box of toys

[Z^2]

I have this large cardboard box that sits in my room and is full of things including various old computer parts, waveform generator, multimeters, various cables, circuit elements like potentiometers and ICs, vacuum gauges, thermocouples, huge old ceramic capacitors & resistors, tiny little light bulbs, things I can't identify, some massively heavy little box with leads 1 through 10 + ground that thinks it's a transformer, and things that look like huge copper plates but feel like plastic. Most of these are all at least 30 years old; probably older - I got them from an old physics professor who was moving labs.

Question: I want to bring them to DefCon, because I know people in the community here would probably put them to good use/like to just say that they have them. Does anyone want to give them away as prizes ("....and you've just won...random bag of old crap!"), or should I just ship to you guys if some of you want this stuff, or should there be some contest ("here's some old junk, make something cool out of it!")?

[Thorn]

Re: box of toys

I have this large cardboard box that sits in my room and is full of things including various old computer parts, waveform generator, multimeters, various cables, circuit elements like potentiometers and ICs, vacuum gauges, thermocouples, huge old ceramic capacitors & resistors, tiny little light bulbs, things I can't identify, some massively heavy little box with leads 1 through 10 + ground that thinks it's a transformer, and things that look like huge copper plates but feel like plastic. Most of these are all at least 30 years old; probably older - I got them from an old physics professor who was moving labs.

Question: I want to bring them to DefCon, because I know people in the community here would probably put them to good use/like to just say that they have them. Does anyone want to give them away as prizes ("....and you've just won...random bag of old crap!"), or should I just ship to you guys if some of you want this stuff, or should there be some contest ("here's some old junk, make something cool out of it!")?

My vote is for a contest.

The first team to make a working "Star Trek transporter" out of this crap gets a Nobel Prize for Physics. Said transporter must be able to move a living geek to the other side of the Chillout area without harm in less than 10s.

The first team to make anything else, gets the random bag of old crap.