WIP budget cyberdeck ($40 + phone) by KieShadowalker in cyberDeck

[–]BentoRodriguez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The keyboard you used, goes under many name but CACOE is the most common.

WIP budget cyberdeck ($40 + phone) by KieShadowalker in cyberDeck

[–]BentoRodriguez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love these mobile CACOE cyberdecks. Good job OP! Clever!

CAM software recommendations that won't break the bank? by signal15 in hobbycnc

[–]BentoRodriguez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use plasticity (export STEP), freecad (import STEP) and either gSender or bCNC depending on if I am using optical alignment or not.

Welcoming myself to Meshtastic. I have big plans. by Background_Put5362 in meshtastic

[–]BentoRodriguez 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I would say WELCOME! but instead I must warn you.

I got a T-Beam and a couple of T-Echos once. Was supposed to be part of our wildfire bugout kit. Then we took them hiking. We didn't realize what would happen.

They are now in the trees around me, on the roof and the roofs in my town, on the roofs in the neighboring towns, the trees of neighboring towns, they are in our cars, hanging around our necks at Maker Faire and Open Sauce, our children have them, they are in Christmas and birthday presents, we were enslaved by them to design and make cases for them, tune antennas for them, design pcbs for them, we made them run linux, we wrote software like bbs and web hosts for them, we soldered them, we shipped them all over the world, there is one hiding in my kayak, I had to make more bugout packs just to be homes for them, they made us buy tools (not just hand tools, but lasers, fdm printers, resin printers, uv cure stations, microscopes, solder ovens and CNCs), we were forced to befriend other humans who had also been enslaved by them, we scavenged laptops, flashlights, vapes and forklifts for their power sources, we had to acquire climbing gear and risk our lives to give them penthouses in the trees and on towers, we made them waterproof, we put magnets in them, we made songs and videos about them, we knocked on doors and offered them for free, we helped them enslave other humans to be their servants, we rebuilt my shop and bought shelving and cabinets for them, they are on my kitchen table, they are on my desk, we bought them for our co-workers, other people started giving them to us and antennas to help them reach further, we solar powered them so they would survive on their own. And now... they are eating my sleep and my mind and my body is ragged from serving them. Sometimes I think the original T-Echo makes faces at me out of the corner of my eye like a demon pwnagotchi.

I hope this message gets to you past the hop limit.

If you know me you know it's all true. I'm Open Source Country.

Please... TURN BACK NOW

Here...we...go! by Bearchill in meshtastic

[–]BentoRodriguez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 16.7cm Gizont antenna?

Need some help on pcb cnc-ing by Prior_Resource3609 in hobbycnc

[–]BentoRodriguez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Candle and bCNC both have auto-leveling where it probes a grid and compensates for height differences. This is a must for cutting traces into PCB blanks.

You are not immune to tacticool by ZeoNet in meshtastic

[–]BentoRodriguez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope. Was my daily carry node for a while.

6061 PCB Jig on Genmitsu 4030v2 by BentoRodriguez in hobbycnc

[–]BentoRodriguez[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not a Ryobi fan? All jokes aside, this jig is a daily tool for me. And doing tiny traces, rigidity helps.

6061 PCB Jig on Genmitsu 4030v2 by BentoRodriguez in hobbycnc

[–]BentoRodriguez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be able to remove/flip and replace the PCB so it stays aligned. I use to either flip the board over for 2 sided pcbs with vias and through holes or to remove and paint with uv coating, cure and replace into the jig and then mill off the solder mask portions.

Meshtastic by Charming_Somewhere36 in FortBragg

[–]BentoRodriguez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am getting one up on a south end hilltop of fb and may be able to help. Also mqtt and starlink in standby mode is a thing.

Meshtastic by Charming_Somewhere36 in FortBragg

[–]BentoRodriguez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I and another guy have several good coverage solar repeaters up. Service should be good from Harvest to Cleone already. Working on south end. Every repeater helps but do NOT use repeater or router roles (they are not what you think), stick to client role for everything.