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The Butcher posted:Checked if my fire extinguisher is actually full of booze. Yeah, well it's probably also not a great idea to store nerds in containers meant for book bags and gym clothes. Anyway, in the locker with ya.
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The Wonder Weapon posted:I wish I could find a $5 ebay xbox 360 dongle. They're all $20+ now Yeah back when I needed.one I ended up just buying a 360 controller so I could get the dongle since the dongle was as much as an on sale controller with dongle. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Feb 24, 2023 |
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Welp, just spent $50 on enameled pins (I work at a high school, these are going to be fun to show off/give out).
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Ethics_Gradient posted:Welp, just spent $50 on enameled pins (I work at a high school, these are going to be fun to show off/give out). Hope you got the bags of like 100 for 20 bucks (that always show up on my phone but never when i browse on pc.... here is one i found kinda 10/20/30/40/50/100pcs Diversity Random Badges Personalized Badges Pins Accessories For Cartoon Clothes Bag Metal Pins Sets
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 Bluetooth 5.0 Audio Receiver Wireless Audio Receiver Adapter with 3D Bass Mode for Home Stereo TF Card RCA 3.5 AUX Jack https://a.aliexpress.com/_EGufBtF Got one of these in the post today, perfect for wiring into the amp in the front room with the big speakers attached to play tunes from my phone / iPad. Pairs up no problem, solid bt connection with no drops. Don't think I'll need to use the twisty knob for next/prev tracks, but if you wanted wireless music in your car it could be useful.
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Does it also have a transmit mode? I've tried about 3 BT transmitter gimmicks from Ali so far and not one has worked properly. They work fine as receivers though. E: never mind, the listing explicitly says it's not a transmitter
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What's the best in weird components and poo poo that I can build into 3D prints? I found these wireless phone chargers which seem like a great candidate to create customized wireless charging pads as gifts. https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256801686854881.html There's a design for it on printables here, but I might just make my own: https://www.printables.com/model/374963-desk-catch-all-with-wireless-charging In any case it's gotten me interested in what other kinds of components I can order in bulk cheap off Aliexpress and turn into rad custom things. Anyone else doing anything like that?
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L.E.Ds are extremely cheap so you can make custom night lights and displays, liquid switches and photosensors give you options for activation. Also I'll bet there's plenty of available designs for toy cars and the like which only require adding a tiny engine and battery.
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Looks like just what I need, so it's great to have your review of it. Love that it has a Lotus Hole that can be connected with a Fancy Wire. "TF card", though? It doesn't actually work with a modern micro-SD card? (Or do the Chinese simply refer to SD cards as the older TF name? Not that I'd ever use it.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:"TF card", though? It doesn't actually work with a modern micro-SD card? (Or do the Chinese simply refer to SD cards as the older TF name? Not that I'd ever use it. In my experience, the latter. I had aliexpress headphones that would play music off a "TF" card and any microsd I threw at it worked
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Love that it has a Lotus Hole that can be connected with a Fancy Wire. What is a lotus hole? Google is obviously failing me hard here.
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From what I can tell, RCA plugs. Is it the case that to play music from the "TF" card you have to download some third party app?
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Yeah the RCA plug looks a bit like lotus leaves, I've seen it on a few AliX audio products. Haven't tried a SD card in my new widget, I'm guessing it would be OK if you didn't mind just going through a playlist of songs with no screen or way to shuffle them; I don't know if it even supports album folders or if you're just meant to dump all your mp3s into the root of the card. edit: there's a button for a '3D Bass Boot' mode (that sounds awful), but a long-press on it is labelled as 'mode switch' which I'm guessing is between incoming Bluetooth and SD card inputs. As with a lot of these products, the instructions are vague if you're lucky. edit edit: took a bit of hunting to find a microSD card and a PC USB card reader, but dropped a couple album folders and a loose MP3 in the root of the card, the widget takes the card OK (upside down) and then long-pressing the bass boost button switches modes, it will play the root mp3 first and then work through the album folders (I didn't check if it would go more than one folder deep) and you can step forwards / back with the knob twist (it only rotates about 45degrees either way, not a full rotary knob), I think adjust volume with knob-twist-holds, and play-pause by clicking the knob center. No app needed for card playback. NoneMoreNegative fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Feb 27, 2023 |
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NoneMoreNegative posted:Yeah the RCA plug looks a bit like lotus leaves, I've seen it on a few AliX audio products. Haven't tried a SD card in my new widget, I'm guessing it would be OK if you didn't mind just going through a playlist of songs with no screen or way to shuffle them; I don't know if it even supports album folders or if you're just meant to dump all your mp3s into the root of the card.
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This looks like the same product, minus the big stupid knob. (Why would anyone ever put this at less than maximum volume? Assuming you plug it in to a stereo or AVR, ideally it should run at line level and the volume should be controlled from your smartphone.) https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004560884459.html Considering getting this instead.
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:This looks like the same product, minus the big stupid knob. (Why would anyone ever put this at less than maximum volume? Assuming you plug it in to a stereo or AVR, ideally it should run at line level and the volume should be controlled from your smartphone.) Yeah that would prob. be better for a house, the knob track switcher would suit not having to poke at your phone to skip a track while driving. edit:  AliExpress: Easy Full Blood Resurrection 
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:"TF card", though? It doesn't actually work with a modern micro-SD card? (Or do the Chinese simply refer to SD cards as the older TF name? Not that I'd ever use it. I'm surprised this is the first time you're encountering that, every cheap Chinese card reader has used "TF card" to mean microSD since they were invented
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flavor.flv posted:I'm surprised this is the first time you're encountering that, every cheap Chinese card reader has used "TF card" to mean microSD since they were invented To be fair to them "sd" cards are literally just an evolution of transflash From what I understand for the most part they are pretty much just a serial interface to a controller on the chip, there isn't really anything smart needed in the device to talk to them.
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flavor.flv posted:I'm surprised this is the first time you're encountering that, every cheap Chinese card reader has used "TF card" to mean microSD since they were invented Let's say I recently discovered Aliexpress. Anyway, they have an optical-output model, I think I'll change my mind to that, even though it has the stupid knob and no NFC. Surely all-digital is the way to go! https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004707358620.html
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07DJ4NJXR?amp=&= I picked up one of these a while back to replace an old speaker amp, and apart from having to get a power supply for it off ebay, it's been great, if a little noisy at higher volumes. I'm pretty sure they also do bluetooth versions. Worth a look and possibly cheaper than ali, in some cases. https://www.amazon.co.uk/DollaTek-Bluetooth-Amplifier-Wireless-Receiver/dp/B083Q3D5ZY
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Looks like just what I need, so it's great to have your review of it. Yeah it's one of those weird chinese-isms like U DISK, it means microSD
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"U disk" is a direct Chinese translation of what they call "UBS drive" (as in thumb drive)
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Microsd vs tf is simply kleenex vs tissue, it's a brand name that most of the public doesn't think of as a brand
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Let's say I recently discovered Aliexpress. Bought this one. Will review, whenever.
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stephenthinkpad posted:"U disk" is a direct Chinese translation of what they call "UBS drive" (as in thumb drive) Yeah but it still makes no sense
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mobby_6kl posted:I've had one of the $5 ebay ones working for years. There was some weirdness with the drivers but after that it worked fine. Mine is the official Microsoft one, $30 years ago, and LOL for support, I guess. They never officially released Win10 drivers, just 8, and those stopped working on fairly recent versions of 10.
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Darchangel posted:Mine is the official Microsoft one, $30 years ago, and LOL for support, I guess. They never officially released Win10 drivers, just 8, and those stopped working on fairly recent versions of 10. I read this as 30 years ago and tried to remember what Window version was released in 1992.
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norp posted:To be fair to them "sd" cards are literally just an evolution of transflash They're actually 4-bit, it's not just serial. The SD people used to be somewhat secretive with the protocol, so a lot of low end/hobby projects used their SPI mode which *is* serial and much slower. I think it goes up to more bits, too, I have an SD card with a million pins but nothing that has that many pins on the receiving end, probably as they can just drive the 4-bit bus faster. When you actually look into it, it's the same physical interface as "MMC" (e.g. those other cards you used to be able to buy for full size SD slots that included wifi, digital camera, etc. peripherals for old PDAs) and that appears to be how inside a lot of modern phones/laptops the wifi and flash memory will still be hooked up on the board, and they often *do* use all the pins for extra speed.
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Suddenly I've had a series of bad aliexpress luck, first one seller sends me a completely wrong thing, but it's a $3 purchase so who cares. Yesterday I received a combined shipment of two orders where one of the packages were missing from the bag. I tried to dispute which aliexpress immediately rejected as "tracking shows item was delivered" I have tried to appeal but I don't have high hopes, it sucks because this time it was a $20 thing. And it's not even the sellers fault, it's the combined shipping service that aliexpress provides you without asking...
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I joined Banggood recently just to see what it's like and I honestly didn't even find something to buy with the new members coupons. That store is good maybe for drone building people and other than that they got very little to offer. Are all the competing sites to AE like this, focused on one thing?
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By popular demand posted:I joined Banggood recently just to see what it's like and I honestly didn't even find something to buy with the new members coupons. That store is good maybe for drone building people and other than that they got very little to offer. I looked at Banggood for RC cars I couldn't find on Ali, and noticed there are more options for EU sellers. Like, maybe all those RC guys have a shop in the Czech Republic, idk.
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By popular demand posted:I joined Banggood recently just to see what it's like and I honestly didn't even find something to buy with the new members coupons. That store is good maybe for drone building people and other than that they got very little to offer. 
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I’ve only used banggood a couple of times and both times for “local warehouse stock” that was shipped from overseas and took months to arrive - to the point I was pestering them for a refund while they kept trying to fob me off with poo poo like “well it was in stock when you ordered it but someone else also ordered it and we had to get yours from elsewhere so it’s taking a *little bit* longer. Pissed me off because their prices are okay but after that experience I just noped out.
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I ordered an electric unicycle from banggood back in the day when EUC was very underpowered. I looked at banggood again when I was interested in building a FPV drone. But yeah I can't find anything else to buy. I have never come across the super cheap mini chainsaw deal people bragged about in this thread. stephenthinkpad fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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https://i.imgur.com/sSUb6Kl.mp4 €55,- euros for the pear levitator https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002055537828.html
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ekuNNN posted:https://i.imgur.com/sSUb6Kl.mp4 Put this cute penis plush on the pedestal https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256...id=5rvc0SeHcIPj
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flavor.flv posted:That is excellent advice and the Pro 2 in particular has a ton of extra features like programmable macros and such, but I will also say that if you find the right store you can still get ahold of the original design from before the C&D, and the novelty might just outweigh the ergonomics. Plus you can slip it into your pocket a lot more easily I don't think this is true anymore--I tried to find one of these as a gift for a friend last year and spent waaay too much time over a period of weeks scouring AE (and a bunch of even sketchier websites) for it, only to have them cancel the order when I finally found one that was listed as in stock. I wound up getting one of the slightly-less-infringing SN30s and swapping out the face buttons, but it was hard to find that one at the time and now it seems to be impossible as well, so it probably got added to the naughty list too.  You should be able to do the same trick with the PSX-colored one that's still available; they all use the same spec for the face buttons as the original SNES/SFC controller, so you can find replacements all over the place for a few bucks. Swapping them out takes about ten minutes and a Torx screwdriver. Modification chat aside, it's a very nice controller and the ergonomics are great as long as you aren't constantly using the thumbsticks. You aren't going to save much ordering it from AE over Amazon or wherever, FWIW. EDIT: ianmacdo posted:I got one of those nintendo style 8bitdo ones, to use on my computer. and one downside is that the buttons are not the same as an xbox one i guess? So that in games the tutorials and quick help show the wrong button, so I i dont know what im supposed to press. 8BitDo actually sells replacement buttons for this exact use case. Nestharken fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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