Spent my morning listening to some excellent panels at #ach2023 and i recently learned about #dhmakes and where have i been?? This is my new happy place. #makeallthethings

"I'm going home to play a video game!"

Me: Goes home and opens KiCAD instead.

#MakeAllTheThings

After a nice long fight I finally got a customized footprint in KiCAD with different geometries on different layers to work correctly.

They were originally designed in an older program that didn't care much about rules and it took several tries to make this work.

So happy now.

#MakeAllTheThings

I just want to give a shout out to my friends at
@MakeAugusta for being super awesome manufacturing partners. Knowledgeable, kind, straightforward, and willing to help so much more than you'd think.

Absolutely amazing folks. Happy to be working with them again.
#MakeAllTheThings

Gave a talk! Wearing an entirely #memadeoutfit (shirt, pants, cufflinks, and all jewelry) didn’t make my talk any better but I think it helped me feel a little more badass. #biologist #engineer #makeallthethings

Trying out the new @kicad 7.0 pre-release candidate and I'm super excited about the new features.

Helping a local inventor with his project for some practice time.
#MakeAllTheThings

RT @blenster@twitter.com

Nice build:
#MakeAllTheThings https://twitter.com/CarlMartinCos/status/1618266029158977536

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/blenster/status/1618358007968194563

I bought myself a @hakkousa desoldering gun and I gotta say it's absolutely fantastic and I wish I could have afforded it years ago:
#NotSponsored
#MakeAllTheThings

New PCBs are in from PCBWay; so is my @digikey order!
#MakeAllTheThings

Spending the day in KiCAD playing around with a couple of projects I'm about ready to order boards for and one I'm going to get the basics sorted for a quote.

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Of course I made some homemade artisanal bread while I'm down here helping my brother out; his oven is a little different than mine. This looks burned in the image but in person it's not bad; still I think his oven is around 3 minutes faster than mine.
#MakeAllTheThings

Somewhere in my house are the two RP2040 microcontrollers but I cannot find them...

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RT @blenster@twitter.com

Nice build:
#MakeAllTheThings https://twitter.com/Mads_five/status/1601588534649192448

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/blenster/status/1601612441099862017

Anyone else watch this episode of the show @fcain does and wonder if you could be his "handy friend" who gets to build a telescope with him?

I mean I know it's not me but I'd totally be down for that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Yl27UHKCU
#MakeAllTheThings

Helped my friend with a plasma pistol cosplay prop with an Arduino nano controlling some APA102 LEDs in two strips of 10 side by side.

It animates a slow-to-fast forward sweep along a color axis from blue green to a more teal with increasing brightness until it reaches full brightness and speed which is flashes through 10 times before flashing all the LEDs as if it fired.

I'll post a video of the animation later; not sure how well that description works.
#MakeAllTheThings

Do you like wearable LEDs? My friends made this: https://luxlavalier.com/

You should see it animated! Beautiful necklace.

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It's a wonderful morning to read datasheets and listen to music; today's mission: find a suitable LED driver for my current project.
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First draft! The backing board is definitely too stiff - getting pins through it is going to mean accidentally stabbing myself, which ain’t necessarily my jam. But as a first draft, I’m pretty pleased.

#enamel #enamelpins #makingthings #makeallthethings