Weekly #22
PCB vendors vs quality discussions, members meeting at the India Science Festival in Pune, cell tower climbing and a lot more this week at Makerville!
Links and discussions
- JT shared a link to a neat mobile manipulator robot
- Akshay shared: Aeroarc is building mules for the Indian Army
- Kali got open-source ESPHome firmware working on more devices - photos and discussion here
- We have begun planning for our upcoming Makerville Conf 2025 - discussions happening here
- I met Deepak and Bhavana from Upside Down Labs - when they were here in Pune for the India Science Fair
- Speaking of which, Amit was in attendance too and posted a bunch of photos from the event. Includes robot dogs, Upside Down Labs booth, and more - see here
- Chinmay posted ISRO's updates about the SpaDex satellites
- Dome LEDs are being identified here
- Foxconn has stopped sending Chinese workers to India - trade throttling?
- Parth is looking for 200+ pieces of ESP32-P4NRW32
- You can make a fake candle with a tiny motor and some LEDs
- Discussion on measuring current initiated by Kali here
- Discussion here on climbing cell and other towers, includes movie recommendations
- Maker's Asylum is looking for some folks - see posting
- Discussion around camera mounting nuts here
- Group members often discuss issues that they face with different PCB fabs - for example the latest one is posted by Vishnu here. That sparked a bit more discussion around Robu's PCB service, and more.
- Is there a new benchy in town? Maybe.
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