Weekly #6
Weekly updates from the Makerville community - things we are reading, watching and building!
Links & launches
- Akshar shared a link to hackerfab - would be cool to have something like this in India!
- PCBWay is doing transparent PCBs!
- Robert Feranec posted a beautiful video of soldering up close
- Thunderscope launched on Crowdsupply - an open source oscilloscope that connects to your computer over Thunderbolt
- TSMC Arizona has started low volume manufacturing of some of their most advanced nodes
- Anool posted a link to a maze generator! Would be fun to 3D print this with a ball bearing sized width between walls.
- The Hardware Story podcast with Inito founder Aayush Rai - great listen for anyone interested in hardware startups, manufacturing medical devices, and more
- Olimex has launched a very very cheap SBC
- Dhiru has been loving the RTT debug feature from Segger
Builds
- Balu Babu from BLR has made a hackable keypad with 9 keys and an encoder - he is currently taking pre-orders and you can ping him on Twitter. It's very pretty, and I have preordered one already!
- Hemal designed and made an enclosure in FreeCAD
- Anool is teaching his grand nephew how to print Lego birds
- Dhiru shared photos and links to his microscope setup!
Classifieds
- Heil Zeus is looking for a SMD rework station in Indore
- I am looking for someone who has a Compute Module 4 IO board!
- Akshar at Vaaman is hiring a hardware designer,
someone who wants to learn PCI GEN 5, GDDR 6, DDR5, LPDDR5x , and loves doing PCB and circuit design. - If anyone is looking for investment in the drones space, JT posted contact details for one of his CA friends who is looking to invest.
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