Hi Raz! Truth is, the science nerding happened way before anything else and that's the fundamental core, heh. Hope you find what's coming up shortly as rockin'

Thanks! I actually have a PR that's been lingering (github.com/psychogenic/kicad-skip/pull/12) that might address the issue. I've been heads down doing the TT SDK v2 release to ship out with TT06 boards, but I'm hoping to get to it shortly (as soon as I release this next video). Thanks a lot for your awesome feedback :D

Yeah, I actually started out on Eagle. It was great, but then hit some bumps and roadblocks and was like "well, if it's good enough for the Large Hadron Collider I think it'll cover my needs". That was years ago, and kicad has only gotten more awesome. Give it a go, there are some differences that seem a little weird at first but I really love it now. Thanks for the comment and have fun!

Theo, that is some terrific feedback, thanks! I'd actually started a list of topics for little physics nuggets I find particularly fascinating, but never got around to it and wasn't certain they'd be appreciated. This encourages me to dig it up and think about a little playlist on those topics. Thanks again :)

Thanks Gabriel! It's a pretty specific topic and isn't of interest to tons of people, but it's great to hear that you appreciated. Cheers!

is that a good thing? heh. Hope it was useful, regardless :D

I'd actually learned how to do a blood count, but out of disuse that part of brainstuff was repurposed for other (probably electronic) things, hah!

dude, i know it is late but if the condition has persisted, you have definitively a problem. im not saying do a cbc yourself. do it in a lab to see what kind of pathogen it is to narrow down a possible diagnosis

@@fyohox742 oh, that's sounds much less fun! hah... well, not sure which sample/part of the vid you saw there, but I have to say that I wasn't exactly being careful with the materials... good chance that all the crawlies came from the environment. Well, I gotta hope. Been two years, so am guessing it was dirty slides more than anything.

no. too much leukocytes in there. they dont pop out of nowhere in a dirty slide. do a CBC!

@@fyohox742 Ah, not what I was hoping to hear... I'm in canada, which means "free medicine", which means someone like me has a lot of trouble actually seeing a doc. But will try and take a look, thanks for taking the time to tell me.

Hi (sorry it took me so long). I'd been contacted, a good while ago, to do a sort of extension to freecad that might've fit the bill, but I shunted the client off to someone else because it was out of my area of expertise/interest. I don't actually have an answer for you, but I do know that it (freecad) is built for scripting (wiki.freecad.org/FreeCAD_Scripting_Basics) and they just had a major release, so... maybe something there. I'd recommend looking into the add-ons wiki.freecad.org/Category:Addons -- there might be something of interest.

Many thanks, happy you found it useful :)

Thanks! It's a little fringe, not something we all use all that often, but it still happens I need these and hoped it'd be worth sharing but was uncertain--so, thanks again :)

Aaaaah, thank you so much for that! :D

Hah, yes! I'd actually love to do something like github.com/conorpp/solo-business-card -- I think a business card you could use as a 2FA thing would be something actually useful to the folks you give it to

Hey Chris! Coooool :) The reveal is out for the SAO badge stuff (hackaday.com/2024/10/22/the-2024-hackaday-supercon-sao-badge-reveal/ ) which reminds me I wanted to write a little driver... probably wind up doing that on the flight, along with 20 other things, hah. I'll probably spend 3/4 of my time in the alley, hit me up!

Eternal Salvation - Or TRIPLE your money back!

Hi Leif! Yeah, it's a bit "niche" in my world but when I need it, it's just *so* useful--mostly datasheet/infographics but once in a while like this... I love it :) Have you also used it in a hardware context?

@@PsychogenicTechnologies I think I have tried to solve some problems using it for hardware but never in such a well organized way. Years ago (~2010) I started learning about CNC - initially I was hand writing gcode but that got old fast. Then I was looking for solutions for various toolpath generation. At one point someone wrote code where you would create Inkscape images and output gcode directly, but it was a bit clunky. I then turned to freecad and lived through seveal revisions of that. I would use Pycam or CamBam for toolpaths. I now use Freecad mostly for viewing models and taking measurements. They kind of lost me on one of the revisions when they made some pretty big changes to how it worked - which I am sure was much needed - It was around the time when there was a lot of development on how to make assemblies in freecad. I'm sure that at some point I will need to use it again and I will relearn it out of necessity. Well I am now starting to look into making some modular synths so I might be jumping back into Inkscape and freecad for frontpanels and for making 3D component models for kicad. Making 3D printed holders for those boards is a great idea!

Thanks! That has been the plan all along, but I kept getting sidetracked. So, right now I have one in the works on FPGA, and two related to ASICs (though further down the line). And I'm releasing an unrelated quickie video this morning, just 'cause it wasn't too hard to get done while I was doing the boards related to that. So, I'll be on videos a lot more fulltime as soon as I get back from the next little trip. Thanks again, cheers.

@@PsychogenicTechnologies No hurry mate, I'll be looking forward to these projects, and yeah the new video is great. Being a beginner all these things are kinda overwhelming but I'm slowly understanding stuffs . The enthusiasm you bring in your videos is outstanding, wish I discovered your channel earlier.

Hi Val, thanks so much! I still have more mods and PnP related stuff to say, it's just been pushed back repeatedly by ASIC and FPGA and trips and ... but, boy, do I want to show some of the neat stuff I've done with this cool machine. Soon? Eventually, anyway :) Cheers

Thanks, Andre!

Hello! My guess is that you've started magic "bare"... like with just the "magic" command. I have a shortcut, "magicsky" and what it does is this: alias magicsky='magic -rcfile /home/ttuser/pdk/sky130A/libs.tech/magic/sky130A.magicrc It is loading the magic rc from the SKY130 PDK, and that is in turn importing a bunch of stuff (like sky130.tcl etc) that has the import spice stuff added to the menu.

@@PsychogenicTechnologies It really works! Thank you so much!

You are very welcome, Mike :)

Hi William, yeah these things are superb. Of course I use them to burn SPI flash and such, but just being able to have a quick python way to twiddle pins without the overhead of a dev board is very sweet. Haven't tried Pycharm (I have pretty much everything in eclipse, including non-python, which I find practical) but will take a spin--thanks!

Hey! Thanks :) Been a while, but the thing is still around and in (sometimes, though admittedly rarely now) use. Cheers!

Thanks a lot, James :-D I'll admit, I chop out some of the boring with the magic of editing, heh.

Thanks! I'm working on a video (FPGA stuff) and had a big chunk of Amaranth in there and finally decided to chop it out, as I'm not convinced the coding makes for compelling video... am still hesitating about it.

@@PsychogenicTechnologies well I think it does! You did inspire me to go for the Zero to Asic course and I hope I will be able to come up with a good design for the next shuttle. The videos on your channel are all really good. Watched a bunch over the last week and enjoyed them.

@@fritzbender5916 That's awesome! Ping me on the discord (haven't been around tons there, either, but am getting back into the groove with TT09 coming up). User is "psychogenictech".

Hi Talha! I actually have one I want to show in my next FPGA video (if I can ever get it published, ugh!). I don't want to give an "it depends" answer, but of course it depends... the short version is you've got so many choices, and you're dealing with variables like form factor, peripherals on board, a bunch of stuff. My advice is to start by thinking of the type of things you want to do and choose the FPGA, or it's family, first. I gravitate towards lattice ice40 a lot, not because it's the best FPGA, but because I can work with them: I like the (open source) tooling, there are a variety of configurations/sizes and are cheap enough to integrate into actual projects (for myself, but also for anyone building a project I wind up sharing, or in a product), because of the open tools there's lots of community projects and support. Whatever you choose will impact the tools you install, what you learn, and how you work. From there, you can find a good dev board to work with (choose something that has a few PMOD connectors, I think). If you like the GW1NR-*, then ya, good choice.

Hi Jeff, I've been stalled on the video front since early summer but that's exactly what I want to touch on, along with general stuff about getting USB working in user projects and debugging in the next FPGA vid. Trying to get it out before I head to supercon (wish me luck, hah)

This! This is exactly the kind of thing that was driving me nuts... I had, in the past, done some raw search and replace in the files, but that's annoying and risky and you can only get so far before you have to start scripting stuff or decide it isn't worth it and do it manually. Really glad it was useful :)

Next, you can start down the path of getting a circuit on a chip. Either a simple logic circuit using wokwi, a more complex system using HDL or you can go down the road of playing with FETs directly doing analog and mixed signal. If you want to play, check out tinytapeout.com or some of my other videos in the ASIC playlist.

Aah! Thanks! Have been working on a larger FPGA-based one for a while, coming up!

Hi! Thanks a lot :) Been working on a few things for a bit, but comin' up! Cheers

In a good way, tho! :D

Hi! Not sure if it's a serious Q but to answer: nope! More of a kirk guy, really, heh :)

I love that little device, use it constantly... last week I used it to program some serial SPI flash (ok, humdrum but mighty useful) and then wrote a custom thing to test some APA102C based RGB LED modules... so flexible, love it.