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Speaker 1: very cool nashtastic three D printed case for the t being,
Speaker 1: the Lilygo t Being. It's by a company in Texas
Speaker 1: called Spec five. I heard about it through the Digital
Speaker 1: Rancher and today I'm gonna put together a brand new
Speaker 1: tea being with the mesh tastic software that I've already flashed.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put it in this case. I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: you what it looks like. Okay, this is the actual
Speaker 1: case here it comes with. I actually bought two of them.
Speaker 1: I forgot about two of them, but I did. This
Speaker 1: is the tea beam with the screen on it right here.
Speaker 1: This is the Spec five case. I should say this
Speaker 1: is Spec five case here Again. Huge shout out to
Speaker 1: Digital Rancher Rob over there. He has a video that
Speaker 1: I will link below. You can check that out. He
Speaker 1: brought this to I don't remember where he brought it now.
Speaker 1: I saw it somewhere. He talked about it at Dayton,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he had it yet. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: got it. I got the idea of it from him.
Speaker 1: So this is a very well made case, and I'll
Speaker 1: put the link to it in the description below as well.
Speaker 1: And it comes with the hardware that you need right here.
Speaker 1: These green pieces right here are the buttons for it,
Speaker 1: and then these screws are they go around in all
Speaker 1: the four corners here, and it comes with its own
Speaker 1: little carabiner. This is all the stuff it comes with
Speaker 1: right here. So let's put this together real quick and
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. This is a second T Beam
Speaker 1: device that I had. I have a T Beam device
Speaker 1: in my truck. I'm gonna be doing a video about
Speaker 1: that soon. You want to make sure one thing real quick.
Speaker 1: For those of you who are not into radio very much. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're into the mesh tastic, then great. If you're
Speaker 1: not a ham you don't have your MRS license whatnot. Okay,
Speaker 1: you can damage the transmitting board on this the transmitter
Speaker 1: on this board. If you plug in your battery, and
Speaker 1: this powers on and starts transmitting without this intenna connected.
Speaker 1: So you want to make sure you have an intenna connect,
Speaker 1: an intenna of some sort connected when you power the
Speaker 1: device up. Okay, if this is not connected, if there's
Speaker 1: no intenna, it's possible you can damage this whole thing.
Speaker 1: So just be aware of that. Okay. So that's what
Speaker 1: I was looking. I was looking at how I'm going
Speaker 1: to put this together, and I think I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: it like this kind of sit there like that. This
Speaker 1: case here has a little lip around it right here
Speaker 1: where you can maybe see it. And once you get
Speaker 1: it all put together, it won't be a big deal.
Speaker 1: You just got to make sure everything lines up before
Speaker 1: you start bolting things down. I should put the screws
Speaker 1: in first. Oh, I'm gonna have to snip those off
Speaker 1: a bit. Okay. What I had to do is these
Speaker 1: little sawder joints, these these sawder pins were sticking up
Speaker 1: a little higher than the case would allow. I just
Speaker 1: snipped them off. No big deal. The swder is still good.
Speaker 1: I tested it to make sure it still powers up.
Speaker 1: We're all good there. So and then I did a
Speaker 1: little bit of experimenting with putting it here and there.
Speaker 1: So this part this is the centerpiece between the bottom.
Speaker 1: The bottom piece here has this little insert that's where
Speaker 1: your battery compartment goes. Obviously really cool thing about this
Speaker 1: has a nice metal belt clip right there, and then
Speaker 1: it has a kickstand where you can sit it down
Speaker 1: like that in order to and if the kickstand. It
Speaker 1: has a little magnet here that's there in the kickstand
Speaker 1: and there, so it kind of holds it close. Because
Speaker 1: I do notice it. It's kind of kind of tends
Speaker 1: to pop up if you don't push it shut all
Speaker 1: the way, But if you push it shut all the way,
Speaker 1: that magnet catches and that keeps it in place. So
Speaker 1: that's neat there too. We've got four mount screws on
Speaker 1: the outside and then on the inside of this. The
Speaker 1: four mount screws on the outside go here. They go
Speaker 1: through this board here into this board here from the
Speaker 1: top right here through this middle insert through here. But
Speaker 1: then inside of here there are four more in mount
Speaker 1: screws inside of here. So if you look right here,
Speaker 1: we've got the larger screws with the nuts on the
Speaker 1: back of them. These are made for the four outside corners.
Speaker 1: And then you've got these little self tapping screws right
Speaker 1: here and those go down in the middle. So if
Speaker 1: you put your board in here correctly like this, there
Speaker 1: we go. You have to put the little pins in
Speaker 1: the side pins in here first. These things are kind
Speaker 1: of small. So what I do, or what I'm going
Speaker 1: to do, going to put this like this there and there.
Speaker 1: It kind of looks like I'm putting them in backwards,
Speaker 1: and perhaps i am. But if you put them on
Speaker 1: the outside, they're gonna just fall out of the outside
Speaker 1: because there's no cover that goes around this. So these
Speaker 1: little push buttons here will be on the outside and
Speaker 1: they're pretty easy to press. Just get them lined up correctly.
Speaker 1: We put this in here like that, and then those
Speaker 1: line up correctly on that and we will take and
Speaker 1: mount this part. Oops. Now see I lost one of
Speaker 1: the okay, so we're gonna have to do it from
Speaker 1: the side. That's fine. Rob did tell me it was
Speaker 1: a little bit tricky to get this thing put together,
Speaker 1: but once you get it, it's it's a really nice case.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put it like that, and I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: these little screws. Okay, there's pre drilled holes in the
Speaker 1: bottom of this black insert piece. You just gotta line
Speaker 1: it up. It's a little bit dark in here, and
Speaker 1: I'm doing it sideways so that the side buttons don't
Speaker 1: fall out. But I got the first one in, so
Speaker 1: I should probably use a smaller screwdriver. But this is
Speaker 1: what i've got and it does fit the head of
Speaker 1: the screw, so I'm okay, I'm good. Now it should
Speaker 1: hold those in pretty well because it's already started in
Speaker 1: the two corners there. Turn that that way. I don't
Speaker 1: want the board to flop around too much because it
Speaker 1: will fall out of here and it will lose those
Speaker 1: green buttons in there. It is, so I've got one.
Speaker 1: See that. There's silver screws one, two, and three. Put
Speaker 1: the fourth one in here, all right. Now that I've
Speaker 1: got them all started in there, I'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: tighten them down. Don't want to tighten them too tight.
Speaker 1: You don't want to strip out. It is just pla
Speaker 1: plastic or whatever, you know. Whatever filment he used to
Speaker 1: print these is three D printed material. It's not heavy duty,
Speaker 1: so just beware that. Just put them down all the
Speaker 1: way until you feel some resistance, until they're completely sunk
Speaker 1: into the and flush with the board and then stop
Speaker 1: just like that. Okay, so I've got our three green
Speaker 1: buttons here, all three of those punched nicely. The T
Speaker 1: beam has a micro USB control on it in case
Speaker 1: you guys haven't seen one of these before. It's a
Speaker 1: micro USB charger. This will charge the internal eighteen six
Speaker 1: fifty battery and you can run it from this. If
Speaker 1: you don't want to put a battery in here at all,
Speaker 1: then great, don't do that. Of course, I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: a battery in mind, so I can keep this around
Speaker 1: in my pocket. And then this is called an SMA connector.
Speaker 1: This is an SMA female because the very center is
Speaker 1: well I'm not gonna explain that to you guys. Y'all
Speaker 1: can figure that out. The center of the SMA male
Speaker 1: is a pin and the center of the female is
Speaker 1: not a pin. So call it what you want to,
Speaker 1: I guess, and we're gonna put this here. I want
Speaker 1: to put the intenna on because, like I said, I
Speaker 1: don't want to power it up. I don't want to
Speaker 1: put the battery in it and power it up without
Speaker 1: the intenna on. It. First appeel to cover up the screen.
Speaker 1: Now this goes just this just sits over the top.
Speaker 1: It's fine right there. This stick still sticks up a
Speaker 1: little because of the pins right there. If if you
Speaker 1: were to adjust the screen and maybe set it up
Speaker 1: higher on the pins, that might work a little bit better.
Speaker 1: For what I'm doing, I think this will be fine.
Speaker 1: It's not supposed to be waterproof or anything anyway, so
Speaker 1: the pins do stick up a little bit, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that I care about that. And then before
Speaker 1: we put this whole case together, I've got to put
Speaker 1: the battery in. That's why I put the intenna on
Speaker 1: right now. So let's do that real quick. I'd mentioned
Speaker 1: in one in another video, I've got this ninety nine
Speaker 1: hundred milliamp hour eighteen sixty fifty batteries. A lie, this
Speaker 1: thing is not ninety nine hundred million hours. And my
Speaker 1: experience has been that those little three thousand million hour
Speaker 1: pillow batteries actually lasts longer than this, partially due to
Speaker 1: the fact that these things are not rated properly. This
Speaker 1: is probably a two to three thousand million power battery
Speaker 1: in reality, or perhaps due to the fact that this
Speaker 1: uh the T beam has GPS, so you're running GPS
Speaker 1: at the same time. That you're running Laura Meshtastic, which
Speaker 1: unlike the unlike the Hell Tech doesn't have GPS, so
Speaker 1: with the battery is gonna last longer since it's not
Speaker 1: running GPS. We've got a screen there. All good, okay,
Speaker 1: antenna is on, no problem. I've just noticed that he
Speaker 1: gives you an extra self tapping screw there. I got
Speaker 1: one in all four corners. Okay, so now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: put this here. It's starting by hand at first. Make
Speaker 1: sure they go through all three you divite all three
Speaker 1: pieces here. Got a little wrench here with the proper
Speaker 1: fitting on the front of it. Again, you don't have
Speaker 1: to monster wrench these things down, so just make sure
Speaker 1: they get nice and snug and stop stop cranking on
Speaker 1: them because you don't want to crack or break anything.
Speaker 1: Now we've got all four screws in all four corners. There.
Speaker 1: The buttons are working. This is and I like the
Speaker 1: fact that it's got indicators on the case for what
Speaker 1: the buttons do. That's IO thirty eight. I think that
Speaker 1: just means you scroll through there. There we go just
Speaker 1: like that. This is reset, so that basically reboots it
Speaker 1: and then you can power it off with this one
Speaker 1: that's pretty good right there. And again you can set
Speaker 1: it like that with a little kickstand that's on the
Speaker 1: back of it. Just like that. You can set it
Speaker 1: down like that, or you can I guess you can
Speaker 1: set it like that put the antenna up. By the way.
Speaker 1: For those of you who aren't really familiar with radio,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get better results with a with a nine
Speaker 1: hundred megahertz Laura meshtastics. You're gonna get better results when
Speaker 1: the antenna is pointed up. That's why this antenna bends.
Speaker 1: This is the antenna that came with the t being.
Speaker 1: It bends like that. So you can set it down
Speaker 1: like that and still have the antenna pointing up. You
Speaker 1: can set it down like this and still have the
Speaker 1: antenna pointing up. And then when you're if you're carrying
Speaker 1: it on a belt clip like that, you can twist
Speaker 1: this and set it like that. So if you're setting
Speaker 1: it down on the desk or on a flat area
Speaker 1: surface like that, it's best to have the antenna pointed
Speaker 1: up like that. You'll get better results in longer range
Speaker 1: and better polarization with that. So that's just something that
Speaker 1: you learn in radio class. But there it is right
Speaker 1: there at Spec five. This thing is really cool. This
Speaker 1: is the best looking case and the best and the
Speaker 1: most functional case. The best options case for the T
Speaker 1: being the Lilygo T being that I have seen yet.
Speaker 1: If you guys have something that you like just as well,
Speaker 1: or something that you might like better, put a comment below.
Speaker 1: I'd love to know what it is. I'm gonna hook
Speaker 1: this up and this is gonna be my daily carry.
Speaker 1: I've been using that Celtech V three that we all
Speaker 1: built together at Daytonhamvenchon. I've got one of those Josh
Speaker 1: three D printed a case for me and I've been
Speaker 1: carrying that around that one around town just to kind
Speaker 1: of see what I pick up around town, which has
Speaker 1: been hardly anything at all. I do have Meshtastic running
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the time in my truck, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do another video about that soon. But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna trade out my everyday one that I carry in
Speaker 1: my pocket for this one because I like this belt
Speaker 1: clip that's on it, I like the adjustable antenna, and
Speaker 1: it's just a really neat looking case. So check out
Speaker 1: the description in the link below for both the lily
Speaker 1: Go T bean and for this Spec five case seventy
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