And what did we buy today?

[haiqu]

Today's purchase: a GPS for the truck.

 

[soundbrigade]

Glasses. My old ones are scratched and I thought it was about time to have my vision checked.
Paid the glasses today but will have in 2-3 weeks time.
I've always chosen silvery spectacles, but today I got brave and picked dark brown metal spectacles.

 

[leadbelly]

Finally gave in to haranguing and bought $80 of treated wood to make a picket fence for the front garden.

Gave up on my HDMI DSD DAC aspirations and bought comparator chip and header pins to make a S/PDIF input for the ES9018K2M DAC.

The pandemic is causing milkageddon at our house. Nothing in regular dairy makes it close to expiry date. For milk my new formula is to buy 1 2L jug of whole plus 2 1L jugs of UHT to last a week, but not even a 1L carton of whipping cream lasts a week. What are they doing loading and unloading those trucks?

 

[Tubelab_com]

I just bought 62 pieces of "not my best stuff" quality bulk PC board stock, cheap on Ebay. It's all for prototypes anyway where fixing minor voids and broken traces is the norm, not the exception. The large (about 100 Lbs) lot I dumpster dived from a PCB house shut down by the EPA back in the 80's has finally run out.

BURDEN OF CLEANUP CLOUDY - Sun Sentinel

 

[soundchaser]

I bought a Garmin Edge 530 plus cadence and speed sensors for my bike.

Looking forward to installing them and trying them out.

 

[kodabmx]

One of these and a 5AH battery....

DEWALT DCK283D2 20V MAX XR Brushless Compact Drill & Impact Driver Combo, 2.0Ah | Canadian Tire

 

[mondogenerator]

20m of leather thong,
Some pretty beads,
Some silver,
Tailor's pins
Linen thread/Nylon thread
Leather needles
Scalpel.

All of which cost me more than the more usual DIYA fare, 6N2P, 6N3P, 6N5P.

 

[haiqu]

I just discovered that one of the creators of the Fairlight synth made a replica of the Fairlight CMI IIx that runs in iOS so I'm going to give it a try. I've regretted selling my actual CMI since 2003.

So, I bought ... an M-Audio USB midi keyboard, an iPad4 camera kit (USB adapter) and an iPad4.

 

[soundbrigade]

Paid for a bunch of stuff from das Musicding in Germany - potentiometers, knobs, Hammond 125B boxes and a PCB for a guitar effects pedal.

ALSO got delivered the Behringer Crave synthesizer and the 60mm macro lens for my Canon camera. It's Christmas over here ...

 

[AVWERK]

A Precision Fidelity C-9 tube preamp

Someone really messed with this one and its going to take some time just bringing it back to
a original stock condition.

I knew it needed help going in and schematics are not available so a real challenge for this piece of equipment

Regards
David

 

[anatech]

Hi David,
Good luck! Those are the worst repairs!

I just bought a flooring job today. Lucky me.

-Chris

 

[mountainman bob]

Finally pulled the trigger on a SHD from deer creek audio.......got tired of contemplating!

We shall soon see if it rates as a keeper or not.

 

[ferret]

The last lot of components for my Big Bottle MM/MC build. Just need to find the correct valve sockets for the PCB. RS does not have PCB through hole mount models. Will check with a few other companies. SA still locked down so bringing in from the states problematic. May resort to another channel if necessary.

 

[nigelwright7557]

Some components for my latest project which is a transistor curve tracer.
Scans the transistor output and sends data to PC via USB and it is plotted on a CAD like screen. You can zoom and pan to see the data better than just a scope type screen.

 

[anatech]

Interesting Nigel.

-Chris

 

[Bigun]

Hi David,
Good luck! Those are the worst repairs!

I just bought a flooring job today. Lucky me.

-Chris

first the roof, now the floor, soon to be a new palace

 

[nigelwright7557]

Interesting Nigel.

-Chris

Just some random traces to test PC software.

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

 

[anatech]

Nope, I'm completely out of loot now!

 

[Cal Weldon]

What kind of flooring?

 

[anatech]

Laminate, looks like Maple. Two rooms, 650 sq ft. The bonus is that they are going to screw down the floors as well. Looking forward to that instea of the rough carpet with pee stains.

-Chris