@StezStixFix Let's play a game, shall we? I keep skipping your raps, but if you promise to include me in one, I'll stop😂 Not a patreon or sponsor. Just a YT random 😅 How about that? Is that manure enough? 😂
I'm an electrician. My installation tester has decided to die. It went to a repair center who wimped out and said it would need a new mother board from the manufacturer. Do you fancy having a go at it?
I gotta be honest, as much as I loved watching this video, being named in this week's rap instead of in the HHG scroll made my day. Even for people that aren't fans, this week's was a banger.
Alps are a Japanese electronics parts maker. In 2004 i was working for Synaptics in San jose (Synaptics make the majority of touchpads on laptops, a lot of ipods generations etc) we were the pioneers of capacitive touch sensing. Our BIGGEST rival by far was Alps who managed to get resistive sensing good enough to compete. They made some very good stuff.
i'm no camera expert but as soon as those photos started printing my first thought was overexposure. whether that was the zink paper being messed up or too much light or the shutter not working properly, i don't know. taking a picture in normal non-filming light would be a good test. also popping in some fresh film from a new pack that hasn't potentially been exposed to light - i have an HP sprocket and i know whenever i replace the film i always feel really nervous about making sure i do it quickly so the zink paper isn't exposed to light and messed up!
I own lots of mini printers, I use the Polaroid Zip all the time and have printed thousands of photos with it over the years. Even better than the Zip is the newer Polaroid Hi-Print. Same size photos but better resolution and a different printing process (a 4 pass dye sublimation). A great video as always. 👍
I may look into one of those mini photo printers. I have the paperang printer which prints black and white on thermal receipt paper but I want color. The little red one you fixed seems to work well.
This was quite useful. Both the pink and purple cameras are the 2nd generation Snap Touch (they have the power button between the shutter button and flash.) I have a 1st gen Snap Touch which lacks that button and uses the flash up/down position to turn on and off, but still has the touchscreen. The companion app kept nagging me to update the firmware, which kept failing... until it updated to the incompatible 2nd gen firmware and completely borked the camera. It charges and turns on to a white screen, but fails to proceed or respond. It was handy to see the teardown of these 2nd gen units to see the differences in the PCBs. I may try to tear mine down and manually reflash the appropriate firmware directly to the IC. The image quality from the camera was fair in good lighting, and abysmal any other time. Printing via Bluetooth with my phone like you did with the Zip, the print quality was pretty bad. Seeing the prints you made from the Zip, I wonder if my printer was bad from new, or perhaps I got a bad batch of paper with the camera. (it came bundled with a big pack)
Waouw... you got the timing just spot on perfect, there; we both said "thingy-sticks?!?" at exactly the same time... almost as if we had rehearsed it. - Stupid thingy-sticks 🧡
They are essentially printers. And printers suck to repair. They are machines of devious hate and bile, and I despise them. Whenever I get a client who start with 'I got this printer...' I silently curse them with the Hex of Hate and Suffering. I really hate fixing printers.
Printers were the absolute bane of my existence when I was starting my IT career and was in tech support. "i don't not like them, Sam I am, I think printers belong in the trash can"
I like to tear printers apart for components, heatsinks and such. Every once in a while I grab a laser printer from the local recycling centre to recycle it myself😂
Hey m8, thanks for the videos. Being doing some repairs and going well so far. Hard part is remembering where the screws go 😂. Do you use a power supply to test things? If so what do you use? Thanks from NZ!!
17:40 A lithium cell sitting at 1.8V is /not/ OK. Please don't try to charge it. It will have dendrites inside that can suddenly pierce the seperator, discharging the cell quickly and quite spectacularly ...
I have one of the Snap cameras & quite enjoy being able to take pics & have them printed… So often these days, we don’t have actual pictures; as they end up staying in your phone until the end of time… Sadly, I lost the magnetic lenscap for it long ago… :(
Man... I've lost your channel and forgot it's name. Spent a couple of hours yesterday, trying to find this with no success. Today I have headache due to this but trying one last time I remembered that you was fixing 5 old Nintendo cartridges and by this searching request I'm finally here 😭Greetings to Dave
Alps are a Japanese manufacturer, they specalise in potentiometers, switches, dials etc. Ive pullled,apart a few 1970s era japanese radios, tuners and even cars that have Alps parts in them.
My dad has a whole album of pictures like the one you took of your face. For some reason he always looks at the lense when trying to work out why a camera hasn't worked😂
Pretty sure the problem with the last one was that you tried to take a photo of a transparent blue thing on a blue background from a few cm away. These cameras focus at infinity and require quite a lot of light to make a decent photo. Take a photo outside and it will be way better.
It was overexposed, so too much light was getting to the sensor and washing out the picture. As another commenter has said, it was likely that the shutter was stuck open or malfunctioning somehow and not letting the right amount of light in, and Steve's poking around fixed it.
For the dodgy battery just buy a similar single cell and solder it in place of the dead cell. If the cell had remained around 2v then i would have just punctured the cell with a cocktail stick and sealed the hole with a dab of hot glue or super glue . Before the usual NASA engineers jump on and start the gobshiteing Ive been making custom LiPo packs for over 20 years for my 2 local RC clubs were we use high draw LiPos for racing drones and long duration packs for FPV cruisers (medium speed planes built for 40--100 mile round trips ) as long as you take care you wont have an issue.
26:00 New pfp? 😆 I think the photos of Dave turned out bad because of the lighting conditions. If you took the photo in another room away from your studio lights, the camera should handle it better.
Great content as usual. These ZINK printers do seem to be cheaply made, throwaway rubbish. I've got a Kodak one that prints with big missing white lines which means straight to the ewaste landfill.
Try learning to take picture, taking a picture of dave at close range with low light is not a good idea for camera design to take friends or selfie. Looking forward to more 😅
Messing with my £4 Xbox One, allegedly didn't work... umm new power supply and well... it works... but I have a Elite controller that has a winkled right joystick so that will be the fix on this :D
I got to be honest with you watching him take that battery pack apart gave me the heebiejeebies but that's how you can tell who has and hasn't had one of those explode in their hands.
I don't think these cameras are printing pictures, but developing them instead. The developing chemicals are on the paper cartridges that become the pictures. So there could be something wrong with the paper cartridges. Maybe they are old and the chemicals are past their use by date.
Stupid Joblot of Instant Cameras
Just to say, you make my Saturday nights!!
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I keep skipping your raps, but if you promise to include me in one, I'll stop😂 Not a patreon or sponsor. Just a YT random 😅
How about that? Is that manure enough? 😂
I'm an electrician. My installation tester has decided to die. It went to a repair center who wimped out and said it would need a new mother board from the manufacturer. Do you fancy having a go at it?
Mother Flippin Pola-Roids
Thats interesting....................
I gotta be honest, as much as I loved watching this video, being named in this week's rap instead of in the HHG scroll made my day. Even for people that aren't fans, this week's was a banger.
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I've been a HHG for a year now and he's never said my name in a video, ever.
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The polaroid zip...amazing. sounded like a 56k modem 18:56
Alps are a Japanese electronics parts maker. In 2004 i was working for Synaptics in San jose (Synaptics make the majority of touchpads on laptops, a lot of ipods generations etc) we were the pioneers of capacitive touch sensing. Our BIGGEST rival by far was Alps who managed to get resistive sensing good enough to compete. They made some very good stuff.
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I pulled apart my father's 1970s component system Sony radio tuner and the entire radio dial was made by Alps. Still going strong.
Worked with BMW, our onboard computers in some models are made by Alps
That last one must have been a stuck shutter, so it couldnt give accurate exposure. Do some more of this, with cameras! Good job 🙂
i'm no camera expert but as soon as those photos started printing my first thought was overexposure. whether that was the zink paper being messed up or too much light or the shutter not working properly, i don't know. taking a picture in normal non-filming light would be a good test. also popping in some fresh film from a new pack that hasn't potentially been exposed to light - i have an HP sprocket and i know whenever i replace the film i always feel really nervous about making sure i do it quickly so the zink paper isn't exposed to light and messed up!
Manure videos are the best! This episode was picture perfect ,in focus and very snappy. It went by in a flash.
Office Space had the right idea of how to deal with malfunctioning printers.
You can source the single cells for very little, it’s the battery management board and two cells assembled that winds up costing lots of money.
Mate! The standard of sense of humour belongs somewhere much bigger than this channel. I wish you well
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outcast always makes me smile
Love the song bro. Haters can skip if they don't like it. Keep'em coming
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The Wallace and grommet was a belting little touch 👏🏼😂
Love the bravery and inquisitive approach, you manage to make it look both easy and hard, meaning... realistic. Great video as always.
Talk about Instant Gratification !!!!! Well done Mate
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The minor panic you had at that white one WORKING when you thought it didn't and it taking and printing out a snap of the bench was class. xD
Thumb up for that final print! Well done!
You are working with batteries without a fire-containment pie tin! Big Clive would not be happy. 😃
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*explosion containment pie-dish
excellent video
keep up the good work
Haha that sort animation was great
Your first purchase before tackling any more should be a Big Clive Patented Explosion Containment Pie Tin ™
I own lots of mini printers, I use the Polaroid Zip all the time and have printed thousands of photos with it over the years. Even better than the Zip is the newer Polaroid Hi-Print. Same size photos but better resolution and a different printing process (a 4 pass dye sublimation). A great video as always. 👍
Dude, that was a sick beat.
08:00 ALPS also used to make the mechanisms for Tandy CGP-115 and various other four colour pen plotters for home computers back in the day.
Wow, they have been going a long while. 😀👍
Also manufactured a lot of the early keyswitches for the 8bit machines' keyboards
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@@patrickcardon1643 And floppy drive mechanisms, used in some C1541s.
@@CTCTraining1 Founded on 1 November 1948.
What do polar bears get from sitting on the ice ? Polaroids !!! BOOM BOOM
Brilliant Steve love them like you said the Polaroid Zip is probably the best 😊
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You can update the firmware by getting the latest online and just connecting it to a computer to update.
Gonna love this mate, but need to work, saving this for tonight👍
I love how you accidentally took a really nice arty picture 🤣
Awesome, as always, my man. Keep it up 👌
Ok that red printer makes me want to own one just for fun.
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The Polaroid Zip sounded like a dial up modem
Love it! Keep it up, man!
Alps was also one of the manufacturers of the NES powersupply, along with Mitsumi.
Alps Electric has supplied around 40,000 types of electronic components to over 2,000 manufacturers.
I may look into one of those mini photo printers. I have the paperang printer which prints black and white on thermal receipt paper but I want color. The little red one you fixed seems to work well.
Good job
Excelente vídeo! Nós incentiva a aprender a concertar coisas em casa.
I think you’d make an awesome “guy at the computer” in a Bond movie.
When you make a video Stez, you certainly make it snappy.....
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Brilliant video yet again. Keep up the amazing work, the effort you put into these is bordering on ridiculous.
Ace video, thanks and boo yaah to you and yours.
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Selfie pic made my day
What great fun!
This was quite useful. Both the pink and purple cameras are the 2nd generation Snap Touch (they have the power button between the shutter button and flash.) I have a 1st gen Snap Touch which lacks that button and uses the flash up/down position to turn on and off, but still has the touchscreen. The companion app kept nagging me to update the firmware, which kept failing... until it updated to the incompatible 2nd gen firmware and completely borked the camera. It charges and turns on to a white screen, but fails to proceed or respond. It was handy to see the teardown of these 2nd gen units to see the differences in the PCBs. I may try to tear mine down and manually reflash the appropriate firmware directly to the IC.
The image quality from the camera was fair in good lighting, and abysmal any other time. Printing via Bluetooth with my phone like you did with the Zip, the print quality was pretty bad. Seeing the prints you made from the Zip, I wonder if my printer was bad from new, or perhaps I got a bad batch of paper with the camera. (it came bundled with a big pack)
Dude, what a nice vid.
Fantastic stuff. Really enjoyed this. Can't wait for the next installment of stupid cameras! 😂
That red mini photo printer was the MVP of the show, that thing was actually pretty surprising!
allready love the video... 0:10 Awesome content!
Waouw... you got the timing just spot on perfect, there; we both said "thingy-sticks?!?" at exactly the same time... almost as if we had rehearsed it.
- Stupid thingy-sticks 🧡
They are essentially printers. And printers suck to repair. They are machines of devious hate and bile, and I despise them. Whenever I get a client who start with 'I got this printer...' I silently curse them with the Hex of Hate and Suffering.
I really hate fixing printers.
Printers were the absolute bane of my existence when I was starting my IT career and was in tech support.
"i don't not like them, Sam I am, I think printers belong in the trash can"
I feel you! Aside from coffee machines, printers are definitely the worse! 😁
I like to tear printers apart for components, heatsinks and such.
Every once in a while I grab a laser printer from the local recycling centre to recycle it myself😂
I think it's the paper that's the problem with the Polaroid Snap
You music is glorious!
very good content
Alps makes the high grade decal printers for models.
Hey m8, thanks for the videos. Being doing some repairs and going well so far. Hard part is remembering where the screws go 😂. Do you use a power supply to test things? If so what do you use? Thanks from NZ!!
19:00 that's a 56K modem right there
17:40 A lithium cell sitting at 1.8V is /not/ OK. Please don't try to charge it. It will have dendrites inside that can suddenly pierce the seperator, discharging the cell quickly and quite spectacularly ...
I have one of the Snap cameras & quite enjoy being able to take pics & have them printed…
So often these days, we don’t have actual pictures; as they end up staying in your phone until the end of time…
Sadly, I lost the magnetic lenscap for it long ago… :(
@19:40 📕"The little printer that simply just worked all the time, and other classic fairytales." 📕😆
Bit of IPA would have killed the adhesive to pull that sticker out without dismantling.
Man... I've lost your channel and forgot it's name. Spent a couple of hours yesterday, trying to find this with no success. Today I have headache due to this but trying one last time I remembered that you was fixing 5 old Nintendo cartridges and by this searching request I'm finally here 😭Greetings to Dave
Alps are a Japanese manufacturer, they specalise in potentiometers, switches, dials etc.
Ive pullled,apart a few 1970s era japanese radios, tuners and even cars that have Alps parts in them.
Nice
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Did that Polaroid zip come with a free Netscape/AOL CD??
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My dad has a whole album of pictures like the one you took of your face. For some reason he always looks at the lense when trying to work out why a camera hasn't worked😂
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Where do you get the thermal imager?
Pretty sure the problem with the last one was that you tried to take a photo of a transparent blue thing on a blue background from a few cm away. These cameras focus at infinity and require quite a lot of light to make a decent photo. Take a photo outside and it will be way better.
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It was overexposed, so too much light was getting to the sensor and washing out the picture. As another commenter has said, it was likely that the shutter was stuck open or malfunctioning somehow and not letting the right amount of light in, and Steve's poking around fixed it.
22:36 Nice photo actually.
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Brilliant
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Keep the last picture and use it for your next passport application 🤔 enjoyed this video. Seems like a very expensive way of getting a 'snap shot'
You have an amazing Canal, i send you merry christmas from Germany, an I hope see you sonn next year 2024
Good to get your 2024 Xmas card photo ready well ahead of time.
There is a curst sense resistor near the chip. it is probably a charging chip or 5v to 9 V ? regulator ??
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26:10 Looks like Zardoz
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Alps used to make printers. Not sure if they still do. They look like thermal printers which is why it gets warm.
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do you sell any of your stuff you fixed?
Shake it! Shake it! Shake the drips off!
Alps is still around! Japanese as many have pointed out. Make all kinds of high quality parts.
SO when are you gonna auction off those snap shots?
Be careful when messing with those batteries, they are known to combust violently if punctured. Was looking a bit sketchy when prying them apart.
For the dodgy battery just buy a similar single cell and solder it in place of the dead cell. If the cell had remained around 2v then i would have just punctured the cell with a cocktail stick and sealed the hole with a dab of hot glue or super glue . Before the usual NASA engineers jump on and start the gobshiteing Ive been making custom LiPo packs for over 20 years for my 2 local RC clubs were we use high draw LiPos for racing drones and long duration packs for FPV cruisers (medium speed planes built for 40--100 mile round trips )
as long as you take care you wont have an issue.
Now you got a new thumbnail for your channel. 😂😂🎉
When you think about it, small people sees you like this 😱
Give your silicone mat a rub with tha isopropanol aswell🙂
Stez, you should sign that picture and give it away
26:00 New pfp? 😆
I think the photos of Dave turned out bad because of the lighting conditions. If you took the photo in another room away from your studio lights, the camera should handle it better.
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What’s the name of the black pry tool you use at 5:49? I need one!
It's called a "spudger". Typically it's included in pry tool kits.
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Take the battery out of the white Snap and put it in the pink SnapTouch.
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Great content as usual. These ZINK printers do seem to be cheaply made, throwaway rubbish. I've got a Kodak one that prints with big missing white lines which means straight to the ewaste landfill.
Try learning to take picture, taking a picture of dave at close range with low light is not a good idea for camera design to take friends or selfie. Looking forward to more 😅
Who's that handsome chap I hear you say 26 minutes in? That's my mate @MrCosine I am sure of it! :)
On the Polaroid Snap, I think the camera was simply too close to the objects on your desk. It's a shite lens and cannot focus for a "macro" shot.
Word.
Love your channel! Maybe you should give away the photos (I want Dave) when you get to 150k subs? :)
Not dirt on lens, these cameras have a horrible min focus distance.... pointing it at desk so close will just produce blury images :)
You could fix the pink and do a Christmas give away.
Messing with my £4 Xbox One, allegedly didn't work... umm new power supply and well... it works... but I have a Elite controller that has a winkled right joystick so that will be the fix on this :D
26:04 XD now that made me laugh I will say
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I always wondered how the analouge stick are called professionally... Now I know... Thingy sticks...😁
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I got to be honest with you watching him take that battery pack apart gave me the heebiejeebies but that's how you can tell who has and hasn't had one of those explode in their hands.
I don't think these cameras are printing pictures, but developing them instead. The developing chemicals are on the paper cartridges that become the pictures. So there could be something wrong with the paper cartridges. Maybe they are old and the chemicals are past their use by date.
Lmao clicked thumbs up in less than 30 secs just for the ‘oops’ 😂