The complete set of video intros for the Fursuit Gameshow at Eurofurence 19 in Magdeburg, August 2013. Note that there is a short gap between them. These videos were played on the video walls as a show intro, game intros and credits sequence for our live stage event. I strung them together to make a single video file rather than uploading and spamming my YT account with 14 individual files. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GSFqRm6b0c

Well, this is it... after weeks of planning, scripting, prop building and procurement, an entire day of shooting, days of editing and post production, it is finally finished. We might do more of these, which is why it's called "Episode 1" here, but as of yet there are no concrete plans for any other eps other than some very basic ideas. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LL7LhsxmdtQ

I blame @CuriousMarc for getting me hooked on this particular line of devices. Not that I ever can afford decent ones, mind you, but I think the restored one I have now is also quite OK for my type of projects. The HP 3300A function generator is a model that was released in 1970, according to the only information about that I could find. The lock/unlock feature of the plugin might be clear as day to others, but I had not seen this device before and it did come banged up so I didn't see how it was supposed to work. I decided to do my usual recapping and contact/potentiometer cleaning on the unit; sadly though, I have to admit that one of the potentiometers suffered "catastrophic failure". The wiper element is a (sintered?) carbon element and it got stuck between parts during assembly and cracked. If anybody knows where I might get a replacement for these strange potentiometers, I'd appreciate a hint. It has an odd axle diameter, the 5k linear would be easy as pie. Also, if anybody out there knows where I might get my paws on an affordable 3302A and 3305A plugin... just to complete my collection, it's not that I have immediate use for these, but you know the ground rule of test gear: you never know what you need until you need it RIGHT NOW. As for the metal break, I didn't bother filming that; mostly because I didn't expect any problems at all and then it kinda spiralled out of control on its own... Other than the shipping damage, it works quite well I must say, quite happy with it. Sorry for not showing any close ups of the circuit presentation section: the printouts turne dout to be too blurry and you can actually see more in the overview version. Injury count for this one: 2 - cut finger on sheet metal burr and stabbed paw with screwdriver 0:00 Intro / Presentation / Disassembly 2:20 Oven / Dial Polish / Case and Plugin 4:38 Plugin Lock / Finish Plugin Disasembly 5:40 Limits of Disassembly 7:00 Power Socket Replacement 8:09 Recapping 9:15 Potentiometer and Switch Cleaning 10:15 Broken Potentiometer Slider 12:28 Bummer in the Oven / Transistor Fix 14:40 Case Assembly / Knob Cleaning 16:30 First Power Up / Tuning Issue 18:25 Rack Bracket Cover-up 19:10 Function Description and Demonstration 21:05 Quick Circuit Overview / Finishing Touches and Presentation / Outtakes Music: My Train's A Comin' Unicorn Heads (YouTube Audio Library) You can support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/atkelar Vintage HP catalog, featuring the unit and plugins on page 321 and 322 - http://hparchive.com/Catalogs/HP-Catalog-1973.pdf HP functin generator history page: https://www.hpmemoryproject.org/wb_pages/wall_b_page_10c.htm Definition of "PEBCAK" (just in case you are wondering) - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/PEBCAK ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeA0bbclKZU

Workshop Project #21 - HP 1630G Logic Analyzer Originally, I wanted to have a turntable project, complete with portable tube amp ready for this episode, but it turns out that that needs way more than just a clean and new caps after all... so, back to another standby project! This one is an HP 1630 Logic State Analyzer, model "G". The 1600 series of HP started in the mid 1970s with a rather simple 16-bit visualization device that used a scope tube to show a grid of 0s and 1s. Quite interesting, especially the row of 16 switches to configure the trigger... ...fast forward a few years and we have this model in early 1980s (1983-ish according to a catalog I found online) and we have a monochrome CRT with quite a bunch of ICs that move data around. The "G" model has 65 input channels, eight of which can be either state or timing capture channels; I still have to read up on the timing thingy, haven't tried that one out yet. The general idea is to visualize correlated logic levels. This enables board level debugging of microcontroller/microprocessor based circuits and is a huge benefit when dealing with these kind of products. I was lucky enough to find this unit for rather cheap, again, untested. What does it hold in store for us? Let's find out! 0:00 Intro / Presentation 1:55 Overview / Transport Damage 3:13 Finally: Inside! / Fan 4:20 Boards! Boards! and more Boards! 5:38 Remove: Power Supply / Backplane / Keyboard / CRT Crontroller 6:23 Frame Separation / CRT Removal 7:05 Cleanup / Recapping: PSU Issues / RIFA! 8:20 Electrolytics... sorta / Thermal Paste / Capacitor Footprint Adaptor 10:12 CRT Shrunken Cap? / Thermal Paste / Flux Cleanup! 11:47 Keyboard Cleanup / CRT Cleanup 12:30 Assembly (CRT and Keyboard) / Frame / Rails 13:40 Front Panel / Power Supply (including snapped push rod) 14:22 Fan Assembly / Backplane 15:04 Logic Pods 15:47 Power On! 16:33 CRT Alignment "by ear" / Fixing Push Rod / Self Test 17:29 Menu Demo and Info / Closing up 19:13 Tantalum Replacement / TODOs: Plug / Improvised Wiring 20:18 Demo time! / Storage Issue 21:26 Finished Overview! / Goodbye / Outtake Music: My Train's A Comin' Unicorn Heads (YouTube Audio Library) You can support me on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/atkelar ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftoaedVld0M