Another tool worth exploring is EasyEDA. The fun part is you can even run it as a webapp.
It's tightly linked with the JLCPCB/LCSC ecosystem, so there's a lot of libraries of parts and it scans for their design rules, if you want to use their services.
There's also a somewhat basic auto-router baked in, which is harder to integrate in KiCAD.
I do agree that KiCAD is the consensus "full fat" tool these days, but I've put together decent projects in both.
That alarms me. The Fediverse is inherently self-selecting to nerds. You’d expect to see a higher standard for memecraft. It’s like going to an anime con, and the artist’s alley isn’t full of fanworks that violate every known principle of anatomy. Or to a Sportsball match where they don’t slam-dunk the touchdown bases.
Of course, we’ll never top that picture which I thought for years was a deep-fried image of Hank Hill with the caption “E”.
There’s a case to be made for dueling what is essentially a post-scarcity socialist Federation against the embodiment of capitalism-as-cult.
Conversely, the Borg are in a way aspirational-- growing and assimilating knowledge and improvements seems a bit higher of a goal, but their presentation comes off ham-fisted.
I feel like there’s a missing explanation of why “assimilating the diversity” of a civilization needs to be a total stripmine rather than taking a few (potentially willing) representatives and regularly coming back in case anything new evolved, like binge-watching a civilization every few years. The stripmining aspect seems necessary to make them recognizabily villianous-- the enemy of sacred individuality rather than just data hoarders whose homelabs turned into giant cubes.
It does feel like Latinum is very much a MacGuffin for undermining a huge amount of “we have virtually infinite free energy and can replicate anything we need” worldbuilding; they needed a way to make 24th century capitalism seem remotely plausible.
Im curious as I usually use the site very occasionally to get certain electronic parts or order from PCBway like I just picked up some cheap but infinitely better than stock gps antennas for my LoRa T beams and im about to get a set of also still cheap but much better than stock 915mhz antennas but i kinda wanna throw some other...
Every sort of microcontroller/breakout board imaginable. I’m fond of the nanoCH32V305 (144MHz RISC-V CPU, 32k RAM/128k flash, and GPIOs for days)
Soldering project kits. I bought a NTP capable clock kit to learn SMD techniques, then discovered that the Chinese market has no need for time zone support, but I had little need for the time in Beijing.
There’s a surprising amount of miniature stuff there-- terrain parts for model railways, or dioramas or wargaming. The actual model railway stuff seems sort of thin on the ground, mostly resold and expensive foreign brands or toy grade stuff.
I got one of those ominous looking wire-stripper-cutter-tools and rather like it.
(screenshot of a rxvt window decorated with a fvwm theme. The title bar is rotated to the left and highlighted in red with white text, and reads ‘marada@kalutika:~’....
Picture of a disassembled Duracell 9v battery. Below the terminal assembly is a clear plastic case where you can see six sets of stacked rectangular terminals and fillings.
I got a Sylvania-branded strand of 50 “warm-white” LEDs (plus two loose spares) for USD 2.50 at the local grocery store, which I’m pretty sure is cheaper than buying a bag of the bare LEDs would run. They also come in other colours (blue, cool-white, bright red, multicolour)...
What software do you use for PCB design?
I’m interested in learning how to make a proper PCB rather than perf board with wires all over the place.
I'll have the, um... (lemmy.world)
So Cute (suppo.fi)
Gonna need a few rewrites (lemmy.world)
Save your hard-earned Latinum on a long distance subspace carrier you can afford! (images2.imgbox.com)
Rule of Acquisition #14: Anything stolen is pure profit. Based on “a comment” by Kolanaki.
Guinea Pig for sale at the local market (i.imgur.com)
What inconsequential or surprisingly good thing can I get from Aliexpress?
Im curious as I usually use the site very occasionally to get certain electronic parts or order from PCBway like I just picked up some cheap but infinitely better than stock gps antennas for my LoRa T beams and im about to get a set of also still cheap but much better than stock 915mhz antennas but i kinda wanna throw some other...
Meth Man: Arkham Aslume (lemmygrad.ml)
Plummeting interest rate (startrek.website)
Dating pool (lemmy.world)
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FVWM is all you really need (lemmy.sdf.org)
(screenshot of a rxvt window decorated with a fvwm theme. The title bar is rotated to the left and highlighted in red with white text, and reads ‘marada@kalutika:~’....
This 9v battery contained six cells stacked like a layer cake (lemmy.sdf.org)
Picture of a disassembled Duracell 9v battery. Below the terminal assembly is a clear plastic case where you can see six sets of stacked rectangular terminals and fillings.
PSA: Buy some LED Christmas lights today
I got a Sylvania-branded strand of 50 “warm-white” LEDs (plus two loose spares) for USD 2.50 at the local grocery store, which I’m pretty sure is cheaper than buying a bag of the bare LEDs would run. They also come in other colours (blue, cool-white, bright red, multicolour)...