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Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #240 –
[quote author="ian"]
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I set a max bid of either $0.99 or $1.26 depending on the item on about 300 auctions over the course of a few days and in about 25 of them I was the winner.
Amazing! And the trickle of random stuff will be a treat for weeks to come![/quote]

It feels like it is Xmas everyday for me, I ordered a bunch of stuff too from ebay, but you never know what you will find in your mailbox !

Last week I got  jumpers !!!
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I had a small bag with few tens of them always handy when you play with computer parts ...
but misplaced it during xmas time ...
I went to my local pc parts place ... they sell them something like $1 for 10 jumpers !!!  WTF !
So I ordered a BAG of them  a 1000 jumpers ! for $8 ,  I will have jumpers for the rest of my life for sure ! :oP

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #241 –
[quote author="voidptr"]  I will have jumpers for the rest of my life for sure ! :oP[/quote]
I think  you will be able to pass them on to your kids and they can pass them on to thier kids :)

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #242 –
[quote author="matseng"][quote author="v8rush"]Those hubs look suspiciously like the ones I bought to dismantle for inside a TL-WR703n - if they are, then I found that they have no visible xtal, and stop working after 6+ hours (which is bad when your root drive is on usb...) -)[/quote]
Well these actually got a 12MHz crystal mounted at the bottom of the single sided pcb. It's really incredible to see a 4 port hub with so few parts. I've got a some 4-port hubs that are a few years old and they have 4 or 5 ic's and more like 50 discretes in them.
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Ah, that looks a bit nicer than mine - it had no external components, and looks like it was soldered by a blind man. Care to share the seller so I can buy one that works? Ta.

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #244 –
I bought a bunch of stuff for my cnc conversion of my Proxxon MF70.



https://www.synthetos.com/webstore/inde ... hield.html




http://www.automationtechnologiesinc.co ... 3d-printer



http://www.adafruit.com/products/744



http://www.ebay.com/itm/380563845274?ss ... 1439.l2649

This is what it should look like but with black mounting brackets.
http://youtu.be/JH5SndjE5sw

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #247 –
Noooooo! I haven't got mine yet. But I received an email telling me that they've sent it....

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #248 –
I just picked this up at my local surplus shop.  The gallon size bag contains mostly these values: 470uF, 220uF, 100uF, 47uF, 22uF and 10uF.  I estimate the number of caps totals around 450-500, I'll take inventory later.  I saw it and had to pick it up.  It's funny because I was just pricing parts for one of my projects and I needed 470uF and 100uF smd caps so this works out perfectly for me and saves me the shipping time.

That binary explorer board looks pretty cool!

K - Ditty - Arrrrrrrr ( like a pirate )

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #249 –
Got a total of 4 NRF24L01+ modules with different antenna designs. Will test them today with my Bus Pirates.
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Reply #250 –
[quote author="tayken"]Got a total of 4 NRF24L01+ modules with different antenna designs. Will test them today with my Bus Pirates.
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:-) 
I also bought  2 like your at the bottom ...
It will be interesting if you compare both type of module !

I also bought inductor kits,  I only had few specific values so a more complete kit is nice
I got it on auction, seller still have some kits on auction :-)
http://http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1uH-to-1mH-Inductors-Assorted-Kit-37-Values-185-PCS-SKU149001-/271158815382?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f22532a96

All my iems will be traveling to here for many more days tho ...
:-)

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #251 –
While getting a Garmin Nuvi 50LM GPS for a upcoming roadtrip I couldn't resist also picking up a 199 Ringgit (USD 63) Android Tablet just to see if something priced at a 1/10th of an iPad actually is usable at all.

It turned out that it is not a total piece of shit so my wife adopted before I had a real chance of actually testing it properly.  :-) or :-(  Don't know what smilie that is best here...

I have to go back and get one for me as well.

Operate System: O.S Android 4.0.4 @ Ice Cream Sandwich
Chip: All Winner A13 Processor, up to 1.5GHz, 512MB DDR3
Wireless: Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n)
Camera: 0.3M, video recording
Battery: Built-in 3000mAh rechargeable battery
LCD: 7.0" Five-Touch Capacitive Screen
TF card: Max 32GB
Storage: 4GB, support up to 32GB

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Reply #252 –
I recently bought this same "cheap" tablet. I thought I will use it on my wall as a huge light switch to manage all my light in the living room and kitchen.

After playing around a while I think that except the viewing angle of the display (which is total crap) the tablet is amazingly usable.

Even when I just switch lights on and off occasionally the battery lasted 10 days!! I was shocked to see this with a cheap Chinese pad.

I also use a Nexus 7 which is of course better, but I have to say the cheap one is nice, too. :)
Web platform todo: bluetooth firmware update, some kind of database, GLCD.
Working: RS485 connection, NTP RTC time sync, I2C for portexpanders, Software PWM with timer interrupt, SPI flash(32mbit)

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #253 –
I just 'bought' the last fan controller from the Free PCB store:
http://dangerousprototypes.com/store/in ... cts_id=120

And a pile of stuff from a friend for the price of a drink. Some ferrites, fuses, resettable fuses, capacitors, rectifiers, 1K resistors, 12VAC power supply, headlamp, and a few 19V power supplies that aren't pictured.

Re: I just bought this, and you what did you buy ?

Reply #254 –
[quote author="matseng"] I couldn't resist also picking up a 199 Ringgit (USD 63) Android Tablet just to see if something priced at a 1/10th of an iPad actually is usable at all.[/quote]
We had talked about these a while ago, I'm glad to hear these are usable (although, like Sandman333 I wouldn't expect much from the screens).