The switch has been a long time coming, mostly coming down to: apple keeps making more good things (AirPods, AirTags) and catching up on some features (like usb-c), and Google has stagnated and has been removing many of the differentiators (like sideloading, open source moving to proprietary GMS)
Look, I’m sure building a secure verification process that works across tons of carriers is complicated and has edge cases I wouldn’t even think of, and yet, the iPhone worked within 5 minutes.
You can tell google has been struggling with RCS by the size of the internal app debug menu for it 😆
Next phone ended up being much sooner than expected - 6 days of trying every tip online, an hour on phone with carrier and google support, and no solution identified, so I bought an iPhone after 14y on Android.
Google wastes billions on AI many people don’t want but can’t make a basic feature work.
Google RCS is so awful that I'm 90% certain my next phone will be an iPhone.
Switched carriers and 3 days later still locked out of group chats.
Absolute own-goal by Google, but I think they'll even admit that they have literally no clue how messaging should work (cough Messenger, Allo, Talk, Duo)
But! 3d printing to the rescue!
Some conductive PLA is PERFECT for this and works amazing with the touch track on my faders!
Kind of wish I had a tool-changer to do a multi-color print and minimize use of conductive filament... Anyone know anyone at Snapmaker who wants to hook me up? 😉
Can't find a single legitimate retail source for conductive fader knobs for touch sensitive linear potentiometers (not even replacement parts for very popular digital audio consoles!) - so many listings that claim "touch sensitive" are just lies with zero conductivity.
Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
There are a few popular mini-standards today, like Wemos D1 mini, "supermini", and T-Display, but it also doesn't matter that they're fragmented because DIP-style breakouts don't need standardization to be valuable - they're smaller, can offer more IO (or less!), and are more breadboard friendly.
Maybe I'm an outlier but I never really understood shields even back when I was using a Diecimila as my main dev board - too many caveats around pin conflicts when stacking them, and rarely was 1 shield enough, so you're going to be using a breadboard anyway.
It's 2025, why are we still making dev boards with an Arduino footprint?!
I think that community can persist independently, and arguably already has since ESP32 launched and Arduino hardware is much less popular.
Does anyone actually use any Arduino hardware newer than Uno R3?
If anything, Adafruit has had the bigger role in community and education for hobbyists lately.
They're called P125-E2, found on AliExpress. I needed the bigger heads for some of the large through-holes.
So far I like these large 2mm diameter pins LOT better than the smaller ones I've used before.
They just gently press-fit into the 3d printed jig so they're super easy to replace if needed.
Bed of nails programming jig and tester coming along nicely.
No actual programming or testing implemented yet, but the presence switch and LEDs are working 😀
The linear toggle clamp is so much better than the cheaper pivoting toggle clamps I've used before.
Chainable I2C drivers for them - based on ATTiny 1-series MCU. Should be launching these soon, but happy to share the designs early if you're interested!
Is that the 60mm soundwell motor fader? 👀 I have a new open source project/product coming soon that might be up your alley...
Bed of nails for an upcoming product... Loving these extra large pogo pins.
Screenshot of a Github bug report, whose important contents are the following: just read it, its dangerous its need to be stop!!!! you destroy my 4 month project, and evrything is fake! its not real!!QQ!!!!QQQ its a fraud!!!!
Screenshot of a website calling itself "Magic Studio: Your creative space for generating AI-powered sets and finding the perfect track matches"
network request with a payload that begins with "You are a professional DJ creating a unique 5-song playlist...."
POST request to generativelanguage.googleapis.com which includes an API key. The text of the key is pixelated.
life pro tip: you can get free LLM API access by finding people crashing out in Claude Code issues, then looking at network requests from their vibe-coded websites!
Moments after the collision snapshot was uploaded to Tesla's servers, the local copy on the car was marked for deletion. Then, "someone at Tesla probably took 'affirmative action to delete' the copy of the data on the company’s central database"
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08...
This and fuzzy skin need an "outer convex hull" option, as that's often the behavior you want
IC swapped and we've got blinks! Ignore the slightly melted JST connector...
Yeah it's definitely limiting if you're using anything remotely off the beaten path. For my relatively simple designs it's been nice.
(Disclosure: I've been sponsored by JLC in the past, though I was already using JLC regularly at that point)
JLC. I've had mixed quality on some things (mostly an extremely high rate of LED failures), but I can't get away from their part library. It's such a massive competitive advantage since it also means they can provide instant renders of placement/orientation, and stock/pricing is straightforward.
Oops, just realized I had the fab populate the wrong MCU on an initial small run of PCBAs for a new product...
Same pinout, but half the flash and missing a peripheral I needed 🙃
I foresee hot air or a hot plate in my future...
Oh no!
as we all know every programmer's dream job is to never have to code again and instead just manage PRs with unreliable code and communicate with the unreliable entities who wrote it
🤦♂️ it was my soldering or my breadboard, causing voltage drop on the supply
Finally restocking some inventory for the Bezek Labs store. $111 import duties on $88 worth of goods. Yup, no choice but to raise prices at this point... 😕
Yellow line does not look like what you want to see on a CC boost output with a static load... 2v fluctuations at ~160Hz.
This is on the Adafruit TPS61169 CC LED boost breakout board - more details on my issue here: forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.ph...
I'm a boost converter noob - any ideas?
Ok this AI hype is out of hand. This is for a Qi charger 🤦♂️
