Comments by "Pete Venuti" (@petevenuti7355) on "saveitforparts" channel.

  1. Rather unnerving how empty it was. I mean personally, I prefer that I'm not a people person, and I like my privacy. But I know it's also a bad sign for the continuation of its business and that makes me very sad to see it that empty.
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  2. ​ @saveitforparts well this is why you have it, it's your destiny, somebody will appreciate it.
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  3. A working off line mode would be a must! Just listen for callsign maybe one or two other words & auto record. Using with the cloud could be a bonus if thats what you want.
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  4. 12ghz is close in size to the parts
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  5. If the charging cable isn't proprietary, then I would say it's not an issue, I think most of us have extra charging cables cuz that's usually the first thing that breaks on almost anything!
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  6.  @boondocktechnologies  I haven't personally played with the esp32, but I was under the impression that it would be powerful enough to at least listen for one word, the call sign. So if it's not powerful enough what about a FPGA? Too expensive?
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  7. 18 ft tall or 18 ft diameter and what's the diameter of that trampoline up there? I got a nice big gash across the bridge of my nose from dropping a 'dish' satellite dish on my face from the roof of my garage today so be careful. Don't skimp on mounting
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  8. Do you have to send it back or do you get to keep? How much would you sell it to me for?
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  9. Attach a disc to each end of both of them and make them giant water wheels , put a platform on top for a cool boat!
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  10. Fourth of July's coming, you can always fill them up with oxygen and acetylene, or just pure oxygen and propane even.. Use to jack up a large structure first, then ignite and launch sed large structure.. Dorothy won't be in Kansas anymore 😜 On that topic , maybe as a tornado buster, fill it with said gas mixture put in path of the tornado and ignite when tornado hits it, stop the tornado much like they stop burning oil fields...
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  11. Think they could be useful in your sandstone cave to cause, prevent for remediate cave-ins? Perhaps an inflatable drain plug for a man-made lake?
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  12. Looks like it would be just as treacherous for swimmers as it would be for boats. Also curious how many caves are under the water! Beautiful. Glad you had a good trip.
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  13. A Santa aroud Christmas, a bunny for Easter
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  14. Cover with foil and turn it into a big high voltage capacitor!
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  15. ​ @saveitforparts  one of the metal rods out of a busted dot matrix printer that still has set screws on the gears, screw alligator clips in the holes using screw posts, (after sticking it through a tight grommet so it stays where you put it) maybe use some playdough to hold the magnifying glass if you can't find a bendy arm.. I made my own back in the early eighties, I tried to patent it, but they stole my idea , when I threatened to sue , they just said I was under 18 so there was never a legal contract and couldn't higher a lawyer on my own. I get pissed off every time I see one of those things!!!! My parents were no help, discouraged all my inventions.. But if you made your own , that would be cool.
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  16. Well it would be a colab I'd watch!!!!!!
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  17. A red light to indicate your work is on fire...😅 How did you not laugh!
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  18. You found one for $40? , I could come up with $40 for a microwave imager.. (still looking for high rez flir for that price)
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  19. Does anybody here remember "free world dial-up" , an early adopter voice over IP over the internet thing , they even had phones from Thailand that was voice over IP over Wi-Fi, nobody else did anything like that! It was incredible. You just needed a $300 Cisco router and at least two permanent ISDN connections at maybe a thousand a month. And with that you could have free long distance calls! Great savings! Of course this was the 90s, and if you spent a few hours on the phone to the nearest city you're getting a $300 or $500 phone bill, so I'm actually serious it would save you tons of money, especially if you had a long distance relationship with a psychiatrist that does their appointments over the phone. I mean just imagine having the free cash to spend a few thousand dollars on your phone bill and still be able to pay your $300 rent!
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  20. ​ @saveitforparts  seriously though I find sometimes the green and less so the blue are better at NOT attracting bugs then yellow bug lights
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  21. I never understood why the newest stuff needs so many times the resolution of the human eye! A few times for digital zoom, that's it. With my eyesight that's 5x too much.
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  22. If it was 10-15 years ago when my son was still in his train phase , he would have loved that. That was before his Godzilla phase... I have no idea what he's into now, 18 and moved out already...
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  23. Of all your "resource pile" , what has an FPGA in it? I want to find one in my pile to do something like this and not sure where to look... "Resource pile" is what I call my hord , feel free to use that....
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  24. Looks like someone tried to take my advice and go practice learning how to drive in a cemetery (since can't hurt anyone already dead) At least they didn't run over the tumbstones.
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  25. My myspace profile pic was taken on one of those... Is it possible to go to myspace without getting infected by a computer virus yet? Anyway, can you leave that to me in your will? Im sure you will live longer, but just in case 😉
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  26.  @KD9VFU  was there ever a pi clone that met that $35 price point?
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  27. The lazy Susan shot😅
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  28. I'm sure those chips you through back world worth more than the bathtub cost you!
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  29. The hard drive magnets are worth $60 a pound. More if you sell them as magnets.
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  30. If you want to give me a test tube rack I'll pay shipping, If you see glass petri dishes, GET THEM PLEASE! (Has to be glass) And dammm , those hard drives I've been using 2 gigabyte 50 pin scuzzy drives because I can't afford those 300 gigabyte SAS drives! With a lot like that they were probably from a couple of raid arrays and 6 out of ten probably had more life left on them than a brand new retail grade drive, they build those with 1,000,000 hr mtbf!!! Hell the magnets are worth $5-$15 each. Why do you have such good dumpsters!
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  31. Well I didn't know Kindles were based on Android! Can you run any kind of chroot or Proot environment like androix or userland apps to run a Debian system? Do you know if rooting them is easier/ harder, safer or less safe than an Android phone?
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  32.  @saveitforparts  I honestly didn't think otherwise!
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  33. Could become a vacuum chamber?
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  34. A emergency space blanket is only a dollar or two, could have saved a bunch on that tape..
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  35. You need baggy cargo pants so the cat can fit in your pocket.
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  36. NanoDNA looking more like something I need.
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  37. I wanted to hear what that sounded like on your roof!!! Did you go on the highway, did you make warp 4? Warp9 or go to plaid?
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  38. I've been trolling for a find like this since ebay began!!!
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  39. That actually looks too easy for you! . You are ... Squirrel... Really lucky with all that interesting stuff around you, I can't seem to find anything like that for 500 miles and I have no driver's license.
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  40. I tried to start my own wisp back in the late 90's with some dec-915mhz stuff (later became lucent wavelan, not to be confused with wav2lan) I'd love to find some of that & the old 915mhz mesh equipment from NYC or that pre-802.11 2.4gig stuff that a Mane isp had that did 60mph hand-off on same SSID... Hard to believe there was all that available in the 90's and no-one wanted broadband back then...
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  41.  @saveitforparts  I have a small frame one myself that I intend to put a space blanket on to use as a solar concentrator. The second comment was probably wiped because I made a joke about welding sheet metal to your trampoline frame then hydroforming it with a material that creates rapid shock waves maybe involving a collab with DemolitionRanch... You get it... The algorithm probably took me a little too serious. Still , I bet no one on YouTube made a paraboloid that way before!
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  42. That's what I would have done.
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  43. I still got my version one somewhere never had to use it... still have the original box too, I sure hope you help find out some way to make it useful.
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  44. Now I feel like you're selling me something 😅 , I mean, well, you are. I appreciate all your reviews. At least interesting if not relevant. My boss would get a kick out of it if I showed up in the ocha approved shit. For the irony.
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  45. You're really going full-time in on this YouTube thing aren't ya‽
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  46. Squirrel‽
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  47. Your resprator likely saved you from getting drunk on zinc fumes... The Fibers are the least of your concerns , but if you are worried, spray down the blanket with a little sodium silicate (waterglass) , it will cause the surface of the blanket to melt together into actual glass, don't use much as too much of the blanket may turn to glass and melt through. Sodium silicate is a good chemical to have around, it is good for bonding another layer of rockwool or to repair it in the future, it will help bond your cement and make your cement harder and less porosity , it also makes a good flux like Borax, also mixed in your sand molds it makes them sturdier and able to hold more detail... beyond that i would definitely go with everything @carpespasm said, he said everything else i could possibly think of. Not having the right tongs made me cringe... Maybe now you can forge your own!
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  48. I was told does a T12 fluorescent tube was just the right size to wind a helical around for a certain frequency but I don't remember which one?
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  49. I was seriously thinking that, I wonder if anybody's actually tried that, never seen it, so just assumed there was a reason. Or maybe this is how Florida man kills so many manatees...
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  50. The government needs to give me my license back..
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  51. ​​ @saveitforparts  if I remember correctly, they both could use 25pin 'D' centronics connectors, but the gender would be reversed for serial, I can't remember which one was was male or female for peripherals, my old printers aren't handy, and I often mixed them up when I used them often.. SCSI one used that connector too! Got a scanner that needs a 25 to 50(or68) pin adapter..
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  52. Ikr! I "saved the parts" from one except I don't have the floppy drive or more modern SCSI adapter .. You wouldn't happen to know how one goes about making your own cartages from surplus eeproms do ya?
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  53. If only because they fear he's watching them! ..... ... and might put it on YouTube...
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  54.  @ebaystars  what does that even mean nowadays?
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  55.  @saveitforparts  hmm, can't find it... Am I blind?
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  56. That could run "collapse OS" As in; https://youtube.com/shorts/qJCiugT7jj8?si=p-2-g7EGpqL4N6W_ I I think it's funny how that short insinuates that z80 computers would be easy to find in a post-apocalyptic world😆
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  57. They're also flexible solar panels and there have been attempts to make solar panel umbrellas in the past, including myself, I'm sure patents have expired by now.
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  58. Any problem with Broadcom Linux drivers? If so , how'd ya get past em?
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  59. "No brain no effect" - Boris battnoff I've been using that quote for decades, since I was 3.
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  60. 1870's? I think the word tinker was already outdated in the 1970s and 80s (coming from someone who lived on Tinker Street in Woodstock New York)
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  61. Did you see that orange phosphorescence between 2:42 & 2:43?
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  62.  @saveitforparts  maybe but it definitely seemed to have an afterglow not just fluorescent paint There is a strontium aluminate glow powder doped appropriately to be orange, but that's not a very popular choice of glow-in-the-dark color and why would it be there?
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  63. 😂With some of that wackadoodle AsMaR 0ut there it might do well...😜
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  64. do you program them from scratch? Or at least understand their disassembly enough to edit them? I would love to do something with that nasty printer firmware that keeps locking what kind of ink cartridges you can work with... A lot of people would love that kind of rom update!!!!! Otherwise I want to know if this goes anywhere with the kindle, I got an old Kindle kicking around somewhere my saved for parts collection!
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  65. ​ @greenaum  the lab mascot is Gary the slime mold. His bioluminescent bacteria Christmas tree was wild!
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  66. You old enough to have been watching Battlestar Galactica as a kid in the 70s?
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  67. ​ @saveitforparts  I used to , but now I live in the middle of nowhere and have no driver's license ...
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  68. Is there such a thing as a variable RF circulator?
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  69.  @andrewn7365  I have an ultralight, but will I need a new engine & prop
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  70. ​ @saveitforparts  a plywood form for concrete after digging the hole seems worth it to me.
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  71. Would it still be cheaper with shipping included you can send me some 😁
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  72. Looks like something a stenographer might use, The serial style printer ports usually went to receipt printer style printers that I remember. Also resembles the crt that came with my Apple Iic
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  73. Dam! , I thought it was just going to be another trip to axeman surplus from the thumbnail ! WoW! Lucky you! I'm jealous ! Ok , back to watching... Near the end i saw what looked like a trampoline, could that be used as a frame for a big dish and parts of the BK play thing to mount it? Would that fit in the dome? Did my separate comment about that get deleted by YouTube?
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  74. ​ @saveitforparts  I would say, "when you get to be my age", but global warming is bringing the heat up to me...
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  75. Is there a way to stream output? i.e., Use it like a weird webcam? Also, doesn't VLC play the video? It should. Maybe the extension don't match expectations for the format, you can play with that.
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  76.  @saveitforparts  like someone else in the comments mentioned, it was probably a raw file with a common encoding type but that wasn't put in a container like an mp4. If you have a hex editor and compare the difference(before changing aspect ratio) you could probably see the headder that makes it a mp4.. everything else should be the same... But I haven't messed with these kind of things since Windows 3.1
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  77. I thought the Mississippi was bigger with more traffic.
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  78.  @saveitforparts  your not kidding are you!... They should be ring shaped, the graphite can be brittle as I'm sure you know..
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  79. What did you do to deserve your good fortune !!!
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