The SurpriseBox Worldwide Trip 2

Nuum · 29 Sep 2014, 19:07

The place after 7bit could be nice indeed! I wonder how long this will take to complete, how long did the last round take?

andrewjoy · 29 Sep 2014, 19:50

I think i am going to put something extra in just for the person after me, a nice union jack flag

Muirium · 29 Sep 2014, 20:20

Gah!

Can I be in the middle of the Britain group? That way I can avoid paying Royal Mail their exorbitant foreign postage fees. Had a nice chunky slice of American Pie last time…

andrewjoy · 29 Sep 2014, 21:40

also , you cannot do tracked shipping to Germany from the uk post office . We need to find out who can DHL DPD and so on

Muirium · 29 Sep 2014, 21:41

Nah, I've sent tracked to Europe before. And further afield. Right in the post office. Ripoff prices (as always) but doable.

andrewjoy · 29 Sep 2014, 21:42

they told me they could not

Muirium · 29 Sep 2014, 21:48

I've a stack of recepts of theirs from things I've tracked that says otherwise, but I suspect the person behind the counter believed what they were saying even if it was bollocks. Gotta love a beurocracy. Also: for what it's worth, Post Offices in Britain are privately run franchises these days (certainly so in Edinburgh) so branches do vary quite a bit. I don't use my local, but head over to a pretty good one. Relatively speaking. The prices are fixed centrally, but the staff there are generally less clueless.

7bit · 29 Sep 2014, 22:00

Here it's the same and they are very competent.

Even better than a real post office, I never have to lick and glue stamps on my packages!

hoggy · 04 Oct 2014, 10:10

Muirium wrote:Gah!

Can I be in the middle of the Britain group? That way I can avoid paying Royal Mail their exorbitant foreign postage fees. Had a nice chunky slice of American Pie last time…

Happily swap...

Muirium · 08 Oct 2014, 20:26

hoggy wrote: ↑
Muirium wrote:Gah!

Can I be in the middle of the Britain group? That way I can avoid paying Royal Mail their exorbitant foreign postage fees. Had a nice chunky slice of American Pie last time…
Happily swap...

Deal! Thanks.

Mrinterface · 09 Oct 2014, 13:09

It's on its way!

Finally found some time to do this...

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I added some structure in the box :
1. DIY bag -> build something with it. If you build something with it, it's yours....
2. GRAB bag -> if you like something, grab it.
3. SWAP bag -> take something out and replace it with something of at least equal value.

I put most of the stuff from the previous box in and added some extras.

Please don't put non-keyboard related stuff in the box.

DanielT · 09 Oct 2014, 14:37

Cool ! I have some stuff ready for the surprise box, can't wait to be my turn

brdrgz · 19 Oct 2014, 09:22

Grabbed this puppy from the DIY bag. Will post assembled switch tester later

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Muirium · 19 Oct 2014, 13:14

I have one of those, from Mr. Interface's switch sampler. Must swap it into the NovaTouch and compare!

andrewjoy · 19 Oct 2014, 13:16

fingers crossed for a vim key

DanielT · 19 Oct 2014, 13:42

If you want a Vim key shoot me a PM

You can call it an early Christmas gift

Muirium · 19 Oct 2014, 13:48

Vim Santa!

DanielT · 19 Oct 2014, 14:56

Or Santa Vim

Mrinterface · 20 Oct 2014, 22:58

brdrgz wrote: ↑Grabbed this puppy from the DIY bag. Will post assembled switch tester later

IMG_1545.jpg

I'm curious as to how you would implement it!

brdrgz · 21 Oct 2014, 03:48

Mrinterface wrote: ↑
brdrgz wrote: ↑Grabbed this puppy from the DIY bag. Will post assembled switch tester later

IMG_1545.jpg
I'm curious as to how you would implement it!

Probably similar to the real force keychains. Hopefully I can find some micro tap-and-die set and just thread it from the bottom (plexiglas) up.

IvanIvanovich · 24 Oct 2014, 20:43

It arrived to me today. I don't have a digital camera so I will just tell what I took out... a few switch stickers and some MX blue stems. I put a lot more things in the box

ray4jc · 28 Oct 2014, 04:00

Received the box today. Lots of goodies inside, here is what I took out.

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I made sure to put in lots of goodies to cover these items.

fifted · 28 Oct 2014, 17:59

Is that an AT to PS/2 adapter?

andrewjoy · 28 Oct 2014, 18:14

looks like it, i may throw one in as i have 2 and don't need them both

ray4jc · 29 Oct 2014, 18:22

fifted wrote: ↑Is that an AT to PS/2 adapter?

It is indeed.

Box is on its way to the next person.

the1onewolf · 30 Oct 2014, 04:05

Got your pm!
Will post back when I receive it in a couple of days

the1onewolf · 01 Nov 2014, 02:14

Received the box today.
Thanks ray4jc.
Going out for a bit of halloween drinking now. Will post back and send the box to next person after the weekend.

jacobolus · 09 Nov 2014, 02:54

Box arrived today. I'm not sure if I’ll pull anything from the swap bag or not, but I’m grabbing a few caps from the grab bags, and I’ll add a bunch of fun stuff to both grab bag and swap bag, and maybe some stuff to the DIY bag. I’ll figure out what to take out and snap some photos tomorrow or monday.

jacobolus · 13 Nov 2014, 07:30

Sorry to be slightly slower than expected getting this box moving on. There were a couple interesting people in the SF bay area who had some fun things they wanted to toss into the box. Hopefully the added goodies are worth the few extra days delay.

Halvar · 13 Nov 2014, 09:40

@the1onewolf: what did you take out after all?