Ugh, an intensive day with too much sitting, fully immersed in circuit work.
The ramp up with #KiCad tools was very smooth. I didn't find any roadblocks in #schematic capture, part coding, #PCB layout, nor cleaning up DRCs. The tools have come a long way since my last use in 2021! Pleased!
A scan through manufacturability tomorrow and the full cycle is complete. Yay #FOSS.
Completed a full design cycle with #KiCad today. Generated the "final" gerbers and drill files about six times, as one does as you keep coming up with little changes (forgot mounting holes!) But the CAM side was very smooth and easy. All around happy with the tool and result.
Zipped up files and trying #PCBWay as vendor this time. I see it's about 3x the cost of my last order with them (in 2020). Both manufacturing cost and shipping are steeper now. :(
I just added a note on Phanpy. I really like how prominent the image description field is when you upload an image, and I am guessing this contributes to the notably high use of alt text.
My Dieter Rams' designed, ABR-313 Braun Travel Alarm Clock Radio I bought for my European post-university trip, back in 1991. Way before smartphones, laptop computers, tablets, we relied on things like this for telling time, waking up, and listening to news, sports and music.
This plastic fantastic device is now 34 years old, but it still works as new, and looks great. This is a photo I took of the one I own, in 2016. It's on my work desk, upstairs.
This thing even had an alarm "snooze" function, a night light, and a fully retractable antenna. Runs on AA batteries.
Ich finde Paula Scher und #Typographie generell sehr cool (schaut die Netflix #Design-Doku über sie!) und hab mich daher sehr über ihre Ausstellung in der Pinakothek der Moderne gefreut. Die Ausstellung: Einfach viele Wände voll von Postern, ohne Hintergründe, Kontext, ein bisschen Typo-Erklärungen für Neulinge. Total schade, so einfach nur ne Menge schreiend bunter Buchstaben 🤷🏼♀️#münchen#abouttoday
Let's see how this ages: The first Apple device that bridges the artificial gap between iPadOS and macOS will be called "iPad Studio" and use a hybrid operating system that behaves lika tablet and runs mainly iPadOS apps when no keyboard with trackpad is present and runs macOS apps when a keyboard with trackpad is attached.
I decided to sculpt this guy as a single mesh, instead of the usual blocking out with separate primitives. Then I separated the shirt once that was sufficiently shaped.