I recall eating lunch on set one day on the lawn at universal studios looking up at the famous clock from back to the future (several years after the movie was made). I always liked that part of the studio. You could visualize the doc and marty there. good times.
Pleased you liked the spectrum keyboard kit. It's only sacrilege if you start with a perfectly working spectrum. These are designed as a good way to upcycle ones with damaged membranes, failed ULAs, or otherwise beyond economic repair. By the way, it's tyne as in time, not tin, but everyone gets that wrong.
***** I did a bluetooth version a couple of years ago, but it seemed overcomplicated dealing with batteries and charging and pairing. I found it limited the applications, where as you can plug a wired USB keyboard into (almost) anything, you never have to worry about pairing or batteries. So I stick with a wired keyboard. I like wires. If you don't like wires, try the Recreated ZX Spectrum.
A lot of channels I subscribe to have mail segments that are popular. Normally I don't understand why, but I get yours. In your mailbag you open the stuff, and then give us a run down of what it is, how it works, and it's all very informative.
Every week I ask myself why am I watching this, a guy from the internet opening mail. No answer yet, I guess I need to continue watching until I'll find one, what a weird compulsion.
I only watch in the hope that his employee, David, makes an appearance. When he doesn't have that horrible afro hair do then phoarr, he can poke me any day with his multimeter probe.
That Lemaker board took me back to my first encounter with a microcontroller. I bought a SimmStick AVR development board from Dontronics. It was a good little kit, the DT-006, Little rAVeR.
Man, this video was so full of blatantly intentional innuendos! I always have a laugh at the occasional subtle one, but damn Dave, you went all out today! Funny guy! Keep up the great work, and have a good day mate :)
+drkastenbrot Yeah, depends on the context I guess. "by hand" is of course the word by word translation. The buttons and also "Status", "Lernen" marks suggest some kind of manual control (maybe even input) mechanism. It seems to be something like an override input.
+sal4 Based on lift door controllers I've worked with, this one might be 'self learning'. 'Lernen' meaning learn this button probably switches to learning mode. Then you can close and open the door by hand and the board learns where the endpoints are. Also being able to open the doors manually can often be handy to test if the doors work properly.
Hi Dave, Michael the "everything has user serviceable parts inside" t-shirt guy. There are now two of these t-shirts in the world. Maybe someone will pick it up and make a bunch! I figured you could always shrink the shirt, but making it bigger? Tough to do. Glad you got a chuckle out of it. Seems to me that there's a pretty select group that can actually fix stuff these days. Cheers to all of us!
brand new membranes for zx spectrum and zx81's are available from sell my retro. i got a re-manufactured one(better than stock) for 8 pounds plus post. there were also original new old stock ones for purists, but just about any part is available brand new(except the ULA they were tested system pulls), i got a face plate for my keyboard too.
About those LED connectors you've "never seen before", they were giving those away in cut tapes of 5 for free at Electronex, at that booth with the industrial DIN connectors and stuff.
I bought the BTF dvd set when it first came out. Expensive but well worth it on my new at the time Hitachi 55" rear projection with stereo sound takes up half the room tv appliance.
Also: Tzu (Tür zu = close door), Tauf (Tür auf = open door), Reversieren (reverse door, i.e. if it bumps into a obstacle while closing, open it again). "Drä" seems to be "Drängeln" = hurry up, i.e. the door closes slowly whether you block it or not.
@@thomasschwarzinger7757 Hier aus die Niederlaende... Viele Deutsche Turis hier ;-) Wir sind in 'Klein Land' und Deutschland ist immer ' Grossland' ;-) Auch die auto's... Und ja wegen PLC's mussten wir in die Technische Schule vor Elektrotechnik klar immer Deutsch lernen... Siemens :-)
ROE caps (IIRC or ERO if it is film caps) is a well loved capacitor brand for audiophiles who likes warmer tones. Or at least their older golden orange caps are. Either way, ROE makes pretty nice capacitors and are extremely durable. ;)
+MyCrazyGarage - Thanks for the reply. That could be true but 1) Why no test pads or board markings (TP1)? and 2) Why such an odd value? How about a resistor value of 0.01 ohms to make it a straight forward 100:1 Amps/Volts ratio? My 2 cents.
+MyCrazyGarage It's possibly to give the processor something easier to multiple with, since 4 is a power of 2. Just a guess. I don't know much about current shunting/limiting.
You think the lift door controller is in charge of the safety interlocks? Don't want the lift taking off with the doors open! Wonder if its from a generic or perhaps an Otis or Kone?
Awesome number plate. Would be cool to make a stand for it that would be a flat base with a dowel rod and drill a hole in the bottom right corner of the plate so it's in the position same as the movie when it flies off the car and spins in the road. Would be even cooler to put a motor on/in the base to turn the plate as if spinning . Thanks for sharing it with us.
The Orpheum is playing a Back to the Future documentary, 'Back in Time' on the 21st October. A marathon would have been awesome though. I was wondering why the Orpheum wasn't planning one. Bloody Hoyts.
i recall my parents bought new when it came out the american version of the sinclair which was the 1000 which is long gone. i wish i still had it and could use it as a keyboard or something else oh well time to find one somewhere somehow.
The publicly-available documentation for those Action Semi chips seemed rather non-existent compared to the Allwinner chips other boards use, at least when I last looked.
yes, in germany serial = seriell ;-) "von hand" means, manually by hand - or so like that "lernen" = "learn" yes, learn a bit german ;-) we speak a little bit english ;-)
Dave if you consider yourself a Nuke Afficionado you should go check out the Hanford Washington B Reactor Tour in the US. Get a nice walkthrough of the reactor where the Plutonium was produced for the Trinity Device and the Fat Man Bomb
Something special coming up and relates to 21 October 2015???? Mmmmm? Dave builds a hoverboard!!!!!!!! When you next go traveling Dave, try The Algarve, I have pleasant memories of Faro and Lagos, long time ago now though. Tyne ...... pronounced tine. The river Tyne runs through Newcastle, Geordie country.
dymo is a great company i had the same one but the lid broke of so i could not print i send mine back got a brand spanking new one even tough i lost the bill and had no warranty
Roe = Roederstein = Vishay (now). I have seen them in old industrial stuff here in the Netherlands. Mine say 'made in West-Germany", so from before '89. It's definitely not an el cheapo brand.
Still disappointed there was no hover-boards or self-tying shoes for my birthday... what a bummer... (Birthday was Oct. 21. Unfortunately I don't live in California, but Florida looks rather similar. Oh well.)
We had that exact transmitter for our OPEN sign at the Gamestop I used to work at. I swear you had to stand UNDER the stupid sign half the time for that thing to transmit... Ours was plain brown... Gamestop couldn't splurge for the fake wood grain plastic! :P
Dave, I'm not sure what it is about your audio processing.. but something leaves some pretty painful high frequency noise, including on your movie clips and such. It's most especially evident when you're opening stuff with that noisey plastic.. but that same type of noise happens when you speak a bit loud in the open room (ie, when opening mail). It's at least not obvious when you're actually examining stuff. It seems like it might be reverb related or something, but yea I'm not sure
Hi, I love the idea of the three films shown back to back! I have not seen film 3 yet and can’t get to a Cinema as I am an invalid.. Anyway, I bet your three back to back with bring in thousands is UP YOU PRO FILM GUYS,. we are way ahead of your figures! If you can and if you are allowed when COPY-WRITE is brought into account that would truly be brilliant! Will you film the whole thing, or can you tell me when your are screening please??? Take care mrbluenun
Don't know what Universal were thinking. It's not like Hoyts actually has decent coverage across all of Australia. In most states they have less than a handful of outlets and none at all in 2 states/territories. Poor form. They should have done deals with both Hoyts and EventCinemas/BCC which would have at least given decent coverage along the east coast.
@EEVblog ROE was a German components manufacturer and it has been around since 1925. They're now owned by some mother-corp. electronics.stackexchange.com/a/13296
Yay Tampere! :) Interesting thing about the factory by the river there (Finlayson). They installed electric lights back in early 1882, the first electric lights anywhere in Finland or scandinavia I believe! (Well we were under russian rule at the time still). Here's a pic of some of the machinery and a typical operator :) www15.uta.fi/koskivoimaa/valta/1870-00/kuvat/konemestari.jpg
I recall eating lunch on set one day on the lawn at universal studios looking up at the famous clock from back to the future (several years after the movie was made). I always liked that part of the studio. You could visualize the doc and marty there. good times.
Pleased you liked the spectrum keyboard kit. It's only sacrilege if you start with a perfectly working spectrum. These are designed as a good way to upcycle ones with damaged membranes, failed ULAs, or otherwise beyond economic repair. By the way, it's tyne as in time, not tin, but everyone gets that wrong.
***** I did a bluetooth version a couple of years ago, but it seemed overcomplicated dealing with batteries and charging and pairing. I found it limited the applications, where as you can plug a wired USB keyboard into (almost) anything, you never have to worry about pairing or batteries. So I stick with a wired keyboard. I like wires. If you don't like wires, try the Recreated ZX Spectrum.
"Everything Has USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE" What a brillant idea from your fans to send you that shirt! That's the right slogan for you!...
A lot of channels I subscribe to have mail segments that are popular. Normally I don't understand why, but I get yours. In your mailbag you open the stuff, and then give us a run down of what it is, how it works, and it's all very informative.
EVERYTHING HAS USER REPLACEABLE PARTS INSIDE! Hi! i'm from Holland, Michigan. Love your Videos, Dave!
+Chris Kalkman I agree, I LOVE that tshirt lol
Every week I ask myself why am I watching this, a guy from the internet opening mail. No answer yet, I guess I need to continue watching until I'll find one, what a weird compulsion.
+John Grammaticus for me it's because he says bobby dazzler all the time. I don't know shit about electronics.
It is a possibility. But to be honest I miss "every man and his dog doing one of these things" segment.
I only watch in the hope that his employee, David, makes an appearance. When he doesn't have that horrible afro hair do then phoarr, he can poke me any day with his multimeter probe.
You watch for delicious man meat? More power to you
+John Grammaticus I suggest to seek professional help.
If you showed all three BTTF movies one after the other it would be "Back to Back to Back to the future!"
I think you meant "you can remotely detonate you clock in style"
+Valentino Saitz lol
Aj Koorstra
it was a reference to Ahmed Mohamed
That Lemaker board took me back to my first encounter with a microcontroller. I bought a SimmStick AVR development board from Dontronics. It was a good little kit, the DT-006, Little rAVeR.
Man, this video was so full of blatantly intentional innuendos! I always have a laugh at the occasional subtle one, but damn Dave, you went all out today! Funny guy! Keep up the great work, and have a good day mate :)
My birthday is at October 21st! :D I was born in 1992. I love your blog, thanks for doing it!
Greetings from Hungary.
+jjensen2492
Thanks!
Von Hand = manual control ( it means literally "by hand" )
Kind of weird because they would usually write "manual adjustment" then. But "by hand" is just not... You get my point, right?
+drkastenbrot
Yeah, depends on the context I guess. "by hand" is of course the word by word translation. The buttons and also "Status", "Lernen" marks suggest some kind of manual control (maybe even input) mechanism. It seems to be something like an override input.
+sal4 Based on lift door controllers I've worked with, this one might be 'self learning'. 'Lernen' meaning learn this
button probably switches to learning mode. Then you can close and open the door by hand and the board learns
where the endpoints are.
Also being able to open the doors manually can often be handy to test if the doors work properly.
+KuroYoukai
Thanks for the explanation, sounds very plausible to me =) Cheers
Hi Dave, Michael the "everything has user serviceable parts inside" t-shirt guy. There are now two of these t-shirts in the world. Maybe someone will pick it up and make a bunch! I figured you could always shrink the shirt, but making it bigger? Tough to do. Glad you got a chuckle out of it. Seems to me that there's a pretty select group that can actually fix stuff these days. Cheers to all of us!
It's four minutes into Oct 21 right now, wow, welcome to the future!
brand new membranes for zx spectrum and zx81's are available from sell my retro.
i got a re-manufactured one(better than stock) for 8 pounds plus post.
there were also original new old stock ones for purists, but just about any part is available brand new(except the ULA they were tested system pulls), i got a face plate for my keyboard too.
About those LED connectors you've "never seen before", they were giving those away in cut tapes of 5 for free at Electronex, at that booth with the industrial DIN connectors and stuff.
I bought the BTF dvd set when it first came out. Expensive but well worth it on my new at the time Hitachi 55" rear projection with stereo sound takes up half the room tv appliance.
Our Cinema in the UK, is having a Back to the Future marathon!
Your "Guten Tag" at 4:40 was actually pretty good pronounced, i can see progress there! ;)
0:30 Glad to see you finally opened one piece of mail professionally.. :rolling eyes:
German seriell = english serial, lernen = learn and "von Hand" = manually / by hand
Also: Tzu (Tür zu = close door), Tauf (Tür auf = open door), Reversieren (reverse door, i.e. if it bumps into a obstacle while closing, open it again). "Drä" seems to be "Drängeln" = hurry up, i.e. the door closes slowly whether you block it or not.
+Markus Birth (mbirth) many people from germany around here ^^
eine ganze menge deutsche hier ^^
+Thomas Schwarzinger Yup, ist aber auch irgendwie cool das zu sehen :D
entweder ist die welt klein, oder deutschland groß ^^
@@thomasschwarzinger7757 Hier aus die Niederlaende... Viele Deutsche Turis hier ;-) Wir sind in 'Klein Land' und Deutschland ist immer ' Grossland' ;-) Auch die auto's...
Und ja wegen PLC's mussten wir in die Technische Schule vor Elektrotechnik klar immer Deutsch lernen... Siemens :-)
The Hoermann Portronic 4000 is a sliding gate controller...bit of an odd thing to have on a lift.
I will watch it with you Dave. I'm a big fan of the franchise.
Tyne as in Tie with an n (I live in the Tyne and Wear region myself!!)... :P
I am seeing the trilogy at my local theater starting at 4:30pm. I am pretty excited.
ROE caps (IIRC or ERO if it is film caps) is a well loved capacitor brand for audiophiles who likes warmer tones. Or at least their older golden orange caps are.
Either way, ROE makes pretty nice capacitors and are extremely durable. ;)
At 6:27 there is a pair of Dale 0.025 ohm resistor. Seems an incredible low value, darn close to a short. What is that about?
+cemx86
You can put your multimeter /scope on these and check for current limiting.
+MyCrazyGarage - Thanks for the reply. That could be true but 1) Why no test pads or board markings (TP1)? and 2) Why such an odd value? How about a resistor value of 0.01 ohms to make it a straight forward 100:1 Amps/Volts ratio? My 2 cents.
I dont know. Maybe its something different.
+MyCrazyGarage It's possibly to give the processor something easier to multiple with, since 4 is a power of 2. Just a guess. I don't know much about current shunting/limiting.
+cemx86 Shunt resistors for measuring power consumption on the motor it drives.
You think the lift door controller is in charge of the safety interlocks? Don't want the lift taking off with the doors open! Wonder if its from a generic or perhaps an Otis or Kone?
Tynemouth North East England east of Newcastle upon Tyne where the river Tyne enters the North sea hence, Tyne Mouth
Love the Outatime plate, looks really smashing :-D
Ooow poor speccy, 50 lashes for the interface creator lol.
Apart from the other comments already explaining other german words, "Geber" is encoder, like an incremental one for rotation
I agree. The Sum of All Fears nuclear explosion was the best I've ever seen on film.
Awesome number plate. Would be cool to make a stand for it that would be a flat base with a dowel rod and drill a hole in the bottom right corner of the plate so it's in the position same as the movie when it flies off the car and spins in the road. Would be even cooler to put a motor on/in the base to turn the plate as if spinning .
Thanks for sharing it with us.
The Orpheum is playing a Back to the Future documentary, 'Back in Time' on the 21st October. A marathon would have been awesome though. I was wondering why the Orpheum wasn't planning one. Bloody Hoyts.
i recall my parents bought new when it came out the american version of the sinclair which was the 1000 which is long gone. i wish i still had it and could use it as a keyboard or something else oh well time to find one somewhere somehow.
The publicly-available documentation for those Action Semi chips seemed rather non-existent compared to the Allwinner chips other boards use, at least when I last looked.
My local cinema is doing a 6,5h marathon for all 3 movies tonight! Only 15€ for a ticket, which is what you usually pay for a single movie.
What's the switch under the print spool for on the Dymo?
Sum of all Fears? Haven't watched the movie, but I'm reading the book at the moment. Is it good?
Several cinemas in Germany had all three BTTF-Movies in a row. But unfortunately i had to get up early the next morning...
Dave, October 21 is Wednesday everywhere on the planet, not "at least in Australia" lol :D
last lift system we installed had a 36 volt backup battery.
Bonza! Odeon is showing all three Back to the Future movies in my home town Southampton , UK its nearly fully booked, got a ticket alright.
yes, in germany serial = seriell ;-)
"von hand" means, manually by hand - or so like that
"lernen" = "learn"
yes, learn a bit german ;-) we speak a little bit english ;-)
Dave if you consider yourself a Nuke Afficionado you should go check out the Hanford Washington B Reactor Tour in the US. Get a nice walkthrough of the reactor where the Plutonium was produced for the Trinity Device and the Fat Man Bomb
Tynemouth is Tie-n-mouth. Yay for local people.
And nice close-up of the Longsands postcard.
I 'll be watching them outside at my theater Wed. night :)
Going to the Cinema close to me , there doing all three for 5 Euro(7.9au$) !! Can't wait!
What ever happened with the x carve that David was building would like to see it in action.
Something special coming up and relates to 21 October 2015???? Mmmmm? Dave builds a hoverboard!!!!!!!!
When you next go traveling Dave, try The Algarve, I have pleasant memories of Faro and Lagos, long time ago now though.
Tyne ...... pronounced tine. The river Tyne runs through Newcastle, Geordie country.
If the screen's are the same you could always swap them out to give you one working label maker.
convert spectrum to a usb keyboard, add a 8 or so inch android tablet and voila?
That is the SDB628 and I cannot tame it at all. Very tricky 1.2MHz part.
Nobody is going to mention the Tampere card? It's T and ampere!
dymo is a great company i had the same one but the lid broke of so i could not print i send mine back got a brand spanking new one even tough i lost the bill and had no warranty
You forgot to link in the led driver guy's site.
Roe = Roederstein = Vishay (now). I have seen them in old industrial stuff here in the Netherlands. Mine say 'made in West-Germany", so from before '89. It's definitely not an el cheapo brand.
wow that little lemaker board is a true beast
Still disappointed there was no hover-boards or self-tying shoes for my birthday... what a bummer... (Birthday was Oct. 21. Unfortunately I don't live in California, but Florida looks rather similar. Oh well.)
+EEVblog
Aaargh allreight, you twisted my arm!.... :D
Oh Dave, Ich herze dich
Man, that black finish makes it sodimm.
In my local cinema they are showing all 3 one after the other :)
Excited for tomorrow dave
We had that exact transmitter for our OPEN sign at the Gamestop I used to work at. I swear you had to stand UNDER the stupid sign half the time for that thing to transmit... Ours was plain brown... Gamestop couldn't splurge for the fake wood grain plastic! :P
Hallo Dave. Sometimes you receive mail with stamps. What do you do with the stamps (bin, family, friends.....)?
Dave, I'm not sure what it is about your audio processing.. but something leaves some pretty painful high frequency noise, including on your movie clips and such. It's most especially evident when you're opening stuff with that noisey plastic.. but that same type of noise happens when you speak a bit loud in the open room (ie, when opening mail). It's at least not obvious when you're actually examining stuff. It seems like it might be reverb related or something, but yea I'm not sure
yes, I get the same painful high frequency noise :-(
+Jordan Earls Me too! Especially when I'm listening to this video with my headphones. It sounds like the bit rate is too low.
Is that a solar panel in the back of the fit bits?
Is a lift system what they call elevators over there?
ROE is a former german brand : "Roederstein", now Vishay. www.vishay.com/landingpage/50year/roederstein.html
You already did a video about doing a video about something again... I have not seen it yet though, but I still have to see ~600 videos.
when is the next teardown tuesday?
A live stream hangouts would be cool!!
Just going to say you hinted it in the deloreans at the side
what's the point of watching just the first one since it doesn't have him in the future?
Hi,
I love the idea of the three films shown back to back! I have not seen film 3 yet and can’t get to a Cinema as I am an invalid.. Anyway, I bet your three back to back with bring in thousands is UP YOU PRO FILM GUYS,. we are way ahead of your figures!
If you can and if you are allowed when COPY-WRITE is brought into account that would truly be brilliant! Will you film the whole thing, or can you tell me when your are screening please???
Take care
mrbluenun
I have a similar fascination with nuclear films! Just watched The China Syndrome last week, and trying to get my hands on Failsafe for this week!
where is Dave2?
Something special? Flux capacitor teardown???
Don't know what Universal were thinking. It's not like Hoyts actually has decent coverage across all of Australia. In most states they have less than a handful of outlets and none at all in 2 states/territories. Poor form. They should have done deals with both Hoyts and EventCinemas/BCC which would have at least given decent coverage along the east coast.
I laughed so hard.... Dave, you looked like Frodo in that shirt :) no offense :) :D :D
I think we need a rule where Dave can only avoid the normal size knife once per mailbag
Portuguese people rules!!! LOL
nice Dave, another mailbox from our "royalmail": CTT
Love your shirt Dave!
Ghehe droeftoeterknop,geniale kantoor uitvinding. Doorlusse naar je speakerts.
@EEVblog ROE was a German components manufacturer and it has been around since 1925. They're now owned by some mother-corp.
electronics.stackexchange.com/a/13296
The Toronto Blue Jays will win the World series and that's that!!!!!
'Seriell' is German and means serial. 'von Hand' means 'manually'.
+EEVblog Vishay Roederstein (abbreviation ROE) is one of the brands undrer Vishay corporation. Real high quality stuff.
£60 (50 for the + version) to convert a Speccy into a USB Keyboard !?!?
Why would anybody do that ???
where can i buy that tee shirt?
I should totally send in a package that is taped with Kevlar tape
ROE is for Roederstein. High quality German caps. The company acquired by Vishay in the past:
www.vishay.com/company/brands/roederstein/
Where did you get that knife
Is it me or does that blade need sharpening?
dose anyone else notice the other plate in the background
EEVBlog, now with added innuendo! Hahaha...
Yay Tampere! :) Interesting thing about the factory by the river there (Finlayson). They installed electric lights back in early 1882, the first electric lights anywhere in Finland or scandinavia I believe! (Well we were under russian rule at the time still).
Here's a pic of some of the machinery and a typical operator :)
www15.uta.fi/koskivoimaa/valta/1870-00/kuvat/konemestari.jpg
Dave plz go back to your old style of mailbag , were you took time to do teardown and other stuff, as a EE was that more fun.
Where can we buy that t-shirt with 'Everything has user serviceable parts inside'. That's becoming my repair ethic.
I imagine streaming you watching back to the future would be flagged by Universal and put your channel on "probation"...