Weekly #7
Weekly updates from the Makerville community - things we are reading, watching and building!
Discussions
- Sarang started a thread to discuss how selling Bluetooth headphones for 1000 INR / 15$ is possible while claiming they are Made in India
- Dhiru ordered Pico 2 from 4 places, and finally got it first from Silverline
- Discussions on Thunderscope, an amazing opensource oscilloscope launched on Crowd Supply this week
- New iPhone has a mechanism where they remove the battery by applying current to the tape
- More frustrations about Robu's website
- Kali wanted to know what an enclosure like the below is called
- Anool asked to search for "Stevenson Screen"
- Sudarshan figured the exact name i.e
Elettro fan filter 4"
- Spacex is claiming their PCB factory is going to be the biggest in North America, and is going to outperform PCB fabs in Southeast Asia - a bold claim! Discussion around this here
- Discussion about non-GPS navigation for sensitive applications
Builds
- Kali is building a weather station and got his hands on AMAIR AEM1000
- Dhiru ported his FT8 beacon to the new Pico 2 - he discovered that the new Pico 2 has dropped support for hardware RTC
- Leon is playing around with the MaixCAM from Sipeed
- makerpipe is a cool service for pipe projects - JT linked contact details for someone in Pune who does similar things
- Beautiful CT scans of pens
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Classifieds
- I was looking for DIN rails locally - but failed to find them in half a dozen electrical stores
- Sudarshan linked to Rujuta Corp - he also 3D prints mounts for these rails
Memes
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