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More cheap stuff from eBay!

John A. ZoidbergJohn A. Zoidberg Posts: 514
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Fancy a cheap mp3 player to hack? Seen these in a few hacks/projects: Small Clip MP3 Player

Or if you want some small tunes inside without SD-card, how about this: Flash MP3 serial module

What if you need to hold the tablet or something when you are doing stuff? Tablet holder

A bluetooth keyboard for tablets/smartphone? Here's one, and pair it with the tablet holder: Bluetooth Keyboard

Here's some good cheap ebay stuff you can enjoy over the weekend! Suggest a cheap ebay stuff from China warehouses here, maybe we Propeller guys will benefit from them! :)

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  • ercoerco Posts: 20,256
    Welcome to the cheap hoarders club John! :)

    Funny, I just bought 2 different types of tablet holders yesterday at the Dollar Store.

    BTW, that MP3 player ad is one of the new deceptive listings with a dropdown menu of other items. The title mentions the MP3 player, but the low price listed only applies to a cable. They made us look!
  • User NameUser Name Posts: 1,451
    edited 2016-02-21 04:41
    (relegated to land of lost bits)
  • John A. ZoidbergJohn A. Zoidberg Posts: 514
    erco wrote: »
    Welcome to the cheap hoarders club John! :)

    Funny, I just bought 2 different types of tablet holders yesterday at the Dollar Store.

    BTW, that MP3 player ad is one of the new deceptive listings with a dropdown menu of other items. The title mentions the MP3 player, but the low price listed only applies to a cable. They made us look!

    Yeah, that MP3 player listing in Ebay just got me there! But anyway it's still cheap enough! :)

    Another thing you can actually hoard are those microcontroller boards clones starts with the letter 'A'..., uh, you get the hint ! (not trying to start a war here) They are dirt cheap, and I do pair them with other things I have! :)

    Who wants to build a cheap 90-ish style clock furnished with a little RTC and a thermistor? Here's that thing for you: Tick-Tock Shield

    For those who want to keep time when the thing is turned off : DS3231 module

    Same thing, but with a DS1307, you can buy 10 of them with a mere price of $5.50! DS1307 modules x 10 (please remember to remove the charging mechanism - these only work with rechargable LIR2032 batteries and not conventional ones! There's an instructables on this!)

    Breadboardable WS2812?? You have the PL9823 here: PL9823 addressable LED

    I'm still finding around what are great deals over there! :)
  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Can the prop emulate the A? I have a Seeed Studio Motor Shield I would like to take advantage of, there are a lot of interesting shield's out there at ridiculous prices.
  • RS_JimRS_Jim Posts: 1,764
    edited 2016-02-21 14:57
    MikeDYur wrote: »
    Can the prop emulate the A? I have a Seeed Studio Motor Shield I would like to take advantage of, there are a lot of interesting shield's out there at ridiculous prices.
    I also have a seeed motor shield and used it on a breadboard with a prop and code from obex. Worked great! Just had to sort out the "a" gpio pins.

    Jim

  • John A. ZoidbergJohn A. Zoidberg Posts: 514
    MikeDYur wrote: »
    Can the prop emulate the A? I have a Seeed Studio Motor Shield I would like to take advantage of, there are a lot of interesting shield's out there at ridiculous prices.

    There's a Parallax product which supports the Arduino shield, probably you want to check this out! :)
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    John A. Zoidberg wrote: »
    MikeDYur wrote: »

    There's a Parallax product which supports the Arduino shield, probably you want to check this out! :)

    Are you thinking of:

    https://www.parallax.com/product/32214

  • MikeDYurMikeDYur Posts: 2,176
    Thanks guy's, something else on my list, at least if I'm using spin, I won't feel like I jumped ship.
  • hatallicahatallica Posts: 175
    John A. Zoidberg wrote: »
    Fancy a cheap mp3 player to hack? Seen these in a few hacks/projects: Small Clip MP3 Player

    If the plan is to hack the MP3 player, then this little module may be of interest. I have not used this specific one, but have had good results with earlier modules.

    I applaud the bargain hunting!
  • John A. ZoidbergJohn A. Zoidberg Posts: 514
    hatallica wrote: »
    John A. Zoidberg wrote: »
    Fancy a cheap mp3 player to hack? Seen these in a few hacks/projects: Small Clip MP3 Player

    If the plan is to hack the MP3 player, then this little module may be of interest. I have not used this specific one, but have had good results with earlier modules.

    I applaud the bargain hunting!

    Thanks! That one uses an SD-card, and sometimes these things are very picky about the card brand and type. But I heard that the newer revisions of those things are less picky as they have improved the design.

    And, here's the MAX7219 LED matrix module too: MAX7219 module!

  • John A. ZoidbergJohn A. Zoidberg Posts: 514
    I've ordered this alarm clock with bluetooth (probably to stream music from phone to the device) and the display is big and bright!:
    Wireless Bluetooth Alarm Clock . :)

    It doubles as an mp3 player too, and too bad it supports only the uSD card! Wished it supports the USB flash drives though... :)
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