Onetime I was in a biffy, girl threw herself at the door. in'veloped itself. I was stuck. fresh on a micro-dose. Somerset-Wisconsin. One of those apple river fests.
Just use a spring loaded flapper on the bottom of the alarm box so the strobe pushes the flap open and the spring tension will close it when it retracts.
Those alarm bells are driven by an electromagnet, it needs AC to oscillate the clapper against the bell. If supplied with DC, you only get that one "ding", as the magnet holds the clapper after moving it.
And that can probably be replicated with a 555 ic, some resistors and capacitors and a variable resistor to set the frequency, and a transistor if the load of the bell is high enough to start burning out 555 ICs.
Came here to say the same think. Older doorbells use small step-down transformers from 120v AC to 24 or 12v AC. The button just completes the circut between the transformer and a solenoid that pushes its rod into a metal bar for the chime. These alarm bells work on pretty much the same circut and principle
sheet of rubber with a cross cut in it glued to the hole will help keep the bees out and not interfere with the movement of the light and keep most of a seal from water. Kind of like a garbage disposal rubber ring in a sink just big enough for the light to move. Looks like a funny unique use of saved parts! I don't know if I want to alert the whole forest of my bodily functions, but still well done!
I work security patrol and I can tell you with absolute certainty that getting an emergency service summons call just before or while on the can is the worst timing. Last thing I want to hear on the radio when I'm dropping a dook is "SECURITY! There is a suspicious character loitering around outer perimeter fence!"
A permanent IP-rated version should mount the led strobe permanently on the outside, and it's just off when not activated. Another alternative would be a spring-loaded door that closes the bottom.
Would it be better to activate on the portapotty locking mechanism? It should be able to prevent false-poositives with the door being shut after use and also let you know if it's still in use. So, if it's more than 3hours, the person inside has probably passed out.
Would be neat to modify it to have the light stay on while the trigger is depressed, so everyone knows when the Biffy is no longer occupied and they can get back to operations
It's time to upgrade to a Bambu Lab 3D printer! My Ender 3 almost ruined 3D printing for me. My Bambu Lab A1 took 30 minutes to put together and was immediately printing, no tuning required.
That is a cool project! I feel some of your pain. At our remote place we have to count flushes. I created a Flush-o-meter. It's still a tad janky but much simpler than your alert system.
If that's for the reason I'm _guessing_ it's for¹; A 7' transparent pipe with a one-way flap on one end will give you a „clear“ report on how things are going, and whether you need to call the pumper out or not. 😇 (¹ - I follow _Poor Pumper Society_ so I'm used to these sorts of concerns, even if that sort of system is über rare here in the UK... 🙃)
If you need some sort of insect repellent, I've found that flea collars work well. I have had issues with spiders building webs in front of outdoor cameras because insects love the infrared light source. The webs don't show up on camera during the day, but at night, the 6 foot spiders are terrifying. I started wrapping a cheap flea collar around the camera in the spring and replacing it after each winter and bugs avoid the camera. For $6 at the dollar store, they last for a year, maybe longer if they arent in direct sunlight
I think that bell was a single-stroke bell. That means it only rings once every time you apply power. If you wanted a continuous ringing with continuous power, you would use a vibrating bell.
Just one point: that battery chemistry doesn't like to be charged below freezing, I don't know what winter temperatures you see there but it's in a semi open uninsulated box so I think the winter will rapidly kill it. In this case old lead acid batteries might actually be more reliable. Or you could add a low temperature cutoff switch to your charging circuit to disable charging below freezing.
I feel like this needs a second alarm (Alarm B) with the Resume operations All clear for when the door unlocks, so that the person exiting the unit gets to appreciate the coolness of the thing too. "The biffy is now open. Next in line, please!"
Dispense with the linear actuator, just mount the light externally. I find that simply leaving the door open gives an olfactory warning to any approaching workmates. It also stops the buggers locking you inside with a ratchet strap. 😁
Getting really annoyed that I often have to back out of RUclips completely, then refresh and then navigate back to videos to have the 'comment' bar appear so I can leave a comment. Anyone else experiencing this lately?
but... why? I might be down on imagination juice, but I cant think what couldnt happen if a chemical toilet is being used... I can think of a few for some other systems... but I'll admit, im stumped.
My wild guess is its not actually a chemical toilet anymore, but used as an outhouse, and may happen to be down range from the cordless hole puncher testing area. The laser cut sign mentioned cease fire. That or mining operations causing falling rocks that may hit the porta john haha.
Shooting range got moved slightly, but the port-a-potty did not (because reasons, which I'm not totally in agreement with). This wholse project is about 50% practical and 50% raising awareness to both poopers and shooters to be careful :-P
Water skis, masking tape, furnace thermostat, mass spectrometer for uranium-235, implantable pacemaker, and now this. You never know what great invention will come out of Minnesota.
Years ago in the 70s and 80s people like us would be tinkers. No one had a problem with us. Unfortunately since 9/11 we get a lot of negativity from neighbors.
People fear what they don't understand and they're becoming more fearful every day. The internet gives them access to limitless knowledge and understanding, but they use it to convince each other that the world is flat. It's just pathetic and sickening.
@@petevenuti7355 I lived in Troy, Cohoes, Clifton Park, Malta, and I had monitor sites set up to capture the ATCS Monitor data from CP Rail from the Colonie Sub in Albany to Mechanicville to Saratoga to Scotia. I did favors for people and asked if I could use their places to put remote monitor sites. One guy was a doctor that I did a lot of work for free at his offices and his farm and house. The Barn was up near CPC-38 the spur from Saratoga to the Adirondack mine National Lead used to own. I asked the doctor if I could set up my laptop and an SDR and a little mag mount antenna and log data. He could have said no, but instead he said yes, and 10 minutes after I left he drove an hour up to the barn and then called Skidmore College and a professor of computer science. About a dozen people from the college came to the barn. They called the FBI, Homeland Security, the State Police, the Sheriff, and I was told be the kid who was living at the barn taking care of the doctor's chickens that 30 vehicles with about 50 officials including a congressman, all showed up and examined my laptop and after they all said I was not doing anything illegal, the doctor called me, about 6 hours since I had set it up, and told me I had to remove it. He didn't tell me what he had done. I came back to my apartment to have the FBI waiting at my door. Here is Harrisburg PA private businesses and ham groups and regular people help with monitoring sites to cover the Harrisburg and Reading area. NY is a tough state. Very unfriendly. People are not nice. When I visited a friend a year ago, I left a standard 30% tip, and I had forgotten how cheap people are and how rude they are. The waitress stopped me and thanked me for the tip. I am bedridden now, and I watch videos on RUclips and live through them.
An idea that comes to my head for bees is maybe a type of fabric-y screen/netting..then maybe some zip ties or a pipe clamp around the light and just leave the material loose enough to move with it as it moves up and down?🤷
Screw/glue a plastic container lid to the top (bottom) of the red flashing light so that when the light retracts, it covers up the hole to keep weather and insects out.
Im dont have an insane amount of interest in satellites and radio frequencies, but I stumbled across a handful of your videos and have thoroughly enjoyed the presentation style and content... reminds me of a more electronics-based Aging Wheels. I've been really captivated, and now that I got recommended this gem of a video, ive been convinced to subscribe. Plus, saw a can of some spotted cow in a video somewhere, so now I have to show support. Great videos man, really looking forward to going thru your back catalogue
They need a commercial version I would buy a few. I need at least 2 I will be building now. we tried carrier pigeons, tried vacuum tubes with notes, even automated texts sent when candy crush is opened didn't work right for us. Thanks!
I have been workshopping a similar idea, probably amounting to a simple andon light. At our haunt, the actor restroom cannot be seen from the break area and checking if the door is closed means going through a door and partially up a staircase. Unfortunately for me, doorknobs are seldom equipped with a lock status switch. Adding my own seems feasible but difficult, and buying one with this feature would be prohibitively expensive.
I like how the box also "drops a load". I bet the reason why operations need to be suspended when someone is in the biffy because there is an egg buffet nearby :P
Instead if putting some repellent inside, how about a clear plastic hosing that covers that area , allowing you to see the light drop down but also keeping the bees out. Alternatively if you cant find some kind of transparent housing, you could find a clear plastic bag that has enough slack to drop down with it and retract with it just two quick ideas
Haha Pork Chop Sandwiches! I got that reference. I hear you on the 3d printing woes as well. I seem to have less time than 3d printering requires as my ender 3 pro is down, again.
Just have the light peek out a bit from the bottom of the box and cut a rubber gasket for the light to come out through. That would seal around the light and stop critters from getting inside.
You can buy postage stamp size mp3 modules that play sounds or music off of a sd card for a couple bucks, you can play different sounds by having different resistors added to each switch. Different resistance different sound.
Saveitforparts is the ONLY CHANNEL I have ever heard the phrase "poop alert" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Points for pleasing internalized 12 year old Matt and for being unique?
A ladder of electrical contacts could make the bell pulse if you put a wiper on the linear actuator track. Snap action wiper could present one conductive side on one part of the stroke and stay off when raising if you wanted.
Lol! It's a "Kidsmart Vocal Smoke Detector". Here's my unlisted video from 5 years ago that got immediately de-monetized :-P ruclips.net/video/8qaNmiKMRcA/видео.html
@saveitforparts - you show off that awesome looking solar panel/power bank, then NOT give a source?! 😹 You keep it real, you keep it fun - and as always, real fun. Thanks, man. ✌️
You might have been able to use a photoresistor or two mounted to the rotating light to trigger the solenoid in the old timey red bell. Depending on how many get mounted you can create a square wave generator with different duty cycles.
7:37 I despise the ubiquitous use of the two-wire SAE connector in solar applications for this exact reason. It's simply too easy to have a polarity incident.
Overly complex, which is fun for you. It will be a fine mausoleum for the deer mice that will move in and electrocute themselves after about 48 hours. From the Hold Fire reference might one assume this is set up near the Sand Land rifle range?
Haha me and the wife just watched this and I said I need to make one with a "warning mum is on the toilet stay clear" but maybe you need to invent something when the biffy is no longer occupied otherwise no one will know and think someone is still in there died in there own poop fumes 😅 love your fun contraptions keep them coming.
There's a reverser module for the Motorola power connectors. You're far from the first person to encounter that issue. Just found a bundle of 5 for $7 on Amazon when I searched for Motorola Power Connector polarity flip'. On the other hand you probably wouldn't have had any of those in any of your parts piles. Should be in the parts drawer of everyone who has that variety of connector coming off their solar panels though.
You're seriously not going to tell us why operations need to be suspended when someone is in the biffy?
I’m about to suspend operations
emotional support is needed during these times friend
Asking the real question
Onetime I was in a biffy, girl threw herself at the door. in'veloped itself. I was stuck. fresh on a micro-dose. Somerset-Wisconsin. One of those apple river fests.
in my 22 years of life i have never heard someone un ironically call a toilet a "biffy"
Yep, that 2AM bathroom break will really be popular with the neighbors. LOL
Just use a spring loaded flapper on the bottom of the alarm box so the strobe pushes the flap open and the spring tension will close it when it retracts.
Bonus points for making it look like a toilet lid.
"This is my best soldering job ever, and it's backwards." Come for the tech, stay for the jank. Love it.
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Those alarm bells are driven by an electromagnet, it needs AC to oscillate the clapper against the bell. If supplied with DC, you only get that one "ding", as the magnet holds the clapper after moving it.
I want to know what kind of operations need to wait until Joe-Bob is finished taking a dump....
As a note many of those mechanical bell systems areintended to be ran on 12/24vAC so they actually ring.
And that can probably be replicated with a 555 ic, some resistors and capacitors and a variable resistor to set the frequency, and a transistor if the load of the bell is high enough to start burning out 555 ICs.
Came here to say the same think. Older doorbells use small step-down transformers from 120v AC to 24 or 12v AC. The button just completes the circut between the transformer and a solenoid that pushes its rod into a metal bar for the chime. These alarm bells work on pretty much the same circut and principle
Should switch it from a water level detector and when something disturbs the water line it triggers . So each plop will sound an alarm.. hahaha
Or.... put a microphone down the hole connected to a powerful amp and some big honkin' speakers!
@@StubbyPhillipsbruh what’s wrong with you? (Don’t actually list we don’t have the rest of our lives to read the list)
@@gamestechvideos You're welcome!
@@StubbyPhillips someone goes to make a midnight drop and you get woken up by a loud ploop sound
sheet of rubber with a cross cut in it glued to the hole will help keep the bees out and not interfere with the movement of the light and keep most of a seal from water. Kind of like a garbage disposal rubber ring in a sink just big enough for the light to move. Looks like a funny unique use of saved parts! I don't know if I want to alert the whole forest of my bodily functions, but still well done!
It needs a sphincter
I work security patrol and I can tell you with absolute certainty that getting an emergency service summons call just before or while on the can is the worst timing. Last thing I want to hear on the radio when I'm dropping a dook is "SECURITY! There is a suspicious character loitering around outer perimeter fence!"
😂 omg.. "porkchop sandwiches.. gtf outta here go get tf outta here" .... dude you just flashed back some memories.. gi joooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeee
I’d put a round brush seal on the hole, also keeps your flashing light nice and shiny.
Euphemism detected! 🙃
That box alone looks like it costs a hundred freedom units.
A permanent IP-rated version should mount the led strobe permanently on the outside, and it's just off when not activated. Another alternative would be a spring-loaded door that closes the bottom.
Would it be better to activate on the portapotty locking mechanism? It should be able to prevent false-poositives with the door being shut after use and also let you know if it's still in use.
So, if it's more than 3hours, the person inside has probably passed out.
the gi joe psa reference caught me off guard
Use a length of tire tube to make a bellows type friction free positive seal for the light to keep the bees out.
the saveitforparts channel is truly one the best on youtube, weed wacker review last week, poop alert this week. You never know whats next!
Would be neat to modify it to have the light stay on while the trigger is depressed, so everyone knows when the Biffy is no longer occupied and they can get back to operations
Was going to say...unless everyone hears and sees it for those few seconds it's deployed it will be missed
That's actually how it's set up right now, but it also keeps sounding the audible alarm until the battery runs out. I need to do a few tweaks :-)
@@saveitforparts arduinooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
needs an all clear mode :)
It's time to upgrade to a Bambu Lab 3D printer! My Ender 3 almost ruined 3D printing for me. My Bambu Lab A1 took 30 minutes to put together and was immediately printing, no tuning required.
2:47: you missed an incredible chance to say “Aurora Borealis?”
That is a cool project! I feel some of your pain. At our remote place we have to count flushes. I created a Flush-o-meter. It's still a tad janky but much simpler than your alert system.
If that's for the reason I'm _guessing_ it's for¹; A 7' transparent pipe with a one-way flap on one end will give you a „clear“ report on how things are going, and whether you need to call the pumper out or not. 😇
(¹ - I follow _Poor Pumper Society_ so I'm used to these sorts of concerns, even if that sort of system is über rare here in the UK... 🙃)
If you need some sort of insect repellent, I've found that flea collars work well. I have had issues with spiders building webs in front of outdoor cameras because insects love the infrared light source. The webs don't show up on camera during the day, but at night, the 6 foot spiders are terrifying. I started wrapping a cheap flea collar around the camera in the spring and replacing it after each winter and bugs avoid the camera. For $6 at the dollar store, they last for a year, maybe longer if they arent in direct sunlight
This is why I watch this channel , gave me a chuckle
The world needs more genius men like yourself. God speed good sir...
Love your videos man, this one was just a random but knowledgeable topic, very nice
I think that bell was a single-stroke bell. That means it only rings once every time you apply power. If you wanted a continuous ringing with continuous power, you would use a vibrating bell.
Just one point: that battery chemistry doesn't like to be charged below freezing, I don't know what winter temperatures you see there but it's in a semi open uninsulated box so I think the winter will rapidly kill it. In this case old lead acid batteries might actually be more reliable. Or you could add a low temperature cutoff switch to your charging circuit to disable charging below freezing.
i hope im not the only one appreciating the symbolism of the strobe light extension
I feel like this needs a second alarm (Alarm B) with the Resume operations All clear for when the door unlocks,
so that the person exiting the unit gets to appreciate the coolness of the thing too.
"The biffy is now open. Next in line, please!"
6:53 Bambu A1-Mini on sale I hear like $199. Seen them function fine on a portable plastic folding table in the middle of a parking lot before ✌🏻
You really pulled through with existing though 👍
I need one of those from my home bathroom …. Specifically after I’ve had a night of chili 😂
Dispense with the linear actuator, just mount the light externally.
I find that simply leaving the door open gives an olfactory warning to any approaching workmates. It also stops the buggers locking you inside with a ratchet strap. 😁
Sure, I could have just slapped the light on the outside, but it's way cooler to have it pop out!
i don't care what others are watching it for...i only clicked because of the thumbnail...now that's eye catching hahahaha...instant subscribe
Getting really annoyed that I often have to back out of RUclips completely, then refresh and then navigate back to videos to have the 'comment' bar appear so I can leave a comment.
Anyone else experiencing this lately?
but... why? I might be down on imagination juice, but I cant think what couldnt happen if a chemical toilet is being used... I can think of a few for some other systems... but I'll admit, im stumped.
My wild guess is its not actually a chemical toilet anymore, but used as an outhouse, and may happen to be down range from the cordless hole puncher testing area. The laser cut sign mentioned cease fire. That or mining operations causing falling rocks that may hit the porta john haha.
re-read the text on the sign.
According to the sand land map, among the many amenities located on the sandland property is a shooting range.
Imagi🌈nation!
@@pileofstuffwhy....why did someone put the toilet in the middle of the shooting range?
Shooting range got moved slightly, but the port-a-potty did not (because reasons, which I'm not totally in agreement with). This wholse project is about 50% practical and 50% raising awareness to both poopers and shooters to be careful :-P
Water skis, masking tape, furnace thermostat, mass spectrometer for uranium-235, implantable pacemaker, and now this. You never know what great invention will come out of Minnesota.
That actuator looks seriously overkill 😭😭
this is what youtube made for, peak videos like this
Years ago in the 70s and 80s people like us would be tinkers. No one had a problem with us.
Unfortunately since 9/11 we get a lot of negativity from neighbors.
People fear what they don't understand and they're becoming more fearful every day.
The internet gives them access to limitless knowledge and understanding, but they use it to convince each other that the world is flat.
It's just pathetic and sickening.
1870's? I think the word tinker was already outdated in the 1970s and 80s
(coming from someone who lived on Tinker Street in Woodstock New York)
@@petevenuti7355 I lived in Troy, Cohoes, Clifton Park, Malta, and I had monitor sites set up to capture the ATCS Monitor data from CP Rail from the Colonie Sub in Albany to Mechanicville to Saratoga to Scotia. I did favors for people and asked if I could use their places to put remote monitor sites. One guy was a doctor that I did a lot of work for free at his offices and his farm and house. The Barn was up near CPC-38 the spur from Saratoga to the Adirondack mine National Lead used to own. I asked the doctor if I could set up my laptop and an SDR and a little mag mount antenna and log data.
He could have said no, but instead he said yes, and 10 minutes after I left he drove an hour up to the barn and then called Skidmore College and a professor of computer science. About a dozen people from the college came to the barn. They called the FBI, Homeland Security, the State Police, the Sheriff, and I was told be the kid who was living at the barn taking care of the doctor's chickens that 30 vehicles with about 50 officials including a congressman, all showed up and examined my laptop and after they all said I was not doing anything illegal, the doctor called me, about 6 hours since I had set it up, and told me I had to remove it. He didn't tell me what he had done.
I came back to my apartment to have the FBI waiting at my door.
Here is Harrisburg PA private businesses and ham groups and regular people help with monitoring sites to cover the Harrisburg and Reading area.
NY is a tough state. Very unfriendly. People are not nice. When I visited a friend a year ago, I left a standard 30% tip, and I had forgotten how cheap people are and how rude they are. The waitress stopped me and thanked me for the tip. I am bedridden now, and I watch videos on RUclips and live through them.
These are known professionally as a "Cincinnati Deuce Detector"
An idea that comes to my head for bees is maybe a type of fabric-y screen/netting..then maybe some zip ties or a pipe clamp around the light and just leave the material loose enough to move with it as it moves up and down?🤷
If the light deploys into a clear plastic bag it can be bee proof AND condensationproof.
Screw/glue a plastic container lid to the top (bottom) of the red flashing light so that when the light retracts, it covers up the hole to keep weather and insects out.
This might reduce the number of accidental discharges over at Sandland.
7:26 Annoying when that happens!
Happened to me at least once.
Im dont have an insane amount of interest in satellites and radio frequencies, but I stumbled across a handful of your videos and have thoroughly enjoyed the presentation style and content... reminds me of a more electronics-based Aging Wheels. I've been really captivated, and now that I got recommended this gem of a video, ive been convinced to subscribe. Plus, saw a can of some spotted cow in a video somewhere, so now I have to show support. Great videos man, really looking forward to going thru your back catalogue
They need a commercial version I would buy a few. I need at least 2 I will be building now. we tried carrier pigeons, tried vacuum tubes with notes, even automated texts sent when candy crush is opened didn't work right for us. Thanks!
My first thought when I saw the hole that was cut a little too big for your light was squirrels.
I have been workshopping a similar idea, probably amounting to a simple andon light. At our haunt, the actor restroom cannot be seen from the break area and checking if the door is closed means going through a door and partially up a staircase. Unfortunately for me, doorknobs are seldom equipped with a lock status switch. Adding my own seems feasible but difficult, and buying one with this feature would be prohibitively expensive.
i just picture a porta poty behind a firing line and now is safe lol
You call them a porta-potty; I prefer Thunderbox!
@9:10 sometimes we all prematurely give up.
I like how the box also "drops a load". I bet the reason why operations need to be suspended when someone is in the biffy because there is an egg buffet nearby :P
Instead if putting some repellent inside, how about a clear plastic hosing that covers that area , allowing you to see the light drop down but also keeping the bees out.
Alternatively if you cant find some kind of transparent housing, you could find a clear plastic bag that has enough slack to drop down with it and retract with it
just two quick ideas
New guys first day on the job site, mistake number one is was using the outhouse…. I could see this being used so many ways.
Haha Pork Chop Sandwiches! I got that reference.
I hear you on the 3d printing woes as well. I seem to have less time than 3d printering requires as my ender 3 pro is down, again.
lol this is an ax-man project if there ever were one
Well! Now we have a PROJECT! Woke up and this is the first thing I saw! You made my day!
It’s finally out!🐈
You're so awesome, making the best random things. I enjoy the videos you make for sure.
The "Pork chop sandwiches" bit caught me so off guard. Why is that video stored in the RAM of my brain?!
Just have the light peek out a bit from the bottom of the box and cut a rubber gasket for the light to come out through. That would seal around the light and stop critters from getting inside.
i think you forgot to add the alert when someone's finished 😂
hahah "Code Brown"...............class
You can buy postage stamp size mp3 modules that play sounds or music off of a sd card for a couple bucks, you can play different sounds by having different resistors added to each switch. Different resistance different sound.
*3d printer sitting in shambles* ahhh i see your a man of class too! So many Ender 3(s) just about my garage.
Bog standard project, love it.
Saveitforparts is the ONLY CHANNEL I have ever heard the phrase "poop alert" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Points for pleasing internalized 12 year old Matt and for being unique?
This is why you’re my favourite geeky channel!
I would love to have a garage full of junk endless projects
A ladder of electrical contacts could make the bell pulse if you put a wiper on the linear actuator track. Snap action wiper could present one conductive side on one part of the stroke and stay off when raising if you wanted.
It isn't really the "track", but I don't know what the moving part of it is called. Close enough.
Can you please share the model of that talking smoke detector? I've been looking for exactly that to play the same GI Joe sound clip
Lol! It's a "Kidsmart Vocal Smoke Detector". Here's my unlisted video from 5 years ago that got immediately de-monetized :-P ruclips.net/video/8qaNmiKMRcA/видео.html
@@saveitforpartsyou're the best! Thank you!
Put another poop alert module down in the speakeasy.
I love it when a plan comes together
@saveitforparts - you show off that awesome looking solar panel/power bank, then NOT give a source?! 😹
You keep it real, you keep it fun - and as always, real fun. Thanks, man. ✌️
Oops, did I not include the link for those? I'll update the description.
@@saveitforparts much appreciated!
I used to work for the phone company. The phone signal = DC, and the ringing = AC
PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!
I am currently suspending operations until further notice
Our man made his dream come true, very inspirational
Every body needs a POOP 9000
You just make it so hard to top your last crazy 😂 video. Thanks for sharing your fun with us. I know that was just what I needed 😄. 73 Leo
That red light coming out of the hole.😮😊
now I cant hide in the Burger King bathroom.
Also, a bambu labs x1c is SO user friendly. haven't had a single issue with printing. no babysitting or anything
Great episode Mr. Parts.
That's a good lithium flavor especially for winter. Those old gel batteries are a little too chewy for my taste.
You might have been able to use a photoresistor or two mounted to the rotating light to trigger the solenoid in the old timey red bell. Depending on how many get mounted you can create a square wave generator with different duty cycles.
It must be screaming like a banshee as I feel like fighting for my life in here. My bad, I had chili.
Hey Gabe, that’s what you call improvise prototyping, hot glue and zip ties
This doohickey sounds like it'd be an annoyingly relevant piece of evidence in an Ace Attorney game.
7:37 I despise the ubiquitous use of the two-wire SAE connector in solar applications for this exact reason.
It's simply too easy to have a polarity incident.
Overly complex, which is fun for you. It will be a fine mausoleum for the deer mice that will move in and electrocute themselves after about 48 hours. From the Hold Fire reference might one assume this is set up near the Sand Land rifle range?
Yep, it's the range safety toilet 😂
Haha me and the wife just watched this and I said I need to make one with a "warning mum is on the toilet stay clear" but maybe you need to invent something when the biffy is no longer occupied otherwise no one will know and think someone is still in there died in there own poop fumes 😅 love your fun contraptions keep them coming.
There's a reverser module for the Motorola power connectors. You're far from the first person to encounter that issue. Just found a bundle of 5 for $7 on Amazon when I searched for Motorola Power Connector polarity flip'. On the other hand you probably wouldn't have had any of those in any of your parts piles. Should be in the parts drawer of everyone who has that variety of connector coming off their solar panels though.
This guy is classic apocalypse steampunk
Amazing work
Can it be programmed to play music? My personal pooping theme!
I was not expecting to hear a pork chop sandwiches reference today!
GI JOOOOOOE!
I laughed when I saw the Baofeng in the "Obsolete radio" box as though that's just where they belong.
I think that one had an issue that I haven't had time to fix. They're usually pretty hard to kill but every now and then I manage it!