What did you do today?

[iFreilicht]

Yup, this is the new toy to have here. All kids have one.

This thing gets a renaissance every decade or so, I swear.

I love Rubik's cubes. 29 seconds was my best on a 3x3.

I was pretty happy when I managed to hit 57 seconds at some point. An old friend of mine is still doing competitions and is regularly hitting sub10 times. Found his WCA competitor site. Pretty impressive stuff.

 

[HeroXLazer]

This thing gets a renaissance every decade or so, I swear.



I was pretty happy when I managed to hit 57 seconds at some point. An old friend of mine is still doing competitions and is regularly hitting sub10 times. Found his WCA competitor site. Pretty impressive stuff.

He's good!!!

 

[HeroXLazer]

This thing gets a renaissance every decade or so, I swear.



I was pretty happy when I managed to hit 57 seconds at some point. An old friend of mine is still doing competitions and is regularly hitting sub10 times. Found his WCA competitor site. Pretty impressive stuff.

Any updates on RGB Power Switch

 

[iFreilicht]

Any updates on RGB Power Switch

I was on holidays until yesterday, so no, not yet

 

[HeroXLazer]

I was on holidays until yesterday, so no, not yet

Ohhhhh, so, will you have an update soon?

 

[iFreilicht]

Ohhhhh. So updates soon?

I'd hope so. I've done a decent amount of paperwork so hopefully I'll be able to order prototype parts soon. But you never know, sometimes that stuff can take weeks to complete.

I'm in a weird position right now where I can't order stuff as a private person anymore because then I couldn't add it to my tax returns of the company (because it's already funded and I have submitted my initial capital and inventory lists) but can't order anything as the company with some stores either because I'm still waiting for a tax return ID that is separate from my tax ID.

So yeah, updates soon™

 

[Soul_Est]

Don't you just love Catch-22s @iFreilicht ?

Today, I 'finished' and uploaded a 3D model to the Gamegirl project that I am contributing to, and I met up with a friend of mine that I've not seen in a long time. I now currently watching another friend stream on Twitch. It's been a good day.

 

[iFreilicht]

Don't you just love Catch-22s

Is it really a catch 22 if I just have to wait for it to resolve?

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

I bought components for my Simplicity case project:

• Asus Q87T
• Crucial MX200 mSATA 500GB
• Crucial DDR3L 2x 8GB 1600MHz CAS9

The CPU is the i7-4785T that I already use, power brick is a brand new 90W Dell that an IT friend gave me.

Case design will be refined and updated here: Project Simplicity

 

[HeroXLazer]

Kinda broke my new keyboard before using it even once. MiniVan R2.

 

[PNP]

Had some patches made. The thread colors are not even close, but compared to the design I submitted (inset), the fidelity is pretty good. Hopefully these will last longer than my PVC set.

Spoiler: because 750 px height still looks huge in this post

 

[iFreilicht]

Kinda broke my new keyboard before using it even once. MiniVan R2.

What, you killed a MiniVan? How?

 

[HeroXLazer]

What, you killed a MiniVan? How?

Not killed, I think, but my friend picked it up with the cable in the Keyboard, not the computer and dropped it and broke the cable and USB port.

 

[iFreilicht]

Oh shit, hopefully you can repair it. if it's just the port you should be fine, but if that actually lifted the SMD pads of the PCB, you might have a hard time, unless evan thought of putting separate header connectors on there.

 

[HeroXLazer]

Oh shit, hopefully you can repair it. if it's just the port you should be fine, but if that actually lifted the SMD pads of the PCB, you might have a hard time, unless evan thought of putting separate header connectors on there.

I messaged evangs, and he said I could replace the USB port.

 

[Phuncz]

I looked for a LED kit. Before you start PM'ing the staff to ban me, know that it is meant to spread the gospel of SFF at an upcoming LAN party, because I will be taking both my Ncase M1 and Lazer3D LZ7. That last one has smoked side panels, making it possible when lighted from the inside to see right through ! Convincing all non-believers.

The guy that I am, ofcourse I want the most fully-featured and at the same time SFF solution there is. So I thought an RGB(W) set that plugs with an inline controller straight into a USB 2.0 header would be nice. Apparently that doesn't exist or not in an SFF format. So I caved in, hoping @iFreilicht 's RGB button will someday fill the hole (literally and figuratively), I ordered a CableMod RGB kit.

 

[ricochet]

I looked for a LED kit. Before you start PM'ing the staff to ban me, know that it is meant to spread the gospel of SFF at an upcoming LAN party, because I will be taking both my Ncase M1 and Lazer3D LZ7. That last one has smoked side panels, making it possible when lighted from the inside to see right through ! Convincing all non-believers.

The guy that I am, ofcourse I want the most fully-featured and at the same time SFF solution there is. So I thought an RGB(W) set that plugs with an inline controller straight into a USB 2.0 header would be nice. Apparently that doesn't exist or not in an SFF format. So I caved in, hoping @iFreilicht 's RGB button will someday fill the hole (literally and figuratively), I ordered a CableMod RGB kit.

Walk to the light... welcome to the world of LEDs. Oh, never mind back to my lane... I actually thought I had brother for a minute there.

 

[3lfk1ng]

@Phuncz If it helps to make you feel any better, my next build has a requirement of having indirect RGB lighting.

Ideally, the LED diodes won't be visible from the outside looking in but the soft glow of my color preference will provide accent lighting to match my Ducky Shine 5 keyboard.

Kill'n it with colors.

 

[iFreilicht]

So I caved in, hoping @iFreilicht 's RGB button will someday fill the hole (literally and figuratively), I ordered a CableMod RGB kit.

Keep in mind that my button won't have enough power to power those strips. Absolute maximum power output on each GPIO is 50mA, which is plenty for a single dome-head LED as they appear in front-panels, but by far not enough to light a strip like this.

You could go with an Arduino with an RGB LED shield and mount that somewhere where it fits. In the LZ7 you could stick it in place of one 2.5" drive or onto the side of the PSU maybe.

 

[Phuncz]

Since most RGB kits are 12V anyway (like the Asus AURA "standard"), wouldn't it suffice to just seperately power the 12V and let your button control the RGB channels ?

Or maybe use your controller PCB seperately for use atop a USB header, you could possibly piggyback of the already done design and production to expand to a whole new market in dire need of RGB controlling with lightweight software and tiny hardware.