Weekly #16
FPGA based LED cards, WIP SOMs from Vichaarak, LOTR mood lamps, and a lot more this week at Makerville!
Links, builds and discussions
- Akshar posted a link to watchy on CrowdSupply in response to Raveen's post about making a smartwatch
- Anool has made a nice parting gift for HackPGH
- Anool's One Ring LOTR mood lamp is almost done! See video
- Chinmay posted a link to magnetic pop up light
- Dhiru's contributions to the Zephyr PR for CH32V003 have helped merged it upstream!
- Dhiru is working on a new HF radio using a Pico
- Innovation in packaging - posted by Chinmay
- Dhiru is working on writing FPGA code to have a 40 channel PWM signal
- These boards are available at AV Master Tech
- original discussion link from GitHub
- Laser engraving PETG, better heat inserts and more from this video from Batch Research Lab - posted by Chinmay
- Chinmay posted this to pretty LED lamp build from d2laser
- Faraaz is building Pixa - a fun AI toy
- Auto targeting drones using truck mounted high caliber weapons? Yes.
- Kali linked to Anduril Lattice which solves the same problem
- Discovered a PCB related podcast from Sierra PCBs
- Akshar posted WIP details to the SOM that they are cooking up at Vichaarak
- Someone on Twitter linked to A Guide to Electronic Maintenance and Repair
- Olimex has launched a supercharged USB to serial converter
- high speed
- adjustable voltage, and more
- Mold linker developer has documented some perf bottlenecks for the Linux kernel
- Raspberry Pi launched the Compute Module 5
- Raspberry Pi launched the Pico 2 W
- Anool linked to Marshall Brain - creator of howstuffworks - who recently passed away
- Govt of India has finally removed the stupid requirements for additional documentation for importing ICs
- Discussion on minimum copper to hole clearance by Kali
- Ravi is wondering what the future of NB IoT is like given AT&T is ending support for it soon
- Amit posted a link to Stripe's realtime dashboard to track their sales
- I am trying to bring back a dead-ish Black and Decker screwdriver to life
- Did you know Makerville does Open Office Hours on YouTube to discuss and review designs from community members?
- Kali posted some renders for his WIP ESP32 based monitoring board
- He has a thread discussing the USB C flushness wrt the PCB here
- Kali figured out that a LiPo charger isn't working as advertised
- Magsafe like detachable Ethernet cable
Classifieds
- Dhiru has some Ender spares he wants to offload
- Rohit is looking for maker educators based out of Mumbai
- Ritu is looking for SN74AHCT125 bus buffer ICs locally in Pune
- Faraaz is looking for industrial designers for Pixa
Memes
- Some connectors go too far?
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