TriState-COW, HackerBox

This entry is a little late - so it's out of order. I received the box from Nick Sayer.

Participating in the last traveling hackerbox was a lot of fun - so much so that I wanted to do another. I was definitely hooked! I wasn’t the only one thinking of continuing either...soon after that one ended (or rather stopped), the last person I sent the previous box too was also hooked. Thus the sprout of a new traveling hackerbox that includes California, Oregon, and Washington - the Traveling COW. Kudos goes out to @Jeremy g. for initiating this box and seeding it with all kinds of goodies. (Also, for coming up with the awesome name.) So glad I was able to be apart of this one too. Here is the start of it...

My contributions…

I was low on stock so I wasn’t able to add some of my USB Tester stuff except for the VA Tester but I did add some other goodies that I had plenty to share with. A while back my dad found a guy online that had a bunch of parts he was giving away as he no longer needed to build some sort of kit he had made. My dad thinking of me, handed them over my way. I ended up with a bunch of goodies...actually more than I probably will ever use at all. So here is what I put into the box to share with the fellow hacker…

Here are the few items I took out and hope to put to good use.

OH! And in the end, I couldn't resist the LCD display , it will make for a fun project...

Can't wait to do this again!

Parts I took from the HackerBox

1. jumper wires

2. AVR uISP x1

3. thermocouple amplifier breakout pcb

4. LCD module with keypad and serial interface

5.GPS disciplined RTC board

6. Crazy Clocks x2

My Contributions to the HackerBox, hope someone finds them useful!

list of parts added

1.bunch of old PCBs from an old sharp camcorder (and a digital camera i think, dont remember).

2. digistump digispark clone

3. 32x2 character LCD

4.D-link Usb to Ethernet adapter

5. Mini hacker tin with surprise goodies! ;)

6.Touchpad from an old macbook pro

Tomorrow , i'll mail the box to the next destination on the list!

The box arrived here today.

Here are some pictures of the content:

Some SMD resistors and caps... and an... antenna?

Ooh. A very nice project box. I'm going to make off with that. I am betting I can make it into something cool.

I also am going to take a couple of those. They look very useful as GPIO references for R-Pi GPIOs.

My, those are big diodes.

Intriguing. I've seen lots of boxes that go the other way...

DRAM!

The box within a box. This was full of all sorts of very useful boards. I took an ISP programmer that was in a very cool looking aluminum USB case. I have to investigate that.

And a note.

My additions: Three GPS Disciplined oscillators, plus some bare boards for some more and for an FE-580A GPS discipline module. Also, a couple of Pi Powers - perhaps for the two R-Pis I found in the box. There's a "divide by 3" clock circuit - feed it 9 MHz and get out 3 MHz. I'm also including two USB µISPs - my favorite AVR programmer (but I'm understandably biased). Also, a panel of crazy clock boards that gave me some trouble with programming. Fix 'em or part 'em. Same with a FTDI-be-gone board that wouldn't come up.

And this is a mostly full panel of crazy clock boards, and an unpopulated panel of AD8495 breakout boards.

Not pictured is a µSD-to-USB adapter, an old Apple laptop power supply and a Nike smart shoe to iOS-30-pin dongle.

The box will go to its next destination in tomorrow's outgoing mail.

I decided this was a chance for me to get rid of stuff and not gain more. So I didn't take anything from the box but I added a bunch of stuff I hope someone will find useful.

Qty = 2 Raspberry Pi Model A

Pac Tec Plastic Enclosure

Qty = 2 Display keypads from Matrix Orbital

10 different packs of 0603 resistors

4 different packs of 0603 capacitors

Qty=5 Pi GPIO reference card 26-pin and Qty=5 Pi GPIO reference card 40-pinThe box is now on it's way to California!

I don't know if anything in here is terribly exiting but here is what I have to put in the starter box.

• A bag of jelly bean pnp transistors take what you need or take them all.
• A bag of 1n5000 diodes, good for rectifier setups.
• A bag of 1k short lead resistors.

A box of micro's / dev boards :)

• 2 x cc1110 dev boards, sorry no cc debugger.
• 1 x Arduino mega, the 8u2 is fried. The mega still programs via ICSP.
• One of my attiny 84 dev boards.
• A spark fun Bluetooth music board
• A spark fun quick snap camera board.
• A eye board from a Mr general robot.
• A Hercules TMS570 dev kit
• 2 x usb-ISP's refreshed with avr dude compatible fw.
• An alarm clock seven segment display

some random

• a small world clock / calculator. Needs batteries and to be put back together.
• A VGA to hdmi converter
• A cfl tube power supply.
• Some old dims, 2 x 8Mb
• A multi terminal mechanical relay.
• Two sets of 4mm banana jacks.
• 2 plasma TV driver heat sinks.
• A harddrive caddy?
• Some random bits.

I hope this is good for a starter. I just need to figure out the rotation of the box. I kind of want to zigzag from all three places if there are enough people. But for now we may just go round robbin.

Stay happy, stay healthy, and keep hackin.

I am currently tasked with cleaning the office, and thus am creating a small pile to put in the starter box. I won't post a pic of my office as I'm sure it's pretty horrible :)

I will however post a pic of what will be inside the box soon.

We also need more people to make this work. We have me in Oregon, a few people in California and currently no one in Washington. So if you know anyone send them our way.

I want to get this rolling so it dosnt loose interest.

Stay happy, stay healthy, and keep hackin