tgimboej | Chris Meyer

I’ve received another Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junk – this one from Chicago.

It took me a little while to get this one out the door, but it has been passed on towards greener pastures.

This box contained a variety of toys, oddly enough ANOTHER US Robotics Data/Fax Modem, a huge amphenol connector (which meant I had to include a bigger one!), a hard drive, several coax in-line amplifiers, a whole box full of random IC’s. A nice decade set of capacitors, a dead backup battery, some adjustable capacitors and much more electronic “stuff”

A Basement in Chicago TGIMBOEJ

Quite a Bit Fits in Such a Small Box

I ended up pulling out the decade capacitor set, a set of pressure sensitive resistors, a CF card, a random 6 pin connector I run into a lot on old equipment, and last but not least an ancient PCMCIA flash card:

Parts Removed

I ended up adding a development kit from Freescale Semiconductor, a huge capacitor, a giant amphenol connector and an old police radio that doesn’t seem to work??

Parts Added

Additionally, I realized today this box of decade capacitors has random smilie faces drawn on them:

Happy Capacitors

At any rate, the box has been passed on to Tim and will hopefully be on it’s way to another lucky recipient shortly!

I signed up a few months ago on a fun website which tracks boxes of electronic junk being mailed around the world.

Of course I wanted to receive my own box of random electronic junk and send it on its way, so I added myself to the list and awaited an e-mail. A few weeks passed and I was contacted by Ronald in Tennessee who was starting several new boxes and wondered if I’d like to receive one. Three days later a box arrives via priority mail at work marked “Rattling is Normal” and it was here!

Of course if USPS was handling anything but junk the box would have been ripped apart and inspected by the DEA, ATF and the CIA; and it would have taken 7+ days to get here despite being priority, but junk, hell, they probably flew it up to make sure it got here quick. . .

On opening the box it was apparent that, as advertised, it was indeed a box of junk 🙂

I’ll post the contents and what I added after it reaches Colin since I know he’ll cheat and read this before the box reaches him!

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TGIMBOEJ – A Basement in Chicago

The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronic Junk Arrives!