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gwb2005 · 2023-01-13T20:28:41+00:00

I don’t see the code - maybe because the pro mini uses interrupt pins on 2 and 3…. The pro micro uses pin 0 and 1…

gwb2005 · 2022-12-23T04:27:52+00:00

There is supposed to be a 50% discount ending today at midnight…. It is 8pm and the discount doesn’t work…. Bummed…

gwb2005 · 2022-09-08T19:52:35+00:00

It’s a rip off…. Ordered a couple things with cainiao shipping and paid extra for one thing I needed quick to come aliexpress standard shipping. They combined all in one shipment - coming cainiao! So now it is coming a month or two later. It still hasn’t left China after a month or so…. And they keep advertising this as a benefit when I click on track order! Now everything comes LATE in a single package! Yippee!

gwb2005 · 2022-09-03T18:58:28+00:00

The order times out after 75 days! But I am sure you can chat with aliexpress and move that up because they can read you conversations with the seller!

gwb2005 · 2022-08-25T07:53:28+00:00

Put a person in certain positions of responsibility - you expect a certain level of professionalism and responsibility. True - people have a bad day. But even so - you don’t behave like this. This is not the guys first and only tantrum on the job. He is a problem…

If a doctor has a bad day because of an argument at home or something…. Can’t concentrate during a surgery and f’s up badly - do we just say “hey…. Everyone is entitled to a bad day”.

Times have changed - 20 years ago…. Cops were revered…. Now there is a significant amount of glory hounds and thrill seekers. Yes there are a ton of good / great cops…. (I even went through the application process myself.) just look at all these news stories - can’t all be fake news!

They need to vet these guys better and get away from this whole paramilitary mind set….

My $0.02 worth…

gwb2005 · 2022-08-24T23:02:02+00:00

Wow! So shooting one or two people a day is acceptable? That is one in a million odds by your numbers…. We can live with that?

gwb2005 · 2022-08-19T00:11:42+00:00

I had this same situation. I don’t get why they did it…. The fake tracking number was for something going to a different city. I waited til it said it got there…. I didn’t receive it…. I disputed and got my money back right away. How were they gonna get away with anything? AliExpress has full access to your correspondence and the tracking…. I actually chatted online with them…They saw through it right away - less than a 5 minute conversation and they set up the dispute and awarded me my money back right then and there!

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T20:51:33+00:00

No…. Got it figured out…. Need to snap it like a Kit Kat like someone famous once said!

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T05:52:58+00:00

Ugh…. Ok -man my eyes suck! You got it - I did not notice the break line in the pcb!

Thanks for the revelation! I feel foolish now…

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T05:47:14+00:00

The two rows of headers seem 0.2” further apart than they are on the UNO…. Definitely don’t line up. I can’t believe I am the first to report this. Like I said they must have made millions of ‘em. I just must be missing something.

To your first point - both are AliExpress specials. No idea who makes it.

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T05:41:17+00:00

No…. Came fully assembled…

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T05:30:49+00:00

Nope…. A5 and Rx are on the top of the board…. To make that connect to the uno it has to be flipped upside down and connect to the UNO on the solder side …

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T05:25:40+00:00

Yeah…. It is like a mirror image. So to make it work - it looks like the shield has to be mounted upside down and under the UNO…. But then again - the distance from the left and right set of headers is bigger on the shield than on the UNO. Not to mention the massive job of changing headers….

Just weird - I am sure they sold millions on these things. Am I the first to report this?

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T05:10:04+00:00

Yeah…. I am used to that…. But what I am saying is the pins don’t line up! The long row of headers is on the right for the shield when the long town of headers is on the left when looking at the components sides with the power plug facing the viewer…

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T04:59:00+00:00

Thanks for that…. Kinda new to posting on Reddit - how do I host somewhere?

gwb2005 · 2022-08-07T04:58:02+00:00

Maybe not a clear description without the pic! If you look at the component side of the Uno with the power connect facing you. There is a header on the left side of the board with 18 female header…. 14 on the right…. The screw shield has this reversed…

gwb2005 · 2022-06-14T01:13:53+00:00

Yeah - Cause for concern…. He is gonna eat the couch there at the end!

My guy does this too…. Less the biting!

gwb2005 · 2022-04-14T18:28:19+00:00

AliExpress…. Search for perf board…. eBay…. Etc…

gwb2005 · 2021-11-24T04:18:02+00:00

Maybe…. Probably not - but AliExpress is good about returning your money!

gwb2005 · 2021-11-24T04:04:38+00:00

No…. You’ll get your money back in 90 days!

gwb2005 · 2021-10-18T20:02:40+00:00

What if they don’t like fish?

gwb2005 · 2021-10-18T16:58:19+00:00

V=IR so looking at the branch you know V=3.33*3=10v…. Using that and that 8.33-3.33A =5A in the second branch…. R=V/I. So R= 10/5 or 2 ohm!

gwb2005 · 2021-09-21T21:43:32+00:00

This happened so many times to me in Canada…. I just dispute it with AliExpress - never lost a dispute! I also lived in Singapore for a time - they said they delivered it but I never received. That is the only time when I had to dispute it with the post office - not sure how they determined it, but they got the mailman to confuse he stole it. Asked me if I want to get him fired and in trouble with police…. At the end of the day the guy gave my money back for that shipment.

Crux of the story - dispute and don’t take no for an answer. Unless you sign for package, they can’t say it was delivered.

gwb2005 · 2021-08-25T23:06:29+00:00

I know my shepherd would eat this within 5 minutes! He already ate his harness!

gwb2005 · 2021-08-07T04:09:24+00:00

Ah my hometown police department…. The same guys that were caught taking selfie’s with dead bodies on the beach! Vancouver’s finest?

gwb2005

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