Dave Jones "speak and spell" quote generator mod. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / projects

author: george graves
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 03:13:44 am
content: Ben said this week(16 mins in:) that he is going to turn a speak and spell into a Dave Jones soundboard. Lol. This should be funny.Next week on "The Ben Heck Show"https://www.youtube.com/user/thebenheckshow

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 03:34:58 am
content: Can you get a discount from Element 14 for the use of the voice likeness?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 03:42:50 am
content: Quote from: calexanian on May 12, 2014, 03:34:58 amMaybe, if I wasn't on a US government watch list

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 04:41:08 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2014, 03:42:50 amI got a call from the FBI the other day. Asking me about my "electronics purchases" using a credit card not under my name (my dad's) and said that the items purchased looked suspicious. Told the guy that I was a high schooler who liked the hobby and asked him if he would like to come over for coffee and a quick snack. Politely declined and the problem was solved.

author: PedroDaGr8
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 04:59:11 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 12, 2014, 04:41:08 amOK that's really scary! This is Big Brother to a T. What a crap world we live in these days.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 04:59:22 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 12, 2014, 04:41:08 amWTF!?What parts were these?

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 05:00:38 am
content: Quote from: PedroDaGr8 on May 12, 2014, 04:59:11 am10,000lbs of fertiliser to a home address I can understand. Electronics parts?, no way. No one does crazy like the Yanks

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 05:00:53 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 12, 2014, 04:41:08 amIs your dad was born in China or travels a lot to China ?

author: leppie
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 05:07:41 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2014, 05:00:38 amHad to apply for an export certificate when I bought a STM32F429 Discovery board from my local RS.The relevant code for it implied the device fell under the "ANTI-TERRORISM" category. From the BS I read, any microcontroller running faster than 25MHz falls in that category tooI also had to disclaim I would not use it to control any rockets or something like that...

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 05:20:01 am
content: Quote from: leppie on May 12, 2014, 05:07:41 amand in a country that GAVE UP it's nuclear weapons. Oh the Yankee irony

author: leppie
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 05:32:58 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2014, 05:20:01 amThis was actually an EU export certificate

author: Erwin Ried
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 05:37:20 am
content: It is like the bs when buying from digikey"I agree that I will not use any of these items to make bombs, etc"

author: scientist
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 05:55:11 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 12, 2014, 04:41:08 amGuys, you better call the EPA because my bullshit detector just exploded. I don't think I've seen a reading like this since Kanye West insisted he had a brain.

author: Skimask
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 06:10:58 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 12, 2014, 04:41:08 amBetter call them back and verify the story.Here's the number:Dial: 1-900-PSH-RINKIf you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly.If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2.If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5 and 6.If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on the line so we can trace the call.If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will tell you which number to press.If you are manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you press. No one will answer.If you are delusional and occasionally hallucinate, please be aware that the thing you are holding on the side of your head is alive and about to bite off your ear.

author: george graves
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 08:25:29 am
content: This "conspiracy theory" forum has an electronics problem.How you guys can turn a topic about a "speak and spell" mod into some FBI conspiracy theory is beyond me.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 08:47:59 am
content: Quote from: george graves on May 12, 2014, 08:25:29 amBecause it really happened to Dave on an order from element 14 (i believe), that's why he replied about the watchlist (by having a very common name) and that's why the topic diverted.But it's ok, everything is fine and the government has the best interest in your well being.The way government agencies work is no different than companies. You ask for money for your fiscal year for the projects you run. So in order to keep the money flowing you just have to make sure you have enough things to do.I have friends that had a farm inherited from their father that moved back to Europe. They didn't want anything to do with the farm so they sold the equipment to someone in Mexico. Because their neighbor was on watch from the DEA, they decided this family was part of some drug trafficking, confiscated all their cash, and prosecuted them. I was summoned to the grand jury and they didn't let me testify. Funny thing is that the DEA showed up on my house to tell me how I don't really know my friends. Other friends of mine were shown pictures of me picking my friend from an airfield (because he had a private pilot license. The pictures as I've been told were very high telephoto type of pictures, I had a steady job and my expenditure matched my income so it didn't spread to me.Reason being, well the DEA has to spend the money on cases in order to get the same amount or more the following year, so they really don't care about following false leads as long as they can justify their efforts.This was way back before 9/11, so just imagine how bad it can be now.Conspiracy, nah, just making payroll no matter what!

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 11:28:59 am
content: Fisher-Price See 'n Say :Texas Instruments Speak and Spell:

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 11:34:37 am
content: Quote from: george graves on May 12, 2014, 08:25:29 amPerhaps you missed this:http://www.eevblog.com/2014/02/24/element-14-holding-orders-based-on-us-government-watch-list/

author: joseph.anand
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 12:25:32 pm
content: I had similar issues with Element14 India. I found that if I ordered some microcontroller from Microchip on Element14 or placed an order for Beaglebone I had to sign up some End User Usage (EUU) form. Then I decided to buy them directly from Microchip instead. In the case of Beaglebone, I did it the first time, yet was informed that they cannot supply to India because of restrictions in the US. I called their bluff here and contacted CircuitCo directly. They (Bob Smith @ Circuitco) said there was not such restriction and asked me instead to try to purchase from their local distributor in India. So I sent this email to Element14. And after raising the issue with the higher ups, finally got it. When I ordered the Beaglebone black, a year later I had to face this issue again. So I just asked them how they were fine with selling the Raspberry Pi without an EUU but have issues with selling the Beaglebone black. I also told them that if they could not supply it, I will buy it from the local distributor at a lower price. They said they would revert to me. The only revert I got was the Beaglebone black delivered to me without an EUU.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 03:07:55 pm
content: Quote from: BravoV on May 12, 2014, 05:00:53 amYes, my mother recently just went (came back yesterday). They were mainly concerned with the fact that I ordered with a different name on the card, other than the shipping name. And yes, it was very, very scary. Here is an attachment of some of my two most recent orders. I think that they were most concerned with the name on the card differing from the shipping name.

author: gregallenwarner
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 03:09:43 pm
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2014, 05:00:38 amYep, Dave, I agree, us Yanks are the craziest of the bunch! It seems that our default philosophy is, if it even remotelycouldbe used to build a weapon, automatically assume everybody buying itisbuilding a weapon, and treat them like a terrorist. My point is proved by the amount of news time given to talking about 3D printing possibly being able to produce gun parts. The amount of air time thatshouldbe given to 3D printing possibly being able to produce gun parts: zero. Because it's a ridiculous notion. All it's doing is inciting panic among the uneducated and uninformed that everybody who buys a 3D printer is gonna be printing out guns and running amok on the streets.

author: Towger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 03:14:56 pm
content: Quote from: gregallenwarnerYet, you sell guns in the local Walmart!

author: tszaboo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 03:25:41 pm
content: Quote from: leppie on May 12, 2014, 05:07:41 amI was designing with a MOSFET driver. Design released, let's order the component for the prototype.Well I coulnt order the MOSFET driver, because Digikey decided that cannot be exported due to whatever military/terrorism bullshit. The same MOSFET driver with TTL inputs (not CMOS) was order-able. I guess they make bombs with CMOS logic or something. The USA refused to send trivial components to an other NATO country, how fucked up is that?

author: BravoV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 04:10:42 pm
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 12, 2014, 03:07:55 pmPretty sure now your family with all the members are now tagged somewhere in FBI, Homeland Security, NSA and CIA databases.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 07:09:57 pm
content: Quote from: BravoV on May 12, 2014, 04:10:42 pmlet's just hope I'm not on the no fly list. I enjoy my vacations.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 07:13:27 pm
content: Did your father buy an alarm clock recently?..............

author: old gregg
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 10:09:12 pm
content: If you can build a bomb with only opto-isolator, few caps and some logic ICs you should contact NASA for a job interview !Do they realise that sometimes it goes beyond ridiculous ? Who'd say on that paper "yes, I wil build bombs to blow your mom to the moon?" , really....In Europe our governement did and still does some crazy stupid and useless things but this FBI thing is really enjoyable

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 12, 2014, 10:12:41 pm
content: FYI, Element 14 have offered to give this away to one of the EEVblog viewers.

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 01:15:52 am
content: Quote from: old gregg on May 12, 2014, 10:09:12 pmDon't forget the lithium battery. Those things are downright dangerous.

author: Bored@Work
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 05:33:04 am
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 13, 2014, 01:15:52 amActually, they are, and the airlines got worried. It is up for debate if they are as dangerous as the airlines think. But just check youtube if you want to see how violent they burn, once you manage to ignite them.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 07:36:34 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on May 12, 2014, 10:12:41 pmWould love to have it, but the wife will go crazy.Quote

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 02:15:09 pm
content: Quote from: Bored@Work on May 13, 2014, 05:33:04 amI have seen that, and a aware of the dangers of shipping them (UPS Flight 6), however, it is quite ironic that one BR2/3A Li-Ion would causethatmuch havoc. Sure, it could burn something down, but, used as a weapon of terror?

author: guipoletto
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 02:39:03 pm
content: You know, you can ship a pair of grenades "Par Avion", but a CR2032?? nono, those are too kaboomy.As for making a gun out of capacitors.. Well, one could work something out with 1ufx50v electrolytics, a clicky switch, and a mains cord.Anyway, Cubesats have been using 18650's for quite a while now, those are shipped wether as secondary load in multibillion LEO launches, or trough the SOYUZ-ISS route. And you can't airship bloody cr2032's.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 03:04:04 pm
content: Quote from: echen1024 on May 13, 2014, 02:15:09 pmSafety doesn't always imply terrorism.But I guess that's how they want us to associated with. "You are not safe, we'll violate your constitutional rights to keep you safe!"

author: scientist
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 13, 2014, 03:18:24 pm
content: Quote from: guipoletto on May 13, 2014, 02:39:03 pm18650s are on a different safety scale than flat packs/CR2032s. You can basically hack an 18650 to pieces and it won't even complain; it's got a .75mm steel shell around the actual battery part. The 18650 is regarded as the gold standard in battery safety, seriously. Why else would 80% of all laptops (Macs notwithstanding) use them as batteries?Here are some videos of 18650 abuse.Overvoltage:youtube.com/watch?v=a8ckyzlVjcwPhysical abuse:youtube.com/watch?v=uoFRrmhXoVwLiPo abuse for comparison:Overvoltage:youtube.com/watch?v=SMy2_qNO2Y0Physical abuse:youtube.com/watch?v=2BGtUxR_2xEI attached a chart of tests Sony did on their 18650s.Disclosure: I don't work for a battery company.