#synth rack progress! One regulator wouldn't start up, so it took a deeper read into the data sheet to realize I'd missed some components needed for voltages above 5V (a zener and cap). #Zener ended up being a stack of Zeners to achieve desired value. Not my prettiest fix. #pcb #kicad #electronics

I don’t have a #Mouser parts purchasing problem! I can stop any time I want. #kicad #pcb #engineering

Upon finding this stainless steel bowl at #ikea that looks suspiciously like a half scale #R2D2 head…. Challenge accepted!

My #JLCPCB bounty included my prototype #PCB s for a new type of rack #synth that I am thinking about. Think #eurorack but dragged into the new millennium. Backplane has two #I2C busses, slot detection, and 32 negotiated patch signals. Slightly larger such that old ER modules can nest inside.

Yay! The main #PCB for my MOS #KIM-1 replica arrived today from #JLCPCB! The sub-boards seem to fit. Bringup will take awhile since there's a gross chip-pin-numbering error on one of the smaller boards and I'll have to re-fab it. But I'll be able to partially assemble it and test a few things.

When your latest #PCB uses a #PCI connector (super dirt cheap) and you want the customer to know that they should not even be tempted to plug it into a PC. I used the connector but the pinout and voltages are nowhere near those of PC Cards. At least the warning will be entertaining. #KiCAD

It's alive! Keypad/Display #PCB module for my #kim-1 replica is working! Mostly based on the original 1970s #schematic, using modern parts. I wrote a PCB test fixture using Arduino and #rp2040 #raspberrypipico module from #adafruit. My first time using a rp2040 was mostly painless. #65C02

Tracking the person delivering my #UPS package. This individual should get a job in professional gerrymandering. Has driven past my neighborhood twice already and returned to multiple places they were before. Package is also an hour after the original delivery window. This is performance art.

When a billionaire/celebrity/philanthropist looks at your profile on LinkedIn and you’re not sure if you should be elated or worried.

My #analytical brain, every time I touch something and get a #shock: "I've been sitting still for five minutes! Why am I loosing so many #electrons so quickly? Is there something I can do about it?" #zap

That #feeling you have when you do a #GIT commit before going to help a family member with something for almost six hours. My day is gone but ideas in my head are check-pointed. #codelife

This is a public service announcement for you to support your local PBS station! #PBS #RickSteves

My @oshpark.bsky.social PCBs arrived. They are part of my #kicad project to create a #KIM-1 #65c02 computer replica, with a twist. I started with the original schematic but broke it into SMT modules. Each module is a castellated #PCB "stamp" for a larger main board that I'm finishing up.

If they ever reboot "Back to the Future", they should use the #CyberTruck. Except, on this new set of movies, to activate time travel, you'd have to rear-end the CyberTruck using a different vehicle at 88MPH. It would help add one more metaphor to the "Back" part of the name in the title.

Midsummer is upon us. May we all find something sticky and delicious to adorn our skin with this week🍉 #summer

Me repeatedly asking my partner if they want to go to Sushi: "I don't know. Maybe next week." Me asking my partner once about attending a ham radio meetup: "Yes! Let's go!" Someday little nigiri, some day soon.

I am so screwed…

Ughhh! That 2 degree twist on the audio jack. Thanks #kicad! And thus I kick off the official open source version of my custom "tuned" KiCAD library. I can't be that harsh since #EagleCAD included libraries were full of this kind of anomalous shenanigans that gave me trust issues. #PCB

Engineers have opinions about coordinate spaces.

Managed to finish this #STEAM project today. "Matrix Flowers 1", based on cheap #LED segment modules from #Amazon with an added custom @oshpark.bsky.social PCB using a #ATmega328p GitHub: github.com/CircuitMonke... #electronics #flowers #LEDs #arduino #microcontroller youtu.be/2mtg5pHPPw4?...

There's nothing like learning #kicad by Googling each and every thing you're trying to accomplish, waiting a month to start another board and then Googling all the same steps again. The UI is a hot mess compared to #EagleCAD.

Maybe I'm just a masochist? #gamedev #indiedev #programming

Wrapping up my week by getting some good results from my current project. I got a #Adafruit Qualia #ESP32 dev board which is made for interfacing to the newer IPS LCD displays. It has a touch screen as well! Had to crash learn some #CircuitPython and was able to code a working GUI Widget set.

Me: <drinking a liter of water before heading to the phlebotomist> I wanna be juicy for my lady!

I'm used to doing projects in #Java and a slick IDE but currently doing an embedded LCD project with #Mu and #CircuitPython and the workflow/debugging process is flooding my 1970s #BASIC nostalgia neurons while watching the screen paint line by line.

#Amazon sellers never cease to entertain. The idea of Tungsten Carbide blades by "Star Ribs" took me to a whole new place in my demented brain...

I swear this must be how other folks see me! 😆 But this year, there is no turning back! 👀💦 I can't be the only one like this, right??? #gamedev #meme #dkgame

While my last post involved some nostalgic smut I'd come across in my junk pile, I spent the evening sorting another old relic in my lab space. My 40 year old kit of #electronics parts from college! Everything was jumbled into tackle boxes and I sorted them out. Almost everything is still usable!

If you're a fan of, or researching #erotica from the early days of the #internet, then you owe it to yourself to track down this edition of Forum magazine which had multiple articles on the emerging use of online #BBS for the #horny folks. #Penthouse Forum December 1988, Vol. 18, Num. 4. #retro

Took a break from #gamedev the last few weeks to get a hardware idea out of my head. These electronic flowers can be placed into a vase that has voltage wired into two layers that make contact with copper on the stems. #steam #electronics #techart #arduino Thank you to @oshpark.bsky.social

@oshpark.bsky.social Any idea when KiCAD 9 upload will be directly supported?

#screenshotsaturday time. Worked all week on this one, models in Fusion. One of the final scenes I need to create for the game. High Tech zone takes some finesse to get into, but once there, you can pick up some side money and a new friend in the form of a ROM construct. #gamedev #daz3d #fusion360

That one friend who listens to audio books at volume 11, so you know they are about to arrive a block away.

This week's WIP. My interpretation of the #Neuromancer bust which is also a terminal for communicating with the Neuromancer AI. The player eventually makes their way to the Villa Straylight on the Freeside space station to chat with it. Made in Fusion and shaded in Daz3D. #gamedev #cyberpunk #daz3d

#screenshotsaturday bled over into Sunday as my renders took a good hour each. So here's some of the other space station renders. One of the banks has a manager office you need to get into but has a nice view. Maybe pick up some space snacks next door? #neuromancer #gamedev #cyberpunk

Feels like it wouldn't be #screenshotsaturday without uploading this week's WIP. A few peeks at the space station. The player must visit two banks and the Villa Straylight while here. Space station was a purchased asset by an amazing artist! More pics in comments. #neuromancer #gamedev #daz3d

Me finding out that my criminal organization “Salsa Nostra” is wanted by Kroger in at least five states.

This week's WIPs. Mostly custom modeling. The hi-tech zone has three corporate lobbies you can visit for various reasons. Each also has a jack on the wall that lets you access higher level matrix zones than the city area has. Next week, space stations! #neuromancer #gamedev #daz3d

At Maas Biolabs, this robot will install some new cyber-eyes in you... Sometimes you get lucky and some incredible artists have offered pre-made characters and scene creations on the marketplace for a reasonable price, and it's just as I had imagined for this setting. #neuromancer #gamedev #daz3d

This week's WIP. The space port. Here you can purchase a ticket and board the shuttle to the Freeside or Zion space stations. Had fun crafting those info screens. #neuromancer #gamedev #daz3d #cyberpunk

Mr. Asano would like to sell you a brand new cyberspace deck. Only the finest and none of the pre-owned trash that Mr. Crazy Edo sells down the street. #cyberpunk #neuromancer #gamedev

Working on assets that are in the background of a scene. One is a poster that hangs on the wall of the store promoting the new Cyberspace 7 cyberspace deck by Ono-Sendai and the other is for the competitors model, the Samurai Model 7. #neuromancer #gamedev #cyberpunk

I need some old vintage hardware for a game scene and wanted to throw in some old Sun hardware. So here I am going down the rabbit hole of making parametric models of things using only reference photos and knowledge of how wide a floppy disk is. #gamedev #fusion360 #sunmicrosystems

When you get to Cheap Hotel, your first thought is, "Wow! What a really nice building!". Then you realize your room is actually one of the small stacked capsules on the roof. What happens in the building is still a mystery, but the scent of donuts wafts in the air. #neuromancer #gamedev #cyberpunk

At House of Pong, Monk Nolan needs your help finding the missing artifact. He knows it's somewhere in the city. Can you find it for him? #neuromancer #gamedev #daz3d

As soon as you wake up, the bartender says, "Shin was in here earlier. Says he has your deck." Maybe you should head down to his pawn shop and see if he'll give it to you. #gamedev #neuromancer #cyperpunk

This week's WIP. At the Body Shop you can sell parts of your anatomy that you're not using at the moment to get a monetary boost in the early game. Should you die, you'll end up here alive again, for a fee. #cyberpunk #neuromancer #gamedev #daz3d

Next up "Matrix Restaurant". We hang out in the bar where the cool kids are. If you get an invite, then you can visit Emperor Norton who will hook you up with some Warez and information. #neuromancer #gamedev #daz3d

Spent a couple days modeling Atari 2600 cartridges yet only to have them be barely noticeable in the final game ( the wider shot). But there's love in those details. Next is five other old-school game console carts on shelves. I think it will help the scene feel "rich". #gamedev #daz3d #atari2600