Which inexpensive and useful technology items did you order from Aliexpress, eBay, DX, Banggood, Tinydeal etc. recently?
I can't even remember the last time I bought something actually useful from those chinese shops.
My $7 arduino clone shorted out
my $5 mechanical skeleton watch broke
my $3 safety razor rusted itself through the nickel coating
usb sd card reader couldn't maintain a USB connection for longer than 10 seconds at a time
i could go on
This DIY oscilloscope, only 200khz bandwidth but it's ok.
Nothing you datamining piece of shit
Replacement fan for my HD 5870 from China, just replaced it since my first repair to the original fan lasted only for about a week before it started making horrible noise again.
>>52460257
i bought a cheap obd2 reader for my car for 5$ from china
it worked for 3 months and then stopped reading my cars computer and wouldnt connect
The DZ-ATE's
>>52460295
I have two of these, one with an USB cable and one with bluetooth (was only $3 and can be connected to an Android phone), they work fine.
>>52460309
it was the bluetooth one, i dont know wtf happened but it just straight up stopped working and i wasnt hard on it
>>52460158
My uncle who lives in china to do black people fraud things but with the untapped power of cheap chinese goods brought me back a "Lioncharger" portable USB battery thing
I've used it maybe once
>>52460158
Earpads for my ath-m50.
In Canada we have gay French language, so I buy american keyboards for laptops bought in Canada.
That's aboot it desu SENPAI.
Bluetooth audio adapter for $2
>>52460338
Lol tell me more. Sneakers?
>>52460444
checked
Link?
>>52460158
usb to vga monitor adapter
works a treat,my local maplins wanted 49.99 for one,got it for a fiver!
>>52460272
Do they sell more? I want it.
>>52460295
>>52460309
WHERE CAN I GET A CHEAP OBD2 READER? WILL THEY WORK ON FORDS DESPITE BEING MADE IN CHINA?
please respond (my truck's dead)
>>52460158
Mi band 1S and spare band
KZ ATE
a pair of fake grass ornaments
I have been trying to make money fixing up and selling broken vg consoles.
Lately I've bought Nintendo-sized safety bits (I misplaced the nice ones I had), A PSP replacement shell kit, cheap 3rd party SNES controllers (for the boards), and AV/Power cables for several systems (most things are missing cables when I get them).
If anyone is wondering, I'm technically making money, but it works out to way less than minimum wage.
>>52460501
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/USB-Wireless-Bluetooth-3-5mm-Music-Audio-Car-Handsfree-Receiver-Adapter-LL1/32518479457.html
>>52461287
How's the business so far?
>>52460723
Look for DSO138 on ebay. The kit is about $20. It requires some soldering of SMD parts (resistors), so you should be able to do this.
>>52461314
Like I said, limping along.
In hindsight, it seems obvious, but there's a lot of competition and the collectability value of retro stuff makes the margins really slim.
A broken SNES/SFC that needs 8 hours work to restore is only worth $10-$20 more than an equivalent condition unit that works and has all the official accessories.
>>52460939
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Universal-Mini-V1-5-ELM327-OBD2-Bluetooth-Auto-Scanner-OBDII-2-Car-ELM-327-Tester-Diagnostic/1578466645.html
or
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1pc-Diagnostic-Car-Auto-Mini-ELM327-V1-5-OBD2-II-Bluetooth-Interface-Scanner-Tool/32294199872.html
for example.
If you have an Android phone you can use it with the 'Torque' app. You can also find them with a USB cable, just look for ELM327 adapters.
>>52461411
err
>worth $10-$20 less
Not from any of these places but I brought a Bluetooth dongle from the Poundshop (UK), and it's lasted a year of good use so far (PS4 pad for PC)
>>52460444
I've been using this same bland one for a few years and hasent crapped out on me yet.
>>52460939
If it's a newer car (like not more than 10 years old) it will probably work. Just google for: compatibility elm327 $NameOfTheCar
>>52460272
That's pretty neat. I would buy one but I know it will end up under my bed after I used it once.
bought this
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-Universal-Infrared-IR-Mini-TV-Set-Remote-Control-Keychain-Key-Ring-7-Keys-Black/32279511028.html?ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_3,searchweb201644_5_10001_10002_10005_301_10006_10003_10004_62,searchweb201560_2,searchweb1451318400_6151
used it to shutdown others tv
>yes i'm edgy
>>52461418
Hey dude thanks a lot, this is a great site.
>>52461466
It's a 1996 F150. I'll try it out.
>>52461418
Sounds like business is at a crawl, and i was thinking of doing apple repairs but i need to at least get some tools first.
>>52460158
>convoy s2+ flashlight
Bright af, quality is the same as other more expensive brand name flashlight
>ganzo g729 knife
clone of the paramilitary with axis lock. Needs oiling and cleaning to make it smooth. Pretty good
>chinese special LED bulb 75 watt equivalent
Puts out cold white near blue light. rated 2700k. bamboozled
This tally counter for 80cent
>>52462101
>>chinese special LED bulb 75 watt equivalent
Chinese LED bulbs are the right thing to either burn your house down or get an electric shock.
dvb-t tuners i've bought are running fine
I bought a usb cable to charge my n3ds on the go/on my desk. It smells a bit weird though, but not as bad as the otg adapter that I just threw away the second I got it. The 3ds cable seems pretty sturdy and nice for a chink usb cable.
I hope the smell goes away if I put it near a radiator for a few days. I sorta don't like touching the thing if it smells.
Probably not much worse than fresh neoprene though. That shit actually smells breddy gud even though it is full of cancer
>>52460158
SDR card
12$
worst all the money on it
>>52462720
house fire incoming
>>52462941
Meh, that would only happen if the 3ds were made by retards. The usb ports I charge with can handle a short in the cable, so I don't see what could possibly go wrong m8
3200LM motorcycle headlight LED $9.80
heatsink tape $cents per sheet
3700mAh 18650 $1.08
RTL8188EU WIFI adaptor $2.04 (works far better than built-in wifi BTW)
All inclusive of postage. Post stuffs these things into my letterbox trying to break them and I don't even care, because the alternative is to buy them at 4x the price and fund local business mafia
Why are these chink packages so slow? I mean, I'm not complaining since it's free but I'm just wondering: shit takes more than 2 months to reach me, anyone else have these abysmal shipping times?
>>52463193
Quality control
i picked up a tx/rx, osd, and video monitor for adding a video feed to my drone. ends up being like $70 for everything for what will basically be the proof of concept for building upon, pretty damn cheap
>>52463193
their postal service is shit and they have to deliver to many countries? or it could be that the postal service wait for a full batch of chinkshit before sending it of?
>>52463193
its normal. unless you pay a shitload, most of that stuff is in no hurry and will sit at both customs points and most likely will travel by fucking boat
>>52460158
bought chink audio connectors... took half a month but was cheap
thinking about making audio cable
>>52460289
Thanks for the info just fixed up my old HD5970 (same fan) to use in my sisters pc but the fan should be replaced but those fans a too much (18$) so she just have to live with it.
>>52460295
Have a 2 year old VAG-com from China still works but is gonna get a new one with a updated firmware to use it with the new version of the software.
Planning on getting a cheap tablet to strip it out of its case to put it into my car as a mediacenter (properly gonna be shit)
>>52460158
a selfie flashlight
>>52463653
>selfie flashlight
TIL something like this exists
electric fly swatter
>>52460158
Got this for an old laptop I still use.
3ds screen protectors
3ds styluses
3ds protective cases
8 gb tiny USB drives, two
8 gb microSD cards, two
DIY USB battery pack, just add 2 x 18650 batteries
8bitDO bluetooth game controllers
iBuffalo SNES USB controllers
2x off-brand N64 controllers
Mayflash N64 adapter
chinkshit 2.5" 32Gb SSD, Sata II
chinkshit 2.5" 64Gb SSD, Sata III
replacement laptop battery for old spare laptop
>>52464221
have you recieved it yet? does it work well? I heard some of the absolute cheapest ones waste a lot of power and get real hot.
Neither my x200 or x220 have usb 3.0 built in so I'm in the market for one of those.
>>52460281
yes, because he's going to get such a great dataset from a gook toon board
I bought in the last few months: some posters, usb cables, usb connectors (various, for diy purposes), a usb 3.0 to sata bridge (for 2.5" hdds), a usb 3.0 enclosure (for 2.5" hdds), a usb 3.0 enclosure (for dvd/bluray drives), a 2.5" sata to 1.8" sata enclosure, some posters, some tree elves, some velcro cable ties, a mars rover model (my favorite, pic related), some xbox controller parts, a glass screen protector and back cover for my lumia 640, a handfull of flashlights, a zif ide -> cf adapter, a cf -> sd adapter, a 2x2.5" to 2.5" adapter for hdds, and some green tea kit kats (not china)
pls help I keep buying all this stupid shit
though I have only spent like $60
>>52463193
>tfw some packages will take only a week to get to me while others will take months
>all the same economy China shipping option
I don't understand the magic here...
>>52464646
>tree elves
wut
>>52464653
I think it has to do with when the packages are shipped and how long they take to go through customs. Some sellers ship the same day and it actually leaves, other sellers may say they shipped it and it just sits around for a couple weeks before it actually gets underway.
The posters I ordered only took like a week, but the electical parts took like five weeks.
>>52464668
:^)
>>52461704
Oh shit. Is this any better than the apps you can download and use your phones ir blaster?
>>52460272
Isn't the real bandwidth of those like 20khz, pretty cool toy to have but if you want to any real measurements better off with and old analog scope or if you have the dosh a new digital one.
>>52464720
Yeah, you're right about the shipping. Probably also has to do with which province it comes out of. If it's from a major city or industrial area it's going to get processed quicker than from a smaller area and has to be at less intermediate points.
I want those tree elves now. Your buying useless shit disease is contagious
>>52464389
I bought one of those really cheap ones from china before I got this one and couldn't even get it to work. But I got this startech one a couple days ago and it works really well and keeps cool.
>>52464819
>Your buying useless shit disease is contagious
I can't help it! I work nights and sometimes I get bored with how quiet it is. You can only brows 4chan so long before you get bored and see how much shit you can buy that you didn't know you needed. On the bright side though, a lot of the stuff that I bought I would have purchased anyway since nearly all of the electronic crap I bought was to repair or replace old hardware.
I also bought one of these to hide in my moms apartment. She loves groot and has been wanting to make one.
plz send help
>>52460272
how good are the logging functions? like can I set to only take one sample per second to measure battery charge/discharge etc?
>>52460158
Cree q5 flashlight-really well built and bright for $4
Jinhao 599- good fountain pen for $1.29.
Redcircle 600- decent rotring clone for $8
Orange pi- I could not get it to boot, so I just gave up after a bit. Should probably try again soon.
Trackpoint sample pack- ended up being official IBM/Lenovo, so they ended up being good
Android robot shaped USB OTG adapter-alright for $0.25. Part of the USB type c connector broke, but it still works.
10 piece Trackpoint caps- no where near as good as the legit ones. Rubber feels too soft, and some aren't cast properly. Buy real ones if you can.
>>52464827
Cool. What kind of laptop do you use it with? OS?
I'm a freetard, don't know if I need to be on the watch for drivers/compatibility and whatnot or if I can expect it to work right out of the box.
>>52464926
I bought cheap trackpoint caps off ebay - soft mushy garbage.
I then bought some trackpoints on ebay that were marked as "OEM LENOVO blah blah blah", US seller - marginally better cheap garbage.
I think I'm just going to have to order direct from Lelnovo, but I don't think they take paypal. Will probably get a prepaid credit card as I don't really trust them not to get breached.
>>52464908
iktf
sometimes it gets too uneventful so I buy random things I don't need so I can look forward to them arriving. to be fair, most are additional computer hardware or gook versions of electronic components that are much cheaper
Still waiting on some jumper cables for an SOIC chip flash
The fucker in the picture is at least 20USD when the gook version was only 5 $tacos
>>52464742
The best one is this DIY TV-B-Gone with the Attiny85 and the 4 IR-LEDs.
>>52464998
>tfw still original 8 year old clit mouse
It's just a shiny plastic piece at this point
>>52464998
I checked, and they accept paypal, and amazon payments. The soft domes are the best value from lenovo.
>>52464802
It really has a 200kHz bandwidth and 1Megasamples/s, I've definitely seen signals over 20kHz while debugging the outputs of an AVR microcontroller, but that's still not much.
>>52465042
What are you flashing?
>>52465042
Yup
This bullshit thing is like at least $20
Chink version is significantly cheaper and doesn't leave my hard drives flopping around in the case.
44-Pin IDE Female to 22 Pin Male SATA Adapter
>http://www.amazon.com/44-Pin-Female-Male-SATA-Adapter/dp/B004E5J0NA/ref=pd_bxgy_147_img_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=023BJAW894F8QHDPYTWD
my external hdd died. would like to get a few files. nothing important or replaceable, but still would like to have them.
I think I need this
for reasons.
>>52464921
You can set the time base to 500s max and it has 12 divisions on the display and you can scroll further sideways (you see that green thing on the top middle? It can scroll about times the area you see on the display, so it would be 4x12divisions x 500s/division=6,6h)
So it should be capable of capturing a signal that changes over some hours. But you can't save it afaik (it has a USB port, but I don't know if it's only for updates or can also send logged data over there)
>>52465134
bios
libreboot for an older thinkpad
>>52464971
It's on a Toshiba Satellite with 32 bit Vista.
It comes with a driver installation CD. But it seems like they put every driver for every piece hardware they make on the disc and Windows couldn't find the right driver to install so I had to dig through it all just to find the proper driver. There wasn't a separate exe setup file for each OS, so I'd assume if you have an Expresscard slot it'll be compatible.
>>52464926
Forgot to mention some stuff
Xiaomi Piston 2: Pretty good. Too bad they're discontinued
Xiaomi in ear monitors: Newest xiaomi in ear headphones. Don't know how good they are, bought them as a gift for a friend
Xbox 360 wireless controller pc adapter: Does the job. Cheaper than the real deal too.
any good gook PoE cams?
>>52460158
Can we add gearbest because i got a funduino and breadboard and sensors from there, and from ali i got 60 replacement sets og blades (240 blades) for my quad from the manufacturer for $5
>>52465241
how is that going to help you?
>>52465621
>PoE cam
Xiaomi has one for $27 on gearbest. The UI and stuff might be only in Chinese though. The quality seems good.
>>52465895
don't even care about the UI
I will just forward the stream to a server anyway and let it do the rest
Will look into, thanks!
>>52463193
Always try to get a tracking number gearbest uses international bridge and its pretty good, gets there within a week or so
>Buy HDMI cable from ebay
>Costs $1, including shipping
>Cheapest computer store in my town
>HDMI cable costs > $10
I love ebay
Is this technology? Got this whoopee cushion for $1 including shipping from China.
Hey guys, which Willem Programmer will let me program eprom chips for my NES games? Everytime I go on ebay and aliexpress, there are always a shit ton of them that look completely different.
Looking to buy some xiomi piston 3 ear buds along with an infrared thermometer, maybe a multitool too.
Anyone buy from GearBuy before? Are they any good?
>>52460158
someone's posted a wireless media controller before. had a keyboard and a tiny touchpad
anyone know what I'm talking about?
>>52466128
Something like the Logitech K400?
There are some offbrand ones you can get from Chinese sellers too. Be careful because of the different keyboard layouts and the support of bluetooth (some have USB dongle, the ones with bluetooth can be used easily with you Android devices e.g.)
>>52466128
http://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-keyboard-touchpad.html
>>52464208
hmm you can make budget tazers with these
USB powered LED lights I added to my last DealExtreme order. Haven't really put them to much use yet. The bare sticks put out a white light; I'm using the one on the right to light this photo.
The Xiaomi one in the middle puts out a soft white (yellowish).
Sometimes you have to jiggle them around a bit before they come on. I don't remember the price, I paid, probably not more than $3 for any one of them.
>>52466312
You can use these as nightlights with a usb power brick.
Neat.
>>52465042
I got the pricier clip for liberating my x200.
>>52466361
I would have gotten the pomona if it was around 10USD. I think the cheapest I found was ~25USD at the time and I really am not in the mood to pay that much for a piece of plastic.
I will report back on how the Chink equivalent works once I finish with it.
>>52466410
Yeah, I did not see that there was a cheaper one, I just got the one recommended by the guide. I probably wouldn't have wanted to wait for shipping anyways. Have fun securing your freedom.
Feb 8 is chinese new year. Order now or have your shit delayed for months.
>>52466442
>Have fun securing your freedom.
Thanks. Bit sad knowing that libreboot has no future on modern Intel hardware though. I hope the free hardware market pulls through
>>52462225
so what your saying is it that it could cause an unfortunate house fire?
>>52465921
Optical audio cables are even better/worse
$0.99 free shipping on ebay
literally $26 at best buy
$15 at the cheapest computer store
>>52466495
I hope that replicant support increases too. I want a completely free personal tracking device.
>>52466128
>http://www.ebay.com/itm/Backlit-laser-pointer-Rii-k01v3-small-wireless-keyboard-for-smart-TV-Android-box-/221930731476?hash=item33ac1a37d4:g:BSEAAOSw7I5Tu1d-
I have one of the cheaper, vaguely xbox controller shaped ones. It works well except that it is very difficult to read the keys in a dark home theater setting.
I recommend you spend the extra $10 or so to get a backlit one like I linked, same manufacturer.
>>52466535
it's hopeless
the proprietary baseband RTOS will never be freed
>>52466505
LED light bulbs have to convert the 110-240V AC input voltage to a constant DC voltage and maintain constant current. So there is some kind of electrical circuit in them, and the cheap Chinese ones probably use shitty capacitors etc.
Another issue is cooling the LEDs. The metal part of the bulb, which is usually the heatsink, must be properly isolated from the mains voltage and of course the LED must not overheat, otherwise some parts may melt and cause a short and also a fire.
>>52466505
LITERAL HOUSE FIRE
>>52460272
man, that seems great for quickly troubleshooting SMD hardware
>>52460939
ebay has tons of them
i have several
make sure you get the latest elm327 chip
the very latest one fixes many issues
>>52466505
>>52466635
some examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keaE7QTKTYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_DB-0E9k3A
I want to order a few pairs of cushions for my MDR-7506 from them. Any suggestions?
Going to try to build an audio-controlled ambient monitor backlight for my desk (the ping pong balls will be diffusers)
The UARTs are for a Leapfrog DIDJ that I bought that I'm going to try to get linux on.
Any of you ever bought seeds from china before?
Prepare for your wallets to die /g/.
http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/new/
>>52467094
If you're looking forward to the project, sounds fun. If you just want it to *work* you can already buy "music sound led strip" for ~$20 that include a microphone in the Led controller
>seeds
was expecting >dude weed dude seeds to be honest. I've tried raising carnivorous plants before and it's really hard to find a balance of enough light without drying them out. Might work if you give em a a dedicated terrarium + heat&grow lamp for them. I always buy them with the intention of using them as countertop fruit fly eaters but they usually die in a month or so
>>52467128
this shit is all junk and way too expensive.
>http://blinkerfluid.bigcartel.com/product/blinker-fluid-6-oz
are you fucking serous.
>>52467128
>http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/new/
holy shit I'm 9/10 mad right now
I hope to GOD you're baiting because it totally worked
jesus fucking christ
>>52467220
>way too expensive
>thisiswhyimbroke.com
>>52467128
Sorry but those faggots link overpriced shit only, alixpress has 60% of the shit they link for way lower. Try thieve.co instead
0.70 microphone
>>52467250
I'm not mad because it's overpriced, I'm mad because it's all hipster reddit shit on mobile-friendly, UNENCRYPTED http connection.
Not about to enable their nonfree javascript but I'd assume it's the type of site to "helpfully" rearrange itself and show previews on mouseover and "other items you might like" cancer
1000 PERCENT MAD
>>52467243
If i'm going to be broke, I'd like to have not just given all my money away to hucksters who offered me shiny garbage that tickled my underdeveloped funnybone
>that's so clever and funny! it's a grenade made of chocolate, and it has M&M™s inside! I'm totally going to spend $9.99 + S&H on that!
>oh my god! It's lipbalm, but it says UNICORN POOP on it!!! xD that's so funny! And it's only $14.68!!!
>>52467296
I don't think they actually sell stuff through that site, so the http can be forgiven.
>>52467128
http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/cantaloupe-panties
Don't know if I'm turned on or horrified.
>>52467351
>http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/new/
>http
>forgivable
on the other hand it was a good reminder that I didn't have HTTPS everywhere set up on this machine yet
when I turn on strict HTTPS everywhere, the site just brings up a blank page
10/10 thanks for looking out for me, EFF
>>52467413
what exactly would https do for you on a site that only serves you a static page of links and images?
usb to ttl adapter
it was crap, gave no signal or shitty signal, maybe it was driver or linux problem
ended using arduino as usb to ttl adapter
>>52467351
You say all that like you DON'T need a pizza pouch
>>52460296
It's KZ ATE. But yes, I wholeheartedly agree. There rock. I just wish I hadn't lost one of the foam tips. Does anyone knowif ety tri flange tip are a good fit for these?
>>52467436
soothes my tinfoil paranoia
>>52467456
those shrink wrapped ones are crap. I use one of the red sparkfun ripoffs and it works grate
How fast is China Post Air mail shipping for you guys usually?
>>52460444
I use one of those in my car but the thing powers down after about a minute with no connection. I got pic related to make it less annoying.
The slightly more expensive adapters would likely sound and work better, but this still ended up cheaper than buying one of those.
>>52467624
A month
>>52467624
Usually 2 months
>>52467624
Air mail: surprisingly quick, like 3-7 days. I live on the west coast of the US in a heavily populated area though.
Boat mail: two weeks if i'm lucky, median about 3 weeks, and the occasional package that hits the bottom end of the ebay shipping estimate of like 8 weeks
>>52464720
When you say posters, you mean custom printed ones? If so, where did you get them?
>>52467624
2 weeks if I'm lucky. 1-1,5 month usually. Anything longer than that: refund.
$6 fan controller
$1 Bluetooth dongle
$.8 VGA to Ethernet adapter because my college uses those for some fucking reason
$1 Tempered glass for my phone
And probably a new HDMI because I need an extra one
>>52467700
yes and on aliexpress there are many sellers that will custom print in an image that you provide (if they don't already have a suitable.
Say what you will about my taste, but I got this and I am very impressed. They say they'll do custom work too.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Avatar-The-Legend-of-Korra-Art-Silk-Poster-12x18-20x30-24x36-inch-Hot-America-Anime-Comic/32238554697.html
>>52467737
Oh cool. Thanks for the info.
I've bought a TON of stuff from aliexpress and while I agree that the producs sold there are usually total shit, you can find terrific stuff there if you know what you're doing
I've bought 3 different SSD's from 3 different sellers, all working flawlessly
I bought a native 720p DLP projector, aside from some annoying and unsettling rattle in the fan at startup, it is pristine for the money I spent on it, it was around 180-200 $ compared to the 1200$ minimum I would need to fork up in Iceland for a decent projector
I bought 2 wireless keyboard/mouse packs, they're fine
I got a Teclast x98, and I love it, but I dont think this falls under the "inexpensive" category, although the teclast was relatively cheap compared to the tablets in local retail shops in Iceland
I literally just finished looking into buying a banana pi which is supposedly just as good as the rasberri pi, and even better in a few aspects. However the rasberri pi costs just as much so I dunno
My advice for those who wanna buy shit from aliexpress is sort by rating or number of orders rather than sorting by price
In addition, dont be to fixated on getting the absolute lowest price, it may come from China but it will still be shitty if its the cheapest thing you can find
>>52467735
>VGA to Ethernet
wut
link and or pics plz.
I guess VGA (technically, DE-15) allows for more pins and thus easier POE-type stuff or extra data lines if you were in some bizarro-world where it made sense to roll your own solution.
>>52460158
A nib holder for my european made nibs :^)
>>52467818
Buddy, those SSDs actually give out their rated speeds?
>>52467843
they mostly use a microSD raid lol but they still reach like from 350 to 550 mb/s reads, not the anon you're replying to btw
>remote control RGB LED light bulb
Was great for about 6 months, the fixture I had it in used frosted glass so the whole thing glowed whatever colour the light was, but then it took a shit
>i2c blue/yellow display
I believe it's the same one as the clip's
>8x1GB DDR RAM
half were 256MB and 512MB modules and the other four just didn't work. I got a refund and got to keep the RAM so I guess it wasn't too bad
>mPCIe to micro SATA adapter
My laptop had a 1.8" HDD and I didn't want to bother buying an SSD I'd never have another use for so I just picked up an mSATA SSD and the adapter
>mSATA to 1.8" ZIF IDE adapter
>mPCIe to PCIe x1 adapter
>breadboard jumper cables
>SD card socket
>bunch of 6ft CAT6 and HDMI cables
>BNC to RCA adapters
>2Ah DS Lite battery
>>52463425
Put the cables in a ferrite-filled hose and sell them on ebay as Hi-Fi Audiophile cables.
>>52467823
>>52467823
http://m.aliexpress.com/item/32479219424.html
Pretty sure they use it because its easier for the teachers.
On the walls next to the teachers desk there is a ethernet port to plug the cable then it runs through the wall all the way to a projector where it's connected by VGA. I could probably make my own but fuck it, it's one buck.
>>52467823
>I guess VGA (technically, DE-15) allows for more pins and thus easier POE-type stuff or extra data lines if you were in some bizarro-world where it made sense to roll your own solution.
It's not for Ethernet over VGA but for VGA over Ethernet.
>>52467888
oh wow. I thought it would be the other way around.
Are you a TA or teacher or something? Wouldn't expect they'd let a student use the projectors otherwise.
Also seems a bit strange as presumably you'd need adapters at both ends (not aware of any laptops that do VGA over ethernet natively, jej). I guess this way you can just buy a shit-ton of cat 5e in bulk and maybe get some cost savings that way.
>>52467888
witnessed
>>52467843
I have no idea, but it vastly improved 3 computers for a combined total of 80$ so Im glad I got them
How do I check though? Now Im curious
I've got linux mint on all 3 computers
>>52468015
gnome udisks is supposed to be able to do it, but usually gives errors for me
>free software lel
>>52468015
>how do I check
I always just toss an iso in a RAMdisk and test the write speeds to the SSD
>>52468072
doesn't test 4k write speeds though desu
4k write >>> sequential
long ago I found a linux CLI utility that would do it but it is now lost to the sands of time. I was benchmarking SD cards for use in my memeberry pi
I've bought brand new fingerbox for 19$. It was great.
>>52468030
Hahaha holy shit I've been had
I checked the write speed
Newest one is at a whopping 164 MB/s, around 1/3 of what was promised by the shop, and the oldest at a startling 60 MB/s
It doesnt make a difference though, all 3 computers were unusable, the worst one had a 120 s boot time, and would fire up Matlab in 5 minutes or so
>>52468072
sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync
This is what I did, I dont know how to manually send stuff into RAM but it sounds simple
Fuck the combined write speed of my 3 SSDs' dont reach the speed of a single 'real' SSD
>>52468156
Fellow cheap SSD: I get 115 MB/s with that code.
system still boots fast so I don't really care. at a certain point I would think I may be bottlenecked by the core2duo and the sata 2 chipset.
>>52462765
Does it support TX? Looking for a cheap transmitter.
>>52468204
update: goes up to ~200 MB/s when I decrease the block size to 64k, 1024 records, ~300 MB/s with 4k, 4096 records. Upping it to 4k, 409600 records (1.7 GB) and I'm back at ~117 MB/s, so that's probably about the steady state.
Looks like it can in fact max out my SATA II chipset when the data is small enough to fit entirely into cache, and only gets cucked by the write bottleneck on large writes. Sequential read is next on the list of things to test
>>52468256
I see, the PC that I have thats rocking that SSD is 8 years old, never upgraded
The oldest SSD is in a 5year old lenovo thinkpad
Post more test results im interested in those
last time (a couple of months ago) I've ordered an RS232 to USB cable. I've been using my colleagues cable to configure Juniper / Cisco devices for a while, but then I got tired and ordered one for myself for 2$.
It was quite cheap, they sell it for ~10-15$ in my country.
>>52467128
>24k gold flakes on to a doughnut
>>52468156
I triedsync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; syncand turns out my SSD is only 30MB/s, I'll have to pull the one from my iPod and see if that one does better
Waiting for a Google cardboard and some headphone tips. My dog apparently liked to chew on my headphones.
Illegal TV receiver box - $80
USB 3.0 male to female extension - $3
2 x SATA III cables - $1.50
>>52468304
I found one four years ago in a parking lot, still use it to this day.
>>52467094
i am sorry op those seeds you buy are fake, its common tricking method in those chinchong shops. you will run out "buyers protection time" until those seeds bloom. and seller wants you to give 5 stars.
>>52460158
>>52468325
>30MB/s,
Son, an ATA/33 hard drive from 1990 is faster than that. That SSD is fucked hard.
>>52468578
Yeah this one's definitely going in the iPod
>>52468502
well, it was less than a quarter, so I guess it's no real huge loss. The guy did send me some pretty bizarre fucking messages though
>>52468786
>and i have a 2 years old daughter and 1 year old son
>1 child per family law
You'd think of all the people in the world, a chinese person would be the least likely to fuck this detail up.
> Cherry-mx switches
>Back light
> $63
>>52468802
It's not enforced since forever. But they can use it to fuck your shit up if you say something they don't like.
>>52468850
Also, wasn't it recently amended to two children?
>>52468786
wtf its like chinese salespeople learned that empathy exists and understand the definition, but dont know how to apply it in tandem with social skills and lying
How do you buy from Ali express or alibaba? They never have a credit card option for non-company consumers
>>52467586
>grate
kill yourself
>>52467829
you should check out PenIsland.com
great site for pen lovers
>>52468902
yeah
>>52468969
is it really hard to believe that it's a single mother? in China it's very popular nowadays for stay at home moms to buy shit off taobao (Chinese eBay) and make a little profit reselling it to foreigners. the government subsidizes the shipping and all they have to do is drop by the post office and ship the stuff off.
>>52469020
On aliexpress you can add you credit/debit card during the process of purchasing something.
>>52468802
that law is only for registered childs, there are millions of families with more than 2 childrens. they can register only one of them though.
>>52466361
>>52466410
mfw i soldered the damm pins when i liberated my t400
i problably shouldnt have but it worked
More Japanese, but same difference.
It's an LCD board for an iPad 3/4 screen. £20 for the board, and then £25 for the screen, and I've got myself a 2048x1536 screen that works with my PC
http://abusemark.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=47
>>52469097
What happens to non-registered children? Can they still use government services?
>>52469168
what services its china
>>52460158
Not recently but I bought a counterfeit gayming mouse (Razer Naga Hex) for about 25$ about 8 months ago.
It totally looks like the original one (razer logo, razer text, ecc) but ofc the mouse sensor is shit (snappy). I use it only for MMOs and MOBAs.
It's hard to do precision tasks like (image) editing or play FPS. I use another mouse for these tasks.
Seiko SARB065 - incoming from Japan now.
>>52469168
Everything will be the same except for schooling, where parents will have to bribe the school.
>>52469175
I mean don't they need to be registered to use services like banks or apply for a job? Do they get something a little similar to social secruity numbers in America that you need to have to register for things?
I know it might not be a super big deal to poor peasents but it must affect middle class families a lot.
>>52469175
afaik you can make 2nd children with paying more taxes
>>52461411
8 hours work to get 10-20 credits.
Dude move on and get a proper job...
>>52469116
>http://abusemark.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=47
that sounds like fucking great, care to evaluate ?
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Artificial-Breasts-False-breast-Silicone-Breast-Forms-Fake-boobs-realistic-silicone-breast-forms-Insert-D-E/32340471325.html?spm=2114.01020208.3.224.bNvjQg&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_2,searchweb201644_3_10001_10002_10005_301_10006_10003_10004_62,searchweb201560_6,searchweb1451318400_6150
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/2014-HOT-Sexy-Lingerie-Lace-Dress-G-String-Sleepwear-Underwear-Chemises-nightgown-langerie-erotic-nightie-intimates/1979383927.html?spm=2114.01020208.3.378.PN9LFF&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_2,searchweb201644_3_10001_10002_10005_301_10006_10003_10004_62,searchweb201560_6,searchweb1451318400_6150
Pretty good deal, desu.
Bought a 5M HDMI cable for 8 dollars. Saved like 100.
>>52469978
Now you're ready for /dpt/.
Tiny noob-friendly microcontroller board that you can program to act as a HID device for little over a dollar
>>52470041
noice
Paid £5 for a bluetooth OBD2 connector to read card ECUs. Seems to work, so this way I don't need to visit a garage just to get a fault code. How long it will work for is another matter.
>>52470041
Fuck, forgot the name: they're Digispark clones
>>52460158
A reversible MicroUSB cable similar to this pic.
Xiaomi Piston 3s
>>52460257
Not knowing how to change fucking AMS1117, fucking, sad anon
KZ ED9 from Gearbest (I have 30$ worth of credit for reviews on my site)
Sandisk 3.0 USB drives for muh live distros and USB OTG adapters from Aliexpress
![s-l500[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cah0rU7.jpg "s-l500[1].jpg")
a replacement mouse wheel for my MX518 for six dollars
>>52460272
Hey, that's pretty good.
>>52460158
bought a small chiclet keyboard
really nice for use with stuff like PS4, Raspberry Pi and my servers in case of a power outage when I need to unlock the encryption
most of the other stuff i bought was fairly useless
Kept getting messages for a long time after I bought my phone from AliExpress, and it took months to arrive.
>>52470571
>order from China
>leaving negative feedback because slow transit
Kill yourself
>>52470645
No, I was given four different tracking numbers in total, of which only the fourth one actually tracked anything. It was two months before I could even track it. I wouldn't mind just slow shipping, but the seller was being deceitful on top.
>>52468357
>Google cardboard
Pic related is only $20 on Amazon
>>52470765
The cost of mine was a used pizza box.
Plus only waited 30 minuets for shipping
>>52467456
>>52467586
Even the cheapest 55cent CH340 adapters work great with Linux (driver is already be in the kernel)
If you want to spend more get a FT232 knockoff with all the pins like DTR and so on.
Want to buy this but too expensive
http://m.aliexpress.com/item/504019086.html
>>52466112
ibuygou.com has official xiaomi merch if you're worried about fakes.
Xiaomi pistons
tempored glass for my phone
A load of usb to micro usb-b for charging shit, i just leave them all over the house now because i have plenty.
A couple of dust filters for my case fans.
Velcro cable management strips.
3,5" to 2,5" bay adapter
A load of other junk
>>52469859
You connect an iPad 3/4 screen to it, and then connect to the PC using DisplayPort
not much to it
Anyone bought any old cpus from them? Do they tend to work?
Can anyone recommend a cheap android tablet? Using an old iPad 2, love the feel but iOS sucks ass
Vape gear from Fasttech
>>52466312
>>52466341
indeed this are cool, if they come in multicolored LEDs they woulb be absolutely perfect.
>>52469027
>my mfw I memed you on purpose
>>52472371
here is your free reply
>>52472371
nice dildo fag.
maybe i'll give Aliexpress another chance.. ordered a wireless charger pad from there and it didn't fucking work.
>>52471458
Heh, I have four of those (Dell mini 910) sitting around the house. The one that only came with an 8Gb HDD was a tight squeeze but the others shipped with 16 Gb and they're only about 75% full.
I mostly set them up with 16 bit emulators + USB gamepads etc and give them away to little cousins/charity.
I found one Samsung 32Gb drive for my personal machine for $30. The holes were in the wrong spacing so it didn't work OOTB but some careful dremeling fixed that.
The economics on those things suck because there were only ever like 2-3 laptops that used that bullshit PATA-over-PCIE interface, so the supply's low. I recommend just getting a $20 64 Gb MicroSD and leaving it in the laptop permanently. If you're adventurous you can try soldering a mini pci socket over the unpopulated WWAN slot and seeing if a general, run-of-the mill pci SSD will work there (more/cheaper options)
is there any service/app that takes list of items and finds one ebay seller that got it all?
i don't want to go to mail 8 times for one simple project
>>52460158
Knockoff Microsoft Xbox wireless 360 controller adapter. It works better than the real one I had.
I ordered some <= $5 wired and wireless mice off ebay.
The cheapest wired mice (black on top, sorta see through on the sides, ~$1.59) work great.
The absolute cheapest wireless mice (~$2) suck, do not buy. Those are the slim, super plasticy ones. The sensor sucks.
There are some good options at the ~$3-$5 level. There's one that's a full size mouse with thumb buttons that's pretty nice, and a slightly more expensive slim mouse that comes in two-tone trim (I usually choose the black and green option).
I have played a bit of half life and used GIMP with these, but I'm not a hardcore CSGO autist or legit_photoshop_memer so I can't really compare them for those *cough* PLACEBO *cough* uses. Just feels like a mouse to me desu
>>52469116
That sounds fucking fantastic for an amateur photographer desu.
![DSC07103[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ApgMGuH.jpg "DSC07103[1].jpg")
xCable magnetic usb charger. just got it and works like a charm.
>>52472140
I am going to buy this one when it becomes available.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Presale-8-Inch-Inel-Z3736F-Quad-Core-IPS1920-1200-Chuwi-Hi8-Dual-OS-Tablet-PC-Dual/32361185411.html?spm=2114.01020208.3.1.rugSo9&ws_ab_test=searchweb201556_2,searchweb201644_3_10001_10002_10005_301_10006_10003_10004_62,searchweb201560_6,searchweb1451318400_6150
A replacement keyboard for my laptop, replacement fan, a couple of Delta screamers to play around with, a bunch of LED/LED tape, a remote RBG controller for an RGB LED tape, copper heatsinks for VRMs... That's it of the top of my head for the cheap stuff. I did buy a Win8.1 tablet that actual runs great (and it's been over a year) and an Android phone, which gets uncomfortably hot when charging, but otherwise runs very well.
>>52473480
>Chuwi
Don't. Onda is pretty much the only one worth anything, and even then you have to trawl the net for russian reviews where the disassemble the shit to see how's the build quality etc.
>>52473428
it's a knock off znaps.
>>52473480
don't, buy a tablet with a x5 or x7 atom, they have much better graphics for your chinese cartoons.
Got this for 3 bucks, ordered another one.
I use it when camping with friends. They were impressed with the quality, that beats their shitty smartphones flashlights.
>>52473602
I also bought 3 of these few weeks ago, quite good for the price desu
>>52473575
>buy a tablet with a x5 or x7 atom
Can you provide a link to one of those tablets?
>>52469249
>paymen passpord
chinglish <3
>>52469103
I was going to do that and then I realized I'm retarded and never touched a soldering kit in my life
I rather experiment on something less important than a populated working mainboard...
>>52467128
>http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/anti-fatigue-gaming-glasses
why
the miband is ok.
best purchase i got was some polarized sunglasses.
>>52471717
you think there is a way to drive the screen from a mobile device with an adapter?
>>52467883
Good idea... I Need to fill up my nigger folder.
>>52473602
>>52473637
Link? How many lumens?
>>52467128
>browse this for like half an hour
>nothing good except that cool touch bowl
well at least i got something out of it i guess
>>52474878
Some sellers say 300, 600 or even 1200.
Just try to get one on the 3 bucks price range with a lot of sales on ebay. I recall some seller saying on the item description that he only sold originals from Cree, those are the one you should get.
You can see the light at 40-50m in the mountain at night, pretty good.
>>52468156
what version of sata are your PCs running? If they are running sata2, this may be the bottleneck rather than the ssd.
>>52464971
I got one too, werks out of the box with Ubuntu.
>>52474878
Found the one I got this time.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/7W-1200lm-CREE-Q5-LED-SA3-Zoomable-Mini-Flashlight-Torch-Lamp-AA-14500-/221626402597?hash=item3399f68725:g:DhIAAOSwAL9UhShb
>>52472371
More like vape queer, jk fasttech is a haven for clones n shit.
>>52474878
realistically? ~60 lumens aa/NiMH, ~100lm 14500
>>52475399
Huh???
>>52475056
Mine is a Thinkpad x200, so SATA 2. SATA 2 maxes out at 3 Gbits/s which works out to ~ 375 MBytes/s . Hence why I said >>52468256 that it maxes out (well, not quite) the SATA II chipset when data fits into cache but larger files are bottlenecked by the steady state write speed which seems to be a little over ~110 MB/s.
I tried switching it around a bit and using dd to read from testfile -> /dev/null and got a very suspicious 2.0 GB/s result which I don't think can be correct.
Just found the linux benchmark utility I used to use -sudo apt-get install iozone3
>>52464208
How much did you pay for it?
Can't find one under 4€ wich is how much I bought mine at walmart
A 10' reciprocating dildo to ram my anus into oblivion while I milk my cock.
