You are a very new poster, so as you have no 'track record' here, you need to make the case for why *YOU* are more deserving of a freebee than anyone else in limited circumstances. Also, you need to give your location, down to city or nearest major town, unless you are proposing that you are willing to drive the whole Outback Highway in the 'rents car on their fuel card to pick one up.
this is true i have no record, and to be blunt i would rather if there is someone in critical circumstances that they get the scope over me.
i make no bones about this, this is a "would be nice to experiment with" since i play with arduinos from time to time, it would be nice to have but just that, would be nice.
if there is a choice between me and someone who needs it, please, the other guy.
im only asking if its going to be tossed, sitting doing nothing a spare or otherwise "not needed anymore"... no guilt tripping or pitty at all.
cyndernight,
Welcome to the forum. I don't know how long you may have been reading the forum prior to signing up. In any case, most would agree that it's generally bad form to make your very first post on a forum one that is asking for handouts. It'd be akin to walking into a ballroom full of engineers and the first thing you do is shout, "Hey, can anyone give me a digital oscilloscope for free?"
As aargee said, you may want to do some homework first. Then, invest some time into the forum and the people on it. You may be pleasantly surprised by what happens thereafter. No guarantees, of course.
hi there bitseeker!
ive known about the forum a little while (EEVblog YouTube channel) but always felt it was too... "hardcore" for me, my knowledge is very basic and my skills crude at best, so i felt it was best i just stayed out of it... as honestly i don't know i have anything worth anything to contribute.
all my knowledge is old, basic and archaic... its not an unwillingness to contribute but more a "what could i possibly offer" that everyone else doesn't know of the back of there hand when they were in nappies?
as for the ballroom thing, yeah, it felt like that when i posted it, and was fully braced for the burning backlash of the internet.. but if i sat outside and spent the time wondering, i wouldn't get anything either...
worst case, im told to get lost... i shrug say sorry and leave... but on the slim to non chance i might find a lead, its worth asking.