More frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need..

[Camelot1971]

Gary29 said:

An Oculus rift after trying my mates out over xmas, you won't get it unless you've had a go yourself.

I was really sceptical at first but after having mine around a month now I have been very impressed. Lone Echo is a brilliant game! Hopefully we will start to see 2 x 4k screens in the next couple of years and then I think it will really take off.

[geeks]

Camelot1971 said:

Gary29 said:

An Oculus rift after trying my mates out over xmas, you won't get it unless you've had a go yourself.

I was really sceptical at first but after having mine around a month now I have been very impressed. Lone Echo is a brilliant game! Hopefully we will start to see 2 x 4k screens in the next couple of years and then I think it will really take off.

Got mine as a present from Mrs geeks and I love it. Try Elite Dangerous on it, this is how spaceship games should be now

[RammyMP]

I was given an Amazon Dot for Christmas so I had to buy some D-Link smart plugs to work the Christmas lights. They didn’t work as I had a dual band router and the they only work on older routers, when I split the bands it went all to cock. They went back and were replaced by smart plugs from the Apple shop for twice the price. It was then apparent that they wouldn’t work with ‘Alexa’ so that led to the purchase of an Apple TV box for a home hub.

Siri can now turn on the Christmas lights that come down today.

But in other news, while in the Apple shop yesterday getting the TV, the Nanoleaf Aurora caught my eye. That will be happening soon!

[skinnyman]

GrumpyTwig said:

Passes you the butter

I feel this was missed by everyone, so I'd just like to give you the credit it deserves

[vladcjelli]

skinnyman said:

GrumpyTwig said:

Passes you the butter

I feel this was missed by everyone, so I'd just like to give you the credit it deserves

Not quite everyone.

Wubba lubba dub dub.

[Digger]

vladcjelli said:

skinnyman said:

GrumpyTwig said:

Passes you the butter

I feel this was missed by everyone, so I'd just like to give you the credit it deserves

Not quite everyone.

Wubba lubba dub dub.

I missed it ....might need some help with that!

[glenrobbo]

Digger said:

vladcjelli said:

skinnyman said:

GrumpyTwig said:

Passes you the butter

I feel this was missed by everyone, so I'd just like to give you the credit it deserves

Not quite everyone.

Wubba lubba dub dub.

I missed it ....might need some help with that!

You just want somebody to butter you up, don't you?

[pstruck]

Not sure about frivolous, but I'm sat here surfing on my iPad, while my wife is glued to some drivel on the box, looking for something unnecessary to spend £60 of Amazon vouchers on. No work tomorrow and a dram or two may be on the cards. I therefore fully expect to ask myself "why the hell did I order that?" in the morning.

Any useful (or useless) suggestions?

[jimmyjimjim]

anonymous said:

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Try this:

http://transistorclock.com/

Takes a while to build, admittedly.

[Jazzy Jag]

pstruck said:

Not sure about frivolous, but I'm sat here surfing on my iPad, while my wife is glued to some drivel on the box, looking for something unnecessary to spend £60 of Amazon vouchers on. No work tomorrow and a dram or two may be on the cards. I therefore fully expect to ask myself "why the hell did I order that?" in the morning.

Any useful (or useless) suggestions?

Money, boredom, Wi-Fi and alcohol

This could be epic

[pstruck]

Jazzy Jag said:

Money, boredom, Wi-Fi and alcohol

This could be epic

Unlikely to be too epic. I'm generally not particularly spontaneous and with it being Amazon I can't imagine anything too crazy being bought. If it were eBay it might be a different matter!

[bingybongy]

pstruck said:

Not sure about frivolous, but I'm sat here surfing on my iPad, while my wife is glued to some drivel on the box, looking for something unnecessary to spend £60 of Amazon vouchers on. No work tomorrow and a dram or two may be on the cards. I therefore fully expect to ask myself "why the hell did I order that?" in the morning.

Any useful (or useless) suggestions?

A bottle of rum?
I really like this one.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Magic-Spiced-Rum-70...

[SystemParanoia]

jimmyjimjim said:

Try this:

http://transistorclock.com/

Takes a while to build, admittedly.

Definitely.. you'll need a steady hand and young eyes too

My latest frivolous purchase(s) have arrived.



Go Blinky LED Go!!!

[Zoon]

SystemParanoia said:

Definitely.. you'll need a steady hand and young eyes too

My latest frivolous purchase(s) have arrived.



Go Blinky LED Go!!!

What is it?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Zoon said:

What is it?

It's a way of emitting light with a type of diode, rather than a filament bulb, but that's not important right now.

[WolfieBot]

Arduino kit? For prototyping electronic microcontrollers, lots of cool projects to be found with those!

[loudlashadjuster]

Zoon said:

What is it?

Going by what's screenprinted on the board, an Arduino Uno?

[SistersofPercy]

Ok, it cost me £40 so not overly frivolous but I have absolutely no musical skills whatsoever and not a bloody clue how to use it.
It's something called a Novation Launchpad S, it's shiny, makes a noise and is hopefully a collectable of the future so all good.
(not my picture btw, that would imply I knew what I was doing with it!)

[SystemParanoia]

Zoon said:

SystemParanoia said:

Definitely.. you'll need a steady hand and young eyes too

My latest frivolous purchase(s) have arrived.



Go Blinky LED Go!!!

What is it?

It's an 'Arduino' uno.

You can throw code into it to control all kinds of electronics projects.

One of these is destined to stream all of my Cambus data, and change ecu settings via my raspberry pi.

I'll be sticking some smaller battery powered ones onto my bins

[CAPP0]

SystemParanoia said:

It's an 'Arduino' uno.

You can throw code into it to control all kinds of electronics projects.

One of these is destined to stream all of my Cambus data, and change ecu settings via my raspberry pi.

I'll be sticking some smaller battery powered ones onto my bins

Er yes, quite. We all do that of a weekend.