Mailbag Monday 204

Welcome back to the ongoing saga of Mailbag Monday.
You know the deal - grab a drink and let's get into this.

Official Raspberry Pi Pico Board RP2040 Dual-Core 264KB ARM Low-Power Microcomputers High-Performance Cortex-M0+ Processor

1pcs BNC Male To Female Banana Dual Binding Posts Adapter Covert From BNC Plug Male Pin Covert To Banana Jack Female Socket

dupont jumper 10cm (search link)

DC 3V 5V 6V 9V 12V Push-Pull Through Micro Spring Solenoid Magnet Electromagnet

Solid Carpenter Pencil Built-in Pencil Sharpener Suitable for Woodworking Architect's Mechanical Pencil Deep Hole Marking Kit

1pcs Banana to Banana Plug Test Lead Set, 4mm Stackable Banana Plug Wire Test Cable Lead for Multimeter, Electrical Test Wire

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#ElectronicsCreators
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This isn't the only way to do it.
It's probably not the best way to do it.
But it's how I did it.

[retireeelectronics]

The BNC to banana converter looks excellent. The lights reflexing off the beer at the end have a great effect.

[johncoops]

THANK YOU for using a genuine, real, honest video thumbnail 👍👍

[bwselectronic]

I picked up some of those pencils year or so ago on Aliexpress dirt cheap

[StevenJam]

Always love ending off a weekend watching Mailbag Monday!

[fredflintstone]

Yea!! Monday again a great start to the week 🙂

[iowahank]

I predict you will never run out of breweries in Winnipeg to spotlight on your channel Kent.

[markfergerson]

As your experiments with the Flying Desk Cam demonstrated, sometimes you have to work with that organic cellulose foam stuff when doing an electronics-oriented project.

[fiskurtjorn]

10:00 Diffrent colors for difrent materials. Black is graphite for paper, wood, drywall etc. Yellow is more of a grease pencil for metals. And red I do not use but when I recall correctly was for glass.

[frankowalker]

That BNC connector will be useful.

I don't know if I mentioned it before, but you can get small solenoids like those with a latch similar to what you find on cupboards and lock boxes.

[sparkyprojects]

When you looked at the pencils, the 3 pencils and 3 leads were $5.84, so i hope the $14.89 was a mistake

[timmyB]

Stick a cotton swab (might need to cut one end off) in the pencil and you can extend the reach some or add strength when scrubbing stubborn flux residue.

[martinclemesha]

Carpenter pencils, did you discover the built in sharpener. The button on the end unscrews.

[tinygriffy]

1:25 .. If the esteemed viewer would kindly focus his or her attention to the bottom left corner of the screen :D .. 4 bucks is the official price recommendation on the pi homepage ;)

nice ale !

thanks for the mailbag !

[williamjohansson]

Haven't watched the video fully just yet, but the dupont jumper cables may be copper plated iron wire, so try with a magnet to see if it is iron. I once got a few wires wich were iron and has quite a high resistance for just 10 cm.

[steve]

Ive been using a RP2040W pico to wirelessly control a Sculpfun iCube laser engraver 🙂, The wifi version is quite interesting combined with a few buttons and oled.

[paulramasco]

Buying the Pico from most reputable vendors (adafruit, sparkfun, canakit) goes for $4 US or ~ 5.56 canadian. So far I haven't seen it any cheaper on other sites. Not a big deal but just worth noting.

[lasersbee]

12:53.. You have clicked on a color that IS NOT in stock (dotted square around product). That is why they don't ship to your location.
If you click on a product color that IS Stocked (solid square around product) they will ship to your location.