Off Topic Banter

[mad_ady]

@rooted - the pins seem to be too close to each other for my skill...

Thanks for the suggestion, @zyssai! I've tested with a fan connector for xu4 and it fits tightly (on two pins). I'll order the 5 pin variant and solder dupont female connectors on the other end...

[rooted]

With a header like that you would at least have several chances without any risk but yeah it's definitely small.

A pre-wired plug would be ideal.

[mad_ady]

@mctom sadly the local electronics shops are far away, so I'm not a regular. It's cheaper to order from Aliexpress than from local shops

[zyssai]

It's cheaper to order from Aliexpress than from local shops

That's often the case unfortunately. If you only need 4 pins there is a 4pin variant on the AliExpress link.

Edit: sorry, I saw 4pin only on your board, but there is 5.

[L67GS]

Or, you could go the budget route. Remove the plug and solder half of a Dupont jumper right into it to break it out to wires.

[rooted]

Happy May the 4th

[mad_ady]

Happy May the 4th

Wrong thread. The Holiday thread is somewhere else!

[rooted]

I don't consider it a holiday so I put it here

[zyssai]

Sorry for the delay

[istanbulls]

Today, there is a presidential election in my country.
This election is very critical for us, we are very close to destroying a dictator with elections.
We need prayers, good wishes and positive energies of all beautiful people.

May goodness, brotherhood, peace and democracy win.

[xnd]

I know, I heard it in our local podcast in Slovakia (podcast about actual situation, news,…) , few days ago one whole episode was about your elections. I wish you all good and stop dictator.

[mad_ady]

Good luck, istanbulls! Send everyone to the voting booth!

[istanbulls]

participation is very high. tonight is very critical, maybe war will break out because we are trying to send a dictator.
A person who comes from the suburbs and becomes one of the richest people in the world will not leave the seat easily.

[mctom]

/I have this weird question. Every time I see a spammer on the forum I report the post. Does anyone actually review these reports, or am I filling up /dev/null somewhere?

[rooted]

I think it works, it always gets handled when I report spam.

I will say on a couple of forums I moderate it does nothing, one being in a professional environment

Well technically it does something but I don't get notifications which makes it useless.

[mctom]

Thankfully bots are the sole reason to moderate this forum... When we misbehave, @odroid threatens us the next ODROID will be Z80-based

[rooted]

How about a Commodroid 64 instead

[mad_ady]

As a moderator, I get a notification in the web interface when you report someone. I don't seem to get a mail, nor feedback in Tapatalk, but I see it when I log in the forum.

[mctom]

After 580 days, I received my parcel from mouser!
Two Atmega88 chips and two SOT23 boost converters. Shipped from the USA at their cost...

[zyssai]

After 580 days, I received my parcel from mouser!
Two Atmega88 chips and two SOT23 boost converters. Shipped from the USA at their cost...

Are you serious? Almost 2 years?

[mctom]

Are you serious? Almost 2 years?

#shortage!

[zyssai]

Are you serious? Almost 2 years?

#shortage!

You probably not need them anymore now?
Unfortunately a lot of items are always in shortage and will remain for a long time.

[mctom]

Not really. All four of those chips were actually ordered for my colleague from my past (and also current) job. It was a part of a bigger order back then.

Back then I gave him two atmega88s from my collection so he wouldn't wait for those. so I'm keeping those that arrived today.
By the way it's interesting I got brand new chips still with Atmel logo on them. Hmm..

And boost converters, he's getting them tomorrow. He couldn't remember what were they for. And I can't remember whether he paid for them.

[zyssai]

There is enough to go crazy

[xnd]

I ordered Raspberry Pi Zero 2W at 2022-08-24 and I'm still waiting.

[L67GS]

I ordered about 20 7 segment displays, all common anode for use with pic16f886. They all came but 1, that one was listed as available but then it was backordered.
Turned out the OEM dropped it, so now I have a whole bunch of displays and a big bag of LEDs from the same manufacturer that are all in the same luminescence. But I can't finish that project with these parts because I want them all to dim the same. Of course I didn't find out I wasn't going to be able to get that last display until after the return window had closed.

[mctom]

Can't you adopt different colors for current time and destination time, doc Brown? 17 digits each.
Getting a single component should be possible, as long as you know anything about it other than "OEM 7-segment display". Searching the Internet for the photo from the original offer often works, as many sellers use stock photos from upstream distributor.
Even one from aliexpress is worth the risk, I think.

[L67GS]

Can't you adopt different colors for current time and destination time, doc Brown? 17 digits each.
Getting a single component should be possible, as long as you know anything about it other than "OEM 7-segment display". Searching the Internet for the photo from the original offer often works, as many sellers use stock photos from upstream distributor.
Even one from aliexpress is worth the risk, I think.

I scoured the internet, and wrote to Lite-on looking for NOS or a superseded P/N.

[mctom]

tme.eu stocks lite-on parts, that's for sure.

Still got 12x old stock soviet nixies.. Got to do something with them someday.

[mctom]

I just read the news. Congratulations to Korea for their first space launch, using solely domestic technology!
That is so impressive. We don't even have a launch site in the whole Europe

[mctom]

So, post 3000, I guess I could celebrate by dropping one post completely off topic, hm?

The family situation forced me to learn Spanish If anyone does Duolingo, add me as your friend. My login is tomusiator.

[mad_ady]

Congratulations on being a talkative fellow!

[zyssai]

3000 posts amazing and been thanked 500 times

I have something similar on a french PC stuff forum, but last time I posted was 2015



Time flies

[mctom]

and been thanked 500 times

Half of that comes from you

Yeah posts accumulate quickly when you start a project.

[rooted]

Or when you are the proprietor of the company like odroid with his 41,000 posts, what a CEO.

[InsideOut]

I just read the news. Congratulations to Korea for their first space launch, using solely domestic technology!
That is so impressive. We don't even have a launch site in the whole Europe

Not true! https://spaceportcornwall.com/ Not in the EU though.

[mctom]

Not true! https://spaceportcornwall.com/ Not in the EU though.

Never heard of this one before, but it looks like an airfield from which a modified Boeing launches a space rocket mid-air. Interesting, but with very limited capabilities.
As far as I know, most ESA missions are launched from French Guiana in South America, which technically is a EU territory.

Other than that, I believe there are rocket test sites in northern Sweden. But given that vast amount of satellites is geostationary it makes sense to launch them closer to the equator.

But I admit I haven't watched the launch technology or events too closely even when I worked in this field. All I cared about were robust power converters and motor drivers.