shav muttley So lesson two the internet contains oh whats the word... "opinions". Dave you shoudl have him help on a solar roadways video so he gets the full internet experience.
In fairness Dave gave the kid a chance , nothing worse than doing work experience and just sitting around, so kudos to Dave. I thought Ryan did very well, give him another blast in front of the camera before he goes. Say what you think without thinking what you say, if you can get away with that you will go all the way.
Hey Dave, I wouldn't mind an 'expedited' version of mailbag where you go through the smaller parcels faster. You do receive quite a bit of mail and it can be discouraging to those who want to send you stuff when they see that you may never get around to opening it. Your videos have changed my life for the better. I went back to school for electronics engineering because you re-ignited my passion. I'd like to thank you one day and send you a token of gratitude (not sure what that will be yet). I hope you do end up opening all your parcels eventually.
trahim2 I don't want to just watch someone open mail. What I like about what Dave does is the little teardowns and the stories. Otherwise, I find unboxing videos incredibly boring -- like watching someone else open their wedding presents.
EEVblog Regarding your mention of tantalum being mined in your country, It should be noted that tantalum is no longer mined in Australia anymore & unfortunately a large amount of it is now a Conflict Resource.
Dat confusion between Sagan and Sega. :) Kid was trying too hard. Hope he had fun, though. My advice: be yourself. Also: That cable simulator supplied you with inductors for life.
+EEVblog ----About the IGBT's...... The thermal modeling is usually done in programs such as Energy 2D and sometimes in Auto-cad. The way they do thermal modeling for the IGBTs is that they set a field specified temperature onto the IGBT in the modeling program. The modeling program then takes the temperatures and shows where heat flows best(through the flow of least resistance). From these models, the thermal engineers keep changing the shape of the component and the size of the heat sink in correlation to the thermal resistances shown in the modeling program.
"Want to be a RUclipsr" for his job. My son says the same thing. IMO, go get a job outside of RUclips first, so you have work experience to build on and talk about on the video. Otherwise, it's all very self-referential and dries up.
EEVblog Sure. Lots of people doing well just playing minecraft, for example. Just seems like that would eventually fall out of favor. I personally prefer channels where I can learn things. Of course, my 9yo son is happy to spend all his time supporting other kids just playing games on YT. Just doesn't seem like am ambitious career goal, or one which benefits others much. It's a bit like reality TV in that way. :)
Pete Brown I would agree to a point. But people in the early 20th century probably didn't want their children to be actors for the same reason. If you want to get into RUclips to make easy money it's probably a bad idea. If you want to get into it to create good content and evolve the youtube scene to be more legitimate, then go for it.
Pete Brown despite what I have already said, people with your attitude equally annoy me, it's just a modern version of "get a haircut and get a real job".
For the network tester, the serial port is probably for connecting to a switch or a router and you can get diagnostic and configuration information out of them without connecting to the console port which is DB-9 (on the router/switch) to RJ45 but with a non-standard pinout for Cisco devices. Cisco and other manufactures have a protocol that let's you get the same information via the network and without Telnet so you don't need to use that port. I'm surprised it doesn't have a BNC connector since even new ones still have them.
Anyone being harsh on the boy is shameful. We all learn to be better people through experience. Dave is doing a great thing by mentoring this kid. Good work and best of luck to you both :)
I am a Mechanical Engineering student (Boise State University) in the USA and one of my professors worked for the company that made that Pleo the dinosaur. He demonstrated one he still had that was naked like yours haha I will have to email this him a link with your video !
Ryan did a good job, confident lad. I think Pleo stole the show on this vid. Reminded me of Sony's Aibo, but a lot less expensive. Yeah, a Pleo teardown would be very cool indeed, but maybe let Sagan play with him first.
Differential gain and phase displays are just demodulated chroma amplitude or phase (R-Y,B-Y) plotted against time on the X axis. You need to use a modulated ramp test signal to use those modes.
maybe Pleo's touch sensors designed to work with its skin, not direct touch ? P.S. signal port on the Simens invertor must be for remote control (on/off, speed setting, direction setting) as usual on other invertors. buttons on inverter itself used for initial settig of motor parameters.
Pleos are cool. The skin on ours has deteriorated, but he still works. The battery pack is 6xAA NiMh, but later versions used a LiPo pack which was compatible but used a different charger. Ours likes dancing to music and eating his leaf. He also likes being stroked and tickled under the chin. When he goes to sleep it is usually because the battery pack is getting low. I know this is a comment on an old post, but I saw the pleo on a shelf behind you on a recent video and was curious, so I searched for it. :)
Oh, man. I could have used one of those Fluke network tools back when I was doing tech at my school. They didn't want to shell out for a proper tester, so all I had was the box with the 8 blinking lights to let me know if my Cat5e cable was intact.
Hope you can connect the Siemens inverters to some motors and display the waveforms and explain a bit about the need for VFD's their applications and the techniques used to implement them. Relevance in electric vehicles? Nice mail bag.
Nice to meet you Ryan! Don't listen to those old grumpy haters, be what you like and do what you want :) Most people tend to underestimate the power of videogames, an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars, their ignorance is not an excuse for their bad whishes ;) RUclips is also the most democratic thing film makers ever had in the last century, and that scares the shit out of some short sighted people. Good luck!
Antonio Barba There is a word that sums up the haters on this vblog post. Jealousy. I think he did very well considering it was his first one. Check out Dave's Video number 1. You don't master this out of the gate. Takes a long time. He will be very good after some time. He has confidence, that is very apparent. So he will do well. Ideal placement for him.
Dave! Dave! can't we like make,. Pleo from Hell Atleast the eyes need a red LED upgrade for fear factor. His 7 cpu's got child friendly OS, i want a ill tempered pleo, one my cat will fear.
VeggeMight The vast majority of the RUclips audience is composed of thoughtless and uninteresting proles. Why is it that the most popular channels are the most uninteresting and intellectually draining? It is because they appeal to the lowest common denominator- those people who are only interested in gossip, toilet humor, video games and makeup.
The Nintendo cartridge "piggyback" hack against security chips actually dates back to the old NES. Not too comfortable for the end user, but still a very neat trick.
oh god, a friend of mine's dad had a vectorscope in his garage, I had no clue what it was for but I was completely mesmerized by it, I used to screw around with it when ever I went over. Also, is it bad that I think it's horrible that they give internships for "video bloging" now? this is really a thing? why does this piss me off so much... ugh... please till this kid that this isn't something you do as a carreer...
Kristina There are thousands of full time RUclipsrs making a career out of it. Not that he thinks he'll become a full time RUclipsrs, he just wants to have a channel and create content.
EEVblog RUclips is "just" a platform. A huge platform indeed. What the kid is learning is "video making", and it's far more difficult than many people think. I work for a big media company and I'm also a nerd (computer programmer actually) so I know a bit of both worlds and I know what I'm talking about :) He can start from RUclips now, and maybe move to Nat Geo when he grow up, who knows! That's an awesome career path if you ask me.
Rob Mckennie Everyone knows Australians are the most qualified people on the planet to wield a uselessly large knife. They're born with unwieldly knife experience in their blood, or maybe it's something in the water.
52:40 - Id software didn't do software for Nintendo, however they did make a version of Mario for the PC which they showed to Nintendo in the hope that they would allow them to do the PC version of the game, Nintendo said no to PC versions of Mario and so Id converted the game into the "Commander Keen" platformer. There was also a version of Doom published on the SNES/Famicom but Id didn't do that version, a third party approached Id with a finished version of Doom for SNES and asked them if they would allowed them to release it (which they did). All this is documented in the "Masters of Doom" Id biography.
Alex Hempel I was literally looking at this comment for 10 minutes before i realized the mistake. I don't WHY i said dinos had fur. I was on the spot, so i probably wasn't thinking. Maybe it's also because i heard the word naked...
I had two Pleos and could never get them to work properly. First one seemed senile, second one walked in circles. So it was money back time. Sad really, could have been good.
Beyond popular belief this young lad is gaining work experience for a job in media, his target goal is becoming a youtuber but people seem to assume he isn't going to get any qualifications. You're all rather narrow minded if you think he isn't going to further his education whilst becoming a youtuber, and on top of it all the experience he is gaining here would be useful elsewhere in media. It's not like he is permanently stuck being a youtuber, his career options may change. Jealousy runs deep in this chat, you guys need step step back and have a bit of cheese with that whine.
Ryan, you can go the pewdiepie route but there are literally tens of thousands of them. Be yourself as in 49:49 and you can go far. Take an interest in stuff, doesn't have to be electronics, and just be interesting. Not trying to criticize at all, wanting to give my input.
joshcryer No criticism taken ;) I think if i WAS to take your suggestion, i would probably be taking an interest in weaponry (Swords, Maces, Catapults, Turrets, etc).
Ryan Tillotson Although that might be a bit harder in Aus, I gotta agree with josh here though, i'm 16 and i love watching gaming channels, though there's so many of them its so over saturated. But do what you want to do, be what you want to be. Good luck mate :)
Ryan Tillotson I'll add some personal advice, read the letters to the viewer, not yourself. A lot of the letter reading came off as mumbling, and it sorta... disconnects you from the viewer. Always remember that the viewer is the focus of any video you create. The video exists to entertain or inform, and if you have moments where you do neither, it detracts. I think you can make a great improvement there. Of course, through the magic of camera editing and or retapeing the boxes, you could also theoretically pre open all the boxes, read the letters, and have cheat cards with the basic details, or do a camera cut as you skim, and edit in where you jump right tot he points. That lets you skim the letters in advance, so you can jump directly to the juicy bits, and still maintain a nice continuous shot!
I wonder why companies don't release the schematics for various consumer electronic devices? it seems to me like at some point in the development cycle, someone might have created some kind of schematic, why not just put it up for download for as many devices as possible? PS, I wonder can someone make plastic boxes for shipping which you can close and sonic weld shut before mailing them in for mailbag and unboxings? it will be more effective than duct tape.
+DGTelevsionNetwork Most real world electronic devices don't have their own patents, and even if they do, the drawings in patents at best detail the prototype not the final product.
EEVblog can you do a tear down of how that eyelid effect on the cable simulator works? I'm really curious to see how can I implement that in my projects.
Darn that chap (Mr Dino) and his colleagues were clever people. 40+ sensors and motors in a toy that size. Nice job. Lay off the young lad. I thought he did a bang on job for appearing on youtube the first time (assumed). We all had dreams when we were his age and so long as he works hard, whether or not he meets them or not isnt for us judge. Good luck son.
Timothy Giles I HAVE attempted to start something on youtube a couple of times, but each time, something would happen, so i would stop and try to think about a different direction to go. I have a bit of experience with Dave's On-The-Fly style because i did improv lessons at my old school. Interesting, huh?
Timothy Giles Totally agree. If you go back and look at Dave's first video number1. You'll see he was no less nervous etc. In fact I would say that this kids first video is better than Dave's first one. Also he was dropped right in the deep end, as he has little knowledge on electronics so it was much harder for him. I think he has the perfect personality for this, once he has done a few to give him time to relax into it. He will be very good I am convinced, on that first showing.
Wisdom tree released some unlicensed games for the NES, the lockout chip, and Super Noah's Ark 3D were on the SNES. The whole licensing/angry ID thing is a myth.
Holy shit, the youtube audio compression doesn't like the wrapper rustling in the beginning at all! :( Sounds horrible over headphones.... Great video apart from that. :)
If you're interested in inverters, ill probably be coming across some more with problems soon. I'd be happy to send one or more if you give some repair tips for them.
Damn! I needed one of those network tools today at work trying to diagnose bad cables in the walls x.X Would have made it far easier to figure things out lol
i love all the television transmitters and modulators among other neat toys you have, have you ever considered trying to broadcast a video over analog signals to an old analog TV in your room/building just for kicks/fun?
i don't think that it's a good idea to aim for a RUclips career. Here in Germany you have to do do Work experience in a job there you can do an apprentice. It saves the young girls and guys from such things as hoping for a RUclipscareer, not that it is a bad job but, you know. if it fails, what you write in your resume? Maybe he should go to a "media" company or such thing.
Matthias Damasty I think that kid could NOT have got a better placement anywhere. He will learn a ton of stuff on the subject he is interested in. Ideal placement for any youngster who likes any kind of tech.
EEVblog I didnt meant it like its bad for him to work for you. I meant that he better gets a secure apprentice and not be sittin on it self. He may learn with time the special things, but why do a faceplant twice if you have a "mentor" or a "Ausbilder" as we say here in Germany who knows all this stuff and can tell you this stuff. It's also cool that he is interrested in this stuff, not everyone has to be plumber or whatever. But it is better not to set false hopes.
Matthias Damasty Last but not least: The apprentice gives out a formal educational degree which - for the better or worse - implies a certain (minimum) skill set, work experience and formal education. A resume as "youtuber" can trigger the "special snowflake filter" in the head of human resources. I mean: It is an other question if someone wants to be a company worker drone or an creative individual, but... A company worker drone can pay the bills and become an creative individual over time. The other way around is much harder. No offence - youtube is just a hard business and google not really a partner to its content producers.
Matthias Damasty I second a lot of the comments here Matthias. I think he has made a wise choice to seek experience at a place where he will actually get some, in a field he has a genuine interest in. My niece just finished a block of 4 weeks here for a large hotel, and essentially she was used as free labor. She spent 4 days polishing spoons, and another 4 vacuuming, hardly an 'experience ' in the hotel industry. Good to see some ambition in creating a job for himself rather than conforming to a role that wont make him happy. In my experience those who dont have University degree or a Trade, working for themselves in 'Highly Skilled' roles are generally better at it for the passion / interest they actually have. How many accountants do you know that rave about their job?
Pleo's pricey, but awesome either way Dave, I think you should most likely tear down the brown body part as that most likely has clips and screws holding it together. The legs are a pain to assemble and are already transparent. Hi from the land of Queens :)
srsly dave "it's missing its fur"?? where did u find this kid Sagan has more real world sense than him aspiring to be a youtube video blogger and that is a course in school he's learning WTF is this world comin to whatever happened to getting an education to do something that actually helps ppl NOT poking at your vlog u have a very important career and blog from that which helps alot of ppl getting into the industry like myself as a hobby
Ryan: Great job, hope you do well with your school project. Dave, look forward to the Siemens teardowns, Can you check and see how the firing circuit for the igbt is configured as well? All ways enjoy your shows. Thumbing-up!
broken pleos are pretty sought after, because they are perfect for robotc projects for hardware hackers, conrad sells them in Germany/Austria for big money.
ID's main reason for not being fond of Nintendo is because the founders, John Romero and John Carmack, continually proposed ideas to Nintendo to extend their market to PC games but they displayed no interest and were quite snobby about it. ID would poke fun at Nintendo any chance they got.
Seriously? The Bible Thumpers cracked the Nintendo Lockout chip? And apparently where the reason for it's introduction as well? I had no idea. That is hilarious.
Tilman Baumann Sachen & Atari (Tengen) would have also been reasons to continue to have a lockout chip. The NES actually has a lockout chip and it came before the snes.
Tripcore yeah, when you want a measure of control over the games taht come out for your system, you NEED to keep third party cartridges off the system. The Cartridge-bypass trick the SNES and N64 unlicensed games would often use is the same system Gamesharks would use to get past the lockout chip (though those also do other things)
Dave, Australia might have large tantalum mines, but you kangaroos didn't mine a bit of it in 2010, 2012 and 2013. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan I was checking how much different places mine because I got interested in how much of the world's tantalum is being mined in conflict-zones, and ran into the pretty numbers.
Ahh Blasphemy! NES had a lockout chip also and Super 3D Noah's Ark WAS ON THE SNES (Super Nintendo) NOT THE N64! So yeah you go back and do more research... Also the Wolfenstein 3D and ID pissed off thing is most likely just a fun rumor, they knew Nintendo's seal of quality and licensing process and violence rules long before porting the game to SNES so most likely Wisdom Tree just payed to use the engine.
It kinda looked like Pleo or however you spell his name takes 18650 batteries. Hard to say but awesome mailbag as always. Very interesting stuff in this one. Unique. Thanks.
Interesting fact about the duct-taped package. Over here in the USA carriers will actually refuse your package if you do that. Donald, you might want to re-watch that AVGN episode, That was the Super Nintendo that Noah's ark 3D was released on.
I was going to mention the Angry video game nerd too. I think id just was releasing a Super Nintendo version that's all. They do primarily PC games. The Angry video game nerd does some interesting stuff about old gaming hardware. The Jaguar CD is another really interesting one. He bought 2 of them and they both don't work. Sent it to his hardware engineering friend and he cleaned them, reconnected all wire and still couldn't get them to work. Apparently some dental company bought the Jaguar to use as a some dental camera and just spray painted the console. I was also wondering; wouldn't the cable simulator get really hot?
"It could be what Sagan likes."
"Yeah, I could see this in a Sega game."
LOLOLOL
Jiahong L He's a gamer geek!
EEVblog Great. Because what the world needs is another idiot on RUclips talking about games.
shav muttley So lesson two the internet contains oh whats the word... "opinions". Dave you shoudl have him help on a solar roadways video so he gets the full internet experience.
Jiahong L Another piece of proof that i listen to my music at too loud a volume.
Though honestly, you could see how i made that mistake.
Jiahong L Made me chuckle when I heard that.
Any clue as to what the kids RUclips would be about? I'm guessing it wont be about the sagen mega drive console.
In fairness Dave gave the kid a chance , nothing worse than doing work experience and just sitting around, so kudos to Dave. I thought Ryan did very well, give him another blast in front of the camera before he goes. Say what you think without thinking what you say, if you can get away with that you will go all the way.
Ryan is a star. A kid with that much confidence, presence and wit will make something of himself whether it's a You Tuber or something else.
Never cut towards you! I took a lovely chunk out of my index finger this week and damn did it heart.
Cut towards your chum, not your thumb!
AfterDark3 i was cringing
Thank Zeus someone else noticed that too. Especially with that knife.
"Wow, you certainly know what Dave likes"
Dave: "Possibly what Sagan likes"
"Hahaaaa, yeah I could see it in a Sega game!"
LOL
snooze3100 glad im not the only one who saw that ;D
Hey Dave, I wouldn't mind an 'expedited' version of mailbag where you go through the smaller parcels faster. You do receive quite a bit of mail and it can be discouraging to those who want to send you stuff when they see that you may never get around to opening it.
Your videos have changed my life for the better. I went back to school for electronics engineering because you re-ignited my passion. I'd like to thank you one day and send you a token of gratitude (not sure what that will be yet). I hope you do end up opening all your parcels eventually.
trahim2 I don't want to just watch someone open mail. What I like about what Dave does is the little teardowns and the stories. Otherwise, I find unboxing videos incredibly boring -- like watching someone else open their wedding presents.
20:02
- Wow, thanks Donald, you certainly know what David likes.
- Possibly what Sagan likes.
- Yeah, I can just see this in a Sega game.
20:12 Dave-"Possibly what Sagan likes" David-"Yeah I can just see this in a Sega game" Lol made my day :)
EEVblog Regarding your mention of tantalum being mined in your country, It should be noted that tantalum is no longer mined in Australia anymore & unfortunately a large amount of it is now a Conflict Resource.
Dat confusion between Sagan and Sega. :) Kid was trying too hard. Hope he had fun, though. My advice: be yourself.
Also: That cable simulator supplied you with inductors for life.
Pete Brown Inductors for life, with a choice of two values :->
+EEVblog ----About the IGBT's...... The thermal modeling is usually done in programs such as Energy 2D and sometimes in Auto-cad. The way they do thermal modeling for the IGBTs is that they set a field specified temperature onto the IGBT in the modeling program. The modeling program then takes the temperatures and shows where heat flows best(through the flow of least resistance). From these models, the thermal engineers keep changing the shape of the component and the size of the heat sink in correlation to the thermal resistances shown in the modeling program.
supermench 45 Interesting, thanks for the detail.
"Want to be a RUclipsr" for his job. My son says the same thing. IMO, go get a job outside of RUclips first, so you have work experience to build on and talk about on the video. Otherwise, it's all very self-referential and dries up.
Pete Brown That depends on what you types of videos you do.
EEVblog Sure. Lots of people doing well just playing minecraft, for example. Just seems like that would eventually fall out of favor. I personally prefer channels where I can learn things. Of course, my 9yo son is happy to spend all his time supporting other kids just playing games on YT.
Just doesn't seem like am ambitious career goal, or one which benefits others much. It's a bit like reality TV in that way. :)
Pete Brown I would agree to a point. But people in the early 20th century probably didn't want their children to be actors for the same reason. If you want to get into RUclips to make easy money it's probably a bad idea. If you want to get into it to create good content and evolve the youtube scene to be more legitimate, then go for it.
Pete Brown despite what I have already said, people with your attitude equally annoy me, it's just a modern version of "get a haircut and get a real job".
Simon WoodburyForget hate to burst your bubble, but youtube never fed it's self.... what ever that means...
For the network tester, the serial port is probably for connecting to a switch or a router and you can get diagnostic and configuration information out of them without connecting to the console port which is DB-9 (on the router/switch) to RJ45 but with a non-standard pinout for Cisco devices. Cisco and other manufactures have a protocol that let's you get the same information via the network and without Telnet so you don't need to use that port. I'm surprised it doesn't have a BNC connector since even new ones still have them.
Anyone being harsh on the boy is shameful. We all learn to be better people through experience. Dave is doing a great thing by mentoring this kid. Good work and best of luck to you both :)
I am a Mechanical Engineering student (Boise State University) in the USA and one of my professors worked for the company that made that Pleo the dinosaur. He demonstrated one he still had that was naked like yours haha I will have to email this him a link with your video !
Super Noah's ark was SNES not N64, also the idea of ID giving the engine as a gift is just a myth, although it is very commonly repeated.
Ryan did a good job, confident lad.
I think Pleo stole the show on this vid. Reminded me of Sony's Aibo, but a lot less expensive. Yeah, a Pleo teardown would be very cool indeed, but maybe let Sagan play with him first.
LOL, that unboxing knife! Barnacules would be jealous!
Differential gain and phase displays are just demodulated chroma amplitude or phase (R-Y,B-Y) plotted against time on the X axis. You need to use a modulated ramp test signal to use those modes.
That kid has the nack. You should offer him a part time evening job or weekend. He was good. Great mailbag all in all. One of the best.
Good luck, Ryan, I hope we see a lot more of you!
maybe Pleo's touch sensors designed to work with its skin, not direct touch ?
P.S. signal port on the Simens invertor must be for remote control (on/off, speed setting, direction setting) as usual on other invertors. buttons on inverter itself used for initial settig of motor parameters.
Pleos are cool. The skin on ours has deteriorated, but he still works. The battery pack is 6xAA NiMh, but later versions used a LiPo pack which was compatible but used a different charger. Ours likes dancing to music and eating his leaf. He also likes being stroked and tickled under the chin. When he goes to sleep it is usually because the battery pack is getting low.
I know this is a comment on an old post, but I saw the pleo on a shelf behind you on a recent video and was curious, so I searched for it. :)
i giggle every time i hear the word "Siemens". makes me think of the baby-making body fluid.
Oh, man. I could have used one of those Fluke network tools back when I was doing tech at my school. They didn't want to shell out for a proper tester, so all I had was the box with the 8 blinking lights to let me know if my Cat5e cable was intact.
Hope you can connect the Siemens inverters to some motors and display the waveforms and explain a bit about the need for VFD's their applications and the techniques used to implement them. Relevance in electric vehicles? Nice mail bag.
Gifts are a great way to compensate those who work so hard to maintain their channels.
Am I the only one that felt like crying over the pleo?
Come on. Get up.. Please get up... oh...
HAHA I know the guy that invented the Pleo toy! Saw the whole process of that toy come together.
Nice to meet you Ryan! Don't listen to those old grumpy haters, be what you like and do what you want :)
Most people tend to underestimate the power of videogames, an industry worth hundreds of billions of dollars, their ignorance is not an excuse for their bad whishes ;)
RUclips is also the most democratic thing film makers ever had in the last century, and that scares the shit out of some short sighted people.
Good luck!
Antonio Barba There is a word that sums up the haters on this vblog post. Jealousy. I think he did very well considering it was his first one. Check out Dave's Video number 1. You don't master this out of the gate. Takes a long time. He will be very good after some time. He has confidence, that is very apparent. So he will do well. Ideal placement for him.
totally agree :)
I follow Dave's channel pretty much from video #10 or there about, he's changed a lot since then (in a good way, I think).
Dave! Dave! can't we like make,. Pleo from Hell
Atleast the eyes need a red LED upgrade for fear factor.
His 7 cpu's got child friendly OS, i want a ill tempered pleo, one my cat will fear.
Osmosis My cat is deathly afraid of balloons, I'm pretty sure even the child friendly version would be too much for her poor heart.
That new guy is like a non-entity he'll do great with all the other leeches on youtube.
VeggeMight The vast majority of the RUclips audience is composed of thoughtless and uninteresting proles.
Why is it that the most popular channels are the most uninteresting and intellectually draining? It is because they appeal to the lowest common denominator- those people who are only interested in gossip, toilet humor, video games and makeup.
Spocker spock really? video games? I think you belong to said group with a comment like that.
Spocker spock
Because they are watched by the biggest audience...kids.
The Nintendo cartridge "piggyback" hack against security chips actually dates back to the old NES. Not too comfortable for the end user, but still a very neat trick.
Holy cow, it's a pleo! I remember seeing that kickstarter early on and wanted to buy one. I believe the price was quite high though.
oh god, a friend of mine's dad had a vectorscope in his garage, I had no clue what it was for but I was completely mesmerized by it, I used to screw around with it when ever I went over. Also, is it bad that I think it's horrible that they give internships for "video bloging" now? this is really a thing? why does this piss me off so much... ugh... please till this kid that this isn't something you do as a carreer...
Kristina There are thousands of full time RUclipsrs making a career out of it. Not that he thinks he'll become a full time RUclipsrs, he just wants to have a channel and create content.
EEVblog RUclips is "just" a platform. A huge platform indeed. What the kid is learning is "video making", and it's far more difficult than many people think. I work for a big media company and I'm also a nerd (computer programmer actually) so I know a bit of both worlds and I know what I'm talking about :)
He can start from RUclips now, and maybe move to Nat Geo when he grow up, who knows! That's an awesome career path if you ask me.
EEVblog yeah, I kind of didn't think before typing that, I was very tired.
That knife seems too big and unwieldy to be as sharp as it looks, how long until it slips and lodges itself in Dave's jugular? :/
Rob Mckennie That's dark dude.. BTW, when things just slip, they loose velocity and force (maybe just a nick).
***** hey, with the big arteries in the neck, a nick would be all it would take
adivideos1000 yep. Anxiety over a youtuber I like possibly killing themselves with a knife = wrapping everything in cotton wool. Sounds reasonable.
Rob Mckennie Everyone knows Australians are the most qualified people on the planet to wield a uselessly large knife. They're born with unwieldly knife experience in their blood, or maybe it's something in the water.
52:40 - Id software didn't do software for Nintendo, however they did make a version of Mario for the PC which they showed to Nintendo in the hope that they would allow them to do the PC version of the game, Nintendo said no to PC versions of Mario and so Id converted the game into the "Commander Keen" platformer.
There was also a version of Doom published on the SNES/Famicom but Id didn't do that version, a third party approached Id with a finished version of Doom for SNES and asked them if they would allowed them to release it (which they did). All this is documented in the "Masters of Doom" Id biography.
Ryan, fuck the haters! Enjoy your work experience :)
"Apparently this one lost all its fur."
I don't think that's correct, haha.
Alex Hempel I was literally looking at this comment for 10 minutes before i realized the mistake.
I don't WHY i said dinos had fur. I was on the spot, so i probably wasn't thinking.
Maybe it's also because i heard the word naked...
Ryan Tillotson Haha, it's all good man. Every time I attempt to make a video, I forget how to speak. Keep it up, you'll get better.
Ryan Tillotson But over 40 species of non-avian dinosaur did have feathers ;)
I had two Pleos and could never get them to work properly. First one seemed senile, second one walked in circles.
So it was money back time. Sad really, could have been good.
Beyond popular belief this young lad is gaining work experience for a job in media, his target goal is becoming a youtuber but people seem to assume he isn't going to get any qualifications.
You're all rather narrow minded if you think he isn't going to further his education whilst becoming a youtuber, and on top of it all the experience he is gaining here would be useful elsewhere in media. It's not like he is permanently stuck being a youtuber, his career options may change.
Jealousy runs deep in this chat, you guys need step step back and have a bit of cheese with that whine.
Ryan, you can go the pewdiepie route but there are literally tens of thousands of them. Be yourself as in 49:49 and you can go far. Take an interest in stuff, doesn't have to be electronics, and just be interesting. Not trying to criticize at all, wanting to give my input.
joshcryer No criticism taken ;)
I think if i WAS to take your suggestion, i would probably be taking an interest in weaponry (Swords, Maces, Catapults, Turrets, etc).
Ryan Tillotson Although that might be a bit harder in Aus, I gotta agree with josh here though, i'm 16 and i love watching gaming channels, though there's so many of them its so over saturated. But do what you want to do, be what you want to be. Good luck mate :)
Ryan Tillotson I'll add some personal advice, read the letters to the viewer, not yourself. A lot of the letter reading came off as mumbling, and it sorta... disconnects you from the viewer. Always remember that the viewer is the focus of any video you create. The video exists to entertain or inform, and if you have moments where you do neither, it detracts. I think you can make a great improvement there. Of course, through the magic of camera editing and or retapeing the boxes, you could also theoretically pre open all the boxes, read the letters, and have cheat cards with the basic details, or do a camera cut as you skim, and edit in where you jump right tot he points. That lets you skim the letters in advance, so you can jump directly to the juicy bits, and still maintain a nice continuous shot!
Ryan Tillotson Loved the Noah's Ark 3D trivia, really cool stuff: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_3D_Noah%27s_Ark
richfiles then you'd be leaving out real first reactions
I'm a robotics engineer and I can imagine building that pleo would have been an amazing job to do!
I wonder why companies don't release the schematics for various consumer electronic devices? it seems to me like at some point in the development cycle, someone might have created some kind of schematic, why not just put it up for download for as many devices as possible?
PS, I wonder can someone make plastic boxes for shipping which you can close and sonic weld shut before mailing them in for mailbag and unboxings? it will be more effective than duct tape.
I think you can find most schematics by searching the US patent number. That's how I got the schematic to a bunch of antennas I worked on.
+DGTelevsionNetwork Most real world electronic devices don't have their own patents, and even if they do, the drawings in patents at best detail the prototype not the final product.
EEVblog can you do a tear down of how that eyelid effect on the cable simulator works? I'm really curious to see how can I implement that in my projects.
Darn that chap (Mr Dino) and his colleagues were clever people. 40+ sensors and motors in a toy that size. Nice job.
Lay off the young lad. I thought he did a bang on job for appearing on youtube the first time (assumed). We all had dreams when we were his age and so long as he works hard, whether or not he meets them or not isnt for us judge. Good luck son.
Timothy Giles I HAVE attempted to start something on youtube a couple of times, but each time, something would happen, so i would stop and try to think about a different direction to go.
I have a bit of experience with Dave's On-The-Fly style because i did improv lessons at my old school.
Interesting, huh?
Timothy Giles Totally agree. If you go back and look at Dave's first video number1. You'll see he was no less nervous etc. In fact I would say that this kids first video is better than Dave's first one. Also he was dropped right in the deep end, as he has little knowledge on electronics so it was much harder for him. I think he has the perfect personality for this, once he has done a few to give him time to relax into it. He will be very good I am convinced, on that first showing.
Wisdom tree released some unlicensed games for the NES, the lockout chip, and Super Noah's Ark 3D were on the SNES. The whole licensing/angry ID thing is a myth.
9 volt center negative = guitar effect / stomp box.
Holy shit, the youtube audio compression doesn't like the wrapper rustling in the beginning at all! :(
Sounds horrible over headphones....
Great video apart from that. :)
15:03 Yea, its no surprise since Ethernet cable can carry power for the Power over Ethernet devices.
If you're interested in inverters, ill probably be coming across some more with problems soon. I'd be happy to send one or more if you give some repair tips for them.
Damn! I needed one of those network tools today at work trying to diagnose bad cables in the walls x.X Would have made it far easier to figure things out lol
i love all the television transmitters and modulators among other neat toys you have, have you ever considered trying to broadcast a video over analog signals to an old analog TV in your room/building just for kicks/fun?
Those "eye" indicator switches are awesome. Anyone know if anything similar is available!?
EEVblog Great watch as always Dave!
i don't think that it's a good idea to aim for a RUclips career.
Here in Germany you have to do do Work experience in a job there you can do an apprentice. It saves the young girls and guys from such things as hoping for a RUclipscareer, not that it is a bad job but, you know. if it fails, what you write in your resume? Maybe he should go to a "media" company or such thing.
Matthias Damasty I *am* a media company :-P
Matthias Damasty I think that kid could NOT have got a better placement anywhere. He will learn a ton of stuff on the subject he is interested in. Ideal placement for any youngster who likes any kind of tech.
EEVblog I didnt meant it like its bad for him to work for you. I meant that he better gets a secure apprentice and not be sittin on it self. He may learn with time the special things, but why do a faceplant twice if you have a "mentor" or a "Ausbilder" as we say here in Germany who knows all this stuff and can tell you this stuff. It's also cool that he is interrested in this stuff, not everyone has to be plumber or whatever. But it is better not to set false hopes.
Matthias Damasty Last but not least: The apprentice gives out a formal educational degree which - for the better or worse - implies a certain (minimum) skill set, work experience and formal education. A resume as "youtuber" can trigger the "special snowflake filter" in the head of human resources. I mean: It is an other question if someone wants to be a company worker drone or an creative individual, but... A company worker drone can pay the bills and become an creative individual over time. The other way around is much harder. No offence - youtube is just a hard business and google not really a partner to its content producers.
Matthias Damasty I second a lot of the comments here Matthias. I think he has made a wise choice to seek experience at a place where he will actually get some, in a field he has a genuine interest in. My niece just finished a block of 4 weeks here for a large hotel, and essentially she was used as free labor. She spent 4 days polishing spoons, and another 4 vacuuming, hardly an 'experience ' in the hotel industry. Good to see some ambition in creating a job for himself rather than conforming to a role that wont make him happy. In my experience those who dont have University degree or a Trade, working for themselves in 'Highly Skilled' roles are generally better at it for the passion / interest they actually have. How many accountants do you know that rave about their job?
Hey, I was selling Pleo in the Czech Republic back in the days. He could learn and was horribly expensive.
Pleo's pricey, but awesome either way Dave, I think you should most likely tear down the brown body part as that most likely has clips and screws holding it together. The legs are a pain to assemble and are already transparent.
Hi from the land of Queens :)
Did he just drool on that IC? 17:16
I'm not so sure I would let him near that knife anymore!
srsly dave "it's missing its fur"?? where did u find this kid Sagan has more real world sense than him aspiring to be a youtube video blogger and that is a course in school he's learning WTF is this world comin to whatever happened to getting an education to do something that actually helps ppl
NOT poking at your vlog u have a very important career and blog from that which helps alot of ppl getting into the industry like myself as a hobby
bill addison It's not a course he's learning, it's work experience, where you get to sit in for a week on a company/career that interests you.
bill addison dont be gross man
bill addison Dave, you should have Bill on your show so we can all make fun of all the stupid things he says when in front of the camera.
Ryan: Great job, hope you do well with your school project. Dave, look forward to the Siemens teardowns, Can you check and see how the firing circuit for the igbt is configured as well? All ways enjoy your shows. Thumbing-up!
BlueRidgeMarine It's not a school project. It's work experience. BIG difference. Thanks anyway though! :)
broken pleos are pretty sought after, because they are perfect for robotc projects for hardware hackers, conrad sells them in Germany/Austria for big money.
What are those funky buttons called, the ones used on the wire simulator?
They look like a mechanical version of a flip dot billboard.
I still love the 50p pictures! They look real CRT like.
'Possibly what Sagan likes' ..... 'Haha yeah I could see this in a Sega game'. Dying!
Those motordrivers, they looked to be brand spanking new and I don't want to know the cost of the big one..
ID's main reason for not being fond of Nintendo is because the founders, John Romero and John Carmack, continually proposed ideas to Nintendo to extend their market to PC games but they displayed no interest and were quite snobby about it. ID would poke fun at Nintendo any chance they got.
My son has been wanting one of those dinos for years! He shows me the web site at least once a month lol.
Good to see the real knife back. Thought you'd gone soft on us for a second there.
Seriously? The Bible Thumpers cracked the Nintendo Lockout chip?
And apparently where the reason for it's introduction as well?
I had no idea. That is hilarious.
Tilman Baumann Sachen & Atari (Tengen) would have also been reasons to continue to have a lockout chip. The NES actually has a lockout chip and it came before the snes.
Tripcore yeah, when you want a measure of control over the games taht come out for your system, you NEED to keep third party cartridges off the system. The Cartridge-bypass trick the SNES and N64 unlicensed games would often use is the same system Gamesharks would use to get past the lockout chip (though those also do other things)
I was just amazed that Religious nutters of all people where the ones driving this.
Tilman Baumann Maybe they were not religious themselves only marketed towards said people
Good Lord Dave. This kid is scarier than you with your pigsticker.
At first I thought Mrs. EEV was going go come out of that box. Geez Don't blame me, I just don't know what to expect anymore!
Dave, Australia might have large tantalum mines, but you kangaroos didn't mine a bit of it in 2010, 2012 and 2013.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan
I was checking how much different places mine because I got interested in how much of the world's tantalum is being mined in conflict-zones, and ran into the pretty numbers.
Sega will put it in a game, lol. Bet he wont be getting asked back.
Ahh Blasphemy! NES had a lockout chip also and Super 3D Noah's Ark
WAS ON THE SNES (Super Nintendo) NOT THE N64! So yeah you go back and do more research... Also the Wolfenstein 3D and ID pissed off thing is most likely just a fun rumor, they knew Nintendo's seal of quality and licensing process and violence rules long before porting the game to SNES so most likely Wisdom Tree just payed to use the engine.
I think that kid's juice box sat on the front porch too long and fermented a bit.
I would love your assistant to get his own channel, he so funny in a quirky way. I have to buy one of those dinosaurs:)
"Australia was the world's most livable city at one point. Now it's Melbourne"
Wat
Steve LaForce Just shows that Dave considers Melbourne to be a separate country (just like New Zealand and Tasmania are)
Pro-Tip, always cut AWAY from you... not towards you.
***** Point taken. Thanks.
Ryan Tillotson Your welcome. :)
MichaelKingsfordGray Shoo clippy, shoo!
we need full tear down right now
Ryan is lovely, hire him he looks like he really wants to learn some RF voodoo!
MILF packages?! What?
Infinite loop MELF
Wow my date code (if I where an IC) would be 8108 so I was only about 12 weeks old when that chip was manufactured.
5$ on Stuxnet being on one of those ICS motor drivers.
It kinda looked like Pleo or however you spell his name takes 18650 batteries. Hard to say but awesome mailbag as always. Very interesting stuff in this one. Unique. Thanks.
Pleo uses nimh batteries
Hahaha, when you powered up that dino it seemed like it realized that it was skinned and slowly dying.
Yay, a good new candidate for a repair video!
Interesting fact about the duct-taped package. Over here in the USA carriers will actually refuse your package if you do that.
Donald, you might want to re-watch that AVGN episode, That was the Super Nintendo that Noah's ark 3D was released on.
ronnies07 In the USA I've sent packages wrapped entirely with duct tape. Depends on the carrier, probably.
I was going to mention the Angry video game nerd too. I think id just was releasing a Super Nintendo version that's all. They do primarily PC games. The Angry video game nerd does some interesting stuff about old gaming hardware. The Jaguar CD is another really interesting one. He bought 2 of them and they both don't work. Sent it to his hardware engineering friend and he cleaned them, reconnected all wire and still couldn't get them to work. Apparently some dental company bought the Jaguar to use as a some dental camera and just spray painted the console. I was also wondering; wouldn't the cable simulator get really hot?
Dave, that battery pack for the dino looks like it holds 18650s.
is it possible to feel his embarrassment from just watching this video
Best advice for The kid :) get a normal Job but do RUclips as a Hobby. it's very hard to get noticed with a Gaming Channel Trust me
good for segan... YEAH THIS WOULD BE A GREAT SEGA GAME
It's not every day you see Kapton tape on a parcel !
Afro Ryan... What is it with people's hairdos in Australia?! All 1980s...
50:08 That's a small inverter, What's the rating on that one, 1/2 HP (1/3 kW) or so? Edit: ah 54:56 1/3 HP
That's a knife which fits the Australian beeing. :)
Please fix this dinosaur!
1967, a very good year...Yep...The year I was born. :)