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!

Weekly #22
  • 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.

Memes

Anool : Back in the day before Computers, CAD was such a relaxing job that we would lie down on the floor and draft while lazing around. You kids have it so rough nowadays.
IKEA furniture disassembly vibes
Kali shared this not-to-scale diagram
btw g=10m/s^2

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