What's the last thing you bought yourself?

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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by ngsilver » Wed May 30, 2012 8:23 pm

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So I decided to pick up some Cool EL Wire and test it out myself as a ceiling light to see how it'd look as possible decorations for the VAT, at to test the sound activated drivers they provide. In the end, the sound driver sucks at picking up subtle differences in sound, which I think is due to the fact it picks up it's own hum. Not sure if a defect or not, still need to call them on that. But the upshot is I have this really cool looking blue glow on my ceiling, but it's sadly half the length it needs to go across the whole ceiling. Either way, I think I like the way it looks and will probably look into picking up more soon to complete the look.

It reminds me of the days when I had a blacklight in my room all the time, but sadly the blacklight hurts Ruu's eyes so I don't do that anymore.
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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by ZephyrStar » Thu May 31, 2012 9:35 am

@ngsilver: Feed audio signal from PC to microcontroller, then use PWM outputs from microcontroller to pulse all the drivers instead of using the mics? :O

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I have recently acquired:

-Replacement electrolytic capacitors for an old motherboard I want to try and revive and use for a server
-Arctic silver thermal compound for the processor on said motherboard
-If board won't work, expect to buy a new mobo/processor/ram for the server (probably cheap dual core Celeron chip)

-A 128gb Samsung SSD to be an upgraded OS drive for my workstation
-A 1tb WD Black drive for storage in said workstation

-Gonna move a bunch of drives around and reformat them so I can install CS5.5 finally
-Gonna map my 3dsmax textures folder to a network drive T:, so no matter where the .max file is moved, it will always refer to T:, then I can have a shared folder on the server for textures that will be mapped to T:, which means once I have render boxes, they will all be able to just pull the textures from the server, and I will have a script that will backup any new textures from workstation to shared server folder.

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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by ngsilver » Thu May 31, 2012 12:10 pm

ZephyrStar wrote:@ngsilver: Feed audio signal from PC to microcontroller, then use PWM outputs from microcontroller to pulse all the drivers instead of using the mics? :O

:ying:
Actually, I've thought about doing that. Though for my current application at home it isn't really needed since I'll only need an on/off switch, but for the con sure. Though right now I'm more concerned with the high pitch tone the driver seems to make as while I can generally tune it out, other people I live with can't. Of course, I might just get lazy and use the stand alone sound activated device they have which already has all of that imbedded, because :bear:
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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by BasharOfTheAges » Thu May 31, 2012 3:08 pm

Had to pick up a new power supply. Old one was flaking out because I was pushing the limits of its capacity with the new video card. Decent deal on it ($65 shipped) - hope everything goes smoothly. :crosses fingers:
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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by Pwolf » Thu May 31, 2012 10:38 pm

My 17" LCD for many years had died on me a while back. It's been rough living off one monitor but I decided to finally jump and buy another 24" Asus VW246H. I've sorta stopped editing because of it so I'm hoping this will get me back into it again and I can finally finish the video i've been sitting on for months.

I also bought an external flash for my DSLR. Nothing fancy.

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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by ZephyrStar » Fri Jun 01, 2012 11:01 am

Tickets to go see Mumford & Sons in August <3 <3 <3

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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by Castor Troy » Fri Jun 01, 2012 3:23 pm

Bought some work clothes and a whole bunch of cheap and awesome nerdy tshirts.

I've been wearing the same ones for 8+ years. :ying:
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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by fofobobo » Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:46 am

A bow/rose thingy. What I bought was for next year but whatever....... :roll: :sweat:

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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by Qyot27 » Fri Jun 15, 2012 3:12 am

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All for $3.00 apiece, except for Magikano Vol. 2+Artbox. That was $4.00. It's a shame I didn't actually buy these when I first noted them down, when RightStuf had Vol.3 and the Jinki:Extend Artbox.
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Re: What's the last thing you bought yourself?

Post by MimS » Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:14 am

This, last week :
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