Weekly #4
Weekly updates from the Makerville community! Things we are reading, watching and building!
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Weekly #3
Plenty of activity on the forum this week!
Launches
* Balena OS 6 is here!
* Vishnu published KiExport - a Python script for exporting manufacturing files from KiCad PCB design projects. He also detailed why they created it, and how it's different from KiKit.
Reads
* Twitter thread about Antony
Weekly #2
Weekly summary of links and discussions from the Makerville community
Weekly #1
Here's a quick post about what the Makerville community is talking about this week!
Launches
* COLAB by Open Xis a container containing rapid prototyping tools.
* CMF Database by Informal is a newly launched and growing list of Color, Material and Finish details of finished products.
* Raspberry Pi launched
Makerville Conf 2024!
6 months after the last conference, we had our second in-person conference at mBedrock's Pune office! A bunch of new faces, a lot of new old-stories, and great food and beer!
Good times at the Makerville Conf 2023
We had our first in-person conference on 7th and 8th October 2023. We had some great locally brewed beers, amazing food from Pune's best eateries, and some awesome discussions about hardware, India, manufacturing, and more
Why are touch screens killing buttons?
Everyone loves a good tactile feel. Fidget spinner craze of 2017 is a prime example of how a simple toy that gives a 'feel-good' physical sensation can go viral. The original iPod with its click-wheel is another such example (I still proudly have my own).
So why are
IKEA Skadis for organizing your electronics
IKEA Skadis for organizing electronics is a niche community but definitely something you should look at if you want to organize your dev boards
Product Compiler
Could the future of products be mass customization? What would we need to build a virtual factory that can build anything from custom and mass manufactured products?
Linux for connected devices needs a different philosophy
Linux is one of the greatest open source projects of our time. And the way things stand - it will remain so for a long long time.
Why?
I think the answer is simple - user choice.
A user can choose what filesystem they want to use, what desktop environment