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A project log for Travelling Hacker Box

lol travelling salesman problem

kumar-abhishekKumar, Abhishek 06/10/2016 at 05:320 Comments

... before it headed off to Bryan at Hayward, CA. I'm writing this log from Mountain View (according to Wikipedia that's where the city gets its name from) Thanks to my (busy) internship in the US this summer I'm the first Indian to receive the Travelling Hacker Box before it gets to get out of the US to EU and Asia. And that also means that I'm away from my home and I didn't have a whole bunch of my electronics to travel with me to be put in the box.

The Box arrived at my place on 20th of May. Here are my highlights of the box:

This was taken while repacking the box - as you can see in the picture the custard reinforcement on the box's gone. All that is left is a piece of bubble wrap. I'm not sure when this happened but that's how the box is now.

The box was as usual packed to the brim. There were two displays, an iPod, a cell phone, a Verizon MiFi thingy, a Visa card swipe machine. Then there was a plastic box full of small electronic widgets. I opened almost everything in the box but didn't take pics.

@alpha_ninja's tiny bug robot in close-up. One side's functional, the other side seems to work sometimes and sometimes not but it doesn't work as a whole.

This is what I took from the box:

A bunch of stickers, two tiny prototyping PCBs, a LED matrix (have to figure out how to make it work), a $10 OSHPark coupon (you have to look for it in the corners :) ), a dot matrix display, a fan and a Cypress PSoC 4 Kit.

This is what I put:

The #BeagleLogic kept in this box is unit #2. Fun fact: There are currently 3 BeagleLogics in existence #0, #1 and #2 - #0 is with me (not for sale or giveaway , don't ask :) ), and #2 was put by me in the box (which Bryan Lyon has apparently taken already). They are special as they were sent to the US for judging in the Hackaday Prize Best Product category last year.

There's also a spare BeagleLogic cape OSHPark purple board that @Drew Fustini gave to me at the Maker Faire 2016. Thanks Drew!

And then in the middle of them is a TI Tiva TM4C123 eval board.

Also after I took the photo I also threw in a #(Yet another) BeagleBone Display+CapTouch cape into the box - it's a blue PCB, you can see pics of the board in the project details should you decide to build it.

In closing I'd like to thank @Benchoff for sending the box my way and I'd like to receive it once again when I reach India and it's there.

Cheers to the #Travelling Hacker Box !

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