I've got a new #KiCad plugin out in the KiCad plugin manager:

KiCoil generates "twisted" planar inductors. You can make it do one- or two-layer spiral inductors, toroid inductors, and many intermediate, hybrid variants in between spiral and toroid inductors.

These hybrid types have wider traces than a single-layer spiral, and have better high-frequency behavior (parasitic capacitance and self-resonant frequency) compared to two-layer spiral inductors. And they look really pretty!

#electronics

This is an absolutely fascinating deep dive into a font that has many names and none, and a history far more human and complicated than you might ever suspect. Plus, it uses the web page in ways that showcase the best of how the web can enhance understanding.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

Back when I was poking around with filesystem fuzzing stuff years back, I noticed something odd:

An EXT filesystem can tell the Linux OS how it should behave "if" the filesystem is corrupt, including triggering a kernel panic. In a world where USB thumb drives exist, this seems... not ideal.

Let's see what happens if we plug such a mass storage device into a fully patched Chromebook in 2024...

Oh.

🎉 Just published in the October issue of IEEE #TCAD: "WAVING Goodbye to Manual Waveform Analysis in HDL Design with WAL".

📄 PDF (open access): https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10496480
👉 WAL: https://wal-lang.org
📂 GitHub: https://github.com/ics-jku/wal

#WAL #VCD #HDL #analysis #debugging #surfer

Whoever at Apple thought of doing an electrochemical adhesive film to release the battery with single digit DC voltage is brilliant.

Such a good “clean” solution

New Video! 🎬

Oxikit-style PSA Oxygen Concentrator build! Overzealous color-grading! A poorly positioned lav mic!

https://youtu.be/lB3hHk1_2V0