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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.
Antiquated OS X
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How does one get hold of an older version of OS X? There are dodgy google drive links available on eBay, from Russia (with love) for £3, or a shop in Fortune Town that offers pirated DVDs for £6. None of which are particularly good, or trustworthy, options.
The AppStore would be the best and safest option, but it is not cheap, and if you haven’t already purchased Mountain Lion when it was available, then it will not show up.
So, you have to buy direct from Apple (see links below), for $20. Or try to find a second hand version of a DVD, but on eBay they generally go for more than $20, when postage is included.
However, post-Snow Leopard, the OSes were more commonly released on USB sticks. Also, to install Lion or Mountain Lion, you need to be running Snow Leopard or Lion (respectively), so it seems that you need both the Snow Leopard DVD and then the binary of Mountain Lion – this is getting long winded and pricey…
