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You sure the green coating doesn't interfere with their previously superior ground screwing ability?

Sweet! Yeah it's an awesome kit. Try putting some CFL/fluoro bulbs around it for even more awesomeness :)

Replied to your PM :)

"LET US IN OR WE'LL BAN YOU FROM THE COUNTRY" probably wasn't the best way to get the point across :p

Tony Abbot has gone full retard, too .. guess that was to be expected :p

Worst mistake at work? Thinking that working in an electronics oriented place (components and such, not so much commercial electronics) would keep most of the stupid people away. How wrong I was.

I've been running my LPS off a workhorse 5 too and it's been fine so far. Looks like I used a yellow and blue wire, but best to doublecheck. The brand of ballast doesn't matter, as long as it's an instant start electronic type.

I honestly found the whine pretty minor. I mean, it was there, but the music washed it out at any decent volume anyway. I think the coolest part was you can actually tune a regular AM radio in and listen to it. That and it also wipes out any other AM stations within a small area :p

I have a suspicion it might be due to traces being a bit too long between critical parts (ie the PLL circuit), though that's a pretty tricky thing to troubleshoot, especially with a crappy pocket scope :D

Yeah I'm sad I had to let it go, but when looking around the house for things I can use to pay the bills, well, I think somewhere to live is probably the best option :( . Also had to sell off most of my "unused" lab lasers and diodes, oh well. Hopefully money won't be an issue one day (dreaming...

Do you use an ad blocker? That can inadvertently block stuff sometimes.

If you're using as a permanent power supply then it's not a big deal. Just if you intend to use it as a bench power supply, as in, it could be running for a while without a load and having loads connected unexpectedly, then the resistor is a good idea.

I think you actually taste your food better if you can't see it. I remember eating by candlelight after cyclone Yasi, could have fed me anything and I wouldn't have seen it :p

Yeah, those are the fun program problems you run into. The issue with things like Arduino is that unless you need to use them, you don't really understand what the underlying code is actually doing since you don't have to touch it usually. For example one project I was working on involved...

Fair enough :D Programming sucks, avoid at all costs :D Doesn't make a huge difference, but C* has a way of handling x = x +/- 1 in a neater way, you can just use x++; or x--; :) You can also make if statements a bit neater if you're only dealing with logical values. if (x == 1){ Can also...

You could probably get even better timing if you used interrupts. You used pin 3 for input, which on the Duemilanove/nano/168/328 based boards are connected to interrupt 1, so you wouldn't even have to modify your hardware :)

Cheers, hopefully someone has a good use waiting for it :)

Dropped price a little, internet bill is due! :(