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Rogue box arrived in Latvia

A project log for Travelling Hacker Box

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aryaArya 08/07/2017 at 18:090 Comments

@jlbrian7 got a box from @Sophi Kravitz , and it's now in Latvia, in MakeRiga hackerspace. Next stop is likely in Estonia, unless @Benchoff advises otherwise. 

Box:


Yes, it did cost $93 to ship =D


The books are great! It seems that we're grabbing the Forrest M. Mims book, or one of the others.


Some misc PCBs - theremin (working), Adafruit Circuit Playground, something something LEDs microphone PCB (working),  2x RFM12BS, protoboards, double relay board and, well, a Tandy PC-6! Tandy's batteries are flat, so they need to be replaced - hopefully, I'll test it.


PIC development stuff - a programmer with COM port, an universal PCB for programming, some cables and a devboard. There are also: an Olimex PIC devboard, a PIC16 with a sticker over the code and some Fubarinos!


There's also a PSU for the PIC stuff:


Some random stuff:



I took the RFM modules, some protoboard, miniUSB cables (from the Fubarino packaging), as well as salvaged the PCB (IIRC, it was from an X-Ray, from the markings) for components (the wire header is already used in the homegrown PoE splitter I built today, and the transformer might just turn into a nice small dual-pole supply for op-amp experimentation, considering it has two secondary windings). One member took the Adafruit Circuit Playground, another took the Tandy PC-6. We might also take a book of two - even more likely if the box weight will be over the price break for shipping (same goes for the aluminium cooler block). UPD: in fact, yet member of our hackerspace took the Forrest Mims book, and I took "Real-Time Embedded Components and Systems with Linux and RTOS" - the latter has too sexy of a name to be left unattended (and is also the biggest book of them all, so certainly won't fit).

Items to be added:


  1. An old Robotron coax cable
  2. 4x ИВ-8 (Nixie?) tubes
  3. 3x MAX11300
  4. 4x ATTiny1634
  5. 2x ESP-201 boards (nobody cares about them anyway)
  6. 4x rose capacitors (special order, one of our members was in China at a capacitor factory and they ordered a small batch of those special capacitors)
  7. Some kind of "RF-controlled relay board with some more stuff" - without the RF daughterboard
  8. A small 8x8 single-color LED matrix
  9. A Chinese <$1 powerbank (after non-extensive usage, doubles as a hand warmer/firestarter - from our experience)
  10. A Mikrotik RouterBOARD 112 PCB - untested
  11. An Arduino Nano
  12. A PIC16F15376 devboard we got as a free sample recently
  13. A big Soviet potentiometer
  14. Some 30V SPST relays (actually, 24 of them)
  15. Some 10-pin male-female pin headers
  16. A CT-1612UB GPS module
  17. ChipKit Pi
  18. 10x 3-digit 7-segment displays
  19. 2x MMR-70
  20. Some random piece of protoboard (used)

There are more items (and stickers) we'll add, I'll prepare them and take pictures of them shortly.

UPDATE: I added some last minute items. Unfortunately, my goddamn camera grabled the photos, and my memory is leaky. I do remember putting in two #IMTAIDKW - ESP12 4-digit display I assembled right before sending the box out, a devboard from a company that has gone bankrupt long ago, as well as an old smoke detector (likely to be of the radioactive kind ;-) ) I wanted to add some more items, but only stumbled upon them after I've thoroughly covered the box in duc{k,t} tape.

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