Now, it is a nice little travel camera.. but overheats quickly with video. The fixed lens is also both also sometimes too wide and/or too narrow for the project video and documentation purposes I need in a camera now.
An X-T4 and a couple lenses is going to make videos and posts much easier.
After a couple years of trying, I’ve realized my X100V just is not working for the more varied workloads I need it for.
Recording project videos with it has been nearly impossible which is the main thing I need a camera for currently.
So now it’s off to a new home, and I’ve got an X-T4 coming! :3
RAL K7 "Classic" standardised colour swatches, spread on a green cutting mat. we're looking at various greens and browns, Mouse Grey and Squirrel Grey in particular. The names seem to bear little resemblance to the actual colours. but you know, gotta name 'em something
okay who wants to go to the park with me and check if the squirrels are actually RAL 700 Squirrel Grey or if they are out of spec
I will still use at minimum a 4-layer for ground reference (although I think 2-layer would work fine), but now that I have this template I can finally start making progress on some dense audio boards without them costing me upwards of $300 for assembly :3
Over the past week I managed to land on a rough routing layout that fits the SDRAM and an STM32H7 onto just 2 layers. The reduction in layers, and use of non-BGA parts, reduces fab and assembly costs by $80+ for some designs!
Had about of a breakthrough for several projects this past week - most of my audio related projects require a bit of SDRAM for audio processing.
Previously my boards have been expensive due to issues getting it routed efficiently on less than 6 layers, or without BGA components.
Put out a new free post on my Patreon detailing my motivations for learning to create my own PU cast buttons (and possibly other parts in the future!). Hopefully this is the end of my frustrations trying to find even just basic button caps for designs!
www.patreon.com/posts/update...
If I can get down a process that works well, and probably make a small set of scripts to automate modelling molds for other designs, then this will open up a big opportunity for the types of interfaces I can make for my own devices, without needing expensive commercial runs of parts.
Soo, I've ordered supplies to learn how to do double-shot casting!
I'll be 3d-printing negatives for the molds and doing post-processing to smooth them, casting them in high-detail elastic silicone, and then using epoxy resin for light tubes/windows and polyurethane resin for the bodies.
I keep getting stuck on some of my larger projects with needing illuminated caps for buttons on my designs. Sadly there just aren't really good sources for them without doing a custom order of thousands from an injection molding company.
In an effort to make some small bits of progress on projects where I can, I've purchased some supplies to work on the one area that keeps stalling me - backlit keycaps and tactile buttons!
Sadly things have been so busy lately that I've not had a lot of time to work on my projects - things are finally starting to move forward on me moving to a new place that will both give me more room to work on things, and better access to the resources I need, so that should change soon!
Yeahh, I ran into that a couple weeks ago and was rather confused why it was giving me an error >.>
Hello there, long time no see. Here are some floppy disks I finished today. #pixelart #vaporwave #lofi #retro
Made a post on my Patreon giving a small summary of the first couple months of 2026, and a peak at my project plans for the year moving forward!
www.patreon.com/posts/plans-...
フットプリント起こすとき #shapoart
sleep well!
They’re always issues that support clearly knows come up, since they have prerecorded help material, but it’s all left out of the manuals!
I can only assume it’s purposefully left out to force businesses into ongoing support contracts they (in this case) don’t even need after it runs.
I can’t believe how often i’m running into these problems with tech support companies for my commercial client - they’ve repeatedly got hardware failing within warranty periods, or not working on delivery, and tech support tries to get large payouts to give one or two photos showing what to do.
It had a lovely mess of issues, including a dead hidden lipo battery for a sensor that tech support refused to tell us the location of and was left out of the manual. Eventually after a month they decided to waive the $500/m support fee and help get it to run.. by sending me a pre-recorded video
Big win today! After months of dealing with unhelpful tech support, coordinating with multiple people, and waiting for parts.. We finally got an automated cotton candy machine running I’ve been helping a client with since November!
I feel like I need more info on why you have an x-ray interlock key
Still roughing in the controls, but the general idea is:
- one column of navigation/menu buttons down the left
- contextual buttons along the bottom of the display
- numpad and some navigation keys on the right side for entering coordinates
- rotary encoder for menu navigation and value entry
The plan is to have a 7" LCD driven by an STM32H7 that does most of the processing and USB-C communication with the game. A 100BASE-TX ethernet PHY (or optional Wi-Fi AT-modem) for downloading and querying community star charts.
Schematic half finished, routing & layout only roughed in.
I started roughing in an idea I've had for awhile for a controller for Elite:Dangerous - a fairly basic navigation/systems panel that connects to the game's local API to display ship status and navigation data, but can also load advanced navigation data from community start charts and plan routes.
why we stop making computers look fresh
I drove past a local bank last night with a yellow LED bar sign under their logo that flashed a few times and then printed “EFI SHELL VERSION xxxx (xxxx)” across the display in huge letters.. makes me wonder if that is suppose to happen, and what the process is that triggered it - an update maybe?
I just hope you don’t get surprised by a bill from the courier a month or two down the road - I’ve had that happen to me before with FedEx after 3 months 😕
Lesson learned to not trust the values recommended by the manufacture - especially when they don't document why those values were selected for the recommended circuit.
My guess is the circuit was tuned for telephony use, they seem to regularly cut out bass, which supposedly helps voice clarity?
So I took my tweezers and tried briefly shorting one of the DC blocking caps, and suddenly my audio signal had bass!
I went and ran the calculations myself, and yeah, assuming an 600 ohm line impedance it should have been at least 47uF. Bodging in some 47uF caps has solved it for now.
