Readers of a certain vintage will no doubt remember that for a brief time, some alkaline batteries came with a built-in battery tester. Basically, you just pushed really hard with your fingernails on the two ends of the strip, and it either lit up the little strip (or didn’t if it was dead), or made the word ‘good’ appear if energized.
But those days are long gone. What you need now is to either grab the voltmeter, stick out your tongue, or build yourself a battery-testing business card. Even the normies will enjoy this one, mostly because LEDs. Forty-seven of them to be exact, which will come to life and demonstrate that [Greg] is capable of making working electronic gadgets. No way does this card end up at the bottom of a desk drawer.
As far as grasping the batteries goes, [Greg] had several ideas, but ultimately landed on pogo pins, which we think is a fabulous solution. Be sure to check out the neat interactive BOM, somewhere in the middle of which is the CH32v003 RISC-V microcontroller. In the video after the break, you can see [Greg] using a Flipper Zero to program it.
Some are rather inspiring, e. g. the badgy!
I disagree.
They are teaching us to look outside the boxes.
It’s only waste if you throw it away. And if you’re talking about after you’re dead than that’s a whole other discussion.
The easiest way to test an alkaline battery is to drop it. Fresh batteries don’t bounce. Dead batteries do.
Holy crap! Can confirm.
Did a blind test as well, and the effect was obvious to the test subject.
There were alkaline zinc/manganese dioxide primary cells we tested.
Works with eggs too!
Unable to verify if egg is dead or not. Can verify if it’s fertilized, but those are harder to aquire in the grocery store I frequent
If you go round fertilizing the eggs in the grocery store they kick you out.