lylehaze Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Sparkfun is offering a "Free Day" on January 7th. They will allow up to $100 USD in products FREE per household, you'll only have to pay shipping to get your stuff. The offer will only last until it costs them $100,000, so the first thousand people on that day will be the lucky ones. They have a few things that could be useful to Midiboxers.. Displays, Tools, JTAG stuff that might work with a Core32, even custom circuit boards that you have designed yourself! Definitely worth a look, especially if you are building on a budget. Happy New Year, LyleHaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latigid on Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 $100k, good god! LED matrix, anybody? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frailn Posted January 4, 2010 Report Share Posted January 4, 2010 The Oscilloscope would be a fun little project. I wonder if it would help me with learning Frequency Modulation after I finish my MIDIbox FM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted January 6, 2010 Report Share Posted January 6, 2010 Ooof, website was down a few hours ago and i got a little worried but its back on now! Really awesome and generous of them, the only thing is it may not work out so well for us europeans by time we pay shipping and customs. Their LEDs are pretty expensive too, 50c each if i recall. Must work out if theres savings to me made, over adding the same stuff to my mouser order! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lylehaze Posted January 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 The Oscilloscope that Frailn pointed out would be a great troubleshooting tool for MidiBox work. I already have a higher spec one, but a lot of people here could use that. I have a cart ready to go already.. PC power supply connectors for easily making a PC supply into a bench supply.. some audio cables, an FTDI USB to serial adapter..Stackpins that really WILL work right on the MBMixer.. and a Duelmilanove for new toy material. For once I'm glad to be on second shift, so I'll have a fighting chance at getting my "stuff" tomorrow. SO many toys, so little time. :) Good luck on your "treasure hunt" LyleHaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 As of t = -2h 10m http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.sparkfun.com says: "It's not just you! http://www.sparkfun.com looks down from here." I guess that's a server-cluster-test fail. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lylehaze Posted January 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 (edited) Yeah :) Well, they DID say they wanted to "stress test" the new server. I'd call today stressed. I'll keep trying, just in case I get lucky. LyleHaze edit T + 15 minutes, still jammed up tight. :) Talk about a self-inflicted DDOS attack! Edited January 7, 2010 by lylehaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nILS Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 This is fairly entertaining and probably going to turn into a irc.freenode.com test as well - atm there's 3k users on the #sparkfun channel, tendency +1/s :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frailn Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 I see my Sparkfun AduinoBoy project slipping, slipping away! The connection has timed out The server at sparkfun.com is taking too long to respond. Click "Try Again" The connection has timed out The server at sparkfun.com is taking too long to respond. Click "Try Again" The connection has timed out The server at sparkfun.com is taking too long to respond. Click "Try Again" The connection has timed out The server at sparkfun.com is taking too long to respond. Click "Try Again" The connection has timed out The server at sparkfun.com is taking too long to respond. Click "Try Again" The connection has timed out The server at sparkfun.com is taking too long to respond. Click "Try Again" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lylehaze Posted January 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 (edited) It's over.. $100,000.00 given away in 1 hour, 44 minutes, 50 seconds. I never got logged in.. But it was fun trying! Edited January 7, 2010 by lylehaze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philetaylor Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Did anyone manage to order? I was trying to get a beagleboard as it looks fun: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9444 but I could never get far enough to actually order.... SparkFun Free Day Has concluded! $100,000.00 was given away in: 1h : 44m : 50s Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frailn Posted January 7, 2010 Report Share Posted January 7, 2010 Did anyone manage to order? I was trying to get a beagleboard as it looks fun: http://www.sparkfun....roducts_id=9444 but I could never get far enough to actually order.... SparkFun Free Day Has concluded! $100,000.00 was given away in: 1h : 44m : 50s Phil I tried and tried for that entire 1 hour and 44 minutes, but never got through! Well, looking on the bright side, that's $7 in shipping saved to use in SmashTV's shop! I'll put it towards a Core32... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilderbuchi Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 The Oscilloscope that Frailn pointed out would be a great troubleshooting tool for MidiBox work. I already have a higher spec one, but a lot of people here could use that. i got mine from http://www.seeedstudio.com/ i like it, performs nicely (considering the price). haven't used it for anything midibox-related, though. i also tried to place an order, no luck. was foreseeable, though, for me being in europe. this can also be seen in the distribution of successful orders.. 800/1000 orders came from the U.S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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