Mailbag Monday #86

The mailbag is extra big today!

In addition the usual cheap stuff I ordered from ebay, I got a couple of review sample kits from Universal Solder and a cram-packed box of cool goodies from AnotherMaker.

The links:

Universal Chip IC Test Clip Socket Adpter Programmer SOP SOIC TSOP MSOP SSOP

10PCS CR2025 CR2032 3V Button Coin Cell Battery Socket Holder Box Case ROHS NEW

1Pcs T12 soldering iron tip for soldering rework station P TBB GR Size: T12-BC1
1Pcs T12 soldering iron tip for soldering rework station P TBB GR Size: T12-BCF2

CANADUINO 4-Channel WiFi Relay with I2C IIC and WEMOS D1 mini

CANADUINO PLC MEGA328 Electronics DIY Kit Arduino compatible

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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 do it.

[davidv]

WOW ... Jackpot! I believe the best tip for drag soldering is the one with the little cup in the end of the tip (just left of center in the picture you showed) - it carries a little ball of solder across the pads when dragging. Looking forward to those kit builds!

[Spence-qe]

Just ran into you channel!! Enjoyed your mail bag good job!!

[bwselectronic]

A man makes mistakes. A good man admits to his mistakes. But a great man. He not only makes and admits to them, he admits to them and points to his half drank glass of beer when he admits it! 🤣🤣🤣
You got a great mailbag of stuff today! Have fun with the programming headaches! Love our Canadian maker friends!
Keep your stick on the ice.
Yeah I use to watch Red Green.

[TheEmbeddedHobbyist]

I have quite a few SonOff's around the house, now running Tasmota, and very useful looking probes at the beginning. something to look in to. Ho nice looking beer as well.

[stevesfascinations]

Nice video !! Ordered some of those microscopic grabbers - they looked cool!. Nice to see you get dragged into the home automation stuff. Download Tasmota for the SONOFF and run it on Home Assistant. Thumbs up as always.

[GadgetReboot]

I just ordered some mini grabbers, I think I’m going to have to look for those Dupont grabbers as well.
I’ve been noticing stuff that I leave sitting in my shopping cart even going up in price within one week when I go back to make the purchase. I hope that trend stops right fast.
That’s a lot of great stuff from several different countries you hauled in this time!

[squalazzo]

hi, those initial clipping pins, are they isolated? All that exposed metal, they can shorten something if grabbing adjacent pins of some IC, if not... like at 3:06, 2 of them seem to be touching...

[partickhillstation]

Really enjoy watching your channel. Where did you get the beer? A while back I took a little workshop in Toronto on how to make a breadboard led project. I have since lost the documentation, any chance you could give me some direction as to how to get it wired correctly ? There is a button on there to make the led flash.
Was in Winnipeg for two years working on the design of the MH Keeyask project. Yes, pretty cold. Cheers

[akhurash]

There is a lot of potential projects with this mailbag!

[meinsda]

Nice to view your channel very monday! I also use the olimex board it's realy great. It's one of the boards how also support Ethernet with a cable. So i can use them on places where i have no wlan or in companies. I only have troubles with the relais. If i switch to often the boards hangs up! There is also a smaler version aviable how supports power over Ethernet.

[logicsparkelectronics]

The IC test clips look to be pretty good quality, May have to look into getting some. I have never seen Canadian Cash before, Is part of it see through?

[normcaissie]

The shipping is because the mail is so slow now they only ship with tracking #s. I ordered stuff with standard and they shipped with # and was told that is why.

[alanknight]

Hi Those tiny IC test clips look interesting -- but I notice that you did not mention 2 more

IC test clips that are available from Ebay . There are the low cost and easy to find ones

which are mini versions of the large ones you have, they are about 4 cm long and very good.

The others are harder to find and expensive, they are about 3.3 cm long .

I can send photos or perhaps Ebay links if you need more info .

Alan

[EsotericArctos]

I think the shipping charges are due to a lot of items needing to be sent with tracking now where most were sent untracked before.
That's what I have found here in Australia anyway. It would make shipping more expensive.
Then again, it might just be the Chinese sellers trying to make some money back due to being offline for so long :)

[rafaelmmartinez]

What's the ruler you have there? Looks nice.

[jstro-hobbytech]

I don't understand the chisel tip. No one likes them except for certain use cases so they should just make less and give everyone a bc2. Haha
I've watched his channel. He's the real deal man. He can make anything.

[meowcula]

I've bought stuff from Universal Solder before, good stuff. Will do again

[DjZyklon]

Is there mini cutting mat supposed to be a beer mat?

[JasonSimpson]

Where's the link to Developer Dan? I searched but couldn't find it.

[iceberg]

where are you getting all these packets in this coronavirus market ?