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Recently I've been buying small electrical parts for hobby projects (e.g. little rf transmitters and receivers), mostly finding stuff on amazon and ebay. Most o
by redcalx 11y ago
Recently I've been buying small electrical parts for hobby projects (e.g. little rf transmitters and receivers), mostly finding stuff on amazon and ebay. Most of those parts arrive with an origin address in Shengzen, usually something along the lines of:
unit {big number},
building {big number},
sector {big number}...
Just based on these addresses I'd formed a mental picture of some dystopian industrial megacity.
- kjs3 11y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one who's doing the same thing (more microcontroller stuff), made the same observation and got the same image.
- redcalx 11y agoDo you rate Arduino boards are are you using something else?
- kjs3 11y agoArduino is a toy, with strange design tradeoffs I can only guess at (ethernet on USB???). I don't own a single one, but I think it's great that lot's of people are doing lots of interesting things with them. It just doesn't meet my needs and considering how many other options you have at the same price point I don't see the point.