uSoldering

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by uSoldering 6mo ago
Why feed it photos of a photo when you could just feed it the photo that was printed out?
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by uSoldering 6mo ago
It’s hard to imagine anyone wanting this to be real more than I do, but this is nowhere close to being ready to do actual work. Photographing real PCBs is hard, there is no fiducial maths, no actual probing is being done. It's just pho
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by uSoldering 9mo ago
For the bottom 99.9% of wealthy people, it is not a good thing.
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by uSoldering 9mo ago
Eric Schmidt is, in his own words, an arms dealer now and is driving the R&D of autonomous A.I. weapons.
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by uSoldering 2y ago
I guess I missed it and was hoping for a deeper dive.
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by uSoldering 2y ago
I think it's odd to make a whole video about a DIY rear-projection television without using the phrase 'rear-projection television'. It's novel to bounce it off the ceiling, and it repurposes e-waste so it's a great
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by uSoldering 2y ago
As someone with over a decade in industrial manufacturing, there is only ever the in-group of the masters, and the out-group of the serfs. Actually making things is merely the means to the end of neo-feudalism.
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by uSoldering 2y ago
I am voicing my opinion in which I believe in strongly, nothing more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
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by uSoldering 2y ago
You are missing the forest for the trees. This is an aerospace vehicle capable of flying in the air indefinitely. How many drones can you fit on a vehicle? How many vehicles can you fly at once? 60 miles is already reachable by the cheapest
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by uSoldering 2y ago
I like how the article glazes over the fact that this is drone swarm delivery tech. You are naive to think otherwise.
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by uSoldering 2y ago
Apparently, the rabbit hole goes deeper. The wayback machine puts the "AI Generated" description on the cheese website at August 7th, 2020. The AI didn't hallucinate anything because it didn't generate anything, the enti
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by uSoldering 2y ago
If this worked well you would imagine a demo consisting of more than a single through-hole component.
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by uSoldering 2y ago
What is the overlap of people who are reading a blogpost about Cloudflare standards and people who need a metaphor to understand what compression is? You have 7 paragraphs of highly technical information then just in case, you need to expla
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by uSoldering 2y ago
Driven at 1 amp, ~2 inches from skin, ~5 minutes, twice daily. 660nm seemed to work better. Note that 850nm light is not visible and exceptionally dangerous. You will burn your eyes by looking at anything the invisible light is bouncing off
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by uSoldering 2y ago
Anecdotally, I designed and built a simple 'LED on a stick' to emit 660nm or 850nm red light at levels that cause eye damage and found it cuts wound healing time roughly in half.
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by uSoldering 2y ago
Wait until you hear the news about eggs.
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by uSoldering 2y ago
If you photograph and stitch a panorama of a CD at a resolution with the data visible and distribute it under your copyright, is it piracy?
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by uSoldering 2y ago
Truly remarkable that technology can disrupt any industry— even one that has been around for millennia, like pimping.
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by uSoldering 3y ago
There is a direct parallel from companies using open source code to build monetization platforms while paying open source developers nothing; to companies using user generated content to build LLMs. At least with LLMs it is a self-poisoning
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by uSoldering 3y ago
For this PCB, the smallest targets are about 0.2mm in diameter. In terms of precision robotics, this is very manageable. A robotic soldering iron, or even a laser soldering system, with a wire feeder and cutter could be used to make somethi
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by uSoldering 3y ago
I know very little other than it appears the two most popular sources are Zillion x Work, and XinZhiZao, both of which appear to be based out of China.
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by uSoldering 3y ago
Thank you so much for the bandwidth. I would like to do this for boardscans going forward, but I don't have the hosting infrastructure. I know OSD can do overlays, it would be awesome to have the functionality of OpenBoardView as a web
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by uSoldering 3y ago
I didn't take a depopulated panorama because I did all the photography without an automated stage, which is what I'm currently working on. There are some boardscans that are depopulated, with the various layers you can go through
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by uSoldering 3y ago
Yep!
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by uSoldering 3y ago
It's just unique spot to hold each part. There are 8 trays with 100 pockets each, so if you wanted to know a specific component's electrical properties, I could look up which tray and pocket it's in and measure it. Or if I ge
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by uSoldering 3y ago
At 20kHz it only takes 3 minutes to run the extraction program. I run it multiple times and at slower frequencies, but the output is stable.
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by uSoldering 3y ago
No kids and my job is running/programming SMT production lines, so when the process is stable I get to supervise the machines and read technical documents as training.
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by uSoldering 3y ago
A bounty hunter-like crowdfunding system would probably be ideal. I could probably hack together some forum software with each thread being a different crowdfunding campaign. Thanks for the suggestion.
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by uSoldering 3y ago
Making a machine to automagically remove a tiny bit of material and image the result over and over would be easy for me. The image processing to take the stack of 3D sequential images and automagically process them into a netlist is well be
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by uSoldering 3y ago
The original goal was to just turn an idea I thought was possible and figure out exactly how to execute it. The current goal is something like improve and iterate, while seeing what the market interest for something like this actually is. I

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