What's going on you guys it is the talking Sasquatch and today we're gonna be taking a look at a really really cool gadget Now is most of you know I actually recently partnered with PCB way and I've been looking through their website Checking out all the cool products and services they have and I realized that they actually had part of the store that I never even New existed now under a very unsuspecting tab called module store that opens up an entire new store full of Products tools all sorts of great stuff. That's where I stumbled upon the RGB glow tube DIY clock It's super cool and for $49.99 plus shipping. It's absolutely a no-brainer So I had them sent one over and I'm gonna be doing an unboxing and review of this thing. It's so cool I can't wait all right, so that's enough of an introduction. Let's get right into it All right, so it came in it's got its outer packaging right here and yeah, pretty cool I have no idea what that says, but let's throw one at the top down camera and I practice thing open All right, so here we go. Let's open it up Whoops One side Okay, whoops, I want to break my raspberry pie for my Arduino Ah, here we go Brilliant. All right, so let's pop this guy open Yeah There we go. Got some Heat descriptions this kind of I guess goes through the workflow of it. It's got a couple languages usual stuff and Ooh here we are Awesome turn it around Smash into all the stuff on my desk. Look at this. All right. Let's see if we can't get a little bit better look at that Now we have right here. We know what that is. That is an ESP32 room Pretty cool chip right there and that powers the whole clock All of these are where the individual IPS screens plug in then we have Mode and some arrow keys and a power button on the side here. We have USB C which is C stands for USB King It's the best USB of all time So that's really really cool and then we have our globes up here So let's start pulling stuff out of here and we can start assembling So let's see if we can scooch this down a little bit place this right here And then you can pull this out these are our globes. So let's put these right over here And now let's get underneath this and see what else is down here. Okay, cool. So we have a USB charging brick with you here Allen wrench if you want to take the whole thing apart Over there a actually really nice USB C cable 90 degree bend. It's braided. It's actually a really really nice cable Kind of impressed by that and then these must be all of the screens So these are going to get plugged in. So let's take those out. I think that's the rest of the box really nice box Honestly, but and here the rest of these All right, so now we've got a little bit of a different angle so we can see what's going on a little easier But let's start plugging our screens in. It's pretty simple. They just plug straight in Oh Of course the ever so satisfying screen pulse pull the films off. Oh no, there we go Done and all we got to do is pop the globes on super easy nothing particularly hard about any of this process They did such a nice job engineering and building this whole thing. I'm amazed it's 50 bucks It's fantastic you can buy these on Amazon by the way for like 190 So it's an absolute steel there. We go. Let's get it plugged in. We take a look. All right. We got our USB cable right there and Give it a little plug in over here. Whoops. I missed Boom here we are Uh, it's so cool RGB in the background. Um, let me fiddle around with like camera settings real quick See if I can get you a better visual Quick little fiddling with exposure now. We can kind of see what's going on It's super cool. You've got the IPS displays looking like nixie tubes Really cool. We can go into the options here and I've already just set the time on it But you can actually change the style right on the uh, clock itself So boom boom boom those come free installed so that's pretty cool. Check out the other one while we're in here the punk style Yeah, that one's pretty fun. I like the original. That's okay And then you can also change the RGB mode So right now you turn it on or off you can change how bright it is You can also change the settings you can set every single bulb the same you can actually set the single um Each tubes RGB you can make it a rainbow mode, which is what it's doing right now chasing is actually my favorite So it kind of goes through all of them Uh, a breathing mode where you know, it does breathing. I'll show you that one Oops, it's doing it. So it just kind of breeds colors on and off But my favorite is chasing mode and speed you can change the speed how fast it rotates Whoops, let's go back to speed That's pretty cool. We'll leave it there You go back obviously you can set how bright everything is Gonna leave it at 100 because max brightness is where I'm at 100 percent But yeah, it's really really cool. I love this thing I'm gonna show you actually how on using the PC you can customize even further from here So let's hop up there So if we look right here on the product page and scroll down Right at the bottom here it shows all the different styles and stuff that are available And you can even change backgrounds and then add the keys over the top of the numbers over the top Which is really cool it gives you the software path so you can just go ahead and download it here And we will unzip that right now. So here is our file We're gonna unzip extract all extract And we're done Close the original zip file and one thing that I did realize when I was working with this the first time Is that you actually have to get rid of the the um the Chinese characters at the end If you don't it has some problems with the way the driver installation goes So you let's go to install the driver Click yes, and that will go no problems just click install and Yeah, if you hadn't renamed the folder it fails right now because windows gets mad about it drivers install successful we can close that now that we have the driver install we can just load up this fun little program We're gonna run it anyway. We do this all the time we're professionals So this lets you install any of these custom images right here you can go through all of these So it's pretty cool. Just click refresh to see the clock right there And then we're gonna upload image from here. Well, I made something a little bit special I figured out that if you just place some custom images into the image file and then just close to compile custom picture And then when that's done go to upload it'll upload the files that are in your custom folder So we'll give this a second to finish and we'll see what happens Mark that landmine soldier We'll be right back Done Okay, here we are. I've got some custom Images so all we have to do is go to set style and now we can see a new option over here and DIY Oh heck yeah, here we go. Let's see if we can set our exposure down a little further Get an idea what this looks like, but yeah, yeah, there we go that's sick Yeah, we got our own little talking sask watch font on there super cool You can set this up to do whatever you want. It's just a font that I made But I think it looks super cool and yeah, we got the rgb in the background You can't tell them really well with the uh my lighting, but yeah, this thing is so cool All right, and that's the diy IPS nixie clock this thing is so cool. I absolutely love it The rgb in the back you can see it better from this so it actually does have a really cool ambient I mean, it's really really cool. I love this thing Thank you so much to PCBway check them out down below. They've got all sorts of cool stuff I really appreciate you sending me this out to look at I've got a lot more cool projects to do which they're gonna use some of their other services So look forward to those in the future Thanks a lot for watching and we're gonna catch you next time You