Poundland's big brown knobbler and other Halloween treasure.
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2019
- It's odd for "features" to be dropped from Poundland stuff, especially when mentioned on the packaging. I'll make a wild excuse for them, that the current currency fluctuation has meant that their suppliers have had to penny pinch to be able to supply product at all.
I think the magic wand could do with a little bit of finishing with a darker wipe on surface colourant to make it look more like wood and less like a toilet incident.
The circuitry in the strobe is... just... weird. (But the case is super-hackable).
The strings of simple lights are always a crowd pleaser. I'll make a wild guess that the purple strings are very popular with goths.
Bit of a mixed bag this year. Some amazing stuff and some corners cut, but still good value.
Obviously the wand has nothing to do whatsoever with Harry Potter, and neither did the thick black round-rimmed wizard glasses.
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The witch detects the motion of the user when the user moves the on-off switch between the on and off states, innit.
Dollar Tree sells the same witch but different style and with a cackling laugh. Also a ghost that does the same thing but sings "Trick or treat". The ghost is annoying. They are motion sensing.
I wanted to comment that reee xd
Actually , since the battery tabs are just folded over onto the board it is motion sensitive
If you shake it hard enough and it will turn on and off.
@Big Steve Or throwing it across the room when you realize it never stops?
I work at Poundland, your local is being naughty. The witches were recalled due to having no sensor and constantly making noise. The wand should have a sign stating they have no sound as advertised. I know we did well this year.
The false advertising with these products is bad.
@@AnthonyGoodley well done. Good observation.
@@AnthonyGoodley Poundland is rapidly turning into Poundworld this year - A lot of their stuff has been complete crap this time around. Shame really as Poundland used to be really great. As for the witches being recalled, there seems to be an issue with those two packs of halloween projector torches - my local Poundland refused to sell me one of those last week (So I left all the rest of my items at the till and walked out in protest)
@Matt Quinn I think the Chinese sweat shop that makes these have copied the design details but obviously didn't have any actual measurements - We saw the same thing last year when they had a copy of the Harry Potter Deatheater wand which was accurate in every way except it was too big just like this one
Matt Quinn it saved quarter of a pence on manufacturing
The witch does have movement sensing
The movement of the switch from off to on
The wand has sound effects whe you hit your little brother or sister with it
:D
I was half expecting you to connect the other end of the pot to 0V to see if it would make a smoother transition.
"I was half expecting you to connect the other end of the pot to 0V to see if it would make a smoother transition." ... exactly what I was thinking
𝕸𝖆𝖝𝖎𝖒𝖚𝖘 𝕺𝖗𝖌𝖆𝖘𝖒𝖚𝖘!
Yeah, worked about as well as those fake Poundland viagra tabs, Clive
ok......?
the correct font is important (said the vicar)
I recently discovered my favourite magic spell isn't really a spell. Do I feel a fool running around, waving a stick while announcing to the world - 'Bacterial Vaginosis!'...
I did wonder just where Clive was going to say Harry could stick his wand for a second there.
Spudging the Poundland witch sounds really naughty.
Better than Pounding the Spudgeland.
Eewww.
*The witch sound FX have been in use for 20+ years.* I owned vibrating ghosts in 1999 which sounded exactly like that. When I see the decorations out these days that use the same sound, I always wonder if the circuit design is the same.
Hell I'd say that that ghost sound has been around for 30+ years.
I have a ping pong ball that makes that sound when you touch two pads.
it's definitekly been around a long time. I'm guessing it may actually be based on the thermins used in spooky or sci-fi films.
@@tactileslut I remember having that dumb thing in the late 90's!
True, another one is a somewhat funny giggle that repeat 3 times (you can listen to it by searching "Evilstick"). I remember when I was very young I can find cheap helloween props that comes with one of these two sounds in China.
I can imagine HP fan movie with Clive as Hagrid 🤔 😀
but how do we get Clive to wear the pink tutu?
@@AlexLaw_Qld supply him with enough drink and the whole gang will wear the pink tutu!
@@AJB2K3 That'll be the next Manx Beard Club video :)
HP? Hewlett Packard and the Instruments of Doom “contra Poloniae notatio’
You're an electronics engineer Harry
0:38 When I was a kid, we got a little "spooky box" that made that same noise. That must've been somewhere between...maybe 1993 and 1995. I can't believe they've been selling the same sound effect for at least 26 years now...
6:40 "Harry would have to slip it up his big wizard sleeve when he wants to put it away."
I didn't expect to laugh this hard at a joke like that.
I spat my coffee down my nose at that 🤣🤣👍
"I should turn it on, then it will be even brighter"
Finally! That wand has a circuit that even I could do a sketch of.
Hey there Count....i'm with you all the way..but im never as think as you drunk i am....Peace.
That's quite a wand. Ribbed for Harry's pleasure.
I would have thought he might haved used it on Hermione but you never know I guess - public schoolboys and all that :)
@@countzero1136 There is that story about Harry and Malfoy having a wand fight in the bathroom ;)
It's double ended as well...
There is a whole bloody Harry Potter synchro movie in german on youtube, including dildo wands, your momma jokes, incest and all the good things one might wish for
@@f1refly1337 coldmirror
I'm always amazed at how you and other people are able to reverse engineer devices like this(and even more complicated ones). It's truly mind blowing.
I love it when the Halloween and christmas items appear on Clive's channel!!!
Dido :-).
We had the "motion activated" witch over in the U.S. last year, I bought a bunch of those as well as a couple other different plastic halloweeny shaped things all running the same circuit. I really enjoy taking apart dollar tree electronics because more thought than parts go into then to achieve the wanted effect.
The optimised design to reduce cost is often very interesting. Especially if they cut too many corners.
My favorite Halloween item is a little skull about the size of an egg. It has a photo sensor which detects an increase in light and lets out a blood curdling scream. Great for pranking people.
My upstairs neighbor used to deliver newspapers in the wee hours. When I heard him leave, I set this skull out on the railing. When he came back at 4am, as soon as the motion sensor light came on, he was greeted with SCREAM.
I also stuck it in my niece's refrigerator, and sat waiting for somebody to open the door.
Unfortunately, they don't stock those any more.
It was a Simon and Garfunkel wand. When you push the button you get The Sound of Silence.
Clive: MAXIMUS ORGASMUS
Me: Why did you have to demonstrate using THAT spell? Now I need a new pair of pants...
This is a strange sounding Ashens video...
the real magic wand is
the spudger, the technomancer's magic tool...
I had a string of those lights a few years back! They are really pretty. Halloween is the best time to get purple fairy lights, I have a string of tiny bats that I got from tiger too.
Now that’s what I call STL: straight to landfill.
such a word smith as always. no wonder i watch you at every opportunity
The circuit of the last item almost makes sense if rather than a microcontroller, it was multiple-transistor package, using the pot to drive the base pins. It wouldn't blink, just be adjustable strength.
Whatever it is, it must be much cheaper than a barebones 555 circuit
Ted M Well, a 555 would need an extra capacitor and resistor. So the chip must be cheaper than a 555, a resistor and a capacitor of around 1μF.
Amazing. The wand has holes in the end AND brackets to hold a speaker and possibly itty bitty soundboard- they magically disappeared!
I love this time of year when Clive goes to poundland...
Wish our Poundland sold the strobe light. With a difuser in front they could easily replicate (on a small scale), the way in which the snow covered hedges of the maze in 'The Shining & Dr. Sleep' were illuminated.
WIZARDS SLEEVE!!!
At least HP is slipping it up his own wizard's sleeve... and not Hermione's ;)
Cool! Thank you Big Clive.
Great video. "You probably hear the soldering iron in the background."... Yours must buzz a lot louder than mine!
Have a great job my friend
Possibly the best name for a wand
I bought one of those strings of lights today and chopped off the battery compartment and converted it to USB by putting a 100ohm resistor on both the +ve and -ve connections. Works a treats and I have a battery compartment with switch for use on another project.
The wand has a well thought out colour as it wont show any stains when in use!
Nothing at all against you Clive, I love your videos. They're relaxing to me listening to your voice and seeing how things work. I do have to turn up the volume a little bit. That's only because most other videos that have a music intro are Way too loud. Video starts and my ears are blasted, so i turn it down, then the people start talking and i have to turn it back up again to hear them. I wish youtube could lvl out the sound when people upload them so the intro music isn't so loud its blows out your speakers at the volume it needs to be to hear the people talking.
Hey look big Clive, you fixed it, no more sound, only a blinking light!
That wand is actually pretty close in size to the officially licensed Harry Potter wand from (I believe) Rubies costumes. A store I managed some years back used to carry the line in our costumes. It might even be a poor quality mold of one with cheaper electronics.
Great video Big Clive
Well, Lumos looks like a very bright white light and it is Magic.
I bought one of the strobe lights and was bitterly disappointed with it (not sure what I expected for a couple of quid) so I modded it with a micro Arduino and a bit of code. It now randomly simulates lightning flashes. Much Improved!
I got a witch just like that one last Halloween at a local dollar tree, and It did have a ldr sensor in it with a black tube leading to the hole in the front. It didn't seem to work particularly well, especially in a dark room with other blinking decorations in it. The first thing i did was clip the speaker wire to kill the most terrifying thing about it, the sound. Then i decided to replace the led by hot gluing a set of purple led's from the same video into the body of the witch. Actually worked out pretty well.
"I've looked up the end with a flashlight" Dr. Clive! LOL
oh, flAshlight, I misheard
I know this is an old video, but Ashens also had one of those witches for his Halloween special. His WAS motion activated, and made a completely different sound - much like Billy the puppet in Saw.
i could see those little boxes being good for certain projects, just replace the reflector with a blank out plate of normal plastic, or replace the leds and under drive some higher wattage ones and get a small camp light or something.
A poo covered stick is probably the most frightening none lethal thing you could have for Halloween
Poo covered stick, non-lethal?
Hold my beer...
Pha Q is it in a bottle? Those can be lethal.
The 3 cent mircocontroller or an atmel or most of the microcontrollers have a pull-down/up internal resistor 10~25kohm. They connected the internal resistor to save the price of one resistor and the time to mount it
Some curiosities;
- What would the output of the chip be if you took the 4 common outputs, and connected them to individual LED's
- What would happen if you connected the pot the way you'd expect it to be (not floating)
Let's not forget the nice cooling vents on that "strobe light". 🤣
There's a dance/techno track that starts with a sound like the witch makes, but sped up a little. I was expecting some tinny bass to start any moment while Clive had it on.
5:42 "The batteries are now out. One has just disappeared... it has appeared again now..." *It IS magic!*
IDEA - big clive's version of ready steady cook. 3 poundland items are given to Clive and he has to use the components recommended from them to make something else, like the TV show had a bag of ingredients to be cooked
That's Harry Ploppers Magic Log 👻
Either or Harry Potter's dog if he had one.
Looks like a freeze frame of turd mid flight i came across on fb once.
That is absolutely minging.....but better than a curly, steamy one 😉...Peace.
Ooo is that a genuine Barry Trotter magic wand and glasses :)
His poo wand
IS that a relative of Derek and Rodney?
Hey did anyone see that flying Harry Potter with you that should have been a couple days I think it was King of Random?
Might the movement of the flash be dependent on the type of potentiometer, it sounds logarithmic rather than linear
Take apart some poundland shock toys! That would funny.
Clive, hope you forwarded the bits to TS with your report about the advertised features the items lacked.
Have you ever taken any of these back based on the fact that they're _not_ what they say they are? "Light and sound" - "There's no speaker". "motion detection" - "There's no motion sensor".
I have a slightly more expensive strobe unit (still LED), but it was a thunderstorm 'light and sound' unit. I ended up opening it up and cutting the wires to the speakers. Good for strobing, but drove me nuts with the fake crackly thunder.
Was really hoping the wand's "sound" feature would actually be a small vibration motor. Now that'd be magical! 🤣
Hey Clive, mod that wand and add a vibration motor to it!
I bet you can sell it somewhere for a nice premium ^^
Samhain is still a few days away ;)
Marwin Thedja
What’s brown and sticky?
@Matt Quinn more like: English people trying to work out what Samhain is
RE that witch: Years ago, you used to be able to buy buttons with blinking LED "eyes" that made that weird noise. I miss those things.
Love the video. I must say if I had turd that big I would be reaching for laxatives 🤣🤣🤣
Oh, Clive. I wish you had tried tying down the other end of the potentiometer to see if it really did help with the strobe setting linearity.
I did. It didn't have much effect.
Last one probably they are using an internal weak pull down resistor, probably around 10-100k, as the pull down, and using the ADC to read the value. You could try with another connecting the pot spare pin to ground, and see if that makes it more linear in operation.
Magic wand probably had a sound blob at the rear, but to cut cost the manufacturer simply left it out, cutting a good part off the cost. Red and black wire used interchangeably was simply those rolls were available at the market that day, and there are 3 guys assembling the board, one with each colour. Seen them all the same colour inside, and even a few with wire made during the change in colour, as the insulation was a few different colour streaks as the old one was run out with the new granules going in.
I tried bridging the other end of the pot to ground, but it didn't change it.
@@bigclivedotcom So just another failed design, cost optimised to the last, though I suppose some version did work before it was Muntzed to death.
I'm not a huge Harry Potter fan, but damned if I wouldn't pay money to see Clive play Hagrid.
That witch makes the same exact sound as a ghost plushie I had when I was a kid in the early 90’s it’s eyes also flashed red if I remember right.
Yeah i remember a ghosty thing with that howling. It had a vibration motor to make it move while hanging on a rope.
The little string lights from your Poundland are better than from my Dollar Tree. The Dollar Tree ones lack the resistor and need a screwdriver. The better ones, yeah, last around four months on a pair of NiMH cells.
What magic wands have you been using that make a "whoosh" noise? All of the ones I'm aware of just make a buzz noise. The sounds the user makes is varied though.
The wand lost its sound effects when it was used to cast the MAXIMUS PROFITONUS spell.
Wow, that witch board has even holes for motion sensor. And no tracks going to these holes.
Strobe's not too bad for £2 for the housing tbh. I brought some small love letters from £land a few years ago. Ripped out the standard LED's and popped some RGB led's, an attiny85 and lipo battery and it's amazing now. Can't go wrong for the casing.
When I was a lad, strobe circuits used to use a horse-shoe shaped Xenon discharge tube... are they still available? As I recall, they were really good.
I get the feeling this case started life as a xenon strobe case. They're rare these days. It's easier to fake the effect with some cold white LEDs.
Mmmm I love a big wizards sleeve....oh Hagrid of pound land
Genuinely the the most contextually appropriate & amusing sexual advance I've ever seen proffered toward Clive.
I was hoping you'd try making that potentiometer into a voltage divider circuit.
My scary lantern said it was motion detector , but is actually was a sound activated, I guess relying of the kids be loud when they come to the door , which did not work very well
So much plastic that will end up in landfill or incinerator soon. Crap like this needs a hefty tax on it for pretty much being waste from the start.
We need a big Clive soundboard
One moment please
That strobe would be a good hack to replace the LEDs with UV LEDs.
That was quick dang
happy haloween clive ! 🤗😈🎆
I got that exact strobe light here in the us like 15 years ago
Clive, fix the flasher with a new circuit with 555 timer!
We need more Poundland stuff :D
wonder how much plastic poundland contributes to landfill every year...
@@Okurka. As you deftly pointed out, how "clean" an electric vehicle is, very much depends on the source of the electricity. That isn't a flaw, it's a feature. My electric vehicle runs from a PV system I've had for many years. All driving within the approx 480km round trip, e.g. without needing a zap from outside sources, can be done very well on my PV produced power. Which constitutes 97% of my total driving needs. The other 3% of longer range travel is satisfied utilizing public rapid charging, with electricity coming from mixed primary sources, much of it wind or hydro, some from coal or gas fired stations. While intended as a barb toward EVs, a plastic burning, dioxin spewing power plant would tend make everything using the power rather un-clean on the whole, even your mobile phone. I'd have to take the NIMBY approach with your facetious proposal, particularly since my yard (garden) already has a power plant in it.
@@Okurka. No, The air where I am is heavy, with practicality and reason. PV systems, like most electronics and electrical goods made by humans, are created using industrial scale manufacturing process and material inputs, inducing a large amount of sintered silicon and some delightfully nasty mined rare earth materials as dopants for the semi-conducting p and n junctions.
While I strongly suspect you're simply continuing to be facetious, I will labor the point anyway. You cannot create/manufacture something and have zero impact, but you can choose which processes to use. Again, this is a feature, not a flaw. Some industrial processes are quite efficient over others, particularly when targeting a manufacturing goal, such as less waste or byproduct overall.
It's really more a question of using resources in a way that doesn't assume someone else will bear the burden of cleaning up after you.
The PV panel, in the previous real world exemplar. With efficiencies of manufacturing, lifetime pollution/environmental/toxic impact, and lifetime cost of of a given PV produced unit of electricity, amortized over average device life-cycle, is very favorable. Particularly, when using the same metrics to compare a coal fired power plant over it's construction, materials & fuel inputs, over the average life-cycle of a given facility, for a given produced unit of electrical output. This is largely due to the fact that in the case of the PV panel, the fuel input for power production stage of the PV panel's life-cycle is the direct radiation output from the most efficient low waste nuclear source currently available to us as a species, stellar thermonuclear synthesis.
To again labor a point, The nuclear energy source in question (possibly already known to you) is generally referred to as "The Sun", though some variation on the common parlance do exist.
Now, I hear those out there saying "but the coal in a coal fired power plant is just stored energy from stellar thermonuclear synthesis", those people are absolutely correct. It's just stored in a carbon mediator, very energy dense at that.
The issue again comes down to process efficiency and it's byproducts, and in this case, the fact that to release said potential energy, the carbon mediator must undergo pyrolytic decomposition.. AKA burning. This "burning" tends to disperse the mediator as mostly aerosols and gases. This has a secondary process consequence, since the carbon which makes up the mediator has long (on a human time scale) been out of the present environmental carbon cycle. This tends to lead to "Thin air", a figurative term sometimes meaning less breathable, or less conducive to life as we know it.
Notable that other uses & connotative meanings of the idiom do seem to be in use.
@@Okurka. No, not "funny" at all considering while I was drafting a reply to your second comment, your comment was edited (unknown to me at the time) to add on the "Same goes for your car and its batteries" quip to the end. Otherwise I'd have referenced my original post about how cleanliness of an EV "very much depends on the source of the electricity". I would have also extended the mass manufacturing discussion to envelop the pollution caused by the manufacture of automobiles, both combustion powered and electrically powered over their respective life-cycles. Comparative metrics of resources consumed over full averaged life-cycle are very favorable to an EV. Again, there is no zero impact manufacturing. Strictly from a fiscal standpoint upfront cost of an EV is still more than a comparable petrol vehicle, with the margin tilting rapidly toward EV. However, From a full life-cycle economics standpoint they are presently at parity, or cheaper. Depending on use case. In the realm of personal responsibility and stewardship of resources, within the context of our lives, we must all make our own justifications for our respective actions. I would state that no-one needs a vehicle, be it electric or petrol, for the essential biological functions of life. You may however find it advantageous where great distances need to be covered in a practical amount of time. Such as when earning ones living is involved, for example. You clearly read my comments, so it's probably not poor reading comprehension troubling you in life. The worlds populace shall have to henceforth speculate... #youtubetroll ???
The screw in the battery compartment on toys is to protect children from swallowing the batteries. Supposedly swallowing coin cell batteries is really bad. The electrical current burns holes in the digestive system.
A simple way to find out, if the led uses a phosphor, is to shine a UV light in the front and observe the glow.
what would be the purpose of the blue strobe light? why would I buy a thing that flashes blue light? or does everybody only buy it for the components?
I wondering if it falls short regarding the trade description act.
Amazing the wand works, the battery disappeared then reappeared
«Just like real magic wands!»
XD
Ah yes... the Colour of Magic... always wondered what that was.
Terry Pratchett would have known... ;-) Edit: I was looking for your comment.
@@crashk6 and I was waiting for someone to comment on it
The circuit board screws were holding the tabs from batteries down.
The spludger appears at the third call, as if by magic . . . BigClive was just coincidentally holding the magic wand at the time . . .
Ginny Weasley is Harry's wand sheath :)
A diffraction grating could maybe tell you if the purple LEDs were using phosphor.
I just shot one with a violet laser and it glowed red. So definitely phosphor on a blue LED.
Could you safely run the strobe lights off USB after adding the 10 ohm resistor? Please
like "a real magic wand" ? ;-), the speaker end could be used as a watering spout/fountain ...
Or really dumb the shower head or a dumb handheld shower who's the hose coming to the other end.
why the vents on he strobe case? Is it to let out ALL THE HEAT from those HIGH power LEDs?... Or.... to let just enough water in to fry the circuitry, so you need to buy a new one after every rain fall?.. Not really an outdoor light now is it?... Great work Clive!
That light would work nicely from a USB power supply. Just cut the "phone" end of any USB charging cable (or, use an old, knackered one -- it's always the "phone" end that fails first, the "computer" end is both more robust and usually sees fewer unplugging and replugging cycles), strip the ends and solder to the LEDs and resistor. With 5V in and 3V across the LEDs (about right for blue or white LEDs; longer wavelengths will have a lower striking voltage), the resistor will need to drop 2V. 10Ω would pass 0.2A, which for five cheap LEDs is a bit of an experiment to see how long they last -- try 22Ω or 15Ω, or even more (39Ω will give about 5mA per LED). £1 of electricity from the mains is about 1000 alkaline AA cells' worth, so even a charger that is only 75% efficient will soon pay for itself.
You could, of course, wire several lights to one USB charger, up to its maximum output -- it's best to use separate resistors in each one.