Things you recently bought or got

[Shadow#1]

We will see how this goes

U will get the box for sure but with a 10 year old card [emoji14]

 

[CallmeBerto]

U will get the box for sure but with a 10 year old card [emoji14]

A SEALED empty box. Better be a nice damn box.

 

[Shadow#1]

A SEALED empty box. Better be a nice damn box.

I can go to my local used game store and ask them to seal a box

 

[Jayro]

I recently built a seedbox for my MediCat Torrents, but it's using my 4GB Raspberry Pi 4, and it feels wasteful... So I ordered a 1GB Raspberry Pi 4 from HERE.




But the second issue I've run into is physically mounting the storage drive to the Pi 4. At the moment, it's utilizing a cheap 64GB nano USB drive, and it's half full already. But I'll be swapping that out with my 240GB SSD, using a USB-to-SATA adapter that came as part of my PNY "Upgrade Kit". The issue is I don't have any way to mount the Pi and the SSD to one another for a tidy setup, and I wanted something cheap but functional. So I stumbled across an OMV 5 installation tutorial on YouTube by Explaining Computers Dot Com and it showed me a really cool 3D-printed configuration that was on sale (right now) for just $10 over at INUX3D called the TerraPi, and it comes with a fan "hat" too! I also bought their low-profile wide copper heatsink for an extra $5, to help with cooling. I'll be underclocking the Pi 4 to maybe around 850MHz or so... Or whatever the lowest speed it can handle is, without struggling to seed. I'll also be disabling every component on the board I'm not using in the config.txt, like UART, SPI, Wi-Fi, Serial, Audio, etc...

Looks like this, but blue instead of red:



I'm really excited to put this thing together, so it will look and feel much more like a polished end-product. This was my first time ever building a seedbox, and I'm honestly more shocked that it wasn't difficult. I might challenge myself later on and go fully-headless, with CLI only, but not for right now... I'm just after ease-of-use, and love flipping on VNC viewer to check on it. It doesn't bother me in the slightest that there's a DE running in the foreground, it's not like it will take anything away from it's job seeding my torrents. Upon powering on the Pi 4, I have set it up to autologin the user, and autostart Transmission seeding. This way if a power outage happens, it can just pick up where it left off, as I don't have a UPS unit yet.

Hell, I might even install Pi-hole on it, so it can serve as my DNS server ad-blocker too. Couldn't hurt!

 

[Silterpy]

Ordered some more leds for sound reactive led mod on a gameboy for a friend. Also had to rebuy the replacement analogs modules for some ps4 controllers. The seller i originally bought them from didn't have any in stock, so got a refund and bought some from a different seller.
Also ordered a n3dsxl charging dock.

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[Jayro]

Ordered some more leds for sound modded gameboy for a friend. Also had to rebuy the replacement analogs modules for some ps4 controller. The seller i originally bought them from didn't have any in stock, so got a refund and bought some from a different seller.
Also ordered a n3dsxl charging dock.

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I always wanted one of those vertical charging docks from Japan. But now I only pull out my 3DS when I wanna play DS or GBA.

 

[Silterpy]

I always wanted one of those vertical charging docks from Japan. But now I only pull out my 3DS when I wanna play DS or GBA.

Yeah. I've been wanting to get one for my n3dsxl for a while now and it was cheap. I had one for the o3dsxl but gave it to my best friend cause his autistic little brother destroyed the charging port on his o3dsxl. All I remember is that it wouldn't charge my o3dsxl if I had my case on.

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[subcon959]

Fun. Did they put any more Game & Watch games on it yet?

I have a thread on it here https://gbatemp.net/threads/super-mario-game-watch-hacking.581482/

 

[Minox]

STM32 programmer and some test hook leads to hack the Super Mario Game & Watch

Just a heads up, that's a nice full-blown microcontroller so once you are done using it for programming purposes it can be a fun experience to use it for microcontroller programming.

 

[subcon959]

Just a heads up, that's a nice full-blown microcontroller so once you are done using it for programming purposes it can be a fun experience to use it for microcontroller programming.

Unfortunately, the last time I did any programming was in the 80s (Pascal) and I don't remember any of it. Always wanted to learn C/C++ though so maybe this is an excuse to start.. or maybe Java will be an easier entry.

 

[GABO1423]

Got this little fridge after a lot of effort...

 

[Silterpy]

I got a Covid test done on Thursday, cause work made it mandatory, and got a Negative result on Friday.

So im Covid-19 free. Still waiting for my vaccine though.

Also ordered a stick of 8GB DDR3L ram for a computer I'm fixing up for my nephews to play on.

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[subcon959]

I've had this since 1984 and it's been thrown around and spent time in several different countries over the years..
Just popped in some batteries for the first time in a decade and the damn thing still works as good as new!

Edit: The thing I got recently was the batteries btw lol.. but this gives me an idea that we should have a similar thread for things you've had forever.

 

[Chary]

xbawks!

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Some months back my trusty Logitech G910 started developing an issue with double inputs, eventually happening for every other keystroke. I replaced it with one of my review keyboards but...none of them are just quite good enough and lack some nice features I grew used to using all the time.

So...I bought another G910 If this can last me another 5-6 years then I'll be happy.

Also ordered a VGA to HDMI adapter for my dad's work, he has a sec cam box that he wants to connect to multiple TVs, but it only had 2 HDMI ports and he wants it on 3 monitors so going VGA is sorta the only option. He wound up buying the wrong direction adapter, so I ordered the proper one

 

[Blaze163]

So this showed up in the post today, quite the surprise since I hadn't ordered anything so I have no business with the postman right now. Turns out my girlfriend ordered it for me. She knows that I'm trying to be a writer, work on my novels and whatnot. She also knows that inspiration hits at random, often when I don't have a pen and paper handy and my tablet is on charge. So she got me this little electronic moogle notepad to keep my ideas safe. 'cause I'm also a massive nerd who has spent far longer than I can realistically justify playing Final Fantasy 14. She even went above and beyond, found out what batteries it takes (instructions are in Japanese, I had no idea) and ordered them too. What an absolute angel.

 

[Silterpy]

Preordered Story of Seasons Pioneers of Olive Town Premium edition today.

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[zxr750j]

Dug a hole, ordered concrete, tiles, paint, pvc etc last summer and made a little pool 4X2M with my girlfriend (during a heatwave).
Ordered in China:
- 4 Channel relay
- 0,96" White I2C Oled display
- Some resitors
- 5 DS18B20 waterproof temperature probes
Already got a Raspberry Pi3B, need to make a box, allready started programming in python to make a automated control unit for filter-motor, sunheating pump, electrolysis equipment and Ph-regulator. I'm to cheap to buy it at the pool-store: they ask ridiculous prices!
Now the long wait starts (go China post!)...

 

[godreborn]

I recently bought the Mario red and blue switch. it's not out yet, but gamestop preorders have already come to pass. I'm hoping I can get another that I can sell, because I missed out on gamestop and had to get one for a scalping price (hoping to recoup the price). it's one of the only ones that had free shipping, so I bought it up. I didn't look if it was the cheapest, just if it was US region. most red and blue Mario switches turn up the Mario Kart 8 bundle or the neon joycon switches.

 

[VinsCool]

A flashcard for the Atari 8 bit!



And I confirm it works perfectly, and also finally confirmed this machine is indeed a PAL machine, otherwise the program would have run too fast on it.