i loved that shit in Automation engineering

right, it becomes a design project for school

not really a hobby thing

well it could but

it would... tromp my other hobbies

That car was my 'computer science' project in senior year of high school

That was a few years ago

I'm actually pretty proud of what I did back then :>

novadays kids do that shit with machine viewing and object regonition

ya should be

makes me feel oldschool relying to simple sensors

^

well it all boils down to sensors; it's how you deal with that data / what structures and analysis you do on it after that makes it fancy

it's not horribly hard just a paradigm shift

not like, a C-microcontroller project

i have some plans start playing again with multiwave Lidar setups but i wonder if it will ever happen

How affordable are lidars for home projects like these? Is buying these things actually possible

cheap

specialy if you dont care about accuracy at start so much

50usd or less for all the toys at max

_if you have some basic tools ofc_

Yeah..

I'll gear up step by step

Buying everything at once doesn't seem useful anyway, especially for a not broke but not like super rich student

heh i just got an idea to make a trolly "come hither" kiosk thing using one of these $15 distance sensors

Gonna make a purchase on aliexpress, got any 3-4$ idea for a random thing I can throw in with it

usb ammeter

oled display

The purchase is dice btw, I decided to go with cheap ones to start off

👍

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/usb-ammeter/32605460208.html

Oh thanks

I didn't know these were that cheap

yeah handy for seeing what your usb OTG device is draining from your phone

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/using-one-of-these/32717289870.html

I live in germany, do I always have to pay customs duty when i buy a 300€ smartphone at bangood? will all packages that are declared over 300€ go to the Zoll, or do they randomly pick them out? and do the "Drop Shipping Order" help?

i'm not from deutschland but i saw other anons request their sellers to declare as gifts and they complied, but that's probably not 100% assurance

some ppl here got hit with import duty on delivery

kinda turned me off from importing a xiaomi phone tbh

it's one thing to spin the wheel with some $5 gadgets but it's another to drop 300euro on a liability

>a million muslims cross the border as they please
>chinkshit can't pass customs