Designing & building things across mechanical, electronics & software. I make videos about it too. Aviation geek. ✈️
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Its official. The Pixel Pump 2 is coming 🔥
Will do a proper introduction video soon but here's a few interesting specs 🧵
(It's a tool for PCB hand assembly)
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I felt the same.
Let people be people.
Usually demos like these have someone back stage doing the exact same thing, ready for instant cut over. If that also fails, a pre-recorded video is the 2nd cut over.
This made me like OpenAI even more. Live demos are so hard, the internet in this venue can be flakey, you are super nervous, etc..
This stuff takes weeks to prepare and I doubt these presenters had that much time
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Taking some product images for the Crowdsupply campaign. Those look almost as if they would have been injection molded.
So clean!
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Do small automated PnP machines have a future? I am asking myself this question a lot.
The Pixel Pump is meant to be used as an addition to tweezers. It’s for people who assemble by hand. One offs or small qty batches.
Everything larger would require PCBA or an automated PnP.
The question is, is there a real need for those small machines or will those mid to large size batches slowly migrate towards PCBA?
Not sure.
dreaming of Robin Reiter designing his own pick-and-place machine. the feeders would be beautiful, I can see it already.
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Finalized the SMD magazines today. The UV laser engraved elements look great. Also I convinced myself that only screws will bring the ultimate quality so every magazine is now held together by 5 screws.
@crowd_supply campaign should start soon. Will take the final product images of all products involved tomorrow. Lets go! 🚀
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The hardware is really good. I have a MacBook Air M1. It’s a few years old. You can get them for a pretty decent price second hand.
The second hand non-apple laptops in that price range are not as good.
genuine qn, what makes people install linux distro on a macbook? i thought the idea of getting macbook was for the macOS (so that you can use it with iphone, ipad or get the software optimsations of mac apps), and it seems to me that flashing arch linux / ubuntu is counterinuitive?
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Same for me. This also gives be just enough „hands on“ so I still understand what’s going on. It’s also the most fun.
I do like making software. I also like thinking about UX.
None of thise works (for me):
- research and plan a huge feature or entire service and let a fleet of agents implement it (agents get lost in slop)
- hold agents by the hand and micromanage them (too slow, inefficient)
- drown agents in rules and guardrails (effectively the previous point)
- let agents roam freely (vibe coding, good for throwaway software - but doesn't work for "regular" software)
What does work:
- a set of reasonable guardrails, rules, linting, a good testing strategy.
- decently sized tasks with research + planning upfront
- work your way through a problem task by task, layer by layer - doing work in parallel if possible
It's been a process but I'm super happy with how these latest models perform with this approach
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Both generated with my coloring page app "Bumi"
But for now I won't be switching to image-2.5 🥲
mybumi.app/
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I bet they call it the Dynamic Crease ™
Apple’s first Folding iPhone launches tomorrow.
Community note
The video is a fan concept by the poster (watermarked as such) showing a visible crease, not real Apple product or imagery. Apple's first foldable iPhone remains unannounced and is expected only to be revealed at a Sept 9 event, with no launch or availability tomorrow.
apple.com/apple-events/
macrumors.com/roundup/iphone…
idevice.com/phones/iphone-…
cultofmac.com/news/folding-i…
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What good cross platform alternatives do we actually have?
I loved 1Password in the early days but it gets worse with every release.
Anyone from @1Password here? Your extension is making Linear slower and can't have that.
We'd want to dynamically enable/disable the extension via data-1p-ignore on body, but you extensions reads it only once at page load and not continuously. Fix possible?
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The unique ID is actually pretty cool.
Having it on the top right exposes the code on the rail.
I like this!
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Installed Omarchy on an old AMD Ryzen computer in 1m 39s
I spent a few hours today on playing around with it. I love this!
I‘m so for a few Mac upgrades. Still rocking an M1 MacBook Air and a Mac Mini M1.
But now I am seriously considering switching to Linux. It was such a joy! Love the hyperland stuff.
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