Micro Center.

There was much rejoicing when Micro Center opened a location in Phoenix a couple of months ago. Earl and I were there for grand opening weekend, and when I went to pick him up earlier today, I made sure we made time to stop at the wondrous place.

I have been moving all of our “smart home” functionality away from Apple’s HomeKit and into Home Assistant. I wanted to build a touchscreen for the living space, so instead of needing to yell at Siri and probably not get the expected results, we can just turn to a little touchscreen on the end table and fire off our automation routines that way.

I ended up buying a Raspberry Pi 5, Touch Display 2, some cases, and a few other odds and ends for the project. I forgot a case; that arrives later this week. It’s coming from Micro Center, of course.

The project is fairly straightforward. I hope to have it completed in the next few days.

I think I've mentioned this before, but I'm really impressed with the Inland PLA+ filament from Micro Center. From what I've been able to gather this is repackaged eSun PLA+ if you don't have a Micro Center nearby. It prints really, really nicely and without any issue whatsoever. Extremely nice finish on stuff printed with it. This will probably be my go-to going forward for regular 'ole PLA.

#3DPrinting #Inland #InlandFilament #MicroCenter

I don't "do Black Friday" but... I was curious and nominally need a bunch of shit I'm not actually about to buy at current prices... so I cruised by MicroCenter - you know - for SCIENCE.

All their Black Friday deals were all week, nothing special today. No doorbusters, I gather. I'm glad I wasn't one of the people who lined up before they opened.

Best Buy was on the way home and it was the same deal. I heard from an employee the doorbuster was vacuum cleaners, which is kind of perfect.

I mean, I guess it does suck.

#BlackFriday #microcenter #TrumpTariffs

PSU replacement arduous but complete. Might add the GPU after the feast.

#ThanksgivingBuild #PC #PCgaming #GPU #build #gamingpc #Nvidia #RTX5080 #tech #photo #PCbuild #setups #gaming #gamers #hardware #MicroCenter #NMS #NoMansSky #HelloGames #Steam

Hardware acquired. Upgrading the gaming PC ( Ryzen 7 7700X ) this morning, and moving from Windows 10 to Windows 11 along the way.

Mainly for No Man's Sky.

#ThanksgivingBuild #PC #PCgaming #GPU #build #gamingpc #Nvidia #RTX5080 #tech #photo #PCbuild #setups #gaming #gamers #hardware #MicroCenter #NMS #NoMansSky #HelloGames #Steam

Trip to MicroCenter today!

#MicroCenter #computers #builds #PC #pcgaming #hardware #tech #retail #NOVA #VA #video

Mumford & Sons playing in #MicroCenter.

Drink?

Thry opened a new #microcenter in town, so I treated myself to a new mainboard.

Motherboard manufacturers: once you get past about 2 m.2 slots, PCI-E slots are more useful. I can't add SCSI or SAS, or a TV tuner csrd, or a parallel port, via m.2. But you can get a PCI-E to m.2 card for peanuts. Hell, pack one in the box.

This is 98% of the reason I bought an otherwise pedestrian board (MSI Pro B850-P)-- it has four slots, a rarity in this era.

Photos: New Phoenix Microcenter is a 'tech-heaven' for geeks

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts-culture/micro-center-in-phoenix-a-look-inside-the-new-tech-heaven-40618548/

#HackerNews #Photos #TechHeaven #Microcenter #Phoenix #Geeks #NewStore

Holy crap, went to see how busy #MicroCenter was on the first VIP Opening day today at the new Phoenix location and there's a line of people all the way around the back of the building - https://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/phoenix.aspx

After rocking the #AMD #Ryzen 5800x for four years, I upgraded to the 7800x3d yesterday. Right now the "member" price at #Microcenter is only $280!

https://www.microcenter.com/product/674503/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d-raphael-am5-42ghz-8-core-boxed-processor-heatsink-not-included

#PCMR #PCGaming #gaming #Homelab

I was with my sibling last night perusing #MicroCenter and they noticed that it appears that Redragon's graphic mouse pads have AI-generated images on them.

It's a shame because my opinion on the quality of #Redragon was actually increasing in recent years.

We noticed it on a different mouse pad, but this one is far more obvious: https://www.microcenter.com/product/689523/redragon-eisa-p047-waifu-gaming-mouse-pad-small

Just ordered new 3090 TI from MicroCenter 🤔! HSlots đã mua 3090 TI mới từ MicroCenter. #RTX3090 #GPU #MicroCenter #TechNews 🤔

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1o7miyx/just_ordered_new_3090_ti_from_microcenter/

RTX 3090Ti sàiigue $800 tại Microcenter (ưu đãi so với giá thị trường $900). Có bảo hành. #RTX3090Ti #Microcenter #SàiigueTiếngAnh

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1o7j6ri/microcenter_has_rtx3090tis/

I'm heading to #MicroCenter tomorrow and looking to upgrade my home network. Should I go with the #Unifi Dream Router 7 or Express 7?

Micro Center partners with iFixit to make tech repair more accessible in stores nationwide

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2025/10/micro-center-ifixit-partnership-tech-repair/

Just like how Amazon sends out a holiday shopping catalog for kids:

Why doesn’t Microcenter send out a holiday shopping catalog for nerds?

I would buy so many things off that catalog…

#Microcenter

Surprised to see a #Microcenter coming to Phoenix 😲 hopefully they'll carry maker stuff to tinker with

I can't find the thread to verify @stefano but this is the best I can do

#coffee #verification #pourovercoffee #pourover #microcenter