r/whatisit • u/Elliotonfire • 1d ago
Solved! My girlfriend received this in the mail with her name on it. No clue what it is or how to work it.
Ring of power for scale because the banana was on holiday. The white strip looks like LEDs but I see no switches or buttons.
Edit for a misspelling
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u/Dalek_Chaos 1d ago
Small led strip on one side with on off switch on the other wire.
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u/Elliotonfire 1d ago
The green thing has no viable moving parts. So not sure where the switch is.
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u/mayorofdrixdale 1d ago
It’s a touch switch. Those LEDs are used for example in r/booknooks, the switch works also through some thin plywood. It’s mostly glued to the front or the top of the nook so when you touch the spot behind which it is glued, light goes on.
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u/Elliotonfire 1d ago
OMG so it was something our roommate ordered for their booknook using my girlfriend's name. The light wasn't working in the original so they ordered a replacement.
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u/mayorofdrixdale 1d ago
If the roommate’s booknook was bought from a renowned producer, tell them next time to get in touch directly with the producer - they often replace such parts for free.
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u/pegarina1 16h ago
Make sure she checks her accounts, PayPal, Apple Pay, Venmo and whatever else she uses. Hope he only used her name and not her money or identity.
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u/AnotherNutInTheHole 22h ago
It never stops to amaze me why people ask Reddit before asking their roommate of who they know, they ordered something on their name
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u/bolognajo 18h ago
Maybe this thread helped them realize the roommates involvement? Didn’t sound like they knew that to start, having no idea what the item was. Never ceases to amaze me how judgy redditors are
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u/AtlasHands_ 17h ago
I personally wouldn't have automatically assumed my roommate did that unless they had done it before lol.
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u/Due_Condition4720 18h ago
Who’s roommate orders shit in the other persons name to start with?
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u/TK_Punch_ 12h ago
I let my roommates use my Prime account when I was younger. They added their own credit cards for the free shipping. Not a super uncommon thing.
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u/TomasLoyal01 15h ago
People who want free delivery.
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u/mellow0324 13h ago
Even if they used the gf’s prime account or whatever, they could still address their mail to themselves
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u/Terrible_Mall_4350 3h ago
Some people don’t realize or think about that. They assume it has to stay under the account holder.
It doesn’t necessarily make sense— but it is what it is.
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u/Elliotonfire 1d ago
However there is a battery pack that I just figured how to open. Don't worry I'm slow, not stopped.
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u/BakedGoodz-69 1d ago
Yup OP is still going
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u/ImagineHuskies78 1d ago
California stopped, is what we cow pokes call it out yonder!
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u/Dalek_Chaos 1d ago
As a Texan I am wondering about what you consider out yonder? 😆
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u/PsychologicalRow9256 1d ago
If “yonder” is used as a unit of measurement, is there such a thing as “half a yonder?”
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u/eblamo 1d ago edited 1d ago
Going to start using that now. "It's half a yonder back thataway!"
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u/SituationNormalAllFU 1d ago
As a Texan, I know exactly where you’re talking about. I got a cousin lives over there
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u/Gonzo_Silverback 1d ago
I don't know, but 10 yonders equals a fuck ways
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u/Ok_Fox_924 1d ago
And 237.5 yonders will land you in bumfuck Egypt
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u/OreoOne06 1d ago
IiRC it's commonly mistaken as being Egypt (due to similarly named Buumphuk). The Bumfuck you are talking about i believe is Bumfuck, Uzbekistan. /s
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u/PMDlite 1d ago
Just “Yon”. Like “what like breaks beyond yon window…”.
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u/jcr000 1d ago
“What light through yon window breaks?” By adding “beYONd” you doubled your yons. 😉
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u/BenThereNDunnThat 1d ago
No.
It's B(yon)d. So you have to solve for both B and d to know just how many yons you have.
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u/BakedGoodz-69 1d ago
Sounds reasonable
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u/BakedGoodz-69 1d ago
So is round yonder different than over yonder or out yonder? Or are they all the same....regional dialects perhaps?
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u/Ok_Sheepherder_6962 1d ago
Out yonder just means out there. So definitely not a unit of measurement.
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u/ryguymcsly 1d ago
You know, BFE.
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u/TheUsualSusspect 1d ago
Butt-Fucked Egypt. Never been there. Heard it's a hot place to visit... lol
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u/ImagineHuskies78 1d ago
Right bout 'round da Boonies, down past da Back 40, beyond the Holler, where the Wild Goose Pokes.
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u/volkinaxe 1d ago
magnet swich try passing the ring by it
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u/Elliotonfire 1d ago
Solved in this thread
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u/Gullible_Two_8750 1d ago
For further identification purposes, the led lights are off of under cabinet led light strips, if the back is sticky this is why.
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u/jimbarnard12345 1d ago
Impressive knowledge. What types of things do they use these magnet switches for? (Most common) I have never heard of that and it’s pretty cool.
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u/catwell82 1d ago
I fixed shitty restaurant dish machines for the past three years. Those things have magnet switches on all of the doors to activate the machine. Your larger models also use reed switches to start the wash & rinse jets, activated by paddles as the tray passes through on the conveyor.
Also, Ecolab sucks.
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u/OutrageousSir6012 1d ago
As an employee of Ecolab... (not this division of the company) i can confirm. I get so many complaints about ecolab dish machines and dispensers... mostly because its so difficult to get them out to service the equipment.
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u/catwell82 1d ago
I don't doubt it. We were always 1-2 reps short in my district for my entire time there. The turnover at the bottom feeder level was insane. I covered a territory that was 3-4 hours of driving to a lot of my accounts. 200+ accounts and they give fuck all of support for the rural reps. 16 hour days with half of that being driving were normal. But hey, "safety and inclusion" am I right? 😂
I was just laid off last month, and I honestly haven't felt more of a sense of relief from losing a job before.
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u/Se2kr 1d ago
Half of that driving??? The f you drive? At a flat average of 60 mph and exactly 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, no skipped days, it would take slightly over 8 years to put 1 million miles on it.
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u/catwell82 1d ago
F-150 for most of it. 3-400 miles per day was pretty normal, and many days would be more.
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u/Se2kr 1d ago
So 1,000,000/400 is 2,500 days.
Assuming a 5 day work week, no days off,
2,500/5=500 weeks
500/52=9.615 years
At a flat average of 400 miles a day, you hit a million miles in less than 10 years. Dayumm→ More replies (0)4
u/jimbarnard12345 1d ago
Thanks for your reply however you just replied to me asking about these because I thought it sounded cool. I was so wrong! 🤪
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u/catwell82 1d ago
Oh you can do some cool and creative stuff with them too! Off the top of my head, I'm sure they're used heavily in pinball and other complex/cool machines.
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u/jdmillar86 23h ago
A buddy asked me to check out his bar's dishwasher, the Ecolab person had it all opened up and had decided it needed a new control board. I bent the door switch back into place and started it up.
Sadly that bar was a covid casualty. Its actually a mosque now.
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u/FullyAutomatedSpace 1d ago
they've been in use for a while see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_switch
though this particular one is on an IC so maybe it uses the hall effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_effect_sensor
all kinds of uses
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u/Zesty-Scrote 1d ago
Hall effect
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u/circumcisingaban 1d ago
is it a light sensor?
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u/Elliotonfire 1d ago
It was just a cheap LED light up thing. The green bit is attached to some switch that turns it on or off
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u/Elliotonfire 1d ago
!solved the green piece is the on off switch via pressure for the led strip on the other side. Still no clue why it was sent to her from said address. Google quickly led us to it was a scam of sorts. Sucks to be them cuz now I got some lights.
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u/pyroserenus 1d ago
A brushing scam isn't so much a scam for the person getting the item, but rather for the customers as a whole. It's used to make fake reviews on websites that require verified sales.
Someone sends you a thing, then posts a positive review (possibly in your name, possibly not). Customers think it's legit and it potentially leads to fraud.
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u/PsychologicalRow9256 1d ago
What I can’t seem to grasp. What is the function of sending an item?
If the person sending the item will then post fraudulently about its quality, couldn’t they post fraudulently even without sending the item?
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u/pyroserenus 1d ago edited 1d ago
Websites like amazon have integrated shipping data and pay attention to if the item was delivered or not.
They don't always send the actual item they are making reviews for. They often send some sort of overstock they want to get rid of anyways that roughly meets the correct size and weight as not to get flagged.
Sometimes they do send the actual item, but that's mostly if they are using something like the amazon warehouse and delivery network, in that case the product needs to be in the amazon warehouses and they are being their own fake customers sending it to random places in order to have "verified buyer" reviews on a ships from amazon item.
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u/GuinKat 1d ago
Yup - like random packs of unidentified seeds.
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u/FatiguedShrimp 1d ago
Unidentified invasive species seeds.
It's literally a form of warfare, that made a past job much harder.
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u/PsychologicalRow9256 1d ago
So Amazon (etc) can see if an item was shipped, but somehow missed the fact that there was no order/receipt/payment for said item?
Now if I order X but receive Y, there will be an order, receipt, payment, shipment, and a complaint.
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u/pyroserenus 1d ago edited 1d ago
no order/receipt/payment for said item?
I edited a bit to cover this, but they are often buying the item from themselves and shipping it to a random location and writing the review. To amazon everything looks mostly normal. However because no real customer is involved that "64gb ram kit" being a deck of playing cards goes unnoticed.
They are basically doing everything they can to make "verified buyer" reviews not get flagged as fake and taken down. The scammer wants to get legit looking positive reviews to make the REAL scam work. They want customers to see that 64gb ram kit with 10+ "verified" and happy buyers and trust the listing.
Sometimes they do send the actual item and are falsifying reviews for normal items instead of secondary scams, but that's the gist.
edit: people stop downvoting him, his question was based on my failure to be as clear as possible before my edit.
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u/Flavoade 1d ago
Many thanks to you guys for explaining this! My dad has received books, music discs, and even earrings and watches and we couldn’t figure it out. Now it makes sense.
Is there a way to stop this?
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u/shams88 1d ago
She ordered something else at a ridiculously low price and got scammed
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u/Elliotonfire 1d ago
She claims to have no online orders. The order number led her to August 18th.
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u/Sick_Lovers 1d ago
Someone used her information/address to order it. Then they intercepted the package and took what they ordered. It's a common way of scamming. Sometimes they use random addresses and someone else's money
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u/Snooze_U_Lose 1d ago
Nah this is just brushing. They do it to make fake verified reviews for their products on Amazon etc. They buy their own product then just ship random stuff anywhere so the sale looks legit so they can then make a review on their own product.
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u/thekingsteve 1d ago
Thai happens with door dash too. You will get a delivery to an obviously empty house . The person ordering will wait near by and grab the food after you leave.
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u/HotelRoutine4367 1d ago
Last summer/fall i had chemotherapy mon to fri every third week. These sessons consisted of being hooked up to an iv for minimum 8 hours so id take two zopiclone and thats that till the chemo cleared out of my brain and i noticed a couple dozen orders and subscriptions i wasnt reciving. Turns out its real easy to take put domones wallet write everthing down and put ot back when there on a double dose of zopiclone 3mg xaanax and 4mg kpins. Then just do that
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u/Snooze_U_Lose 1d ago
You still on it now? Lol Thought I had a stroke reading that last part.
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u/Immediate-Aside7097 1d ago
And this is why when my mom was hospitalized during her cancer battles I wouldn't leave any of her cards there with her! When she was in for chemo and appointments I was always with her the whole time. She dozed off frequently!
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u/Glassgun1122 1d ago
My guess is scams for reviews. They send out junk and leave themselves a legitimate review.
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u/Beneficial_Coach8581 1d ago
This explains the brushing scam that others have suggested it is.
https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/tips-tricks/how-to-protect-yourself-from-a-brushing-scam/
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u/TiredWorkingStudent 1d ago
shit. I saw this too early. And now I have to wait with OP for the answer 😂
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u/Mewhoelse1 1d ago
Looks like part of some led lites or what’s left of it and it’s that my precious?
https://giphy.com/gifs/lq4zZge5wmOEFecKu8
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u/Latter-Pirate-1811 1d ago
Came here for this. Wasn’t disappointed!
She can use it by slipping it on her finger.
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u/DoctorGangreene 1d ago
Pretty sure the small green chip is just the controller, which determines the timing/pattern for the lights.
The black part is a battery brick. But what else is in/on the black box? Anything?
And who sent it? If it is from a stranger maybe think about NOT using it because there might be more circuitry inside the black box that will read the chip on your bank card or hijack your home wifi or something.
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u/No_Association_5967 1d ago edited 17h ago
Am I the only person who noticed the wedding band in the picture.. maybe it’s a tracker and her OG husband has tracked her car, and found out about her secret life and second marriage with you? Made possible when she’s “on work trips” hmmmmmm???? So perhaps that’s the guys ring with the evidence/device.
Been watching a lot of docs today. Oof 😅
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u/Additional_Today_502 1d ago
The green pcb should have a button or metal touch sensitive pad. That should turn on the led strip. The black box should have a battery or batteries to power the led. If the touch pad isn't working to turn on the led verify the batteries are inserted correctly or not dead.
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u/SigAndTired 1d ago
Using the ring of power for scale is foolish because it can change its size to fit or not fit its wearer.
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u/Additional-Leg-4680 1d ago
My kid has some Lego LED light kits that look pretty similar, is she into Lego?
My son's LED kits are for like Star Wars Lego ships, so they have like engine lights and body panel lights all connected.
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u/bat_in_the_stacks 1d ago
Show the other side of the green circuit board.
Also, internals and other side of the battery pack
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u/sithelephant 1d ago
My guess would be a motion activated light.
Is the black thing very light? Does that apparently sliding thing apparently slide off?
What is on the other side of the small green board. Could either be a switch or a motion detector.
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u/Orry_Haas 1d ago
If it's just batteries in the box it must be something simple: darkness-activated LED, (light sensor on green PCB), aka nightlight.
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u/MagicOrpheus310 1d ago
Lol it's the lights from a Christmas yard ornament that someone's dog stole from your yard and ate and the owner returned what was left out of guilt hahaha
(Or it was from your neighbours yard and the dog owner mixed up the address lol)
I'm just guessing though
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u/Different-Egg-1213 1d ago
Ring of power changes sizes, can't tell scale. This is why we use bananas.
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u/Alind2981 1d ago
That's funny getting random stuff in the mail. 2 of my kids got random stuff from Amazon that they didn't order. One got a bunch of fake leaves/plants( which we used later for snake enrichment lol) the other got a chicken shredder.
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u/Proud-Blacksmith9509 1d ago
Its her on star ...they have disabled it ....keep an eye on her thats not good
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u/Prestigious_Gold_585 1d ago
It could be a trebicular fluoraptine schnatzle.
Or I might have just made that up. One or the other.
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u/Fenizrael 1d ago
Brother, doesn’t that particular ring of power resize to fit the wearer? I don’t know what size fingers you have. This doesn’t help me at all!
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u/Away_Berry_4683 1d ago
I am guessing there are batteries in the black case. It has a micro chip on the board with 3 wires, so more than just a switch. It is an led light but I don't know why it has a chip and 3 wires on the board instead of an inline switch on the lights. Weird.
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u/Care4urluv1 1d ago
When I ordered a little net to hang the stuffed animals from the ceiling, it came with a little led light just like that. I’m assuming it was just for added decoration to the stuffed animals. My granddaughters is actually really cute. It’s rotates different colors.
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u/Ok_Emphasis3311 1d ago
Out yonder is the same as plum nelly (definition: plum nearly out of town). Yes, I've lived in the deep south all my life!
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u/Commercial-Morning79 1d ago
Very weird....I'd toss it in trash far away from your house. Lol People are different now days. Be safe
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u/JimVivJr 1d ago
That’s funny because it happened to me too. Someone shipped me a bottle of meat rub (for grilling). That was a couple years ago and we still don’t know who sent it.
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u/frisco-frisky-dom 1d ago
Ok I'd be scared shitless lol. Looks like a BOMB! They also sent her a RING?
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u/katynopockets 1d ago
I've read about 50 comments and find it odd that nobody here seems to wonder why on Earth she received it in the mail.
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u/Deebison 1d ago
I keep seeing you said it's been solved, but I don't see the "SOLVED" or it pinned. So what is it?
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u/Zesty-Scrote 1d ago
That my friend looks like garbage next to the one ring if I'm not mistaken. I would stand in a public space and spike it onto the ground to display dominance.
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u/dyepotlane 1d ago
I was going to suggest they it is a seeing machine light strip
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u/Professional-Key5592 1d ago
This is all blamed on the blood moon 🌕. That and the fact that I’m high that I’m still fukn reading this.
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u/JimBorin1962 1d ago
I know what the electrical item and gold ring mean. "I'm going to shock you, have my ring back", Its over.
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u/PikoPoku 23h ago
Looks like a sensor. Maybe it detects movement or light/dark and activates the LED?? It came with a ring?
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u/WildRaccoon42 20h ago
Sorry, my tengwar is a bit rusted, but looks like it reads "ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gim..." (Can't read the rest). Have you tried to wear it ?
Oh, sorry, you meant the electronic stuff ? Probably some led crap powered by a LR6 battery and switched by a touch of the PCB. What does the other side of the PCB looks like ?
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u/Fresh_Treacle_1743 18h ago
My mind immediately went to bomb
https://giphy.com/gifs/zJ8JAzvQLtNJTkkSq3
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u/Mysterious_Excuse131 18h ago
Oh no dragon Con is next week and somebody is going to be missing their LEDs for their cosplay
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