Unboxing a Super Donation - A Retro Chip Tester Pro!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2024
- A truly marvellous donation for my channel has arrived! A Retro Chip Tester Pro created by Stephan Slabihoud (deepest apologies for butchering both your first name and surname!)
Further info on the RTC can be found at Stephans website here:
8bit-museum.de/sonstiges/hard...
Jacek runs the American Retro shop here:
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And I have now found out that Retrolemon stock the RTC here in the UK!
retrolemon.co.uk/retro-chip-t...
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The Retro Tester Pro are available from Retrolemon in the UK.
A RCT... very very nice! - Gratz!
- Which reminds me that I still need to complete mine... I'm embarrassed now, because I bought the board, ordered some of the components from DigiKey I think, not wanting to order everything, since I have a bit of a stockpile I need to use up first, got it assembled up to about 97%-98% before discovering that I was missing the IC and the relays right next to the SD card reader, and a few other components, ordered those and they've already arrived eons ago. But being the black-belt "I'll do it tomorrow" expert-procrastinator that I am... aaahh! - I eventually freaking forgot about it.
I already have the BackBit Chip Tester Pro... so, if I can otherwise get my head out of my *BLEEP*, I'd reckon that I'll be more than fully covered.
- Anyway, thanks to you and AmericanRetro·Shop for reminding me just how big of a buffoon I really am.
Our local "Maker's Space" got together and purchased one of these for the space. I got to build it, which was fun. They're so useful. Not perfect but so much better than the "cheapo" memory testers out there.
A real nice and pretty pricy tool. I built one of these myself last year and it´s amazing how Stephan still pushes the limits further and further of this thing. It has helped me a lot in the last year already. Progframming the firmware however is a bit tricky as you need to set fuse bits before programming the firmware into the main chip. As a little quirk, you have to do this if you want to update the firmware and you need an ISP programmer or use an arduino etc. to manage that. You have to read well through the quite big but brilliant documentation .Well, building itself is not that difficult if you have the main IC soldered already. I bought mine from Stephan himself. Be glad, that yoiu have all the parts delivered already. "Normally" you have to trace all the parts since you never get all the parts from one seller, trust me, and this alone will take you a very long time ;)
Yes, it is really a nice tool. I bought mine directly from Stephan so it was not that pricey. I used the prepared shopping carts and ordered from Digikey. It's quick and I had all the components at once. But since almost standard components are used, you can get them from elsewhere.
Gretna Green?
BINGO!
Wow. Congratulations. I've been lusting after one of those since I saw it on Adrian's channel. Just can't get myself to part with the cash. That's an incredibly generous donation. And you're the right guy to make good use of it. Well done.
I bought one about 18 months ago. It is invaluable and has saved me a lot of time in my restorations. So glad to see the generosity and support you are getting. Enjoy the RCT.
You even had the northern lights in your workshop! :)
Haha! I should have had them animated!
Glad for you mate. It cost me an arm and a leg, more than one year ago, but it eased SO MUCH my hobby. You'll see the difference. Cannot wait for more videos !!!!
Ive wanted one for soooo long. Cant wait to use it now!
What an awesome device that chip tester
Is that a tunnocks wrapper I see :) We love you too Lee. Scotland is great apart from the weather
The weather the past few weeks has been very warm while a large part of England and Wales have been having heavy rain and thundwerstorms. ⚡⚡⛈⛈⚡⚡⛈⛈
Gretna Green…?! 😊 1:24
Correct! Married on the anvil by the village blacksmith :D
@@morefunmakingit2this was going to be my guess 😄
A nice bit of kit. What a bunch of generous lads! 👍
That board is SOOOOOO COOL! hope you do a whole long video of you assembling it. Love your channel and congratulations!
Toying with the idea of a live stream build...
@@morefunmakingit2 oh I will watch
That’s a sexy bit of kit. Another great video Lee. We’re always on the other side of the glass Lee
Very, very cool, looking forward to seeing you giving the RCT a good workout and review.
Other fish to fry right now ;)
Nice! Are you going to make a construction video about it?
I might live stream it... Not sure yet!
@@morefunmakingit2 Maybe Stephan can join?
Keep the info and videos coming !!
I would hazard a guess Lee and say it was in Gretna Green. Sorry your big box didn't make it in time.
Correct!
Coatbridge Sunnyside...
😂
Paul’s big box is arriving tomorrow 👍👍👍
Cant wait to get in it!
It seems really cool but Adrian Black has his share of issues with it, esp when it comes to testing RAM. His theory is that due to the level shifting, when testing TTL (5v) parts on a circuit that's mostly CMOS (3.3v) you get certain false positives and false negatives.
@NukleOn The RCT works with 5v. Please check check out the extensive documentation first before you post nonsense. Adrian had issues with two cheap eBay testers (vid 0083 in channel 2). These have nothing to do with the RCT.
@@herbertschuster9088 What are you talking about? He has one and he has shown it plenty of times. And yes it works with 5v, but the logic on the RCT itself is modern 3.3v chips, which has to interface with the obsolete 5v parts. Will you please behave and not call people names.
@@herbertschuster9088 th-cam.com/video/n46oM3jXmtU/w-d-xo.html Are you gonna apologize?
@@herbertschuster9088 "The Retro Chip Tester Pro does it all (Review)" from December 4th, 2021. Are you gonna apologize?
@@Nukle0n This is the video Adrian talks about level shifting and where he has problems: th-cam.com/video/QljsIIPl-SE/w-d-xo.html The level shifting is relevant when the output drivers have 3.3v and the voltage must be shifted to 5v. Cheap testers use a simple mosfet for this (or none at all). The reviewed testers (at least one) uses also a 5v mpu, so there might be other problems with it (it was the correct one I think). The second one seems to use a 3.3v MPU with 5v tolerant inputs. In that case the dram (address, data input, control) is driven with 3.3v and it accepts 5v (data output from the dram). in that case voltage levels will not be exact. No apologize. Check the devices before talking about them in an unqualified manner.
Hi - great video - could you do a pinout of the mega ic please - Thank you..
I'm not sure what you mean?
Retro Chip Tester Pro £85.95
I am so happy for you, and not a bit jealous... 🥲
Gretna Green?
Yes! :D