[Wolves] Geeky Christmas Presents

[Stephen Parkes]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 13:11, Adam Sweet via Wolves <
wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> On 10/12/2018 21:48, Stephen Parkes via Wolves wrote:
>
> > PS.
> > I've only had 5 NodeLua, 5 digispark attiny boards, a board to control 16
> > servos over i2c, 2 mp3 player Arduino modules and a few odds and sods
> > delivered in the last few weeks with a couple of TFT screens and 5
> > Arduino   pro mini's in the post so I think the lady of the house is
> being
> > a bit unreasonable in suggesting I have developed a problem in ordering
> > random shit from China because I have a half baked idea driving home from
> > work ;)
>
> Haha bless her, she must love you. I recall you telling me similar
> stories when we swapped the alpha server for a pair of 486 laptops about
> 15 years ago.
>

I'm regularly barred from starting new projects or bringing new things into
the house,  It's an ongoing problem.  At least now with ebooks she doesn't
have to put up with finding a place to put a new bookcase every 18 months :)


>
> > PPS
> > I may have also killed 3 Raspberry Pi Zero W's in about 3 months earlier
> > this year as well.
>
> I watched a video by Les Pounder (https://bigl.es/) of Linux Voice/Linux
> Format, Picademy etc, where he mentioned plugging a Pi into a bench
> power supply which and melted a Pi. Did you do something similar?
>
>
One was a faulty soldering iron and dodgy lead free solder cooking it,
another was attaching a 5v logic device which I thought was 3.3v and I
forget what killed the third but I did have to be a bit sneaky about buying
the replacement time and had it delivered to work ;)

All of them have been for a camera I want to set up and take pictures of
the sky night and day which are then converted to a video and uploaded to
youtube everyday.  The project is about a year old and the current version
is sitting in a tupperware tub in the garden untouched for at least 6
months because I've started dozens of other interesting projects since.

This was the first test of it last April just thrown on the green bin in
the garden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D02jt5SpeBU

Steve