Hardware

For sale: two TP-Link WA7510N (5Ghz). These devices are about a year old, and served for about 10 months to provide internet from my apartment to a neighbouring building in Antwerp.

Because our office moved (all space got rent), internet is no longer required. Right now, I do not have a use-case for these devices (although, it was pretty cool, and I wish I could keep using them somehow).

I’m selling a Mac Mini 1.5Ghz G4 (PowerPC) with 512Mb ram. It has a 80Gb disk in it (7200 rpm I believe, but not sure). It runs Linux like a charm, and is a perfect server (and WAY faster than a Raspberry Pi).

 

I believe the latest version to run was Mac OS X Tiger (10.4).

It comes with the power adapter, a DVI to VGA adapter, and in the picture below is the optional WiFi adapter.

Today I’m selling Raspberry Pi’s.

4 are unused, new, in packaging. I have a couple more (about 6) who got used for a couple of hours, but never anything serious.

I am also selling the power adapter and the laser cut casing.

  

Raspberry Pi: €30,49/item (type B - 512 Mb RAM)

PSU: €4.45/item

Casing: €4/item

Possible on invoice.

Contact: yeri+rpi@tiete.be

Giving away this Chinese GSM signal jammer. Bought it in Shenzhen (summer 2013). While it's working, the range of this is only about 50cm (and not the advertised 5-10m). This jammer probably doesn't give you any more cancer than staying next to a cell tower. Fun thing to play with, but I do not have any use case for it. The jammer has a rechargeable battery. It becomes quite warm, so signal can probably not be boosted any more without burning the components.

Last I checked this is kind of illegal in Belgium, but who cares.

Selling my old Macbook Pro 15" (Glossy) (2007).

This is a 2.4 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo device, with 2Gb RAM. It has a 160Gb SATA drive, spinning at 7200rpm. It’s an Azerty keyboard.

It’s currently running Mavericks (10.9.x).

The Macbook Pro is slightly scratched here and there from normal use. The battery got replaced about 2 years ago (it’s still a removable battery). The right speaker sometimes cracks a bit and the DVD RW has trouble reading rewrite-able media and too modern CDs/DVDs (audio CDs for example are fine) (known bug from this DVD reader).

Another day, another Yard Sale.

I’m selling about 100 DWA-160 D-Link USB WiFi adapters (Atheros).

These are compatible with Raspberry Pi and do not require an external power source. And are obviously compatible with Linux (firmware-linux-free).

Some of these adapters are new, others are used. Two different generation mixed (see the WPS button in the picture).

These adapters can be used in Master (Acces Point) mode using hostapd, but certain Macbook Pro’s (Broadcom driver afaik) make the driver/firmware crash; last time I checked (1.5 year ago) this bug was known but not solved (yet).

Post two of my Yard Sale:

I have six Kingston 4Gb class 4 SDs (SDHC) for sale. The cards are still packed and never used*. Items are genuine and acquired via Techdata.

Price: €4,50/piece.

Invoice is possible for this. Items located in Antwerp, but can deliver in Brussels or Ghent (or ship it).

Note: I do not recommend using these with Raspberry Pi’s (they get bad blocks when unexpectedly interrupting power).

This is the first of several things I’ll be getting rid of in the coming days/weeks.

For sale: a Macbook Air 13" (2011), 4Gb RAM, 128Gb SSD, QWERTY (!).

The MBA got acquired mid 2011 in Hong Kong by Candy.

Downside: the screen got cracked about a year ago during travel. After a couple of months it started to bleed, but has been stable now for over 6 months. Screen can be replaced for ~€400 at an Apple Repair Center or DIY for ~€100-200 via Alibaba.

I got a mail in my inbox about a week ago from Anthony, telling me how to improve my Munin & temp script for a RPi:

Hi,

I just read your (old) blog post about monitoring the temperature of the Raspberry Pi with munin[1].

I had the exact same error as you did when I was trying to let munin do the job all by himself:

temp.value VCHI initialization failed)

It turns out the solution was quite easy: in

CPU temperature from a Raspberry Pi (behind the display, in the wall).

(zoom in)