Wim Van Gool
@wimvangool.bsky.social
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Founding member @
http://area3001.com
// Founder @
http://phyx.be
// Team badge @
https://fri3d.be/
Perfect timing by
@arturo182.bsky.social
! If you're looking for a gift for your nerd friends this holiday season, get them a KeebDeck Basic! We will be using the KeebDeck Keyboard again for the 2026 badge of
Fri3d.be
after selling out in no time in 2024.
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Apparently not what she meant when she asked me to "cut the apple in 8" 🤷 (Why only 2 slices you ask? She stopped me 🫣)
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Solder Party
17 days ago
The
@hackadayofficial.bsky.social
Supercon Badge this year will feature a KeebDeck derivative! ⌨️
hackaday.com/2025/10/23/a...
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Announcing The 2025 Hackaday Superconference Communicator Badge
It’s the moment you hard-core hardware nerds have been waiting for: the reveal of the 2025 Hackaday Supercon Communicator Badge. And this year, we’ve outdone ourselves, but that’s thanks to help fr…
https://hackaday.com/2025/10/23/announcing-the-2025-hackaday-superconference-communicator-badge
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Andy Kostrub
18 days ago
Updating my LEGO White House
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Merriam-Webster
about 1 month ago
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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dr lee cyborg
about 1 month ago
If you want this poster to remind you to slow down you can get it by following me and
@cyborggarbage.bsky.social
October 6 on the Goshwassociation 12 hour Livestream! Any new members or donations of any size will get you a cool slow sloth riso poster! Woohoo! 💾⚙️🦥
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Solder Party
about 1 month ago
Great time to buy Solder Party boards from Pimoroni!
shop.pimoroni.com/search?q=Sol...
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There is something wrong with the blue Lego bricks from a few years back... They seem way more brittle than their white, red or black equivalent bricks.
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Solder Party
about 2 months ago
Today we're at KiCon, the
@kicad.org
conference, showcasing our past, present, and future products! Of course the biggest focus is on
#KeebDeck
😊 Closeup on each column below.
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Solder Party
2 months ago
Curious about our upcoming KeebDeck products (
www.keebdeck.com
)? Find us at KiCon in Bochum, Germany later this week, we’ll be showing off those boards and more!
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arturo182
2 months ago
Anyone here into keyboards?
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Tube🍂Time
3 months ago
i reverse-engineered the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5! check it out at
github.com/schlae/cm5-r...
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The Hackerspace members are having fun with the new ESP32-S3 Stamp using the
@solder.party
carrier boards!
3 months ago
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arturo182
3 months ago
I've created a 2-in-1 Front Panel and Spacer replacement for the
#why2025
Badge. While the pretty art is lost (hopefully someone remixes the model and adds more charm to it), the overall rigidity and the keyboard usability is greatly improved. Enjoy ☺️
www.printables.com/model/138614...
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Productive evening at the hackerspace this evening. The first prototypes of the ESP32-S3 STAMP and CH32V203 STAMP have been assembled and can now be tested. Thanks to
@aisler.net
for the fast and excellent service!
3 months ago
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Woohoo, an official landing page for the keyboard we used for Fri3d Camp 2024! I've even held the fancy KeebDeck SP 🤩 I'm really looking forward to the release of these products. Nice work
@arturo182.bsky.social
!
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arturo182
3 months ago
New RP2350 stepping just dropped, E9 fixed.
www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-...
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RP2350 A4, RP2354, and a new Hacking Challenge - Raspberry Pi
New A4 stepping of our RP2350 microcontroller now available, with security and other improvements. Plus: another RP2350 Hacking Challenge!
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-a4-rp2354-and-a-new-hacking-challenge
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arturo182
3 months ago
RIP Tindie Forums
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TinyTapeout
4 months ago
Want to help build a crowdsourced microcontroller? You're invited to design peripherals (UARTs, timers, synths, etc.) for a
@riscv.org.web.brid.gy
chip that will be fabbed for real! Take part for free!
tinytapeout.com/competitions...
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arturo182
4 months ago
It's been a while since I promoted my own and others' Maker/Electronics Starter Packs!
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Some members of Area3001 were nagging about the lack of wireless connectivity on the
@solder.party
Stamp boards. So I quickly drew up an ESP32-S3 based stamp. Now on to prototyping and creating some documentation. Everything fits whilst still using 0603 passives and 125um tracks.
4 months ago
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Thanks to the people at FabLab Leuven for the opportunity. From what I gather it has been a successful workshop over there!
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4 months ago
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Solder Party
4 months ago
If you're looking for an as-simple-as-it-gets breakout board for the RM2, we got you covered. And thanks to our FlexyPins, you don't even need to solder the module to use it!
lectronz.com/products/ras...
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Now is the perfect time to get some cool
@solder.party
gear!
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5 months ago
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If you're looking for a
@raspberrypi.com
Pico compatible board,
@arturo182.bsky.social
had got you covered with a very comprehensive list! 👉
arturo182.github.io/pico-compati...
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5 months ago
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Solder Party
5 months ago
We're at
@oshwassociation.bsky.social
Open Hardware Summit! Come and see what we have cooking 🔥⌨️
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Lectronz: The new maker marketplace.
6 months ago
10,000 orders. 150 incredible creators. Thousands of happy customers. One thriving community. Thank you for building this with us. 🙏💛
#10000Orders
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Contemplating if I should start offering solder workshops at children parties... It's always satisfying seeing those kids smile when the LEDs light up!
6 months ago
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Sometime you've got to stick to the basics. An LED and battery is all it takes to get people soldering!
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6 months ago
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Doing some hand assembly of this small debugging board for a client. Boards by
@aisler.net
, again faster than initially promised reducing deadline stress. And yes, that is Comic Sans on the silkscreen 😈,
6 months ago
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Patch Tuesday but for hardware 🤦♂️ (stuffing variant was not configured correctly, so I had to remove some components on the 20 prototypes) luckily most was 0603. The next step is updating the GNSS matching circuit (which is 0402). That's when the Mantis comes in handy.
6 months ago
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Phyx
7 months ago
Sale alert ⚠️
@pimoroni.com
is running a discount on lots of items including our STS solder kit! Get it here 👉
shop.pimoroni.com/products/spa...
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Space Shuttle Discovery Soldering Kit
Create a mini 3D version of the Space Shuttle STS Discovery with this beautifully designed soldering kit from Phyx, our maker friends in Belgium.
https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/space-shuttle-discovery-soldering-kit
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1 board patched ✅, 19 to go 🫣 Note to self, the RF path of GNSS is from antenna to receiver, not the other way around 🤦♂️ (This resulted in a LNA + SAW filter being inverted)
8 months ago
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Solder Party
8 months ago
Today we're releasing two new boards 🎉 1. The RP2xxx Stamp Carrier Basic breaks out all the pads to pin headers + USB Type-C and offers the 3-in-1 SMD/TH/FlexyPin Stamp footprint. 2. A FlexyPin Adapter for the Raspberry Pi RM2 module. Get them from our
@lectronz.com
store:
lectronz.solder.party
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arturo182
8 months ago
If you're at
#HackadayEurope
and would like a
@solder.party
sticker, see some cool keebs, or to buy some FlexyPins or RP2040/RP2350 Stamps, you can find me wearing a name tag and the Solder Party t-shirt 😊
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Spending the day in our (Dekimo) EMC lab, assisting one of our clients in their journey towards CE compliance. They have all the cool gear like the Rhode & Schwarz ESW that goes up to 44GHz (but they don't let me touch it though... 😒)
8 months ago
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Solder Party
8 months ago
Come and see us at
@oshwassociation.bsky.social
Summit in Edinburgh May 30-31! We’ll have a stand, showcasing products past, present, and future! 🎉
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It might not be the most modern tool in my drawer, but it still gets the job done (if you feed it enough 9V batteries) It's an EC-220 calculator from Radio Shack for those playing along at home. It was released in the mid seventies.
8 months ago
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Do I know anyone with a vintage PC collection that could use an old trackball? Stumbled across this in my storage. An old "Agiler" RS-232 trackball with installation floppies.
8 months ago
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Time to make some prototypes on the
@opulo.io
pick and place. I got tired of the low quality LED strips on the market, so I went for a drop in replacement design with Cree LEDs (90+CRI) and a Diodes AL5809 constant current sink.
9 months ago
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Since I'm not allowed to give real tools to school for carnival, I'm making some cardboard replicas. Might switch to MDF or EVA foam after some durability testing later today.
9 months ago
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Solder Party
9 months ago
With the new
@raspberrypi.com
Pico SDK release (
github.com/raspberrypi/...
), the RP2040 is certified to run at 200MHz. If you're looking for an easy way to integrate the RP2040 into your designs, our RP2040 Stamp makes it a breeze!
lectronz.com/products/rp2...
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RP2040 Stamp
A hand-solderable SMD/TH module w/ RP2040 MCU+8MB FLASH, LDO, LiPo charger, reset btn, and Neopixel. Breaks out all GPIO+USB+SWD+BOOTSEL+RST
https://lectronz.com/products/rp2040-stamp
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KiCad EDA
9 months ago
KiCad Version 9.0.0 Release The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest major version release. See the blog post on the KiCad website for more information about this release.
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Version 9.0.0 Released
The KiCad project is proud to announce the release of the next major version of KiCad. Version 9 is packed with new features, improvements, and hundreds of bug fixes. We hope you enjoy the new versio...
https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/02/Version-9.0.0-Released/
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KiCad EDA
9 months ago
Calling all AppImage experts! We have a paid job to build a KiCad AppImage build pipeline on our GitLab CI. €1k flat rate. e-mail
[email protected]
if you'd like to take this on.
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Would you look at that! I found the perfect spot to showcase the really big RP2350 stamp from
@solder.party
. Thanks
@arturo182.bsky.social
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9 months ago
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👀 I'm so looking forward to the release of this device later this year
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Eric Migicovsky
10 months ago
** It's happening!! ** We managed to convince Google to open source PebbleOS. Took a while, but they just did it today!
github.com/google/pebble
With that, we're bringing Pebble back! I blogged about it -
ericmigi.com/blog/why-wer...
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Why We’re Bringing Pebble Back
Eight years later, you still can’t beat a Pebble
https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back
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Hooray, our guide for the LANA TNY board is now live in the
@adafruit.com
Learning System!
learn.adafruit.com/LANA-TNY
All feedback is welcome 😅 making documentation is not my forte.
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Phyx LANA TNY CH32V203
Learn how to use your CH32V203 based LANA TNY breakout board.
https://learn.adafruit.com/LANA-TNY
10 months ago
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Litbowl
10 months ago
I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
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Just finished making the board 50% smaller and the firmware is so energy optimized after months of work that we can last +10 years on battery. Meanwhile u-blox decides to quit the cellular market... 🤦♂️ In other words, back to the drawing board and a big financial loss for our client.
10 months ago
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