how much heat and solder is needed when and where and then you don’t have to use flux all the time. Also lil less caffeine when soldering helps too
Honestly the best tips to stop shaking when soldering is ensure you have a good amount of space for your arms/hands. Allow yourself to rest your elbow on the table.
The more important part though - a good microscope and lighting!! Being able to actually see what you are doing up close will help so so much. Don’t rely on just your naked eye for it
Oh I have a suggestion for the soldering actually
What you do is get one of those swing arms used for desk lamps, plus some kind of clamp with a ball joint that you can attach on the end where the lamp goes - I use a SmallRig one I found on amazon, but it doesn't really matter what it is so long as it can reliably clamp down on the soldering iron and allows you to angle and rotate it around as you need to. And then basically you use that setup to hold the soldering iron fixed in place, either leaving both of your hands free to hold, move, and otherwise manipulate the things you're soldering instead, often in a way that allows you to steady your hands, wrists, or arms against your workbench or whatever other surface you're working on, *or* at the very least making the soldering slower and steadier to move around since you don't need to put any time or energy into holding it steady and can focus on just what's required to move it it around.
I've had a degree of hand tremors my whole life - relatively mild, but enough that there's some things I just can't reliably do because my hands aren't steady enough, and putting together this kind of setup took me from barely being able to keep the iron steady enough to solder basic wires together to a point where I've been able to successfully solder some SMD components, so for me it was an absolute game changer, and a fairly inexpensive one at that. I absolutely recommend trying it for anyone who struggles with soldering due to unsteady hands - it's basically like those helping hand fixtures but for holding the soldering iron steady rather than the parts you're trying to solder.
“Can it run Doom?”
If given some time, I could actually look into the audio and see how much I can compress it; the audio is likely a midi file anyway but if it can play basic wav, ogg, mp3, or anything, I can compress the hell out of it and make it a KB
Alarms idea: hack it so we can use it offline (I assume internet connection is mandatory) then put it in your car as a clock.
Another idea: load google maps onto the alarmo, get an Internet connection somehow (connect to cars Internet, get a SIM card working) and use it as a navigation device
Third idea: make it run stock android.
1 mont later
nintendo: This guy hacked our alarm clock, So we sue the shit out of him
Now they just need to program the alarm to launch doom in a demo mode blasting up a horde of demons. Rip and Tear until they're up!
It comes apart so nicely that I almost thought they wanted people to mod it.
nintendo: lets make a clock no one is gonna hack a clock riight? "hackers got doom to play on the clock."
nintendo waiting for you to demo the music like 👁👄👁
"Clock-tuah" 😂
Also, first video of yours I watched. Really interesting stuff, and well presented. Cheers!
i shake a lot while soldering too, one truck I found to be useful was taping stuff to the table, be it dev boards or whatever, make sure the board doesn't move, and as for your hand, make sure your elbow isn't flying and is set on a solid surface, and try getting a smaller soldering iron that you can hold as a pen
Nintendo breathing down his neck at all times
Here's a fact, did you know you could get Nintendo alarmo just by buying a CD burner if you don't have one and then buy a CD alarm clock and some Nintendo stickers, download the RUclips video as an audio of your Nintendo song of choice and then converted to wave or whatever format your alarm clock supports for burning CDs and then after you burn the cd, take your Nintendo stickers you just bought and place them where you wish and if you want even more decoration, simply for Nintendo stickers on the label of the cd, not on the shiny part! If you place the sticker on the shiny part the disc is ruined forever even if you take it off ! And then when you completed the steps then you have your own Nintendo alarmo
that won't have motion sensing though! But you can build your own PIS-OS clock which does have that... and ATAPI support for CD playback is already planned :P
@@app0the I’m not even going to pretend that I know what you’re talking about but I’m willing to bet that doing *this* is still cheaper than the real thing.
Its so sad you cant show Mario in a modding video anymore without getting dmca'd or sued.
Idk smash modding videos been getting away with it for ages
Damn I love finding awesome new (to me) content creators. Great stuff!
Day one release was a waste of $100 now that it’s been hacked not to bad and almost worth it.
A better idea would be to hack it and re-shell it to make it look like Adam from Metroid Dread.
10:58 can any one pls Tell me the Name of the Website ? I searched but counldn‘t find it 😢
I have genuinely and unironically been waiting to see someone run doom on this.
Also, great video! Just like always :)
it's all over bro forgot to censor sonic @ 15:47
Sonic is from SEGA. It's mostly Nintendo that destroys your entire bloodline if you show 1 pixel of Mario.
Luckily sonic is not a Nintendo ip its Sega, Nintendo doesn't own the rights for him that's why we see sonic games on playstation and pc
Sega is a lot more lenient when it comes to copyrights and Sonic.
Its all fun and games until he shows 1 pixel of Mario
Just randomly saw this video and thought I'd post due to the laughter of the censored images. I was wondering "What's going on?" until you explained it in the beginning. hahaha
I also have ridiculously shaky hands… when soldering, flux is your best friend and it helps to have something to rest your wrist on that is elevated above the part you are soldering.
What is the website to check if you data have been breached?
Imagine having to speedrun doom to turn the alarm off.
someone needs to make that a mod for it
They have to have wanted this. Why can a clock do any of this? Does a clock need a debug mode??
I would actually buy Alarmo if a whole community were to sprung up and make custom themes for it. I don’t need an alarm clock since I can wake up at 3 am consistently without one, but I’d love this as a decoration.
Hold the soldering iron underneath and let the solder flow down. When the wire is hot enough, the solder will flow nicely. Take away the solder, leave the iron a second longer then remove. The top method you use is applicable for PCBs.
For your soldering, get flux. When you have the wire taped down like that, you can just add flux then heat up the joint and feed in solder, the solder will just snap in place when you use flux.
Also get a better iron. You have no idea how big of a difference a good iron that can actually hold a temperature is. Pinecil is pretty low cost and a really excellent iron.
Anyways, awesome video. Really great summary of the Alarmo hacking scene so far. This stuff is always super interesting to me.
Thanks for the tip man, I’ll definitely check out that pinecil. Yeah this is an old piece of crap iron that I bought for $10 bucks when I first started my channel, it has terrible temp stability. figured it’s time to upgrade now.
And thanks again for the kind words, appreciate you watching :’)
Tweezers, flux, solder wick, and practice! I think we can all use some work on improving our soldering techniques but yours isn't that bad, you just have some oxidation and excess solder
clock tuah, tick on that thang
What page did he use to search up information on web
Tip for improving your soldering: Get an iron with a very short finger-to-tip distance, like the TS-80P, that way you're shaking wayyyy less. It makes a big difference. Also use flux and good quality solder and the right tip for the job
For soldering use flux for clean solders, and for shaking rest the side of ur palm on the table never free hand small connections
I also have insanely shaky hands and it comes out when I solder. My only recommendation which I think you're already doing is always ground the hand, like place the corner of your palm down on the work surface so it's not free floating or anything like that, and just do it a lot. Trace repair is super hard for me which is what you're doing with those wires, so my only suggestion is just practice running wires a LOT and even with shaky hands it gets easier 💖💖
Ayo also I didn't see you use any flux D: you should be using flux, and a healthy amount since it's easy enough to clean! Those joints look pretty rough and my main recommendation is use solder with a lower melting point or increase the temperature of your iron, and use flux so it flows more easily! Flux is used to form a barrier around the solder so it has better insulation and doesn't get oxidized too quickly, effecting how quick the solder solidifies
Thank you for doing this, I was waiting to see an Alarmo run Doom.
when soldering try planting the side of your pinky finger on the table/board, I have some shaky ass hands and i manage to do trace and pad repairs so it at least works for me.
would be nifty if they get that Doom port that was made for the rereleased game and watch on there, or maybe something like fastdoom. Maybe that'd save enough space that audio could get going, or just for a better frame rate.
Better soldering:
1. Do not drag solder, it needs to be fresh. It's ruined if it spent more than 2 seconds on your iron.
2. Touch whatever you want to solder with your iron, then add additional, fresh solder to it. Be done in 1 second.
3. Use flux
4. Watch voultar on RUclips
5. Ask me if you have further questions
As for tips for the shaking, do you own a 3D printer and are comfortable with 3D CAD stuff? (New to your channel still so don't know that)
You could look into designing a bespoke armrest kind of thing that supports your lower arm in your favorite sauter position, which should take a lot of the possible movement axes out of the equation. =)
Being too tense can also cause a lot of extra shaking. It'd take practice to be able to be precise while keeping the muscles loose.
@@Aeduo Yep, also a good piece of advice.
I love the idea of using this as the next homebrew platform. I used to make simple little homebrew apps and games for the DS and now I just wanna like... make a weirdly niche video game exclusively for the alarmo lol
i find it hilarious when you gesture to the right of the screen and the text goes anywhere but where your hands are lol
Your hand movement seems fine, but you need to use flux. it will really help with keeping the solder in place while it's still molten and and keep it from getting to...blobby like it did in this video. (you also used a bit too much solder too but flux lets you get away with using much less too by the way). It also helps prevent cold solder joints and such and lets it flow better which allows you to use less solder to do the same job. For temp debug wires I suppose you did well enough since you'll probably be removing them anyways. But yeah flux will help keep the solder work nice and clean. ;)
Another thing you can do to make this easier is to "pre-tin" the solder pads before putting the wires on. That is you add solder to the pads first, clean excess solder off your iron, then you add the wires by melting the solder on the pads to get the wires to stick on with a bit of added flux when needed. This is mainly how you go about controlling how much solder to add to each pad. Sometimes if I try to add solder to a new pad with the wire in place already I could end up putting too much solder on it too so just pre soldering the pad first lets me get that under control before the wire comes in.
And yeah I'm not great on holding my hands steady either and I'm also left handed. (it appears you are too? :P) But I've gotten by with some good flux and and a temp controllable soldering iron. I've managed to replace some batteries on a few N-Card DS flashcarts I have and those things are tiny. Solder pads are even smaller and closer together then what you worked on in this video and using flux for that is pretty much a requirement.
I probably need to get a some new solder tips and copper sponge thing used to clean the tips. Mine is pretty used up and is probably why I'm having a hard time keeping the tips clean. :P
Great now I can wake up to “at dooms gates” playing in the morning
even though I have seen better solder joins it's still usable and that's the important part 😄
nice video!
I had zero desire for an Alarmo until I saw it running Doom. Now I can't imagine life without one. DAMN YOU !
Soldering tip! Place the soldering item on what you're heating and move your solder medium not the iron! The solder is likely lighter and easier to manoeuvre :)
This is so cool! I would love to see this hacked so a controller could be used and games could be played on it too. I did the hack with the Game and Watch units where you have to remove the flash memory chip and add a larger one. It was really challenging, but I am glad I did it, basically made it into exactly what I wanted it to be. Hopefully they can do the same with modding the Alarmo :)
You didn't use flux in your soldering? Like that's a tip number one. Then it actually you know melts to the contact and doesn't just blob on top.
Louis Rossmann and Ben Heck on youtube have been my saviors on soldering.
the thing just released and already it started getting homebrewed
What helps me with shaking hands is just taking a deep breath maybe a lil eye closing
Put the soldering iron to the component you're connecting, and then add the solder to the component. Don't just put solder on the iron and then try to spread that onto the component, as that doesn't make a good flowing connection. Also use flux. Basically, the metal on the component oxidises really, really easily, and that resists the solder. Flux has acid to remove this oxidation layer, and also heating up the component makes it more likely to take on the solder.
I think you just need some no-clean flux and shrink wrap tubing to clean up your soldering mods. Flux makes all the difference!
I really hope the UI and sounds of the Alarmo is a sign of what might come to the switch 2. So much more fun and lively
6:47 - I hope modders are already making something to connect USB-C port to debug pins
Solder can always be fixed! Just use a lot of flux and have solder braid ready! Also prepare the points with solder before the wire
I thought I was going crazy when I heard the discord notification sound at 4:56
"i dont see you taking apart your alarm clock so deal with it" lol I laughed at thus because who takes apart their alarm clock? and then I remember the first thing I did when I bought my alarm clock was take it apart because i wanted to see how it worked compared to my watch (it was like 10 dollars so I wasnt worried about breaking it)
4:45 sometimes Ill rest my arm on a box or something whilst soldering
it helps
I love the zoom screen feature on the switch I found out what the website is with it
I would LOVE to be able to just adjust some of the internal settings on the clock, like the limit on the sleep sounds being only 10 minutes. Why won't Nintendo let us use the sleep sounds all night? Almost nobody falls asleep in 10 minutes. I would also love a mod that lets you set alarm schedules for weekdays and weekends.
Really tempted to make a Flipnote player for this thing -- seems like a perfect Nintendo-y fit :)
For the soldering Louis Rossman has a similar issue with shaking hands & he gets around it by using more flux it seems.
Now play Weird Al’s Albuquerque on it.
(Finally we have DOOM running at an alarm clock!!!1!11!11!!1)
It’s been over a month and I’ve never even heard of this thing. Thanks for showing me this device and Nintendo fail to advertise it to me.
You could use an aux Jack for the debug pins, that would be neat