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STM32 Blue Pill Boards (5 Pack) - Mine worked great!

Uxcell 20pcs Right angle buttons

Freud Reciprocating Saw Blades

EZArc Pruning Blades

Ribbon Cable

Awesome ribbon crimping kit (from a previous mailbag)

Echo Show (My preference, I have both)

Nest Hub

[GnuReligion]

Years ago, bought the crimp tool just for making 8-drop SCSI cables. Certainly helped me create one of the slowest, hottest RAID systems ever, and it was obsolete in week. Gotta make sure the very last device is terminated!

[noggin]

I'm using a BlueSCSI V2 on my Amiga. Works really great. It uses a Raspberry PI Pico.

[jstro-hobbytech]

Windows are removed and installed with reciprocating saws in like an hour. I had it down to science when I changed like 13 windows haha

[tripplegracing]

Great video as always, the nest hub and that meter are my pics. The STM32 "Blue pill" runs at aprox 72mhz there is a variant from STMicro the Nucleo that has the UNO footprint. You can add the STM32 to the Arduino IDE and if memory serves me right Platform IO as well, really great MCU's There is also a way of using them instead of the Mega 2560 with the speeduino ecu.

[markclark]

Home Automation would be good. I have the small google assistant and use it with smart switches

[brettb.]

STM32 boards are pretty cheap these days. I was never much interested in them, but I recently gave them a shot. Easy to program via serial, but a pain to put a bootloader on them.

[jstro-hobbytech]

The stm32 is a more mature arm processor that actually has floating point blocks. The risc 5 esp floating point performance is garbage. It has to brute force to do anything with say graphics especially. With their focus on iot you'd figure they'd have paid the license fee to tape out some better fp blocks on the newer ones.

[kjoh]

I wouldn't mind if you video'd your experience programming the blueSCSI. I have an older one that I was thinking of updating the firmware on. Incidentally, the new versions use a RPi Pico, so, that happened.

[Luke-san]

If that's the Gen2 of the Google hub, well I find that it sounds amazing for the price, also the display is crystal sharp. My son has generation 1 of this and the sound is not really that great on that one, night and day difference. The second generation, well I am blown away by how much bass, at low volumes that is, it can produce. Unfortunately my eyes are no longer that great without glasses and it just stands next to my bed as an alarm clock. But you can watch youtube on it, even cast to it, and it is a lot more functional as the other speakers without a screen. It makes with automations as like 'good night' or 'good morning' a real nice machine. Also very easy to set and cancel alarms with visual inspection. It's clever but sometimes it lacks things. Stupid thing, if you disable an alarm that is a returning one then it will ask if you only want to cancel it once, but bridging or bank holidays like we have here on Monday for example it doesn't automatically cancel the alarm. would I buy it again, for the 50 euro I paid for it, yup for sure.

[tigrafrog]

@12:06 Congrats with spy devices, inside and outside. Devices that you pay for, that spy on you, and can be bricked at any second by true owner (because you do not own those).