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by mikeayles 9mo ago
Yep, exactly. I'll do another blog when I have a little more to show, but the concept is, everything is on a grid of 12.7mm squares, where there is a common bus running through north-south. The boards need to be 4 layer and feature siz
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by mikeayles 9mo ago
I think we are targeting different ends of the market, but I'm trying to do a full product development pipeline end to end. PCB, enclosure, peripherals, firmware. https://github.com/MichaelAyles/heph/blob&#x2F
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by mikeayles 10mo ago
Most washing machines use a wax motor to lock the door, it heats up wax to cause it to expand when it melts, which drives a pin. They're fairly failsafe as if you kill power, they will open no matter what. Latching relays/(technic
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by mikeayles 10mo ago
Well thanks for that rabbit hole. I was hoping the dingus was the actual term, but sadly not. For anyone needing some pub quiz trivia, a lower case g has the top half which is called the bowl, the bit top right is called the ear, then the b
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by mikeayles 10mo ago
Have you checked out circuitsnips and kicanvas?
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by mikeayles 10mo ago
I'm currently working on something that lets you describe a hardware product in plain English and get actual manufacturable files out — PCB, enclosure, firmware, the lot. Very early days still. Whilst I created a fork of toon for Kicad
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by mikeayles 11mo ago
Thanks very much. ScopeDOOM definitely has potential, I need to work on the occlusion logic to clean up the display, whilst it's not particularly visible on the demo, I did actually use distance to 'camera' to control pcb tra
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by mikeayles 11mo ago
This isn't using the KiCad socket API, although it probably would have been cleaner. It's a bog standard Plugin that should work for v6+. I'd be keen to have a look at your s-expr library, it likely has some overlap and utili
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by mikeayles 11mo ago
Author here: I pulled inspiration from this port to a vectrex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuVnoqFF3II , there is a wayback machine link to the authors writeup credited in my writeup. I have seen a lot of ports of DOOM o
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by mikeayles 11mo ago
What an honour, thanks
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by mikeayles 11mo ago
So the reason everything is on one net is so kicad doesn't need to calculate a ratsnest/air wires. As for the drawing, we pulled the vectors as a list from the C, and used a painters algo and drew back to front using the distance
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Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces(mikeayles.com)
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