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Who is Alex Trebek?
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They are twice as much as generic ESP32 boards and the SPI interface doesn't even work right.
When asked about it in their support forums their support team responded with "the ESP32 chip is unstable and weird"
'scuse me, but "weird?"
why am I paying twice as much for a board with a chip on it that you don't know about? If you're not dialed in on how the ESP32 works, what are you doing making a board for it, much less charging twice as much? When the company calls the heart of their own product "weird" and "unstable" I'm going somewhere else.
The generic boards don't have this problem and are half the price.
Grrr. They remind me of apple.
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Strange Fruit!
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Billy Holliday
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Correct!
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Weird := made in China | counterfeit in China | relabled old junk from China
How else do you think they can keep their prices low?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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adafruits prices are twice as high as anyone else. Meanwhile I've got a chinese knockoff that works fine. It's backward with these boards - the clones are better quality half the time.
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That does not mean anything. Where do you think their parts or boards from? And how do you think 40 year old 'new' parts keep popping up on Ebay? Even genuine parts can be a little weird because they are very tolerant with tolerances and make a little extra profice by selling you that stuff that should have been sorted out.
Don't pee into an old trapper's rifle and then try to tell him it's raining. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm not sure what you mean by that. Also I thought I was pretty clear in terms of what I meant, but okay. Not sure where to take this so I'm just going to back away now.
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It simply means that there are a lot of bandits out there who try to sell you low quality parts for good money. Have a video: "Fake" chips? - YouTube[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Never heard that saying.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Guess where I first heard it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Hmmm...from an old trapper?
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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Nope. It was the crew chief of a Nike Hercules fire control crew.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Never heard that saying.
Given even a bit of thought, that's not at all surprising.
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profice ? I presume you meant profit
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Yes, that's a typo.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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honey the codewitch wrote: They remind me of apple.
"You're holding it wrong"?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Indeed he does. I would bet he does not know anout ESD and what to do about it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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If you're talking about me, I do indeed and the solution is to ground yourself. Come on.
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Not to forget your tools and your workspace. And the cat. Seriously, ESD can also cause very interesting problems even when the Chinamen delivered something that actually works.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm relatively lucky as where I live it's humid and we don't have carpet. We do have cats but they leave my electronics alone. =)
Mostly with my own junk I'm not as careful as I am with stuff I'm doing for work, like i am now. The stuff is so cheap these days I guess I'm not so worried about it. The biggest hassle is the mail. I've never fried anything with ESD to my knowledge. *knock on wood*
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Ada does a lot of training and supplies a lot of code with there stuff. If you're just learning the price is justified by the extras they supply. Once you get on your feet you buy what you can afford.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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That's fair enough - but their Huzzah ESP32 feather board doesn't work properly and they want $20 for the thing. They also don't seem to know a lot about the ESP32.
Here's what happened to one person trying to use one with the exact same screen I am using:
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Adafruit staff literally called the ESP32 "weird" and "unstable" but it's not.
They don't know how it works.
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