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Flathub adds “We Love Games” section with games, emulators, and launchers in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 22 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Funny 3 out of 12 are minecraft

IronFox (Mull fork) now has an F-Droid repo in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Our goal is to continue the legacy of Mull by providing a free and open source, privacy and security-oriented web browser for daily use

Anyone can explain to me what happened to Mull?

Meta now lets users say gay and trans people have ‘mental illness’ in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 57 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'll bite. Meta, obviously, never actually cared about free speech. Zuckerberg also said that they are about to flood the platforms with AI bots to increase engagement. I'd say getting rid of fact checkers is only to avoid having their own bots automatically brought down by their own moderation. The rest is a façade

When Is it Time to Look Into Private Trackers or Usenet? in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What trackers are you using for kids shows? I'm having the same problem with older cartoons I want to archive but cannot be found in my native language

... in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 1 points 1 month ago

That was it, I needed to update prowlarr

... in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Looks very nice. Anyone as any insights on how to add it to prowlarr?

Software for creating music sheets in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 2 points 2 months ago

I think xournal++ has a journal background to handwrite music

Playing BIONICLE Heroes on Arch because I can in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's so cool, I almost forgot this game had a PC version. I uses to play it a lot as a kid, but I only 109%'ed it a coupleof years ago on the Wii. I guess it runs using Proton?

Running General Chat - Weekly Thread Sat 16 November 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 2 points 3 months ago

In the last few months I haven't run a lot because of the weather (hot and humid) and because of a crap ton of uni work for my thesis. Yesterday I finally managed to run a 10k after literally months. With respect to my usual form it was terrible, i run a 6:10min/km when usually I'm well below 5:45, but considering I had run like twice in the past month and a half and had been months since my last 10k I'd say it was a good result

Running General Chat - Weekly Thread Sat 16 November 2024 in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I started using OpenTracks a couple years ago and ditched runtastic (i keep calling that, it's been adidas running for ages) when I discovered it made my runs public, with gps data and all, for the social features of their app. OpenTracks is FOSS, I got it from fdroid, the data stays on your phone, you do what you want with it. And most importantly it only tracks your activity, just that, no social media crap.

Then again if you don't want to track your runs just don't, I personally do it because I like to see my progression and to keep notes to myself on how/what/when i eat/sleep/etc effects my runs and stuff like that

Etica ZERO - Questa startup di intelligenza artificiale ha "copiato" un progetto open source e ha ottenuto un finanziamento di mezzo milione di dollari da Y Combinator in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In realtà anche codici e algoritmi sono brevettabili. Il caso che mi viene in mente è quello del Perlin Noise (vedi anche il Simplex Noise). Mi vengono in mente anche i vari codec video/audio tipo h264, per il cui uso si deve pagare la licenza. Su quest'ultimo sono meno sicuro riguardo lo stato del brevetto però.

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second in c/[email protected]

[–] RedBauble 1 points 4 months ago

Why not both

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[Advice Request]: managing thermal pads for SMD components in custom PCB (self.electronics)

submitted 1 year ago by RedBauble to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/13637559

Hello everyone, I need some advice.

I am making custom PCBs for a project of mine. It's basically for a little remotely controlled robot using little DC motors. I chose the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 as the uC since it has inbuilt wifi/bt, 3.3V regulator that I can use to power the motors (can source up to 700mA) and lipo charging management (the robots will run on battery). As you can see from here, the microcontroller is surface mounted and the pads for the battery are on the bottom layer. Same story goes for the thermal pad of the microcontroller and the thermal pad of the motor driver (datasheet). I have worked with SMD components in the past and can solder them by hand, but I have never worked with SMD components that have thermal pads on the bottom layer. My question is: how to manage (route?) them? My PCB is 2-layer and I was planning on having both layers filled with a ground plane. Do I just connect thermal pads to the ground plane and call it a day? Wouldn't that make the components hard to solder with hot air? Do I make an isolated polygon that only acts as a thermal pad?

Speaking of soldering is even hot air the way to go in this case? My PCB has components on both sides, and I was planning on ordering stencils together with the boards and using solder paste, placing the components and then using hot air to solder the components in place. I thought a hot plate would be better but I don't have access to one and I don't know how that works with components on both sides.

I attached some photos of the PCB in Kicad, and here's the git repo. If it is of any help, I'm planning of having them manifactured by JLCPCB. It is also my first time using KiCad, so go easy on me :)

Thanks!

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[Advice Request]: managing thermal pads for SMD components in custom PCB (self.askelectronics)

submitted 1 year ago by RedBauble to c/[email protected]

2 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/13637559

Hello everyone, I need some advice.

I am making custom PCBs for a project of mine. It's basically for a little remotely controlled robot using little DC motors. I chose the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 as the uC since it has inbuilt wifi/bt, 3.3V regulator that I can use to power the motors (can source up to 700mA) and lipo charging management (the robots will run on battery). As you can see from here, the microcontroller is surface mounted and the pads for the battery are on the bottom layer. Same story goes for the thermal pad of the microcontroller and the thermal pad of the motor driver (datasheet). I have worked with SMD components in the past and can solder them by hand, but I have never worked with SMD components that have thermal pads on the bottom layer. My question is: how to manage (route?) them? My PCB is 2-layer and I was planning on having both layers filled with a ground plane. Do I just connect thermal pads to the ground plane and call it a day? Wouldn't that make the components hard to solder with hot air? Do I make an isolated polygon that only acts as a thermal pad?

Speaking of soldering is even hot air the way to go in this case? My PCB has components on both sides, and I was planning on ordering stencils together with the boards and using solder paste, placing the components and then using hot air to solder the components in place. I thought a hot plate would be better but I don't have access to one and I don't know how that works with components on both sides.

I attached some photos of the PCB in Kicad, and here's the git repo. If it is of any help, I'm planning of having them manifactured by JLCPCB. It is also my first time using KiCad, so go easy on me :)

Thanks!

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[Advice Request]: managing thermal pads for SMD components in custom PCB (self.ece)

submitted 1 year ago by RedBauble to c/[email protected]

10 comments fedilink

Hello everyone, I need some advice.

I am making custom PCBs for a project of mine. It's basically for a little remotely controlled robot using little DC motors. I chose the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32C3 as the uC since it has inbuilt wifi/bt, 3.3V regulator that I can use to power the motors (can source up to 700mA) and lipo charging management (the robots will run on battery). As you can see from here, the microcontroller is surface mounted and the pads for the battery are on the bottom layer. Same story goes for the thermal pad of the microcontroller and the thermal pad of the motor driver (datasheet). I have worked with SMD components in the past and can solder them by hand, but I have never worked with SMD components that have thermal pads on the bottom layer. My question is: how to manage (route?) them? My PCB is 2-layer and I was planning on having both layers filled with a ground plane. Do I just connect thermal pads to the ground plane and call it a day? Wouldn't that make the components hard to solder with hot air? Do I make an isolated polygon that only acts as a thermal pad?

Speaking of soldering is even hot air the way to go in this case? My PCB has components on both sides, and I was planning on ordering stencils together with the boards and using solder paste, placing the components and then using hot air to solder the components in place. I thought a hot plate would be better but I don't have access to one and I don't know how that works with components on both sides.

I attached some photos of the PCB in Kicad, and here's the git repo. If it is of any help, I'm planning of having them manifactured by JLCPCB. It is also my first time using KiCad, so go easy on me :)

Thanks!

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Our parents gifted me and my sister the LEGO Doctor Who Set from "The Time of the Doctor" [gallery] (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by RedBauble to c/[email protected]

4 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/11620383