hi my name is Marty and I'm from iFixit
and I'm here with my sons today Rilo
hello and Owen and we're looking at this
bb-8 lamp that has some cool features
check that out and you touch the top it
lights up and that cool
looks like there's different moods on
that so there's Wyatt and you touch it
again turns orange another time what
happens on that one white and and then I
think it's slowly toward orange or it's
white no one's more like when I go to
those turn on and what happens to be
touch it again oh oh not cool you guys
wonder how that works I think it's kind
of a touchscreen on earth I kind of
interesting
Oh any other ideas ah a big button a big
button so there might be something
you're actually touching and pushing
down or some physical switch missing
right right if you touch this side I
don't even have to touch it really so
you don't feel anything you like
no see you watch it wow that may be a
magnetic feels like it helped energy so
cool things happen so magnetic energy
that other kind of energies do you think
it might be moving this one one we can
keep plugged in it ticking so
electricity electricity might happen to
it so what do you think you guys wanna
take it apart take it apart figure out
how everything works awesome
well the first thing we should do is
probably think about safety so let's
head it offers you guys can turn it off
you did it with the force okay now let's
unplug that part right there there okay
so it's off and there's no power so now
let's take a look on you think they're
in chemistry okay let's try it
does one work as a team to see if that
works
we'll be out here well don't force it we
don't want to break it so you can
experiment to see if that's a way to get
it off
are you turning it on tighter well if
there's power going up there may be
something inside them could be getting
twisted what other way can we get into
you guys look around if there's another
land there looks good huh I was trying
to give it a non-destructive way to get
in okay let's see what's there on the
bottom not really
well that might speak it up so let's see
let's see if there's a way that we can
get in yeah I don't know it's like a
felt pad at the bottom okay gentlemen I
want to put this one back together when
I have to decide and the core do you
have some clothes and anything to a hole
in the top and it's leading from reading
it's reading from you it's outside in
crema kala actually let's disconnect the
power port because I see the wires go up
into the head and then I make our job
easier so let's see which one fits get a
smaller one I'll be going try that
scream
Victoria good teamwork one do you feel
it moving anything
no that's it awesome so now let's keep
track of all our parts we come over here
so keep all our parts straight great
talk about this when we get back
together let's see if we just give it
twist I'm gonna keep doing it back away
just slowly and I'll watch here mine
looks okay so far okay sanity's our guys
go down to being in the bottom you know
what I think you got to reach up and
hold in that the net is going around
there okay hey great Oh see this won't
come out what is in it it won't come out
so there's been no I think you need that
pick again excellent so what do you say
here before we start getting in there
like so we put a plastic disc maybe it's
just easy I got an idea what if you tap
it it's easy let's hold it up see of
gravity to elbow can I pick
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that's probably right sitting Jenny's
gonna understand come together yeah I
can get call me I think we might need
more of me try that maybe these pixel
help us get in there
I see why we needed so many injections
good mmm popped it off of that lip be
gentle you know it feels like it's
inside our computers computer chips yeah
this looks like a diffuser for the light
and it looks like a Pelle D right and
then we ask you this ball - take that
whole thing at it looks like there's a
circuit board in there is that what's in
the head no matter it's just a bolt just
a bolt so pretty much empty we took
always without alright what do you guys
think this thing is doesn't probably the
thing that makes the magnetic field
clear them that's right I'm not so sure
it's a magnetic field I think it's using
electricity maybe it'll help us be trace
where this wire days can you check that
black wire down and to that little tiny
thing right there huh let's take a
closer look at this now you're ready
pull talked about the LED bulbs signal
all going around right you could see the
different colored ones maybe when we
topped it there was yellow ones and
orange ones you can see things here but
LCCC on that
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there's your one on YouTube is you one
in YouTube so alright so those are
little micro processors u1 and u2 and
these ours are resistors we were just
talking about that today in school apps
really what you learn about resistors at
school today after visit electricity so
what does that mean to resist
electricity tonight's lows it doesn't it
stop some of the voltage that way it
doesn't burn out the LEDs exactly
because this is getting power from our
wall something right so it's on a higher
voltage but these LEDs are extremely
efficiently only need a little bit about
yeah so how do you think it works that
was a big question because this thing's
on here and then the cap would set on it
and it wouldn't touch so how would that
work
well I D like holes in there and there
any clues inside the head well what's in
it what do you see it gray paint and
glued on oh all right so why would they
agree on a book right there
Satan's agree to hunt and if you screwed
that on what is this that a contact
right and we know that metal is a
conductor right yeah that's definitely
metal now this thing is actually an
antenna and so what happens is there's
an electrical charge that comes up over
here and charges puts a white charge and
you guys knew about that but you didn't
even have to touch it right so build
that a tiny static charge on his head on
the metal leg and when you touch it what
happens with all those electrons at the
party's victory beating yeah they go
into your hand now on a regular lamp how
do you turn it on and off purpose which
there's usually a switch right so a
switch is a simple on/off mechanism but
here we're using static electricity in
scripts right so there must be something
on this board that's picking up on the
change in electricity when you have it
and it's and that is being triggered as
the switch
so one of these little micro processes
processes on that is probably
controlling that so when it senses that
you cuts it because there's a change in
the voltage it acts as a switch and it
switches to different mode there's three
modes on that in that awesome yeah I
don't think I would have figured it out
without taking it apart
so how repairable do you think this
clamp is like you have a pretty
repairable by a few don't but this stuff
seems like it's pretty hard to get like
never seen one of these before it goes
something like this so yeah but I think
it's probably not very available but
like another stuff it's pretty tender
actually pretty easy people produce
stuff they get out what's this like
wrong with it you broke one of the
microprocessor thingies I don't think
you could fix it unless you add another
microprocessor and you somehow hooked it
up but I don't know how to do that now
if you guys had to give this a score a
repairability score from 1 to 10 what
would you get it maybe a 8 or 9
pretty high were paranoid what were the
things that made it positive because
it's really easy to take apart if you
know what you're doing and it pretty
much comes in like three main pieces
with maybe like a few not simple it's on
the side these are easy to get off with
regular tools yes people have or even
your fingers that's true what score
would you get it on
I like seven to nine arrange okay why
seven through nine because there are
some things items pretty hard like red
but also like some of the things like
will seem pretty easy to okay to replace
if you need to give your place back and
fill in their part yeah that's right
great infer put a little in some things
and yeah thanks guys that was really fun
hair down we took this whole thing apart
I think we'll be able to get back
together
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