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[Kilrah]

On 2/16/2024 at 6:32 AM, FlyingPotato_is_taken said:

@Kilrah You might be interested in the Renesas x LVGL x RT-Thread board:

Nice, might keep that in mind if I need Ethernet...

But it's pretty expensive once shipping is added, there seems to only be one source for it, and... I'm not a fan of those "manufacturer showcase" boards, they make them to advertise their components so hopefully you use them in your own designs, the board itself is a one-shot, docs and examples will never be updated after release etc... Compared to things like ESPs that are soooo popular they're not going away and available software/libs only grows...

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

@Kilrah  I paid around 30-40€ per board incl. shipping and taxes. Definitely not cheap but still reasonable.

I like it because it gets more right than wrong: LCD with buttons on the side, CAN, Ethernet + Wifi and arduino compatible header. The pmod are nice to have but not a killer feature.

 

5 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

the board itself is a one-shot, docs and examples will never be updated after release etc...

Do they need to be updated?

The LVGL tutorial provides a starting point, the layout/hardware documentation doesn't change and Renesas will work on their tool chain. If you use RT-thread there is a premade config for it that will be supported in each new release.

 

Renesas RA6M3 was released in 2020 meaning I expect it to be active well into the 2030s.

 

 

Btw. I am not sure when ST last updated the STM32F103 nucleo examples. 

Btw. Renesas recently bought Altium ... not sure how I feel about this. Definitely a big player and with the Arduino Uno R4 they are headed towards hobby/beginner.

 

13 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

I'm not a fan of those "manufacturer showcase" boards, they make them to advertise their components so hopefully you use them in your own designs

This isn't the worst of them. For ICs it has the MCU and wifi module. All functional parts that make sense.

One of my favourite dev boards of all time is the Arrow Deca. This has countless of those TI showcase parts in an absurd collection/configuration. Why do i like it? If this is what it takes to make a $50 FPGA board I take it and just ignore those TI parts.

[Vonrottes]

Found a nearly mint copy of a goofy obscure local band from the 80/90s.

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

"Deposit" for the Ugreen DXP4800 plus.

 

 

 

I've also probably bought my last 8GB SO-DIMM DDR4.

 

[RoseLuck462]

Got a new game for my Lynx handheld

 

[WhitetailAni]

On 2/16/2024 at 10:20 PM, RoseLuck462 said:

Didn't buy any though

The 802.11n ones aren't really worth it unless you're me and have a legacy WiFi network. WEP encryption... but it's kept separate from my main LAN so meh. All they'll get access to is some old iPhones, iPads, an iMac G5 with just some music on it, and a 3DS.

 

The WiFi 5 ones are nice, I wish Apple had made a WiFi 5 AirPort Express.

 

Anyway, don't have a picture (at school) but I bought a Corsair HS60 Pro to replace my aged Logitech G430.

 

By aged I mean both earcups are hotglued in place, the microphone is held in place by superglue and electrical tape, the USB dongle is missing most of the shielding around the wire, and the headset audio cables only work properly in a specific position, otherwise the right ear breaks.

[Anghammarad]

Replacement Parts for my Homlab/Mediaserver

 

Mainboard, CPU, RAM, CPU Cooler, wanted to try out the new EKL Alpenföhn Panorama II, and not on the picture a 750 watt cooler master 80+ Gold PSU...

 

 

[vetali]

 

 

First time taking off the plates on a PS5... only yeeted it 5 feet.

[SimplyChunk]

1 hour ago, vetali said:

only yeeted it 5 feet.

solid effort sir

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

Gigabyte Mainboard MC12-LE0

 

 

2.5" 10k RPM SATA drive attached to a 3.5" cooler:

 

 

[bluessorrow]

Definitely couldn’t justify buying this (not that it’s not worth the price!) but wife got it for me as a Valentine’s Day gift… I am actually speechless. Do I have the best wife or not? 

[flibberdipper]

Bought this (apparently) brand new 130w power brick for this PC I got for free: an OptiPlex 7040 Micro. Mine has an i5 6600T, 8GB of single-channel 2133MHz RAM, and a 128GB SanDisk X400. My inner dumbass really wants to give it an i7 6700, 32GB of RAM (anything higher than 2400 is overkill, but it'll probably get 2666), and a 512GB MP33. Just for the memes.

 

[soldier_ph]

15 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

My inner dumbass really wants to give it an i7 6700, 32GB of RAM (anything higher than 2400 is overkill, but it'll probably get 2666), and a 512GB MP33. Just for the memes.

Do it. I just love Mini PCs who's Power Brick is basically the same size as the Chassis itself but the thing has a Socketed CPU.

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

The size above those micro bricks is awesome. Still tiny but large enough to fit a low profile x16 PCIE-card.

 

HP has those nice modular (proprietary) connectors meaning you could upgrade the network even in those micro bricks.

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, soldier_ph said:

Do it. I just love Mini PCs who's Power Brick is basically the same size as the Chassis itself but the thing has a Socketed CPU.

Same, 1L Dells will forever have my heart. I reeeeeeeally want to get a newer model that's 12th or 13th gen but I'm not feeling that rich. Only problem (for me) is that the I/O on newer models is somehow worse. IMO the 7040 is perfect: 6x USB3, 1x DP, 1x HDMI... The newer ones are either 4x USB3, 2x USB2, 1x DP, 1x HDMI or 4x USB3, 1x Type C, and 3x DP... Like come on guys lol

[Bitter]

18 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

Bought this (apparently) brand new 130w power brick for this PC I got for free: an OptiPlex 7040 Micro. Mine has an i5 6600T, 8GB of single-channel 2133MHz RAM, and a 128GB SanDisk X400. My inner dumbass really wants to give it an i7 6700, 32GB of RAM (anything higher than 2400 is overkill, but it'll probably get 2666), and a 512GB MP33. Just for the memes.

 

 

 

Speaking from a little experience, while the 6700 might boot it would swamp the power delivery on the board and either hard trip it, throttle hard, or outright burn something.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Bitter said:

Speaking from a little experience, while the 6700 might boot it would swamp the power delivery on the board and either hard trip it, throttle hard, or outright burn something.

I think my ultimate plan would be to limit the long-term turbo to 40-45w since that's about what the cooling in this thing can handle before encroaching on the 80s.

[sub68]

21 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

0. My inner dumbass really wants to give it an i7 6700, 32GB of RAM

Can you replace the CPU in those I thought the 1L were soldered cpu's

[FlyingPotato_is_taken]

China is a wired place. 

How cheap can you manufacturer a 3m WS2812B (30LED/m) & bluetooth controller that it can be sold for $3 incl. (partial) shipping cost?

$7 for a  PCIE WIFI 5 (AC) with Intel chipset isn't bad either but I could see this one as WIFI-AC is old and they might use recycled ICs or surplus.

The USB 3.0 extension could be good enough as cables have crazy mark-up's.

 

 

I was close to buying the $2 65W USB charger. Not for actual use. Just dissecting it.

 

[flibberdipper]

8 hours ago, sub68 said:

Can you replace the CPU in those I thought the 1L were soldered cpu's

lol nah, they're normal socketed desktop chips in pretty much all of the 1L OptiPlex, EliteDesk, and ThinkCentre models.

[sub68]

2 minutes ago, flibberdipper said:

lol nah, they're normal socketed desktop chips in pretty much all of the 1L OptiPlex, EliteDesk, and ThinkCentre models.

Right the 1L models (been a long day), I am thinking of the ancient Pentium thingy.

Which I just figured out is actually socketed. (optiplex SX270's)

[flibberdipper]

10 hours ago, sub68 said:

Right the 1L models (been a long day), I am thinking of the ancient Pentium thingy.

Which I just figured out is actually socketed. (optiplex SX270's)

Dear god I never knew they made the USFF with a Pentium 4... Now I want one of those AND a 780 USFF for both ends of the whacky USFF generation: Pentium 4 shitbox and a Q6600 shitbox.

[sub68]

2 hours ago, flibberdipper said:

Dear god I never knew they made the USFF with a Pentium 4... Now I want one of those AND a 780 USFF for both ends of the whacky USFF generation: Pentium 4 shitbox and a Q6600 shitbox.

I have a friend that has a ton of 780 generation USFF.

[CommanderAlex]

A new mouse because of circumstances...

 

 

[8tg]

Terrible phone pic but, carbon bars for the fango