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I agree with some of the others here that this is far too complex for what is fundamentally a heater with a thermostat. Why hellishly-complex USB-C with its ef
by userbinator 2y ago
I agree with some of the others here that this is far too complex for what is fundamentally a heater with a thermostat.
Why hellishly-complex USB-C with its effete tiny-pinned connectors instead of a plain old robust barrel jack? And requiring software instead of a simple analog feedback loop? Software which could fail and cause runaway heating is never a good idea.
Soldering irons have always been quite repairable, especially the simple ones:
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- davemp 2y agoThe article even talks about using it with an API I’d never heard of: WebSerial, https://hackaday.com/2022/03/21/web-serial-terminal-means-its-always-hacking-time/ https://hackaday.com/2022/03/21/web-serial-terminal-means-it... I guess that’s the inexorable trend in tech—add more and more shim layers between problems we’re not allowed or too lazy to fix.