| gbelloz | Posted: 3 Jun 2025, 01:26 AM |
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Hi mit! Tknahs for the prectjos and aietrcls. I'm reading and thinking for days now. And even through your "Respect" blogroll (meatfighter's mouse/maze logic is mindblowing). Your site reminds me of the MONA museum in Tasmania. I had three questions which I didn't see in your FAQ. Excuse the sub-questions. 1) What's your lab/home manufacturing setup? What can't you do at home, and where do you get that done? 2) What's your background and how did you gain your skills? I found working in the industry taught me more in a month than years of piddling around. 3) Are elastomeric LCD connectors practical for home projects, and how do you fix them when they fail in consumer electronics? (I have succeed ONCE!) Apologies for being part of the internet demanding even more of your attention. Feel free to ignore completely. ------------- |
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| mit | Posted: 3 Jun 2025, 10:50 PM |
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I'm delighted to see meatfighter is still active, I'll have to catch up. My favourite project of his was the choose-your-own-adventure single-player tic-tac-toe book. It's some time since I updated that respect page, sad to see some of the links have gone dead or the domains bought. I'll remove some of them but I have to keep the link to toothwalker optics, it was so excellent, I can just hope that the creator brings it back one day. I think I will add James Stanley to the list, I've been enjoying his blog lately. I think the FAQ was last updated over 15 years ago. The question frequency was rather different back then. To briefly answer: 1) My home lab is very limited, but I do have the K40 laser and a 3D printer. The vast majority of my equipment was either very cheap, borrowed, or "souvenired". Most of the metalwork in my videos was done at the london hackspace, which has a big lathe and mill and welding equipment. Making the pendant at Martin's workshop made me envious of his equipment though. Oh there is also the pick-and-place machine on loan to me, I won't be able to keep that forever but I think I've definitely made good use out of it. 2) This genuinely is a frequently asked question and I will answer it at some point. 3) Elastomeric LCD connectors eh? I would have thought it's just a case of cleaning them unless they're properly destroyed. The STM32L476 disco board has an interesting LCD in a DIP package with no controller. I have always wanted to know where to buy more of that part. There's no controller on it, the pins are directly wired to the segments. It looks like this:  ------------- |
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| gbelloz | Posted: 4 Jun 2025, 07:43 AM |
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Cool, thanks for the reply. If it's helpful: https://web.archive.org/web/20220813213339/http://zentasrobots.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170523145845/http://toothwalker.org/optics.html This one was never captured by archive.org: https://www.commonwealthu.edu/campus-life/lock-haven/~dsimanek/home.htm > Elastomeric LCD connectors eh? I would have thought it's just a case of > cleaning them unless they're properly destroyed. Oh, please try to fix one someday! You might curse all of creation. An entire device works fine, just a few segments are out on its display... and after an hour or more... to the bin! Except the last time I had one fail on me. Older/wiser maybe! ------------- |
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| mit | Posted: 5 Jun 2025, 04:37 PM |
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I took down a couple of links right after posting that, so you may have missed slipperyskip and his art deco computer cases: https://web.archive.org/web/20200326070506/http://slipperyskip.com/page23.html ------------- |
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