Weekly #3
Plenty of activity on the forum this week!
Launches
- Balena OS 6 is here!
- Vishnu published KiExport - a Python script for exporting manufacturing files from KiCad PCB design projects. He also detailed why they created it, and how it's different from KiKit.
Reads
- Twitter thread about Antony Waste, which handles a big chunk of Mumbai's waste
- Story behind the creation of STMicroelectronics by Asianometry (You should subscribe to their blog and YouTube if you haven't already!)
- The company that makes chinese food seasoning MSG is the the world's monopoly on a critical insulator required in semiconductor manufacturing.
- Someone on Reddit posted a PCB from a Mercedes car, and the comments there shed more light on the RF design than probably a small course
Builds
- Chinmay is experimenting with tricolor filaments and results are beautiful
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- Anool rebuilt his impact drill - a little bit of cleaning and love helps repair and reuse.
- Jayant's team won the first ever ISRO Robotics Challenge! For those who attended Makerville Conf earlier this year, Jayant spoke about the competition back then!
Classifieds
- Anool has some Pilot spray guns that he wants to get find a new home for. He has multiple models, each suitable for different liquids. See his post here.
Photos
- Leon is in Shenzhen and posted some photos from the electronics markets there
- 2 layer layout for DDR3
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