The Tyranny of Distance.

[odlids]

One of the downers of living in Australia is that my Co-Op shipments take a little bit longer than my US counterparts do.

So whilst most of you guys have received your SS Hubs and controllers mine are somewhere between Miami and sunny Sydney or worse still sitting in customs and quarantine out at Mascot AP.

Of course one must always look on the bright side, hopefully all the hardware/firmware/software teething problems will be ironed out by the time my parcel arrives sometime next week.

Oh the joys of living in the Antipodes.

Cheers
Odlid Dave

[Lucas]

+1
I'm in the same boat. Waiting waiting waiting....

But at least I do have my lights, and a way to test them this weekend. 

[odlids]

You're absolutley right! No shortage of things to do whilst we wait, stars, cables, frames, and acres of coro to be cut and hot melted. Not to mention the sequencing!!!!!

Cheers
Odlid Dave

[Lucas]

Sequencing, yikes. I had a look at vixen, started to make a small sequence to test a single flexible strip, I don't know how people can sequence 100s of channels for a whole song with something like that.... So many many boxes.....

It was quicker to write my own test  program to control the lights.

-Lucas

[Lucas]

Dave, have you got your package yet?
(Has anybody else in Australia got their hubs & controllers yet?)

I am starting to get a bit concerned about mine. 
Look at the tracking info from one of my boxes....


Depart From Transit Office of Exchange, June 17, 2011, 8:00 pm
Arrival at Transit Office From Exchange, June 16, 2011, 11:53 am, GREAT BRITAIN
International Dispatch, June 14, 2011, 10:14 am, ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)
Electronic Shipping Info Received, June 10, 2011


Last time I checked Australia was not in the UK.
Fingers crossed that it will be okay, and make it here.
I guess that is why we had insurance on this one! :

[odlids]

Well at least yours appears to have left the US. My tracking info still says...........

Detailed Results:
   
*    International Dispatch, June 15, 2011, 4:20 pm, ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)
*    Arrival
*    Electronic Shipping Info Received, June 10, 2011

Hopefully all will be OK, as you say, that's why it is insured!!!!!

Cheers
Odlid Dave

[pHoZfoRus]

My tracking still says the same as odlids.

I have found from previous coops that it has been taking between 20 to 25 days to get to Brisbane from the States.  The wait is worth it I say

Russell

[odlids]

Most of my dealings with USPS have originated from the west coast or from Colorado (go Sparkfun) and have varied from a record of 5 days up to 25 days with an average of around 9 to 12 days.

I have no experience with delivery from the east coast.

The mail system is a truely wonderous thing. It will arrive when it arrives and not a minute earlier............

I remember one year we sent Australian calendars off to our British Columbian based relatives for christmas. They arrived to all 3 of their recipients with in 2 days of each other, just a year and a half too late. All had gone to Montreal for "security screening", all had been opened and resealed multiple times, one was relatively unscathed but the other two looked as though they had encountered an industrial shredder in their travels. The nice postal people had attached a note apologising for the delay and the damage, and suggested that we should post earlier to avoid the christmas rush...

Cheers
Odlid Dave

[fjaust]

still waiting for mine too...i'm in melbourne.

don't be too worried about it though, the recent wireless co-op took around 3 weeks to get to me (metro area).

[odlids]

Well, they seem to have made it to our sunny shores..........

Detailed Results:
   
#    Customs clearance processing complete, June 26, 2011, 5:30 pm, AUSTRALIA
#    Customs Clearance, June 26, 2011, 5:20 pm, AUSTRALIA
#    Processed Through Sort Facility, June 26, 2011, 5:20 pm, AUSTRALIA
#    Processed Through Sort Facility, June 15, 2011, 4:20 pm, ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)
#    Arrived at Sort Facility, June 15, 2011, 3:33 pm, ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)
#   Electronic Shipping Info Received, June 10, 2011

Getting  Closer !!!!!!!!!

[barbotte]

good for you .. here in canada the post are on strike so we still waiting ,,, cheer

[rrowan]

Congrats odlids

Almost there, Sorry it takes sooooooooooo long

Cheers

Rick R.

[odlids]

No apologies needed or expected, the world is a big place............

It still amazes me that I can order bits and pieces from the other side of the world and they actually arrive here at all!!!

Cheers

Odlid Dave

[odlids]

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

Insert picture of me doing happy dance..........

The USPS track app tells me the following

Detailed Results:
   
#    Arrival at Post Office, June 28, 2011, 7:10 am, AUSTRALIA
#    Customs clearance processing complete, June 26, 2011, 5:30 pm, AUSTRALIA
#    Customs Clearance, June 26, 2011, 5:20 pm, AUSTRALIA
#    Processed Through Sort Facility, June 26, 2011, 5:20 pm, AUSTRALIA
#    Processed Through Sort Facility, June 15, 2011, 4:20 pm, ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)
#    Arrived at Sort Facility, June 15, 2011, 3:33 pm, ISC MIAMI FL (USPS)
#    Electronic Shipping Info Received, June 10, 2011

And even better my wife has just rang to say a parcel from the US has arrived at the front door.

I know what i'll be doing this afternoon..............

Cheers
Odlid Dave 

[chrisatpsu]

don't forget the resistor change!