Mr. Dog Poop: Mr. Dog poop here with Jeff Macolino. Jeff, what happened to your studio? It looks like you got an upgrade.

Jeff: Yeah, I was actually shooting all my other episodes overseas, but I've set up a new studio here.

Mr. Dog Poop: So you set up a new studio in St. Petersburg, Florida. Looks so much better. We're happy to have you in the new studio. And today, look at my desk. We're doing electronics STEM week.

Jeff: It's not being a strong week for our, our teachers if they were watching us.

Mr. Dog Poop: Well, it, it's important for teachers to teach kids more than they taught us. But I understand this stuff. We're going to talk about it a little bit, but we got a couple kits.  What do you got there? You got a, a soldering iron and you got some you got a clock kit?

Jeff: A lot of a little electronic things. Wow. yeah, here's a clock face, I guess. What is, it's a green thing.

Mr. Dog Poop: It's a clock motherboard, right?

Jeff: What he said,. Then we've got these directions, which it, it is actually in English, but I did sneak a peek before we went on, and it's not a language I Understand. 

Mr. Dog Poop: Okay. So you actually the electronic clock directions you have to get online. There's a, there's a QR code, which I didn't have because I don't have a phone that can read a QR code, but there's a QR code that takes you to a website where you can get I think it's eight pages of instructions that will show you how to do that. So they didn't give you good instructions. And I haven't had an opportunity to go over all this, but I can tell you they're not perfect. And then we have a music box, which I started assembling earlier, and I was a little disappointed because it didn't come with a power supply, and it also didn't come with instructions of where to hook up the power supply. So maybe these other instructions do include that, although I don't see it scanning it. Little disappointed, but it does make sound effects: Machine guns, fire engine, ambulance, police siren, cricket sound alarm sound bird call. Chirp. Oh, I should have built this one. This is great. Bird singing, heavy machine gun sound. Hooter voice. What's a hooter voice?

Jeff: A hooter voice.

Mr. Dog Poop: Hooter voice. Like a hooter waitress, but a hooter voice.

Jeff: It's like a sexy noise or something. ,

Mr. Dog Poop: I don't know, I'm asking you, I mean, it says it right here. I'm not making it up. People hooter voice, bass sound and passing by race car sound. So those are all things you can do with the music board.

Jeff: Interesting.

Mr. Dog Poop: Yeah. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. So I have my kit over here, and I went ahead and I preassembled the board with all the pieces. I just put all the pieces in. So what I realized was you have a bunch of resistors, and if you don't know anything about electronics, I guess you could look at the pictures and try to match up the colors. But resistors are actually color coded with little bars. So I had to go online because I don't remember this from back in the 50s when I got my engineering degree. And I had to print out the color coding charts for the resistors. So the resistors have little stripes on them, and they indicate different numbers. One of my complaints was that the color coding was wrong or the boards were wrong. So we got another China situation where they said a hundred, I think 150,000,150 K, but they didn't have the third band to indicate three zeros. So they were actually 15 instead of 150, 150,000 or two zero, whatever it is, didn't have the extra ban. So I don't know if the resistors are wrong or the board is wrong, but not the right. They don't match.

Jeff: Look, I think I figured part of it out.

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