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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:
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.
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!
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.
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!
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!
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 😳
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 😭
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!
.
@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.
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!
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