In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable TV adapter. It was excessively cheap, and even more mysteriously, …read more

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    [Ben] needed some hardware to test the device with, so he spent $77 on a RF-to-fiber converter and a cheap composite-to-RF modulator so he could test the $5 fiber-to-RF part. A grand expenditure to explore a $5 device, but a necessary sacrifice for the investigation.

    And we’re using 100 000 € analysers to make 100€ devices. Of course tools have costs not related to the line. Want to guess what the test equipment for 0.01€ IC costs?

    And no content in the “article” at all. HaD is just complete trash these days.