toxanbi in soviet Russia, Quality control passes you!

Someone always knows, thanks!

Hi. I was just writing the same details, while I seen your answer. Is great when somebody still can read the old school soviet devices. Cheers!

@@EEVblog 7:17 also looks like a quartz crystal. The stone looks like a handmade quartz piece.

yay, i was thinking i'd have to offer to pay someone to come up with an index.

Is that light sensor the same technology as the ldr photo resistors It looks like a giant ldr

tesla still exist, nowadays tesla produce transmitter and transmitter parts like hige power tubes www.tesla.cz/en/domu/

They were best in the eastern block

*Dekatron

Fun counting tubes. Old school way to keep track of pulses. The Geiger counter would have been something to see. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dekatron

I was thinking it was a hollow cathode lamp for atomic absorption spectrometery. it seems this large tubular layout might have multiple uses

Electra Flarefire I could see if i can get a video of the geiger counter, if it still exists. I still have contact to that school, so ill see what i can do..

+lbochtler .

Krivulda Tesla went into oblivion after privatizing because their products weren't competitive. There wasn't some evil conspiracy, it was just that almost the entire Eastern Block industry was years behind the Western industry. The 8088 computer you are mentioning was also just a clone of an old Intel 16-bit design from the late 70ies/early 80ies. If they had been innovative as you claim, they wouldn't have copied Western designs, they would have created their own designs. Tesla was popular, particularly as a component manufacturer in the Eastern Block because there was virtually no competition. Each communist country had their own state-owned company for electronics, in East Germany it was "RFT". All of them went out of business, were split up or bought by Western companies. I understand your personal sentiments, I assume you are from the CSSR. However, your personal memories to tech from your childhood distort reality in the end. West Germany, the USA and Japan were so much more advanced when it came to electronics in the 70ies and 80ies that the designs from the Eastern Block countries would have stood no chance against them in a free market. I mean, there was a reason most people behind the Iron Curtain yearned for products from companies like Sony, Sharp and Philips. Those were just lightyears ahead.

genkiadrian Yeah, I know they were ahead, but I explained it earlier. It was the matter of RVHP (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) who made us NOT improving our techs. It is also the reason, why automobile company Fiat is still existing and why Skoda is so unknown. Also. the Iron Curtain was really big thing there. It meant ANYTHING from outer countries could be sold there, so our engineers had only rumours about tech in the world and they had to make everything on themselves. And it felt into oblivion because after the fall of Iron Curtain and Berlinian Wall there were companies named Phillips (Netherlands) and Grundig (Germany) and they had the connection with outer countries before, so they quickly gained.

Ex-Tesla spinoffs still do exist and produce components, mostly passives or electromechanicals (ES Ostrava, Tesla Blatná, Tesla Jihlava to name few), or bulid upon technology developed during socialistic years - for example we produce worldwide supply of ONsemi concern silicon wafers/monocrystals in ex-Tesla Rožnov technological plant wich was sold off . Some of the other backend companies for semiconductor manufacturing still do exist in Rožnov as private entities as well - ultapure chemicals manufacturing and special galvanic treatments (Bárta a Cihlář s.r.o.). Precision manufacturing division of Tesla Brno is also reason why we are currenly producing over 45% of worldwide production of electron microscopes in Brno (IIRC Tescan is a company estabilished by ex-research staff from Tesla, while FEI moved in for cheap & competent workforce). I know there is some other precision machining company estabilished by ex-Tesla research staff making aerospace parts, but I forgot the name of.

Tesla components were top quality at reasonable price at that time, but tesla products were made with 2 years delay. This was the reason why tesla was not competitive.

guess who is listening this on ARF-310's :3 Tesla made so wide range of electronics in such quality...so sad we were in Soviet block, it could have worked since today in all its glory. I am still using a lot of stuff from Tesla ... due it can still be widely found around here in Slovakia.

And others complain that's too many...

I don't get them really. How about a poll of some sort to check opinion?

EEVblog , Then it's not "everyone's favorite segment". It is mine! :)

Same

Just to think that mine is someone's favorite segment on the Cody's Lab channel. (Cody's Mine, wherein he explores a mine on his family's property.)

Its for manufacturing costs man.

they could just have sold the wifi stepper module without motor, for more flexibility. just get your own stepper. also the production costs would go down drastically

I know, but they don't manufacture neither the stepper nor the esp8266. From what I can see the only thing needing manufacturing is the cover and perhaps a simple circuit board to hold the esp8266 and a motor driver.

It seems like a mostly pointless product to me. A motor you can control remotely?

BenjaminGoose Could be cool for remotely adjusting things like where the vent of an air conditioner is pointing.

Hugin = Generic brand owned by Swedish Coop. Kooperativa Förbundet, was the old name. Really old stuff (pre KF) like this calculator might have been made by a Swedish manufacturer, like Facit or Luxor, but more likely it was made in Hong Kong or some place like that.

4:52 lol

Dave turned on the wah-wah effect

That was nothing compared to the "I love the nipple" moment LOL

It's NOT connected to the internet. The motor provides it's own wifi network that you connect your phone or computer to as a client. The only.one who could hack into the motor is someone who is wardriving/walking.

I usually recommend anyone who are into any kind of wired or wireless home automation/iot stuff to just use SSID's+VLAN's separated from networks where there are actual people accessing it.. In most cases only one management/user interface service needs to be accessible from the "outside" of the automation network with the option for a VPN for service/development work.

***** you can link it into your home network, as I imagine a lot of people would, with a network connection of any kind it wouldn't take long for someone who REALLY wants into it, to get into it.

It's impossible to protect against incompetence anyways when it comes to non professional tinkering with putting things together instead of buying a fully integrated system where there are any kind of security/safety aspects involved.

If you have to be on the local net work to use it whats the issue? I wouldn't use them for mission critical stuff though.

Who doesnt love nipples? I mean really!

I'm pretty sure that it is a dekatron

Yep, would simplify design *and* manufacturing so much not having to waste half the board space on decoupling and downright hostile pinouts (such as demanding pet power pin caps, then putting each VDD pin in the middle of a 0.4mm spaced bus, with the only VSS pin being the EP.

Is that the equivalent of the 4pm Friday production run?

yeah, but every day :D

French workers are more productive than any other though. Just look at the numbers. And that wine joke is just... unrelated to reality.

i hear a lot about about french cars and electrics, and spending a lot of time around french cars i can tell you some storys, but there all fixable and preventable you just need to understand autoelectrics. there biggest issue is the crapola ignition switch and underrated cable / switch contacts. as to the real electronics, its bought from bosch, so its no different than any other eurobox as they all buy in from bosch

French workers have to be productive. Otherwise, French companies would go under since their employees only work about 10 hours per week. :P

douro20 can you name a modern aircraft model that still uses minitrons? 🤔

Can't say off the top of my head; all I know is they produce them for the purpose of repair/overhaul.

douro20 i last recall them on the md11s before the conversions

douro20 i last recall them on the md11s before the conversions

Actually I can think of a few good IoT applications such as controlling blinds, curtains, etc

Maybe a complete setup, which can be done with a DEV board, not just the motor.

Salvatore Shiggerino More wifi = more DoS clients

Gotta have some extra power for all that DDOSing capabilities of course!

I expected it to be a Mechaduino when he pulled it out.

I have few of these in a draw somewhere.They look so good with that gold plating and ceramic package.

Indeed. Looks like a Vidicon tube or similar.

+Brian McConkey Expertly trolled, sir! **salute**

Joe Connor That would be ideal.

I haven't, but that sounds hilarious.