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Confess your impulse purchases!

Fred27
Fred27 over 1 year ago

I'm sure everyone is all too familiar with spotting some cool stuff and not being able to resist. I know I'm definitely guilty.

Fess up to the stuff you really shouldn't have bought but did! Let's be honest, the most likely outcome is that some of us will likely join you - but then you'll probably feel less guilty about it.

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  • Fred27
    Fred27 over 1 year ago +6
    I haven't been able to pull the trigger as it's not yet available in the UK, but I suspect I won't be able to resist when it does. I don't know exactly why I need a wire EDM machine, but I just feel that…
  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich over 1 year ago +6
    Last week at our annual local HAM yard sale, I couldn't say 'no' to this one. Was only CAD 10.- ! No idea what to use it for yet …
  • robogary
    robogary over 1 year ago +5
    It is my wife's job to impulse buy. My life's role is strictly limited to funding.
  • Fred27
    Fred27 over 1 year ago

    I haven't been able to pull the trigger as it's not yet available in the UK, but I suspect I won't be able to resist when it does. I don't know exactly why I need a wire EDM machine, but I just feel that I do. That PowerCore V2 Starter Kit would go well with a spare Ender 3 V2 I have lying around since I impulse purchased a better model! The full Betta Wire kit looks great too.

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    https://rackrobo.io/

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  • dhmarinov
    dhmarinov over 1 year ago

    I got the SHARC Audio Module (ADZS-SC589-MINI), used it once :D.

    I decided FPGA is the way to go, so I left the SHARC on stand by. 

     

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  • Fred27
    Fred27 over 1 year ago

    One impulse purchase I am proud that I managed to resist recently was £750 for a "spares or repair" industrial robot arm. I've used the Universal Robots UR5 before for work and they're pretty cool. I was reasonably confident I'd be able t repair the out-of-support older version, but the gripper to go with it would be expensive and I really had no need for a large robot arm cluttering up my garage.

    www.ebay.co.uk/.../276428329322

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  • shabaz
    shabaz over 1 year ago in reply to Fred27

    That looks really interesting! I'd not heard of this before. I'm going to look out for reviews on it when released, since it sounds like a leap in DIY machining capability at lowish cost (well, for the add-ons. The full kit is not low cost at all : ( Although I wonder, if maybe an integrated small electric drill would be the icing on the cake on such a setup. Still, no major difficulty doing some of the work on a normal pillar drill etc.

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  • javagoza
    javagoza over 1 year ago in reply to Fred27

    I was going to answer that my family responsibilities prevented me from making impulsive purchases, but you have made it very difficult for me. Who wouldn't want to have that thing? Thank God I don't have room for that device.

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  • Jan Cumps
    Jan Cumps over 1 year ago in reply to javagoza

    When I moved from the country side (where I lived on a farm, with loads of spare space) to the city,
    I turned from a hoarder into an ascetic. 

    If I buy something now, something else has to go.

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  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 1 year ago

    I've become pretty good at resisting impulse purchases over the last few years.  Mrs J is pretty insistent that money is spent on holidays and trips not "stuff" so now I have to save up.  I think the last impulse purchase was a 3D printer - Creality K1 Max - which I got to play around with but I have made some useful things with it, although it has had long periods of little use.  It's currently printing parts to create a dummy Enigma.  I wish I'd bought a build-your-own one though, just for the fun of that.

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  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 1 year ago in reply to Fred27

    Spark eroding.  Sweet.

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  • dougw
    dougw over 1 year ago

    geez, now I've got wire EDM on the brain...

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  • dougw
    dougw over 1 year ago

    I bought an autofocus Arducam without thinking it through. I was expecting to marry it to a Pi Zero 2 and make a small point-and-shoot camera......the Arducam is still in the package.....

    I realized the Pi camera was going to take too long to boot for what I wanted it to do....Disappointed

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