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What a long way for free

I recently ordered some sample microcontrollers from Freescale. The four little DIP16 chips came all the way from Thief River Falls in the middle of nowhere in Minnesota and in less than 24 hours they were in my hands. Interestingly they were originally manufactured in China. Anyhoo after 5148 miles I now have the little buggers and have to wait for the programmer to arrive which should be coming form where ever Elektor ship from. Below is a pic from google earth of where the UPS tracking data said it went.

EDINBURGH,
GB 03/21/2007 12:28 P.M. DELIVERY

03/21/2007 7:41 A.M. IMPORT SCAN

03/21/2007 7:40 A.M. OUT FOR DELIVERY

EAST MIDLANDS AIRPOR,
GB 03/21/2007 12:50 A.M. IMPORT SCAN

EAST MIDLANDS AIRPOR,
GB 03/20/2007 7:01 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN

PHILADELPHIA,
PA, US 03/20/2007 8:24 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

03/20/2007 6:13 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN

LOUISVILLE,
KY, US 03/20/2007 4:33 A.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

03/20/2007 12:16 A.M. ARRIVAL SCAN

MINNEAPOLIS,
MN, US 03/19/2007 9:47 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

03/19/2007 7:44 P.M. ARRIVAL SCAN

BEMIDJI,
MN, US 03/19/2007 6:40 P.M. DEPARTURE SCAN

THIEF RIVER FALLS,
MN, US 03/19/2007 1:08 P.M. ORIGIN SCAN

The route my little box took across the globe

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2 Responses to “What a long way for free”

  1. The (Other) Craig says:
    21/03/2007 at 11:09 pm

    I wonder what the total Carbon Footprint of these microcontrollers has been.

  2. peter says:
    22/03/2007 at 08:12 pm

    for those of you interested the I think the originating factory in china is in in Tianjin which is 6000+ miles from Thief River Falls so that makes the total distance travelled by these chips BEFORE their life starts is 11k miles or 17000km (technically that’s 17Mm but none is correct enough to use Megametres)

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