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@Saint_n0mad This is awesome!

cure for: → depression → stress → anxiety to create stuff you wish existed or you ever wanted

Turning a Bluetooth caliper into a FreeCAD input device blog.adafruit.com/2026/04/06/tur…

@shirkeyd Go Blue!

We drove over this beautiful maize and blue colored bridge a week ago Friday on our way to spring break and that was in between the Sweet 16 and the elite eight. Drove through again today in between the final four and the national championship game which is tomorrow night. Here’s hoping the bridge is as good of an omen for tomorrow night as it was for last weekend. Go Blue!

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Open-source, self-hosted Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32 simulator. cnx-software.com/2026/04/04/vel… Like the Wokwi project, Velxio simulates popular development boards right in your web browser. But the difference is that the open-source project can be self-hosted, running on your own machine. The project currently supports 19 boards and 48 components. Other highlights include support for multiple boards (e.g., Arduino connected to ESP32) and full QEMU emulation support for ESP32 and Raspberry Pi 3 (Linux).

@davidliuxyz Beautiful!

real-time inventory, amazing

@VadimStrizheus You can have unlimited tokens too if you build your own cnn and a really strong GPU.

The only difference between you and Tony Stark is that he had unlimited API tokens.

Love that I'm finding so many people interested in learning hardware. This tool looks really awesome and I highly recommend simulating your projects before even breadboarding them.

@JoelFagnan @DabsMalone There's the million dollar idea. If someone can streamline setups you would see manufacturing productivity takeoff like crazy.

@DabsMalone I'm just jealous. Setups are so annoying

Machinists after you say anything positive about 3d printing😭

@photoncmndr Yeah if you could find a good microprocessor supplier from the USA to compete with STM32 then the manufacturing wouldn't even be that hard. I've seen home made CNCs fabricate custom PCB boards. youtu.be/Hm_JrACrmVs?si…

@ScottLabs We have chip fabs, make it happen on the whole supply chain of the board.

We need American made ESP-32s ASAP!!!!!

@WesleyP91308 @geerlingguy I think most of the insanity is coming from the microcomputer market which is what Raspis typically are. Their price increases are insane. 2020 taught me to build whatever I can on a microcontroller before needing a microcomputer due to the craziness of the market.

@geerlingguy did a video today on how the microcontroller market has lost its mind

@photoncmndr @WesleyP91308 Yeah DFRobot has become my new go to place for microcontrollers outside of China although I can't complain about the Chinese microcontrollers. @seeedstudio has been killing it

@ScottLabs @WesleyP91308 Oh yeah no I'm never buying another Arduino again and everything else is too expensive or Chinese

Machine monitoring Rapsberry Pi's Who's got em without being outrageous? Claude will one shot the code via SSH, so I will build myself I dont care.

@photoncmndr @KevinRBing Forgot to mention my devices are open hardware to so you can mod it to your needs as well.

Nice that doesn't sound too bad. I'm sure I will be buying my own devices and deploying them. I have Claude with an SSH token with full access into my pi 4 that is currently automating my house. It has never been easier. I will be revoking that token obviously after I'm done developing.

@photoncmndr @KevinRBing If you want to use my device let me know. Maybe we could work out a case study deal so you don't have to pay for it.

@photoncmndr @WesleyP91308 Raspi Pico W I say that because of all the bs the Arduino foundation has been on over the last year.

@ScottLabs @WesleyP91308 What's your favorite non Chinese microcontroller

@photoncmndr I wouldn't sleep on ESP32s but I get it's a personal decision. The devices I built collect data without WiFi and you can just export the data on the utilization of a time study session on Excel or CSV. If you need help let me know!

I would use an esp32 but I'm not putting that hardware inside of my network anywhere. Yes I wholeheartedly agree that her raspberry pi is overkill. Heck I'll use a pie zero w just for the form factor. I built whole factory andon systems with esp32s as well as Wi-Fi motion detection before that last big library came out.

@WesleyP91308 @photoncmndr I've built devices using microcontrollers that sense a variety of different information about industrial equipment. Let me know if you need any help!

@photoncmndr If you find out let me know

@KevinRBing @photoncmndr I sell devices that collect utilization completely free of SaaS for $200. Just buy the device and collect raw data to be exported via Excel or .CSV Keep your device and data forever. The SaaS is only an upcharge for clients wanting advanced solutions. scottlabsai.com/uno

@photoncmndr I don’t have the energy to do it but someone has to break up the $1000/machine/year mafia