point of order: these are thicker than normal business cards.
Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
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As long as there aren't surprise 50% tariffs.
This was something I had to look into earlier this year. We found that even if tariffs were 200-300%, JLC and PCBway are still half the cost of domestic USA board houses, while also somehow providing half the leadtime. They are an absurdly good deal.
I remember William Osman (who established Open Sauce) talking about how they manufactured the badges for the convention, which are mostly just one large pcb, and how they looked into having them made in the US but there were no companies even offering the same kind of service. So it is not just that the Asian suppliers are cheaper, it is also that there isn't really a competitive US made alternative even if you were willing to pay more for it.
Here is the link to the episode (without a timestamp): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78lYvjo2JQ
And this is how the badges looked/worked: https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/tutorials/2025/assembling-y...
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Yeah but I guess they wanted to add something in the value for everyone of us while they didn't have ofc the whole knowledge to do so. their heart might be in the right place tbh. But that's my 2 cents.
Hold on, let me google a proper response to this.
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#95Very nice, but probably a bit too expensive to just hand out. I knew a chap that had a similar hardware business card (I don't remember exactly what it did, but it wasn't as cool as this one). I remember that his card was pretty scuffed up, and he insisted I give it back, after he handed it to me. Bit weird.
Maybe you wouldn’t give em to just anybody, but anybody who gets one is guaranteed to remember you! I’d probably even keep it in my desk to play with. After a few weeks I’d accidentally have this guy’s email/linkedin memorized for eternity
I'm just imagining interviewing a candidate for a job involving embedded systems and this dude pulls this out at the end and says "If you have any other questions, my email's right on there."
What an absolute baller this guy is.
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To be fair it fits in with the Github and LinkedIn links.
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#97If they used a sans-serif font then they would have nailed it
That and the overlapping silkscreen hurt to see, but otherwise a super cool project. Although they're very minor things that don't technically matter, it can give off certain impressions to people.
Not nearly as tasteful as Paul Allen's card.
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He's an hardware engineer, not a software engineer.
After many years of self-hosting an email server I also came to the realization that it's not worth the hassle (in terms of maintenance / problems) and I switched to Proton Mail.
Using a custom domain with Proton Mail is not free (and all the other alternatives I know of are the same) and there's little advantage other than having a nice name. I think for a HW Engineer this is good enough.
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i disagree on this, people comment with stuff anyone could google all the time. its nice to see info without doing it myself, and esp when often i never would. however gpt-whatever is a bad choice for this bc its a very likely scenario to make up bs
Re: Ultrathin business card runs a fluid simulation
#100If they used a sans-serif font then they would have nailed it
disagree, a nice serif font is more distinctive with most of everything using a very tight cluster of boring sans-serif fonts.