On the Bench: Today's Thrift Shop Scores First up is a bunch of modular charge connectors; there are about 5 that are actually useful today for making power packs. The rest are ancient Nokia, Moldy-rola, etc and will most likely be hacked for the phono plug. Oh, and a S-video to Composite adapter which will likely be similarly cannibalized.
After that is a volume pog for a
Edifier "boutique brand" M3200 2.1 pc speaker system. I thought this was for one of my Logitech THX-certified subwoofer systems; but for the price I'm not even a little bit sorry I bought it. It is deliciously weighted, both the base and the knob, has fluid-damped rotation and a lovely Siamesed volume pot under everything with headphone out and aux input jacks and it is still listed on their site as a spare for $30. I'm certain I'll find a use for it.
Next up is another baggie lot; a couple NIB 9-gram size Hitec servos and a roll of 3M fabric adhesive tape in black. The servos are decent; worth aboot $15 a pop. The tape... well, I got really excited thinking it was actual friction tape, but still not gonna complain as long as it gets used for something other than hockey equipment. There's always a good use for adhesive tape.
After that is an old Microsoft-Branded Pharos SiRF-III GPS puck; I figured fo the price, even if all I get out of it is a serial converter, good deal. It did install normally under Winblows10 as a MS GPS serial-USB adapter, and I can see it streaming data in puTTY; however Heather sees the Com port, but doesn't seem to recognize either NMEA or SiRF datastreams, so a bit stumped. I got tired of trying; I suspect it may be a baudrate issue or no lock as I just stuck it on a chair on the patio in the middle of a snowstorm.
And last, the reason I went to the Thrift today: I picked up these Sennheiser HDR160 headphones a few days ago, thinking they were BT. Turns out they're 3rd gen KLEER "uncompressed digital" wireless. I remember the ads for this tech;
"Sennheiser sound set free." Supposedly, as good as their wired headphones. Of course, I wanted to try that out rather than just gutting them and hardwiring.
I got lucky and found the transmitter, with the original power pack! There's a little bit of repair needs done on the headphones; I'll update here when I have them working and let y'all know what I think.
Still, not bad for ~27 Canadian pesos all up.
mnem