gcormier

In playing with the exact same use case, I was blown away at how good Gemini (flash 2.5 IIRC) transcoded podcasts with speaker identification and handled common "overlaps" in conversations. I can't remember what local Ollama models I played with but was not very impressed.

Was hoping to kick the tires but seem to be spinning my wheels trying to get Ghidra to see the plugin. Is GH Discussions your preferred means of communications?

Why not just buy an ERV? It's available, comparable in costs, and in 5-10 years, there will still be parts, unlike this project where the author hasn't actually shared the most crucial component, the exchanger.

Canada checking in. Data caps have only recently increased. Note, I did not say things got cheaper. My understanding is the Canadian government asked for a lower $ per GB. This means by throwing data at customers that isn't needed, they're actually charging "less".

I think Starlink is a huge game changer for rural Canadian areas served only by copper, and to be honest, I'm not sure if Bell cares when the large cities are where most of the population is and that's where they can make their money.

I initially set out to do a complete design as you described, but homemade housing/buttons will look... homemade. :)

Correct, the desk will not move without the key inserted, even with megadesk.

Part of the costs is that I do assemble these by hand! My right arm is the pick and place machine.

I try to do batches of 25 at once, as any more and I want to smash something. I have an SMT stencil for all the SMT parts, and then put them in the oven.

The pin header is through-hole (will be stronger then SMT header) so it's done by hand.

Then going over everything with a loupe to look for solder paste that hasn't flowed or other issues, programming each one, and then verifying the functionality of each one on my own desk (see the video of the testing process).

All in all, quite a bit of my time, and not yet factored in is the entire logistics (storefront, shipping, customer support)

Unfortunately as it's a small operation, I also can't afford to buy these parts in what would be considered a big quantity - so I'm still paying fairly high costs. The jellybean capacitors and resistors I can order in real bulk (500), but the IC's and voltage regulators are name brand from DigiKey.

We can call it the "BEKANT Tatoo" when you stab yourself with a spudger trying to open that damned case.

Yeah there was an issue a while ago with the ATTiny library and they switched the pin definitions. Was indeed a frustrating time to figure that out initially when the library switched it and all of a sudden everything stopped working!