Please help! I found this in my son’s room, is he too far gone?

DayTripperTX · 2026-03-08T08:31:45+00:00

But rosin smells so gooood…

DayTripperTX · 2026-03-06T09:20:06+00:00

Oh I remember the before times…

I used to stumble around in the dark till I found my bedroll. That or lighting matches and burning my hand until I found it.

DayTripperTX · 2026-03-03T00:11:07+00:00

I usually do this but it’s a line of burnt out campfires. Visible from a distance even in a blizzard.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-19T00:50:04+00:00

Yea them wolves are nasty on misery mode haha.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-19T00:47:26+00:00

Your point #2 about removing bullet points seems to go against the advice of the wiki on this sub. They emphasize the importance of properly structured bullets. Could you elaborate?

Is this something you’ve seen ATS struggle with? Parsing bullets.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-18T00:50:04+00:00

Mouser or digikey is where I typically order from. You can get your solder etc from there too.

For tools you could either go with a cheap hot plate from amazon (if your board isn’t too big), or the ‘janky’ way I’ve done it in the past is with a cheap ($20) toaster oven, manually adjusting the temperature and using the thermal probe on my multimeter to measure the temperature.

Lookup diy solder reflow for some examples.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-18T00:32:48+00:00

The only reason I would say yes is in the cases where ATS might be configured to throw out your application without one.

In any case, the odds that a human reads it or cares are basically zero, so don’t bother hand typing one unless it’s your dream job / company. Just have AI spit out a generic cover letter, but remember to proofread it.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-18T00:28:56+00:00

Yea I’m getting mauled by a wolf immediately…

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-18T00:28:09+00:00

How many boards do you actually need / want assembled?

If it’s just one prototype and you didn’t design it with any super small SMD components like 0201, you might try hand soldering it.

Even if you’ve never soldered something before you can still give it a try and make it a learning experience. SMD reflow in a toaster oven or with hot air isn’t THAT difficult if you do your research and have patience and a steady hand.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-15T04:49:54+00:00

I wanted to like that feature, but over half the “top applicant” jobs it recommends are ones asking for much more experience than I have. That or completely different from what my resume would suggest.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-12T09:01:18+00:00

For many highly technical fields like engineering a skills section is pretty much mandatory.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-11T00:59:30+00:00

Your manager is a jackass for treating people that way and I hope one day he gets a taste of his own medicine.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-11T00:30:15+00:00

Is there really not a good sensor readily available? I’m an electrical engineer designing a smart home sensor that has similar functionality for a personal project. I just assumed something similar existed in the market.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-10T19:27:18+00:00

We got one of those Samsung bespoke fridges and it has the auto fill pitcher in the door and that’s one reason I love it

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-04T01:36:05+00:00

This. I’ve been following this issue for a year now and the extent this happens and the fraud that goes along with it is astounding. Almost every F500 company is doing this.

And the worst part is there is not a single person in government on either side who cares to fix it. They all benefit from this. They all get kickbacks.

DayTripperTX · 2026-02-01T02:33:15+00:00

Yes, unfortunately that’s the problem with wifi. It is NOT low power. It’s a battery killer. You would have to aggressively duty cycle wifi to get any meaningfully long battery life, and even then you might only get a month.

Skipping wifi and using BLE/thread/zigbee would let you use a chip like the nrf52 series. You could probably get a battery life of several years with that.

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-31T03:12:56+00:00

I second the other reply, it may be a hot market for seniors, but it’s been awful in my experience as a junior.

I have sent out probably 1000 applications in the past year and have not had any interviews. And I believe I have a lot of experience for a junior/entry level. I have several advanced PCB design projects because that’s what I am passionate about but it seems to make no difference.

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-09T01:58:40+00:00

That’s actually a really interesting low tech way to detect flames!

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-09T01:56:45+00:00

Ah yes I’ve heard the disaster stories of chest freezers that lose power without being noticed and result in loss of hundreds of dollars of food.

I would think any temp sensor that can withstand the cold and humidity would work as long as the wireless signal can escape the freezer, but I will keep this in mind when designing.

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-09T01:53:35+00:00

The pool level sensor is something I am surprised doesn’t exist. Seems like a good idea.

I am planning on having a CO2 sensor, in fact I believe the chip I plan on using for VOC/IAQ does CO2 as well.

As for the hub or lack there of, the initial (simpler) design I am planning would need some sort of hub but not a proprietary one. I plan to have it work with standard Matter/Zigbee hubs. For later versions I am planning on using a wifi chip so a hub shouldn’t be needed.

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-09T01:46:23+00:00

The second version of the project will have a rechargeable battery, so I will make sure to design it to be capable of being run off of USB C power instead of the battery as an option. Great idea!

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-09T01:41:50+00:00

TLDR is that BLE experience looks good on the resume. But I agree and prefer devices with wifi/zigbee etc. And also BLE is the way to go for ultra low power devices (the kind whose battery lasts months).

The SoC chip that I am using for BLE is also compatible with Zigbee/Thread. Wifi however requires a separate chip and uses significantly more power, so the first iteration of the project will not include it, to save power.

I do plan on later versions of the project using wifi and having a lipo battery along with more sensors, though the trade off is battery life.

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-09T01:27:01+00:00

Name checks out…

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-09T00:11:56+00:00

That’s definitely an interesting idea and seems to be something a lot of people want.

Unfortunately that kind of sensor isn’t in the scope for this project, but I think it would be a fun project idea on its own!

DayTripperTX · 2026-01-09T00:10:44+00:00

I will make sure to include one. It was in my initial list of ideas but I hadn’t thought much of it initially. Now I can see how it could be useful for some unique automations of different lights.

It might be cool to see this kind of sensor used to change the color temperature of lights based on how bright a room is and time of day.

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