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arturo182
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HW & SW

Founder of @solder.party

He/him

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Sometimes you just gotta get creative...
A photo of a pcb seen through a microscope eyepiece with a qfn chip with pads pointing up and enamel wires soldered from some of the pins to a footprint on the pcb.
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Off-brand Blåhaj at Lidl!
A photo of a bunch of plushies, including a turtle and a shark. There is a price poster saying 149 SEK A closeup on the tag attached to the shark, the brand name is lupilu and the tag says "Soft toy shark. Large, soft and cuddly plush animal". There's also like a potato with a face, arms and legs, farting.
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Concert season continues today with Electric Callboy at Royal Arena 😄
Electric Callboy Tanzneid World Tour poster with tour dates, including Copenhagen today
November 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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@reconbot ~54mm
A graphic showing the dimensions of a credit card, 3.37" (85.6mm) wide, and 2.125" (53.98mm) tall. Also corner radius 0.125"(3.18mm)
October 31, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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KeebDeck Basic size reference btw
A photo of the KeebDeck Basic handheld keyboard on top of an LCSC-style millimeter grid paper.
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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Do I take these twice a week or once every two weeks?
A photo of an open pill bottle with capsule pills colored like the bisexual flag, blue-purple-pink.
October 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Altium File Viewer, showing the solder jumper. The left pad is the ADDR line, middle is 3.3V, and right is GND. Not quite what one would expect. But maybe that's just me. A photo through a microscope of the solder pads with the left and middle connection cut and some enamel wire used to short the left and right pads. Naturally...
October 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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ngl, this is pretty cool!
A photo of a monitor showing the raspberry pi os desktop, and a hand holding two smaller lcs screens next to the monitor, they're also showing a desktop. There is a window that is positioned so that a part of it is visible one each of the 3 screens. There is also an app showing the layout of the desktops with one large being HDMI and the two small ones being SPI.
October 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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time dilation is real
An image of an annoyed cat screaming "WHY IS IT ALWAYS MOVING" at a wall clock
October 1, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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@drmikepj Not that crowded today 😁
The PC in a case sitting in the train baggage storage area
September 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Kids these days don't know how much work it used to be to leave the house before smartphones were invented...
A desktop PC in a carrying case, with a keyboard and a power cable sticking out of the pockets
September 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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The shirt is pretty sweet though, @kicad
Photo of my chest area wearing the kicad supporter tshirt
September 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Bro thought he was subtle
The "they don't know" meme, the person in the corner has a KiCad t-shirt badly photoshopped on him and is saying "They don't know I'm traveling to KiCon", the people dancing are saying "Yes we do" and "You're literally wearing the shirt".
September 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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😭
Alarm set for 3h 4 min from now.
September 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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How about #meshtastic?
A photo of a small device labeled KeebDeck Pico. The device has a small silicone keypad with letters and symbols. It also has a LCD display showing the Meshtastic BaseUI. And it also has an antenna connected to a SMA connector.
September 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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@Razemix It's called ortholinear, if you google old qwerty phones, most of them are like this because it saves on space.
A bunch of old QWERTY phones
September 9, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Anyone here into keyboards?

#keebdeck
A box with a lot of assembled KeebDeck Basics.
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Saw this Öresund bridge toll collection tag (BroBizz) in the building dumpster, so of course I had to take it apart!
What RF sorcery is this 🧙
A photo of two pieces of gray plastic, one has a piezo speaker in it, the other one has a square piece of copper ultrasonically welded inside. Under them is a PCB with one QFN chip, a crystal oscillator, and a few passives. There is also a large area with exposed copper and various traces and shapes in copper with more passives incorporated, clearly an antenna of some sort. Closeup on the PCB. Not much more to add tbh.
September 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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🤡
A book cover saying "I'll write the code while I wait for the PCBs And Other Hilarious Jokes You Can Tell Yourself, Volume II"
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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@kicad Let's gooooo
Email from JLCPCB saying my order was shipped.
September 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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PCB Design Blocks just got merged into @kicad nightly, they can be linked together with Schematic Design Blocks.

It's shaping up to be another great release!

https://forum.kicad.info/t/post-v9-new-features-and-development-news/58848/45
KiCad schematic and pcb editors side by side, the left side has a schematic editor with a schematic design block with a title header and a wired up LDO block. The right side has a pcb design block with a title header and the components but not placed or routed yet. Same as before but now the PCB editor is showing a context menu of the pcb design block with option to Apply Design Block Layout which will arrange the components and route them as saved in the block.
September 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Closing rings...
Coolyori (aka. Drake Meme), top is Apple Watch workout rings, bottom is JLCPCB production progress rings. #KeebDeck
September 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Just a quick one before #kicon (@kicad) next week 😁
JLCPCB order progress showing Data Preparation as order was paid an "waiting for engineers to produce the manufacturing data."
September 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I might've gone too far on the attention to details...
A 3d render of a PCB in KiCad with a flex pcb of an LCD coming from the underside through a cutout, then running along the top, folding onto itself, and continuing to an FFP connector.
August 30, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Designed a simple frame for the #keebdeck Basic so it's a bit more dust-proof :)

Will put it on Printables a bit later.
A photo of a 3d-printed frame for a PCB, still on the Prusa Mini sheet, but sitting on a lavender cutting mat. The frame is empty inside, but some supports for the internal structure are visible. A photo of the KeebDeck Basic keyboard with the frame attached. Sitting in the same spot on the same lavender cutting mat. The front PCB is still in place and the frame sits around it nice and snug. A photo from above of the side of the KeebDeck with the frame. The curvature of the edges of the frame is visible.
August 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM