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What's This?

12/24/2015 1:37 AM

Some of you more savvy EEs, please refrain until Christmas day @ 8:00 AM, OK?

Oh, and Merry Christmas everyone!

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Re: What's This?

12/24/2015 3:32 AM

Santa's Sled hyperdrive guidance system

Sorry have I spoiled it?

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Re: What's This?

12/24/2015 6:04 AM

NSA has your coordinates, Del. Best not to speculate further.

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12/24/2015 3:36 AM

A Ouija board in some unidentified language. Yes/no/your mother denies your stinking carcass.

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12/24/2015 6:11 AM

Not Ouija, horse of Zorro, but simple binary. I'll forego vengeance on the racial slur for now, but be careful.

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12/24/2015 6:41 AM

Wild guess: Electric piano keyboard (or similar) circuit?

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12/24/2015 6:45 AM

Nope! (But it does have keys and can also make tones) Try again!

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12/24/2015 7:13 AM

Multi-channel radio control transmitter using reeds/different frequencies to achieve channel separation? Trouble is - rest of circuit looks too modern.

OR: Circuit for a Music Box.

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12/24/2015 7:18 AM

Nope again! Think simpler, more utilitarian.

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12/24/2015 6:54 AM

Here's a perhaps better photo:

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12/24/2015 7:26 AM

The prototype Tamagotchi.

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12/24/2015 7:45 AM

Programming to make those is waaaaaay too frivolous.

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12/24/2015 8:28 AM

a very small JPG that can barely be seen

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12/24/2015 9:14 AM

Obviously it's a bomb!

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12/24/2015 9:28 AM

Nah, Can't be, the display isn't BIG enough or RED enough.. and where's the blue wire?

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12/24/2015 11:34 AM

Here is the display:

There are no wires, of any insulation color, whatsoever.

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12/24/2015 10:10 AM

It's a blown up photo of the circuit you used to make this clock.

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12/24/2015 12:02 PM

Is it one of those 'Countdown to Christmas' clocks?

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12/24/2015 12:06 PM

I hat it when people post, "what is it" threads

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12/24/2015 12:11 PM

It would be better if they were dated, so that repliers could know which one they were answering, and not open the same one multiple times.

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12/24/2015 12:23 PM

......or have the ability to kill the thread once its tired

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12/24/2015 1:26 PM

Is that the 'hat' you eat when people get it ?

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12/24/2015 1:42 PM

I was on the phone.....distraction

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12/24/2015 1:05 PM

Phased array Doppler radar system for detecting incoming Christmas Puddings. Just a thought.

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Re: What's This?

12/24/2015 3:31 PM

Is everyone ready for the reveal?

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12/24/2015 3:48 PM

Is it 8:00 AM Dec 25 already?!

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12/24/2015 5:14 PM

It is in Adelaide *

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12/24/2015 7:13 PM

mobile phone?

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12/24/2015 11:45 PM

Well, I will be on the road at 8:00 tomorrow morning, so I am going to turn this over...

Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight!

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