DPRG mailing list archives: [DPRG] Cool Christmas Presents / RBNO Tue Dec 26 -- Menu..

Tue Dec 26 19:34:20 CST 2006

Got a digital camera so I can document all of my robot achievments (also
known as releasing magic smoke).  Santa also brought an Atmel USB Key
experimentation board so that should be fun to play with.

Also got the robot arm doing some cool things (you can feed it letter
blocks and then it will spell words for you).  Hopefully I'll be able to
demonstrate at the next RBNO.

Wish I could make it tonight but I'm not quite home for the holidays just
yet.

Scott

> Make friends with your local electronic salvage or junk yard - I see many
> laser printers in the junkyard with partially filled cartridges.
>
> Years ago I had an old HP Laserjet. (no model number - it was the first.)
> When the cartridge ran out, I'd go down to the junkyard and find another.
> Kept
> me going for many years.
>
> Good luck,
> Michael
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, DeltaGraph at aol.com wrote:
>
>> Santa got me factory rebuilt laser printer from Fry's $60 to play with
>> toner
>> transfer pc board making.
>> Rebuilt? The thing looks brand new to me.  $60? I spend that for a bag
>> of
>> groceries.
>> Maybe is harder to make bell peppers than laser printers?
>>
>> Frank and I have had some good luck with PC board making  (in a small
>> test)
>> using HP gloss photo paper.
>> One catch is it has 1500 sheet capacity on toner cartridge. Replacement
>> is
>> like $80 for 3000 sheet capacity so I might just bonk the  printer into
>> the
>> trash when it runs out of toner -- unless there is a way to refill it.
>>
>> --------------------
>> I should be at RBNO, if I can get my laser doing raster image etching
>> by
>> this afternoon.
>>
>> I have some food from a dinner last night
>> Some turkey + good dose of really nice sweet potato casserole + maybe
>> some
>> other stuff.
>>
>> Maybe others will bring a bit of food -- just so we don't starve during
>> the
>> season of feasting.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>>
>>
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