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Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« on: May 13, 2019, 08:09:10 PM »
I needed some 5V power supplies to run a couple Arduino's, so I ordered some from Amazon for cheap, Chinese, of course. 

These exact ones:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0777HWN87/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Amazon Prime dutifully delivered my power supplies which put out a nice 5.2 VDC, but inside the sealed box from China was the thing I have pictured below.  It's stem thing is flexible, and holds the shape you bend it into.  the white thing does not seem to come out nondestructively.

I'm beyond curious what was shipped inside my power supply box, but am not stupid enough to plug it into anything I like, or own. 

Does anyone in the brain trust recognize it?

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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2019, 08:12:13 PM »
Could it be a USB powered LED task light that they threw in as a free gift or something? I wouldn't plug it into anything with a CPU either, but if you have a surge protector or something with USB outlets, you could see if it lights up.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2019, 08:16:42 PM »
What Ben said.

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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2019, 08:27:19 PM »
Yeah, looks like an LED light to me.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2019, 08:37:50 PM »
USB rectal thermometer.  ;)
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2019, 08:50:32 PM »
I got one in green a while ago. It's a light.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2019, 09:24:46 PM »
Quote from: zxcvbob on May 13, 2019, 08:37:50 PM
USB rectal thermometer.  ;)

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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2019, 09:31:06 PM »
It's what steals yer data!


No, it's a light.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2019, 10:12:44 PM »
It's what plants crave, a USB light.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #9 on: May 14, 2019, 05:45:53 AM »
USB powered vibrator?


Or a light.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #10 on: May 14, 2019, 08:15:30 AM »
Plug it in an see what happens. What's the worst that can happen?  :rofl:
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #11 on: May 14, 2019, 08:43:02 AM »
You plug it into one of those portable solar panels to generate free electricity.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2019, 09:09:57 AM »
You know, I'm not sure what all these other people are seeing, but it looks like an led light to me.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2019, 10:02:09 AM »
It does seem to be a light.

Which is interesting, coincidence wise, because I kinda want a light for the web cam on one of my 3d printers, which has 5VDC handy for the Raspberry Pi that runs it, so I just need to make some kind of mount.


Still not going to plug it into a computer.
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Re: Can anyone ID this USB....thingy?
« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2019, 05:13:05 PM »
It's the iTurbo Encabulator.
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