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Offline Machine Medic #30 on: December 05, 2013, 12:02:41 AM

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We're being forced to do a stupid project in my Digital Imaging class involving editing together images of things that represent us... so I stepped it up and did it for real.   ;D


Deal with it, stupid art teacher!



Screw mandatory art classes... I am a technical mind, and I will do as I please.  :3

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Offline imp #31 on: December 05, 2013, 10:15:48 AM

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Damn You :| . I would have to spend fortune to get so much cool stuff :(

Offline Machine Medic #32 on: December 05, 2013, 02:04:40 PM

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I would have to spend fortune to get so much cool stuff :(

The trick is to know where to look when you want something.  Online surplus stores like this offer some excellent prices on certain things once in a while, and they usually take PayPal (PayPal offers automatic currency conversion for a small percentage fee).

For example, they were selling 200 amp, 600 volt cm200dy-12h IGBT transistor modules for $3.95 a few months ago.  Needless to say they sold out in 36 hours, but the point is I look carefully and wait patiently for the cheapest opportunity for most of my equipment rather than spending all of my money at once.  The rest is just luck and having a minimum-wage highschool job. 

Of course, there are certain things I have that I have had to cough up some signifigant change for, like my Owon SDS6062 and my firefighting gear, but I have to save up for months before all of such purchases.


My point is, just keep your eyes and ears open, you never know where or when you might find something cool for a good price, regardless of where you live.   ;)

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Offline Loki #33 on: December 05, 2013, 03:32:51 PM

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The trick is to know where to look when you want something. 

We all know you robbed physic's teacher.

Offline Machine Medic #34 on: December 05, 2013, 10:19:22 PM

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We all know you robbed physic's teacher.

It's not robbery if he gave some things to me for free.

>.>

<.<

The guy was retiring and figured I could use some free equipment was all, since the school was getting rid of it anyways.  :3

Half of it I've been unable to repair unfortunately.  >.<
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Offline Machine Medic #35 on: December 17, 2013, 12:55:06 AM

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Rota may have a rocket launcher, but I can do some damage too.   ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNMJoP3g9Eo
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Offline imp #36 on: December 17, 2013, 01:14:31 PM

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Offline Machine Medic #37 on: December 18, 2013, 01:41:18 AM

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Hey, at least I didn't time it to Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top, lol.

Modesty is too boring of a mask to wear all the time anyways.  That's why Mr. Torgue is one of my role models.   ;D






EDIT:

Speaking of immodesty, I made myself a new avatar/sig:   ::)
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Offline Loki #38 on: December 18, 2013, 06:58:05 AM

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EDIT:

Speaking of immodesty, I made myself a new avatar/sig:   ::)



Looks like some Metro sign.

Offline imp #39 on: December 18, 2013, 09:04:12 AM

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Dont make me start on Metro xD i can go on and on about this books/universe :p .

Offline Loki #40 on: December 18, 2013, 05:03:34 PM

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Dont make me start on Metro xD i can go on and on about this books/universe :p .

I've got Dmitry in my friend list on facebook, ahahaha. I actually asked him if it would be possible to publish a new book to metro univerzum.. my book was called "Hanza Patrol" and it was about three friends in the Hanza faction, they were an outpost between Riga (Rižskaja) and Prospekt Mira. It was a parallel story to that of Artyom's. Unfortunately - HDD got cracked up lel.

Offline imp #41 on: December 18, 2013, 08:13:45 PM

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I've got Dmitry in my friend list on facebook, ahahaha. I actually asked him if it would be possible to publish a new book to metro univerzum.. my book was called "Hanza Patrol" and it was about three friends in the Hanza faction, they were an outpost between Riga (Rižskaja) and Prospekt Mira. It was a parallel story to that of Artyom's. Unfortunately - HDD got cracked up lel.

Omg this is so cool :d . Who are you to have him in your f list :d ?
If its gonna happen i will be your groupie xD

Offline Loki #42 on: December 19, 2013, 07:15:34 AM

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Omg this is so cool :d . Who are you to have him in your f list :d ?
If its gonna happen i will be your groupie xD

Here is link:

https://www.facebook.com/dmitry.glukhovsky

Anyway, when I've contacted him, he said I should talk about publishing that book with his slovak publisher but it couldn't work 'cos of broken HDD. You know how I felt :D

Offline imp #43 on: December 19, 2013, 10:52:06 AM

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You mean you broke Your hard disk and You lost a book or what about HDD?
Maybe You could email me it so i could read it :) ? That would be neat

Offline imp #44 on: December 19, 2013, 02:44:08 PM

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Ok so this is my new toy:



What do i do MachineM :d  ?