EEVblog #460 - Mailbag - Plasma Speaker

Dave's Mailbag
Some nice postcards, a Jamma card for Daves arcade machine, some computer stuff, dummy load kit, a calculator and a PLASMA SPEAKER!

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[DrewWalton]

When the kid started attacking the GPU with a screwdriver my heart stopped.

[michaelgarland]

I know this video is old, but you have an absolutely adorable son.  Thank you, so much, for showing that slice of your life.  It really makes your videos that much more enjoyable.

[x-tom_ber-x]

I was like, "LEAVE THE GPU, NOOO!!!!"

[AishaDracoGryph]

I really love how you get Sagen involved with your videos as much as you do, between your job and making youtube videos it could easily be the case that he rarely gets to have time with you and vice versa.

I bet when he looks back in 15 years at these videos that it brings a big smile to his face remembering all the great times he had with his awesome dad!

[wqpeb]

i sat here for 35 min to see and hear the plasma speaker.

[Skyfox]

I have to say, you're a natural born dad. I've seen so many guys who have such short patience for their young kids, snatching everything out of their hand that they want to pick up and look at. You let him pick up, look, poke, explore, and most importantly, learn. He's going to grow up to be a smart kid who's very curious to learn everything that catches his interest.

[themomaw]

I used to have one of those TI calculators.  The reason the battery compartment is so huge is because there was an optional rechargeable NICAD pack made for it. Notice the casing on the side, that's where the charging jack would poke through.

[HobkinBoi]

I cringed at the sight of his son poking a screwdriver into the graphics card.

[EEVblog]

He was just spinning the fan with a screwdriver, relax, really.

[yumenokoyume]

That kid will be the future EEVblog 2 host. :D

[Hammerjockeyrepair]

I love watching the current videos with your son and then go back to here 4 years ago and see how young but still interested he is with everything in your workshop! Bright lil guy there!

[bobluckey]

"Buy your maple syrup from Canada"  Those are some serious fighting words if you're from Vermont. 

[shmehfleh]

Aww, cute lil dude!

Those one-slot Neo Geo boards are terrific. They're fully JAMMA-compliant, so for the most part, you can drop them unmodified right into a JAMMA cabinet. They're a piece of cake to consolize too; just stick a 100-ohm resistor on the video sync line, and a smoothing cap across the red, green and blue lines, and you can connect it to any 15 khz RGB monitor, line doubler, scan converter, etc. If you lift the stereo sound off the chip, bypassing the audio power amp, you only need 5 volts and about half an amp to power it.

[voltvids]

What I would do to get my hands on one of those TI calculators.
I had one of those in school. Wish I still had it, as they never die.

[ndelliott]

Dave reminds me so much of my father and uncle. They gave me so much hands on experience with everything from carpentry to car mechanics before I was 5. Little "Sagan" is very lucky.

[michaelhenwood]

Sagan is having a blast and learning, too.

[Falney]

"You are trying to put the screwdriver in the jack. Do you think that is where it goes?" Maybe you should start giving him HV screw drivers :P

[misium]

The kid is already hacking, even before he knows how to speak.

[EEVblog]

I might see if I can clean them up and use them in my new PC build I'm doing tomorrow.

[VooArtPro]

In case if you still wondering about the stamp, it says: "Al-Manama" The capital of Arabian culture.. :)
In Arabic: المنامة عاصمة الثقافة العربية