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One man’s e-waste is another man’s treasure.

Yet another mostly electronics related post, since I got some things donated the last few weeks I wanted to show here. What people just wanted to throw away, but what might be of good use to the AEBTB. One man’s e-waste is another man’s treasure. 1. Two 12 Volt 7.0AH lead batteries, out of an old Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for some servers. Though used, they still may be useful for LED lighting charged by a small solar panel. They still measure well above 12V, though capacity might have degraded a bit. Got those a few months ago, but finally decided to take those heavy things home. 2. An abandoned aluminum “camera” case. Perfect to replace a carton I used for some electronics parts and projects, that I keep for future use and maybe show here. 3. Xilinx/Digilent Arty FPGA development board, with missing QSPI memory. The QSPI part was desoldered at work for some test or so, and this kit was just lying around and no one wanted to use it. It could still be us