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[bill.french]

Realizing that not everyone celebrates Christmas, and it's only a few days away anyway:

If you had a list of stuff that a magical creature would pick from and deliver to you via your chimney Saturday morning, what would be on it??

Here's mine:

• www.stepgenie.com - stepper motor controller
• a stepper motor to experiment with
• an LCD display
• netduino mini
• Make magazine subscription
• and since i've been really good this year: http://www.saleae.com/logic/ logic probe system everyone keeps talking about

Please note: no socks on this list!!

[Chris Seto]

DX6i for my quadcopter, Lipo charger for the quadcopter and a few misc parts. Biggest gift was probably an early, somewhat unexpected one, a MyTouch 4G, got it a few days ago and loving it.

[AlfredBr]

• www.stepgenie.com - stepper motor controller
• a stepper motor to experiment with

You can usually find very nice stepper motors in printers (larger motors) and 3.5" floppy disk drives (smaller motors). And in my experience, you don't need a special controller to work with most stepper motors.

And the Saleae is my favorite toy!

[CW2]

If you had a list of stuff that a magical creature would pick from and deliver to you via your chimney Saturday morning, what would be on it??

• 3D Printer (MakerBot, RepRap or similar)
• 4 channel oscilloscope (2ch is really not enough ;- )
• Laser cutter/engraver
• Seeeduino Film
• ISFET pH probe

... and dozens of other electronic parts and various items. Luckily here in Czech Republic Santa (resp. Ježíšek) does not deliver presents through chimney, so the box size is not limited by chimney hole dimensions, but rather by the space available under the Christmas tree - better start decorating the one in front of the house

[bill.french]

That seeeduino is neat! What's your idea for it?

[bill.french]

You can usually find very nice stepper motors in printers (larger motors) and 3.5" floppy disk drives

If Santa sees this and leaves me a floppy drive, I am going to be pissed.

[CW2]

That seeeduino is neat! What's your idea for it?

Not really sure, something like really lightweight robot, flying maybe...

[chortik]

@bill.french, instead of saleae logic consider these: http://www.seeedstud...tml?cPath=61_68 http://www.seeedstud...tml?cPath=61_68

[Fred]

I'd just clicked "confirm" on an oder from SKPang when I spotted that they stocked the Saleae. If I hadn't I suspect I might added it to the order as a little Xmas present to myself. It's cool, but do I really need it? Most of the tinkering I've done has been solved with a little bit of fiddling with serial baud rates and stuff until it's working. Not really complex enough to have another bit of underused kit lying around. The items chortik mentioned look good too. Plus.... dangerousprototypes.com - that's almost as good a name as Secret Labs.

[bill.french]

The items chortik mentioned look good too. Plus.... dangerousprototypes.com - that's almost as good a name as Secret Labs.

i didn't notice the "dangerousprototypes" .. i was too busy laughing at "Bus Pirate"... LOL

Edit: i should add that I think the stuff chortik linked is actually very cool, but the names are funny, which I appreciate. The sexyness of the Saleae wins for me, though.

[AlfredBr]

I'd just clicked "confirm" on an oder from SKPang when I spotted that they stocked the Saleae. If I hadn't I suspect I might added it to the order as a little Xmas present to myself. It's cool, but do I really need it? Most of the tinkering I've done has been solved with a little bit of fiddling with serial baud rates and stuff until it's working. Not really complex enough to have another bit of underused kit lying around.

The items chortik mentioned look good too. Plus.... dangerousprototypes.com - that's almost as good a name as Secret Labs.

I have no connection to Saleae other than as a customer, but I have mine VELCROed to my desk....it is that useful.