Dave's 1000 th video episode count down - How to celebrate it ?

[ez24]

1000th Youtube video episode count down  -  How to celebrate ?

As of today (Nov 3, 2015), Dave has uploaded 992 Youtube videos.  8 to go

https://www.youtube.com/user/EEVblog/about

Personally I will have a beer and give a toast to Dave 

For fun look at his #1

https://youtu.be/AUwbtG6z6pI?list=PL5Qevr-CpW_yZZjYspehnFc-QRKQMCKHB

and No 3  (rap dance and holding up his fingers)



I would love to see Dave hold up 1,000 fingers for the 1,000th show and give another rap dance.  Maybe fireworks?  A cake with 1,000 candles ?

What ideas do you have for him for his 1,000 celebration video ?   Hope he sees this before the 1,000th Youtube video 

[Ian.M]

10x10x10 LED cube?

[ez24]

Don't forget it comes up at #1002 since #666 and #741 never got made.
I don't think counting non EEVBlog videos in the numerical sequence should be allowed. The reason for the second channel as far as I can recall was they were not considered either worthy or of sufficient interest for official EEVBlog numbering.

Anyway the 1000th video has to be a retrospective compilation of the highlights up to that point.

I am going by what Youtube says ie  1000th Youtube video.  Dave's numbering system is too wacky to use.  So this is not a EEVBlog number but a YT number.

[crispy_tofu]

I would love to see Dave hold up 1,000 fingers

[EEVblog]

1000th Youtube video episode count down  -  How to celebrate ?
As of today (Nov 3, 2015), Dave has uploaded 992 Youtube videos.  8 to go

Had no idea!

[pickle9000]

Retrospective, what's going to happen next, a cake with a thousand candles, and a hamster named Tricky Dick.

[Galenbo]

Maybe, with 1000th, 1024th is meant to be gonna celebrated :-)

[Fungus]

10x10x10 LED cube?

Get Dave II to solder it... 

[crispy_tofu]

10x10x10 LED cube?

Get Dave II to solder it... 

But they need to make the pick-and-place machine... 

[daqq]

1000th Youtube video episode count down  -  How to celebrate ?

Tear down your favorite multimeter? Explode a 1000 ohm resistor? Discharge a 1000uF cap bank @ high voltage (1000V ideally) into something? 1000 LED blinking at 1000 Hz?

[EEVblog]

Explode a 1000 ohm resistor? Discharge a 1000uF cap bank @ high voltage (1000V ideally) into something?

I like the blowing up idea, haven't done that in a long time.
Good excuse to get a decent high speed camera, the Sony RX100 Mk4

[SteveyG]

10x10x10 LED cube?

Get Dave II to solder it... 

But they need to make the pick-and-place machine... 

They did - Sagan

[Ian.M]

With properly designed assembly jugs, and using SMT LEDs soldered between hard brass wires in 10x10 grids with the wire planes separated by the length of the LED, it should go pretty quickly.  Treat it as a multiplexed 10x100 display and drive it off a string of 14 TPIC6A595 chips with 10 of the outputs acting as level shifters for the 10 anode drivers.   Built on veroboard of course!   Control it with whatever MCU board Dave's been mailbagged that is interesting enough to be worth installing the toolchain.

[Fungus]

With properly designed assembly jugs

"jugs"? 

Built on veroboard of course!

I've only made a 4x4 cube bit it was almost impossible to get 16 slightly misaligned LED legs inserted into veroboard. 10x10? Never going to happen.

(I believe they use foam at the bottom of LED cubes for this reason...)

[Fungus]

I think Dave should put 1000 9V batteries in series and connect it to things. You can clip them together like this:



 

[zapta]

#1000?  Still waiting #666 and #741.

[Ian.M]

With properly designed assembly jugs

"jugs"? 

Big jugs are always good.   Whenever you can get away with it, stick BRA 0xDD somewhere in your code!  However in this case s/jugs/jugs/

Built on veroboard of course!

I've only made a 4x4 cube bit it was almost impossible to get 16 slightly misaligned LED legs inserted into veroboard. 10x10? Never going to happen.

(I believe they use foam at the bottom of LED cubes for this reason...)

No problem - you've got 10 separate vertical 10x10 planes to fit and if built on a jig the spacing will be pretty accurate.   Each only has 10 wires to solder to the veroboard at the bottom of the cube. 

Solder the 10 common anode wires straight across all the planes at the back of the cube, then add 10 vertical wires with a right angle bend at the tip to clear the horizontal wires, staircase fashion to connect them down to the veroboard. 

100 wires of ribbon cable with the ends fanned out to the individual cathode column pads + 10 heavier wires for the common anodes soldered trackside to go off to the driver board

[Fungus]

With properly designed assembly jugs

"jugs"? 

s/jugs/jugs/

Have you sought professional help?

[Ian.M]

AAGH!!  s/jugs/jigs/

Have you sought professional help?

Yes, but they ran away screaming.

[ez24]

#1000?  Still waiting #666 and #741.

I should have said Number 1000  not #1000  -  again this is the 1000th video uploaded to Youtube NOT #1000 per Dave's numbering system.  Some of his videos have no numbers and he uses two numbering systems when he does use a number.

What gave me the idea was him holding up his fingers in his early videos.

[ez24]

Explode a 1000 ohm resistor? Discharge a 1000uF cap bank @ high voltage (1000V ideally) into something?

I like the blowing up idea, haven't done that in a long time.
Good excuse to get a decent high speed camera, the Sony RX100 Mk4

Really celebrate and get this high speed camera, free shipping : 

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=1063304&gclid=Cj0KEQiA0-GxBRDWsePx0pPtp4sBEiQACuTLNmo7p_PJi9Eh6gFzyRAd72jzDGgWn31N9RV3PXmSJi8aAgYm8P8HAQ&is=REG&A=details&Q=

It would bring your videos to a new high level and your bank account to a new low.

If you are serious about blowing things up, I suggest you start a new post asking for ideas on what to blow up.  Some members have imaginative brains (not PIC).

[Ian.M]

I think Dave should put 1000 9V batteries in series and connect it to things. You can clip them together like this:



 

That's a bit pricey.  Might be useful for high CAT multimeter testing though!

What about something simpler and more ergonomic?  A 1000V DC BOFH style cattle prod.  Take 336 CR2032 cells and stack them in a 21mm ID plastic tube. Easiest to tape them in 1" tall stacks of 8 so they don't flip as you slide them in.  It will be just over 1m long.    (336 cells so we dont end up under-voltage  )
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-300pcs-Lot-CR2032-3V-Alkaline-Cell-Battery-Button-Battery-Coin-Battery-For-Watches/937032129.html

[ez24]

What about something simpler and more ergonomic?  A 1000V DC BOFH style cattle prod.  Take 336 CR2032 cells and stack them in a 21mm ID plastic tube. Easiest to tape them in 1" tall stacks of 8 so they don't flip as you slide them in.  It will be just over 1m long.    (336 cells so we dont end up under-voltage  )
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-300pcs-Lot-CR2032-3V-Alkaline-Cell-Battery-Button-Battery-Coin-Battery-For-Watches/937032129.html

Do you use this around your house for control ? 

[Ian.M]

What about something simpler and more ergonomic?  A 1000V DC BOFH style cattle prod.  Take 336 CR2032 cells and stack them in a 21mm ID plastic tube.

Do you use this around your house for control ? 

No, because however much I prod it, the house never budges.

[Fungus]

I think Dave should put 1000 9V batteries in series and connect it to things. You can clip them together like this:



 

That's a bit pricey.

I guess 1000 of them is quite  a lot...but it would be soooo worth it.

Here's a video with 'only' 78: