How big can we make Ralfy's remote control?
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- My brother Ralfy uses a remote to start and stop his camera when he's filming for his channel:-
/ ralfystuff
The conductive ink contacts on his remote were causing problems, so I fixed one of his remotes and offered to turn the other one into something a bit bigger. I didn't say HOW big though.
A few things went wrong along the way, but that happens. Initially I thought it wasn't working, but it seems to just put out a single burst of IR code for each press.
Update:- Ralfy loves his new monster-sized remote. It seems to work fine.
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A propos of nothing, I've been watching both your and Ralfy's channels for many years. I will never understand how it took me literally years to make the connection between you two. You guys occasionally reference one another and the Isle of Man, but it wasn't until a Christmas or New Year video some time back that I saw you together, spat out my tea and went "no fucking way". You guys really are quite an extraordinary couple of siblings. A whisky expert motorcycle champion archaeologist undertaker and a light engineer electrician technician programmer designer extraordinaire. I don't know why I'm writing this, I guess I just feel you should know there are people out there who really appreciate and admire you guys. Oh, and your video about how you took care of your mother with Alzheimer's moved me to tears. That's all. Best wishes from Belgium
*stands up, clapping* Bravo!!! Well said.
Then you must have missed a lot of the videos where he mentioned that he's his brother
I only made the connection on Ralfy's episode 666 when he invited Clive on to test cheap drink...I think.
☹️ - 🤬
Well said monsieur doggy, well said... (I had to look up Zenneke/Zinneke to see who or what it was, highly amusing to learn of your pissing statues!) I like that I come here and learn from both Clive and other subscribers alike :)
You should have included a speaker and a circuit that makes an almighty farting noise.
Maybe linked to an air horn ??))))))
this is comedy
A true sign of that special Scottish brotherly love... ;-)
Nah, a random chance to make a "Idiot" or whatever they call each other. Like 1 in 100 chance.
"Press Hello IDIOT everybody- what"
I wanna see the result with him. Reaction and him using it and everything.
You can see it in action in his most recent video
@@pyromen321 link please?
Here is the link.
ruclips.net/video/5lyHRt38-wk/видео.html
@@mgcamp85 that was 2 days ago and its still working in his latest video, at the end of the video he has a little count down to the click but you might be annoyed with it if you are ocd like me.
ruclips.net/video/Mf_QU9EmvzY/видео.html
@@mgcamp85 I watched it. I understand the words, but I don't understand the sentences.
Coincidentally, what you did here is what people in the Occupational Therapy field refer to as "switch adapting" a device. It when somebody, due to physical limitations due to injury/disability/aging/etc, can't hit a button or switch, they wire in a better suited switch or a 3.5mm audio jack for use with existing accessibility switches. I guess it also works well for being a smartass to your sibling! lol Nice project, Clive!
Yes. I saw this and thought it was like our big red button replacement for the pendant alarm service. It has given me ideas about adapting other things to make them easier to operate
It's also pretty useful for cheaply automating a remote with relays
I love these signs in places:
AUTOMATIC DOOR
press button to open. - In other words, it's not automatic !
@@millomweb The door is still automatic tho, it's just they replaced a sensor with a switch usually for access control. I think you'd call it a trigger switch ... Trigger, or triggered I guess we will find out. 🤣
"One LED is not enough." Words to live by.
The gaming PC market really ran with that theory. ;)
Arcade button: I only have one LED.
Clive: One LED is not enough.
Arcade button: Foolish sentiment.
Clive: Family motto.
An illuminating comment.
"I've actually just wiped the pad right off. Excellent!"
You have no idea how many times I've done that and it has ruined a device... Still funny tho.
You need to use the front camera on an iPhone, iPad, ... to see infrared light, the rear ones have a filter so they don’t pick it up :)
23:34
Oh no, why put the battery holder in the lower part of the case?
Looks like it would have fitted in the top next to the switch.
I hate it when I open a case and the two halves are inseperable because of a few tiny wires.
Amen! I was screaming at the screen the whole time.
And said wires are of course far too short to flap the thing open 😒
Brotherly love necessitates in goes in the bottom case. If he was building it for himself, he would have put it on the top next to the switch or made it accessible without having to remove the four screws. 😁
I'd say Clive built the whole thing upside-down.... Could have been all built into the box, and have the fixings for the lid underneath for a neater finish 🤔
The problem with mounting it on the lid is that the double-sided tape will let go in time. Gravity helps hold it if it is in the base. I'd have preferred it to be flat on the bottom for this reason. Better yet, mount it on the lid with better fixings!
22:10 I'm glad I'm not the only person in the world who realizes that scoring a surface helps glue and tape stick. This has helped me many a time, making arrows for archery, putting cable guides in my car for a dashcam....
"Watching glue dry is never fun."
Unless if you wanna stick around though..
Ewww that was nasty😂
I must admit, I had a good chuckle at the µPaul of flux!
1 litre of flux would be a µLouis, wouldn't it? 🤷♂️
For uninitiated, this is a reference to Louis Rossmann channel, where Louis makes fun of the best repair technician, that Paul uses too much flux
@@jacekjagosz ...while many viewers complain that Louis drowns his boards in flux...
Thanks Big Clive. That's fabulously over the top! The best part is to hear that Ralfy Loves it. Now I want to watch Ralfy use it at some point. Perhaps put a link and time stamp. Too much fun.
Enjoying a good malt as much as I enjoy technology. I watched the pair of you for a while until I learnt you two are brothers. My mind was blown that day.
Another term learned: "Hit-and-run soldering".🤣
Keep it up, Clive! 😉
Ralphy uses a weird and century-long outdated term? So surprising.
He's a complete technophobe.
It's such fun to watch you work/get distracted/and then get back to it. 🙂👍
I remember jingling your house keys would change the channels on my granny & grandpa's TV.
And jingle change in your pocket, much to everyones annoyance 🤣
🤣 Ace, thanks for sharing
No where near a Louis Rossmann amount of flux applied.
It amazing how much he uses! Swimming in flux.
To be fair to Louis, while he does use a fair amount of flux for sure (and sometimes clearly enjoys how it triggers some people), most of his videos are shot under microscope, so it's not nearly as much flux as it might seem on camera. In fact I'd say Clive used a fairly similar amount here.
Well, he did mention only using a microPaul of flux after all
Louis sells flux on his site so the more his users sees him use the more they think they are supposed to use. See where that goes?
how much money he makes on youtube would cover is flux bill just fine
It's the little things like saying 'Chav!' and cutting the wire at 14:06 that make these videos so fun to watch.
I think he was actually saying "Chop" in a funny voice?
14:26
Clive: The joy of RUclips, freedom of viewing control.
RUclips: We'll bringing you the mid-roll ads you needed so badly!!
I've got RUclips premium... No ads lol
Clearly this needs a safety interlock as well.
Like one of those old aircraft movies when they flip up the red switch cover in order to launch the missile?
Personally I much prefer the 2-key/2 man launch interdiction and confirmation protocol. Clive and Ralfy are the only key holders.
@@DisheveledSuccess I can just see that now. Ralfy with a scotch and Clive with a dark n stormy. Russians beware!
@@johnpossum556 Pffft I mean gotta fulfill the biometric requirement!! Exhale Forcefully into pnuematic security checker and twist your keys! 3...2...1...BIG CLIIIIIIIIIVE DOOOOOOOOT COM!!!! lmao
SAF SPAAAAACE FORCE ORBIT PERSON: Sir our live feed over the Isle has detected a sat launch on course for stable orbit along Latitude -4.463196
USAAF SPACE FORCE COMMANDER: Dear GOD the pencil pushers said they were years away.... Hey wait.... What's that signal coming from it??
USAF SPAAAAACE FORCE ORBIT PERSON: **Slowly takes off headset and steps away muttering about peaty, contemporary whiskeys***
USAAF SPACE FORCE COMMANDER: ** Visibly stunned, shaking hands place silicone bud to ear ** "raLFYSTuff...RallFYSTuff...RAlfysUFF!!....ralfystuff...I LIKE WHISSSKEY AND bike RACES...."
Wrong lever kronk!
That's a bit HAL9000 and needs the LED :)
Adafruit sells the buttons, and listed a HAL 9000 panel as a project for it. :) learn.adafruit.com/hal-9000-replica/overview
@@bonivuselderheart2716 :-o
ha. I was at 7:20 of the video and I started searching for this comment
@@martinrocket1436 me too
Reading the title, I was hoping for something that remotely-controlled Ralfy. Press the button and he takes a sip of whiskey.
Then I realized that type of remote control would have been completely redundant.
Very good, and it works, as I have watched the video where it gets used.
Having Ralph going in the background while I work on a cad design is like having a mate in the room for company, as with what he is on about one only has to be listening.
You are two good fellas.
'Do you really want to see me screwing up? Yes, you do.' - you know your audience so well.
"One Paul of flux on this one"
That's a Rossmann reference if I've ever heard one
As soon as I heard that I went looking through the comments to see if someone noticed the reference, Thank You sooo much.
Would that be one paul daniels.
I saw a tiny red flash at the end there when ya held it up to the camera. Should be good to go. Good luck though, when time comes to swap the batteries out again. I've got a few of those cheap LED string-2 x AA battery boxes too. Cheers Clive!
Reminds me of fixing my parents late 80's TV remote in the mid 90's - they were always loosing it and breaking it. I built a 6" x 3" x 2" steel box. I put a Telephone clicky (like an early computer) keypad on top, some tactile switches on the side for volume and a stainless steel foot switch for the on off. The on off required two tumbs to operate and solved the problem of hitting the switch by accident. The large box let me run it on C cells instead of the AAA that only lasted a month. Remote ooutlasted the TV!..Oh it weighed 500g (a pound)
I’m glad to see the Paul unit of flux being used 👍
11:45 "I'm gonna put at least one micro-Paul of flux on this"
Was that a Loius Rossmann reference?
Yes, and a very good one too
I knew a fellow who worked as the lead tech in a Network Operations Center for a Telecom. Near the exit door of the server room were two large buttons of the sort you have there which he called "clown buttons" for obvious reasons. One on the right, which was yellow, opened the door; and one on the left, which set off the Halon fire protections system for the server room. This presented a problem because periodically visitors from the corporate office would come and visit the NOC and after their visit would, upon exiting, sometimes press the wrong button, setting off the fire protection system and cutting the power to the building and filling the room with unbreathable Halon gas forcing everyone in the room to have to leave quickly and stay out until the gas dissipated. Naturally this caused some red faces, either from embarrassment or from anger. Having happened once too often, a solution was found. The red button was encased in a clear plastic box with a spring loaded door on it that makes a piercing sound when opened to deter people from opening the box and pressing the button, unless there is an actual fire. The solution worked well and most people have learned not to open the button box anymore, however, he said that once in a great while someone is still determined to press the big red button undeterred by the screeching door on the box and again fills the room with Halon. C'est la vie. :)
13:53 Kids, if you're fairly new to handling a soldering iron, don't do what Big Clive does here and desolder a wire from a metal contact you're holding on to. Put the contact in a third hand tool, put tension on the wire with one hand and only then melt the solder with the solering iron.
I learned this the hard way back in the early 80's. Let my experience serve to stop you from hurting yourself.
Thankfully Clive did a tutorial on how to properly solder in a previous video: ruclips.net/video/nXkOxP5hka4/видео.html
1. Try using your cellphone to detect IR LEDs... Usually works...
2. Try putting a scope across the LED leads to see if there's burst of coded signals from the board...
3. You might want to install a larger IR LED to get better coverage & range...
We sometimes still call TV remotes "clickers" here in the US, the term just stuck.
Here in the Netherlands a 'clicker' would be the remote you use to go to the next slide when you're giving a presentation
I remember our first telly as a kid...you could change channels with a handful of pennies. It was a JVC and used, I presume, ultrasonic instead of infrared.
Slinky Spring did it for ours.
I haven't even viewed the video yet (I will in just a moment) - but had to say "I giggled out loud just reading the title and seeing the thumbnail". I love the interaction between "Clivy" and "Ralfy" - best brothers ever! The video will, no doubt, be ferociously entertaining!
Poundland: *exists*
Clive: *I'll take your entire stock!*
Yes, I was just thinking if I just had a Penny every time Clive says "Poundland" 💰
Good thing he's quite some way from Ashens, I feel like either of them needs quite a big territory to hunt for Poundlands.
@@rolfs2165 now there's a video- watch as these 2 hunt for Poundland deals- and each other- in the wilds of Britain. No holds barred action, tat, and drama!
Poundland really should be paying Clive a royalty.
@@rolfs2165 They definitely should collab though.
Adhesives on plastic can be tricky. Had a windshield washer tank(plastic) develop a crack and to fix it I used a special kit with an epoxy specifically formulated to bond to the plastic of the tank. Nothing else seemed to get a good bond, but this stuff really seemed to stick with a vengeance. The downside was that it was really more expensive than I could have predicted but at least it worked well.
Yes, the pens in fibreglass. Great for removing the solder resist on PCBs for repair, and also great for getting small fragments of fibreglass stuck in your fingers too. Very annoying when that happens.
Watching your videos is like watching the inside of my head 😂 love it. Keep up the good work 👍🏼
Very well done. Only thing I'd add is some strain relief, however it's easy enough to blame him if he breaks a solder connection.
Hello, Clive. At 02:37, that enlargement of the circuit, with the yellowish parts, looks like abstract art, or a Brian Eno record sleeve. It's kind of beautiful, detached from it's original purpose.
Saw the debut in Ralfy review 834 Ledaig 18yrOld, christened it the 'X Clicker' and I quote him 'made by my brother who's got an big electronics review, tear down and NONESENSE Channel'... (0.51 in). That Bonnett of his needs flaming a bit more, 'Nonsense Channel', older brothers for you....add some Fluorescein to his favourite Malt....
I'd like to have seen Ralfy's reaction when you presented him with his new and improved "clicker"!
Watching Clive splooge on camera. What a wonderful way to end my evening. 11:40
You have such a nice high-quality printer, as well as such great focus. I’m always blown away how Professional and clean they look when you blow stuff up.
Maybe a macro lens
Clive is definitely good and blowing things up!
Seriously Clive that is fantastic, I love the retro bulkiness of it compared to the tiny original, Ralph will have to be damn clever, or messy, to lose that bugger, sadly it won't fit into his camera pack or pocket anymore, I would love a garage door clicker on that scale, I would never lose my keys again.
Regarding sticking tape on plastics: This kind of plastics (Polypropylene, polyethylene, etc) does not have a plastifier in it that makes it hard to glue - they are genuinely hard to glue by themselves in their molecular composition. Mechanically scratching it works independent of that, of course.
Poor show....
19" rack mount switch or go home :)
I saw him using it! It's amazing! 😃👍
I thought this was going to be about a giant remote control to control your brother. :D
Are we just going to ignore the fact that this absolute madlad took a picture of a circuit board and printed it out, all for our viewing pleasure?
Edit: HE PRINTED OUT ANOTHER PICTURE OMG I LOVE THIS MAN. WHAT AN ABSOLUTE MADLAD
part of the greatness that is big clive
12:33 - "I'm not sure that many people would choose to add such a massive button onto their camera..." You're right...I'd add a bigger one. lol As, I'm sure, would many of the members of your viewing audience. ;)
Years ago I had the idea of making a giant button like this, but with its only purpose being a giant mute button for the TV, to mute the damn commercials that are so annoying. The plan was to use a universal remote circuit board so it could be adjusted for any TV, and the entire perimeter of the case being IR LEDS so aiming was not an issue. I never got around to making it, though.
Easy with a TVBgone keyring as the base. But probably better not to make it too obvious.
The terminals on the switch are designed for both crimp connectors and soldered wires. That is why they have a hole.
I would subscribe to the Building Huge Things For Ralfy Channel in a jiffy! That's just what the interwebs need right now.
Enough switch current to keep the switch contacts "wetted"? Especially in an atmosphere loaded with whiskey fumes? :)
It needs a sound module, preferably a loud belch when the button is pressed.
It's actually pretty easy to program an arduino to use an IR receiver to scan an IR remote and get its exact protocol, then program it to send any command with that protocol through an IR LED. There's a library on GitHub called IRLib2 that does all the work. It understands every remote I have.
So you can turn anything with a button and a place for an LED into a remote for just about anything that uses an IR remote. Even without the guts of a working remote.
I'm a little surprised you didn't print a huge ,custom, pink enclosure. 😆
It might be improper wavelength of that red LED that makes it kinda dim inside the buttons. If the lens on the buttons was designed for incandescent bulbs, you should try warm white LEDs in them. I learned this when I tried to replace the bulbs to LEDs inside the turn signals of my father's motorcycle in 2008. No matter how bright and how many yellow or orange LEDs I tried, it was inferior to the original (I think 5W) incandescent bulb. Then I realised I either need clear lens for the turn signals and use orange LEDs, or leave the original lens and use warm white LEDs, because the orange lens acts as a band pass filter, and if the LED wavelength is not perfectly matching with it, it will be very dim. I never had the opportunity to finish the project, because the bike got stolen a few weeks later... It was a GDR made Simson S50.
About a year ago my brother and I were talking about RUclips and what channels we watch. A bit later he said "wait, is that electronics guy from Isle of Man?" It turns out he'd been a long time watcher of Ralfy.
Completely random question: When you designed your logo, did you intent it to look like the outline of a cartoon flying saucer, or was that just a happy coincidence? ;-)
14:23
If you don't want to see this just fast forward.
[Is doing it off-camera so we have no choice]
Phone cameras have an IR filter at the front of their lens array. But usually you can see a little spot.
If you want something that isn't solder that does a solder job... use one of the silver-epoxy repair glues. CHO Bond etc. Not cheap, but well worth the bother for nightmare rework situations.
The original ''clicker' goes way way back to the war days . It wa a thing they used for when they sent out a rece party , they had a series of clicks that both them and the guys in the trenches knew so that when the rece party came back they did not get shot as possible rece parties from the other side . sometimes the sound of a bolt action rifle was mistaken for the clicker with unfortunate consequences
Blue Peter, seems like just the show i would have enjoyed when i was younger. Not sure it made it to Australia.
Oh dear, the lack of power to the Led in the switch will haunt me to my grave. Lol
I had a good chuckle when Ralph pulled out that button
Speaking of a "clicker", my grandma had an old TV remote that had two bells in it with different pitches, so one changed the channel and the other changed the volume or something. Or maybe it switched between VHF and UHF, I can't remember.
I also remember seeing the movie UHF on an old TV, and it was on channel 9, which was a VHF channel.
Great Video BC! I have a 5 button switch remote for a HDMI box so I can use one input to the TV and have 5 inputs with the remote and box. It is built like Ralfy's but with 5 buttons and yes it is stuck down the same way. Matter of fact it is always popping up at the bottom where you can see the board. I have some small project boxes and momentary switches so I see a project in my future thanks to Ralfy's Big Red Button!
Thanks Clive for the video and the ideal of fixing my 5 button Clicker! :-D
LLAP
P.S. Don't let Fargo from Eureka see this fix, we all know how Fargo likes to push Big Red Buttons! Just saying! LOL
I use to hold an IR remote to my camera to check the LED is working. It seems nowadays it is only working with shitty-cheap camera's. The high brands might filter the IR out to not get a washed-out image on a sunny day.
Yup, that's my thought as well. I used that fact when teaching basic digital photography in the early 90s. They got "homework" to check and it made the pupils feel very "engineery" 😁
I think there are videos on how to remove the filter from a mobile phone camera to "see more", fiddly but possible on most mobiles.
Even the cheap cameras have an IR filter, but it's probably not as tight as more expensive ones. I have a Sony Handycam with Nightshot mode, it physically moves the filter into and out of the optical path. With the filter in place you can still see IR remotes head on. Without the filter you can see the signal hitting nearby surfaces.
Use a big chinese gong for the switch 😂
The button is now whiskey proof 😂
I still don't agree with ralphy's review of Aberfeldy, so modify the switch so that it gives him a mild shock every 2nd or 12th time he uses it ;)
It looked like the battery pack might have fit on the bottom of the lid on the other side of the switch
Wait a second...
*IS THAT A POP'N MUSIC BUTTON!?*
Youl should've whipped out that cool battery powered soldering iron for this!
Ralphie may be calling it a 'clicker' because that's how much functionality it has.
thanks for the louise roseman esq content
"And I'll ram it down there ..."
So that's why there's so much ... flux.
Oh Jesus...
Ha! Clive we want the big button, let us see Ralph get that button out of his pocket in a hurry 🤣
I would’ve used a NPN BJT of of the IR LED to switch the LED in the button.
Omg I actually did something like this couple weeks ago for my brother. He had a remote to turn on a relay. He brought it to a store to get a new battery and the guy working there just looked at it weird never seeing or even thinking of anything like it
i dont feel so bad wasting time on my projects that didnt work, thanks Clive!
i want to see Ralphs face when you hand him that baby lol
Haha! Hit and run soldering, i love it!
i wounder if you could use the ir led inside the button. my old dlp tv had the receiver beside the projector lens inside the screen. it was pretty awesome, anywhere you could see the picture the remote would work.
Pound land is either the UK version of a dollar store or a really fun club.
the leakage across the cap might be just big enough to drain the battery more than absolutely neccessary and a such simple circuit probably doesnt really need decoupling that urgently. so it was left off
20 ma on the LED? Usually they are rated to handle at least 50 ma. And, I've had them successfully operated at 1 A in pulse mode. They were absolutely brilliant but the pulse was so short you couldn't see the light and it had to be detected by a photodiode and fed to a scope.
Pushing Ralfy’s button
Build a house out of steel and hook up a capacitive sensor to it so that whenever you touch the building (or it rains) the clicker sends a signal!
LOL, They Cheaped out of the Cheap Outs on that remote. DAMN ! they could have save yet more with using a PCB ? Dead Bug Construction and a switch.
I do believe blue peter is still on the go, at least it was about 10 years ago when I watched it.
I'd love to see what gets sent to the LED on a scope
Did he say “confuser” at the beginning... AVE rejoice!
oh my god wtf I watched Ralfy years ago, then moved to watching bigclive and this entire time I never realised that Ralfy is the malty review man
The next one should be surf board sized.
A literal clicker remote control? Never heard of it, interesting.