Weekly #20
Harsh on how to make the Paho Python lib more elegant, Kali with updates on his env monitor project, and a lot many discussions this week!
Welcome to the last post of the year! 2024 has been busy for me, and I hope it was for you too :)
Links and discussions
- GuRu Wireless has put out a video where they are wirelessly powering a drone
- Chinmay posted a link to PolyDye - full color 3D printing mods
- See it in action in this video
- their website
- GitHub
- Harsh finally published a post he wrote in 2021 - MQTT with Python Web Server Like a Charm : A tale of making Eclipse Paho work on a production IoT project
- More updates from Kali on his env monitoring project
Can't wait for this project to be available!
- I learnt about solder thieving this week
- Videos from 38C3 have started coming out
- Vicharak's Axon
- is now available on Robu.in
- BreakerSpace made a video about it too
- Fun marble clock
- Modular, hackable multimeter?
- Did your Spotify Wrapped include oscilloscope music? Tavish's definitely did
- Amit found a forum post of what looks like a suspected NVidia 5090 PCB leak
- Daniel Magnum (who's blog you should subscribe to for Zephyr/microcontroller related content) posted a new post about the RISC core in the new Nordic chips
- Mindgrove - a fabless semiconductor company from India - raised money for their tapeout! Exciting times ahead!
- It's the end of the year, and KiCad has a new release candidate out for testing
- See the forum thread for the new features in v9
- Sanjay is looking for someone to work on a modbus+arduino project he's involved in
- Ashish is working on a PCB for a cellular IoT board and asked the community about inputs regarding the recommended LDO
- Rocketry India successfully completed their scheduled hobby rocket launch!
- Anool fixed the table saw at Makers Asylum with some fresh new bevel gears
- Dhiru is looking for a cordless drilling machine - have recommendations?
- Kali has opened up his Xiaomi Air Compressor and is trying to get it to work (not a dead battery issue, still figuring out what it could be)
- Nice writeup about Zertwerk and how they are doing a two-pronged approach to manufacturing in India - a marketplace, as well as their own inhouse manufacturing
Memes
Anool spotted this at the HackPGH Makerspace
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Happy making!