 Went to the mail and I looked inside. I found a hacker box a hacker box Greetings hacker box friends. It's another hacker box today's hacker box is Hacker box 40 pick of destiny and already I can tell that I'm not gonna like this I Don't particularly like pick microprocessors because their compiler is like the free one is super unoptimized And you have to pay for any other optimization levels So you have to basically pay for their compiler if you want anything good Which basically turns me off to the whole thing, but anyway So what have we got? Oh, we've got a breadboard Is this the good kind of breadboard? Let's see So there are good breadboards and there are bad breadboards and the good breadboards have nice springy clips And they're Relatively tight the bad ones have like shorter clips, and they're really poorly made I think Well, let's take some wires and find out Okay, so what would you do with one of these things? Well, typically you would put a chip in it Okay, that wasn't too bad Yeah, I think this is the good one The bad ones are extremely tight when you first get them and you can barely put any wires in them And then of course when you bend the springs out they stay there. So I like this I'm pretty happy about this. I like the fact that the power strip goes all the way across some of them have divides in the middle then you have to jump them because you know, I Guess I don't know why they did that because you might have more than Three or four power supplies on a board. I don't know. Anyway, so nice got a breadboard What else have we got? We have a little piece of cardboard, which doesn't mean anything we have a USB cable and A thing some jumpers and They are either male or female. That's nice. I guess Honestly, I would have liked them to have included a strip of like 40 of these Oh, actually, these are hmm. These are different. These are equal lengths on both sides So, you know, that's a little bit more expensive. I guess but anyway Random components including some guitar picks Pick pick. Okay, I get it. I see what you did there a pick hit three. Yeah, I'm not going to use that because I don't program picks See what else we've got. Oh, we've got a breadboard power supply So this is a power supply that just you know fits on your breadboard and you you can plug it into USB Or you can plug it into I think probably a 12 volt DC power supply And it will give you I believe Five actually it's it's there are some jumper selections here So I think you can get like 3.3 volts and five volts out of this. So this is convenient. Oh This is very nice Anything with the ZIF sockets zero insertion for sockets. I like But what is it well, let's see It seems to have a memory an M clear. Let's see VCC ground PGD and PGC So is it a programmer of some kind? Probably a DIY pick programmer is on is what I'm guessing Oh, this is this is nice. It's an LCD Okay, these are always useful This is an LCD You can get them from out of fruit there. That's pretty much the same thing. It's got a little backlight This one appears to be I can't really tell how many characters there are on this very difficult to tell and Usually what you can do is you can just look up the The number online This kind of looks like it's going to be a two-road display maybe by I don't know two by ten 20 characters Well, anyway, they're nice LCDs are always useful. Oh, this is nice a wiring kit with jumpers Possibly convenient. I don't know. I just you know, I have roles of these in all sorts of different colors But if you don't have these these are pretty good What else have we got we've got a photo micrograph of a pick controller and That's all there is So what are these things? Well, we've got some buttons resistors LEDs. We've got a potentiometer Some capacitors we've got a crystal which I assume you need to run a pick I don't know and we've got some guitar picks which okay, and in the zip socket. We have a pick 16f 628 Which is a large one and we've got a small one. It looks like a pick 12f 675 again, I don't use pick so I can't really use these But I could use the zip socket for something I could desolder this pretty easily And have another zip socket. They're useful for like, you know building test fixtures and test jigs and things like that Oh, and we have a G28 u8 f TTL GPS module That's kind of neat That's pretty interesting GPS module very nice And it looks like it has Txd and Rxd ground VDO pps, I think hmm this may just operate as a UART so you could in theory hook this up to a serial port and Read it that way of course nobody has serial ports on their computers anymore, so you would need a USB to serial port adapter and then hook that into this And then on your computer you would just run a USB to serial port driver So that is what is in today's hacker box A relatively nice assortment of things again with the exception of the pick microcontrollers Which I absolutely despise but hey, I know that there are some people who love pick microcontrollers And if you've paid for your compiler good for you So until next time see ya