The SMD soldering challenge was such a fun and delightfully frustrating experience! Thank you, #hackadaysupercon!
May not have won a prize, but had a great time and got a special mention in the awards ceremony.
Got all LEDs blinking, called for judging to get third place…and the 0201 LED stopped working!!
Reworked it to working…5s after the countdown finished, with all the other competitors and a couple dozen folks watching on.
(Thanks, Will, for the photo, and Al for running things!)
Dr. Prutchi shows how armatures can participate pin deep space exploration by receiving signals from spacecraft. (and compares it to watching blades of grass grow, lol.) #hackadaysupercon
Preparing for the Supercon presentation of my portable Vectrex... I feel like on a high level I have interesting stuff to tell, but I'm at the point of presentation building where I go 'this is a mess, no one is gonna like this' to the point of me wanting to throw my laptop out of the window and live my days out with the Amish. I know it'll pass and I'll make it work somehow, but oof, it's no fun. At least I have a 3d print running for a 2nd prototype case, that makes it feel like even if I'm not doing anything productive, something productive still is happening.