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anujdeshpande
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About anujdeshpande
Hardware and firmware developer based out of India, working remotely. Love to work with early-stage companies to turn prototypes/ideas into well-formed products.
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In the hardware world, we use the abbrevation BOM (bill of materials) frequently. Needless to say, we use the full "Bill of materials" phrase when anyone on the call is at the airp…
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Comment #45873542
I am working on https://embedhub.com I am building better dev tools for firmware and PCB developers. For example, we have GitHub Action workflows that allow you to push builds to t…
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Comment #42512387
Love seeing alternative approaches to browsing! If the aim is to avoid Google's dominance in the browser world, also check the efforts by https://ladybird.org/ The author is quite …
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Comment #40049497
Feature request - how to make sticky rice to go with Asian curries?
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Comment #39368585
It's an early prototype - so there's still plenty of work left on the optimization front. This particular thing you mentioned is because of misconfigured UI generation tool which c…
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Comment #39367952
Not sure I follow - what’s BabyBags?
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Comment #39366506
Disclosure - I worked on this :)
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Comment #38601885
There's USB on the upcoming version - and it's a Linux based device too :)
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Comment #38601584
It's a lot more capable than the current version - but from the outside it's almost the same size and shape. - Denser display with full color range (current one is monochrome) - US…
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Comment #38601225
Components are from China - everything is assembled in India (Bengaluru). It's probably impossible to manufacture with locally sourced components in India in 2023(especially displa…
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Comment #38601181
Noted :)!
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Comment #38599271
Syncs with their phone app, to keep a track of bills and expenses. Based on the Espressif ESP32. Quite handy for small shop owners who can't have a full-blown computer+screen cash …
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Comment #36766644
I’d recommend you watch video tutorials on KiCad to get started with making a board. I’d recommend starting a little simpler - by making a custom board on a breadboard using pin br…
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Comment #36337063
- As one of the replies said, I was talking mostly about the IoT space, but I think it's true for the non-IoT laptop/server space as well. - Sure - looking at what Apple's silicon …
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Comment #36336890
The 8266 was based off an xtensa core instead of an Arm core which is the norm in the industry. Espressif created a replacement for this wildly popular chip with the C3 and based i…
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Comment #36336852
Espressif is taking quite a radical approach as compared to other semiconductor companies. They provide everything from a Cloud SaaS for their chips, to open source phone apps that…
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Comment #36100039
https://twitter.com/manas_saksena/status/1662320073661640706... TIL that Whirlpool used JavaScript on their ESP32 based products and shipped millions of devices
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Comment #36060822
I am always a little surprised by efforts like these coming from big companies. There have been multiple efforts in the past to put languages meant for the web on small footprint d…
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Comment #34770397
Yes! Pretty psyched about the `kicad-cli`. Software CI/CD feels miles ahead of of hardware CI/CD - stuff like this is awesome for pushing forward on that front
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Comment #33937104
Genuine question : Is anyone building a 10 year JS framework? Something similar to how we’ve had C standards - we had c99 and then c11 (followed by c17)
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Comment #33508782
Probably related to Biden refusing to ack Tesla when talking about electric vehicles. He eventually did, but not before Musk and others noticing the cold shoulder and calling it ou…