Show us your impulse buy

**Troy** · 09-06-2023, 12:28 AM

Best of luck Edmond.

Talking of putting together fiddly bits, I've bought an Arduino starter kit so I can give some extra (free) tuition to the guy in the village I helped over New Year. He's been cutting my grass and looking after my dogs since we left so deserves a bit of extra help.

I have a couple of projects he might be interested in doing with me. A home hydroponic garden, an irrigation system and a multi channel intercomm so the MIL can communicate with several areas of the house, garden and entrances. Start off simple but have some good end goals that might help out in the village as well.

**Shutree** · 09-06-2023, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Troy

Arduino

I had never heard of it. Just watched the TED Talk on their website. Fascinating stuff.

**Stumpy** · 09-06-2023, 04:09 PM

Well just after I got my Bloody Mary made up, Delivery guys rings the bell. My new Wave wheels arrived.

Sort of an impulse buy. My front wheel, after 9 years, rusted out and a spoke broke. Rather than fix I decided to upgrade to some aluminum cast wheels. Will sure make adding air a helluva lot easier.

**malmomike77** · 09-06-2023, 04:34 PM

You going to pimp it

**Stumpy** · 09-06-2023, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by malmomike77

You going to pimp it

I gots to roll the Wave through the hood in style.... all 110cc's of it.

**malmomike77** · 09-06-2023, 04:57 PM

Rainbow big bore exhaust, valve caps, painted nuts....you could easily spend twice what it's worth to stand out from the chickenheads

**malmomike77** · 09-06-2023, 04:58 PM

Did mention low profile tyres

**Stumpy** · 09-06-2023, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Rainbow big bore exhaust, valve caps, painted nuts....you could easily spend twice what it's worth to stand out from the chickenheads

Yeah I see those Waves around from time to time. Probably got a bunch of Baht wrapped up in the thing. Guess we all have our hobbies.

Just wheels for me. Cheap upgrade and no more spokes and rust.

**malmomike77** · 09-06-2023, 05:24 PM

Waves are great. Go on for ever, easy to fix, everything is cheap and you only need to fill it up once a month

**bsnub** · 09-06-2023, 05:26 PM

I just returned my most recent drunk purchases to the local Amazon fresh store. Nothing interesting aside from a couple of routers that I did not need, tested both and neither was faster than the router that I already have, so back to amazon.

**Stumpy** · 09-06-2023, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Waves are great. Go on for ever, easy to fix, everything is cheap and you only need to fill it up once a month

Oh Yeah. My FIL has a 2003 Wave. Old Carb'd motor. I start it for him every week or so to keep the battery charged and the gas moving. Fires on first kick. Mine is a 2013 EFI. Battery has been dead < 7volts for probably 2 years. Fires right up. I remember when I first bought the thing I would WOT that thing endlessly on the highways. Waited for it to kick a rod. Nope. Doesn't even smoke.

**Bettyboo** · 09-06-2023, 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by Troy

Best of luck Edmond.

Talking of putting together fiddly bits, I've bought an Arduino starter kit so I can give some extra (free) tuition to the guy in the village I helped over New Year. He's been cutting my grass and looking after my dogs since we left so deserves a bit of extra help.

I have a couple of projects he might be interested in doing with me. A home hydroponic garden, an irrigation system and a multi channel intercomm so the MIL can communicate with several areas of the house, garden and entrances. Start off simple but have some good end goals that might help out in the village as well.

Got lots of that stuff...

(Taught it as a project at uni to liven up a quite boring engineering theory course...) - got the students to make bluetooth cars to be controlled by their phones; easy enough. I was thinking about adding a solar panel to mine, giving it some core goals, adding a neuro engine and making it autonomous - seeing if it could survive... Haven't got around to it yet, but I have a 4 week holiday coming up so...

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**Bettyboo** · 09-06-2023, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Well just after I got my Bloody Mary made up, Delivery guys rings the bell. My new Wave wheels arrived.

Sort of an impulse buy. My front wheel, after 9 years, rusted out and a spoke broke. Rather than fix I decided to upgrade to some aluminum cast wheels. Will sure make adding air a helluva lot easier.

BLING!!!

**baldrick** · 09-06-2023, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Troy

I've bought an Arduino starter kit

I bought this LoraWAN module for some playing with

La66 Usb Lorawan Adapter - Oscilloscope Parts & Accessories - AliExpress

**Bettyboo** · 09-06-2023, 08:52 PM

^ you cheap bastard - I hope it breaks!

Get yeeself to Adafruit (10 times the price, but American quality!).

Arduino Products Category on Adafruit Industries

**Backspin** · 10-06-2023, 01:39 AM

Originally Posted by Edmond

Ever get the feeling you've bitten off more than you can Lulu?

the V8 engine block will be nice.

Estimated time of completion: 2037.

Thread worthy. Lets see this badboy come together

**Stumpy** · 10-06-2023, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

BLING!!!

Bling usually means big bucks.

These were 600 bht a wheel with my wives super Lazada discount deals.

**Backspin** · 10-06-2023, 07:39 AM

Originally Posted by Stumpy

Bling usually means big bucks.

These were 600 bht a wheel with my wives super Lazada discount deals.

Neighborhood kids are gonna steal them off your bike

**aging one** · 10-06-2023, 07:50 AM

Originally Posted by Backspin

Neighborhood kids are gonna steal them off your bike

Morning clueless, Stumpy lives in Lampang Thailand, not Surrey BC.

Beyond belief.

**Backspin** · 10-06-2023, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by aging one

Morning clueless, Stumpy lives in Lampang Thailand, not Surrey BC.

Beyond belief.

Yeah yeah. Everywhere in Thailand there is probably a young Thai guy that could use a wheel upgrade on their ride

**Stumpy** · 10-06-2023, 08:51 AM

Originally Posted by Backspin

Neighborhood kids are gonna steal them off your bike

That gave me a good laugh Backspit. It's not like I use the Wave for anything other than market and ice runs with an occasional cruise around. Maybe I should get a remote alarm now.

**aging one** · 10-06-2023, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by Backspin

Yeah yeah. Everywhere in Thailand there is probably a young Thai guy that could use a wheel upgrade on their ride

Backtrack would have been a better nick skiddy.

**Bettyboo** · 10-06-2023, 12:05 PM

Why steal the wheels when you could steal the entire bike and sell off the parts...

The poor little fuker who does steal the bike is gonna be gutted when those 10,000 baht bling wheels can only be sold for 200 baht to his bling motorbike taxi mate.

600 baht, they look good for the price.

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(Why are my pictures so small? Do I have to change something in settings or upload in a different way?)

**malmomike77** · 10-06-2023, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Why are my pictures so small?

you have to pay a subscription for larger pics

**Bettyboo** · 10-06-2023, 12:49 PM

What??? Money - NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Supporting the forum, yes, but petty limitations are naive and counterproductive... (I understand server costs, etc, but there are better ways to increase support than limiting people's freedoms).

Does L whoever own this forum now? (Due to being away, I've missed a lot of changes, so am somewhat out in the dark.)

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