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HW & SW Founder of @solderparty He/him Also at 🐘 @arturo182 @mastodon .social 🦋 #BlockTheBlue - automated

Malmö, Sweden
Joined August 2008
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3 months
This is a reminder that I support the rights and dignity of queer and trans folks and if you don't agree, you are not welcome on my follower and following list. Bye
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7 months
Floppy disk organizer, but for microSD cards!
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2 years
Even flashing and testing can be fun if you have a POP jig 🎉
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6 months
Wonder which side is digital and which side is analog 🤔
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3 years
An interesting technique for desoldering QFP without hot air!
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3 years
Cool to see Marvel using @Raspberry_Pi , and lots of them!
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2 years
I spent HOURS going through my schematics, device tree, and measuring test points, trying to understand why the fuel gauge reports the LiPo being present even when it's not connected. Meanwhile, the kernel driver:
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1 year
The CRUMB Circuit Simulator that released on Steam a few days ago is really fun! Here's one of the built-in examples: a binary adder.
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3 years
3D printer transformed into a through-hole soldering machine 🤩
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5 months
Days since swapped RX/TX: 0
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2 years
A 12-year-old @kicad_pcb feature request has been fixed today 😮
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3 years
Consistently inconsistent
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6 months
I'm hearing @JLCPCB might be introducing full-color PCBs via UV printing 👀 Photo by Robert Feranec
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8 months
Advertise your account with one PCB. I'll start
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2 years
Still, worth it!
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1 year
3h spent looking for the SW issue 😔
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4 years
I have... no words...
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8 months
Let's all take a second to appreciate the official photo of the @Raspberry_Pi POE+ HAT for the RPi 5
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1 year
I'm so sorry you are being bullied by the elites Tim
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1 year
People in this #BlockTheBlue pressure campaign are losers and goons. They're the cool kids from junior high who worked to exclude we nerds from cool kid events, plus the losers who joined in to gain cred. The elite-only verification system sucked, been criticizing it since 2018.
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3 years
Found a "banana plug to yes" cable
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1 year
@c_sideSquid @bestofdyingtwit Thanks, still too many rich people words in there but think I got it.
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3 years
0603 2.4GHz antenna anyone?
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4 years
Built myself a FreeDeck to easily switch @OBSProject scenes during the stream, works great!
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4 years
WTF
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3 years
Every jig should come with a Pop! lever
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9 months
It's not just me, right?
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3 months
It's here! By @RealSexyCyborg , based on @bunniestudios ' guide
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3 years
Did it hurt? When you realized you swapped RX and TX?
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8 months
I've recently asked for Tag-Connect alternatives and @abhinav_937 suggested the SKEDD connector from @WurthElectronic . I'm now happy to report that I've tried it and at first glance, it seems like a great way to flash and debug a MCU without the need for soldering!
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2 years
Oh no...
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Not gonna lie, I didn't know about the step mode
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Environmentalists encourage people to go through their homes to see how many plastic products there are. We have suggestions on how to reduce your plastic use and make sustainable swaps.
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3 years
I work a lot in the @adafruit Feather ecosystem and because of that I always need 12- and 16- pin headers. I designed a snap fixture to make it easy to divide a 40-pin header into 12+16+12. Works great!
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3 years
This 3.3V 500mA LDO is so small it's scary.
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2 years
Yeah, being a billionaire is cool*, but have you ever bought a new 8GB @Raspberry_Pi 4? 😏 * No it isn't, lol
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5 years
motivation levels: █    ���  █  █  _ make a new write code PCB design for it
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5 months
Haven't touched it since I got it, excellent dust collector.
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7 months
Got myself a new dust collector
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7 months
It never occurred to me that a "core dump" is named that because it used to be the (magnetic) core memory that was dumped!
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2 years
Curious what's under the shield of the new @Raspberry_Pi Pico W? Wonder no more! ☺️📸
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3 years
TIL about WiFi-capable SD cards. They either take a microSD or have built-in storage and can work either as an AP or connect to a network and serve files stored on them over a web interface! Some of them even run Linux!
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1 year
ESP32-P4 - @EspressifSystem 's first Wi-Fi and BLE-free SoC is quite a powerhouse! Dual-core high-perf. RISC-V @400MHz , and a single-core low-perf. RISC-V @40MHz , 768KB RAM, MIPI CSI and DSI, CAM, LCD, Ethernet, SDIO, USB 😳
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1 year
I call this one "The Cool S"
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1 year
*cable looks into the camera* Did he really just do that?
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4 months
Anyway, here's the dimensions of a SIM card ejector tool:
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3 months
What does it say about me that I'm getting pretty good at this...
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2 years
THIS. CHANGES. EVERYTHING.
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3 years
designing the pcbs writing the fw
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10 months
No crystal? No problem!
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2 years
Introducing a breakthrough in chip package technology: The QBGFAP - Quad Ball Grid Flat Array Package
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This @kicad_pcb -> @Blender plugin by bobbe over at Mastodon is incredible! It allows you to import your KiCad design into Blender with textures, shaders, and even solder blobs in like 5 clicks! Now if only I had the slightest idea how to use Blender 😭
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2 years
I found an Injection Molding shitposting fanpage and it's fascinating
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4 years
Need an in-line resistor? Just use a 0201!
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2 years
TIL about NanoBeam, the 5x5mm extrusion Photo by @oskay
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4 years
Thread! Here's a writeup of something I've been wanting to try for a long time, a qwerty handheld with custom-designed silicone keyboard. The display used is the @pimoroni 4" 720x720 square "HyperPixel". It's still an early non-functional prototype but I think it has potential!
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4 years
US finally transitioning to a free country!
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3 years
Unfinished projects don't die, they live forever in my head as guilt
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2 years
So these "unfinished projects", are they in the room with us right now?
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1 year
Never seen this technique for creating solder pads from magnet wire before, very interesting!
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1 year
Yeah, let me just scrape the SOC to expose JTAG pads on the package…
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2 months
Rigol DS1054Z Oscilloscope #picoCAD
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3 years
The chip shortage extracts a heavy toll...
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1 year
After 10 years living here and 4 years waiting, I am now a Swedish citizen 😬
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2 years
Remember my flashing+testing POP jig? The board that it's testing, the RP2040 Stamp, is now available!
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2 years
Checking something. Like this tweet if you can solder the connector below:
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4 years
Are you kidding me!? Quad-core 1GHz Cortex-A7 CPU + A926 + 8051. 128MB or 512MB DDR3 Single 3.3V power LQFP package 5V tolerant GPIOs Flexible pin mux (any peripheral pin is any GPIO) SDIO 2x USB2.0 MIPI CSI + DSI I2S RGB LCD HDMI Ethernet $20 in singles
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Rigol DS1054Z Oscilloscope Papercraft ✂️📄
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Cameras at #37c3 are learning about the community's hands-on approach to privacy.
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2 years
Had a quick look at Carbon, why can't any "C/C++ successor" use C-style syntax like a god damn normal language, it's a nonstarter for me.
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3 years
It's called fashion, look it up
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4 years
There's bad schematics and then there's this:
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3 years
Impromptu flashing jig works great 😁
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. @oshpark now offers PCBs with black substrate and clear solder mask at no extra cost! 🤯 2nd photo is an example of how such combo looks (not done by oshpark), board by @ANDnXOR Thanks @timonsku for the tip.
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2 years
Happy KiCad Release Day 🥳
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If you haven't updated your InteractiveHtmlBom @kicad_pcb plugin () in a while, you should do it right now cause it just keeps getting better and better!
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2 years
@pwnallthethings Two-year pandemic so far
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It doesn't work? Surely I didn't... Oh.
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2 years
Had to be done 😁
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Phew 😅
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I've never seen this case design method, awesome!
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Finally, @kicad_pcb allows us to create schematics the way they were always meant to be created.
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3 years
I see your SMT Pick and Place and raise you a TH PnP with components on tape in mount order!
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KiCad nightly recently added Appearance Manager to the 3D Viewer 😍
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The @Raspberry_Pi 5 has been available for 2 weeks now, and still no CM5? Sorry, this will not stand, time for me to take matters into my own hands! Introducing, the (not really) CM5! The power of RPi 5 in the CM4 form-factor. Here seen used with the @cytrontech CM4 Maker Board
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Working on schematic clarity, which one is better, Left or Right?
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Couldn't be me
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*faints*
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It might be 21.46% fewer pixels but it's at least 100% more cool!
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3 years
That will do 😁
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4 years
New home lab, who dis?
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3 months
Is this easy enough to understand?
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@bestofdyingtwit Finally no more lords and peasants division /s
@elonmusk
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Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit. Power to the people! Blue for $8/month.
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. @JLCPCB sent me a sample of their upcoming full-color silkscreen service and the quality is really impressive!
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3 years
The chip is like ¯\_¯\_¯\_¯\_(ツ)_/¯_/¯_/¯_/¯
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Introducing the E5bE55lt EEE-WROOM-DAB, the unique antenna design allows the dankest signal even under big yikes circumstances, definitely a W.
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Yum 🥧
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Was it something I said? 😅
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