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From a link in the article:

> The contracts we sign with all dealers clearly stipulate that products that are not UL certified and listed by local power grid companies may not be sold or used in the United States, because the products do not meet US UL standards. If used in violation of this policy, the devices may pose significant-safety risks. To address this, Deye has built a verification mechanism into the devices. The pop-up alert is automatically triggered by the device’s authorization verification mechanism, rather than by any human intervention.

As someone with some EtherCat and CNC experience, what’s your interface from gcode to your CNC? Have you written custom software or is there a EtherCat compatible gcode sender I’m unaware of?

They ground up rebuilt it a while back and it seems like they’ve fixed that issue.

The Cypress part family you are likely thinking of is the PSoC line, it’s a MCU mixed with very configurable analog front end.

I’ve been very happy with my Siglent 4 channel/100 MHz scope (with logic analyzer but I don’t have the $200 pod so I don’t use that). The scope was about $400 and I find it worth the investment. It’s on the same level as the popular Rigol lines but I don’t like their UIs very much (too chinesium for me?).

From my research into microscopes for fine electronics work, the keyword you are looking for is “trinocular”. They have standard camera mounts built in and you can attach almost any camera via an adapter.

Did anyone else play Mavis Beacon growing up? I recently got a mechanical keyboard and there’s an online version of Mavis Beacon that held up surprisingly well, and got me used to typing on the new layout.

Honestly, I don’t consider this mindless piracy. It’s ridiculous how many links on HN are behind a paywall. I understand the press needs to be funded, but I do not regularly read NYTimes or the many other news sources locked behind a paywall. I click on interesting articles on HN typically. It would be burdensome to subscribe to each and every news site posted here.

If you’re interested in Python desktop apps, check out TKinter. I have a piece of boilerplate code I typically start with, and within an hour I can have a finished piece of software that runs in the native windows manager on any OS with no libraries or frameworks to manage. It’s not the prettiest code but it’s very easy to write and I love how native it is.

I suppose old hardware restoration falls under the “hobbyist” label?

FYI, there is a Home Assistant integration for the WiZ bulbs that I find works really well… I almost exclusively control my 6 or so via HomeKit and they have been rock solid.

This looks cool, but your link is to a video describing it, and the app “Object Capture” doesn’t appear to be in the Apple App Store.

I signed up for a one year Nebula subscription after one of my favorite YouTubers posted a discount link. I wanted to support him, and I found the price to be fair. In the few months I’ve been subscribed, I’ve found that the library is much much smaller than I’ve expected. I knew it wouldn’t be YouTube, but I did expect a bit more. The other big pinchpoint I’ve found with Nebula is the lack of comments. Yes, certain parts of YouTube have been known in the past to have a pretty toxic comment section, but the content I watch tends to have valuable, constructive comments that I look forward to reading. Nebula does not support comments at all, and I think that’s by design. Even if they supported comments, I doubt it has enough momentum to have valuable discussions at this point.