My best relaxation is soldering some silly kit while listening to Clive mumbling in the headphones, lol. Thanks for being you, thanks for coming to us. Cheers!
Oh man, same here. I've made quite literally every single kit I can find on Ali, from water lights and LED Christmas trees to wifi smoke alarms and Ferris wheels and everything in between. I particularly enjoy the SMD kits, hand soldering those tiny components is such a peaceful, zen pastime.
@@sfdntk I love my M328 component tester and DSO138, both assembled out of DIY kits. As Clive said, you should practice more, and don't be afraid to do something wrong; and DGW says «even more rosiiiiiiiiiiin!» if anything.
This is how I discovered that I need to subscribe to this channel, because all the feed became full of these videos screaming at me «Watch me! No, watch me!»
This is a completely enjoyable & relaxing video...I truly love these longer ones and have watched many of your older build videos repeatedly. Thank you Clive!
With regard to techy folks, I kind of knew from an early age that I was going to do something electronic or mechanical or both. I can remember my Mum telling me that when I was very young, (12-18 months) I had already worked out how to undo the wooden screw retainers on my cot and get out of it. Always taking things apart to see how they worked, setting fire to stuff, giving myself electric shocks, seeing if I could improve the power or efficiency of stuff, dismantling and repairing my bicycles, watching and helping my Dad (an electrician) repair our old Hoover twin tub washing machine or his old 2 stroke moped. I was also very curious about food, always helping my Mum with cooking or baking, also washing, cleaning, ironing and other household tasks. So much so that when my mum went back to work after my sister and I started high school, I was the one usually tasked with cleaning, simply because Mum said I was better at it than anyone else in the house. I really struggled scholastically, and was classed as over sensitive with a tendency to be easily distracted by anything other than what I should have been concentrating on. There was only one tutor at my high school who recognised that I had a talent that could be nurtured. Struggled with relationships of all kinds too, including family. It was in my early 40s after a couple of episodes of intense anger outbursts I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and was on medication for them. Further investigation and curiosity led me to another diagnosis of borderline Asperger's syndrome. This answered a lot of questions for me, especially my tendency to have high standards for cleaning and organisation. I'm now medication free, in my late 50s and managing 'my disorder' with yoga, meditation, cycling, walking, travelling, working and many side projects both mechanical and electronic. I do so dislike calling it 'my disorder', because contrary to the description, I am not disordered in any way and don't take ownership of any condition by calling it mine. My full time job is now a production repair technician for a well known American yellow precision test equipment manufacturer, working with lots of other folk who are much smarter than me and who design all the above test equipment. Basically, lots of other nerds, geeks etc. I get paid to take apart and repair very expensive metrology grade electronic test equipment, work with it and use it on a daily basis too. What's not to like about that? Long and rambly comment for a long and rambly video, many thanks Big Clive.
I was in electrical maintenance and installation on the same site for 32 years, i was brought up on the old danfoss thermostats/pressure switches, and saw the gradual introduction od BMS controls like Trend and York A recent vid of a radio tower engineer (Greeling) showed what RF can do to a hot dog For epoxy or other glues, i have a couple of silicone table mats, one of shich i cut a small square for mixing, the other i can use to protect the table, once the epoxy has hardened, it can easily be peeled off.
I hate RUclips shorts. Creators, please note that it is rare that I watch shorts. What is even more annoying is that RUclips now makes it tricky to create short videos without them automatically becoming a ‘short’. I just want a normal video...
I’m a young adult that’s looking into going into trade school to become a certified electrician, then I’m moving on to get a bachelor’s in electronics. I have certain fascination with basically everything to do with electricity and the time I have off work I’d like to do some projects. I for one, would definitely love to see more videos like this where I can pick some stuff up and maybe get a new project idea along the way. It’d be awesome to see more stuff like this man.
Yeahp, my Zen moments are exactly the time I sit at my workbench and start immersing myself in electronics ..... just like Clive with this nice chandelier....!!!
We have a house full of technical junk and it drives my partner mad 😂 She doesn’t seem to mind the cool techy bits when they eventually get finished or having things repaired when they break mind 🤔
The old ceramic light bulb bases make good jigs and test stands. I made a 3d print model with a light switch, a power meter, a gfci power outlet and an edison screw bulb holder. All of it in a small 3d printed container. It makes dealing with and testing far easier. The GFCI is protecting the bulb (sort of, it cant be grounded) such that if the outlet trips the power shuts off the bulb socket. It also of course allows a decent remote-ish on/off when turning on fixed items for the first time.
Ahhh very relaxing, and we discuss how many LED. Forty he says, then adds another two, along with a little back story about listening to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - 42 was no accident 😜 Keep up the good work, thank you
Oh a long one. Nice ☺ A light electrical shock is just a reminder to pay more attention. I worked with MPLAB programmers and sent a few off to the skip when they let out the magic smoke. They were so expensive to replace, just happy they were not mine and work had to buy them. 🤣🤣
Really enjoyed this longer 'episode'. Great company also working alongside you tinkering with LEDs all night til dawn. Appreciate your ethics and philosophy as much as your skills and presentation. Cheers!
I LOVED THIS! Thank you for making a video like this, and for making it so long! I wish you could do videos like this all the time, even though I know that's not feasible. Happy to say I did NOT fall asleep during it!
I don’t understand why there are any comments or likes. This video is supposed to send everyone to sleep. The only reason I’m awake is because the dog has just woken me up....
"...I'm American sized..." 😅 I dig the long format. Especially repetitive work like this was. It's less distracting to my eyes, which SHOULD be focused on my own work, but listening to you while I'm working from home is like having an actual coworker here to mindlessly converse with instead of being by myself.
It may be somewhat surprising that there is a sizeable audience for such specialised channels. But looking back, at Bob Ross (that painting bloke), there obviously was an audience for such things even back then. And now, with easy global distribution, a couple of thousand each in a 50 to 100 countries the interested audience does add up.
21:19 good on you for taking on this subject. Most people run a mile from it. I tried (failed) when i was under 20 now having lived till almost 50 I'm back to the same decision. I wish I'd done it properly before it would have saved me all these years
“An odd electric shock from time to time is a very educational thing… it teaches you respect for electricity” As electrician, nothing rings more true. Every time I get a little too confident working with electricity, she never fails to remind me who the REAL boss is 😆
I got scarily close to a 10cm long arc of 34.9kV in a crt projector once… the blue plasma flying across from the HV lead to the chassis is a picture in my head I’ll never get rid of ⚡️
Im not a electrician by no means im mechanical im always looking to learn something new your videos are only one's I watch and can understand thanks for the learning experience
"The odd electrical shock, from time to time, is a very educational thing… it teaches you respect for electricity." --words to live by. A few years back I was helping my 75-y.o. neighbour install a new drop ceiling in his basement. One of the things we discovered was an unterminated cable inside a conduit among the floor joists. Per his request, I climbed an aluminum ladder with a pair of tin snips and, after the neighbour swore up and down that the wire had been disconnected from the breaker panel, I cut the cable. As you might guess, it was live and made a loud pop that scared the bejeebers out of me.
On the soda stream, I brew beer, and refill my soda stream bottle (it fits in a fridge for dispensing) from a pub sized CO2,cannister, this reduces the price of a refill to about 10p And as luck would have it you're keeping me company during my latest brew!
Hey Clive, at welding stores, you can get pressurized CO2 bottles. Considering CO2 itself is super cheap, welding stores are price gouging too...but not nearly as much as SodaStream or the NitroPress (single-use canisters for coffee). The downside is you have to use a PRV and flowmeter (or dual gauge dial), as well as lease/purchase a high pressure tank, but the upside is after you price it out you'll be saving money in the long run (~6ish months, at which point you're paying literally 12-20% on the pound). Brita, SodaStream and all those brands aren't in the business of selling gear- they're in the business of selling maintenance contracts. Thanks for the good advice!
I'm really lovin' these long Clive vids. Also, if "Diode Gone Wild" can have a "catculator", then Clive can have a "pinkculator". I enjoyed the Q&A periods, and I'm tempted to toss in a question or two of my own. Cheers, Clive
as an ex stage techy type , i do enjoy your vids ... hydraulics not lx , so it's novel to me, theatre musicals etc., a fun life but hard graft sometimes. retired now thanks for the fun
Its a good video and appreciate your commentry and annecdotes as its relatable. I really thankful you share more deeply on stuff liek depressio at 21.12 and funny the annecdote abour electric forks of death.. do niss those videos
My first computer is a Amstrad NC200 way back in the early 1990s and here we are in 2024 and it still working find to this day and it's very easy to use and the most unbelievable thing is it uses about 100 to 190 MA at 6 volt and I use a Parallel to USB powered adapter to plug into my desk to computer and may it continue keep working
Thanks for the long video! 😊 I appreciate you showed us to work with 240 V and a bunch of LEDs in a reasonably amd easy way. I was impressed! But here some questions: 1. Why are the LEDs so bright at 3 mA? 2. Why you don't add more LEDs? The 240 V should be good for more...(ok, it would be 3 h video but I think you can tell much more stories😉) 3. And the most important q: What is the easiest way to get rid of the 50 Hz flickering. Some caps I think. But how much, where and what is the matching capacity? As you said, the mcu takes the fun out this...sometimes😊 I‘ve had much fun. Big thank you.
In the UK you can run over 100 LEDs in series, but it would have been very time consuming to make. It also means they would be lit for less of the sinewave and need a smoothing capacitor, that introduces extra complexities and risks. Modern gallium nitride LEDs are visually very good at even 1mA.
In the old days they used to do the "10A Barbecue" in physics class here in sweden. It was probably not everywhere but seems to have been common enough as far back as the 70's.
"I can't say this and I can't say that for the youtube algorithm...". So, we already crossed the boundary that we are afraid of corporate robots. I was also uncommented a few times on youtube just by polite venting a practical idea, and even after checking and replacing the comment it disappeared. When I tell people they don't believe it, and joke that I must have said something 'not allowed'. Who would ever think people would ever say something like that. More and more control is imminent, and we can't control it.
Love the video just chilling out watching it. On the subject of AI I can remember a BBC programme called bugs back in 1996 that's what got me into electronics from a young age.loved watching it two episodes was about a computer programme called cyberx artificial intelligence and got out in to the world no control over it.
i can agree with you on the ending ones self thoughts . i have had many of days like that what i do is hold promises i have made to not do such an act .
Hey Clive, I'm mighty impressed with you being able to read questions and reply to them while concentrating on putting those teeny tiny terminals into the crimp tool and not messing it up. While I can listen to someone talking and do manual work, having to process two simultaneous visual streams gets as tough as having to process two audio streams, which often drives my TismOS into kernel panic :). Oh, and I'm watching till the end. It's a lot like hanging out at a live. Good talk about the IoT. It's just done wrong, often relying on external providers and necessity of being online. One always has to ask themself a question: what happens if the vendor goes down or stops supporting the product? Can it be hacked? Can you fix it yourself? Has it become necessary to use it, or do you still have a backup solution in case it fails? How much harm would a potential failure cause? Boring projects are indeed recreational. Or... meditational. Doing the same thing over and over and over again lets me wind down and think about other stuff. Thanks for the "stats for nerds" tip. Watching lots of videos, I have lots to complain about the audio levels in many of them. So quiet I can barely hear anything and have to crank up my amp, or so loud I have to turn the volume down and then forget to turn it back up and have the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment. As if RUclips couldn't normalize it automaically if desired... but that's another story. Nice rant on the copyright strikes (I stopped counting how many of them Fran got on digitized 16mm films alone!), music companies, show business and corporate greed. It's the steady enshittification of the economy and culture that's been going on since the '80s/90s and maybe even earlier. See, the entertainment industry giants like Sony Music, Universal etc. are all about money extraction, they need cash cows and rather than coming up with new movies, music or other art, they will keep milking successful titles by holding them in a tight grip of copyright even decades after a work was first published. The current copyright laws are written by companies, for companies and with companies in mind, not the people who deserve access to culture, and not the artists even, because if someone creates a work or converts an old public domain work into modern media and publishes it, then it gets taken down because some copyright troll decided it can infringe on some big corp's interest, something has gone terribly wrong with our society, the concept of art, creativity, culture and even justice. I tend to say that we live in a cyberpunk dystopia sans the cool aesthetics. Some stars made big buck and we hear about it, countless others toil away or got out of it altogether. Survivorship bias galore, not where the way lower but stable income is. No money for nothing, no chicks for free. And as for the different definition of electrician, I've done lighting for art/design festivals, I've done residential construction and renovation, wiring repairs too. I haven't done the industrial stuff. It's all vastly different. Honestly, I'm going through a youtuburnout of sorts now. Passed a 1K subscriber mark after over two years of running my own channel, "Karen censor type of people" haha, made my day! "Negatarian" sounds interesting too. It's the spiteful ego-driven while probably harmed kind. Seeking a relief for their difficult emotions by punching down, not up, reinforcing the structures of power they love so much, because they're just so wrapped up in their drama they can't see that the only winning move is not to play. Oh, and while I love watching ElectroBOOM, I definitely know better than to recreate Mehdi's experiments. Kudos to him for knowing what he's doing and staying in control despite the appearances. Gives off some Buster Keaton vibes. Midjourney's images are unintentionally intriguing beyond human imagination, haha! Technology pushing the limits. I wonder how the original Fallout would look like if artwork was created by AI. AI released and gone wild... with deadly neurotoxin or not! As for people being abusive to AI in chats, it's just treating it as a thing they can take it out on. No remorse, no regret, no fear of consequences of doing the same to another human being. There's also the "uncanny valley" effect we still haven't really reached, when AI, robots or cyborgs become indistinguishable from humans, and I suspect that when it happens, it will raise suspicion and prejudice not just against machines, but people who don't have enough neurotypical passing privilege. There's also a question of AI advancement to the point of sentience and being capable of experiencing feelings and emotions. It won't happen anytime soon, but this will be the time we'll have to rethink the role of AI in our societies and economies, and become more empathetic. The terminal Terminator terminally terminating terminals. Ha. Inventor working in a garden shed, never commercializing their creations... That would be soooooooooo Keri, if only this stereotype included women. Accounting (or bean counting, or yak shaving)? Indeed, frustrating as fuck. That's why I don't have a registered business and will not until I'm profitable enough to mandate that. Being organized, totally not me. I'd thrive in a relationship with another autistic and highly technical gal, preferably trans as well. Age difference doesn't really matter as long as she also resists capitalism, patriarchy and other systems of oppression. Doing repairs and building stuff together in our little lab, possibly traveling and creating together? My dream life. Watching technical content to drift off to sleep... that's what Mr Carlson's Lab is great for! :) Goths in Glasgow? Sounds like a very fun bunch to hang out with... and listen to music together too! 1:00:30 that sounds like the true Polish classic named Pipek Dręczyciel (Beepy the Tormentor). A project published in a 1996 issue of a magazine named Elektronika dla Wszystkich (Electronics for Everyone) and sold as a kit. I'm not sure about the real origins of this projects, it may have been around for as long as the 555! Here's the shkematic and article: serwis.avt.pl/manuals/AVT2009.pdf I started my YT channel in Dec 2021, vastly inspired by Fran. Over two years down the line and I'm slightly over 1K subs. I'm shit at promotion and rely on being active in the community. I'd absolutely love to take part in electronics creators live hangouts, but they are probably the thing of the past now. I never count on YT recommendation algorithms. Sometimes I get nicely surprised a video got slightly popular, this is a rare exception on my channel. I made a thorough video review of the Open Circuits book by Eric Schlaepfer and Windell Oskay, and that is THE single video that has been bringing some life to my channel for 1.5 years now, only because I linked it in a comment under some short video recommending the book. I had my nastiest shock in the 2000s when I was either in high school or uni, getting into the tube stuff. I was experimenting with some circuits with plate voltage of almost 400V using a PY88 boost diode as a rectifier... it has a cathode on a top contact. I was doing something holding a part on the ground potential, leaned in and touched the cathode with my forehead. Nothing serious but oh boy, was I scared! That's how you get the Vacuum Tube Witch superpowers. I'm naturally resistant to electricity and merely touching anything on a 230V potential in dry conditions is not enough to tickle me unless I touch ground as well, but I still observe precautions. I get zapped once or twice a year at most. Replicants in Blade Runner, oh yes. I have an Asus Nexus 7 tablet that I named Rachael. She was quite a looker! I don't believe in predestination and prenatal conditioning. Social conditioning throughout the lifetime is another thing. Some of us are being conditioned for good self-esteem that will get them to positions of wealth and authority, while others have to fight their way, or will fall down into a traumatic place. It doesn't entirely depend on one's work ethic and character. Neo-liberal propaganda kept telling us this in order to motivate us to work hard... and it turned out people still work their asses off and don't have the riches they were promised. Lovely green fairy lights! I have the same model of scales and use it for adjusting the tracking force on turntables. I also have mechanical lab scales, but that's quite big. Jacob's ladders could be doable with HV transformers from CRT TVs or monitors, and an automotive ignition coil may work as well. I never tried though. The third electrode reminds me of ignition electrodes in thyratrons, mercury vapor rectifiers and gas discharge voltage regulator tubes. I always wear nitrile gloves when working with epoxy resin, or any noxious chemicals for that matter, or tinkering with utterly dirty electronics and mechanical stuff. Not for soldering... I'm way less cautious than Fran, haha. I wouldn't say left-handed people are smarter, but their right brain hemisphere is more active. I'm pretty ambidextrous myself. Favorite type of screw heads? Hex and torx for me, no question. Very hard to damage those and they look nice and pretty modern if made of stainless steel. Ah, the aesthetic side of engineering. I love it too much. Very relaxing indeed. Keri on!
Women seem to have their own tinkering niche. Especially in the areas of scientific research. One of the things I may not have mentioned is that I reckon that when Mother Nature decides a human is to be special purpose, she deactivates their breeding desire, but leaves the "bits" active. And sexuality goes off at a random tangent.
@@bigclivedotcom only half-true with me as I have absolutely no desire to breed, but the technicalities were not really active and underdeveloped even before I started my hormone replacement therapy. And yes, sexuality as well as relationships can go in different directions.
For potting, I use a plastic syringe - without a needle - from eBay. Pull out the plunger. Dispense the resin into the syringe tube using the scale to measure. Mix with the wooden stick of a cotton swab. Then insert the plunger and dispense while inserting. Good method for injecting into tight spaces.
Clive as you put in the resin if you have something say like an electric tooth brush without the brush and just touch the vibrater to the metal clamp or what ever is holding the job, it will help the resin go down and remove some of the air bubbles, just a thought my older brother does this when he makes his moulds.
I would recommend putting the epoxy in and playing a heat gun on the epoxy. This will make it more viscus and flow into the light bulb plug. Also, it will enhance the curing time. Re the microwave transformers, a lady in the US was using it for art work on wood, similar to fractiles. She went I into another room from her husband in her slippers and dressing gown but tripped when she started her husband cam in and turned it off. She had serious burn to her hand where she lost a lot of skin and other tissue. She is very lucky to be alive. Be very careful around high voltage eletricity. I worked in electronics and I believe anything over 5V dc is dangerous. Love your videos. Thank's.
it's a different time. i am same age as you. when i was in 3rd grade for a sience project i made a hot dog cooker with a lamp cord and two nails. (teacher and the class loved it)
For as long as I've had a smartphone, it's had DON'T PANIC written on the lock screen in large friendly letters. It is _absolutely_ what Adams was describing when he described the Guide.
I didn't see you ask for questions at all, it's a shame I dont see the community tabs thing at all on mobile unless I look for it specifically 😐 Nobody has ever come to harm copying you, or watching you, beyond the odd solder burn, which I speak of from experience, you are the primary reason I got into this stuff, and now I understand more and can actually fix stuff 😂 and, make stuff! Site I always took electronic things apart as a child and has no idea what I was looking at, I feel like you helped to bridge that part of my strange childhood back into my adult life, the only problem now is, I can afford to buy more crap to tear apart and mess with 😂 every day is a new day to learn
He asked in a recent video, not sure which one but it was very recent. But he didn't mention my question so maybe it was the Patreon subscribers he picked from.
Hi Clive I have a question Where can I send to you packages ? My friend gave me an vape that's as if they just don't want it to by recycled. And I lack the reverse engineering skills I think it has potential for a very interesting video.
I would absolutely love to be able to observe the design of a lot of mechanical devices. Maybe there's a way to get some of that back especially with the proliferation of 3D printing, it won't be metal but it will be physical.
Speaking of electrocuting hotdogs, have you seen the Geerling engineering video where a hotdog is made to talk by holding it against a high power AM radio transmitter?
Im planning to go to school for electrical engineering in a year and a half and your videos inspire me. Im teaching myself the math beforehand. Have you had to lean many high level maths when you were in training?
I did a traditional electrical apprenticeship with an electrical engineering company. I attended technical college one day per week. The mathematical side wasn't too bad. Have you considered doing an apprenticeship? That way you get paid while you learn, and at the end you are very employable.
Have you messed with chatgpt since this video? Its really useful for identifying components from images and helping you generate scripts for advanced calculations (that need to be checked by a human)
Thanks for being my friend, Clive. These help a lot on lonelier days.
Here's another friend, friend.❤
My best relaxation is soldering some silly kit while listening to Clive mumbling in the headphones, lol. Thanks for being you, thanks for coming to us. Cheers!
Oh man, same here. I've made quite literally every single kit I can find on Ali, from water lights and LED Christmas trees to wifi smoke alarms and Ferris wheels and everything in between. I particularly enjoy the SMD kits, hand soldering those tiny components is such a peaceful, zen pastime.
@@sfdntk I love my M328 component tester and DSO138, both assembled out of DIY kits.
As Clive said, you should practice more, and don't be afraid to do something wrong; and DGW says «even more rosiiiiiiiiiiin!» if anything.
I could listen to, and watch, your videos all day long! Thanks, Clive.
This is how I discovered that I need to subscribe to this channel, because all the feed became full of these videos screaming at me «Watch me! No, watch me!»
OMG YES FINALLY HOUR + CLIVE VIDEO WE SLEEPING GOOD TONIGHT YESSSSSS
I absolutely love these long videos, it' seems so long since you did one. Thanks, and keep them coming PLEASE 👍👍
This is a completely enjoyable & relaxing video...I truly love these longer ones and have watched many of your older build videos repeatedly.
Thank you Clive!
This is incredible, I was just wanting a long Clive vid and here it is. I will play this on repeat all the time, such a good voice 😊
With regard to techy folks, I kind of knew from an early age that I was going to do something electronic or mechanical or both. I can remember my Mum telling me that when I was very young, (12-18 months) I had already worked out how to undo the wooden screw retainers on my cot and get out of it.
Always taking things apart to see how they worked, setting fire to stuff, giving myself electric shocks, seeing if I could improve the power or efficiency of stuff, dismantling and repairing my bicycles, watching and helping my Dad (an electrician) repair our old Hoover twin tub washing machine or his old 2 stroke moped.
I was also very curious about food, always helping my Mum with cooking or baking, also washing, cleaning, ironing and other household tasks. So much so that when my mum went back to work after my sister and I started high school, I was the one usually tasked with cleaning, simply because Mum said I was better at it than anyone else in the house.
I really struggled scholastically, and was classed as over sensitive with a tendency to be easily distracted by anything other than what I should have been concentrating on. There was only one tutor at my high school who recognised that I had a talent that could be nurtured.
Struggled with relationships of all kinds too, including family. It was in my early 40s after a couple of episodes of intense anger outbursts I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and was on medication for them. Further investigation and curiosity led me to another diagnosis of borderline Asperger's syndrome. This answered a lot of questions for me, especially my tendency to have high standards for cleaning and organisation.
I'm now medication free, in my late 50s and managing 'my disorder' with yoga, meditation, cycling, walking, travelling, working and many side projects both mechanical and electronic. I do so dislike calling it 'my disorder', because contrary to the description, I am not disordered in any way and don't take ownership of any condition by calling it mine.
My full time job is now a production repair technician for a well known American yellow precision test equipment manufacturer, working with lots of other folk who are much smarter than me and who design all the above test equipment. Basically, lots of other nerds, geeks etc. I get paid to take apart and repair very expensive metrology grade electronic test equipment, work with it and use it on a daily basis too. What's not to like about that?
Long and rambly comment for a long and rambly video, many thanks Big Clive.
This is what we need Clive. Back to the old format. Long builds and Poundland deconstructs. ❤
I was in electrical maintenance and installation on the same site for 32 years, i was brought up on the old danfoss thermostats/pressure switches, and saw the gradual introduction od BMS controls like Trend and York
A recent vid of a radio tower engineer (Greeling) showed what RF can do to a hot dog
For epoxy or other glues, i have a couple of silicone table mats, one of shich i cut a small square for mixing, the other i can use to protect the table, once the epoxy has hardened, it can easily be peeled off.
Really loved this build & chat. I'll take these over a short any day.
I hate RUclips shorts. Creators, please note that it is rare that I watch shorts. What is even more annoying is that RUclips now makes it tricky to create short videos without them automatically becoming a ‘short’. I just want a normal video...
I’m a young adult that’s looking into going into trade school to become a certified electrician, then I’m moving on to get a bachelor’s in electronics. I have certain fascination with basically everything to do with electricity and the time I have off work I’d like to do some projects. I for one, would definitely love to see more videos like this where I can pick some stuff up and maybe get a new project idea along the way. It’d be awesome to see more stuff like this man.
Try and get an electrical apprenticeship with a company. Getting paid to learn real stuff is a great option.
Yeahp, my Zen moments are exactly the time I sit at my workbench and start immersing myself in electronics ..... just like Clive
with this nice chandelier....!!!
Saving this for tonight, your voice is very calming
I love longer videos thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed it.
o yes classic big Clive making things and talking great video looking forward to the next one of these
We have a house full of technical junk and it drives my partner mad 😂
She doesn’t seem to mind the cool techy bits when they eventually get finished or having things repaired when they break mind 🤔
The old ceramic light bulb bases make good jigs and test stands. I made a 3d print model with a light switch, a power meter, a gfci power outlet and an edison screw bulb holder. All of it in a small 3d printed container. It makes dealing with and testing far easier.
The GFCI is protecting the bulb (sort of, it cant be grounded) such that if the outlet trips the power shuts off the bulb socket. It also of course allows a decent remote-ish on/off when turning on fixed items for the first time.
Perfect video to go to bed to. Clive's soothing voice never fails to send me off (while learning from the man)
Ahhh very relaxing, and we discuss how many LED. Forty he says, then adds another two, along with a little back story about listening to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - 42 was no accident 😜
Keep up the good work, thank you
I didn't even spot that.
Just a quick tip, the uv cure resin is fast and strong. I changed from epoxy to the resin some time back......love it! Another great video!
Oh a long one. Nice ☺
A light electrical shock is just a reminder to pay more attention.
I worked with MPLAB programmers and sent a few off to the skip when they let out the magic smoke. They were so expensive to replace, just happy they were not mine and work had to buy them. 🤣🤣
Really enjoyed this longer 'episode'. Great company also working alongside you tinkering with LEDs all night til dawn. Appreciate your ethics and philosophy as much as your skills and presentation. Cheers!
One moment please... Love this from Clive in every video ❤
I was putting off the two-hour commitment for this video, but now having watched it I am rewarded with your wit and wisdom. Thank you!
I LOVED THIS! Thank you for making a video like this, and for making it so long! I wish you could do videos like this all the time, even though I know that's not feasible. Happy to say I did NOT fall asleep during it!
i have to say i also love these random chillout build videos too! Thanks BC
Thank you for your company and expertise Clive :) I've learned lots of cool tricks from you over the years.
I don’t understand why there are any comments or likes. This video is supposed to send everyone to sleep. The only reason I’m awake is because the dog has just woken me up....
I love these types of long format videos,
Ahh, a luscious project at the end of my day. Thanks Clive.
"...I'm American sized..." 😅
I dig the long format. Especially repetitive work like this was. It's less distracting to my eyes, which SHOULD be focused on my own work, but listening to you while I'm working from home is like having an actual coworker here to mindlessly converse with instead of being by myself.
I shall enjoy this Clive :)
Clive droning on and on is sure to induce sleep. I will save this video for tonight.
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Time Team is a good sleep inducer.
I woke up to this twice. RUclips seem to repeat sleepy time videos. I had to rewind it to see what it was all about. Another great Big Clive video.
It may be somewhat surprising that there is a sizeable audience for such specialised channels. But looking back, at Bob Ross (that painting bloke), there obviously was an audience for such things even back then. And now, with easy global distribution, a couple of thousand each in a 50 to 100 countries the interested audience does add up.
21:19 good on you for taking on this subject. Most people run a mile from it. I tried (failed) when i was under 20 now having lived till almost 50 I'm back to the same decision. I wish I'd done it properly before it would have saved me all these years
It's a transient thing. Don't do anything extreme as it will pass again and normality will return.
I find it funny as hell that u mentioned people using your videos to fall asleep. Because that’s exactly why I put on this long video 😂
“An odd electric shock from time to time is a very educational thing… it teaches you respect for electricity”
As electrician, nothing rings more true. Every time I get a little too confident working with electricity, she never fails to remind me who the REAL boss is 😆
I got scarily close to a 10cm long arc of 34.9kV in a crt projector once… the blue plasma flying across from the HV lead to the chassis is a picture in my head I’ll never get rid of ⚡️
wow!!! ceephax acid crew mentioned! totally not surprised you're into it. awesome stuff.
Keep on doing what you do .Always something to make for for something .
Im not a electrician by no means im mechanical im always looking to learn something new your videos are only one's I watch and can understand thanks for the learning experience
You give great advise Clive. Salutes.
"The odd electrical shock, from time to time, is a very educational thing… it teaches you respect for electricity." --words to live by. A few years back I was helping my 75-y.o. neighbour install a new drop ceiling in his basement. One of the things we discovered was an unterminated cable inside a conduit among the floor joists. Per his request, I climbed an aluminum ladder with a pair of tin snips and, after the neighbour swore up and down that the wire had been disconnected from the breaker panel, I cut the cable. As you might guess, it was live and made a loud pop that scared the bejeebers out of me.
Yeah a build video!!! Good stuff
On the soda stream, I brew beer, and refill my soda stream bottle (it fits in a fridge for dispensing) from a pub sized CO2,cannister, this reduces the price of a refill to about 10p
And as luck would have it you're keeping me company during my latest brew!
Hey Clive, at welding stores, you can get pressurized CO2 bottles. Considering CO2 itself is super cheap, welding stores are price gouging too...but not nearly as much as SodaStream or the NitroPress (single-use canisters for coffee).
The downside is you have to use a PRV and flowmeter (or dual gauge dial), as well as lease/purchase a high pressure tank, but the upside is after you price it out you'll be saving money in the long run (~6ish months, at which point you're paying literally 12-20% on the pound).
Brita, SodaStream and all those brands aren't in the business of selling gear- they're in the business of selling maintenance contracts.
Thanks for the good advice!
The tricky bit is being on an island. It makes things like this a bit harder to find.
Ah the really old computer virus back when hardware was hacked. It’s interesting hearing your professional career and experiences.
I'm really lovin' these long Clive vids. Also, if "Diode Gone Wild" can have a "catculator", then Clive can have a "pinkculator". I enjoyed the Q&A periods, and I'm tempted to toss in a question or two of my own. Cheers, Clive
Love these longer videos
Worked exactly like you described. Wanted to hear all the questions and answers but fell asleep after an hour.
Thanks, Clive!
Worked perfect for last night's sleep thank you
"Getting a shock is the only way to learn."
Seeing other people getting shocked works too.
as an ex stage techy type , i do enjoy your vids ... hydraulics not lx , so it's novel to me, theatre musicals etc., a fun life but hard graft sometimes. retired now thanks for the fun
Nice background video to play when I'm assembling the AVE knife. I'm happy
Always good.👍 👍 👍 👍
The Geerling Engineering talking hotdog video is very good for those of us who miss the electric forks of death
Poundland sounds like an adult theme park.
They do sell adult toys too.
It worked wonders last night, good morning now :)
Its a good video and appreciate your commentry and annecdotes as its relatable. I really thankful you share more deeply on stuff liek depressio at 21.12 and funny the annecdote abour electric forks of death.. do niss those videos
I have a playlist of all of Clives "food" videos I use to get to sleep. Its very effective
My first computer is a Amstrad NC200 way back in the early 1990s and here we are in 2024 and it still working find to this day and it's very easy to use and the most unbelievable thing is it uses about 100 to 190 MA at 6 volt and I use a Parallel to USB powered adapter to plug into my desk to computer and may it continue keep working
Thanks for the long video! 😊
I appreciate you showed us to work with 240 V and a bunch of LEDs in a reasonably amd easy way. I was impressed!
But here some questions:
1. Why are the LEDs so bright at 3 mA?
2. Why you don't add more LEDs? The 240 V should be good for more...(ok, it would be 3 h video but I think you can tell much more stories😉)
3. And the most important q: What is the easiest way to get rid of the 50 Hz flickering. Some caps I think. But how much, where and what is the matching capacity?
As you said, the mcu takes the fun out this...sometimes😊
I‘ve had much fun. Big thank you.
In the UK you can run over 100 LEDs in series, but it would have been very time consuming to make. It also means they would be lit for less of the sinewave and need a smoothing capacitor, that introduces extra complexities and risks. Modern gallium nitride LEDs are visually very good at even 1mA.
Love love love build videos!! Screw shorts!
Been here from day 1 basically and still interested
Oh my God it's so loooong 🥰
This is amazing
Love these videos!!
In the old days they used to do the "10A Barbecue" in physics class here in sweden. It was probably not everywhere but seems to have been common enough as far back as the 70's.
I imagine your house being lit up like a Christmas tree, literally, all year round.
I watched in sections over 3 days!
"I can't say this and I can't say that for the youtube algorithm...". So, we already crossed the boundary that we are afraid of corporate robots. I was also uncommented a few times on youtube just by polite venting a practical idea, and even after checking and replacing the comment it disappeared. When I tell people they don't believe it, and joke that I must have said something 'not allowed'. Who would ever think people would ever say something like that. More and more control is imminent, and we can't control it.
I’ve also had comments that disappear when the page is refreshed, never to be seen again... Comments that are non controversial.
Love the video just chilling out watching it. On the subject of AI I can remember a BBC programme called bugs back in 1996 that's what got me into electronics from a young age.loved watching it two episodes was about a computer programme called cyberx artificial intelligence and got out in to the world no control over it.
I like these little LED trees 🌳
i can agree with you on the ending ones self thoughts . i have had many of days like that what i do is hold promises i have made to not do such an act .
Tim Hunkin is doing a talk at EMF camp, on 'The History of Electric Shocks'.
Which will probably be on YT in the future.
Hey Clive, I'm mighty impressed with you being able to read questions and reply to them while concentrating on putting those teeny tiny terminals into the crimp tool and not messing it up. While I can listen to someone talking and do manual work, having to process two simultaneous visual streams gets as tough as having to process two audio streams, which often drives my TismOS into kernel panic :).
Oh, and I'm watching till the end. It's a lot like hanging out at a live.
Good talk about the IoT. It's just done wrong, often relying on external providers and necessity of being online. One always has to ask themself a question: what happens if the vendor goes down or stops supporting the product? Can it be hacked? Can you fix it yourself? Has it become necessary to use it, or do you still have a backup solution in case it fails? How much harm would a potential failure cause?
Boring projects are indeed recreational. Or... meditational. Doing the same thing over and over and over again lets me wind down and think about other stuff.
Thanks for the "stats for nerds" tip. Watching lots of videos, I have lots to complain about the audio levels in many of them. So quiet I can barely hear anything and have to crank up my amp, or so loud I have to turn the volume down and then forget to turn it back up and have the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment. As if RUclips couldn't normalize it automaically if desired... but that's another story.
Nice rant on the copyright strikes (I stopped counting how many of them Fran got on digitized 16mm films alone!), music companies, show business and corporate greed. It's the steady enshittification of the economy and culture that's been going on since the '80s/90s and maybe even earlier. See, the entertainment industry giants like Sony Music, Universal etc. are all about money extraction, they need cash cows and rather than coming up with new movies, music or other art, they will keep milking successful titles by holding them in a tight grip of copyright even decades after a work was first published. The current copyright laws are written by companies, for companies and with companies in mind, not the people who deserve access to culture, and not the artists even, because if someone creates a work or converts an old public domain work into modern media and publishes it, then it gets taken down because some copyright troll decided it can infringe on some big corp's interest, something has gone terribly wrong with our society, the concept of art, creativity, culture and even justice. I tend to say that we live in a cyberpunk dystopia sans the cool aesthetics.
Some stars made big buck and we hear about it, countless others toil away or got out of it altogether. Survivorship bias galore, not where the way lower but stable income is. No money for nothing, no chicks for free. And as for the different definition of electrician, I've done lighting for art/design festivals, I've done residential construction and renovation, wiring repairs too. I haven't done the industrial stuff. It's all vastly different.
Honestly, I'm going through a youtuburnout of sorts now. Passed a 1K subscriber mark after over two years of running my own channel,
"Karen censor type of people" haha, made my day! "Negatarian" sounds interesting too. It's the spiteful ego-driven while probably harmed kind. Seeking a relief for their difficult emotions by punching down, not up, reinforcing the structures of power they love so much, because they're just so wrapped up in their drama they can't see that the only winning move is not to play. Oh, and while I love watching ElectroBOOM, I definitely know better than to recreate Mehdi's experiments. Kudos to him for knowing what he's doing and staying in control despite the appearances. Gives off some Buster Keaton vibes.
Midjourney's images are unintentionally intriguing beyond human imagination, haha! Technology pushing the limits. I wonder how the original Fallout would look like if artwork was created by AI. AI released and gone wild... with deadly neurotoxin or not!
As for people being abusive to AI in chats, it's just treating it as a thing they can take it out on. No remorse, no regret, no fear of consequences of doing the same to another human being. There's also the "uncanny valley" effect we still haven't really reached, when AI, robots or cyborgs become indistinguishable from humans, and I suspect that when it happens, it will raise suspicion and prejudice not just against machines, but people who don't have enough neurotypical passing privilege. There's also a question of AI advancement to the point of sentience and being capable of experiencing feelings and emotions. It won't happen anytime soon, but this will be the time we'll have to rethink the role of AI in our societies and economies, and become more empathetic.
The terminal Terminator terminally terminating terminals. Ha.
Inventor working in a garden shed, never commercializing their creations... That would be soooooooooo Keri, if only this stereotype included women.
Accounting (or bean counting, or yak shaving)? Indeed, frustrating as fuck. That's why I don't have a registered business and will not until I'm profitable enough to mandate that. Being organized, totally not me. I'd thrive in a relationship with another autistic and highly technical gal, preferably trans as well. Age difference doesn't really matter as long as she also resists capitalism, patriarchy and other systems of oppression. Doing repairs and building stuff together in our little lab, possibly traveling and creating together? My dream life.
Watching technical content to drift off to sleep... that's what Mr Carlson's Lab is great for! :)
Goths in Glasgow? Sounds like a very fun bunch to hang out with... and listen to music together too!
1:00:30 that sounds like the true Polish classic named Pipek Dręczyciel (Beepy the Tormentor). A project published in a 1996 issue of a magazine named Elektronika dla Wszystkich (Electronics for Everyone) and sold as a kit. I'm not sure about the real origins of this projects, it may have been around for as long as the 555!
Here's the shkematic and article: serwis.avt.pl/manuals/AVT2009.pdf
I started my YT channel in Dec 2021, vastly inspired by Fran. Over two years down the line and I'm slightly over 1K subs. I'm shit at promotion and rely on being active in the community. I'd absolutely love to take part in electronics creators live hangouts, but they are probably the thing of the past now.
I never count on YT recommendation algorithms. Sometimes I get nicely surprised a video got slightly popular, this is a rare exception on my channel. I made a thorough video review of the Open Circuits book by Eric Schlaepfer and Windell Oskay, and that is THE single video that has been bringing some life to my channel for 1.5 years now, only because I linked it in a comment under some short video recommending the book.
I had my nastiest shock in the 2000s when I was either in high school or uni, getting into the tube stuff. I was experimenting with some circuits with plate voltage of almost 400V using a PY88 boost diode as a rectifier... it has a cathode on a top contact. I was doing something holding a part on the ground potential, leaned in and touched the cathode with my forehead. Nothing serious but oh boy, was I scared! That's how you get the Vacuum Tube Witch superpowers. I'm naturally resistant to electricity and merely touching anything on a 230V potential in dry conditions is not enough to tickle me unless I touch ground as well, but I still observe precautions. I get zapped once or twice a year at most.
Replicants in Blade Runner, oh yes. I have an Asus Nexus 7 tablet that I named Rachael. She was quite a looker!
I don't believe in predestination and prenatal conditioning. Social conditioning throughout the lifetime is another thing. Some of us are being conditioned for good self-esteem that will get them to positions of wealth and authority, while others have to fight their way, or will fall down into a traumatic place. It doesn't entirely depend on one's work ethic and character. Neo-liberal propaganda kept telling us this in order to motivate us to work hard... and it turned out people still work their asses off and don't have the riches they were promised.
Lovely green fairy lights!
I have the same model of scales and use it for adjusting the tracking force on turntables. I also have mechanical lab scales, but that's quite big.
Jacob's ladders could be doable with HV transformers from CRT TVs or monitors, and an automotive ignition coil may work as well. I never tried though. The third electrode reminds me of ignition electrodes in thyratrons, mercury vapor rectifiers and gas discharge voltage regulator tubes.
I always wear nitrile gloves when working with epoxy resin, or any noxious chemicals for that matter, or tinkering with utterly dirty electronics and mechanical stuff. Not for soldering... I'm way less cautious than Fran, haha.
I wouldn't say left-handed people are smarter, but their right brain hemisphere is more active. I'm pretty ambidextrous myself.
Favorite type of screw heads? Hex and torx for me, no question. Very hard to damage those and they look nice and pretty modern if made of stainless steel. Ah, the aesthetic side of engineering. I love it too much.
Very relaxing indeed. Keri on!
Women seem to have their own tinkering niche. Especially in the areas of scientific research. One of the things I may not have mentioned is that I reckon that when Mother Nature decides a human is to be special purpose, she deactivates their breeding desire, but leaves the "bits" active. And sexuality goes off at a random tangent.
@@bigclivedotcom only half-true with me as I have absolutely no desire to breed, but the technicalities were not really active and underdeveloped even before I started my hormone replacement therapy. And yes, sexuality as well as relationships can go in different directions.
For potting, I use a plastic syringe - without a needle - from eBay. Pull out the plunger. Dispense the resin into the syringe tube using the scale to measure. Mix with the wooden stick of a cotton swab. Then insert the plunger and dispense while inserting. Good method for injecting into tight spaces.
Clive as you put in the resin if you have something say like an electric tooth brush without the brush and just touch the vibrater to the metal clamp or what ever is holding the job, it will help the resin go down and remove some of the air bubbles, just a thought my older brother does this when he makes his moulds.
I love long videos!
Having an explosive containment pie dish helped your channel get to 1.05M subs LOL
Dzjeebus, over two hours! 😀👍
I would recommend putting the epoxy in and playing a heat gun on the epoxy. This will make it more viscus and flow into the light bulb plug.
Also, it will enhance the curing time.
Re the microwave transformers, a lady in the US was using it for art work on wood, similar to fractiles.
She went I into another room from her husband in her slippers and dressing gown but tripped when she started her husband cam in and turned it off.
She had serious burn to her hand where she lost a lot of skin and other tissue. She is very lucky to be alive.
Be very careful around high voltage eletricity.
I worked in electronics and I believe anything over 5V dc is dangerous.
Love your videos.
Thank's.
Do other dyspraxics enjoy watching Clives hands weave such beautiful and elegant conclusions...?
Next time you get a burn, try using hygroscopinc sticking plasters to draw out the moisture before it pops.
Good one. Thank you.
it's a different time. i am same age as you. when i was in 3rd grade for a sience project i made a hot dog cooker with a lamp cord and two nails. (teacher and the class loved it)
You talked about the eighties. What fibre optic projects did you not complete? I wrecked a household display for a car inspection lamp!
I go through bouts of pish poor sleep and put your long videos on the headphones to help me nod off.
For as long as I've had a smartphone, it's had DON'T PANIC written on the lock screen in large friendly letters. It is _absolutely_ what Adams was describing when he described the Guide.
I had a lock screen also with DON’T PANIC in large friendly letters on an iPad mini that was issued to me by my employer. It amused my workmates 😂
I didn't see you ask for questions at all, it's a shame I dont see the community tabs thing at all on mobile unless I look for it specifically 😐
Nobody has ever come to harm copying you, or watching you, beyond the odd solder burn, which I speak of from experience, you are the primary reason I got into this stuff, and now I understand more and can actually fix stuff 😂 and, make stuff!
Site I always took electronic things apart as a child and has no idea what I was looking at, I feel like you helped to bridge that part of my strange childhood back into my adult life, the only problem now is, I can afford to buy more crap to tear apart and mess with 😂 every day is a new day to learn
He asked in a recent video, not sure which one but it was very recent. But he didn't mention my question so maybe it was the Patreon subscribers he picked from.
@@tncorgi92 it's about 3 weeks ago in the community tab
Hi Clive! When is there a new Bearded Club coming up? That's been so long ago now.
Maybe soon. We had to stop for political reasons.
Hi Clive I have a question
Where can I send to you packages ?
My friend gave me an vape that's as if they just don't want it to by recycled.
And I lack the reverse engineering skills
I think it has potential for a very interesting video.
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I would absolutely love to be able to observe the design of a lot of mechanical devices. Maybe there's a way to get some of that back especially with the proliferation of 3D printing, it won't be metal but it will be physical.
Speaking of electrocuting hotdogs, have you seen the Geerling engineering video where a hotdog is made to talk by holding it against a high power AM radio transmitter?
Silly question; why not use hot melt glue? Could be melted if you ever need to change the rectifier/resistors.
It doesn't flow in quite as well as resin.
We like the full thing 😂
the longer the better 😱🤣
Im planning to go to school for electrical engineering in a year and a half and your videos inspire me. Im teaching myself the math beforehand. Have you had to lean many high level maths when you were in training?
I did a traditional electrical apprenticeship with an electrical engineering company. I attended technical college one day per week. The mathematical side wasn't too bad.
Have you considered doing an apprenticeship? That way you get paid while you learn, and at the end you are very employable.
I think it's the carbonation experiments that build your subcriber base, oh and your wild beard!
Have you messed with chatgpt since this video? Its really useful for identifying components from images and helping you generate scripts for advanced calculations (that need to be checked by a human)