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First Trip, Inventory
09/21/2015 at 23:34 • 3 commentsIt's off. It's gone. It's in the mail. Somewhere between Pennsylvania and California is the travelling box of hacker crap.
A few changes: I needed to use the Large flat rate box. The Harbor Freight box was unexpectedly out of spec and didn't fit in the medium flat rate box. The official Box is now the large flat rate and costs $17.90 to ship to anywhere in the US. Sorry about that, but I think the inventory included in the box will make it up for anyone who has already signed up.
OH YEAH THE INVENTORY
Here's the list of hardware that is in the box right now. This doesn't include little bits of swag like stickers, pins, patches, and all those other goodies.
- 5 Cypress PSOC 5LP Prototyping kits
- STM32F3 Discovery
- STM32F0 Discovery
- Pulsesensor.com pulse sensor
- 5 SeeMeCNC screwdrivers
- CamdenBoss Raspberry Pi case
- LayerOne Demoscene Board
- Electric Imp
- Electric Imp Hannah
- Electric Imp April
- Evil Mad Scientist ATMegaxx8 target board
- Graphene Thermal Paste
- SparkFun ESP8266 Thing
- MAX5214 / MAX 5216 DAC dev board
- LoRA IoT sensor node demonstration board
- AMC1200DUBR IC Sample Pack
- BotThoughts ezee Prop
- Arduino Pro Mini
- ANT Bitcoin Miner
- 2 Fairchild 2716 ceramic EEPROMs, datecode 1980
- SolderPeek
- 2 BlinkyPendant
- Hackaday Adafruit Trinket Pro
- 2 ChipKit zUNO Clips
- Old HP 9-digit bubble display
- Sparkfun BLE Mate 2
- Seeed Skeleton Box
By my math, that's at least Six hundred dollars worth of crap, shoved in a Harbor Freight box, and sent to some stranger.
Let's say you're really, really interested in this project now. How do you get in? How do you get this box 'o crap delivered to your door? You can do that right here. Just fill out a form, and our magical algorithm will put you in the queue. There's a catch, though: the order of when it will get to you is completely random, and I've already planned out the first 25,000 miles. If it's not stolen, it'll get to you. It'll just take a while.
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First 25,000 Miles Planned
09/07/2015 at 16:10 • 0 commentsSince this project is *heavily* geared towards USPS medium flat rate boxes, We're first going to bounce across the US for about 25,000 miles. That's the circumference of the Earth, so if we can manage this, we should be able to manage expeditions further afield.
Since I put up the registration form for the travelling hacker box (you'll want to click on that if you haven't already registered), I've gotten enough responses to kick this box around america for 25,000 miles. It would have been much easier had someone from Alaska or Hawaii signed up.
Here's the map:
I'm using great circle distance to the nearest airport only initially. It makes planning easier. For the first 14 trips, the box will travel a total of 25,536 miles. That's the entire way around the planet.
It'll be about two weeks until the box is on its way - I'm shipping it full of goodies from OHS in Philly this year. People will be contacted in due time, so hold on to your butts.
PHL-STS-5B6-SEA-0GE3-44WY-ORH-KNUQ-1E8-MCI-KNUQ-20N-MSP-KSRB-4B9
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GET YOUR ADDRESSES IN
08/31/2015 at 15:26 • 0 commentsI'm going to be sending the box out from OHS in Philly in about three weeks. This means I need people to send it *to*, and that means I need addresses.
HERE'S A GOOGLE FORM. FILL IT OUT. JUST DO IT.