 Right, today we've got a little kit to build, and I bought this about six months ago. I was a little bit scared about putting it together. There wasn't a lot of information out there, there still isn't really, but some months have passed down the line and I felt a bit more comfortable because I did six months ago. So I think it's time to really look at this. I don't know if anybody has guessed it by now. This is a four by four by four, four by four, four that way, four that way, four up and down. LED, cube, and pre-programmed control. That's okay. And what I've got to do is put the thing together. Now I suppose for this I should probably count the LEDs. Double check. That isn't really my greatest strong point. 64, actually, that's pretty good. All I've got to help me along with this because there aren't any instructions at all. And all I have is a lot of that. There's the information there on the website. Right page. Give you a video of it working. Parts. And then look at the board. You get a good idea of what goes where by you can eliminate all those pieces once you put them on. And then it's just this, but that doesn't look too difficult now. And so I'm really, really hoping I get this done without too much, too many mistakes. And hopefully it'll look quite good. I don't expect it to be brilliant in construction, but I think the effects are going to look quite entertaining. Let's go on to putting it together. Okay, so I counted them and I got 75 and I thought, oh, that must be wrong. So I counted them again off camera and there's 75, 20, 20, 20, 15. I thought it was me. I had a few drinks last night and I feel like I've got two eyes in one socket still. But that's a nice way to spend the Sunday playing the LEDs. Well, of course, this is a three-prong LED because this is a two-color Q and I don't know which one is a which. I'm going to take a guess and my guess is going to be that because there's more material in the middle on the stem, that this would be the negative and either side is going to be the colors. But in order to put a bit of power to it, I'm just going to get the camera just to stay in one place. Like that. Look, I can get the camera to stay in place. Apparently this is five volt for the circuit, but I'm not sure how much these will take. So what I've got is it's pre-set up from yesterday. What's that say, 70 milliamps? I'm going to drop down the milliamps on that. I'm going to go there, 0.00. No, that's the wrong one. I'm going to get it together. Two zero. Okay. That's two and a half volt. So I'm going to say middle one, I think is the negative. That's 20 milliamps, I know. So I'm going to actually drop that down a little bit low because if it is, wrong way around, I don't know. Popping and kicking and all that. I'm in again. Let's go on meditating. Okay, that's red. Funky. And that one, there is blue. Red, blue. Okay. So the longer one is red and the shorter one is blue. Let's turn that off again. And the middle one is... What was it? Long one, red. I'm going to write that down. There you go. I need to write that down so I know what the other ones are. Okay. All right. So right now we've got enough of those to do it. I'm pretty sure that everything else is going to be correct in here. Three... 30 pico. I think I remember correctly from the thing. Three perico. I think this would be four 1k resistors. Yep. Hold on. There's another one. Three bent. Four LEDs were on the outside. Yeah. One cap. One crystal. One electrolytic I should say. One crystal. And some little stamped offs. I'm not quite sure where they go. I've not seen them in any of the pictures. Yeah. I'm looking at one of the pictures now and I can't see where... I can't actually see where they go. We just... What is this thing we're going to have to do when I want it to. When I want it to do it. Come on. Okay. These little bits are for these LEDs. So they sit proud of the board. I think it really matters which way they go around. There's two holes there. If that fits differently like that. Okay. Try the other way around. No, I don't think it really matters. I don't think it really matters. I'm going to put... I'm going to put it so the hole is facing inwards. So it sits on the board. So it sits on the board like this. I'm ready to actually probably raise that a little bit more if you want to see what my hands are doing. I'm really sorry if you haven't seen anything that my hands have been doing so far, but you've not read this much. So yeah. So it sits great just like that. Okay. I'm going to switch soldering on. A few minutes to heat up. And we'll come back to soldering. Soldering on a little bit. A little bit of the solder. A little bit of that. Okay. I might have the first things first I think. I'm going to put this in. I'm going to use my light. I need my stretcher on as well. There's even more here. Quite like this one. I'll flux. I'm sure it's not pretty good for me to be breathing in. That's something nice to do. I don't have to speed up this the video through these bits because there's not a great deal to say. I'm not going to do some that haven't got pads on these pins for this chip. So I'm not going to bother trying to solder there. There's one that's not going to make a connection anyway. So I'm going to try soldering not to a pad. So this is the point. I don't know if this is going to come in handy for anybody. But I've noticed on eBay there's quite a lot of these quite a lot of things being sold on eBay that aren't as appetised. So you end up getting things. I've recently had it with some just little kits infrared receiving kits. So you can just use a Camel and Garden remote control to switch a circuit which has a relay. Then you can of course power something a bit bigger, a light whatever it is you want to power up to about 300 watts. And when you buy the kit you buy there what's displayed as the image. And then when you get it well it's like an image you'll have a chip and you'll have a socket and you'll have a three terminal connector. But when you actually get it you find out you haven't got the socket you haven't got a three terminal connector you've got an inferior two terminal connector and there's quite a few little other differences. Now, eBay don't seem to really care about this and through the frustration I figured well okay because these sellers will give you your money back so I think in a way I'm advocating buy this stuff and then it's going to come to you inferior. And just query the seller about it and they'll just give you a refund. You can end up getting some free stuff off eBay. Okay, so I took notes to make sure that I've got the little cut out part in the right place on this, on the board. So it'll be easier per chip in there at the end. So, let's go for the next bits. I'm going to put the crystal in next because that seems to be the most fiddliest with the Pico. Little capacitors I don't know if you've ever bought a power supply off eBay one of these ones like I've got a 10 amp 0 to 30 volts that's actually advertised as being 10 microvolts No, sorry, 10 10 million I'm going to talk about microvolts 10 million resolution and it's not as a 100 and so of course when you get it and you hope for the 10 million resolution and you find out it's 100 Channel save I think it's called I bought mine from they offered me a 50% refund I don't know, I think it's to keep my mouth shut I'm not quite sure but they still haven't changed their advert so I don't mind telling people that if you bought one of those power supplies the 62 pound way the price is and then you queered that the resolution wasn't correct according to the advertisement if it's anything like they handled me they'll just offer you a 50% 50% money back so then you've got yourself a nice 0 to 30 volts switch mode 10 amp power supply half the price I don't think that's I don't think that's 200 to 22 22 now I'm sure it says in the middle list I'm looking at this and I'm looking at the list as well 22 pk surround capacity I was drawing my book for some reason I have a 30 but they're not 22 so I like to put all mine in not the wide way round and I seem to have messed that up anyway because I've put the I've put the crystal in opposite to the way the legend is on the board so I'm not in the book I'm just going to put them all in I'm just going to get the electrolytic the right round push those in a little bit tighter now they say there's three I can only see holes for two okay so we'll chuck these chuck the resistors in as well okay I've been a bit naughty because I ordered I couldn't find the parts as cheap as I could in the kit for these infrared these infrared sensors I quite like the idea of having a few of those connected to lights and such so I can just use a remote to turn them on and off but the way I look at it is I've ordered a few more and if they don't come through as per the kit I'll just satan again I know it's a bit naughty oh I don't know if it is naughty they should just send you out what's in the kit then I'm buying it for the parts not really for what it's going to do because I'm just going to rebuild it to my own thing and I don't think that's fair enough if you buy something and it comes through it's something different oh well that was it I know something I bought recently which in some ways I'm really happy with but in another way I'm pretty peed off about what I'm going to tell you about that one it's from Sure Electrics I think it's from Sure Electrics and it's one of these tracer maximum power point tracking solar controllers now the controller itself brilliant love it absolutely love it even on a day like today I can see that my batteries are still charging there's no sunshine out even on the most overcast I'm still getting, you know, milliamps now I know that's nothing but when you think about it, milliamps is triple charged and that was pretty healthy for a battery to be triple charged rather than rammed all the time but I love the controller and I've been using it for a few weeks now so soon I'll be confident enough that I've got enough data to understand another you know it's doing a good job I think it's doing a good job basically I can keep my the lights and such that I have attached to it I'm pretty mature all the time and in actual fact where I do feel a bit is when it's charged by about 11 o'clock in the morning sometimes even in the winter here because it's winter at the moment when it's charged that's why I bought it now I want to see what it will do in the winter rather than what it will do in the summer I know what it will do in the summer it will do better than what it does in the winter so I want to see what it does in the winter but so I bought it and it's great I bought another battery and hooked it up to it as well hopefully I'm going to do 24 volt with it soon I think it's more than enough but the part that I didn't like about it was that without me understanding it because it came through TMT it needed an extra £5 on taxes to be paid but that ended up costing me £30 because TMT provided the service without asking me and the seller didn't tell me that this service would be provided to me without me knowing and so it means I've incurred this bill but I'm going to argue it because well I don't need then to deal with customers and ex-hospitalism for myself thank you but what I do like is the heads up to this old and not just for it to be rushed to me with a big price so even though I think that the actual the unit itself is a great buy you do end up with an extra £30 bill on it if you don't get in touch with TMT and the appropriate people to say look I'll deal with my own relations with customs so like I said, it's a great buy I think the actual unit itself the product is great but the way it's been delivered to me and the company obviously they sell quite a few and they use the same carrier must know this situation and they're not telling people I think that's a bit low down and dirty and they don't do anything to help you to offer any sort of compensation to say well we do say that you've got to deal with it but they don't tell you well I suppose they do tell you the carriers because if you do check you've got a tracking number but it's one of those things you need to look out for with TMT I don't know if it's the same with other companies but TMT will provide the service to you whether you want it or not and you'll find yourself with this bill but like I say I'm going to argue it I'm going to argue it because I didn't ask for the service I don't mind it coming a week later if it's going to be certain customs ask me to stop I've had that before where customs have been told I've got to pay extra and that's okay I don't mind it was only £5 it was the £25 administration charge for TMT dealing with it I didn't like because I've been quite happy to spend a few moments dealing with customs to pay that bit extra but still I like the product the way it charges and the way it the way it takes any small amount of power in terms of the usable charging power it's so so much superior to the PMW PWM sorry I found this unit as well it's got a 4 stage charging okay that's all looking good I'm like there's a very close somebody in the area that I live I've had a new alarm fitted I think to the house because every other day it goes off and it's such an annoying sound and I think I've got to the stage now if they were being burgled I'd cheer them on and say come on just get rid of the stuff and get out and then they wouldn't have anything else to have an alarm for because it's just annoying be nice if you're told please come and reach for the piece because it's reaching my piece I've just got to take a second again check on my dinner