johnboiles
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Comment · 23 days ago
I think a number of us immediately searched 'luggage'
Comment · 1 month ago
Such a bummer that PCBAs are 2-3x more expensive than they were before 2025.
Comment · 1 month ago
What PCB software did you give it? I'm having great success with Fusion (formerly known as Eagle) and others seem to be doing great with KiCad.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes! I have made and ordered 3 PCBs with Astra and Autodesk Fusion since the Astra release. First one has arrived and worked great. I especially love how the model can wrangle all the JLC stuff. What a time we live in
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes. I just made one with Fusion and Codex.
Comment · 2 months ago
I've been having great success with the robots reverse engineering things too.
https://github.com/johnboiles/ble-label-printers
https://github.com/eastbaymakersclub/pixcut-s1
I've been using Codex in the ChatGPT app for this and it's been really neat to watch it download the vendor's app, decompile it, and make the hardware work.
Comment · 8 months ago
Also, these CO2 canaries are neat. We got one for our office https://a.co/d/02EKUci9
Comment · 8 months ago
Yes in one way or another
Comment · 9 months ago
Y'all it's been a couple decades but is it _actually_ the year of the Linux desktop now??
Comment · 9 months ago
That seems incredibly fast for plastic to degrade like that. I wonder if you could have something generating ozone in there.
Comment · 10 months ago
How organizations would pay for Workday baffles me. It is the worst company software I've ever used. It would regularly lose data that managers would input so the best practice amongst EMs was to never put data directly into Workday but instead keep copies elsewhere and only input it into Workday at the last moment. Then if Workday decided to drop your performance feedback you could just paste it again.
It must be really really really good for the HR decision makers though?
Comment · 10 months ago
Can confirm. It's like they actively try to make it terrible.
Comment · 11 months ago
I got bit by this exact seller on Amazon earlier this year. "New" drive had SMART power-on time of 25371 hours.
* I reported it to Amazon's fraud team (with evidence): No response
* I wrote the seller a bad review (also with evidence!): Taken down by Amazon
Comment · 1 year ago
> there's for example Linux-specific software which puts the WiFi card in promiscuous mode and does useful stuff with that
In the past, I've made this specific thing work with USB passthrough, Virtualbox, and external USB WiFi adapters with monitor mode support.