Solder_Man

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by Solder_Man 5y ago
I think @roughly provided a good balance of practicality + optimism in their answer. My thoughts: Not immediately, but yes, eventually. Humans have an innate willingness and desire to tinker+make things. Those qualities have gone into hiber
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
The project has taken so much focus that I haven't had the time nor skill to heavily improve the website's CSS/aesthetics. Or if you mean just the content, any suggestions for what I could consider adding now (besides the exi
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
Hey HN, Solder_Man here. I am the guy behind Pockit. Thrilled to see this modularization effort has the support (and useful criticism) of so many deep thinkers in this thread. First, a clarification: Since people have brought up the topic o
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
My engineer-mind hesitates to state a number until I finalize the BOM and get tooling quotes, etc. At that point, I'll put up the pricing, etc. on the website and mailing list. But keeping Pockit's cost down is important in order
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
Glad you changed your mind. About "limits": As u/moistbar also pointed out, the number of pins of the Broadcom CPU, and of the STM32 microcontroller, would provide a constraint. If more positions was important, I could easily
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
> signal lines Good point. I stand corrected. > orientation Two features ensure (and encourage) the block placement at the correct orientation. - layout of the 4 magnets' polarities at each position (and complementary layout on e
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
As I mentioned in a deeply embedded comment somewhere on Reddit, wait for the upgraded-PCB version demo coming up in the next week, you're going to love it if you're a fan of the CM4's more powerful Broadcom CPU. Note: Obviou
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
> megapockit with a huge backplane and a big modular keyboard Look at that... the human mind is phenomenal. We're not all ultra-skilled, detail-oriented electrical engineers. So why does every person have to go through (a tiring r
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
Only high-bandwidth signal groups (such as HDMI) have the limitation of being usable at only one (or a few) positions. Technically these too can be given more/complete placement freedom, but at the cost of a higher PCB layer count, or
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
Used to be just me. But two amazing people assisting me now (one of them full-time); immediately took this decision upon recognizing the significant community interest from Reddit, et al. The trackpad is one of my favorite recent Blocks. It
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
"Play" sounds about right. I've enjoyed the exponential multiplier in prototyping+design speed I've gained as each new block was made. "Mass produced" -- no mass-production plans yet, however... will be orderin
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by Solder_Man 5y ago
Hey HN, Thanks @Aissen. Didn't know whether the project's unfinished state was worthy of it, but happy to see this appear on my favorite minimalistic website : - ) Here is the full video: https://www.youtube.com/wa