That moment when white people stores are less reasonable than chink with returns

wants me to pay shipping because their cable doesn't meet the spec and won't even fit properly

I do not know of any @Joldberg , I'm truly sorry.

@Austin the greatest in history, but not in my heart

anyone bought power supplies/oscilloscopes from china? I'm afraid to design one.

hey, does anyone know a good word or source for small electrical button pressers? I saw this random way overpriced thing https://prota.info/ and without the pricetag and without the bluetooth it actually looks kind of useful to automate a bunch of stuff

seems decently priced

tho very hard way to do it

why not just take the cables from button and make connection that way

Wait.

This is an automated servo

That pushes buttons for you

Wtf are you automating this way

indeed

probly stuff that SHOULD NOT BE automatised

Maybe lights, if you rent your place.

But it seems so dumb lol

I'm thinking about any kind of machine with buttons that I don't want to open the casing and mess with the wiring of

what is this autismo shit

^

lights, coffee, turning stuff on, etc

the product in that webpage is terrible

but the idea is useful

Yeah I guess.

why not just hot wire the buttons to an antenna

and use a dumb phone app

^

that's my end goal in 3 months

There are so many more elegant solutions

but i gotta learn to write apps

I don't even want an antenna or an app, I just want to be able to electrically override the button without having to care about the electronics behind the button or hack the plastic casing sometimes

I have some wifi enabled lights, expensive. But it's pretty sweet turning my bedroom to a brothel

or be able to remove everything relatively easily

ur gon run into structure problems

me htinks

if you use wifi then the NSA and GCHQ can hack your lights

how so? A servo that can press a button shouldn't need to be bigger than half-thumb size, no?

the servo has to stay in one place

the servo vibrates

duct tape

you think tape would fail too quickly?