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site coming along nicely, slowly getting everything hooked up to my work-in-progress MDX cms.

yeah of course im making my own, all the others suck in different ways so I'm making one for the gazillionth time

lasercut a mounting plate for the VTX antenna, held in place nicely :D

now it's waiting for chinese new year before all the other parts arrive :>

and now for RevSpace's 10th birthday, a panel from our IKEA frens

did a test solder, with the stannol solder and my new TS100 chisel tip, super nice :D

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my slavery free, lead free, nice quality flux solder wire arrived :D

pcb design is way too addictive

quick design to mount the vtx and receiver in a 20x20 stack of the frame

received the first parts for my new 3" quadcopter yesterday. the frame is sooo cute~

woooo we're back online
after long debugging in the cold next to my windy front door; with emotional support from my blahaj and technical support from IRC my homeserver (and pixie.town workhorse) is all working again after a system malfunction during an upgrade

all ready for fab~

rerouting it all wasn't as much work as I feared, because I already had the general ideas and techniques in my head. Also added the option for a smaller button on the front, as the Alps is quite tall

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I forgot to reconnect a bunch of traces in the top left somehow oof. Fixed and sent to a friend to review further

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well.. couldn't help myself making some last minute changes. With fresh eyes I realized it was possible to do the routing better, removing the need for the 3 0hm bridging resistors (marked red in picture 1).

also added a link to tilde.industries, product name, and moved a few other things around to make it nicer to solder

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some more context because I'll probably pin it on my profile:

This is a pcb that's designed to go in the cap (on the outside) of a Dopper water bottle. It keeps track of your water consumption, by counting up whenever you click the button (when you finish your 500ml)

attached image is the backside of this same pcb, which has all the smarts. The black ic on top is a 74HC4017D decade counter. Everytime the button on the front gets pressed, the number stored gets incremented, and for a few seconds power is supplied to the led segment that's linked to that number. When the counter reaches 5 it resets to 0.

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