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Title: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on April 11, 2013, 09:31:20 pm
Does anyone know if Dave is overloaded with packages waiting to be "taken apart" for the Video Blog. I have an electronics device I want to send him.  :)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: notsob on April 11, 2013, 09:33:41 pm
Wrap it up in pink paper with 'hello kitty' labels attached, should get his attention.
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: DavidDLC on April 11, 2013, 09:37:49 pm
Does anyone know if Dave is overloaded with packages waiting to be "taken apart" for the Video Blog. I have an electronics device I want to send him.  :)

Why don't you ask him directly ?

David.
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: ivan747 on April 11, 2013, 10:04:04 pm
Wrap it up in pink paper with 'hello kitty' labels attached, should get his attention.

We need a like button on this forum.  :-+
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on April 11, 2013, 10:13:56 pm
Wrap it up in pink paper with 'hello kitty' labels attached, should get his attention.

Ah I see - he likes pretty things - soft things? It's OK for a man to feel pretty sometimes.  ;)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: BiOzZ on April 11, 2013, 10:59:12 pm
put a beeper and a flashing light in the packaging ... not just will HE love it but shipping agents will love it too!!!
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: ivan747 on April 11, 2013, 11:25:23 pm
put a beeper and a flashing light in the packaging ... not just will HE love it but shipping agents will love it too!!!

Don't forget a set of 7 segment displays and a back counter using logic gates, they will surely appreciate your skills.
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: EEVblog on April 11, 2013, 11:51:04 pm
Does anyone know if Dave is overloaded with packages waiting to be "taken apart" for the Video Blog. I have an electronics device I want to send him.  :)

Yes, I have about a dozen, many of which (as I know what they are) could have their own separate video.
But send any, just don't expect me to get around to it any time soon!
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on April 11, 2013, 11:58:11 pm
Yes, I have about a dozen, many of which (as I know what they are) could have their own separate video.
But send any, just don't expect me to get around to it any time soon!

Will do. I have all the time in the world to wait for the tear down.  ;)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: lemmegraphdat on April 12, 2013, 02:08:10 am
How about a machine that is it's own package and opens itself? That might be worth a video. No sudden moves though. The thing would be creepy enough without.
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on April 12, 2013, 09:30:24 pm
Package sent - teaser pic attached!
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: Hydrawerk on April 12, 2013, 09:59:19 pm
Is that a walkie-talkie or what?
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: Psi on April 12, 2013, 10:22:15 pm
looks a little like a Satphone
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on April 12, 2013, 10:22:57 pm
Is that a walkie-talkie or what?

Nope!  :P

looks a little like a Satphone

No!  :)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: ivan747 on April 13, 2013, 12:44:05 am
Pocket spectrum analyzer or GPS? The antenna looks like a full-wave antenna in the 900MHz-2.4GHz range to me.
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: lemmegraphdat on April 13, 2013, 01:38:25 am
Part of a telemetry system?
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on April 13, 2013, 01:44:41 am
Pocket spectrum analyzer or GPS? The antenna looks like a full-wave antenna in the 900MHz-2.4GHz range to me.

Negative.

Part of a telemetry system?

No sir.  :)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: mrflibble on April 13, 2013, 01:52:44 am
Is it a hello kitty lollipop with extra sturdy stick and convenient velcro packaging?
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: pickle9000 on April 13, 2013, 01:58:30 am
Some sort of sniffer? Gas detector?
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on April 13, 2013, 02:14:05 am
Some sort of sniffer? Gas detector?

Good guesses, but no ...

Eventually someone will guess it if we keep going. The post office said it would take a week to get down under (I don't believe them), but Dave said he's already got a backlog. I don't want to spoil it for everyone.  :)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: lemmegraphdat on April 13, 2013, 02:18:35 am
Cell signal blocker.
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: opablo on April 13, 2013, 04:08:45 am
Wrap it up in pink paper with 'hello kitty' labels attached, should get his attention.

It''s even easier than that with Dave... just stamp a "Made in Germany" label on the box  :-DD
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: codeboy2k on April 13, 2013, 04:18:22 am
I believe it is a fruit quality tester... here you see it being used on an Orange. 

(http://i.imgur.com/05ubLIZ.png)

The black thingy on top is forcefully thrust into the fruit, i.e. impaled upon it, and the meter will give a quality reading.
Don't buy the fruit if it's below 50 FruityHertz.

If you ever go to the supermarket and see large holes in the fruits, then you know someone has been testing the fruit there.

On this particular orange, someone painted a XYZ coordinate system, probably they didn't know which way was up so they needed some help.  You must always orient the fruit tester correctly, or the readings will be off.

I'm sure Dave will be happy to receive it from you, and after the teardown will always enjoy better fruit.


Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: SeanB on April 13, 2013, 09:02:58 am
I have a slightly used Worldspace receiver that Will be coming to parts sometime soon, as the RF end is dead.
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: aargee on April 13, 2013, 10:46:11 pm
What's so special about rectal probe?
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on May 09, 2013, 12:16:00 am
Well, I know he's got it 'cause I've seen the box in the stack on the last mailbag video. We'll have to be patient yill he gets to it.  :)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: TimNJ on May 09, 2013, 12:33:48 am
Wrap it up in pink paper with 'hello kitty' labels attached, should get his attention.

hahahahaha. I actually laughed
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: smashedProton on May 09, 2013, 03:56:58 pm
Cell phone jammer?
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: kfitch42 on May 09, 2013, 05:09:27 pm
IANAH (I am not a Ham).

Antenna is about 5 inches long, assuming 1/4 wave that gives 590Mhz. Or 1/2 wave that gives 1.18GHz.

A quick look at FCC allocations suggests we get either "TV Broadcast" or "Aeronautical Radionavigation". Neither is too likely. Of course I could be a bit off on my 'measurements' ... 915MHz ISM isn't too far off, neither is 608-614 "Land Mobile/Radioastronomy".

Given all that ... its a pocket Arecibo!
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on May 09, 2013, 05:14:42 pm
Valiant and very intelligent attempts to guess it - but all wrong.

I'd be tempted to pull it a little of it out of the case and take another pic - but it's in Australia at the moment.  :)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: G7PSK on May 09, 2013, 05:24:31 pm
Metal detector/body scanner for security.
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: Smokey on May 09, 2013, 07:57:09 pm
It's a shovel, which should result in the shortest tear-down video ever.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v646/HDFlame/Upholstery/URAL%20Upholstery/Shovel%20Covers/BrownCanvasShovelCover006.jpg)
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: TheEPROM9 on May 09, 2013, 08:42:21 pm
put a beeper and a flashing light in the packaging ... not just will HE love it but shipping agents will love it too!!!

Don't forget a set of 7 segment displays and a back counter using logic gates, they will surely appreciate your skills.

Don't forget a loud ticing sound  :-+
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: smashedProton on May 09, 2013, 09:10:52 pm
The woz did that to his locker in high school.  He was suspended for a week.  :-*   and then there was that time where ge spent the night in jail
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: smashedProton on May 09, 2013, 09:11:19 pm
That was a :-+...
Title: Re: I have a device to send the Blog but ...
Post by: xrunner on June 11, 2013, 11:18:15 pm
Metal detector/body scanner for security.

Correct. I didn't want to say until he opened the package, which he did in the latest mailbag video.

Congratulation for a correct guess.  :-+