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Replying to @audreydodgen
Thanks, Audrey!
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among tonight’s tasks: cook an epic pot roast for the first house dinner of 2022. (side note, look at this gargantuan chard that her roommate picked up! it feels right out of the cretaceous period)
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Replying to @josecastillo
lol now it’s back at 2.99 volts. TBH I had no idea we’d spend so much time at or near 3 volts, but I guess the low current draw means less of a voltage drop than the graph in the data sheet would imply.
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Replying to @johnedgarpark
Haha yeah, I was sitting by the campfire and realized I had a thermometer on my wrist, so of course I started holding my arm closer to the fire to see how hot I could get it. 🔥
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Replying to @Mobile_Dom and @PCBWayOfficial
It is indeed! Only works with 0.6 mm PCB’s; it’s kind of a hack but it’s the only way for this board to do it (it wouldn’t fit into a watch case with a “proper” connector soldered on). They’re OSHW, you can find them here: https://github.com/Pinuct/Eagle_PCB_USB_connectors
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Also among today’s tasks: assembling one of the @PCBWayOfficial-sponsored Sensor Watch PCB’s! Bootloader flashed successfully; time to depanel and install it in a watch case. Hope to write more about this over the weekend!
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Replying to @josecastillo
Battery test, day 60: 2.98 volts. Not much to report. Next check-in at 90 days; that’ll be one season in.
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Replying to @MakeAugusta
haha I figured! btw here’s the final (🤞🏽) design for the temperature sensor board. less than a quarter of a square inch but you can fit some useful info on there.
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Replying to @crulge
Reminds me of this binder from that movie.
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Replying to @glowascii, @jugendingenieur and @Hacksterio
@the_prepared, maybe?
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Replying to @rohansingh
You know what’s up.
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RT @RealTimeKodi: https://t.co/61Dq2baoVx
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Replying to @TrentonEmory
Unsure if it always looks like this, but occurs to me that the century of (relative) peace and prosperity that the west experienced in the 20th century is an aberration in the history of humankind. People say “this is not normal”? With a wide enough lens, “normal” is not normal.
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Replying to @AlpenglowInd
thank you!! 🥳
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Replying to @josecastillo
welp. my “first task” ended up taking up most of my day, but it’s done: I have my 100 fully tested boards.
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Replying to @Alie_GG
This is actually micro-B, tho I think there is a C variant as well? I actually just found these online, I didn’t make them. Handy, tho :) https://github.com/Pinuct/Eagle_PCB_USB_connectors
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Replying to @josecastillo
After all of that, it goes into a watch case to test the LCD and the buttons. Pressing a button replaces the count at the top right with a letter indicating the button that was pressed.
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Replying to @josecastillo
It is for now a very manual process: I flash this code on that blinks the LED in both colors. The delay is RTC based, which tests that. It also alternates the pin values on the sensor board to confirm they’re all connected. And it prints a log to USB to verify that USB functions.
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today’s first task: use yesterday’s ridiculous SMD challenge of a sensor board to test all of the blue watch boards.
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Replying to @ajbauer
Pairs well with this one: https://store.xkcd.com/products/opinions-bumper-sticker
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Replying to @josecastillo
People said it couldn’t happen here. It happened here. And it isn’t over.
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Replying to @josecastillo
The fact is, winning in 2020 was a requirement to keep fascism at bay for a time. But the line will not hold. We’re in the eye of the hurricane now, and I’m using this brief period of calm to do some fun work and prepare myself mentally for the bad times. Because they are coming.
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A year out from the coup attempt, I admit I haven’t been banging the “It is happening here” drum as loudly as before. It’s not because the danger has subsided. Far from it; I think we’re likely to see a violent end to the American experiment in the next few years. I’m just tired. https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1346904023123824645
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Replying to @AbolTaabol
wow, I love this!
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also side note, once I finish the watch, I am putting everything on hold and building a toaster. this is not a joke. Q1, ship the watch. Q2, fix my love life. Q3: toaster.
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Replying to @crulge
Stop trying to make sound public policy happen, Gretchen. It’s never going to happen
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Replying to @josecastillo
we don’t make things alone. we make things for people, and we should meet them on their terms.
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there remains a lot of work to do in the next 100 hours. Some of it involves electrical testing: making sure the gadget does what it must do. yet some of it involves informing folks of what it can do; how it might fit in the lives of those who care about astronomy, or astrology.
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Replying to @ayourtch
I haven’t seen this! FWIW I have built stuff in Mozilla Hubs (a virtual loft where I spent time with friends in lockdown, http://www.151kent.org); I think there’s tons of room to make small virtual spaces ppl can share. But a globe-spanning single-instance metaverse? Not for me.
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Replying to @josecastillo
Good luck, idiots! Have fun shopping in your metaverse. Just keep it the fuck away from me.
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There’s a part of me that thinks we should band together to build a shared/open metaverse, so people aren’t captured by what capital decides to build for them. Problem is, the metaverse as described is a stupid shitty idea, and I don’t want to waste any energy thinking about it.
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Replying to @bradanlane
This is why @oshpark sends you three!
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Replying to @josecastillo
FWIW, it worked in the end. But what a hassle.
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Replying to @jit_j
Wise words. this ended up working on the third attempt, but truly. Never again with this spacing.
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sure these are “only” 0603 parts. But with poor design choices, you can make an SMD challenge at any size! 🤦🏽♂️
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Replying to @tarahaelle
I’m trying not to jump up and down on Biden for his handling of this thing, given the perilous state of our democracy. but the juxtaposition of these two tweets really brought into focus the inadequacy of the current federal response.
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there it is! As seen through a transparent LCD: the passives are short enough to fit in the allowed height, and the sensor board gently flexes to give them room. BTW, if you haven’t signed up for campaign updates yet, you should. Great things are afoot. https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-watch https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1478386879150047240
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Replying to @blu006
Alas, the A168 may be electrically compatible (same LCD) but it’s almost certainly not mechanically compatible; the insides are all different on account of the EL backlight. I had hoped for the same but it’s different enough that I don’t think it will work.
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Replying to @josecastillo
the fact is I sense it’ll be a vanishing minority of folks who want to solder fine enamel wires to these test points to hack this sensor board further. The more common thing, I sense, will be swapping the base sensor board out for a more interesting one with like an accelerometer
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Replying to @josecastillo
I think I have my answer:
• All on top: no go. not enough flex in the PCB for test points that close to the keepout area.
• All on bottom: fine, as expected.
• Passives on top, test points on bottom: Works as long as it’s only one or the other, which I think I may be ok with.(original)
Replying to @esi_jg
Alas, the A168 may be electrically compatible (same LCD) but it’s almost certainly not mechanically compatible; the insides are all different on account of the EL backlight. I had hoped for the same but it’s different enough that I don’t think it will work.
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Replying to @josecastillo
the thinking is subtle, but I have precisely 1.1 mm of clearance for sensor board parts. I designed it for those to face down, underneath and facing the board. But the board can flex, and if I can put the passives on top, it’s easier to solder to the test points. Will it fit tho?
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Also on the docket today: new flexy temperature sensor boards. This is the final question to answer before I order a panel: should I put both the passives and the test points on the top, both on the bottom, or split the difference? I’ll need to assemble all three to answer that.
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https://twitter.com/verge/status/1477822092565438476
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RT @tjl: not saying the web is in bad shape but “person makes fun website and doesn’t try to prey upon its audience” is literally national…
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I so desperately need to focus on writing campaign stuff right now, but instead I’m… *looks down*… brainstorming a new board? joey. we had this talk. https://twitter.com/josecastillo/status/1462553044319719432
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Replying to @josecastillo
basically it feels that to make good on this resolution, i’m going to have to reboot my emotional life from first principles, which seems like a big goal in a year when I hope to launch my first product and survive a generation-defining respiratory pandemic. but I do have to try.
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Replying to @josecastillo
i’m realizing now that in being so forcefully alone for so long, i’ve stunted myself developmentally; 9 years later, I have the emotional intelligence of a 28-year-old. I don’t know how to talk to a guy I’m interested in, much less have an instinct for how to be close to someone.
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before we pass the statute of limitations on 2022 resolutions, I want to commit to one: this year I want to try dating again. I kinda detonated my love life in 2013, and besides a few flings + halfhearted Scruff swipes, I’ve basically spent 9 years believing I’m better off alone.
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Replying to @kfury and @NOAA
I’ve been thinking a lot about this because I think it might not be an IOT problem, but a math problem. Actual levels are measured and reported, yes, but I think that with these numbers and some math, you could predict the whole year’s tide chart on Jan 1. https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/harcon.html?id=8518750
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