Mr. Dog Poop: You Got the, you got the clock in.

Jeff: I got the clock in.

Mr. Dog Poop: So I did assemble the clock earlier. I came in and I said, let me see if I can do this. I did assemble the clock. It is not pretty on the back, but it does work. So I guess I can show. Let's see. You need a power supply that comes with, see, this one came with a power supply.

Jeff: Yeah. This little USB thingy, right? 

Mr. Dog Poop: Yeah. But the other one didn't. So this has, it says 1259. Is that the correct time or is that the time in China?

Jeff: Well, I don't think so, unless they have a really weird time zone.

Mr. Dog Poop: They're on covid time. Oh, I can't say that. Probably got banned from YouTube. So it's got some buttons here to change things. I don't know which one you're supposed to. I don't really know how it works, but I know there's some buttons here that do different things and you can see it setting. I don't,

Jeff: Oh, yeah.

Mr. Dog Poop: So that if you are successful and you're able to build that, not too bad. I think it was like five or $6. We bought a soldering iron. You got one, right?

Jeff: Yes, I did.

Mr. Dog Poop: Plugged it in yet.

Jeff: This thing scares me.

Mr. Dog Poop: I want to say they have 'em for like $6.99 cents. I think we paid $10 for this one delivered. It's not the greatest quality, but it really did the job. It was really nice. I would've liked a smaller tip, which it came with smaller tips, but I couldn't figure out how to get this off. Oh, now it comes off. No problem. Yeah,

Jeff: That's usually how it works. 

Mr. Dog Poop: There you go, after I heated it up, soldered a board and everything, then I loosened it up and now it's going to work. So it does come with bunch of extra tips. And you're going to want a really small tip for this project, because

Jeff: Oh, yeah.

Mr. Dog Poop: It's really precise.

Jeff: show the comparison of the size here.

Mr. Dog Poop: Yeah. And sorry Mr. Dog Poop's vision isn't what it was when I was a little kid. And trying to see the boards, I'm trying to see the thing is a little bit difficult, but not a bad solder iron. So for $20, you can get your kids a couple of these kits. They're pretty cool. Lot of pieces, lot of instructions. Jeff's going to go ahead and build one.

Jeff: My batting average is real high on this.

Mr. Dog Poop: So I want to talk about, all these kids think, nobody wants to learn about electronics. Nobody wants to learn about electricity or how this stuff work. They just want to download an app on their phone. I want to talk about-- when I was a kid, this is an AM radio, and we would sit around and watch the AM radio at night because that's all we had. So we would watch the AM radio, we would tune in to the evening broadcast, and we would watch the AM radio. And this AM radio ran on vacuum tubes. So when Mr. Dog poop got his engineering degrade, we were using vacuum tubes. Now, this tube in the 80s or 70s, this tube was replaced with this transistor. I don't even know if you can see that, that transistor. And then a few years later, somebody figured out that they could put thousands of transistors on this chip. In a few years, we went from these vacuum tubes running our radios to these, running our radios. And I want to show, because we have this board, which is a lot more intricate, and I'm used to this, this is my radio shack soldering iron. And the reason this is huge, right? It doesn't have a little pinpoint on it Like the other one, the reason we use those is because your grandmothers and grandfathers would go into the Motorola factory and they would assemble these.

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