Post a Picture of Your Silly Purchase of the Month.

Very cool mug. Just not $37 cool.

ELewis17 wrote:

Finally upgraded my backpacking knife.
Cold Steel SRK in San Mai III
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Nice knife.

I recently picked up a Spyderco ultrafine ceramic benchstone for my straight razor.

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avggeek wrote:

It was my birthday over the weekend, so lots of silly purchases!

MOAR purchases!

Raspberry Pi:

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New 23" Monitor - this qualifies as a silly purchase because I thought my previous 20" was failing but by the time the new monitor arrived, the line of stuck pixels on the old one had vanished:

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avggeek wrote:

MOAR purchases!

Raspberry Pi:

Nice. Look at what I printed today on my 3D printer (please excuse the crappy cell phone photo):

IMAGE(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Liquidmantis/piCase.jpg)

Bought last week at woot.com, and it arrived today. My Creative speaker system (8 years old at least) has been ocassionally glitchy for about the last year (the volume control which has its own cord that attaches to the back of the subwoofer), so it's been moved to the TV in the living room and replaced by this.

Crappy cell phone photo:
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Stock photo from official site:
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LiquidMantis wrote:
avggeek wrote:

MOAR purchases!

Raspberry Pi:

Nice. Look at what I printed today on my 3D printer (please excuse the crappy cell phone photo):

IMAGE(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Liquidmantis/piCase.jpg)

Awesome! So your printer tolerances are really that precise? Looks great and nicely done!

I feel like I should know what I'm looking at there.

ringsnort wrote:

Awesome! So your printer tolerances are really that precise? Looks great and nicely done!

Thanks! Although I can't take credit for the design. I spent a bit of time really calibrating the printer. I'm hoping to still refine the print quality but it's definitely getting to a point where I'm happy with the output.

LiquidMantis wrote:
ringsnort wrote:

Awesome! So your printer tolerances are really that precise? Looks great and nicely done!

Thanks! Although I can't take credit for the design. I spent a bit of time really calibrating the printer. I'm hoping to still refine the print quality but it's definitely getting to a point where I'm happy with the output.

Oh neat, I can open those at work with my CAD software.

edit: Hmmm... but I can't edit it. That seems silly.

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48 issues of zombie glory.

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And a Nexus 4 =D

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Yes! I love being an early adopter!

Spoiler:

RIGHT?

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Happy Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness day, everyone!

That's awesome.

fleabagmatt wrote:

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Yes! I love being an early adopter!

Spoiler:

RIGHT?

Sweet, you got the new Xbox!

Spoiler:

Nobody break his heart.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Happy Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness day, everyone!

Holy sh*t, you can TIME TRAVEL!?

Ranger Rick wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Happy Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness day, everyone!

Holy sh*t, you can TIME TRAVEL!?

Wait, it's 1995, right?

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was one of the first albums that got me into music. My parents were...had... I can't even think of what to say. Anyways, I didn't really get into music until high school and Mellon Collie was one of the first things that really stuck with me. I still vividly remember seeing the 2 CDs in a friend's CD case. They were definitely striking designs.

At any rate, I felt inclined to splurge a little bit on the remastered vinyl.

Norfair wrote:
LiquidMantis wrote:
ringsnort wrote:

Awesome! So your printer tolerances are really that precise? Looks great and nicely done!

Thanks! Although I can't take credit for the design. I spent a bit of time really calibrating the printer. I'm hoping to still refine the print quality but it's definitely getting to a point where I'm happy with the output.

Oh neat, I can open those at work with my CAD software.

edit: Hmmm... but I can't edit it. That seems silly.

Dude, if you can't open an STL file at work you need to update your CAD software.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

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Happy Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness day, everyone!

I am tempted to put that on my list ... beautiful

Ghostship wrote:

I feel like I should know what I'm looking at there.

It's a case for a little computer called a Raspberry Pi. It's a common computer for creating little electronic devices, mainly for hobby electronics. Another one like it is the Arduino computers. The base board is very bare bones with no cases or anything for cost and so you can put it in whatever you want. You can also usually expand these things with other boards.

LiquidMantis wrote:
avggeek wrote:

MOAR purchases!

Raspberry Pi:

Nice. Look at what I printed today on my 3D printer (please excuse the crappy cell phone photo):

IMAGE(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a254/Liquidmantis/piCase.jpg)

I would love one of those for my beagleboard. Right now I have it in an old plastic deck screw container.

Radical Ans wrote:

I would love one of those for my beagleboard. Right now I have it in an old plastic deck screw container.

Sorry to derail the thread, but I could probably hook you up with one of these. I don't have a beagleboard to confirm the fit though.

LiquidMantis wrote:
Radical Ans wrote:

I would love one of those for my beagleboard. Right now I have it in an old plastic deck screw container.

Sorry to derail the thread, but I could probably hook you up with one of these. I don't have a beagleboard to confirm the fit though.

That would be totally awesome! I don't think mine is the xM though. I think it might be rev B or C of the original beagleboard. Anyway, I'll PM you when I get home from Korea next week and we can discuss.

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Why yes, purple is my favorite color; however did you guess?

Shiny!

Take a picture of that in brighter light. I suspect that photo doesn't do it justice!

Coldstream wrote:

Take a picture of that in brighter light. I suspect that photo doesn't do it justice!

Even under bright light, the cell phone camera doesn't make much of a difference...

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sometimesdee wrote:
Coldstream wrote:

Take a picture of that in brighter light. I suspect that photo doesn't do it justice!

Even under bright light, the cell phone camera doesn't make much of a difference...

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/xD2v9.jpg)

I actually have to say that made a HUGE difference. It looks really good in that photo.

Yeah, that's much more striking. Very pretty!

Treated myself to a Papilio Pro board. It's kind of the FPGA version of the Arduino platform. I also picked up the RetroCade Synth addon board, witch has MIDI, Audio DACs, a LCD, a SD card port, and some analog inputs for controls.

They already have a couple of cool audio chips ported to the platform including the SID and Amiga chips with full MIDI control. Can't wait to start playing with this guy.

IMAGE(http://papilio.cc/uploads/Papilio/ppro.jpg)

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