{"id":660,"date":"2010-04-17T16:18:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T21:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:35","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:35","slug":"the-great-internet-migratory-box-of-electronics-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/the-great-internet-migratory-box-of-electronics-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Box Code: Gray-J<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is with a substantial degree of embarassment that I admit I have far underperformed the expectations of this great communal endeavor.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had the Gray-J box from <a href=\"http:\/\/tgimboej.org\/\">The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk <\/a>since August of last year, and have just today finally sent it onward :-\/<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m clearly not active enough with my electronics puttering to make great use of the contents, I&#8217;ve decided to acquire just two items:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2583.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-662\" title=\"Taken from box\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2583-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A set of small screwdrivers<\/li>\n<li>A USB-Serial adapter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In return, I&#8217;ve added to the box:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2582.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-661\" title=\"Added to box\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_2582-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A fully functional (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-remote.com\/forums\/viewtopic.php?t=1009\">extremely hackable<\/a>) JP1 remote complete with parallel port programming adapter<\/li>\n<li>Two Analog Devices microcontroller kits with programmers and software<\/li>\n<li>A USB-to-Parallel adapter (might come in handy for the JP1 programmer \ud83d\ude42 )<\/li>\n<li>A Microsoft Fingerprint Reader with open source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reactivated.net\/fprint\/wiki\/Uru4000\">linux drivers<\/a>.\u00a0 Doesn&#8217;t work with 64-bit windows nor Windows 7, but might have some fun internal parts to hack at, or could be fun just to toss on an existing linux-based project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy, Ben!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Box Code: Gray-J It is with a substantial degree of embarassment that I admit I have far underperformed the expectations of this great communal endeavor.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had the Gray-J box from The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk since August of last year, and have just today finally sent it onward :-\/ Since I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}