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New comment by doughecka in "The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand"

doughecka — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:01:40 +0000

We've had a few batches of mostly assembled (minus through hole parts) prototype boards made with y'all recently, pretty stoked how quick it is. Plus no tarrifs vs the last PCBway order.

Curious, why are surface mount USB-C connectors not able to be done as part of the surface mount components (treated as a through hole I think)? Too fiddly?

New comment by doughecka in "San Francisco Onion Futures Company"

doughecka — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:58:51 +0000

I read that in his voice.

New comment by doughecka in "20 years of serial mouse cloning fails in 58th generation"

doughecka — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:39:55 +0000

I knew serial mice were difficult to work with, but didn't realize we were still trying to make them better in 2026.

New comment by doughecka in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

doughecka — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:06:16 +0000

Reminds me of Fly Away Home with the round fridge that would lift out of the counter. True story: "The refrigerator is round, rising from under the granite countertop with the touch of the button.

“The pneumatic fridge works with air compression,” she says. “You step on the button and it pops up and the racks spin like a lazy Susan. Cold air is heavy so it stays cold.”" https://www.thestar.com/life/home-and-garden/paula-lishman-a...

New comment by doughecka in "[dead]"

doughecka — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:35:16 +0000

With a powerful enough laser, the sensor could also improve air quality.

New comment by doughecka in "Show HN: The current sky at your approximate location, as a CSS gradient"

doughecka — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 19:34:11 +0000

Wow, this works in chrome on Android as well

New comment by doughecka in "BGP.Tools: Browse the Internet Ecosystem"

doughecka — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 04:16:06 +0000

Lol, then what do we do with all the multicast traffic?

New comment by doughecka in "Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices"

doughecka — Thu, 01 May 2025 01:31:47 +0000

Well, AES67 isn't a great secret... It's just RTP with PTPv2, with some predefined codec, sample rate, and fpp options.

New comment by doughecka in "Mitigating WiFi deauth attacks with Ubiquiti Protected Management Frames (2022)"

doughecka — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:03:34 +0000

See here: https://superuser.com/questions/821532/how-did-the-marriott-...

New comment by doughecka in "Honeybee: Calling via XMPP"

doughecka — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:05:03 +0000

Wait, what happened to freenode?

New comment by doughecka in "Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres"

doughecka — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 18:32:48 +0000

I work for a manufacturer of PA systems, our amplifiers only do a periodic test every few minutes, one channel at a time. We measure the current the speaker circuit draws, and if that changes drastically we know something is wrong.