Weekly #19
Dhiru's budget RF lab setup, smart home pitfalls with Kali et al, 3D printing timelapses with Chinmay, and a lot more this week at Makerville!
Links and discussions
- Dhiru created documentation on how to setup a budget RF lab
- Hear from the Lagrange Team about their Apple unlocking work
- For cnlohr - the datasheet is a mere suggestion 😄- here he gets the ch32v003 to work as cheap display driver plus touch controller
- NVidia had something to say about cheap compute
- ST is partnering with Qualcomm to get some multi-radio modules out there - posted by Anool
- Olimex has launched a new 16 euro ESP32-P4 devboard - I have one on the way, will post updates when I get my hands on it
- Gurudatt is getting into 3D printing, and he started a discussion about what printer to get
- I asked him to start designing first, and use Robu, et al to get his designs printed
- Chinmay told him to go for the Bambulab A1 Mini
- Chinmay posted a 3D printing timelapse of his Nothing backpanel
- Not surprising, but Bambu Lab rejects copyright claims - so folks could be sharing your copyrighted work on their platform, and they won't raise a finger to stop them - discussion here
- Anool posted a link to the holomat in action - a clever way to do text to CAD (and eventually to 3D printer)
- I assembled my 3D printed Christmas tree - link to download
- Trump is bringing up the asymmetric tariffs between the US and many countries - including India which has one of the highest for US goods. Would Trump pressuring India to reduce tariffs be a net positive? See discussion here
- Anool and Kali discussing the Open Hardware Licenses from CERN here
Kali's boards are ready for production - see his feedback thread here
- Ravi is looking for recommendations for a Flutter app dev agency
- Syed is looking for a RA-01H LoRa module
- Galactic Wolf discovered flux.ai - an AI powered schematic/PCB designer that runs in your browser
- Kali is figuring if he really needs to spot weld the battery replacement on his Xiaomi air compressor - discussion here
- PSA : Pune based Hubtronics has RP2350 based boards in stock now - Dhiru has been waiting for these
- Voice Preview Edition launched by HomeAssistant - this sparked a long discussion here about smart bulbs, the sinkhole of smart home investment, and a lot more
Memes
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