Your latest purchase

I was thinking the hole could be driven by a servo of some sort, though I was struggling to imagine the kind of arrangement where this would be applied.

I have never heard of Steampunk music, but I am intrigued. I really like the Myst soundtracks. If it's anything similar, I think I found a knew genre to heart on Internet radio stations.

SirNickity:
I have never heard of Steampunk music, but I am intrigued. I really like the Myst soundtracks. If it's anything similar, I think I found a knew genre to heart on Internet radio stations.

I tend to not follow most music (except the stuff done at renaissance faires, which is mostly irish inspired), but many of my steampunk friends think Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com/) is one of the main steampunk bands.

I used to use the spring metal version of those in tech drawing.

MichaelMeissner:
I tend to not follow most music (except the stuff done at renaissance faires, which is mostly irish inspired), but many of my steampunk friends think Abney Park (http://www.abneypark.com/) is one of the main steampunk bands.

I had a listen to them. Definitely nothing like the Myst soundtrack, which honestly, I only correlated based on the website art. (sigh -- judging music by the album cover) Ren Faire is definitely a better description. Interesting stuff. Not quite my cup of tea though.

That latest Rush album, Clockwork Angels, is strongly influenced by steampunk. It's pretty good.

A lupe (or loupe) for magnifying:

The clear sides let light in, and keep the target the correct distance away. This shows the detail on a LM358 chip:

Tiny.

THIS is a real Loupe 8)

I need one of those! Those 0.1" ceramic caps and SMT parts can be hard to read.

Let me try it for you:

This is a perfect add
Best regards
Jantje

I had a loupe prior to getting into electronics. They used to be very useful for slides and negatives when used with a light box. Haven't had to use it for that purpose for 10 years so it's now in the electronics lab.

I was shopping for solid-state disk drives online. What do you think of this one?

Given the picture of the internals I'd be a bit nervous making a purchase. They seem to have a misunderstanding regarding the word "solid-state".

There are no jelly wobbly bits .... that makes it solid, see!

:slight_smile:

Hybrid: http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/?sku=ST1000LM014

Check warranty terms. See if they have a factory warranty. What they had last time I bought was a dealer warranty. Once of that was enough for me. The company won't back their own $#!+3 directly.

SirNickity:
Hybrid: http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/laptop-hard-drives/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/?sku=ST1000LM014

My experience with Seagate laptop drives that have a platter: they are noisy; they run hot.

A 555 educational board, you can see the works!

Ethernet shield and LM35.... I can now see the house temp from work. Very cool.

Also recently bought 2x Wixels, wireless usb control of robot, quite nifty and dead simple.

And got a distance sensor and Sparkfun line follower sensors, not deployed yet.

And still not have a clue! XD