New year, new plans! If you don't know me yet: hi! I'm Béla, The Developer Guy. I teach, code and make fun little #opensource projects. (most of them involve some electronics, but not all of them) You can find devlogs and/or tutorials about them on my YouTube channel: youtube.com/thedeveloperguy If you like my designs, you can download the gerbers or order one too here: pcbway.com/project/member/?b… (I don't plan to sell them on Tindie) Also, a live, online Python quickstart course is on its way, it will launch in this spring. 2023 is finally over. I say finally, because it was a terrible year for me, with a lot of downs. The only ups were You guys. I met some fantastic people here, some of you helped with ideas or found some errors in my design. Thanks! I don't check my follower count very often, and I was really surprised to see: over 1100 people thought these stuff are cool. And you all deserve some content/entertainment! My 2 mains are Python and Embedded C. Totally different worlds, so sorry if one type of content is more dominant from time to time, I try to balance things. Last year I started working on Stonks, a crypto-mock project. You can get it here: github.com/the-developer-guy… My goal is to make a practical tutorial project, without all the ultra-beginner stuff. A full-featured, tkinter based GUI, with charts, realtime "real" trading (the prices are fetched from coingecko!) to have a sane goal. And the electronics. Sheesh, I have too many projects! Some of them are production-ready, like the li-ion charger or USB-C breakout, but the others need some work. Lampy, my 10W dual-tone USB lamp is more like a product, feature requests are welcome. Anyone can buy a dimmable video lamp, where is the fun is I just buy one? (also go buy one with open firmware) But the STM32Duinos are practical jokes and tools in the meantime. It's 2024, even Arduino switched to all-32bit. Rest in peace, AVR8, I loved you all, but time flies! But the hobby scene tends to stuck in the past, because there are tons of tutorials for the old boards, and the new stuff is scary, right? Until you get a decent quickstart tutorial, like the "STM32 demystified" series. This is a "conversion therapy" from Arduino to more professional stuff, but with detailed explanation. The playlist is here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… I will have some more projects too, so if you follow me, expect similar stuff in the future. Also, as a small channel, I struggle a LOT. Maybe YouTube is dying, maybe just the topic is not so popular, maybe the format is wrong. Educational stuff is not compatible with Shorts/TikTok, but making an 1-hour video essay is also impractical for these kinds of stuff. the 5-15 minutes is just not trendy, but I try to make value, not be trendy. In the meantime my videos don't pop up enough in recommendation (or recommended after the wrong type of videos), so you can help a lot by sharing them. I do have a Patreon: patreon.com/thedeveloperguy - but only 2 people are in the paid section and I don't really tell you "go throw some cash in there", because I'll try to change the pace. I hate having a tight schedule and ship a video every week. I tried that, but this type of content is not so easy to make. I don't have an editor (and couldn't afford to pay one at this phase anyway), I'm a one-man-army. YouTube penalizes this, but I prefer making factually correct, enjoyable videos, and release when it's actually ready to be published. I saw Nile Red's latest "purple gold" video and gave me hope. Of course I won't get 9 million views in 10 days, but I hope there is place for creators with slower pace. Also, desperately open for collabs! I couldn't find a fellow maker with similar interests, so ping me if you want to make some stuff together! If you have any remarks, the comment section is open. Have a happy, and successful 2024! 🫡

Don’t play games like this. Really. Just grab the real deal and build something. Anything.

And the HR dared to ask for a reason when I left. The 0% raise for a second time wasn’t enough for them.

My dearest connector enjoyers: I have discovered wago style banana plugs

Noobs.

My story: - have flexible work hours - danm, slow day, and I have a bunch of extra hours, let’s go home early - clock out after 6h - check next day: “worked 5.5h”

That's gonna hurt, a lot!

Kind of a long-shot, but anyone interested in contracting with us on USB-PD firmware? We're doing more with USB-PD than most hardware makers, and regularly find ourselves constrained by what our suppliers' firmware teams are capable of around it.

There are easier ways to burn firmware man, I promise you.

These "disposable" vapes are getting more features! Of course, they have a Li-ion battery, but most of them come with some kind of display. So I started to write @arduino drivers for them! github.com/the-developer-guy…

The European Parliament voted AGAINST Chat Control. 314 to 276. And it passed anyway. Let me tell you how: they needed 361 votes to say no. On the last day before vacation. Every empty seat counted as a yes. They lost the vote. They won the law. That’s not democracy. That’s a trick. #ChatControl

What's really interesting: most comments were "it won't provide power," a non-issue for the intended prosumer application. (something used along existing USB/TB) But NONE of them were "hey, good question, this photonic transceiver is dirt cheap, everyone should be using it"!

Optical fiber is now a commodity, you can get a ready-made cable with connectors and everything for pennies. Copper USB/Thunderbolt cables are getting insane fast, but shorter. Why don’t we see more high-speed peripherals with fiber connector?

You can get tantalum caps by the reel, any time. A real gentlemen gets something rare, and really expensive. The “I have an extra few gigs of RAM on me just in case” is a great convo starter too.

Birmingham Police are now asking us all to stop sharing this video. Oops.