Ronniiiiieee!

Frankly. Is it possible? Is this the year it happens?

Whatever happens, it doesn’t really matter. But… what if. I can’t stop thinking about what if.

And I truly believe Stephen would be nothing but a good sports about it.

#snooker

I urge everybody to look out for a stereo microscope. Doesn’t have to be overly fancy, a simple one will suffice. Since I got mine - mostly for working on watches - it has come in handy many times. Just make sure it’s a real stereoscopic one.

Check out the gigantic soldering tip…

#diy #soldering #smd #ble

I will absolutely hate soldering this, but it will provide 15 PWM channels with MOSFETs able to switch 12V/1A each - so enough to power and control 5 LED RGB strips of at least 1m length with a resolution of 10 bit on each channel; the ProMicro nRF52840 will provide control and BLE, and a PCA9865 will take care of the PWM stuff (using those instead of the MCU PWM makes interfacing and enhancing the platform easier - I figure).

#diy #electronics #led #pwm #lpmesh

While at MOSFETs, those little fellows here seem to be quite capable to handle LED strips (SSM3K324R) - again, PWM at 3.3V logic level. They should be able to handle up to 1A safe and sound in this setup, I guess. Why are spec sheets always guesswork. Just a real nightmare to solder these… guess I finally need to figure out where to order PCBs with parts already assembled :/

#diy #mcu #mosfet #led #homecontrol

Finally found a MOSFET with a small footprint and a low price that seems to be able to easily handle PWM for 12V/6W dimmable LED spots when driven by only 3.3V logic level: AOD424.

I use NRF52840 dev boards, as they have a minuscule power consumption of less than 15mA at 3.3V even with Bluetooth on and discoverable. Sure, not much of a difference when the lights are on; but when the lights are off, and you throw 20 of those onto your offgrid net, it suddenly matters!

#diy #ble #homecontrol

Received this little sprocket wheel from Australia last week; it should fix the date setting on my recently acquired Seiko 5606-8110.

The 56 movement series is a great Seiko movement series from the 70s; with the little issue that the date quickset can literally fall apart, as they used a plastic wheel - which reduces wear on the day/date disc, but after 50 years, the gear gives up instead. Wish me and my staking set luck :)

#watchmaking #seiko #vintagewatches #vintage

I just learned about Ronnie’s 153 break, while watching the latest video of the fantastic Break From Life Channel.

I believe we can finally agree that Ronnie is GOAT. I think even for his opponent Ryan Day this must have been a historic achievement, just being present.

Let’s just appreciate what hyperfocus can do for us. And I need to drink water.

#snooker #therocket #ronnie

Audio crackles/clicks in FinalCut with OBS...

This has been pestering me a long time: when cutting videos in FinalCut, sometimes I had the worst crackles in my audio recordings. I always suspected my "cheap" lavalier microphone or my audio setup. Until I noticed that the raw files played fine with VLC.

BUT: it's actually an issue in OBS remuxing, combined with FinalCuts handling of VFR.

Demuxing using Handbrake or ffmpeg instead of the internal OBS - and everything is fine!

#obs #finalcut