What did you do today?

[Soul_Est]

Yeah, how do you guys design for that? I'm having trouble even making basic shapes.

Practice, practice, practice! There really isn't a shortcut, you just have to keep at it.

That and I find that sketching out your designs helps a lot to figure out various unknowns before modelling the case.

Today, I played CLUE with a few friends, setup the nine out of twelve usable buttons on my Huion New 1060PLUS, and now I am about the do some sketching in Krita.

 

[confusis]

Article 1 or 3 (or 4) in a series. Currently at ~700 words.

Also, published another rant (not the above ~700 words..), because reviews are time consuming!

 

[HeroXLazer]

I used this website - www.harlemify.com - on @confusis new rant.

 

[Soul_Est]

I used this website - www.harlemify.com - on @confusis new rant.

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

 

[PNP]

So, I was upgrading a power distribution panel and learned a very interesting fact.

Japanese electronics--especially industrial breakers and switches--indicate a live circuit with red and a broken circuit with green. In hindsight this makes sense, red means "please don't touch, you might kill yourself" and green means "you may touch". But nonetheless, this is the opposite of US convention.

So I opened up the panel after making sure every switch and breaker was red only to find everything inside was still live. I don't think I'll ever complain about the weight of arc-flash shields or smelly balaclavas ever again.

 

[jeshikat]

So I opened up the panel after making sure every switch and breaker was red only to find everything inside was still live. I don't think I'll ever complain about the weight of arc-flash shields or smelly balaclavas ever again.

You get your own personal mini light show?

 

[GreatestUnKnown]

You get your own personal mini light show?

Caffeine free energy boost?

 

[Rusty McFot]

Horizontal bacon dance?

 

[PNP]

You get your own personal mini light show?

Alas, it was made after the era of blinkenlights. Also 75% of it ran at 110V or less, relatively tame.

Caffeine free energy boost?

480V 3-phase doesn't so much wake you up as give you an aerial nap.

You will wake up refreshed either on the other side of the room or in a hospital. Or not wake up at all.

Vertical rigor-mortis barbeque?

FTFY.

 

[Rusty McFot]

Just as I thought it couldn't get any hotter...

49 degrees C, according to the thermometer in my Hilux.

That's 120.2 degrees F for all of the SI challenged folk here.

Could really use some of that snow I keep hearing about. Though in this heat it would turn to steam pretty fast.

 

[jØrd]

Today i soldered up a PCB based antenna, which went well. Then i tried to solder up a length of RG316 coax cable to it, which didn't go so well. The centre conductor is about as thick as a human hair and i haven't touched a soldering iron in years. tomorrow i will be ordering a roll of solder wick and some replacement SMA connectors to try again (and again and again until i get it right)

If anyone has any tips for keeping cable flat against a PCB for soldering i'm looking for advice. unfortunately the solder point is too far up the PCB for my helping hands to reach (or a clothes peg for that matter) so i need to invent a solution.

 

[GuilleAcoustic]

Glue ? I know a few electronicians using glue to keep SMD components in place when soldering them.

Edit: I've also been using clothespins successfully to keep things in place.

 

[EdZ]

Today i soldered up a PCB based antenna, which went well. Then i tried to solder up a length of RG316 coax cable to it, which didn't go so well. The centre conductor is about as thick as a human hair and i haven't touched a soldering iron in years. tomorrow i will be ordering a roll of solder wick and some replacement SMA connectors to try again (and again and again until i get it right)

If anyone has any tips for keeping cable flat against a PCB for soldering i'm looking for advice. unfortunately the solder point is too far up the PCB for my helping hands to reach (or a clothes peg for that matter) so i need to invent a solution.

For temporarily holding things in place, Kapton tape works well. It's very heat resistant (many tapes can melt-burn at soldering temperatures), and more easily removable afterward than glue.

 

[HeroXLazer]

I was confused. I was thinking, aren't almost all keyboards TKL, I've never seen a ten key button on any non-custom, or even any customs.

 

[EdZ]

Crammed the contents of the Ncase into the newly arrived A4. Found that neither my motherboard nor the new m.2 drive came with the M2 screw needed to secure it, so that will need to wait until later to be installed (I'll need to pull the motherboard anyway to swap the NH-L9i for the LP53 when it arrives anyway, so I can access the rear then). Had the usual terror of oh-no-it-doesn't-power-on-I've-fried-it-oh-wait-the-PSU-switch-was-off. Not having a power LED is also a bit unnerving.
Turns out the A4 is too small to be held by the Humanscale sliding under-desk bracket I've been using with the Ncase, and my cabling doesn't quite reach the floor, so I'm going to have to rewire everything and find somewhere else to put it. For now, it's on the Ergonomic Upside Down Plastic Box.

 

[Soul_Est]

Started outlining one of my designs in Krita, troubleshooted the drawing tablet and the FreeCAD installation, watched a couple Twitch streams, and entered a contest.

 

[Phuncz]

We (three friends and I) hosted a 30-people LAN party this weekend, for friends-only. It was good fun, with about 3 hours of sleep in between. Now that this is over, I can catch up to the 55 threads here that have got new posts in the meanwhile, it will take some time

 

[EdZ]

Found that neither my motherboard nor the new m.2 drive came with the M2 screw needed to secure it, so that will need to wait until later to be installed (I'll need to pull the motherboard anyway to swap the NH-L9i for the LP53 when it arrives anyway, so I can access the rear then

Ooooooor the current Windows install, sensing its own imminent demise, could bork itself thoroughly. Normal tricks of startup repair, system restore, CHKDSK and SFC are no good, but its not really worth the time troubleshooting further.

 

[HeroXLazer]

We (three friends and I) hosted a 30-people LAN party this weekend, for friends-only. It was good fun, with about 3 hours of sleep in between. Now that this is over, I can catch up to the 55 threads here that have got new posts in the meanwhile, it will take some time

I hope you had fun.