Chris Wilson

@jeffgeerling.com this feels like something up your alley. Does KVM over IP (via VirtualHere), but the hardware can also be used for direct KVM via USB connection (similar to Openterface) modularkvmip.com

Wayne Stambaugh's talk on the KiCad Project status at KiCon North America is now online at youtu.be/uUu6nX5VxcA Want to join us at the next KiCon? kicon.kicad.org

I'll be speaking at @crowdsupply.bsky.social #Teardown2025 in just over a week! I'll walk through how to automatically generate a #KiCad database library based on part data stored in Aligni #PLM software. Slide deck PDF in the link below if you want to take a sneak peek: cgnd.dev/posts/teardo...

I'll be giving a talk at #KiCon next week about setting up a basic PLM integration with KiCad. If you're attending the conference, come say hi!

New @raspberrypi.com Pico #SAO Host boards just came in! I made this breakout board so I could quickly play around with SAOs using the Pico, Pico W, Pico 2, Pico 2 W, etc. If I made these available to buy, would anybody want one? github.com/cgnd/rpi-pic...

Oooh, interesting, this is the first I've heard about this QSPICE integration. Really looking forward to @kicad.org #KiCon in a couple weeks!

Joined the tariff club today...

Anybody adopted the IPC-7352 land pattern naming convention for PCB footprints? I usually like to stay consistent with IPC recommendations, but I'm really not in love with some of the naming conventions in the spec... Trying to decide on whether to just use it as-is or go with something else.

Here’s a sentence I never thought I’d say: just updated the firmware on my new bike’s derailleur…🫠

PEP 751 has been accepted! peps.python.org/pep-0751/ This means #Python now has a lock file standard that can act as an export target for tools that can create some sort of lock file. And for some tools the format can act as their primary lock file format as well instead of some proprietary format.

If you've wanted to try #ZephyrRTOS but weren't sure where to start, I wrote up a quick start tutorial that can help you get started on the $5 @raspberrypi.com Pico 2 board--no other hardware or debuggers required!

Another great microcontroller video from www.artfulbytes.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FTU...

This is seriously cool

Saw this today: RP2040 & WizNet W5500 integrated in a single IC wiznet.io/products/pow...

Learn how to use the shell utility "direnv" to automatically activate #ZephyrRTOS build environments when working in West workspaces. www.hackster.io/cdwilson/aut...

KiCon North America 2025 is happening May 28-30 Come and join the conference on all things KiCad. Talk submissions currently being accepted. For full details see the blog post on the KiCad website. www.kicad.org/blog/2025/02...

@danielmangum.com it seems like no matter where I browse the internets these days, THERE YOU ARE

PSA: your company can become a corporate sponsor of KiCad for less than the yearly maintenance for ONE SEAT of Altium 🤯 www.kicad.org/sponsors/spo...

KiCad Version 9.0.0 Release The KiCad project is proud to announce the latest major version release. See the blog post on the KiCad website for more information about this release. www.kicad.org/blog/2025/02...

So, now that v9 is out, you're going to want to learn how to use all the awesome new features, right? Have we got a place for you! kicon.kicad.org KiCon Returns to North America, May 28-30th, San Diego, CA. Pre-sale discount tickets are available now!

Fascinating deep dive on a networking company you probably have never heard of: www.meter.com

Short follow-up to yesterday's post showing how to run Intel Quartus® Prime Lite Edition via Parallels on a Mac with Apple Silicon (ARM64)

2025 is the year of the Pick and Place Desktop! :-D Well...maybe for me? I enjoyed recording with @hawes.dev about the @opulo.io Lumen and all of the experiments and successes as they have built up the company and open source machine I hope to have some day. theamphour.com/686-a-bencht...

I recently got a Terasic DE0-CV #fpga dev board super cheap on eBay, but how to run the Quartus tools on my Mac... 🤔 Remote Desktop to the rescue! 🛟

Anyone have an old SparkFun RED-V board collecting dust in a drawer? I'd be happy to pay you for it (including shipping). Feel free to DM me.

as of this week, when you verify your account by updating your username from a default like emily.bsky.social to your website @emilyliu.me, your former bsky.social username is reserved for you automatically (and prevents impersonators from claiming it). you can revert back to it at anytime

Saw this today about a FPGA peripheral module standard being developed by SGET. Looks interesting. They are looking for feedback. "There may also be interest in using sCRUVI technology with MCU and SoC based products without FPGA." sget.org/call-for-par...

With #FreeCAD v1.0 out, I had to make a tutorial series on how to use it 📺 While FreeCAD still has some bugs, it's MUCH more stable now, and I use it all the time for basic parts 🔥🔥🔥 You can watch the first episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VPY... #CAD #engineering @freecadnews.bsky.social

Hi, I’m Simen 👋 A maker/hardware hacker type from Norway. Here’s some of the coolest shit I’ve made recently! #introduction #pcb #maker #electronics

Time to celebrate: Hardware engineers using Windows or macOS can leverage Docker, Inc. Golioth CEO @jonathanberi.com reveals a skunkworks project that makes USB with Docker on Windows and macOS now possible. blog.golioth.io/usb-docker-w... @justincormack.bsky.social | @ajeetraina.bsky.social

KiCad is proud to announce the release of 8.0.7 We have lots of bug fixes and speed improvements in this release, so upgrading is highly recommended! www.kicad.org/blog/2024/12...

**This Website is Hosted on Bluesky** This weekend I found myself digging through the AT Protocol specifications and the Bluesky Personal Data Server (PDS) implementation. In doing so, I discovered that I could setup a website that is fully hosted on Bluesky. danielmangum.com/posts/this-w...

Bluesky lazyweb question: If I change my handle here to a domain, what happens to existing links to my old posts? If I copy a link to one of my existing posts, it includes "cdwilson.bsky.social" in the URL slug. What happens to old links if somebody else picks up that username after I abandon it?

I just had Kalbijjim for the first time and well... white people, we've been doing pot roast wrong.

A short story about the generosity of strangers and making new friends at @hackaday-feed.bsky.social #supercon cdwilson.dev/articles/hac...

i've never hit appeal so fast

Hey bluesky, what's up? I will most probably be more active on mastodon, but let me share what I'm currently working on: Coming weekend I will be at #Supercon where lots of people will bring SAOs (Simple Add-ons) for the badge. One of my favorite SAOs I made, is TARS: hackaday.io/project/1980...

The 2024 Hackaday Supercon SAO Badge Reveal

Got the PCBs in for the 🧼 #SAO last night lol This one started out with me trying to stick a SAO connector into an actual block of soap…turns out it's REAL hard to get things to stick to soap. So it became a PCB instead. hackaday.io/project/1984... if you want to follow along. #hackaday #supercon

Finally got this PCB assembled and tested with a #mikroe Click board that has a BME280 sensor. The backlit logo experiment turned out pretty neat looking! I don't actually have a real conference badge (yet), so I put together a quick “SAO host" #rpi #pico breakout board. #hackaday #supercon #SAO

NEW BOARDS! NEW BOARDS! NEW BOARDS! (even after years of doing this, I still get a rush of excitement whenever new PCBs get delivered!) This one is a fun weekend side project for the @hackaday-feed.bsky.social #supercon #SAO contest. hackaday.io/project/1984... if you want to follow along.

We're slowly posting videos from KiCon Europe 2024. Starting with Wayne Stambaugh's Keynote. One every couple days until we're done. Thank you to Open Skunkforce e.V. for hosting this event in beautiful Bochum, Germany. youtu.be/BP8VD9FviWk

Trying out a new short-form post style for quickly sharing tidbits I learned cgnd.dev/posts/array-...

Quick mid-year retrospective about how I got started consulting and what I've been working on over the last year. cgnd.dev/posts/2024-m...