Louis reads Apple fan reactions to video on soldered in SSDs, and himself!

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/5CymwgyueQoEtJf4byATAh

"RMX by Dorninger" by DRKMBNT (base)

Music squeezed out of self-soldered sound devices and remixed by Dorninger.

#diy #soldered #noise #drones

https://www.base.at/drkmbnt-rmx-by-dorninger-cdr-digital#main

Would anyone from the SONOMU.Club crew like a redeem code? Send a DM.

For those of you who own the Inkplate5V2, Inkplate6Plus or EPDiy v7 PCBs, are you using my FastEPD library?

#FastEPD #Soldered #EPDiy

When building electronics project for permanent use - i.e. after testing on a solderless breadboard - you normally go to a #soldered perforated board of some type as a #prototype, or even for very-low-volume production.

There are different types of boards. I dislike "matrix" boards, which are just isolated pads on a grid, i.e. there are no connections between any of them. Some people swear by these; I swear at them.

I prefer protoboards that have multiple holes per pad (so you can connect multiple component leads without having to add an explicit wire jumper). If they've also got #busses - sets of pads that run the whole length or width of the board - so much the better!

Some are #crap: laminated paper PCBs where the pads lift off the board if you even try to desolder something you added. Row/column labels missing, or (like I found with some recently) that don't line up between the front and back of the board 😆 , or most egregiously, they don't actually show the pad pattern on the front of the board, so you have to keep flipping it to check your parts are correctly placed. One example below.

I have some from "BusBoard Prototype Systems" that I like. The SB4 is a 38 x 24 (912 hole) board that is #snappable into quarters. Two of the quarters have rows that are 4-hole, 2-hole, 4-hole. The other two are 5 2-hole pads. Both types have a single bus running along each of the 2 long sides.

But ...

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#electronics #hobby #ProtoBoard #PerfBoard #MatrixBoard #Chinesium

My personal and highly biased @frameworkcomputer launch event conclusion:

• New Framework 13 model still with no #OLED screen
• An extremely overpriced #desktop with #soldered #RAM
• A one-key module for the Framework 16 for custom keyboards
• Lots and lots and lots of #AI bullshit from #AMD
• A 12.2 inch 2-in-1 convertible with a low-end #touchscreen

Im not angry or mad, I am just disappointed and completely underwhelmed.

Isn't it annoying when you've put a project together, carefully #soldered every single pin and joint, routed wires with great care so every piece just fits without a hitch, just for it not to work?

And isn't it annoying when you've taking everything apart again, tested everything(?) and it still doesn't work?

And when you realise you've soldered a button wrong so that you're short-circuiting the reset pin on the board, isn't that just so incredibly annoying?

#Maker #Arduino #Frustrating