Tuesday 4 February 2014

The Teensy 3.1s have arrived

Finally they've come in the post from PJRC today. Very excited, but slightly marred by the excess excise charges, so beware if you're in the UK.















I've also ordered the SD card adapter, which apparently can be mounted on top of the Teensy.

So, this import duty thing:

It says I've been levied with excise duty of £8.02 and then a further admin charge of £8 because this is over £16 in value. Shame as the cost of the Teensy 3.1 comes out about £12, but when you add the shipping in this almost doubles. That means that the Teensy's get excise duty based on their value (and the unfortunate admin charge), but the shipping seems to be excluded. By my calculations then, it's a sting, but it still seems cheaper to pay excise on one big order rather than multiple costly shippings even if this would make each package under the excise charge.

Any thoughts???

Really looking forward to playing with these boards. I have some ideas with pin A14 and the DAC with 12bits to see what kind of audio could be synthesized.

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