But! 3d printing to the rescue!

Some conductive PLA is PERFECT for this and works amazing with the touch track on my faders!

Kind of wish I had a tool-changer to do a multi-color print and minimize use of conductive filament... Anyone know anyone at Snapmaker who wants to hook me up? 😉

There are a few popular mini-standards today, like Wemos D1 mini, "supermini", and T-Display, but it also doesn't matter that they're fragmented because DIP-style breakouts don't need standardization to be valuable - they're smaller, can offer more IO (or less!), and are more breadboard friendly.

Maybe I'm an outlier but I never really understood shields even back when I was using a Diecimila as my main dev board - too many caveats around pin conflicts when stacking them, and rarely was 1 shield enough, so you're going to be using a breadboard anyway.

I think that community can persist independently, and arguably already has since ESP32 launched and Arduino hardware is much less popular.

Does anyone actually use any Arduino hardware newer than Uno R3?

If anything, Adafruit has had the bigger role in community and education for hobbyists lately.

They're called P125-E2, found on AliExpress. I needed the bigger heads for some of the large through-holes.

So far I like these large 2mm diameter pins LOT better than the smaller ones I've used before.

They just gently press-fit into the 3d printed jig so they're super easy to replace if needed.

Chainable I2C drivers for them - based on ATTiny 1-series MCU. Should be launching these soon, but happy to share the designs early if you're interested!

Is that the 60mm soundwell motor fader? 👀 I have a new open source project/product coming soon that might be up your alley...

This and fuzzy skin need an "outer convex hull" option, as that's often the behavior you want

Yeah it's definitely limiting if you're using anything remotely off the beaten path. For my relatively simple designs it's been nice.

(Disclosure: I've been sponsored by JLC in the past, though I was already using JLC regularly at that point)

JLC. I've had mixed quality on some things (mostly an extremely high rate of LED failures), but I can't get away from their part library. It's such a massive competitive advantage since it also means they can provide instant renders of placement/orientation, and stock/pricing is straightforward.

Oh no!

as we all know every programmer's dream job is to never have to code again and instead just manage PRs with unreliable code and communicate with the unreliable entities who wrote it