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Opening a bank account in Thailand is not easy, if you aren’t a native, especially if you aren’t working, or rather, do not have a work permit…
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Kood Diaow
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Here’s some photos of my favourite breakfast truck…
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Crisps in baht
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A case study of the prices of packets of crisps in Thailand…
PCBs in BKK
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Need to get some PCBs made, preferably from Eagle .brd files, but not everyone accepts them and they want PDFs instead.
LED strips from fluorescent tubing
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I was given a number of LED strips from flourescent tubes the other day. After a quick look, I noticed that the 36 LEDs were grouped in bunches of 12. I went an got a 12 V 2 A LED power supply, but only some of the LEDs flashed. So, more investigation was required…
Wilson II print times
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Following on from Building a Wilson II in Bangkok and the somewhat crazy prices for locally sourced printed parts, after finding out that a neighbour has a 3D printer, I decided to have another attempt at printing the parts for the Wilson 2.
If print time is charged at 1 baht/minute then how much would it cost to print a Wilson II 3D printer? Or more precisely, how long would it take to print all of the required parts?
Perspex in Bangkok
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I needed some perspex, or plexiglass, in Bangkok, but didn’t know where to find it cheaply… so yet another voyage of discovery.
Coin Operated Brain
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Following on from Reverse engineering the coin box, the microcontroller used is the MC68HC908JL3 DIL-28, or a similar derivative.
Capacitors for Sleeping iMac
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Following on from Sleepy iMac, here are some capacitors that might be a good fit.
Reverse engineering the coin box
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Tenuously following on from Laundry in Thailand, the coin operating box often suffers problems, namely the coin slot and the control PCB. The former suffers from failure to register a coin. The latter sometimes fails to start the washing machine.
