USB-Kabeltester USB-C-Kabeltester, Datenkabeltester Prüfplatine für USB-C, USB-A, Micro Mini Lightning-Kabel (WHL #114)

Simple test gear, this time from Amazon instead of AliExpress. A USB cable tester that sat around for well over a year – and was absolutely worth the money once I needed to use it.

First things first, I bought this back in February of 2024 on Amazon Germany, as AliExpress didn’t have the exact model available back then, for whatever reason. Seller was Treedix UK, shipping via Amazon, and with some other bits and pieces the order exceeded the free shipping threshold, so I only paid the 15.49€ for the item and no additional shipping cost. […]

26th October 2025 27th October 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment

Qbrick System PRO Toolcase foam inlay (WHL #113)

Back after a short training week for work in Köln, and some additional 2000km all over the Ruhr area, the Netherlands, and some B-roads in Belgium. While I prepared videos for my Beach Buggy channel, I simply was too lazy to do the same here, oops :)

Today’s post is about a small box from the Qbrick system (https://www.qbricksystem.com), specifically the toolcase from their “Pro” lineup. We have one of their larger boxes at work for 3D printer filament storage under low-humidity conditions, as recommended by a coworker. The large boxes are really sturdy, and, if one has the space, are genuinely worth their price. […]

12th October 2025 12th October 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment

VEVOR Drill Bits Sharpener 3-13mm Portable Sharpening Angle Grinder Mill Grinder Sharpener with 11 Collets For Factory Workshop (WHL #112)

As indicated lately, my drill bit sharpener journey hasn’t ended with the two diamond wheels that I got for free, but instead I bought a more serious tool. Sure, as always, there are way better devices out that can also handle smaller, or bigger, or specialized drills – but I think this one is more than decent for non-commercial use and surely oversized for what I usually do. It’s easy enough to operate every now and then without reading the manual again (and crashing the first drill inserted), and while it could be smaller and lighter, it’s probably is on the lower end of what a durable sharpener has to weigh in order to survive years and decades unfazed. […]

21st September 2025 22nd September 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment

AI assisted construction of a Euro coin holder (#P48)

Yeah everything AI is cool at the moment, but can it do useful stuff as well? I recently got fed up with the plastic bag that I throw surplus coins into and wanted some kind of holder for easy dispensal. Doesn’t have to be a fancy mechanism (although that would be neat), I just need to temporarily store a few coins in an orderly fashion. I simply like to leave the house with a known, useful amount of assorted Euro coins, that’s all.

Searching the interwebs yielded this item from jeremrem: thing 55855

Nice, but not perfect. For whatever reason, the slots aren’t evenly spaced. […]

7th September 2025 9th September 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment

Multipurpose Drill Bit Grinding Sharpener Wear-Resistant Diamond Grinding for Impact Electric Drill Sharpener Drill Bits (WHL #111)

As evident by me not posting last week or the week before (shame!), my current priorities aren’t so much on the electronics DIY side. However, I do have a cool drill bit sharpener presentation coming up, and I just realized that I can contrast this with some utter crap that I already bought a year ago. Meet: The drill-powered drill bit sharpener

Okay, first things first: Bought in August of 2024 for 7.28€, received it, had a good laugh at that turd, made a short video (down below) to ask for a refund, and got to keep it afterwards. So including the 1€ “late delivery” coupon that was ubiquitous at the time, I came out okay financially and also no drill bit was hurt in the process. […]

24th August 2025 24th August 2025 By Bzzz In 1 Comment

20pcs/set 0.3mm-1.6mm Mini High Speed Steel Twist Drill Bit Set Micro HSS drill bit set with Case (WHL #110)

There’s this saying attributed to Albert Einstein:

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

So if I wanted to replace a mini drill bit set because many drills are already missing, and the replacement set is fake and only consists of a fraction of the advertised drill sizes – what do I do?

Exactly.

I order the very same thing again, just from a different seller, and expect a complete set of drill bits

So, here’s what I ordered:

I own pretty much the same item, but with an orange base. […]

3rd August 2025 3rd August 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment

Siemens WT44W162 iQ300/iQ500 dryer front door (WHL #109)

Here’s a super quick, simple, clean PSA: The bottom front cover of a Siemens WT44W162 that covers the fan and some air ducts…

(ha, second press photo directly from Siemens!)

…is held in by these clips:

Good fucking luck with that.

Of course there’s no such thing as a quick PSA on this blog.

First of all, there are nine breakable plastic clips that need to be depressed simultaneously in a careful manner, which will not happen on any unit that needs the front removed (mine’s mid-2016 vintage now, 429€ + 35€ shipping and installation). […]

20th July 2025 3rd August 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment

Europcar and the Mercedes-Benz account (#E26)

At the very beginning of this year, I had to rent a car for a week (*expensive cough*). So after a bit of consideration of pricing, locations, availability and rental models/conditions, I went with Europcar.

Not complaints here, worked out wonderfully. I opted for a “CCAE” vehicle, which in Europcar speak is a Cupra Born, VW ID3, Citroen DS3 or similar – a small-ish electric car that is suitable for medium distances of like 150 to 250km, so no luxury cruiser, but also not a city vehicle. A former colleague had a Born but I never rode with him, and the Europcar station in question had one listed. […]

6th July 2025 6th July 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment

MicroSD speed comparison addition – Samsung Pro Plus 512GG MB-MD512SA/EU (WHL #96F1)

Small addition to the pool of WHL #96 and WHL #100 MicroSD card tests – a new 512GB whopper, called the Samsung Pro Plus.

Unlike with the last purchase of a new largest-ever card for me, the 256GB Samsung EVO Plus, this time I’m not running out of space on the largest disk (used for backups). Instead, it’s more down the usage chain for older ones. Specifically, in my camera – ever since I started filming my runs on Tesla Beach Buggy racing, I’ve had the problem of full memory cards at the end of the day, or worse – during the day. […]

29th June 2025 6th July 2025 By Bzzz In 1 Comment

Full Tesla Beach Buggy Racing video collection (#P47)

Look, I couldn’t be arsed to post something last week. Or the week before. So here it goes:

I’ve been making stupid videos on Youtube / for Youtube. 25+ to be precise, since I now have a full collection of ALL the tracks that can be played on every MCU2(+) Tesla there is (which, notably, excludes Elons space roadster orbiting us, since that doesn’t have a MCU nor a GPS fix to properly log into the game).
Back when being the first to ever run all 25 different tracks by visiting 25 specific superchargers around the country, I had to assume. […]

15th June 2025 16th June 2025 By Bzzz In No Comment