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So it took 4 full weeks from the US to Germany this time. Including customs delays. I got a letter from German postal service. They couldn't find the customs papers (invoice) and therefore forwarded the letter to my local customs office. Of course the invoice was included in a pouch labeled "CUSTOMS PAPERS ENCLOSED". Somebody simply can't read it seems.

I got these from Adafruit. I simply couldn't find something similar locally. They should work well for remote controlling all sorts of LED gadgets. Now I need to have a look at decoding the IR data. Some C- code .

I bet the designer tested it him or herself. This works perfectly.

and a calorie bomb. Most of it will go into the freezer. I can get a serving of lasagna for 1.25€ at my local Aldi. I doubt that my version is cheaper, but at least it is fresh. Probably not healthier at all, with all that cheese and meat in there. I wish you could smell it ;-)

Golden brown cheese.

One day I will have a gas oven. At least a gas cooking plate. That is so much nicer to work with and it makes more sense from an energy perspective as well.

I really wish the small local electronics shops would stop to stock this kind of CRAP. And I especially asked for a better quality product. The other stuff they had was even worse. I think I'll have to get a real metal one via the interweb... and the sad thing is: probably for the same price.

the one "not so dry" spot in your cellar. Take a pair of perfectly fine wooden speakers, put them into a carton box and put them into the cellar. Come back 9 years later and see the water damage. The speakers probably still work just fine, but the bottom part of them is seriously mutilated and willingly soaked up any humidity present. So I can't sell these anymore... DOH! I might try building new boxes using CNC cut MDF - if I can get the tweeters out. The woofer is attached with bolts, but the two other speakers seem the be held in by glue :-( BTW, did I already say DOH! ? DOH DOH DOH !

but not THAT high. When I plugged this one in, there was a little explosion, I saw the flash, felt the heat at my fingers and the main circuit breaker popped out. However the power supply still works as before. Strange.

Spherical analyzer for measuring electron energy. Electrons are kicked out by a typical Ti:Sa 800nm 1kHz fs-laser.

This UHV system went to the 10^-10 mbar range. It had a scroll-pump, turbo-pump, ion-getter-pump and a titanium-sublimation-pump. Pressure was measured with a Bayard-Alpert hot-cathode type gauge.

120.000 rpm

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