Show your new toys Topic
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Hadn't posted the toy that was delivered last month here.
I'm pretty sure you could build in that...
Drooooooone! Bought for a song from a colleague due to the gimbal assembly just swinging in the breeze and them not wanting the hassle of dealing with it. Looks like it's just a mounting/anti-vibe plate, camera cable appears to be fully working (camera streams footage), and the gimble motors all attempt to do their self-test twitch so the motor FFC appears to be intact too.
A friend of mine gave me his old ultrabook. This is a Dell e4200, sporting a Core2 U9600 (2x 1.6GHz, Ultra Low Voltage), 3GB of DDR3L (1GB onboard + 2GB) and a 64GB micro-sata SSD. It has a 12" 1200x800 LCD and weights only 1Kg.
Installed Archlinux and KDE Plasma on it. There are still many things to configure, as I will be using it for programming purpose, but so far I am very impressed with the performances.
The first thing I will do is replacing the French AZERTY keyboard by a US QWERTY one, as it is just way better for both programming and writing French.
Installed Archlinux and KDE Plasma on it. There are still many things to configure, as I will be using it for programming purpose, but so far I am very impressed with the performances.
The first thing I will do is replacing the French AZERTY keyboard by a US QWERTY one, as it is just way better for both programming and writing French.
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Beater watch. And, since I'm not a proper terrorist posting EATX setups here, I didn't get the F-91W. Black face would've been better at night but this one's not too bad, either.
Beater watch. And, since I'm not a proper terrorist posting EATX setups here, I didn't get the F-91W. Black face would've been better at night but this one's not too bad, either.
Nice watch. This is my daily watch (since I can't stand having a wrist watch). This is a 100% mechanical fob watch from 1850.
Nice watch. This is my daily watch (since I can't stand having a wrist watch). This is a 100% mechanical fob watch from 1850.
Whoa. How's that keeping time?
Nicely, but it's been checked and adjusted by an horlogist.
This is a Tribaudeau, a small watch manufacturer from France. They sadly stopped doing "jeweleries" and are now making advertising watches.
Thanks :-)
I was paying too much attention to what people were thinking about me in the past, creating a fake me and losing my personality in the process.
Now I don't give a **** and am an happy eccentric. I am pretty normal, clothes wise, but I use objects from the past.
And to go deeper into the nerdness of my eccentric self, I got a new toy from work. They were throwing a pristine and functional HP 95LX (a palmtop from 1990). I sports an Intel 8088 SOC and runs MsDOS.
My idea: replace the motherboard by an Rpi zero W and interface it with the HP 95LX keyboard and screen. This would make a lovely Linux terminal and the serial port would be handy to interface with serial debug on headless machine.
(got this picture from reddit, this is not mine)
I will go deeper into this in my brainstorm thread
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My idea: replace the motherboard by an Rpi zero W and interface it with the HP 95LX keyboard and screen. This would make a lovely Linux terminal and the serial port would be handy to interface with serial debug on headless machine.
(got this picture from reddit, this is not mine)
I will go deeper into this in my brainstorm thread
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NICE FIND!And to go deeper into the nerdness of my eccentric self, I got a new toy from work. They were throwing a pristine and functional HP 95LX (a palmtop from 1990). I sports an Intel 8088 SOC and runs MsDOS.
My idea: replace the motherboard by an Rpi zero W and interface it with the HP 95LX keyboard and screen. This would make a lovely Linux terminal and the serial port would be handy to interface with serial debug on headless machine.
(got this picture from reddit, this is not mine)
I will go deeper into this in my brainstorm thread
The idea of making it usable by putting a Pi in it, is amaizing. Cant wait to see it in action.
I'm considering this a new toy... I bought another Grand Cherokee! I'll be transferring all the parts from the old one over as time allows. The new one is a few years newer, has significantly less miles, and it has a Hemi!
