Who loves their gadgets?

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  1. Remal

    Remal It's ME
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  2. gixerthou

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    i'd go for the traxxas - miss my truck (bloody garage thiefing b##tards
     
  3. dan.1moore1

    dan.1moore1 Senior Member

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    I had a Traxxas T-Max Nitro truck .. Good fun but got pissed off with rebuilding it every time i crashed lol
     
  4. gixerthou

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    i had a one alu all body roll cage

    so was very hard to break - lol

    also had a 7.5 flat out buggy

    they took them both and my garage box full of shocks charges etc - gutted

    try explaining a whole box of bit and pieces on a claim form
     
  5. dan.1moore1

    dan.1moore1 Senior Member

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    Bar stewards mate .. Yeah expensive hobby , Hope you got the costs recovered .

    Had any experience with HPI ?

    My mate has offered me a Savage but it doesn't look as sturdy as the T-Max , bigger but more fragile with a complicated chassis .
     
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    dan.1moore1 Senior Member

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    Here you go guys runs on Unleaded lol

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  7. gixerthou

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    yeah dont rate HPI

    like u said big and fragile

    traxxas is the best for trucks - IMO
     
  8. gixerthou

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    dan

    is that one of those strimmer engines things
     
  9. dan.1moore1

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    Anybody fancy a full blown computer that can fit in your pocket ? lol

    The Raspberry PI

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    They cost like 30 quid , Can run any OS . Takes SD cards so you can have a different SD cards for different purposes . 1 for photos , 1 for games , 1 for video etc etc

    Comes un cased but you can download a guide to make a lego case for it lol

    Check out this vid

     
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    Me and the IT guy at work have been drooling over the Raspberry Pi for a while now. We've got some steam punk plans for a couple a la 'Brazil' workstations.
     
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    dan.1moore1 Senior Member

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    Cool , my mate has ordered 1 but there is a wait on shipment or something . He was showing me the machine in a mag last week . Unbelievable how something so small does so much
     
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    I'm looking forward to having a go at some programming with it. Take me back to my old Spectrum days.

    It's not so much the gadgets for me as much as the space for using the gadgets in. The 'man cave' idea. Much to Jeanette's disappointment my 'man cave' has spread a bit.

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    Sorry boys ,am i missing something here?
     
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    Almost certainly.
     
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    Cream mate.
     
  16. Remal

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    I have a traxxas 4x4 in the loft not used for years but great fun. as for the Ras Pi looks intresting.
     

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