At last it is my turn to get my hands on the traveling hacker box filled with goodies and boy is it quite heavy! As I slowly open the box the view is obscured by a Motorola Lapdock. The exact one I have already which I am surprised as most people have the older version. So much stuff I don’t know where to begin!

I found a couple of OSH Park boards which is to be expected, ;) some LCDs that have seen better days. One of them looks like it was damaged, probably in shipping. Quite the number of old parts. Various microcontrollers as well including some LPC-Link and NXP bare chips, tempting but wouldn't’ be able to use them for a long time. I didn’t take a picture but there is a baggy with an Atmel and Microchip microcontroller from what looks like the early 90’s. Ha! I wonder if that was on purpose? Back then no one would've guessed they would become the same company.

There was just a few items that caught my interest. I have always wanted to try a multi-core micro. So I couldn’t resist the Propeller and the XMOS starter kit. Be great for expanding my experience with other micros. Finally another thing on my list is a digital RGB strip which happened to be in the box. Perfect reactive lighting for the office. ;)

Here the items I put in the box. The ones in the static bags are stuff I make, some of you might recognize them, but there are some surprise prototypes in there that are making their first trip into the wild. The final item I added I hope someone can find useful which has a lot of potential since the firmware isn’t locked down. And thanks to my wife in helping with packing the box and shipping it. No way I could get to all fit in there again, ha! This is the last stop in California, now on its way to Oregon. Wish I could go with it!