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From a link in the article: > The contracts we sign with all dealers clearly stipulate that products that are not UL certified and listed by local power grid companies may not be s…

As someone with some EtherCat and CNC experience, what’s your interface from gcode to your CNC? Have you written custom software or is there a EtherCat compatible gcode sender I’m …

They ground up rebuilt it a while back and it seems like they’ve fixed that issue.

The Cypress part family you are likely thinking of is the PSoC line, it’s a MCU mixed with very configurable analog front end.

I’ve been very happy with my Siglent 4 channel/100 MHz scope (with logic analyzer but I don’t have the $200 pod so I don’t use that). The scope was about $400 and I find it worth t…

From my research into microscopes for fine electronics work, the keyword you are looking for is “trinocular”. They have standard camera mounts built in and you can attach almost an…

Did anyone else play Mavis Beacon growing up? I recently got a mechanical keyboard and there’s an online version of Mavis Beacon that held up surprisingly well, and got me used to …

The only roadblock I’ve found has been the webserial API, which enables users to flash ESP32/8266 or other devices from webpages. It’s super handy for flashing WLED or ESPHome to d…

Honestly, I don’t consider this mindless piracy. It’s ridiculous how many links on HN are behind a paywall. I understand the press needs to be funded, but I do not regularly read N…

Tkinter is fairly basic but feels very native on every platform I’ve tried, and it’s easy to use. There are lots of extensions available too. I just wrote a comment about it: If yo…

If you’re interested in Python desktop apps, check out TKinter. I have a piece of boilerplate code I typically start with, and within an hour I can have a finished piece of softwar…

I suppose old hardware restoration falls under the “hobbyist” label?

FYI, there is a Home Assistant integration for the WiZ bulbs that I find works really well… I almost exclusively control my 6 or so via HomeKit and they have been rock solid.

This looks cool, but your link is to a video describing it, and the app “Object Capture” doesn’t appear to be in the Apple App Store.

I signed up for a one year Nebula subscription after one of my favorite YouTubers posted a discount link. I wanted to support him, and I found the price to be fair. In the few mont…

Even when they bumped it to 280 (IIRC). I didn’t know you could tweet an entire book like TFA now…

> I've never played on an actual pinball machine Do yourself a favor and change that ;) Check out PinballMap.com and find a machine near you. It’s a surprisingly fun and zen hobby.…

24 VAC is a common voltage for irrigation control, which is likely why they chose to use it.

Even this appears to just be a limited source repo containing just the most basic UI components. Also, per the README: > Please note that LX Studio is not open-source software.

Would love to see more open source competitors in this space. I was excited when I saw a Github link, but that's basically hosting just a README and the only one I know of is GeoPi…

> And... AVR64DB32 is cheaper at Digikey than ATMega328pb. Sure, you save about $0.80 off your BOM, but currently DigiKey has a stock of over 200k ATMEGA328P (in 31 P/N), whereas s…

Those WiZ bulbs have actually been pretty reliable for me in the few years I’ve had them. Pretty early on I set them up to be controlled by Home Assistant [1], and they are on par …

The Embedded Muse (by Jack Ganssle), twice(ish) monthly updates on Embedded Electronics parts, tooling, firmware, etc. Almost every topic you’d be into if you were trying to make o…

> All you have to do is read the datasheet Have you read many datasheets? Parsing a datasheet can be pretty complex, even if it’s well written (of which many are not). There’s quit…