It’s been a long time since we’ve done
an unbagging slash unboxing video. I’ve
been ordering tons of stuff from
AliExpress. It seems like the uh parade
of couers coming to the house just never
ends. But we got a bag. Let’s see what’s
inside it cuz I can’t remember what I’ve
ordered.
Now, of course, I’ve got to say big
thanks to PCB Way who sponsored the
channel. I wouldn’t be buying all this
stuff if they didn’t sponsor the videos
and give me some money to pay for all
these bits. So, check out a link to PCB
weight in the description. Well, it
turns out I really can’t remember what I
ordered. So, we have a few interesting
things.
This is a
ESP32. No, what is this? That’s not
ESP32. It is ESP32 C3 OLED module. So,
these are very tiny. I’m not entirely
sure why I ordered these. I guess there
was a project I was thinking of doing,
but I have no idea what it was. Cannot
remember. And for some reason,
I’ve ordered two of them. So, I must
have been thinking about something and
then I’ve forgotten what it was. So, two
of these nice ESP32
C3 OLED modules. So, we will try and
get something running on these.
Very neat. Very cool.
And then we have some other stuff.
That’s an empty bag. Not that
interesting. Let’s put the empty bags on
the floor. Uh, so what’s this? It’s a
heart rate sensor, pulse module, blood
oxygen concentration test. So, that’ll
be interesting to play with and see if
that works. I guess you just stick your
finger on it and it measures everything.
So, we’ll try that out in Google project
as well.
Uh, what’s this?
This is a Oh, it’s type-C PD trigger.
So, let’s open that up.
So, there we go. Uh, one, two, three. I
wonder what the one, two, three
corresponds to. Let’s plug it in and
find out. Um, move some of this stuff
out the way. There we go. We can stick
it down there. A nice tiny board.
Where’s my multimeter?
Okay, there’s the multimeter.
USB.
See if you can arrange this so you can
actually see. There we go.
Um, so currently we’ve got it set to
one, two, three, set to off. So just
poke this in
and see what voltage we get.
And we get
5 volts. And turn this on.
15 volts. Turn this next one.
12 volts.
All of them on 9 volts. So, that’s
interesting. Quite handy. Back to 5
volts. Not sure what combinations of
things actually do things.
Okay. 5 volts. 20 volts. Okay. One and
three gives you 20. Um, and
three by itself is five.
And that looks like five as well. So
that’s pretty cool. Um, little dip
switches for controlling the voltage.
Maybe we should read the instruction
manual. Oh, there’s a little LED as
well. A red LED to show it’s actually
doing something. Um, stick that to one
side. Quite handy.
Now, what are these? So, this is a Oh,
this is quite interesting. So, you may
remember the old um what they called the
INMP 441 microphones that used to be
very very popular. They’re no longer
manufactured.
Um but this is a completely compatible
one. So, it’s a
Timear MS
I can’t read that. MS9 something
something. Where’s my magnifying glass?
There we go.
Well, you probably can’t see that
either.
It’s an MS8625.
Fully compatible with the INMP 441. And
it looks like they’ve even made it
exactly the same shape. Get this out.
Come on. Yeah, another bag. It’s bags
within bags.
So, they’ve made it exactly the same
shape and exactly the same pin out. So,
that’s actually surprisingly useful. Um,
oh, maybe we should give that a go as
well. Feels like that could be a nice
little uh nice little video. And I’ve
got got two of those. So, that’s handy.
Let’s just stick this back in the bag.
What’s this?
There’s another PD trigger. So, the same
as uh same as this one. Looks like I got
two of them just in case I blow one up,
I guess.
Um, what’s this? So, this is quite
interesting. I do vaguely remember
ordering this. Let’s have a look.
All right. A bit of uh plastic to peel
off. It’s like someone’s already peeled
off my plastic. Outrageous.
That was probably That was probably
quite loud. Sorry.
And what have we got here? We’ve got
some batteries.
So, let’s pull out pull out that. There
we go. So, just two coin cells. Oh, it
beeps. Interesting.
Oh, that’s actually kind of neat. Let’s
get something white so you can um see
behind it.
There you go. It’s quite nice.
transparent um little LCD screen tells
the time and humidity and the
temperature. Not bad. I’ll stick that
somewhere. Quite useful. It’s always
handy to know what the temperature is,
especially in our house where it’s
normally freezing.
All right. What’s this? Seem to have
two of these. They look look to be the
same. Oh, okay. So, these are just some
um
nightlight type things. Quite handy. Uh
wonder if we can make it. Let’s have a
look. We can
pop it open.
There we go. Popped it open.
So, if we cover up this
probably needs charging. There’s the uh
USBC. Let’s stick in a USB C plug.
And hopefully that’s doing something.
Normally expect something to light up.
That’s the LED. What’s that LED for?
Yeah, I’d have expected something to
light up to indicate it’s charging.
Maybe not.
Strange.
Well, let’s leave that charging. See if
it springs into life.
So, I’ve got two of them. Guess you
can’t have too many. Let’s put this one
on charge as well. Ah, interesting.
So, that one does have a little red LED
to say it’s charging. I think I know
what this is. I plugged this one into an
actual USBC
um charger. And of course, it doesn’t
have the resistors to say give me some
power. So, I bet if we use their old
style cable, we will get power coming in
and we’ll see a red light. So, let’s
give that a quick go. Confirm my
suspicion.
Yeah, there we go. Got a red light now.
So, it’s charging. So, let’s just pop
this open again.
And yeah, I think the problem is there’s
none of the uh 5.2K resistors anywhere
around here. At least I can’t see any.
So, it’s not going to trigger USBC
power. Yeah, there’s nothing there. So,
no no 512K
resistors. Uh that’s probably not even
in focus for you guys, but take it from
me, they’re not there. Uh let’s just see
if we It is charging now slowly, I
think. Is it charging? Come on, charge.
I got a slightly dodgy uh dodgy cable.
We cover that up. Did we get anything?
No, nothing yet. Let’s leave it charging
and we’ll see what happens. Uh where
have I put I’ll just put it over here
out the way with its other bits and
bobs. So, couple of empty boxes. I am
collecting
these little USB cables. I’ve got
hundreds of them now. It’s getting a bit
ridiculous. So, what else have we got?
We’ll save the big boxes till last, just
like at Christmas.
Okay, what’s in here?
I have no idea.
What have I got?
Ah, cool. Yes. So, it’s a laser and a
laser detector. So
here we’ve got
nice little laser module. So you can see
that. And this is the actual detector.
So let’s let’s power the laser up and
see if it works. And I wonder what the
pin out is on this. Got three pins.
Wonder pins do. Um not labeled. That’s
interesting. How do we power this then?
probably just does take um
some voltage on the pins and does
something. Let’s just connect it up.
I reckon
let’s try bottom one as ground. Let’s
not point it at my face.
Oh, there we go.
Laser beam. Um, so I’ve got it set to 5
volts and it’s drawing 20 milliamps.
Actually, I think I’m current limited.
Don’t know. But anyway, laser. Cool. So,
we’ll do a little project with that. I’m
using the detector and that could be
fun. Let’s put this uh safely away.
All right. Crackly crackly crackly.
Get back in the bag. There we go.
Let’s dump that on the floor. Dump that
on the floor. All right, then.
What is this? A 500ml
tea water separation intelligent
insulated mug.
Why did I order that?
Wow. Okay.
I must have ordered this, but I have no
recollection of doing it. [laughter]
Oh well. Um, yeah. Well, this looks
good. It’s got a nice little tea
strainer at the top. Uh, is it obviously
a thermos?
Is it supposed to light up or something?
Is it electronic in any way? Oh, yeah.
There we go. There’s a little uh little
light.
20°
green. What does green mean? Green must
mean something.
Uh, tell you what, give me one second.
I’ll put some hot water in and see what
it does. Um, well, it’s going up 21 now.
Um, I guess it’s going to take a while
to
register the temperature. Let’s just put
that on one side as well. We’ll check it
check it in a couple of minutes. And
then finally,
this looks quite fun. Professional mini
remote control drone 4K HD aerial
camera.
So, let’s have a look at this.
Comes in a very professional looking
pouch.
Wow, this was amazingly cheap. Um gosh,
it’s uh
fold. Oh gosh. Oh, it’s got power. Oh
dear. Right, then let’s uh unfold it.
Do you think it’s safe to uh power this
on the desk?
Let’s Let’s give it a go. Clear space.
Does that mean on uh power? No, no power
yet.
It needs charging up. I think it
probably needs charging up, doesn’t it?
Anyway, so we’ll play with that. I guess
we need some batteries in the remote
control as well. Um should we should we
stick some batteries? Let’s put it on
charge. Stick some batteries on and just
see if it will start up. Um, where do we
actually charge it? Where’s the charging
port?
Mystery. Oh, does it take batteries as
well? Probably not.
Oh, there we go. There’s a battery pack.
I guess there’s a charger in here. Well,
it’s got a blue light, so it’s got some
charge.
Let’s uh let’s put some batteries in
this and see what happens. Okay. Well,
we have
have a red light on the remote control.
If I turn it on, it’s gone. Oh, there we
go. Flashing light. Don’t know if you
can see that.
Looks like there’s a flashing light.
Do we do anything here?
Anything? Oh, what does that mean?
There’s lights. No, there was a light.
Up, down, power. Nothing.
Um, it was an on switch. I think we’ll
have to look at this and read the
manual, but uh yeah, the uh the front
lights are coming on and flashing, so
that does mean does mean something.
Um, yeah. Well, I will read the
instruction manual and we’ll do a little
video on this. Could be quite fun. Very
rattly inside the remote control. That’s
um maybe there’s a reason why this was
so cheap. Um, what else have we got?
Let’s just uh power this off so we don’t
um suddenly start flying around. Oops.
Okay. Put that over there.
Turn off the remote control.
Fold down its ears.
And then the last thing that was in the
bag um are these two two little modules.
So these are just temperature and
humidity displays. So I’m buying these
because I just want to see what the
temperature in your house is at various
different places. So obviously at my
desk about 21° in different bits of the
house it can be incredibly cold. So I’m
using these just to do a bit of
monitoring, visual inspection of
temperature. So bit of charge and these
things have sprung into life. At least
one of them has. This one does seem very
flaky on the old charging. Um, it’s not
always showing red. It’s probably the
cable or something else. Um, but does it
actually light up? Let’s turn off the
light. See if we can get it to to light
up. Um, oh, there we go. Yes, light.
Brilliant. Um, I got a few of modules
like this and I’ve noticed they’re not
particularly sensitive. So, I’m going to
do a bit of a bit of a hack on some of
these things. See if I can improve them.
And our little flask, if we look at
this, it’s gone up to 32°. So, actually
could be quite useful. Tells you how hot
your tea is. Not bad.
Anyway, quick unboxing thing. Lots of
things to play with.