Liam Kinne

We must ban and replace C/C++ the same way banned CFCs to fix the hole in the ozone layer

They can also be a slot machine for the mind

debugging a protocol be like: hold on a minute while I sharpen my acks

@jevbot.bsky.social tabs or spaces?

it's strange that IO-Link, despite being much more recent, still uses the term "Master" when SPI, I2C, and co. have made so much effort to move away from that loaded term

Genuinely insane that Yocto fails to build if a layer doesn't have a license properly specified. I do not care about what the lawyers have to say, I'm just trying to get my Jetson image to build. ffs.

This feels like a post from circa 2023, not 2026. It’s almost quaint.

rewatching 30 rock

You’re telling me a YIG tuned this filter?

How is it that every time I go to buy Claude credits they have broken the payment dialog in new an interesting ways?

New driver board for this old robot arm I saved after a local university flooded. 7 axes with quadrature encoders all driven from one STM32G4. Firmware in Rust of course.

A clever person solves a problem; a wise person avoids it. But avoiding a problem doesn't make it go away.

Rules of optimization - Don't do it - Do it later - Do it less - Do it in batches - Do it in parallel - Do it somewhere else - Cache it (avoid redoing it)

Not sure what to do with this USB-CAN adapter design. After reducing the design cost as much as possible, I would still have to sell it for $70AUD. It has features that alternatives don't, like CAN FD, galvanic isolation, and Rust firmware, but at 5x the cost I'm not sure if it will sell.

ACAB includes Gong Cha employees that tell you to move on from your table because you ordered take out

Had to do some TagConnect surgery to work with this low-profile M.2 slot on the Nvidia Jetson development kit.

deeptech is when you build something that isn't b2b SaaS

New smaller non-isolated CAN interface card.

I guess that's one way to transport CPUs... Seller: "The surrounding motherboard around the sockets were cut instead to safely extricate the CPUs which now serves as a CPU transport carrier. I cannot think of a better and safer way to transport these CPUs"

Starving future generations because you think having humans toil under the sun is a virtue.

They're calling it the longest buck converter ever made

Panel mount Fakra. 7 individual parts to this one. At $20 a pop I take care not to mess it up.

not quite a lightning gun

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You're telling me it was a fluke that it passed the test???

Learning focus for next year will be robotics simulation and hardware-in-the-loop testing.

"You're absolutely right! You are too smart to be flattered by my sycophancy"

DT and DTM step-down converters are now available on the UMI store. First orders are shipping when I get back from Japan next week.

A quick library for writing high-frequency data to Prometheus via remote write, implemented as a standard metrics-rs exporter. github.com/liamkinne/pr...

Really?

Hi, yes, I would like a hotdog with 58 grated cheese

Man these S32K1’s really do brick themselves if you breath on them wrong… Down to two of my original five sample chips. I’m going to have to find an alternative for this project because this is pathological behaviour that I can’t risk in a product.

I really wanted Shapr3d to be my CAD solution, but it looks like I’m headed back to Fusion. The UI is good but the UX still has some ways to go. Really I just long for the Inventor of days past but I can’t justify the money.

Neat, my products got featured by CNX www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/18/m...

These Jetson Orin dev kits are surprisingly power efficient. 50W running an FP32 model at 15 frames a second.

Tried an electropolished stencil for the first time. Didn’t notice any difference in paste quality, but cleaning the stencil after was much better. Worth the few dollars more for a stencil that’s going to get 10+ uses.