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Tom Fleet
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Hardware Developer @inMusicBrands
Technical Writer @Hacksterio

Mainly making things that make music.
5 degrees*

My point is that these parts have complex dynamics. They can even have error introduced via the measurement/power mode chosen.

Hammering away in high perf mode gives you chunks of fairly significant current that needs to be dissipated eventually Thermals are everything with these.
March 17, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Speaking of thermal coupling. I guess there is AC on, and a vent blowing at the EPD board, probably with a reasonable groundplane acting as heatsink? If the sensor thinks it's sensing a *gas* temp that has that temp difference, well.. the calculated equivalent CO2 output is gas temp dependent, yeah?
March 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Badly aged takes on the raspberry pi silicon security offerings...
March 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Forgot I had a load of serial output left in, slowing things down a bit.

Seems smoother with it off anyway. Haven't actually timed it, but certainly looks better.
February 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
So I haven't actually seen this bad apple thing yet, or at least until now.

But it looks pretty good on a memory pixel LCD, streaming out of the flash of an ESP32-S3!

Speedy!
February 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Aw shoot. So looks like this display is borked. It got shipped with the FPC folded around the padding foam, rather than flat. I can get a picture if I tap the die bonded drivers *just right* - but it's definitely pretty dodgy!

But - wasn't the code at least!
February 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Hm. Certainly not a Banksy itself, but in the style of. The tag is a good indicator, along with the stencil bleed.

Lot of this stencil around Hamburg.
February 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It's 5.79"?

792 x 292px, this one is B/W, but there are b/w/r and b/w/r/y versions also.
February 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Hmmm....
February 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Had the same idea a little while back - it does seem to help a huge amount!
February 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
February 7, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Exquisite details"
February 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ok so i've not seen breaking bad, so I might be missing a reference...? This one is far out even for AliExpress!
February 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I have no idea why anyone pays for AI... Just go ask any "helpful" assistant on any website these days.
February 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Very cool!

Have done similar experiments in streaming a capture window to some of the Akai controllers 🙂
February 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What do we think chat, does this lens look like it's IR to you?
February 6, 2025 at 3:13 PM
February 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
I found one *inside* that handheld XRF I got off eBay the other day.

Thankfully, not triggered!

Love these things.
February 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Stick it on a pallet.

It's absolutely worth it.

If not, at least bung a couple of shockwatch labels on it, visibly.

These things are pretty good in my experience.
February 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
That said, when signing off a Google mail with the Google keyboard, on my Google Android phone, all using the Google account I've had for nearly 20 years...

All this "AI" effort seems so wasted when we could all benefit from such lower hanging fruit.
February 5, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Jfc Google come on. This is embarrassing (for you).
February 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Can't quite see, is it nRF?

Trying to decide if this was forked from an e-scooter design, or if the e-scooter companies just forked from this sort of existing layout.

This one is a telemetry / remote control pack from a Voi (lime?) rent-a-scooter.

Certainly "similar" in form and layout...
February 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Adding "PDF viewer" to the list of things that have never needed AI.
February 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
It's always worth putting the time in on the CAD for things like display panels - checking the FPC as it is curved for the given board thickness!

Can locate the board connector to ensure that there isn't excessive curvature of the fixed length of the flex.
February 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
These neat little bar format LCD panels are a bit on the small side, but given they are selling for about a quid a pc for 76x284px...

Well, it'd be rude not to whip up a little breakout.

Dropped on a Waveshare ESP32/RP2350 Tiny module footprint - for now...
February 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM