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by z3ugma 1y ago
Oh I love it, I drew some inspiration for rotary encoder options from here actually. It reminds me of the older Senic Nuimo from about 10 years ago with a similar goal. Reusing the Nest is about keeping bill of materials cost very low by re
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by z3ugma 1y ago
The goals have been 1. to help recycle hardware and keep it out of a landfill but more importantly 2. to have an open source thermostat with beautiful design. Nest cared a lot about the aesthetics. as do the people with whom I share my livi
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by z3ugma 1y ago
This is one of the reasons I am working on an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an
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by z3ugma 1y ago
I am after this too. I have had my eye on StarBook but I am waiting to hear recommendations from others. HP EliteBook with Linux on it also comes recommended to me by my sysadmin BIL.
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by z3ugma 1y ago
OP says they came close to buying a StarLabs product, I wonder why not yet? I've been hovering over the "buy" button on a StarBook as I get increasingly frustrated with the MacOS experience. My chief worries are battery life
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by z3ugma 1y ago
Let me say that Florian and co are super helpful and responsive with code examples, fixing bugs, and have built a very dependable language in Toit.
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by z3ugma 1y ago
How do I start using this on a codebase on my local computer? I'm quite confused by the quickstart. Do I use a VSCode extension? One of the Claude Code like clones but with this as a custom model?
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by z3ugma 1y ago
This is such a good visualization idea. I'd like to see some of the webinars and work calls I am on represented this way in the after-call summary
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by z3ugma 1y ago
Still working on: an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring, display, and mounts of the Nest but replaces the "thinking" part with an open-source PCB that ca
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by z3ugma 1y ago
>>Connect to the business. this is such excellent advice, and it will keep you relevant as an engineer so that you know the thing you're building solves the actual problem
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by z3ugma 1y ago
I'm a SWE turned product manager, and now one of the cartoon movie villains in the boardroom as mentioned in the article. To me this article sums up the most frustrating part about software engineers believing themselves to be the part
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by z3ugma 1y ago
"Dear Nest Learning Thermostat owner, We want to make you aware of some upcoming changes that will impact our earliest generation thermostats, including those at Your House. Starting October 25, 2025, Google will no longer provide supp
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by z3ugma 1y ago
Someone else replied about how ugly most cheap dumb Z-Wave thermostats are. Nests are beautiful by comparison. I've been searching for something I like as much aesthetically and come up short. That's one of the motivators
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by z3ugma 1y ago
ESP32-C6 on the faceplate board to have the WiFi and Zigbee. STM32 on the "ring" portion - that drives the display and the scrolling ring
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by z3ugma 1y ago
Nest Thermostats of the 1st and 2nd generation will no longer be supported by Google starting in October. I'm working on an enclosure-compatible open-source version of the 2nd gen Nest thermostat. It reuses the enclosure, encoder ring,
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by z3ugma 1y ago
Does Google Cloud Tasks count?
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by z3ugma 2y ago
Yes, it should be feasible. Heart Rate Variability has the biggest correlation with sleep stages among the features that are available from a smartwatch. Try https://github.com/ojwalch/sleep_classifiers and other work
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by z3ugma 2y ago
Well There's Your Problem, the podcast about engineering disasters with slides, covered this disaster in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbfSlTIfMig Episode 45: 1955 Le Mans Disaster
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by z3ugma 2y ago
I want to say, this comes across as 3 founders who don't have real-world experience in the hospital field. As a buyer in healthcare, this basic of an error would signal to me that this company is not ready for the enterprise stage.
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by z3ugma 2y ago
Your submission link goes to https://github.com/dittofeed/dittofeed/tree/main/packages/em... Would you put a README in there in GitHub? No idea what I should look for in this subfolder in GitHub
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by z3ugma 2y ago
Lots of good additional hacking at https://github.com/atc1441/ATC_RF03_Ring/issues/13 for what it's worth @tahnok I do this kind of (reverse) engineering of BLE for medical-grade devices for my day job,
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by z3ugma 2y ago
Unleash - https://www.getunleash.io/ https://github.com/Unleash/unleash
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by z3ugma 2y ago
I think that's just an artifact of how Workable doesn't really let you say "we welcome folks to from anywhere, based in the U.S., but also have an office in Madison if you'd prefer to work out of these some times" A
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by z3ugma 3y ago
EnsoData | healthcare, sleep, machine learning | REMOTE (US) | Product Manager | Full Time | $80-$100k+ | https://apply.workable.com/ensodata/ * Sleep is vital to recharging mentally, restoring our bodies physically, a
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by z3ugma 3y ago
Check out beam.cloud. They’re impressing me with calling GPU runtimes as a FaaS
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by z3ugma 3y ago
it's all about whether the 'A' is capitalized or not. LoRa - radio LoRA - machine learning
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by z3ugma 3y ago
The most scam-sounding federal government website ever, Free File Fillable Forms https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
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by z3ugma 3y ago
My experience has not been this. Backlog _size_ grows because engaged customers always want more features. Backlog _priority_ gets smarter with customer input.
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by z3ugma 3y ago
Irreverent and funny firsthand look at the Corredor Interoceánico from a railroad engineer who consulted on the first trainsets. > Well There‘s Your Problem > This is a podcast about engineering disasters and systemic failures, from a
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by z3ugma 3y ago
I've used LibrePCB to put together 2 different PCB designs for hobby IOT use. I found it very easy to import parts from vendor sites, and/or take PNG images of other boards like hats that will fit with the PCB I'm designing.

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