DaveTLV @Surasanji@qoto.org

Damnit, the design still isn't working as expected. Suggestions welcomed.

The best, deepest, dialogues they ever had on Star Trek: Voyager.

Janeway: Let me ask you something. If you were something other than a human being, if you were a different kind of animal... If you were a small bird, a sparrow - what would your world be like?

da Vinci: I should make my home in a tree, in the branch of an elm. I should hunt insects for food, straw for my nest, and in the springtime, I should sing for a companion.

Janeway: And you would know nothing of the politics of Florence - the cutting of marble or mathematics.

da Vinci: Of course not.

Janeway: But why not?

da Vinci: My mind would be too small.

Janeway: As a sparrow, your mind would be too small, even with the best of teachers?

da Vinci: If Aristotle himself were to perch on my branch and lecture till he... fell off from exhaustion - still the limits of my mind would prevent me from understanding.

Janeway: And as a man, can you accept that there may be certain realities beyond the limits of your comprehension?

da Vinci: If I could not accept that... then I would be a fool.

Good news fellow #QOTO members. I just finished upgrading the qoto source varient to pull in Mastodon upstream changes. The code base in github for qoto now has all the 2.7.0 changes incorporated while keeping the qoto modifications in tact.

The system admin team will now begin working on the upgrade itself. If all goes well we should be fully up to date in a day or two.

#QOTO is now officially on 2.7.0, enjoy.

Side note. I also brought up a discourse server for us to use and will slowly be bringing up a/back a few other servers in the qoto family helping us promote and discuss STEM (or just chat).

If you want to play around with the new discourse server while we figure out how we want to use it you can sign up and use it here:}

https://discourse.qoto.org

#QOTO ANNOUNCEMENT:

In about an hour or so the server will be going down to begin the upgrade process. This is a big upgrade so expect a longer than usual down time.

@Surasanji While, if you do feel it is possible you could be a risk, I agree it is responsible for you not to own a gun, I do not agree with the law.

While I am not particularly bothered when im living in the netherlands by the lack of a gun, and I do disagree with the law, that isnt what bothers me so much about your situation.

The idea of using normally private mental health to dictate who can own a gun is fundamentally disgusting to me. The reason is important. In a situation like that if there is a person who didnt agree and insisted ont he right to own a gun, but felt they were developing a mental disorder, they would explicitly avoid seeking mental health since by doing so they forfeit their rights in a society. This in turn would lead to more harm than good, not only is the sacred confidentiality of doctor and patient violated but it acts as a force in society that makes mental health issues spiral out of control and the situation worse. Plus, stigmatizing mental health...

After several more hours of cleanup the Prototyping SMT board I've been working on is finally done. I attached both sides of the board below.

Here is a link if you want to order a few for yourself. If anyone is really interested I can even send a few out for free to try it out: http://dirtypcbs.com/store/designer/details/freemo/6230/smt-smd-prototyping-board-tssop-20-sop-20-sot-23-6

I havent decided yet if I want to make this open-source. I probably will.

It can act as a simple breakout board for either a single SSOP-20 or x2 SOT-23-6 chips. To use it as a normal breakout just use solder to bridge the 20 connectors on the right and left and sides of the board and it will be a normal breakout (which each pin on the chip going to one of the header pins directly).

Here is the full description.

However there is also a SMT grid on the front and back so you can solder a full circuit onto the chip and arbitrarily have any point in the circuit wired to the various pins. Which makes for very handle little modules you can solder up and reuse.

I also added two power rails for ground and VCC down the middle with vias to both sides of the board. I also added other connectors around the edge that add in vias and wires connections to the opposite side of the board. Should be very useful.

One other little hidden feature is the spacing. Most of the pads are the perfect size to fit most two terminal SMT components (x4 0603 components can solder onto a single pad). But because the pads down the middle are offset it is also very easy to solder on SOT-23 connectors that have 3 terminals. So you really can solder almost any sort of SMT components on here.

Next step will be to build a larger protoboard that can accept modules like this and similar to create more advanced circuits.

Attached are images of the top and back of the design.

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Smile today, tomorrow you may finally be dead

the worst part of being an adult is how like, you definitely grow up to become about 60-70% of an adult, but that last 30% just isn't there, and never will be, it doesn't exist, it was just something adults pretended to have when you were a kid so that you (and they) felt like they were adults

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@Surasanji i am a soft gem

you can display me in your window 🙂 💎 ✨ i trust this will be sufficient recompense

@Surasanji i Live Here Now

@Surasanji let soft wear the software