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[0:00] So I'm definitely marking this video sponsored, but I was sent a set of these werewolf power things

[0:08] I don't know exactly how to describe them, but they make some like power banks

[0:12] This is a MagSafe one and power supplies and things like that

[0:15] But what interested me somebody emailed me about this I don't know months ago

[0:20] And it was a Kickstarter that I think is complete now these are actually shipping and they're I'll put a link

[0:26] It's called the V flex. I think it is. I'll put a link to this stuff

[0:30] It's from a little startup called werewolf, but you'll notice that these are like DC connections

[0:37] So there's a bunch of different ends

[0:39] if you deal with like mini PCs and

[0:43] SBCs and things like that you're gonna end up with a collection of power adapters

[0:46] With these types of ends and you always have the one that you don't need so you always have like the skinnier one when you actually need

[0:53] the fat one and

[0:55] The other problem that I have is a lot of times my power supplies will be the right connector

[0:59] But it's 12 volts and it needs to be 24 or it's 12 and it needs to be 19 or whatever and

[1:06] This this V flex thing is made to be like a universal USB-C based solution for any voltage

[1:13] And the way that that works is they have these little adapters these are USB-C

[1:18] to this little end that they have and that plugs into one of these guys

[1:23] So I actually had a project where at home I forgot to bring home my power supply

[1:29] So I couldn't finish this there. I found this on big clive. This is like a solder together DIY clock kit

[1:36] And I wanted to put this together for some fun with one hertz gear

[1:42] Because this this basically is a glorified counter it counts up to 60 then it counts up to 60 and it counts up to 24

[1:48] And has a whole clock board that you solder together yourself. So finish this

[1:53] during the snow and

[1:55] I couldn't turn it on and I brought it here

[1:58] And I was just going to connect it to my power supply

[2:00] But I thought this is the perfect time to finally test this thing out that I've had sitting in a box here for a while

[2:05] They make this adapter that goes from their little little USB-C box here to

[2:10] Just a ground and positive connection so I can connect that into here and to show how this works

[2:17] I'm going to program this to be five volts

[2:20] So it'll take any USB-C input and say hey negotiate five volts and give me five volts for this clock

[2:26] Which is what I think this clock is supposed to take it says right here. Yeah five volts

[2:30] So I'm going to do that really quick and show you how this works

[2:33] It's just a little web app and I think you can even self-host the web app

[2:37] It just uses web 0 the program it you need to have a USB-C cable that's capable of passing data

[2:42] And they include some of these in their kit that are good for that

[2:46] But I've noticed that I've had to go back and like

[2:49] retest all my cables because some will carry the serial connection fine

[2:53] other ones don't

[2:55] And that's besides all the cables that do like a hundred watts or 60 watts or barely anything

[3:01] So yeah, USB-C cables are annoying

[3:04] But at least this is I think a way to make them a little bit less annoying for power delivery

[3:09] So I'm just going to plug this

[3:12] Straight into my Mac and little blue light comes on and for web serial support

[3:17] You have to use chrome or I think that Microsoft Edge might support it or any chrome-based browser

[3:22] I can't do it in safari, but you go to vflex.app

[3:26] And it shows that I'm connected to this little guy and it's set to 12 volts so that would fry my clock right now

[3:33] I'm going to click modify and change this to five volts save

[3:38] And I think this should be fine

[3:40] But yeah, like that's the whole interface. There's some other stuff in here. You can have an account

[3:45] I don't know what you'd need the account for maybe there's future functionality

[3:48] But I'm just doing this as a guest basically

[3:51] But each of these devices I guess has its own little unique serial number

[3:55] Anyway, so there we go. Let's

[3:58] Close out of here and before I plug this into there and let's see

[4:02] Let's see if this little power meter they included a little power meter

[4:05] I guess for making sure that the things are the way they say they are

[4:09] Let's make sure this power meter says five volts now. Yep, 5.21

[4:14] So this should work now

[4:17] If I take this guy

[4:20] I'll have five volts this these only go one way. There's a little key here

[4:24] I'm going to take it and plug it in and now we should be getting five volts there

[4:28] I think what I'll do is I'll actually unplug this for now

[4:32] Now just because I don't like having it plugged in while I'm connecting things together

[4:41] Okay

[4:42] so a moment of truth and

[4:46] This is just plugged into my computer

[4:51] There we go

[4:54] so

[4:55] Two good things that I've discovered one. This is working

[4:59] Two this is using less than a lot of power and three apparently all of my soldering worked

[5:05] This is the first time I've turned this on so

[5:08] Three things I'm happy about there and

[5:11] It's kind of a cool setup and I'm going to be testing some of their other stuff and you might see it in some other projects that I work on

[5:17] But it is it's extremely handy especially for the fact that if you get one of these kits

[5:23] You have all these different connections that you might need

[5:26] And just having them in a little bag on my workbench is nice because it's not fun to always have to use a DC power supply to do all this stuff

[5:35] Anyway, yeah, that's level 2 Jeff for you

[5:38] I'll link to these I'm marking the video sponsored because these were sent to me

[5:42] But I might order another set for home at this point

[5:45] I was actually talking to where we'll a couple days ago and they sent over a kit for my dad to test too

[5:53] So you might see these on gearling engineering sometime too and you will definitely see this clock again at some point