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The missing bits for how to make a QMK macro pad from scratch: Writing a firmware for a custom board 8 minutes ago
At some point, I was linked to Ruiqi Mao's guide on how to make a keyboard PCB in KiCad and kinda filed in the back of my head the idea of doing that. Because, honestly, PCB design is kinda fun. Eventually, I decided there were enough interesting reasons all coupled to making a ATMega32u4 board…

The third eight weeks of shelter-in-place stress baking with Jill 2 weeks ago
This is the hot time of the year where I live, so I had to make some adjustments for the inevitable heat waves and otherwise hot weather. But I still have recipes to try! Week Seventeen: Hokkaido Milk Bread and Butterflake Herb Laof My wife is a savory girl, not a sweets girl and I'd felt bad that…

MD3 v3 fully-analog solar thingie 1 month ago
One of the tenets of the whole BEAM robotics thing was that folks should be making their creations out of easily accessible electronic parts of the sort you could scavenge out of dead electronics or find in Radio Shack. In the time since then, Radio Shack disappeared and it's much harder to…

DigiKey's KiCad library is really broken 1 month ago
tl;dr: Don't use DigiKey's KiCad library. Obviously, you shouldn't trust random libraries on the Internet. Heck, you shouldn't trust the actual KiCad libraries most of the time. I'm still annoyed about this because I've got a pack of useless PCBs. DigiKey, for whatever reasons, has been trying to…

The second eight weeks of shelter-in-place stress baking with Jill 2 months ago
Days and weeks blur together in shelter-in-place, I guess. Still, baking can continue. Week Nine: Babka, Pizza, Hilton Garden cookies, and Brioche My parents asked "Well, when are you going to do Babka?" So I guess I had to do Babka. Recipe Recipe Recipe Babka is something that's really interesting…