nictinkers

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   by nictinkers 10y ago

   > For any embedded development, or HDL stuff, OS X will not be a nice experience. My day job is embedded electronics and I prefer to use macOS. I recognise this limits some of my choice of tools but also makes tools available that aren&#
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   by nictinkers 10y ago

   That Geckodrive product appears to connect via a standard parallel port. I don't believe Geckodrive has a USB breakout board. You're possibly using the SmoothStepper from Warp9, the KFLOP board from Dynomotion, or one of a couple
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   by nictinkers 12y ago

   I worry that this circuit has been presented without the relevant warnings. There's no isolation here, so you're exposing people who may go and build this circuit to live mains. Think about the pot, for example. If somebody built
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   by nictinkers 14y ago

   > rMBP owners: Please do share your insights into the mean level of abuse your units have handsomely survived. A week or so ago, I was riding my bicycle on the comute from work and had to avoid a psychopath in a car. I'd forgotten to cl