Note for those who would like to avoid spoilers: Do not read this past the "What I took" section of this log until after you get your turn with the box. I'm going to go over most of what is in the box and talk about them.

What I took from the box

I took Abhishek Kumar's BeagleLogic (including a beaglebone, very cool man), a small speaker and an awesome resistor with a gold colored heat sync.

I also took a Renesas YRDKRL78G13 Dev board. Mainly because of it's size, but I'll do some cool stuff with it.

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Warning!

SPOILERS AFTER THIS POINT

Don't say I didn't warn you.

Okay, if you're sure...

Last chance to change your mind.

Okay, really your last chance.

Are you sure you don't want it to be a surprise?

Okay, okay, you're big boys (and girls) you can make your own decisions...

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What was in the box

Here is the box as I received it. It came in a Large Priority Mail box. It's a bit pricy, but the box is heavy so it's probably the best shipping option.

The box came with a single layer of bubble wrap all around. Not sure how well that really protects the items. The box itself seems to be still in good shape, so I'll be reusing it for the next person.

As you can see, it's actually quite full. Abhishek Kumar, the previous holder included PCBs to a couple of capes he has designed for the BeagleBone. He's also included a Beaglebone itself with his latest BeagleLogic cape.

There were quite a few interesting items. Here is the Nettop board that Benchoff mentioned as well as a Renesas devkit. There is also a VISA terminal. It looks quite old with what looks like a VFD display. As well as a TI Lanchpad board. Note also that in this picture you can see a part of the giant tote box of miscellanea. It's full of a variety of things and it would've taken me so long to bring out and photograph that I've decided to skip those. They'll be a good surprise to anyone who wants to go through them.

Here is a box of some misc gear. None of this is too coherent, mostly stuff to tear apart for parts. There was an interesting DVD laser that could be pretty powerful, but I didn't want to experiment with what could burn out pretty easily.

Next up is a disposable Rite-Aid digital camera. I'm so glad that hackers figured out how to make these reusable, but it's become a bit of an antique. I think this one ran around 4 megapixels.

Here are a couple random LCDs. The first one has a really nice mounting bracket attached, but neither of them have an easy interface, you'd have to figure out their LVDS settings and pinout to get them working, potentially worthwhile, but not for me.

As Benchof showed in his log a few weeks ago, there is a cool viewfinder display. To anyone who is willing to do some work this would make an excellent wearable display.

Next up is what looks to be a very nice stepper motor with a nice mounting bracket. In order to make what I included fit into the box, I had to remove the bracket from the stepper motor. If you take the motor please remove the bracket too since it will be useless without the motor.

What I added to the box

I added a few nRF24L01s, an arduino clone as well as some LED light strip.

Some really cool LED Displays (Info on using them available http://www.robotroom.com/MultiSegmentLEDDisplay.html ) and a TPLink router. These are what we used pre-raspberry pi for a SBC. Still a useful little box, though a little outdated now. At the very least you can still use them as routers.

A Motorola Lapdock. This is a cool way to turn a Raspberry Pi or other SBC into a full laptop, including battery, screen, keyboard, and mouse. This particular lapdock though needs a new battery. You can get them online and do it yourself, or you could modify it to work directly from DC input.

The box will go out to the next in line tomorrow.