Dick's Gadget Warehouse & How to Submit Your Viewer Video On Any Gadget!

Our email of the week is about a year long project that cost over $5,000. You'll see the amazing story in this week's show. Here's the email from Major Frenchy:

Chad , Dick you 2 are my weekly laugh and thank you for this.

I built a virtual pinball machine which uses the body of a Real pinball machine with 3 screens, running a windows 10 computer. There are actually near 2000 different tables including all classics like Attack from mars, Indiana jones and some of the newer 3d tables created by Zen studios.

Here is the link for my video submission: https://youtu.be/hhPKC5vg7KA

I can not unfortunately explain the whole building process but i created a guide and i have a full series dedicated to it on my Youtube Channel. I went all in for this one because it was used in my Tutorial and i was showing people how to add all the bells and whistles. I have invested over 5000$ In this one.

Features : boat Blower fan: this will send air in my face in certain tables.

10 contactors ( this is a mechanical flipper and bumper noise )

Addressable LED ( Lots of them ) / Strobe, Shaker motor, gear motor, Chime

Here's the link for my tutorial if people want to build one:

Virtual Pinball A-Z : https://www.mameinabox.com/s/Virtual-Pinball-A-Z-10-1-1.pdf

My Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/mameinabox

And a video describing all the features on my cabinet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY8QFCTJCyg

Thanks Major Frenchy

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We’d love to include your video in an upcoming Giz Wiz Show, so here's what we're looking for! Your home shot video – 2 to 3 minutes long, in any of the following categories:
I bought a piece of crap: Did you buy something you ended up hating? We won't get you a refund, but we might be able to give a platform to vent your disappointment. Remember, "family friendly" language applies.
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I invented this! Did you invent something? (Or did a friend or relative invent something.) We can't market it for you, but we can help get the word out. Show us what it is, and how it works. Even if it's a prototype, you can get our (and the audience) reactions. No professional ads please.
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My Gadget Warehouse: Okay, so you don't have a warehouse. It doesn't matter. Just tell us about your favorite old gadget(s). When and where you bought it, and why you're still hanging on to it.
   My Favorite Gadget (favorite old, or favorite new): Show us what it is, tell us what it does and why you love, or loved it! It can be a new gadget you just bought too.
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Post them on YouTube and send us the link! We'll do the rest. (Or possibly nothing, but that's unlikely.) Remember, videos should be just 2 to 3 minutes long! Low production value is fine, but we should be able to hear you and see you! If we select and show your video on The Giz Wiz you’ll earn a tiny amount of fame (hopefully). And if you live in the US, you'll also get an autographed 35-year-old Alfred E. Neuman picture and a MAD surprise (most likely the current issue of MAD.) But no matter where you live, I can email an autographed to you Alfred E. Neuman photo if we show your video. Just print it out, frame it, or just hang it up and no one will know it's a copy. We've tested it out and fans say they look terrific!

All show submissions go to mail@gizwiz.tv

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Letter of the week:

Like our warehouse video this is also incredible. Our letter writer is Anjie Emmett, who it turns out, is a NASA mechanical engineer. Here's her email:

Hi Dick!

Thank you for the kind words about my video submission (the folding proofing box), and THANK YOU SO MUCH for my autographed MAD swag!! I can’t wait to frame the picture and magazine and hang them up at work J

I’d like to return the favor and send you some swag from a recent flight test that I worked on – Ascent Abort 2 (AA-2). It launched last month, and was a functional test of the Launch Abort System (LAS) for NASA’s Orion spacecraft.

Here is a fact sheet for the test:

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/aa2_fact_sheet.pdf

Here are animations and actual footage of the launch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HK9G7feXEk

And the actual launch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rfsDMGplZU&feature=youtu.be

My job was to make sure that the boilerplate crew module that we used to test the Launch Abort System had the same mass and center of gravity as a manned crew module.

https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-nws-nasa-langley-orion-test-20180215-story.html

Cheers! Anjie