Stop giving Bud treats when he keeps annoying you. You’re rewarding the trait you don’t want. Give him treats only when he’s quiet. He’s smart, he’ll figure it out.
with the bud meowing situation, for one you can't keep him secluded from areas, it will stress him out and make him scratch and meow endlessly, also he's probably bored to all hell, i would seek out that other playmate, if you can't play with him at least 15~m twice daily
Ben's tweezers are magnetized. He needs to make a degausser out of an old induction motor. If you take the rotor out and just plug in the stator I think that works. Might want to not leave it plugged in for too long though. I actually have a plate degausser so I never had to make one. I can't leave my plate degausser plugged in either.
Hey, Ben, I enjoy all your videos. I also have an Orange Tabby too, (he is one of 10 kitties that I have), and his name is Firestar. All total they are my Therapy cats, I have a 15 yr old boy (Sir Magnus), & I have two boys that are 9 yrs old, (Spock & Sulu), then I have three kitties (two boys and a girl, Firestar is one of the boys), the other boy is Graystripe & the Girl is Olivia, they are siblings that are 6 yrs old. Then the next kitty is a boy named Tigger (he is 3 yrs old. Then I have two other kitties (a boy & girl), the boy's name is Duncan & his sister is Una (she is named after Captain Pike's #1 on "ST Strange's New World"), they are 1 yr old, and Lastly, my newest kitty is a 5-month-old girl name, Zelda. Now I need to get another boy kitty and name him Link. If you did not realize I love Star Trek. I had another Orange Tabby named Data that had just turned 9 yrs old just before he crossed over the Rainbow Bridge about a month after his birthday which was two yrs ago this past March.
Ever since I switched to 0.032" (approx. 1mm) diameter solder, i've had less solder bridges. It applied much less solder and works great for smaller jobs. It's a good day when Ben uploads a new video.
Hi, Ben. That's an awesome game badge! Wish I had Midwest gaming classic like festivals near. 🤔 If you have time, please post some footage from the event. It'd be really nice to watch. 👾
If you're curious about modern NES development, you should check out Micro Mages. It's a solid coop platformer made by two guys from Germany or something, came out in 2019 and fits on the most basic of NES cartridges (you can actually buy physical copies), so it could've theoretically been made in '83.
Hmmm, it seems like there is a vsync issue with your scrolling routine? Like it's updating the screen buffer outside of the vertical retrace period, and you can see tearing... Still, looks like it would be a neat game. For the speaker, why not just turn it around and put holes in the back plastic? It's fun that you're using YYCHR for the character graphics; just like the real NES! 😅 Edit: regarding C#, it's one of my favorite languages... it would be super neat if someone made a front end for LLVM so that we could use it as a compiled language for MCUs. ✌🏻
With the Ben Heck Show, they should have done it like they do the Element 14 Presents now. Multiple hosts, one episode per host per ... month, I think? Then there wouldn't be as much pressure to come up with a project every week. (although there were projects that went for multiple episodes.) This one's a very cool project, I must say.
A clever way to design the case before the pcb arrives: Robert Feranec did a video on inporting pcb designs into drafting software. Export the pcb as a DXF file (EasyEDA works). Then insert the DXF (fusion360 works) and extrude it to 1.6mm. Its been useful for me. Would make sense for checking how comfortable a button placement is. Can add the parts IRL or in the design and print it off.
I loved my Atari Portfolio back in 1995. Dialing up to BBS on 2400 baud when I was at my grandparents was awesome. Lol. I wish I could remember what happened to it.
Mine is about to be six. He has been caterwauling about that long regardless of how much cuddle/personal time he gets. Wait a couple more years and, like mine, Bud will sound like a grandmother with a two pack a day habit.
You need to add some SF recordings of Buds meows that play when he goes past doors. Also you need to win the game by getting downstairs to where you're making the game badge.
I had issues with a really cheap generic st7789 as well. It has been a while but I think it had to do with it having no CS pin and needing SPI clock mode 3 or something like that.
Maybe I'm anal retentive, but it really BUGS me to see those resistors soldered in UPSIDE DOWN!! (At least capacitors don't have an up side). Also, it would have been really cool, (and maybe cheaper) if you had used a raw rp2040 chip instead of the Pico. I would have loved to see you solder THAT to the board! (To quote Jean Shepherd, "I double dog dare you" to try soldering a QFN56!). Actually since that's a PicoW, I'll let you go on the RP2040 raw chip, since I don't know if you could have bought the WIFI module as a part. There is also a pad on the bottom of the Pico board that you need to access after the boot switch self destructs. USB Mini board mount connectors at least have good strong through hole solder pads to firmly anchor it to the board so it won't (usually) rip off should you yank the cable. However, if the springs on the connector go un-springy (after a few gazillion insert-release cycles) you have to replace the connector. USB Micro has those springs on the CABLE connector, so when they wear out just get a new cable. However, mose USB Micro board mount connectors only anchor to the PCB by the surface solder pads, and all too easily can rip off the board if you yank on the cable too hard. I do think that the MINI connectors might be at tad easier to solder to the board.
Have you tried turned-pin headers and sockets? They are low profile and cheaper than dupont sockets, and make good contact. They come in strips of 40 like the headers and are pretty cheap.
Okay I wanted to offer you my ATARI Portfolio on which I actually programmed a screen accurate version of the pin program in assembly (video on my channel). But since you said T1 is better than T2, I am sorry ;) But if you want it let me know. If you pay for the shipping from NL, and give a shout out, than I'll be happy to send it to you! It's even a boxed version with the parallel port adapter so you can upload stuff ti the massive 32KB storage. Okay the box is a bit tatty it's 34 years old and I lugged it around in my backpack for a year.
Wouldn't some plastic stand-offs like the ones used in motherboards work instead of screws? I would like if manufacturers introduced some kind of a cheap roll pin (spring pin) header. In that case, you would be able to test the LCD before soldering it. It would also be useful for those one-time JTAG connections. They use something similar in automotive, but those are permanent and expensive. At 37:05 the collision looks pretty strange, EDIT: Actually there are some spring pin headers (not pogo), but they apparently have a smaller diameter.
Using eagle I think you need to move the part values to either the place layer or name layer (my experience is with fusion 360 which is suppose to be based on eagle). Alternatively you could take the gcode from the layer the component values are on and stick the code in your silk layer gcode and then use a gerber viewer to view your file to make sure it appears the way you want it to. I remember KiCAD having a nice gerber viewer built into it. Also I watch your videos mostly just to listen to bud in the background, so i don't watch them so much as listen to them.
Oh well, all I see it's a big tip trying to heat those small legs, you know, it's good to use soldering paste sometimes, it sticks everything and heat gun those the rest keeping your fingers intact.
Why the cat meow? It's because you locked him out and he's curious what you're doing, thinking you may eat alone without him, so he must monitor you all the time!
@@BenHeckHacks Here's a couple of reasons why one of my cats meows, essentially every waking hour she gets: 1- because she wants to sleep, but on top of a human. 2- because both bowls of food have to be full (not just one). 3- because she wants the window open. 4- because she just pooped.
I think you're supposed to pronounce the first three letters? Like you say it, O, S, H, park. As if OSH is an acronym. Which it very well may be. They often typeset it, "OSH Park" Though what OSH may stand for is a mystery.
Ben's talked about it. The schedule was hectic and he burned out. He had to make a show every week. I don't know if there was any off season. Every show he had to make something too. Then he also had to attend conferences. It was a heavy workload. So after a while he packed it in.
I'd reckon "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", it sounds about right. (I never watched the english dub, just the german version, so I'm just eyeballing the quote)
That was my thought as well. Same boat though, only seen the Dutch version. That movie would've been great if they hadn't chickened out and somehow tried to turn it into "fun for the whole family" by adding those stupid gargoyles.
Cats generally meow to ask for something. It's considered a good sign when taming a feral kitten that it meows at you - it sees you as its caretaker, someone it should meow at when it wants or needs something. I would guess that it's like @jasepoag8930 or @johnsonlam said. He just wants you, I think, and it's exacerbated by making a lot of sound behind a closed door. (edit: sp)
I've been putting together this DIY oscilloscope kit. There were lots of components to place and solder on. One thing I haven't figured out, is how to get rid of the residue from the board. I think it's like burnt flux. Any ideas?
@@BenHeckHacks the board assembly house I worked at switched to all water soluble flux. We always used that in our wave soldering machine but the boss decided to switch the rolls of solder we used for hand soldering too. We cleaned the boards we made in a dishwasher. I'm not kidding. Though the first time he told me to load boards up into the dishwasher I thought he was having a go at me.
If you put aliens in Indiana Jones the film will be copying Star Gate because that show had aliens and religion tied together. So it's been done before. The only thing that would be different is the way Indiana Jones is.
alien jesus or alien angels is a scifi trope done many times. oh well as long as it doesn't have time travel like 99% of the shlock scifi they try to sell as aaa scifi now has.
@@victor.elkins i guess they have for excel sheet investors or someone like that. I just want to be sure my ebay gamebadge purchase will be authentic and not a reproduction! Wata will take care of that. Oh wait i just magically remembered no lol you can't trust them for even that.
@@victor.elkins I guess I need /s /j tags. recently they got caught for having graded an unauthorized reproduction cd based game(authentic one would be a few k in value). the authentication is technically different from the market manipulation stuff, but you can't trust them for the authentication bit even.
um yea just one cat. maybe he's spoiled, but he doesn't meow his head off like bud. do you give him cat treats like temptations? or out with you when you go for a short drive? put him in the back yard for just a bit and he'll be alright. bssh crandibud. :P
I told you USB C was good. :) I still like micro for what it was back then, I never broke one, however my kids have broken many. These days I agree, if anyone still uses it now, it is the work of Satan. Micro needs to die fast now :P Mini was functional but it was just annoying because it was the odd device that used it. It's much nicer when there's a common standard, that's the main reason I prefer micro and the functionality.
the phone manufacturers agreed on micro due to the lower height. I'd have preferred them to agree on mini, htc etc used it(mini) already anyway. it's not like usb-c ports didn't break on phones either quite a bit.
@@lasskinn474 I've never seen a USB-C port fail, someone would need to be pretty rough or not clean out the lint. Nothing lasts forever, I don't think durability is an issue. Edit: my first HTC's used micro, I had a desire HD and a Sensation. Still have them, love the removable batteries. I don't really find mini superior to micro, yeah it might be more durable, but I never broke a micro myself. I'm just more used to micro and it was the standard. However both are obselete now. However I think phones should be thicker, with bigger replacible batteries and parts, like the fairphone. You can replace the charge port on them easy. I'd also like thicker bezels, accidental screen presses are annoying enough. I care more about function than looks.
@@Commander_ZiN the ports failing are the biggest killers of s series phones and such and most common repair shop thing thats not like drop damage. Slight damage resulting in slow charging or hard to get to connect usb connectivity is fairly common too. It really wouldn't be so bad if they didn't start glueing the phones together when it started to be a bigger problem. Actuallu i've had it happen more on more expensive and lighter construction phones than lower end(i'm a mobile app dev for roughly 20 years). Then again usually they work for 2 plus years without problems. Htc used the mini for charging back when their phones were sold under different brands such as qtek etc. Back then nokia didn't charge through the mini on theirs because they said it was an abuse of the usb spec but real reason was probably charger sales. The most annoying back in the day were the per model specific custom connectors for data or charging, what a fking nightmare having dozen almost similar cables.
@@lasskinn474 yeah Apple is still being annoying with their proprietary cables. Hopefully the EU will change that. Nothing worse than proprietary. Originally it would of been an abuse of the standard Nokia was right. They stuck to their old barrel connecters anyway. Micro updated the standard to allow more power and data, I imagine with phones in mind. However I believe mini was updated too at the same time, I never checked but I think it's full USB 2.0 revised, but then they swapped to micro as I think they had that in mind. Update the standard and make it smaller for phones etc. It could of gone either way, it's still a minority of people that are even aware of the mini connectors or want them. Micro was still superior to anything proprietary from Apple or Samsung. People are rough with things, if you had as many phones with mini connectors you'd have a bunch of broken ones too. We don't really have the data on how big the difference is. Either way they need to make phones more repairable and at least bring back replacable batteries and unlimited security updates. Forced obselence is a much bigger problem than connector choice. Anyway they're both obselete now.
Stop giving Bud treats when he keeps annoying you. You’re rewarding the trait you don’t want. Give him treats only when he’s quiet. He’s smart, he’ll figure it out.
I come for the electronic engineering, but I stay for the cat training advice.
Yeah I know. It's tough sometimes.
with the bud meowing situation, for one you can't keep him secluded from areas, it will stress him out and make him scratch and meow endlessly, also he's probably bored to all hell, i would seek out that other playmate, if you can't play with him at least 15~m twice daily
7:25 I'm deeply troubled and upset that the resistors are not all the right way round and the right way up :(
Ben's tweezers are magnetized. He needs to make a degausser out of an old induction motor. If you take the rotor out and just plug in the stator I think that works. Might want to not leave it plugged in for too long though. I actually have a plate degausser so I never had to make one. I can't leave my plate degausser plugged in either.
Bud is meowing around noon to signify the passing from ante to post meridiem
One of the best English accents I've heard from an American, Ben, speaking as an Englishman myself. Srsly
Love the hardware and the game. :) It's amazingly responsive and the graphics are solid.
Hey, Ben, I enjoy all your videos. I also have an Orange Tabby too, (he is one of 10 kitties that I have), and his name is Firestar. All total they are my Therapy cats, I have a 15 yr old boy (Sir Magnus), & I have two boys that are 9 yrs old, (Spock & Sulu), then I have three kitties (two boys and a girl, Firestar is one of the boys), the other boy is Graystripe & the Girl is Olivia, they are siblings that are 6 yrs old. Then the next kitty is a boy named Tigger (he is 3 yrs old. Then I have two other kitties (a boy & girl), the boy's name is Duncan & his sister is Una (she is named after Captain Pike's #1 on "ST Strange's New World"), they are 1 yr old, and Lastly, my newest kitty is a 5-month-old girl name, Zelda. Now I need to get another boy kitty and name him Link. If you did not realize I love Star Trek. I had another Orange Tabby named Data that had just turned 9 yrs old just before he crossed over the Rainbow Bridge about a month after his birthday which was two yrs ago this past March.
Ever since I switched to 0.032" (approx. 1mm) diameter solder, i've had less solder bridges. It applied much less solder and works great for smaller jobs. It's a good day when Ben uploads a new video.
Even better is 0.5mm if you can find it. Since I switched to it I can only use the 1mm stuff on really big joints.
If Bud's anything like my cat, he just loves it when you're talking. My cat gets really excited whenever I'm practicing Spanish or something.
I played Prince of Persia on a web page yesterday. God it brings back memories.
Hi, Ben. That's an awesome game badge! Wish I had Midwest gaming classic like festivals near. 🤔 If you have time, please post some footage from the event. It'd be really nice to watch. 👾
My cat meows when she wants something. So cuddles, outside, wants to play, food etc.
If you're curious about modern NES development, you should check out Micro Mages. It's a solid coop platformer made by two guys from Germany or something, came out in 2019 and fits on the most basic of NES cartridges (you can actually buy physical copies), so it could've theoretically been made in '83.
Yup I've watched the video. Very impressive stuff! No mappers like Smb 1
Short round has been a stunt - fight coordinator in movies for a very long time and he was very good in everything everywhere.
The jlcpcb soldermask also gets sticky when cleaned with ethanol
Hmmm, it seems like there is a vsync issue with your scrolling routine? Like it's updating the screen buffer outside of the vertical retrace period, and you can see tearing... Still, looks like it would be a neat game. For the speaker, why not just turn it around and put holes in the back plastic? It's fun that you're using YYCHR for the character graphics; just like the real NES! 😅
Edit: regarding C#, it's one of my favorite languages... it would be super neat if someone made a front end for LLVM so that we could use it as a compiled language for MCUs. ✌🏻
With the Ben Heck Show, they should have done it like they do the Element 14 Presents now. Multiple hosts, one episode per host per ... month, I think? Then there wouldn't be as much pressure to come up with a project every week. (although there were projects that went for multiple episodes.)
This one's a very cool project, I must say.
A clever way to design the case before the pcb arrives: Robert Feranec did a video on inporting pcb designs into drafting software. Export the pcb as a DXF file (EasyEDA works). Then insert the DXF (fusion360 works) and extrude it to 1.6mm. Its been useful for me. Would make sense for checking how comfortable a button placement is. Can add the parts IRL or in the design and print it off.
I have a fever-dream like recollection of Disney's HBoND, I should watch it again.
I understood every single reference you made.
"64 objects should be enough for everyone" - Ben Gates, 2023
I loved my Atari Portfolio back in 1995. Dialing up to BBS on 2400 baud when I was at my grandparents was awesome. Lol. I wish I could remember what happened to it.
At some point around noon you did something that Bud now expects all the time, so hence the meowing at or close to noon
Can you use the hex screws on the other side? Apart from looking cool, they might protrude to protect the screen from scratches.
It'd be neat if the robot could shine a laser that would briefly distract Bud in an upper level.
Mine is about to be six. He has been caterwauling about that long regardless of how much cuddle/personal time he gets. Wait a couple more years and, like mine, Bud will sound like a grandmother with a two pack a day habit.
Instead of ordering new screws, maybe some cardboard washers like they used to have in computer cases?
might not be such a great placement for the led, since the screen is right there and you have to stare at at them both at the same time.
My thoughts exactly.
Attack of the Budski killing robots. Nice 👍
"8-bit Stray" looks nice.
You need to add some SF recordings of Buds meows that play when he goes past doors. Also you need to win the game by getting downstairs to where you're making the game badge.
I had issues with a really cheap generic st7789 as well. It has been a while but I think it had to do with it having no CS pin and needing SPI clock mode 3 or something like that.
The micro USB cable that came with my Numworks Calculator has excellent retention. I can swing it around my head and it doesn't fall off.
I think his gripes are more about longevity than retention. Micro B and C are a lot easier to break than Mini B.
A chair, some 3D printers, a soldering station, would make some good game obstacles.
Maybe I'm anal retentive, but it really BUGS me to see those resistors soldered in UPSIDE DOWN!! (At least capacitors don't have an up side).
Also, it would have been really cool, (and maybe cheaper) if you had used a raw rp2040 chip instead of the Pico. I would have loved to see you solder THAT to the board! (To quote Jean Shepherd, "I double dog dare you" to try soldering a QFN56!).
Actually since that's a PicoW, I'll let you go on the RP2040 raw chip, since I don't know if you could have bought the WIFI module as a part.
There is also a pad on the bottom of the Pico board that you need to access after the boot switch self destructs.
USB Mini board mount connectors at least have good strong through hole solder pads to firmly anchor it to the board so it won't (usually) rip off should you yank the cable. However, if the springs on the connector go un-springy (after a few gazillion insert-release cycles) you have to replace the connector. USB Micro has those springs on the CABLE connector, so when they wear out just get a new cable. However, mose USB Micro board mount connectors only anchor to the PCB by the surface solder pads, and all too easily can rip off the board if you yank on the cable too hard. I do think that the MINI connectors might be at tad easier to solder to the board.
Some micro connectors have through hole bits for the shell but the solder used is weak. If you hand solder a large blob they won't come off.
The soldering on the first 2 bits always happens to me all bridge's together... then next step component is burning charcoal 🤣
That game is surprsingly fleshed out for a demo. Neato!
Those PCBs are nice, you ought to work out a sponsor/advertising deal with those guys. I'd prefer to go with a domestic supplier than PCBWay, etc.
Have you tried turned-pin headers and sockets? They are low profile and cheaper than dupont sockets, and make good contact. They come in strips of 40 like the headers and are pretty cheap.
The hunchback of Norte Dame? Is it?
That is the cutest game I have ever seen!
Okay I wanted to offer you my ATARI Portfolio on which I actually programmed a screen accurate version of the pin program in assembly (video on my channel). But since you said T1 is better than T2, I am sorry ;) But if you want it let me know. If you pay for the shipping from NL, and give a shout out, than I'll be happy to send it to you! It's even a boxed version with the parallel port adapter so you can upload stuff ti the massive 32KB storage. Okay the box is a bit tatty it's 34 years old and I lugged it around in my backpack for a year.
😂 the cat
Butt hair
I enjoyed this so much
The dried turkey haha
Wouldn't some plastic stand-offs like the ones used in motherboards work instead of screws?
I would like if manufacturers introduced some kind of a cheap roll pin (spring pin) header. In that case, you would be able to test the LCD before soldering it. It would also be useful for those one-time JTAG connections. They use something similar in automotive, but those are permanent and expensive.
At 37:05 the collision looks pretty strange,
EDIT: Actually there are some spring pin headers (not pogo), but they apparently have a smaller diameter.
I wish you sold these as a kit, I'd love to build one!
bud just needs more love
I'd imagine a far-into-the-future Schwarzenegger film and instead of 'get to the choppa!' it would say 'boot to the ROM!'.
Left-handed Libra, checking in.
17:20 or you could just export 3d object of your PCB to your 3d design software
Hunchback of Notre Dame. solid movie. very Freudian.
no flux? Ben, can't believe you're taking forever to solder a SOT25.
Bud is an orangish male cat. As someone who rescues cats, every orange boy has done it. One is doing it here now haha
Those 8 pin headers are around 0,05d/piece, did I understand something wrong or why we talking about 1,50d prices?
cool stuff.... a game about your cat destroying things in your house ;-)
Using eagle I think you need to move the part values to either the place layer or name layer (my experience is with fusion 360 which is suppose to be based on eagle). Alternatively you could take the gcode from the layer the component values are on and stick the code in your silk layer gcode and then use a gerber viewer to view your file to make sure it appears the way you want it to. I remember KiCAD having a nice gerber viewer built into it. Also I watch your videos mostly just to listen to bud in the background, so i don't watch them so much as listen to them.
It depends on the board house but yes. I usually move them to Tplace as the final step.
FWIW, I have found that if you screw the screen in place you don’t really need to solder the connector in place. Cheapest connector ever!
I had the same problem with resistor values not showing up and I solved that by putting the values on the tnames layer or bnames.
Oh well, all I see it's a big tip trying to heat those small legs, you know, it's good to use soldering paste sometimes, it sticks everything and heat gun those the rest keeping your fingers intact.
Is there anyway I could convince you to make me Xbox 360 that I could buy
Nice.
Lucky for you, beer isn't made of meat!
love the rolling thunder reference
Fellow person who is correct. Human gestation is 10 months. I'll see myself out.
Why the cat meow? It's because you locked him out and he's curious what you're doing, thinking you may eat alone without him, so he must monitor you all the time!
No he's been doing this even with the door open and him free to enter.
@@BenHeckHacks Here's a couple of reasons why one of my cats meows, essentially every waking hour she gets:
1- because she wants to sleep, but on top of a human.
2- because both bowls of food have to be full (not just one).
3- because she wants the window open.
4- because she just pooped.
@@alejandroknopf cats sound annoying
@@OrangeSheep14 Forgot:
5- Because I'm in the kitchen.
I have 3 cats and all of them do that yowling into the void and having brothers did not help
I love him, please can I order one of those from you!
It's going to be super disappointing if you don't add in a button just to make Bud meow 🤣😂🤣😂
With actual Bud sounds! You could record him munching a greenie too :)
Like Untitled Goose Game, but better!
Of course I will!
is oshpark short or long o?
Oshkosh has me saying oshpark sounding similarly.
I think you're supposed to pronounce the first three letters? Like you say it, O, S, H, park. As if OSH is an acronym. Which it very well may be. They often typeset it, "OSH Park" Though what OSH may stand for is a mystery.
Why did you stop doing the show? I think you will say: "I want to be myself, singing and talking anything I wanted"
Ben's talked about it. The schedule was hectic and he burned out. He had to make a show every week. I don't know if there was any off season. Every show he had to make something too. Then he also had to attend conferences. It was a heavy workload. So after a while he packed it in.
I'd reckon "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame", it sounds about right. (I never watched the english dub, just the german version, so I'm just eyeballing the quote)
That was my thought as well. Same boat though, only seen the Dutch version. That movie would've been great if they hadn't chickened out and somehow tried to turn it into "fun for the whole family" by adding those stupid gargoyles.
Perhaps Bud is just horny? Our cat has been whoring around in the yard the whole week. All the cats think it's spring already.
He was snipped at the pound but he still tries to hump my fuzzy robot sloth toy.
@@BenHeckHacks Life finds a way...
Is this screen tearing visible only in camera?
Someone should make a Gamebadge3 Genie.
Does Bud do that when you're on the crapper? He wants to be with you.
Ben, do you ever use flux in any specific occasion?
Arrrghhhh! My eyes! They've been burned out like Paul Atreides' in Dune by the on LED!
Someday Ai will make such Indiana movie as you want 🌝
could you please make a wii u portable system (use wii u homebrew so you dont have to have the big blue ray drive).
p.s. use lots of cooling
I thought it my alcohol that was doing that to my Osh Park boards.
Cats generally meow to ask for something. It's considered a good sign when taming a feral kitten that it meows at you - it sees you as its caretaker, someone it should meow at when it wants or needs something. I would guess that it's like @jasepoag8930 or @johnsonlam said. He just wants you, I think, and it's exacerbated by making a lot of sound behind a closed door. (edit: sp)
I've been putting together this DIY oscilloscope kit. There were lots of components to place and solder on. One thing I haven't figured out, is how to get rid of the residue from the board. I think it's like burnt flux. Any ideas?
alcohol or specialty flux removal products
It's all in the rakish angle you trim the bristles of the flux brush you use. It's a learned skill really.
@@lasskinn474 yeah the rubbing alcohol I had was really low proof. I'll try it again with a 70 percent.
Flux remover spray, let it sit a minute then toothbrush, then repeat with rubbing alcohol. Just don't get the spray anywhere near an LCD screen.
@@BenHeckHacks the board assembly house I worked at switched to all water soluble flux. We always used that in our wave soldering machine but the boss decided to switch the rolls of solder we used for hand soldering too. We cleaned the boards we made in a dishwasher. I'm not kidding. Though the first time he told me to load boards up into the dishwasher I thought he was having a go at me.
I have a question , why didn't you tent the vias under the pico?
I have a bunch of those female cheapo headers I could bring they would need cut to size but I don't really use them
If you put aliens in Indiana Jones the film will be copying Star Gate because that show had aliens and religion tied together. So it's been done before. The only thing that would be different is the way Indiana Jones is.
alien jesus or alien angels is a scifi trope done many times.
oh well as long as it doesn't have time travel like 99% of the shlock scifi they try to sell as aaa scifi now has.
Are you going to VFC East this year?
Just MW
@@BenHeckHacks lol. Yes, I was there and didn't see you. Maybe next time!
I don't know if poor Bud is in pain. Maybe take him to the vet?
What are greenies exactly? And why wouldn't future aliens have them?
Nobody knows, because knowing would spoil the magic.
It's a brand of T - R - E - A - T.
My cat used to meow like that, turned out he was riddled with cancer and died within the year. Still miss that little dude.
will you partner with WATA to authenticate and grade gamebadges?
@@victor.elkins i guess they have for excel sheet investors or someone like that.
I just want to be sure my ebay gamebadge purchase will be authentic and not a reproduction! Wata will take care of that.
Oh wait i just magically remembered no lol you can't trust them for even that.
@@victor.elkins I guess I need /s /j tags. recently they got caught for having graded an unauthorized reproduction cd based game(authentic one would be a few k in value).
the authentication is technically different from the market manipulation stuff, but you can't trust them for the authentication bit even.
Haha hahaha no.
You need, to make a Darwin (seaQuest) style translator for Bud
Why don't you just cover the vias with soldermask?
Tent those particular vias!
You can have my Atari Portfolio when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. I may bring it to the workshop just to taunt you. 😉
um yea just one cat. maybe he's spoiled, but he doesn't meow his head off like bud. do you give him cat treats like temptations? or out with you when you go for a short drive? put him in the back yard for just a bit and he'll be alright. bssh crandibud. :P
Notification Squad! :D
KillDozer the game ... 2D top down GTA style
thingObject would be better named gameObject. I like to bake a bit of why into the names rather than just what or how.
I want to play buds game on my sega game gear or gba
dang brother I should make me one of them game badges
I told you USB C was good. :)
I still like micro for what it was back then, I never broke one, however my kids have broken many.
These days I agree, if anyone still uses it now, it is the work of Satan.
Micro needs to die fast now :P
Mini was functional but it was just annoying because it was the odd device that used it. It's much nicer when there's a common standard, that's the main reason I prefer micro and the functionality.
the phone manufacturers agreed on micro due to the lower height. I'd have preferred them to agree on mini, htc etc used it(mini) already anyway. it's not like usb-c ports didn't break on phones either quite a bit.
@@lasskinn474 I've never seen a USB-C port fail, someone would need to be pretty rough or not clean out the lint.
Nothing lasts forever, I don't think durability is an issue.
Edit: my first HTC's used micro, I had a desire HD and a Sensation. Still have them, love the removable batteries.
I don't really find mini superior to micro, yeah it might be more durable, but I never broke a micro myself. I'm just more used to micro and it was the standard.
However both are obselete now.
However I think phones should be thicker, with bigger replacible batteries and parts, like the fairphone.
You can replace the charge port on them easy.
I'd also like thicker bezels, accidental screen presses are annoying enough.
I care more about function than looks.
@@Commander_ZiN the ports failing are the biggest killers of s series phones and such and most common repair shop thing thats not like drop damage.
Slight damage resulting in slow charging or hard to get to connect usb connectivity is fairly common too.
It really wouldn't be so bad if they didn't start glueing the phones together when it started to be a bigger problem. Actuallu i've had it happen more on more expensive and lighter construction phones than lower end(i'm a mobile app dev for roughly 20 years).
Then again usually they work for 2 plus years without problems. Htc used the mini for charging back when their phones were sold under different brands such as qtek etc. Back then nokia didn't charge through the mini on theirs because they said it was an abuse of the usb spec but real reason was probably charger sales. The most annoying back in the day were the per model specific custom connectors for data or charging, what a fking nightmare having dozen almost similar cables.
@@lasskinn474 yeah Apple is still being annoying with their proprietary cables. Hopefully the EU will change that. Nothing worse than proprietary.
Originally it would of been an abuse of the standard Nokia was right. They stuck to their old barrel connecters anyway.
Micro updated the standard to allow more power and data, I imagine with phones in mind. However I believe mini was updated too at the same time, I never checked but I think it's full USB 2.0 revised, but then they swapped to micro as I think they had that in mind. Update the standard and make it smaller for phones etc.
It could of gone either way, it's still a minority of people that are even aware of the mini connectors or want them. Micro was still superior to anything proprietary from Apple or Samsung.
People are rough with things, if you had as many phones with mini connectors you'd have a bunch of broken ones too. We don't really have the data on how big the difference is.
Either way they need to make phones more repairable and at least bring back replacable batteries and unlimited security updates.
Forced obselence is a much bigger problem than connector choice. Anyway they're both obselete now.
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