Can you see that on the overhead? So all these little pieces, all these big pieces were wired together carefully using tools to twist the wires into these things and solder these together. And all this has been replaced, this little one? And this isn't even a clock. Radio. We get into the clock radios, and then we're talking about, bigger and bigger and bigger for a clock radio.
Jeff: That's a long winded way of Mr. Dog poop, telling everyone he's very old. .
Mr. Dog Poop: I'm not telling people that I'm old. I'm telling people that they're fortunate to be part of technology and that they need to learn it. Because this is a CB radio for my first car. Now, the CB radio would let us communicate up to two miles, right? So I got breaker one, nine breaker, one nine rubber ducky, Got your ears on. Now you got a cell phone that can call the other side of the world.
Jeff: I much prefer those the cell phones.
Mr. Dog Poop: So this is a CB radio, two mile range, cell phones, tiny little cell phone that can now reach around the world. Of course, they have relay stations and everything else, but the technology is pretty much the same. Little bit different. The waveforms a little bit different, but technology's the same. And are you with us?
Jeff: Oh yeah. I'm trying to put this thing together, but I don't think it's going to work for me. you need to know the old technology in order to make innovation, right?
Mr. Dog Poop: You need to understand electrical theory. You need to understand waveforms, and you need to understand frequencies. You need to understand how things work, how radio waves work. Nothing has changed. The only thing has changed is the technology. Things got smaller. They're manufacturing things in China, because the people over there have little hands and they can put littler things together. When I was a kid, everybody went into the factories. And these were the companies. Raytheon, Raytheon, vacuum tubes. Motorola, remember Motorola?
Jeff: Yeah.
Mr. Dog Poop: Here's an electron tube. Raytheon Manufacturing Company. March, 1953, 1953. This thing could have gone up on the space shuttle. Zenia, Silvania
Jeff: I thought, I thought you didn't believe, we went up into space
Mr. Dog Poop: We went up in space, not to the moon.
Jeff: Ah, god dang it. This takes such fine, see Here's the thing again if it's made for kids it makes sense
Mr. Dog Poop: Okay, okay, okay. Okay. Don't put the IC chips in the board. They go in the sockets and there's a reason for it. listening.
Jeff: I don't know what the difference is between the board and the socket.
Mr. Dog Poop: Socket is. Okay, so here we go. We'll bring this board back up. So the socket is this little piece here. You see this Jeff? That's just a little piece with the socket on it. The, IC Chip actually goes into it. So the reason that they use a socket, you put the socket in the board and make sure there's a little notch in the end of the socket right here. Looks like there's a little a notch in one side that indicates it's a little groove. And you'll see it on the board. You have to match those up. Match those up. The reason you put that in is because you would create too much heat and it would burn out. The circuits are so sensitive. And the IC chips, you put in there, you solder it, it can take the heat, and then after it cools down, you can put in the chip.
Jeff: Gotcha, gotcha. So I need to figure out the soldering part before I can really advance.
Mr. Dog Poop: Yeah. Typically when you're doing soldering, you would use heat sinks as we used to in the old days. And these are a little electric clips that would clip onto the parts and they would prevent heat from getting up into the part and destroying the part because, we were using things like this.
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