By Anuj Deshpande in Weekly — 17 Nov 2024

Weekly #14

Awesome Lampy launch by Amit, Dhiru upstreaming boards to Zephyr, and a lot more this week at Makerville!

Links & Discussions

Dhiru is working with a few others to get CH32v003 support merged in Zephyr
- His initial support for PY32 is working as well!
Kali was looking for resources on FreeCAD, Anool posted the following
A Jupyter extension for collaborating on FreeCAD
Zephyr 4.0 is out already!
- Blog
- Video
WebVM - a complete Linux env in your browser thanks to WASM
JavaScript on microcontrollers as an idea refuses to die
JustManufacture is an upcoming site for automated metal fabrication services
- Read more
- JT knows a workshop near him which does good fabrication, but doesn't work with small orders
Twitter space discussing manufacturing subsidized by China vs US
Akshar ran into OpenRC2 - an open reimplementation of rollercoaster tycoon - Tavish has a few hours on this already
Ravi was wondering what this kind of a fuse connector is called
- Deepak said this is a bimetal rivet - commonly used in relays and other electrical components
- Anool thinks it's not bimetal, since it's not needed for this application - it's just called a Fuse holder button rivet

JT posted a link to Bunnie's latest post - Turning Everyday Gadgets into Bombs is a Bad Idea
Shekhar's discovered websdr.org - and is still figuring out his 4 channel FM receiver build
Lagrange Point - a hacker house in BLR - got around the location locking of Apple Airpods with a faraday cage - fun!
I learnt that kaptan tape on some components is placed to make life easier for pick and place machines
Anool discovered the fabgl graphics library for ESP32 displays
Fun cover that Chinmay discovered for the BambuLabs A1's filament cover 😆

A very pretty custom motorcycle inspired by a Mercedes 190E from 1989
Amit has launched a very pretty neopixel lamp called Lampy - available for purchase!