Full disclosure: this information does not come from my employer, and it is not in their policy to disclose this sort information. I am doing it purely independently of them. I use these for work and you've missed a couple of things that could've saved you a (literal headache) plus a cool bit of tech inside of them. 1. The brand name/industry name is Spider Wraps. 2. You could've silenced it by twisting the underside of the alarm as it is no longer secured to any mechanize, there is also a couple of cool clutch mechanisms that you missed by breaking it with a mallet. 3. This is the single alarm variant, even though it's packaged as 2alarm. Interesting enough it's cheaper but the acoustics are slightly more complex. From a demo unit that I got to take home and carefully disassemble, it rapidly fluctuates the signal for the speaker to make it sound like there are multiple speakers at different frequencies. The more spendy ones have multiple speakers and are louder/more irritating in orders of magnitude. 4. These are meant to be reused hundreds if not thousands of times. The RFID indentifier needs to be durable. Those stickers that you commonly see are the opposite. They're meant to be extremely cheap and easy to deactivate, also the tag isn't effective if a thief can just run a strong magnet over the tag and make it not ring the gates. 5. The alarm is meant to have resting periods so it can go on for hours, when staff might not be there. We've had stolen merchandise that was sitting out all night with the tag still going. If you were to have it go through a store gate after cutting it, you'd experience what lithium batteries can do ;) 6. Not going to get into details about how you obtained this unit, but without giving out too many internal mechanisms it was either relocked, or wasn't unlocked at all
Hi, i am trying to design a similar security tag for a school project? Could you guide me some more on where to find info about the inside locking mechanisms?
Are the cables alarm sensitive to variation in tension via extension/retraction? Depending on the tagged item's size, you could crush the packaging a bit and lever off one of the four cables to then slip the item out. Your mention of "clutch mechanisms" had me confused, do they trip if the cabling gets overextended?
Did a job when I was a pipe fitter, was a collage dorm where the fire extinguishers had these anti-rape devices rigged up to them. Had a little pull pin that when pulled let out a horrific sound quite similar to these. Needless to say we had fun with them. Sparkys thought it was funny to not hold the elevator door for us, was open just long enough to lob one in there with em. Took two grown ass men stomping on it for 5 floors of travel to kill it and you could hear it on each floor as it passed by.
I also work in retail and I kinda sorta doubt it. They only go off for a couple minutes, then quit. At least Spiderwrap does, dunno if other brands are different.
@@wills.5762 I've worked in retail and found these stuffed into safes, sleeping bags, etc. and they all had dead batteries by the time we found them. We even had ones where the battery had died simply from age but, of course, corporate wouldn't supply us with new ones and product had to go out so we just strapped on the duds and hoped for the best.
I discovered this channel a few weeks back. The more I delve back into your archives the better it gets. I have never had more laughs while learning very interesting stuff at the same time. This is a fucking awesome channel. Keep on, how do you say it, "chooching" along.
My cuzin used to work at auto zone, he would get the sticky metal anti theft strips and lay them on the floor with the sticky side up. people would step on them then when they walked out they would panic when the theft alarm sounded .
Used to work at a homeless despot as a tool tech. Those things malfunction often and go off on their own. Best way to 'fix it' is to throw it in a bucket of water.
+Rezinator483 I believe you meant "you're a fucking idiot" - the contraction of 'you' & 'are' and not the possessive 'your'... Just something to keep in mind for for future, well thought out comments...
Of course crime pays. PETTY crime doesn't pay. Violent crime doesn't pay. Running a great con pays a great deal. So does advertising a product, which doesn't do what you say it will do, then sell it for exhorbitant prices, fold the company before anyone can sue you. It all pays.
"advertising a product, which doesn't do what you say it will do, then sell it for exhorbitant prices, fold the company before anyone can sue you." The cost of advertising is greater than your profit in a very short term. Advertisement is supposed to build a brand, rather than letting you sell a few gadgets quickly.
AvE, since most of what you shoot is macro/close-up, the autofocus on your new camera may freak out less if you slap a weak magnifying lens on the front. Just like a +1 would be like magical reading glasses. That or check to see if your cam has a macro mode that hints to the camera that it should be trying to focus moreso on nearby things.
there should be a manual focus feature, after i'd been using my ZR-1000 for like a year i found you can set the focus to manual, that may be good for ya. but anyway, i was thinking about filming a video about these when i saw one laying in the gutter but i figured it would be too annoying to be worth it, haha
+Rinoa Super-Genius is your camera just like one of these? www.google.com/search?q=exilim+zr-1100&biw=1280&bih=951&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjux52c9tfJAhVM5GMKHZz7DOAQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=exilim+zr1100 if so i wont mind making a quick video showing how to set the settings that are infuriating.
+AvE. or at least flip your bench cutting mat over to the blank side to reduce the tendency for the camera to get clever and focus on the background. Autofukus and CRT 'scopes is a total PITA unless you keep the intensity way low, room lights down and with mucho fingerin mit der focusgeratz knob on the 'scope itself. So as RSG said go manual, it saves wear on your hammers. Also, with manual focus, increased ambient lighting intensity usually gives greater depth of which might be useful to you because you often pick up small parts and show them closer to the camera, usually just after you smash stuff apart to get the shiney bits out :) good vid, as ever
Another epic work completed. Still, perhaps, not the masterpiece the pressure washer piece was. That one damn near killed me; granted I was half a bottle in.
I used to work with these little buggers all the time here in Australia. Through the supplier (for my company it was Staples) they cost about $35 a pop. One day one of my employees cut the trip wire with a pair of scissors and the little thing went nuts, as it should. So we took it out back and put it in a cup of water for 72 hours. When we came back to check on it, it was still going off its nut beeping away. Had to keep it in the cup for a week to eventually stop it from working - we couldn't be bothered dismantling it to take out the battery or cut the speaker.
As a security guard in the uk ive seen lots of these and took lots of them off and they have even helped me catch shop lifters.very useful and no i know what the inside looks like :) Thank you !!
Hey, AvE, how many wraps, and what value is that cap on the RFID dingus? It could be quite amusing to build one, and say leave it in the bottom of someone's purse, so that whenever they go to the old Wallyworld, all hell breaks loose. heheh
When I worked retail I had one of these that refused to release the product, So I cut it off with my leatherman. I was informed by my manager that those are about $20 each but I am not sure if that is accurate. The problem is most of the time the thieves don't bother with taking the tag off, they just cut the box open and slip the product out.
Another fine vid! BGetter than what they had when I was working retail and the then-new PSOne was kept on a tall sloping shelf with a woodscrew. Never saw the young manager run so fast than when that grew legs.
Like Stephen said, if you zoom in and focus on something, you can zoom out, or zoom in and the subject you focused on will stay in focus, provided neither the camera or subject move. I understand not everyone knows this, but I have first hand experience with it, so go try it out with your dslr, it blew my mind the first time I learned about it.
the lateness of my contribution notwithstanding - fully 18 lunar cycles to be precise - i feel compelled to say that a camera with perfectly functioning autofocus would most certainly take the joy right out of this channel. those amongst you who can call yourselves regular viewers will know exactly what i mean.
Grab some thin wire and a few needle style crimp on connectors and don't forget the good old sidecutters when you're on your next trip to best buy hahah FYI not actually a good idea
+michael burke i would use alligator clips for a more reliable connection and what he did not mention was that it is just one wire wrapped around twice so if you cut it then you can simply take it off and leave it on the shelf
+Rod Dahl if you can fool the alarm and cut the wire, you don't need to take the thing out of the store, that's the thing, you only need the item you just stole (disclaimer: stealing is bad)
+michael burke That needed to taught? I looked one yesterday for 5 minutes and come up that same way, just out curiosity and i'm not well versed on electronics, or shoplifting.
They are about $6 American. I've tacked on that amount to get a case to a felony several times, if the lifter damaged it or stole the item it was wrapped on. They do work well as a handle if you want to run out with several items.
It astounds me to see all these camera and lense experts on here! I won't claim to be and don't want to be one, but I thoroughly enjoy the debate they are holding in the comments! Love the videos, keep up the great content!
+AvE the problem is that I can't view comments on that video because I can't buy it. CZcams is annoying. I'll work on it. thank you for the work around.
+Geoff Millar So I had been in the same boat, I was going to try kuma's trick and the damn thing just started playing after I clicked it from his channel. Now I feel bad, I just stole 1/2 a can of coke from AVE. I guess I'll have to setup a GD patreon account now to assuage my guilt.
+kumaclimber Workaround was a success, and I even got to pay for it to. - Add the video to your Watch Later playlist. - Go to Watch Later playlist and click the green money icon on the video. - You should be given an option to rent or buy the video. - Click agree and then you should be able to watch it!
This is not RFID. It's either acoustic magnetic (made by Sensormatic) or RF (but not RFID as there is not data on the tag). Because it's a ferrite with a cap, I'm guessing you got this tag from a store that uses Checkpoint. With Checkpoint tags, the way they are deactivated is by blowing out the faux capacitor in the tag.
+jak p (skiguy09) I might be wrong here, but I thought on these types the ID is coming from a unique serial burned into the micro, or am I missing something?
+Jim Fortune this is not supposed to be deactivated, that's why there is a real capacitor. I was drawing similarities to the disposable tag to conclude this is most likely from a Checkpoint store.
"It's quite piercing, actually..." Yes, I'm not an expert in the field specifically, but I do believe a lot of research went into determining the exact frequencies that humans find the most uncomfortable, and pick up the easiest with their supplied sound detection apparatii. Advertisers also made a mint on offering their customers ads that always appear to sound about 10dB louder than whatever is being broadcast right before they come on. There may be some overlap there...
I used to work at the homeless despot. i hated those spider wrap things! laughed like a little kid when you started whacking it with a hammer, because we did the same thing one day in the store with a malfunctioning one that wouldn't shut off with the magnet thingy. Thanks for making my night!
+AvE i seriously doubt it, i watched someone put a SSD at the local computer store into their purse that was lined with looked like aluminum foil and walk right out the door without a single noise go off, by the time i found a manager to tell the person was nowhere to be found in the parkinglot
+AvE yeah there expensive and there suppose to work but the battery in those things are always running so after awhile they die and can't replace them so most of the ones won't make the speaker noise but the alarm will go off if you walk out with it even if the battery is dead
some cameras have a auto focus app for a smart phone where once you get it into position tap the auto focus button on the phone and it will make your life easier.just throwing a concept out there for ya keep up the great work
+AvE I feel your pain brother. My garage is exudes a plethora of various sensory confuddlers such as sounds, smells and strange glows. But at the end of the day they ask me to fix things and help with home projects and will gladly pay me to do the things mere mortals could never fathom.
Brap Brap You realise that you are a "mortal" as well, don't you? In fact every human being on this planet is as you say "mortal". GOD people like you get on my nerves.
brandon calin He ain't chooched his last quite yet! But it's people like YOU, the ones with no fricken sense of humor a'tall, that get on _my_ nerves :)
Kyle Wienke I can tell you work at wal-mart considering you spelled "break" as "brake". Two words with the same sound. mid level error but most high school educated people and up would catch that.
Hey, you are calling out the guy for where he works? At least he has a job! And how do we know you're not just an unemployed homophone Nazi with a penchant for Scrabble?? :)
actually, on that waveform analysis, the really big peak in the upper register is where the actual sound is. Since you were recording in your shop, the low frequencies are mostly white noise from various other sound sources. The spider wrap can't produce a note that deep since it has such a small sound source. Also, it has more harmonics than a triangle, but less than a square, or it just doesn't produce the very high harmonics and is a square wave.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that the coil you saw there was actually a part of the mech that detaches the main body of the lock to the plug end. We use these all the time where I work, and all you need to take it off is a magnet. To get the mech to move, you need to induce a force, so that someone with a paperclip can't bypass it.
In the States, an office supply chain I can't mention Store internals were charging the stores something around $110 each for those "Spider Wraps" and even more for the self-alarming one you had here.
Sweet, perfect video after being away for a month and a half or so. I tried to get one of these when i worked in a retail store with them but couldn't :( Always wanted to take one apart.
Most of these don't use RFID. They use a magnetic field that gets altered just so. One panel emits the field and the other looks for the specific change caused by the tag.
Full disclosure: this information does not come from my employer, and it is not in their policy to disclose this sort information. I am doing it purely independently of them. I use these for work and you've missed a couple of things that could've saved you a (literal headache) plus a cool bit of tech inside of them.
1. The brand name/industry name is Spider Wraps.
2. You could've silenced it by twisting the underside of the alarm as it is no longer secured to any mechanize, there is also a couple of cool clutch mechanisms that you missed by breaking it with a mallet.
3. This is the single alarm variant, even though it's packaged as 2alarm. Interesting enough it's cheaper but the acoustics are slightly more complex. From a demo unit that I got to take home and carefully disassemble, it rapidly fluctuates the signal for the speaker to make it sound like there are multiple speakers at different frequencies. The more spendy ones have multiple speakers and are louder/more irritating in orders of magnitude.
4. These are meant to be reused hundreds if not thousands of times. The RFID indentifier needs to be durable. Those stickers that you commonly see are the opposite. They're meant to be extremely cheap and easy to deactivate, also the tag isn't effective if a thief can just run a strong magnet over the tag and make it not ring the gates.
5. The alarm is meant to have resting periods so it can go on for hours, when staff might not be there. We've had stolen merchandise that was sitting out all night with the tag still going. If you were to have it go through a store gate after cutting it, you'd experience what lithium batteries can do ;)
6. Not going to get into details about how you obtained this unit, but without giving out too many internal mechanisms it was either relocked, or wasn't unlocked at all
If you took that through gates it would explode ?
Hi,
i am trying to design a similar security tag for a school project? Could you guide me some more on where to find info about the inside locking mechanisms?
Are the cables alarm sensitive to variation in tension via extension/retraction? Depending on the tagged item's size, you could crush the packaging a bit and lever off one of the four cables to then slip the item out. Your mention of "clutch mechanisms" had me confused, do they trip if the cabling gets overextended?
after losing the big war, Japan implemented its revenge weapon, the auto-focus.
Jonathan Crandall the Accord is awesome too :)
brandon calin so is the cross tour
Focus you FOCK
"Now I happen to have purchased, at the local outfitter, a tool to dismantle this."
*SMASH*
Thanks, I laughed harder than I probably should have!
right there with ya
C'mon we all knew which "tool" he was talking about :D
Drew Almy o
That same tool can turn off a car alarm. In fact, it kind of reminds me of shutting off a rabbit.
Drew Almy I'm laughing so hard I am crying
Why do I get the feeling we're going to see a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly (RUD) of the new camera in the very near future??? :'(
Time for a Widlarizing.
i agree a rud will be coming by the end of the year most likely
Hi spacex fans
This beautiful man has a way with words, I swear... I can only aspire to be half that great.
but you are gr8 m8
+ralfidude Didn't expect to see you here :D
yup
Here's a handy AvE dictionary, it's skookum: www.avespeak.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
R. Matthews that is the greatest fucking thing I have seen all week. Thank you
Did a job when I was a pipe fitter, was a collage dorm where the fire extinguishers had these anti-rape devices rigged up to them. Had a little pull pin that when pulled let out a horrific sound quite similar to these. Needless to say we had fun with them. Sparkys thought it was funny to not hold the elevator door for us, was open just long enough to lob one in there with em. Took two grown ass men stomping on it for 5 floors of travel to kill it and you could hear it on each floor as it passed by.
Made me laugh, thanks for that
So I work in retail and some shmuck broke one and hid it in the luggage section. It's been going off for 4 days and no one can find it xD
im gonna do that except first ill glue it to a lantern battery for infinite firepower
@@0x73V14 If you actually did that you are pure evil
I also work in retail and I kinda sorta doubt it. They only go off for a couple minutes, then quit. At least Spiderwrap does, dunno if other brands are different.
@@wills.5762 I've worked in retail and found these stuffed into safes, sleeping bags, etc. and they all had dead batteries by the time we found them. We even had ones where the battery had died simply from age but, of course, corporate wouldn't supply us with new ones and product had to go out so we just strapped on the duds and hoped for the best.
@@406Steven That goes for most of ours. Id say about half are dead, and the other half are getting there, except for a few new ones.
In Russia if something does not work we go up a hammer size.
I discovered this channel a few weeks back. The more I delve back into your archives the better it gets. I have never had more laughs while learning very interesting stuff at the same time. This is a fucking awesome channel. Keep on, how do you say it, "chooching" along.
Check out 1puglife for more choochin lol
*does the hand thing* lmao
My cuzin used to work at auto zone, he would get the sticky metal anti theft strips and lay them on the floor with the sticky side up. people would step on them then when they walked out they would panic when the theft alarm sounded .
cooldbz12 your cousin is evil XD
cooldbz12 I used to do that in the library at college.
same here! rip them out of books and into people's pencil cases...lol drove the old librarian lady so mad!
I used to just epoxy change to the floor
Legion Prime ease up there, Satan...
Devices like these would be exponentially more effective if employees didn't leave the handkeys to remove them lying out on the counters.
+AaronAlso Don't even need that if you know how the keys work. :D
where can us lowly simple Texans purchase that fancy tool for dismantling those things? I always have to run from the store; it's so irritating.
Jason Chatham in Texas just use a 9mm that should work
You know I tried that, but the cops get REALLY pissed off...... ;-)
i cant understand what youre saying half the time and i love it
The more you listen to him the more it makes sense. It's a strange phenomenon
Used to work at a homeless despot as a tool tech. Those things malfunction often and go off on their own. Best way to 'fix it' is to throw it in a bucket of water.
What camera is that... so I know not to buy it.
Any câmera in that conditions will loose focus easely (the patern in the background fools the "auto focus software").
+Kobe Wild time to learn how to handle a camera
and not be a sheep and follow the rest
+astrayamatu your a fucking idiot
+Rezinator483 I believe you meant "you're a fucking idiot" - the contraction of 'you' & 'are' and not the possessive 'your'...
Just something to keep in mind for for future, well thought out comments...
+Kobe Wild It's operator error, this guy doesn't know how to use a camera.
Wah! The focus on your new cam is doing my head in...
2:08
All I could think was "Stick it in a vice and squeeze the fucking life out of it!!!"
And then you did...
Of course crime pays. PETTY crime doesn't pay. Violent crime doesn't pay. Running a great con pays a great deal. So does advertising a product, which doesn't do what you say it will do, then sell it for exhorbitant prices, fold the company before anyone can sue you. It all pays.
also crowdfunding
"advertising a product, which doesn't do what you say it will do, then sell it for exhorbitant prices, fold the company before anyone can sue you."
The cost of advertising is greater than your profit in a very short term. Advertisement is supposed to build a brand, rather than letting you sell a few gadgets quickly.
AvE, since most of what you shoot is macro/close-up, the autofocus on your new camera may freak out less if you slap a weak magnifying lens on the front. Just like a +1 would be like magical reading glasses. That or check to see if your cam has a macro mode that hints to the camera that it should be trying to focus moreso on nearby things.
I don't understand most of the information in these videos, but the commentary is very entertaining. Glad I found this channel!
there should be a manual focus feature, after i'd been using my ZR-1000 for like a year i found you can set the focus to manual, that may be good for ya.
but anyway, i was thinking about filming a video about these when i saw one laying in the gutter but i figured it would be too annoying to be worth it, haha
+Rinoa Super-Genius is your camera just like one of these? www.google.com/search?q=exilim+zr-1100&biw=1280&bih=951&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjux52c9tfJAhVM5GMKHZz7DOAQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=exilim+zr1100
if so i wont mind making a quick video showing how to set the settings that are infuriating.
*****
oh ok, its a simple fix then. i'll see about uploading a video tonight for ya.
*****
well i just filmed the video, and a simple subject turned into 9 minutes, funny how that happens. lol
i'll upload it in a few
+AvE. or at least flip your bench cutting mat over to the blank side to reduce the tendency for the camera to get clever and focus on the background. Autofukus and CRT 'scopes is a total PITA unless you keep the intensity way low, room lights down and with mucho fingerin mit der focusgeratz knob on the 'scope itself.
So as RSG said go manual, it saves wear on your hammers.
Also, with manual focus, increased ambient lighting intensity usually gives greater depth of which might be useful to you because you often pick up small parts and show them closer to the camera, usually just after you smash stuff apart to get the shiney bits out :) good vid, as ever
*****
and its up, hope that solves your focusing troubles!
"Crime doesn't pay."
Well, if it didn't, then our corporate environment would look _quite_ a bit different...
Loved that standard disassembly procedure.
i like the dismantling tool, it seems very practical!
The new camera must be set to American. You don't sound Canadian anymore. Seriously. The audio is funky.
Another epic work completed. Still, perhaps, not the masterpiece the pressure washer piece was. That one damn near killed me; granted I was half a bottle in.
Whatfor5 I’ve never seen that one. Any links to it?
Very loquatious of you, eloquent and truethful.
I'm sitting here high as fuck and I thought I was tripping listening to this guy talk. Wise words
Mark Styn me right now af
"I happened to have purchased a tool to dismantle this"
Nearly drowned in my coffee laughing at that bit!
Soak that camera in wd40.. should fix it
Takes me back first video I ever watched from ave.
your way with words has gotten a subscription instantly
Not that I'm illiterate or anything, but I can't understand what you're talking about half the time, but that being said I love the way you speak. XD
Damn, you got me hook, line and sinker. I was like huh? It takes a special tool to get it open? -smacks it with a hammer- Bahaha
I used to work with these little buggers all the time here in Australia. Through the supplier (for my company it was Staples) they cost about $35 a pop.
One day one of my employees cut the trip wire with a pair of scissors and the little thing went nuts, as it should. So we took it out back and put it in a cup of water for 72 hours. When we came back to check on it, it was still going off its nut beeping away.
Had to keep it in the cup for a week to eventually stop it from working - we couldn't be bothered dismantling it to take out the battery or cut the speaker.
As a security guard in the uk ive seen lots of these and took lots of them off and they have even helped me catch shop lifters.very useful and no i know what the inside looks like :) Thank you !!
maybe you should make another video where you use your " special disassembly tool" to show us what's inside your camera. haha.
So just put a wire on the wires that to around the box? Ok thanks! I'll have a ton of new stuff soon! ;)
Love your "opener tool"
Its takes a genius to make up your own language on the fly like this man.
If the ferrite coil side (not the electronic side) is wrapped in aluminum foil it does not set off the gate alarm.
Should have opened it with one of Big Clive's vices of persuasion.
Trakker Vice of Knowledge. ;)
Neat, I always wondered what was in that thing. Thanks for the video.
I love the lingo you use
So in other words cut the black wire not the red wire
He added red wire as a jumper cutting black without jumper will do same
how many futons per chooch?
You just showed us how to shop-lift. Thanks!
Thumbs up, interesting demonstration.
Hey, AvE, how many wraps, and what value is that cap on the RFID dingus? It could be quite amusing to build one, and say leave it in the bottom of someone's purse, so that whenever they go to the old Wallyworld, all hell breaks loose. heheh
When I worked retail I had one of these that refused to release the product, So I cut it off with my leatherman.
I was informed by my manager that those are about $20 each but I am not sure if that is accurate.
The problem is most of the time the thieves don't bother with taking the tag off, they just cut the box open and slip the product out.
Was wondering when you were gonna post something, what a pleasant surprise!
Another fine vid! BGetter than what they had when I was working retail and the then-new PSOne was kept on a tall sloping shelf with a woodscrew. Never saw the young manager run so fast than when that grew legs.
Turn the auto focus off and just manual focus it to like 12", then just use zoom to get in closer, since it won't go out of focus with zoom.
+Bentley Beckley The focus changes with the zoom, but manual focus is a good idea.
Randy Lott focus wont change with optical zoom. If you keep the camera the same distance that's all that matters.
+Vaes Joren Agreed. There are set focal points for each zoom range, at least on my DSLR lenses.
Stephen Steele This.
Like Stephen said, if you zoom in and focus on something, you can zoom out, or zoom in and the subject you focused on will stay in focus, provided neither the camera or subject move. I understand not everyone knows this, but I have first hand experience with it, so go try it out with your dslr, it blew my mind the first time I learned about it.
that feel when 22 year old unemployed deadbeat
Interesting video. Worth watching for the commentary alone!
I love how it continues to chooch after many iterations of the hammer.
Need moar futons and less cutting mat background for chimera to hocus it focus. Then it'll be skookum goodum.
This is so interesting to see. I work loss prevention with these things (We call them Spider-wraps).
Easily defeated with aluminium foil.
nick kennerley or magnets
with the spider layered or engraved in it?
Outstanding channel. Thanks for your great work.
the lateness of my contribution notwithstanding - fully 18 lunar cycles to be precise - i feel compelled to say that a camera with perfectly functioning autofocus would most certainly take the joy right out of this channel. those amongst you who can call yourselves regular viewers will know exactly what i mean.
Maybe it has a switch to turn off auto focus.
did I hear you say a new camera? if so it sucks, the old one sounded better
+bdot02 but the crappy focus is much worse
+robert singleton
I agree, the audio sounds off somehow, but who cares really..
Thanks for the video. I occasionally use the BFH too.
the narration in these videos always crack me up.
Grab some thin wire and a few needle style crimp on connectors and don't forget the good old sidecutters when you're on your next trip to best buy hahah
FYI not actually a good idea
Hunter S Thompson lives! he's hiding in Canada and has a youtube channel called AvE.
If HST was reincarnated to AvE, cocaine and shotgun golf would be the national sport, eh.
Loved it. Nothing like taking something apart with a hammer and still having it usable :) Well done. Cheers
Ave just taught us how to fool this alarm! with the wire wrapped around then you cut it and the circuit wasn't broken so thank you Ave
Don't forget about the RF.
True
+michael burke i would use alligator clips for a more reliable connection and what he did not mention was that it is just one wire wrapped around twice so if you cut it then you can simply take it off and leave it on the shelf
+Rod Dahl if you can fool the alarm and cut the wire, you don't need to take the thing out of the store, that's the thing, you only need the item you just stole (disclaimer: stealing is bad)
+michael burke That needed to taught? I looked one yesterday for 5 minutes and come up that same way, just out curiosity and i'm not well versed on electronics, or shoplifting.
I wondered when you be getting to smashing this
They are about $6 American. I've tacked on that amount to get a case to a felony several times, if the lifter damaged it or stole the item it was wrapped on. They do work well as a handle if you want to run out with several items.
That's the first time I've seen an fft used n a CZcams video. Well done!
It astounds me to see all these camera and lense experts on here! I won't claim to be and don't want to be one, but I thoroughly enjoy the debate they are holding in the comments! Love the videos, keep up the great content!
why not give her some power and scope the sound wave.
What's going on with the midnight sun videos failure to chooch?
+AvE how do I do that because I want to give you my hard earned $0.49
+AvE the problem is that I can't view comments on that video because I can't buy it. CZcams is annoying. I'll work on it. thank you for the work around.
+kumaclimber If you work it out, kumaclimber, can you update your comment here for others to see? I'm in the same boat as you - trying to work it out.
+Geoff Millar So I had been in the same boat, I was going to try kuma's trick and the damn thing just started playing after I clicked it from his channel. Now I feel bad, I just stole 1/2 a can of coke from AVE. I guess I'll have to setup a GD patreon account now to assuage my guilt.
+kumaclimber Workaround was a success, and I even got to pay for it to.
- Add the video to your Watch Later playlist.
- Go to Watch Later playlist and click the green money icon on the video.
- You should be given an option to rent or buy the video.
- Click agree and then you should be able to watch it!
Your special tool is the first thing that has made me laugh today
You being a sponsor of my fellow danes at Copenhagen Suborbitals just made me love you a tiny bit more, mister.
Couldn't agree with you more. Well, actually I could but it wouldn't be pretty if I did.
This is not RFID. It's either acoustic magnetic (made by Sensormatic) or RF (but not RFID as there is not data on the tag). Because it's a ferrite with a cap, I'm guessing you got this tag from a store that uses Checkpoint. With Checkpoint tags, the way they are deactivated is by blowing out the faux capacitor in the tag.
+jak p (skiguy09) I might be wrong here, but I thought on these types the ID is coming from a unique serial burned into the micro, or am I missing something?
+jak p (skiguy09) I don't think these are supposed to be deactivated. They are removed from the package using some kind of key and reused.
+zrobotics there is no unique ID. All that matters is that one of these passes through the door.
+Jim Fortune this is not supposed to be deactivated, that's why there is a real capacitor. I was drawing similarities to the disposable tag to conclude this is most likely from a Checkpoint store.
+Jim Fortune one of the panels holds the extra cable so it can be tightened around different things, they just drop out more cable and slip it off.
"It's quite piercing, actually..."
Yes, I'm not an expert in the field specifically, but I do believe a lot of research went into determining the exact frequencies that humans find the most uncomfortable, and pick up the easiest with their supplied sound detection apparatii.
Advertisers also made a mint on offering their customers ads that always appear to sound about 10dB louder than whatever is being broadcast right before they come on. There may be some overlap there...
I used to work at the homeless despot. i hated those spider wrap things! laughed like a little kid when you started whacking it with a hammer, because we did the same thing one day in the store with a malfunctioning one that wouldn't shut off with the magnet thingy. Thanks for making my night!
I'm sure everyone already commented to the fact that "keep your stick on the ice" is a red green show ending! Awesome!
Copenhagen Suborbitals! Alright!
I do asset protection for Home Depot there about 150 bucks for a box of 15 of those small ones
Howard you get into that industry?
+AvE i seriously doubt it, i watched someone put a SSD at the local computer store into their purse that was lined with looked like aluminum foil and walk right out the door without a single noise go off, by the time i found a manager to tell the person was nowhere to be found in the parkinglot
+AvE yeah there expensive and there suppose to work but the battery in those things are always running so after awhile they die and can't replace them so most of the ones won't make the speaker noise but the alarm will go off if you walk out with it even if the battery is dead
+storxusmc the foil one is a old trick to fool the small disposable white tags
hmm, then i have no clue why it didnt go off, it was a round thing like the one in the video
i love the focus moments, his aggrivation to it, is hilarious
some cameras have a auto focus app for a smart phone where once you get it into position tap the auto focus button on the phone and it will make your life easier.just throwing a concept out there for ya keep up the great work
I wonder what your neighbors think of you.
+AvE It could be a nice project to put a manual focus on your new camera... Wireless?
+Kyle Wade "Kids don't go near that guy, he practises witchcraft and suchlike"
+AvE I feel your pain brother. My garage is exudes a plethora of various sensory confuddlers such as sounds, smells and strange glows. But at the end of the day they ask me to fix things and help with home projects and will gladly pay me to do the things mere mortals could never fathom.
Brap Brap You realise that you are a "mortal" as well, don't you?
In fact every human being on this planet is as you say "mortal". GOD people like you get on my nerves.
brandon calin He ain't chooched his last quite yet! But it's people like YOU, the ones with no fricken sense of humor a'tall, that get on _my_ nerves :)
I work at Wal-Mart and they are just cheap electronic anti theft device I brake them all the time
Kyle Wienke I can tell you work at wal-mart considering you spelled "break" as "brake". Two words with the same sound. mid level error but most high school educated people and up would catch that.
Hey, you are calling out the guy for where he works? At least he has a job! And how do we know you're not just an unemployed homophone Nazi with a penchant for Scrabble??
:)
Alex V4, your sentence structure, punctuation, usage.....makes your insult much more painful to read than BoB's simple reduction.
actually, on that waveform analysis, the really big peak in the upper register is where the actual sound is. Since you were recording in your shop, the low frequencies are mostly white noise from various other sound sources. The spider wrap can't produce a note that deep since it has such a small sound source. Also, it has more harmonics than a triangle, but less than a square, or it just doesn't produce the very high harmonics and is a square wave.
Now if only the product it was wrapped around was made quite so well!
ey b0ss i habe a pixie
gibe da pixie pls
So proud
What does Ave look like? Anybody else curious
He's got antlers. I've seen 'em.
Laughed so hard, I love this guys videos
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that the coil you saw there was actually a part of the mech that detaches the main body of the lock to the plug end. We use these all the time where I work, and all you need to take it off is a magnet. To get the mech to move, you need to induce a force, so that someone with a paperclip can't bypass it.
Did anyone else find that noise.... ALARMing?
(I'm not sorry)
i like the way you talk
In the States, an office supply chain I can't mention Store internals were charging the stores something around $110 each for those "Spider Wraps" and even more for the self-alarming one you had here.
Sweet, perfect video after being away for a month and a half or so. I tried to get one of these when i worked in a retail store with them but couldn't :( Always wanted to take one apart.
What you need +AvE is something like the Lytro camera that lets you set the focus point in post.
+DrPortland The new Lytro Immerge can, but it's designed for 360 degree video. Check it out vimeo.com/144720702
Blessed be the uncle of uncles,to put it mildly thanks for ur teachings uncle ,I'm honoured to know u.
Most of these don't use RFID. They use a magnetic field that gets altered just so. One panel emits the field and the other looks for the specific change caused by the tag.
Or it uses an AM radio signal that gets resonates by the tag and detected by the sensor. Mostly witchcraft.
Do R/C!
length of wire with a sharpened crocogator clip at each end was essential equpment for shop lifters back in the 1980's