We'll also need to look and see if anybody has ported later firmware to the clones: it feels like something somebody must have done. At the end of all this though I'm not sure if the ODrive is actually the right thing to be using, but we've started down this road and our budget is limited.

After yet more faff though I got one motor spinning nicely. Sadly the second one immediately crowbars the PSU if I try to calibrate it. We think the second channel on the ODrive is dead, so we're now waiting for _another_ clone to show up before more progress can be made.

This is not helped by us having a cheap clone and they're semi-abandonware that ODrive themselves and their community rightly refuse to support. They're also seemingly not 100% clones of the old ODrive product so you can't use the official firmware. So we're stuck on old firmware for now.

This is where I discovered configuring the ODrive is quite involved. Which I sort of knew but hadn't full appreciated. I'm impressed with how configurable and failsafe the thing is but merely getting it to spin the motor was a real drag of mushing example configurations together.

He also had an old dual ODrive that seemed a good fit for controlling the two motors but it had never been used. After much faff it was declared dead: it can be programmed but we've not managed to configure it over USB or UART. So we ordered a replacement Makerbase ODrive clone from Aliexpress.

Yay: may parts arrived earlier than scheduled! Boo: because I wasn't expecting them yet I haven't done the small design updates I was planning on.

So that's probably a job for this afternoon, then I can order.

I think you're on your own on this one. I did watch it all but it felt like a big mess. Few of the secondary characters had any real sparkle apart from Regis and Bonhart when previously they are what lifted it up. The Rats were OK, but we got precious little Jaskier and Yennefer's storyline was dour

I've redrawn it at a higher resolution and made it available on t-shirts, stickers etc.. www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1756...

Yeah, I've just done what you suggested and pre-ordered some BQ25186. In the meantime I'll tidy the design some more, the large copper areas for power could be tidier although that's purely an aesthetic thing I'm sure they'd suffice.

This may be what finally pushes me to try Aisler. I know it'll be more expensive but it'll at least get me to look. Or I just buy the existing TI evaluation board to avoid the larger project stalling. They exist for a reason, but I was hoping to get a few boards for the same price as one.

What I love about this is how there is a plan for doing the dangerous thing. A very sensible plan with failsafes, checkins etc. How often does that happen on screen outside a heist/spy movie and even then not often.

I am ready to order but have made the most rookie of rookie mistakes. I did not check that LCSC have stock. Pretty sure they did when I popped a part down on the design months ago but well here we are. I will not succeed reliably at manual placement of something this small :-(

After what felt like endless yak shaving I now have my Home Assistant system running as a VM on proxmox and it all seems to be working. Now I should probably change how I do some things as the configuration has been around a long time and I only ever tidy up when some feature is fully deprecated.

Computer touching is something I used to do professionally and sort of still can, but if I'm finding this annoying I don't see how a consumer would stomach this.

I fixed my certificate problem and updated HA. Now after much yak shaving, including building another node for my Proxmox cluster because that is still on v7.40, I am attempting to move off the Pi to a VM. I assume that after 50 minutes this onboarding attempt isn't actually going to finish is it.

We had houses at my slightly old fashioned all-boys school in the early 80s. There was a mix of some lessons/activities being by house and some by ability based stream but it never really meant anything. It was just a way to break up the intake into groups they'd remember and make kids mix.

I have since been informed by the Android App it is a certificate issue (incorrect date). Which would gel with HA seemingly working fine just with no UI available. So when I can be bothered I'll look into WTF has happened.

So much this. I've watched new things start and fill with frothing groups of friends seemingly mainly because the staff are "names from <somefest>". Which is a natural dynamic but frustrating. Tried one and was very underwhelmed because of this, lots of assumed shared expectations I didn't share.

We run at the same site and our approach has been to clearly state the accessibility challenges we're aware of (down to counting steps and thresholds) and the mitigations that are available and to hope that helps people make their own decision.