It's 6:27 PM Eastern and I'm glad you are alive.
Thanks for being here with me. I appreciate you.
What an awesome way to start the week! Thanks so much @todbot and @prcutler for talking about our kits (opening the episode, even!) and there was so much other good stuff - ways to program microcontrollers from assembly to C to arduino to various python methods, 3D printing with Bambu printers (I have an X1C), synth stuff, and more! Check out The Bootloader podcast!
https://www.circuitpythonshow.com/@thebootloader/posts/67c8b324-7902-4e34-93b7-eedb23c5487f
Good morning gorgeous; I'm glad to see you here today.
I hope you have a fantastic day.
H/t to Kevin Cappuccio for this clip of @maketvee talking about a cool new modular PCB project that @chipperdoodles designed and will be selling on @crowdsupply . I love the idea of an extendable modular wearable system, and, when it comes out, I am planning to use it to (finally) learn @kicad so I can design a faceplate for it. https://www.youtube.com/live/BG1bW7P5s44?si=88okrWd5Px99cz3F&t=1886
I managed to snag an Emotiscope by @lixielabs and it's really fun to watch the Spectronome pattern as it tries to find the beat as the music changes!
Get yours here: https://www.tindie.com/products/lixielabs/emotiscope-a-new-bridge-between-sight-sound
More info: https://emotiscope.rocks
I don’t know who recently talked about our SMT garden soldering kit, but thank you! We’ve got a bunch of orders for it this week. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a kit designed to help you learn how to surface mount solder and get a lot of practice doing it! It features beautiful artwork designed by @Leeborg and you get to populate your flowers with the colors of your choice because we give you a lot of LEDs in the kit.
Hey friends: it can be hard for us to keep up with everything and everyone and all the problems but you're not giving up or letting apathy win: you're still showing up and doing what you can and I appreciate you for that.
Keep fighting to help #MakeKindnessNormal
It's 10:17 PM Eastern and I'm glad you are alive.
Thanks for being here with me.
I love you.
Shout out to @chris_gammell for years of helping the community including helping me get into KiCAD.
Thank you for everything.
@LaserMistress nice to meet you!
My friend I see you carrying a lot of metaphorical weights. Are they all yours? Are you sure you haven't picked up some that don't belong to you? Maybe put those weights down and focus on the ones that really are yours.
Take good care of yourself my friends.
#MakeKindnessNormal
It's important to me that you understand that you're incredible.
You may not always feel it but it's so amazing that you exist. I hope you do something beautiful today.
ADVISORY: It's now just five weeks to #OSHWA, the 2024 Open Hardware Summit in Montreal. If you haven't bought your ticket yet, you absolutely should get on that! I'm so stoked for the speaker lineup, as well as the table I'll have there to show off some Oddly Specific Objects. Check out the schedule here https://2024.oshwa.org/schedule/ and get on getting your tickets soon: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-hardware-summit-2024-tickets-795537884227
Here's to your tiny victories my friends; though most will never know of them or your struggle to achieve them - I know you have many of them under your belt and many more to fight for.
May you ever be victorious.
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