To vary the motor speed as well, leave the +ve motor connection as is. Then add three diodes to the other motor terminal, and connect to the three FETs. Result, motor speed varies and LEDs vary too! Nice one clive 👍🏻🇬🇧😎
I think the effect would be even nicer with separate leds for each color. The greater distance between each color would make the colors separate and intertwine much more noticeable
In my younger days I would have used something like this with something else to schmoke and get a soothing, relaxing psychedelic vibe going... these days I modify things such as this and watch the schmoke come out sometimes... less harmful to my health and still great fun!
Temu ships each item as a separate shipment so that they can skirt import/export reporting rules By keeping the value low it doesn’t trigger the reporting requirements.
A few of these set up against a wall would probably give a nice effect. Set some to cyan, the others to turquoise, and it'll probably look convincingly like you're submerged in shallow waters. Although, I'm also imagining these in alternating warm white/golden white along a white wall to produce a "sun reflecting off the lake" vibe, which in my mind's eye sounds quite pretty.
Nice effect, would be good in a child's bedroom at bedtime. Mind you, might be good for an adult bedroom too. Very simple, but as you said, it could be made even simpler by getting rid of a couple of lines of the circuitry. Interesting post, again. Thank you 👍
Do you honestly think that the American apps aren't also collecting your data? And probably starting the concerns about data harvesting because they can't compete in the free market they created
i would suggest that just the motor and the disc would produce a really good effect if light waves were to be shone ON it (minus the cube). Particularly UV, and other combinations directly. Really nice little unit in terms of 'optical texture' .
I wonder if you could put discreet LED at all of the unpopulated pads around the board, which would make more light splash out. You might be able to angle them, or cover them, and it would not go out the 'top' but just the sides, Leading to static patterns. They would all be PWM controlled the same, of course, but it might be nice to make a single unit that uses nothing but green/yellow LED for a truly radioactive cube. Or, maybe wire up some really greasy yellow/lemon ones for toxic waste.
Use 2 LEDs with different colors. One Amber and one Red for a nice fire effect for instance. One point in Time I had cheap Showtec Phantom Moving Heads with crappy CMY color mixing, an effects wheel and an crystalizer gobo. In combination this produces the exact same effect. If you mixed an orange with the CMY system, it made a wide variety of colors between yellow and red which gave a very nice fire effect. Unfortunately these lights were not much use for anything else
I like the simplistic construction/design of the whole thing, myself. Temu is fun to browse through, especially for their tools and electronics. I've ordered a few things here and there just to test the quality and delivery speed and I'm mostly happy with it. P.S. I miss hanging out and talking with you and the technical family!
The "Warp core effect" is pretty spot on, they basically used that effect for the Refit Enterprise (TMP & TWOK) and later re-used the effect for Voyager, instead of the stepping neon tubes running down the core as introduced in TNG, this gadget though is pretty cool, though I think I'd scrap the RGB controller and just use some fixed colour LEDs... :)
The cap' across the main supply is well placed alright, motors are very noisy, a ceramic would help too. Can't read it's value though, as drawn. The I.R. Module should have it's own, as suggested. Nice simple layout otherwise, a tiny issue really.
Interesting 'Borg' light. Also interesting that they are nearly double the price on AliExpress.. Ali has become quite expensive recently, perhaps Temu is attempting to eat their lunch... For me, I'd ditch the existing board and replace with some pixel's driven by an ESP running WLED, then also run that motor via a MosFet to get remote speed control. Might buy a couple for experiments.. Nice one Clive...
The reason Temu is cheaper is that they've cut distributors out of the supply chain, that's their entire business. On Aliexpress you're dealing with thousands of trading companies that buy products from thousands of manufacturers, which is why you'll always find multiple sellers selling the exact same products, just with a few cents of difference in their pricing. Somehow Temu managed to convince the actual manufacturers of those products to supply directly to consumers instead of just supplying wholesale to distros, which leads to a big reduction in the pricing on a lot of things.
Very nice, Clive, personally I would love to see a laser in there too, but perhaps I’ve been spoiled by other similar devices. It’s pleasantly compact I must say.
Nice looking doodad. You could always just screw the motor into the base via the tabs on it, with some thin, long, self tapping screws. You could just tighten them enough to hold the motor in place, without bending the tabs.
It's really cheap because Temu uses Uyghur forced labor to manufacture a lot of their items. "In June 2023, the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party stated that Temu does not maintain "even the façade of a meaningful compliance program" with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to keep goods made by forced labor off its platform." - Wikipedia article on Temu, retreived 14/9/2023 at 1849 UTC.
……😠 - Chineseum crap, I assumed that the “Chineseum crap factory’s” were dumping their garbage on Ailbaba and “Temu” was buying it from them. What infuriated me with Temu was when I visit the website I got lots of pop-ups trying to hoodwink me into suckering my friends to their smartphone app and play games to get/forcing discounts on me 😡
@@samuelfellows6923 even on ebay. I guess those slave factories located in Xinjiang are the reason why sometimes the chinese goods are shipped from Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan instead of Shanghai or Shenzen.
for those so inclined you could use something like a AT tiny 85 as controller. liberate the LEDs and anything else you may need, add an addition mosfet to allow PWM control of the motor. write the code and knock it all up on a piece of strip board or have PCB made. Hey presto you got yourself something a lot better. You could also change the LEDs out for WS2812 or similar. Also be careful with Temu, the parent company had another company that was found to be installing malware/viruses along side their app. IIRC temu is being investigated for the same thing as we speak. I don't know if the app has been suspended on various app stores as yet. Oh then there is the forced/child labour. But I think that most of just assume that was the case for cheap things coming from china.
Unfortunately broken items are not uncommon from TEMU. They have no care at all for packaging and protecting items. It's a known issue to such a degree that when leaving feedback, they often have a notice specifically for shipping//packaging issues...... Cheap they are, but you can't rely on things coming in one piece.
tbf, this particular one could have been avoided if they didn't cut manufacturing costs to the point there is no screws despite having the mounting holes around the motor.
Not disco enough. Is there a way of making the colours switch instantly instead of fade? That's the kind of adaptation I want to see. Ooooh! - "Big Clive's Disco Week" where every day for a week you take a different device and disco it up.
@@PeterEdin I can find item in temu at the same price at Amazon and ebay with similar or cheaper prices... Unless it's promoted by temu... Which is normal for starters tech company to lost money on promotion item.. They trading lost for customers... It's happen with Amazon, ebay, wework, Rivian, even early Tesla... The only difference is Temu is Chinese company.. Not to mention the actual platform you watching is profited by Temu ads.. Then you should not watch any video in TH-cam..... I hate China as much as you are but stop just blindly hate them for no reason and give a bloddy pass if it's our company..
Find your tear downs very entertaining. Is it possible to take the pen from the Lenovo tab pro11 apart? It looks impenetrable in it aluminium casing it would be a costly tare down though.
The flicker and visual flaws don't show in the video, at least on my phone . An obvious factory improvement not mentioned would be an ability to stop the motor from the remote .
Yes, I wish the LED strip light I got was just that little bit more expensive where they would remember your last setting. It's worth at least $2 more for what I'm guessing is $0.20 worth of extra components.
Sorry to say but I think that is your monitor. There are no dead pixels (Edit) I found it. It is glitching thought. So it is probably not really a dead sensor and rather a interference or video file problem.
Given TEMU's reputation, I'm surprised that you actually received what you ordered. The condition of it out of the package is not surprising. I think they collect the crap that even other Chinese sellers wouldn't deal with.
@@bobroberts2371 "Scraping the date" from your iPhone is probably not much of a problem. Generally don't use it for that purpose. 😉It's the personal data that I'd be worried about! 😱🙄
‒ It's not too good when the LED is switched off via remote, the motor just keeps running until the incoming power is switched off. ‒ If I see this right, the circuit bard can have 5 RGB LEDs, possibly in parallel, but just the middle one is populated. ‒ Probably if they screwed some standoffs into the wooden base, the gear mechanics have some "mounting ears" for mounting screws.
IMO the white ring that holds the motor is upside down as it has holes to screw the motor holder to the wood. Had it been like that then chances are it wouldn't of come loose in shipping
I hate these remotes to much. I have one for the main lamp in my room and the main setting got worn out to the point where that 'button' does not work anymore. And the one I have does not have any screws. They are press fit and glued or something so it's nearly impossible to get them apart and fix them which pisses me off so much since it's such a simple fix...
Soo, Temu is actually a shop, i always felt its only for data collection from AND scamming those people. At least the quality of ads and pricing made that impression. (If you "shop like a billionaire", you dont care about the price at all)
1960s Science Fiction movie effects! Love the effect and definitely worth a modification. Assume the motor is nice and silent running. Looking forward to seeing your modded version in a future video, maybe some golden candle flickering LEDs?
Hooking the leds to the mcu supply is probably deliberate to introduce varying clock speeds with varying voltages.. (If it was my mistake, that'd be my story, and I'd stick to it!!)
Can you add LEDs to the other pads without any further modification? Also, wouldn't it be better to have a diode across the motor to avoid reverse polarity??
Great effect these lights, I recently got my mother something very similar off Allie, the remote was a lot better and it had an RGB 5050 but also a separate Day White and Warm White LED, and you could pause the rotation, I'll leave a link on P.
Neat gizmo, with a nice lighting effect. Shame about the construction and circuit shortcomings, but obviously cost down programs were in effect to beat the competition. Will the motor and disk be integrated into a transparent woofler anytime soon? 8^)
The uC could be an ATMEL ATTiny25 or clone of one - looks like the same pinout anyway. Although saying that, they have EEPROM, so could store the last colour setting, so maybe not.
To keep the smoothness of such a gradually long transition, it will require some wide colour range provided by a higher bit count PWM or by driving more leds having different colours (eg. RGB+Yellow+Pink+Orange+Purple).
@@PainterVierax Interesting, I didn't consider the granularity of the transition, that would be more interesting, but just lengthening the time within the existing cycle would be a plus.
@@leearft8605 lengthening the time is possible with just a new program (and probably replacing the MCU on the existing board). But instead of being a perfectly stretched effect, the digital nature of the signal will provide some undesirable "aliasing" that could only be mitigated with some "pulsating" fast transitions after long periods of pause. That's the only eye-candy effect that can be added. Another solution is to go full analog using some 555 timers and mechanisms, with all the inconvenience that comes with. Nowadays it's not even cheaper.
Big Clive are you interested in a morphy richards toaster that throws the house circuit breaker but not the local rcd. I'm opting to give my dad an little used cheapo toaster in it's place.
Thanks for the offer, but I have very little space here for bulky items. I'd guess that there's a build up of carbon that has bridged to the metalwork or maybe the heater's insulation is breaking down.
I want to make this myself but have little knowledge of where to buy components and what specific ones I would need. Is there someone out there that could possible link me to what microcontroller and led is used in this design, as well as what size of capacitors that are used? Any help would really be amazing
it's an interesting device. The base looks like it was at least partially hand made as well. That make me worry a bit. In order to achieve that sale price, the workers would be getting a pretty raw deal, although that seems to pretty normal in China. At least Temu aren't shoving an enormous margin on the product, like the fruit based phone company.
I thought they only sold clothes... Do you need an account just to see their products? If I click on something it redirects me to a login page 🙄I'd rather take my chances with Taobao...
Nice tear down. I'm curious about what the 4 unpopulated 6 pins pads round the outside are for. Are they for more LEDs? Are they wired in parallel with the main LED. Do they have hacking potential? 😊
I had one similar to this, I used it to project blue on my bedroom wall and imagined it was sunlight reflecting from a swimthrough pool. it was relaxing. Then the gear went and it started making a whining grinding noise and I had to put it out of its misery.
Interesting little device. I liked seeing it inside too. After watching for example, the men in Pakistan building appliances by hand, I can almost visualize someone in their home, or possibly even a grass hut, assembling these little units. I always enjoy watching whatever you decide to take apart. Only BigClive provides a hand drawn schematic with colors. 😁
"It's basically a fifty-fifty package, but it's being run at high power."
Which means they are burning it out as fast as possible, I'd wager.
To vary the motor speed as well, leave the +ve motor connection as is.
Then add three diodes to the other motor terminal, and connect to the three FETs.
Result, motor speed varies and LEDs vary too!
Nice one clive 👍🏻🇬🇧😎
I think the effect would be even nicer with separate leds for each color. The greater distance between each color would make the colors separate and intertwine much more noticeable
Take some acid. . . . .
In my younger days I would have used something like this with something else to schmoke and get a soothing, relaxing psychedelic vibe going... these days I modify things such as this and watch the schmoke come out sometimes... less harmful to my health and still great fun!
Those patterns are what I see when I close my eyes in a dimly lit room. Excellent.
Temu ships each item as a separate shipment so that they can skirt import/export reporting rules
By keeping the value low it doesn’t trigger the reporting requirements.
I love arts & crafts with Uncle Clive. Coloring drawings is always fun. 😀😀
A few of these set up against a wall would probably give a nice effect. Set some to cyan, the others to turquoise, and it'll probably look convincingly like you're submerged in shallow waters. Although, I'm also imagining these in alternating warm white/golden white along a white wall to produce a "sun reflecting off the lake" vibe, which in my mind's eye sounds quite pretty.
The difference between cyan and turquoise being... ?
HMM, set them up in a single color and put some light blue paper back there and they might work for an aquarium.
I'm sure he meant to slip a magenta in there and not turquoise. 😉@@gcewing
You hear with your eyes? How does that work?
Nice effect, would be good in a child's bedroom at bedtime. Mind you, might be good for an adult bedroom too. Very simple, but as you said, it could be made even simpler by getting rid of a couple of lines of the circuitry. Interesting post, again. Thank you 👍
so close to 1 million subs..i rem when it was in the hundreds..congrats..
Yeah it's crept up.
All the horrific dark patterns Temu uses on their website makes me want to steer clear
And yet you happy to buy from Amazon and ebay 😂😂😂😂😂,
Nice to start off with, and can certainly be customized quite extensively.
Thanks for sharing Clive.
When you colored in the LEDs on the schematic, that's when I knew I had to give the video a thumbs up!
Isn't TEMU the app that collects all that data, and that all the outlets are warning of at the moment?
That will be the one, but then aren't they all the same and Amazon is far worse.
Yep, its also the one caught using slave labour. Don't buy from temu.
I don't use ecommerce apps on my phone. I have noticed a lot of media channels jumping on the Temu-hating bandwagon.
I've ordered like £100 of shite from Temu and it's great.
Do you honestly think that the American apps aren't also collecting your data? And probably starting the concerns about data harvesting because they can't compete in the free market they created
i would suggest that just the motor and the disc would produce a really good effect if light waves were to be shone ON it (minus the cube). Particularly UV, and other combinations directly. Really nice little unit in terms of 'optical texture' .
Very nice effect
"Mom, can we have Borg Cube?"
"We already have Borg Cube at home."
Borg Cube at home:
I wonder if you could put discreet LED at all of the unpopulated pads around the board, which would make more light splash out. You might be able to angle them, or cover them, and it would not go out the 'top' but just the sides, Leading to static patterns. They would all be PWM controlled the same, of course, but it might be nice to make a single unit that uses nothing but green/yellow LED for a truly radioactive cube. Or, maybe wire up some really greasy yellow/lemon ones for toxic waste.
Use 2 LEDs with different colors. One Amber and one Red for a nice fire effect for instance.
One point in Time I had cheap Showtec Phantom Moving Heads with crappy CMY color mixing, an effects wheel and an crystalizer gobo. In combination this produces the exact same effect. If you mixed an orange with the CMY system, it made a wide variety of colors between yellow and red which gave a very nice fire effect. Unfortunately these lights were not much use for anything else
I like the simplistic construction/design of the whole thing, myself. Temu is fun to browse through, especially for their tools and electronics. I've ordered a few things here and there just to test the quality and delivery speed and I'm mostly happy with it.
P.S. I miss hanging out and talking with you and the technical family!
The live streams are still a regular thing on BigCliveLive
The "Warp core effect" is pretty spot on, they basically used that effect for the Refit Enterprise (TMP & TWOK) and later re-used the effect for Voyager, instead of the stepping neon tubes running down the core as introduced in TNG, this gadget though is pretty cool, though I think I'd scrap the RGB controller and just use some fixed colour LEDs... :)
I was thinking the exact same thing. This is very much Star Trek used everywhere effect. (I like it)
clive, your pretty damn close to 1M, exciting stuff
The cap' across the main supply is well placed alright, motors are very noisy, a ceramic would help too. Can't read it's value though, as drawn. The I.R. Module should have it's own, as suggested. Nice simple layout otherwise, a tiny issue really.
Thank you for showing us this electronic treasure, very interesting, you provide some artistic concepts for multiple cool modifications.
Ah! my dear good Sir, not quite the same without the backing chorus of 'One Moment Please' An interesting little item, worth a look.
Interesting 'Borg' light. Also interesting that they are nearly double the price on AliExpress.. Ali has become quite expensive recently, perhaps Temu is attempting to eat their lunch...
For me, I'd ditch the existing board and replace with some pixel's driven by an ESP running WLED, then also run that motor via a MosFet to get remote speed control. Might buy a couple for experiments.. Nice one Clive...
Temu allegedly offsets their prices by selling on identifying and financial details. Allegedly.
@@GothBoyUKwhich is why they offer the best values to first time customers. It's worth it for them to get your data.
@@GothBoyUK I use PayPal on the site so they'll get very little of anything useful from me.
The reason Temu is cheaper is that they've cut distributors out of the supply chain, that's their entire business. On Aliexpress you're dealing with thousands of trading companies that buy products from thousands of manufacturers, which is why you'll always find multiple sellers selling the exact same products, just with a few cents of difference in their pricing. Somehow Temu managed to convince the actual manufacturers of those products to supply directly to consumers instead of just supplying wholesale to distros, which leads to a big reduction in the pricing on a lot of things.
The circuit redesign you proposed is so much better than the original... Pfffftttt Hot Glue. LOL
your super close to 1 million subs 😊
Nice LED's ! Very Artistic !!!
Very nice, Clive, personally I would love to see a laser in there too, but perhaps I’ve been spoiled by other similar devices. It’s pleasantly compact I must say.
Oh yeah a red laser version would be nice. I like the idea of this device but it seems to be poorly made. I'm sure those LEDs will die early.
temu is chinese for 'got ya sucker'
Nice looking doodad. You could always just screw the motor into the base via the tabs on it, with some thin, long, self tapping screws. You could just tighten them enough to hold the motor in place, without bending the tabs.
beautiful! would benefit from a modding, maybe a better led setup run with a microcontroller for custom patterns!
It looks like an ice cube, so a white or white/blue seems the best fit. Good luck.
It's really cheap because Temu uses Uyghur forced labor to manufacture a lot of their items.
"In June 2023, the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party stated that Temu does not maintain "even the façade of a meaningful compliance program" with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act to keep goods made by forced labor off its platform." - Wikipedia article on Temu, retreived 14/9/2023 at 1849 UTC.
I wasn't aware of that but their ads put me off to start with... We already have enough Chynease junk in the world without encouraging them even more!
……😠 - Chineseum crap, I assumed that the “Chineseum crap factory’s” were dumping their garbage on Ailbaba and “Temu” was buying it from them. What infuriated me with Temu was when I visit the website I got lots of pop-ups trying to hoodwink me into suckering my friends to their smartphone app and play games to get/forcing discounts on me 😡
I always get suspicious when any American says something starting with communists / china / "free market" Or unfair advantage
@@samuelfellows6923 even on ebay. I guess those slave factories located in Xinjiang are the reason why sometimes the chinese goods are shipped from Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan instead of Shanghai or Shenzen.
for those so inclined you could use something like a AT tiny 85 as controller. liberate the LEDs and anything else you may need, add an addition mosfet to allow PWM control of the motor. write the code and knock it all up on a piece of strip board or have PCB made. Hey presto you got yourself something a lot better. You could also change the LEDs out for WS2812 or similar.
Also be careful with Temu, the parent company had another company that was found to be installing malware/viruses along side their app. IIRC temu is being investigated for the same thing as we speak. I don't know if the app has been suspended on various app stores as yet.
Oh then there is the forced/child labour. But I think that most of just assume that was the case for cheap things coming from china.
Unfortunately broken items are not uncommon from TEMU. They have no care at all for packaging and protecting items. It's a known issue to such a degree that when leaving feedback, they often have a notice specifically for shipping//packaging issues...... Cheap they are, but you can't rely on things coming in one piece.
tbf, this particular one could have been avoided if they didn't cut manufacturing costs to the point there is no screws despite having the mounting holes around the motor.
Is that any different when you receive $1 product from Amazon or ebay?
Ah, Temu...the new Wish, aka whatever they dug up from the cobalt mines run by child slaves.
Not disco enough. Is there a way of making the colours switch instantly instead of fade? That's the kind of adaptation I want to see. Ooooh! - "Big Clive's Disco Week" where every day for a week you take a different device and disco it up.
Mmm I've always been suspicious of Temu, how can items be so cheap, unless it's cheap quality.
They have a reputation for not always sending what was ordered, plus they resell your information. So I've heard.
I'll give TEMU a miss. I'd rather be trapped with a fart in a spacesuit than buy from there 😆
You expecting to get $50 products by paying $5?
@@anubizz3 You totally missed the point.
@@PeterEdin I can find item in temu at the same price at Amazon and ebay with similar or cheaper prices... Unless it's promoted by temu... Which is normal for starters tech company to lost money on promotion item.. They trading lost for customers... It's happen with Amazon, ebay, wework, Rivian, even early Tesla... The only difference is Temu is Chinese company.. Not to mention the actual platform you watching is profited by Temu ads.. Then you should not watch any video in TH-cam.....
I hate China as much as you are but stop just blindly hate them for no reason and give a bloddy pass if it's our company..
Find your tear downs very entertaining. Is it possible to take the pen from the Lenovo tab pro11 apart? It looks impenetrable in it aluminium casing it would be a costly tare down though.
The flicker and visual flaws don't show in the video, at least on my phone . An obvious factory improvement not mentioned would be an ability to stop the motor from the remote .
Yes, I wish the LED strip light I got was just that little bit more expensive where they would remember your last setting. It's worth at least $2 more for what I'm guessing is $0.20 worth of extra components.
Interesting looks cheaply made but still good to see what is inside 👍
9:00 new opening sequence for future BigClive videos!
Your camera has a dead green pixel in the middle of the screen. It made me wipe my monitor before I realized it. 🙂
I haven't spotted that.
🧐 ~ I have looked and I can’t see it, watching it on my iPhone
Sorry to say but I think that is your monitor.
There are no dead pixels
(Edit)
I found it. It is glitching thought.
So it is probably not really a dead sensor and rather a interference or video file problem.
@@samuelfellows6923 It is really hard to see on a phone. I still see it around 09:03-09:08 and later on pure green.
@@NikolayIslentevI can barely see it, it's in the middle of the screen
Given TEMU's reputation, I'm surprised that you actually received what you ordered. The condition of it out of the package is not surprising. I think they collect the crap that even other Chinese sellers wouldn't deal with.
One man's trash is TEMU's treasure.
TEMU uses the deals in order to collect personal data and scrape date from your phone / computer.
@@bobroberts2371 "Scraping the date" from your iPhone is probably not much of a problem. Generally don't use it for that purpose. 😉It's the personal data that I'd be worried about! 😱🙄
Any different when you receive cheap product from Amazon and ebay? You spend $5 and expect $500 service?
they might have used the base to hold the sides as a jig while they glued them. Then glued the top on at the end.
‒ It's not too good when the LED is switched off via remote, the motor just keeps running until the incoming power is switched off.
‒ If I see this right, the circuit bard can have 5 RGB LEDs, possibly in parallel, but just the middle one is populated.
‒ Probably if they screwed some standoffs into the wooden base, the gear mechanics have some "mounting ears" for mounting screws.
yep they really cheap out that design.
I would bet, that the order of the LEDs isn't RGB, but rather BGR, considering the resistor values.
Repurposed board too. It had 4 six pin empty chip slots on it. Or were they for more RGB LEDs?? I wonder 🤔
All the LED positions are in parallel.
IMO the white ring that holds the motor is upside down as it has holes to screw the motor holder to the wood. Had it been like that then chances are it wouldn't of come loose in shipping
I'd suggest resin printing your own cover as a 3D sphere. That might be interesting.
I'm not sure how optically good resin 3D printing is.
Temu can jog on for infection of my advertisements 😂😂😂
That would be great to put in the toilet room for when you have guests over. Don’t know why I thought that. Lol
Ideal for an atmospheric bath.
Clive, couldn't you use a few dabs of UV Resin to stick the motor in place?
It'll bond with pretty much anything.
I did glue it in with UV cured resin.
Will temu end up being wish 2.0? We'll just have to wait. 🤔
I hate these remotes to much. I have one for the main lamp in my room and the main setting got worn out to the point where that 'button' does not work anymore. And the one I have does not have any screws. They are press fit and glued or something so it's nearly impossible to get them apart and fix them which pisses me off so much since it's such a simple fix...
pretty good for something made with child labor
I doubt it is made by child labour. I think that's just spiteful propaganda put out by Karens and rivals.
Soo, Temu is actually a shop, i always felt its only for data collection from AND scamming those people.
At least the quality of ads and pricing made that impression.
(If you "shop like a billionaire", you dont care about the price at all)
Ya know I might just use that for my band
1960s Science Fiction movie effects! Love the effect and definitely worth a modification. Assume the motor is nice and silent running. Looking forward to seeing your modded version in a future video, maybe some golden candle flickering LEDs?
It is very quiet.
Nice hack idea
Hooking the leds to the mcu supply is probably deliberate to introduce varying clock speeds with varying voltages.. (If it was my mistake, that'd be my story, and I'd stick to it!!)
Can you add LEDs to the other pads without any further modification?
Also, wouldn't it be better to have a diode across the motor to avoid reverse polarity??
Yes. But it would be better to change all the LEDs so they matched.
Colouring with Clive. Could be a new series of videos for you.
That thing is....Way Cool Junior !!!!!!!!
( it's a RATT song, I know, I know....)
Still way cool !
Great effect these lights, I recently got my mother something very similar off Allie, the remote was a lot better and it had an RGB 5050 but also a separate Day White and Warm White LED, and you could pause the rotation, I'll leave a link on P.
a of color changing leds, no microcontroller is good as well...just no remote control
Temu.. What happened when ebay and wish had a baby and the baby came out head first onto the floor.
Interesting that this vid was preceded by an ad for the app that should not be named (but is UMET in reverse)...?
...it was followed by another UMET ad too - surely just a coincidence!
Neat gizmo, with a nice lighting effect. Shame about the construction and circuit shortcomings, but obviously cost down programs were in effect to beat the competition. Will the motor and disk be integrated into a transparent woofler anytime soon? 8^)
The uC could be an ATMEL ATTiny25 or clone of one - looks like the same pinout anyway. Although saying that, they have EEPROM, so could store the last colour setting, so maybe not.
probably some chopped up clone. Yeah an EEPROM could have avoided the annoying rainbow carrousel occurring during each reset.
Often a padauk clone of the atmel or microchip micros
Going to get that Temu stick arc welder, in the cordless drill-like package, and take *_that_* to bits? 😏😈
I was looking at that recently. I think Mike of mikeselectricstuff took one apart.
I'd like to buy one of these, but not from TEMU... anybody have a link to a better source for one of these??
Begging for a WLED upgrade...
What these changing light effects need is to be able change the cycle time, like take up to 24 hours to cycle, not seconds
To keep the smoothness of such a gradually long transition, it will require some wide colour range provided by a higher bit count PWM or by driving more leds having different colours (eg. RGB+Yellow+Pink+Orange+Purple).
@@PainterVierax Interesting, I didn't consider the granularity of the transition, that would be more interesting, but just lengthening the time within the existing cycle would be a plus.
@@leearft8605 lengthening the time is possible with just a new program (and probably replacing the MCU on the existing board). But instead of being a perfectly stretched effect, the digital nature of the signal will provide some undesirable "aliasing" that could only be mitigated with some "pulsating" fast transitions after long periods of pause. That's the only eye-candy effect that can be added.
Another solution is to go full analog using some 555 timers and mechanisms, with all the inconvenience that comes with. Nowadays it's not even cheaper.
TEMU has them "EMS" foot massager thingies. What is inside them to create high voltage?
Usually a pulsed inductor.
I'd suggest using a burner phone for all TEMU ordering, but the UK does a lot of things to prevent you from having one.
You must have 1 burner phone for Amazon, ebay, any apps from Facebook and Google also...
Big Clive are you interested in a morphy richards toaster that throws the house circuit breaker but not the local rcd. I'm opting to give my dad an little used cheapo toaster in it's place.
Thanks for the offer, but I have very little space here for bulky items. I'd guess that there's a build up of carbon that has bridged to the metalwork or maybe the heater's insulation is breaking down.
@@bigclivedotcom ok disassembly and plastic burning experiments to ensure. Just shortly after the cotton wool and super glue experiment.
One led, tight bastards😂 I'm amazed they didn't just use a slow fade led and cut costs even further - I see what you mean by borg cube!
TEMU crap is appearing all over TH-cam. Gotta give their advertising team kudos.
I want to make this myself but have little knowledge of where to buy components and what specific ones I would need. Is there someone out there that could possible link me to what microcontroller and led is used in this design, as well as what size of capacitors that are used? Any help would really be amazing
The microcontrollers are supplied blank and need manufacturer's software put into them. It may be cheaper to buy a unit as a base project.
I hope you didn't use the app to buy it... 😲
No. I try to use the minimum of apps.
it's an interesting device. The base looks like it was at least partially hand made as well. That make me worry a bit. In order to achieve that sale price, the workers would be getting a pretty raw deal, although that seems to pretty normal in China. At least Temu aren't shoving an enormous margin on the product, like the fruit based phone company.
I'm pretty sure I saw that cube in the original Star Trek of the 60's ... and even on their computer display control🤔
I might order one of those. I've bought a couple things from Temu before. Not real impressed with one of the things I bought though.
I thought they only sold clothes... Do you need an account just to see their products? If I click on something it redirects me to a login page 🙄I'd rather take my chances with Taobao...
I didn't need to sign up to see things like Wish tried to do. (I never used Wish as a result.)
Nice tear down. I'm curious about what the 4 unpopulated 6 pins pads round the outside are for. Are they for more LEDs? Are they wired in parallel with the main LED. Do they have hacking potential? 😊
I completely forgot to mention that in the video. They're all in parallel with the other LED.
Hope you use a loadable credit card rather than your own real CC for Temu. They sell user data including CC numbers.
I use PayPal for an extra layer of protection. I'm suspicious about some of the claims being made against Temu.
Got to love a design that automatically sacrifices itself to make it easier for you to dissect it.
You may want to keep an eye on your cards. there are rumours that Temu is selling card details.
That's why I don't give them my card details. It's also worth mentioning that some of those rumours may have been spread by bitter rivals.
Is there a part # for that motor? I was looking around for a low voltage, slow spinner, but so many choices - looks like they picked a good one.
The motor itself is extremely common, but the slow gearboxes are harder to get.
@@bigclivedotcom Ah! I found one from an old microwave oven (the carousel motor with a gear)!
@@davestorm6718 Those are usually synchronous motors. Very cheap and common, but will often turn in a random direction when powered up.
I had one similar to this, I used it to project blue on my bedroom wall and imagined it was sunlight reflecting from a swimthrough pool. it was relaxing. Then the gear went and it started making a whining grinding noise and I had to put it out of its misery.
Repairing the infinity stone
Gelatinous cube 🧊
Interesting little device. I liked seeing it inside too. After watching for example, the men in Pakistan building appliances by hand, I can almost visualize someone in their home, or possibly even a grass hut, assembling these little units. I always enjoy watching whatever you decide to take apart. Only BigClive provides a hand drawn schematic with colors. 😁
in a crumbling "tofu concrete" ghost city apartment tower, maybe...
@@idjtoal yes exactly. You must have watched some of those video too. 😁
Could other LEDS be added to the missing led spots?
Yes, but they are in parallel so they would have to be from the same batch.
Fun for an hour then.... landfill.
Oh I love your accent