#KiCon opens with @mntmn's keynote about their history with KiCad
Notices by arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 17:11:48 JST arturo182 ✅ -
arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 17:10:30 JST arturo182 ✅ @mntmn Being in stage pov
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 22:17:13 JST arturo182 ✅ @mntmn Working on the keynote? 😁
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 05:16:45 JST arturo182 ✅ -
arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jun-2024 18:52:26 JST arturo182 ✅ I triple-question myself over every decision meanwhile at a $1 billion valued company:
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 06:17:28 JST arturo182 ✅ @mntmn My understanding was that if a company wants to be on mastodon they need to have their own instance because the mastodon community is not very positive regarding commercial stuff on the free instances. That's why I don't have an account for Solder Party, hosting my own instance is too much work.
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Apr-2024 04:14:19 JST arturo182 ✅ This @kicad -> @blender plugin by @bobbe is absolutely amazing!
It allows you to import your KiCad design into Blender with textures, shaders, and even solder blobs in like 5 clicks!
Now if only I had the slightest idea how to use Blender 😭
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 21:55:00 JST arturo182 ✅ @mntmn We should meet up, I have a thing to show you ;)
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 03:29:13 JST arturo182 ✅ @mntmn Feels chill at the moment, lots of space, no crowding. But it is Day 0. Venue feels fresh, CCC vibe still present.
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Dec-2023 03:26:21 JST arturo182 ✅ Not seeing enough furries at #37c3
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 01:45:02 JST arturo182 ✅ The @Raspberry_Pi 5 has been available for 2 weeks now, and still no CM5? Sorry, this will not stand, time for me to take matters into my own hands!
Introducing, the (not really) CM5! The power of RPi 5 in the CM4 form-factor.
Here seen used with the Cytron CM4 Maker Board. -
arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 01:45:01 JST arturo182 ✅ Running off of an M.2 NVME drive over PCIe, of course. microSD is also an option. (2x)HDMI, USB, DSI, and CSI are all there, of course. As well as all the GPIOs.
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Nov-2023 01:45:00 JST arturo182 ✅ How? Lots and lots of flex cables and adapters! PCIe, DSI, and CSI connect directly to the RPi 5, for HDMI, microSD, USB C, and USB A, there are adapters.
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-Sep-2023 18:13:32 JST arturo182 ✅ Advertise your account with one PCB.
I'll start.
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 07:41:01 JST arturo182 ✅ @mntmn They are the same size, but it looks like I screwed up the color when I removed the purple from FN 😅
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 07:37:12 JST arturo182 ✅ On actually seeing it, I don't hate the 8 buttons as much as I thought I would. Still need something to put on them 🤔
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 07:37:12 JST arturo182 ✅ Also taking suggestions of what markings those buttons should have. I think they should have semi-arbitrary symbols so that they can be customized in SW rather than hard-coded to a specific function. Kinda like
🔺, ⭕, ❌, and ⏹️ on PlayStation controllers. It could also probably be possible to have each of the top buttons in a different color, but that might make the keyboard look tacky. -
arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 07:37:12 JST arturo182 ✅ Adding an optical trackpad to the keyboard gives us another row and raises the question of what should be put in that row.
I'm not a huge fan of either solution because the long buttons look weird, but having 8 buttons in that row feels like too many...
Ideas?
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arturo182 ✅ (arturo182@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2023 07:37:11 JST arturo182 ✅ After a lot of brainstorming, I ended up color-coding the buttons, this way the user can choose what functionality they want to assign to it and the on-screen UI can indicate it easily.