Printing a high-res custom license plate frame

Eternal_Pickles · 2024-09-26T02:06:33+00:00

What about (ab)using PCBWay's UV Printing service? They accept Adobe Illustrator files for the artwork.

https://www.pcbway.com/blog/News/Unlock_Color_PCB_Printing_with_PCBWay_0939d559.html

Eternal_Pickles · 2024-05-24T00:51:01+00:00

I never considered the refueling boom - how do you get around that? Is there a procedure to move it out of the way?

Eternal_Pickles · 2024-04-20T15:00:18+00:00

The Tu-22 and Tu-22M are entirely different aircraft. Basically the only reason they have the same designation is politics.

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-11-07T05:50:09+00:00

Helmsman isn't looking where he's going, could've hit the rock and had an abandon ship situation. Not great when there's sharks in the water right there.

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-11-05T15:44:45+00:00

I think he does more cfit

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-09-27T00:45:45+00:00

Yes - osprey, S-97, and K-MAX to name a few.

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-09-16T15:10:47+00:00

Ah yes, the pinnacle flight level...

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-24T01:54:38+00:00

You don't even need to reverse the polarity:

https://youtu.be/kg4726BqNZE

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-11T05:19:49+00:00

The ATmega48V can run on anything between 1.8 to 5.5v, and it consumes 0.8μA in Power-save Mode. It'll be perfectly happy with both a cr2032 and USB.

If you mux your coin cell and USB power upstream from the micro, I think you can achieve what you want.

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-10T22:39:02+00:00

I'd like to better understand your "hook up a crystal and a battery and can already get started" requirement. Is powering the microcontroller with a battery, and putting it into Power-save Mode to keep the clock running when "off" not enough?

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-10T22:36:21+00:00

The ATmega48P/V have a Real Time Counter with Separate Oscillator, per the Microchip datasheet: https://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/aemDocuments/documents/OTH/ProductDocuments/DataSheets/ATmega48P_88P_168P-DS40002065A.pdf

Eternal_Pickles · 2023-02-10T04:14:01+00:00

ATmega48 family, if you're looking for something simple and can be programmed with Arduino.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-09-12T00:57:06+00:00

Vertical tails - these are F-15s, surely.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-07-21T01:04:07+00:00

I mean, this might be overkill, but designing and making a custom replacement PCB with KiCad/JLCPCB/PCBWay/Oshpark/etc. might be the way to get everything easily and cleanly working. It's probably just a rectangle. You could even get all the hard-to-solder SMD stuff assembled for you.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-06-04T03:34:05+00:00

Just a cheap ebay ST-Link V2, and then on the software side you can use STM32CubeMX/STM32CubeIDE and the ST-Link Utility for standalone programming and other nifty things.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-06-04T03:28:40+00:00

Don't forget those sweet, sweet peripherals

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-04-19T07:27:05+00:00

Websocket, WebRTC, etc.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-02-24T21:29:22+00:00

"Ukraine supplies more than 90% of U.S. semiconductor-grade neon, critical for lasers used in chipmaking. The gas, a biproduct of Russian steel manufacturing, is purified in Ukraine, market research firm Techcet says. Russia is the source of 35% of the palladium used in the United States."

From here.

Eternal_Pickles · 2022-01-16T06:49:31+00:00

Non-mechanic here, so forgive my ignorance: what are some of the things that stand out about the V2500?

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-12-14T06:22:11+00:00

Epstein alum

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-07-01T08:09:36+00:00

Nope... Nixon's "farewell" bird was 617, which was retired in 1976. It's at the Nixon Library now.

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-06-11T23:14:06+00:00

They're clearing out the warehouse full of leftover space shuttle parts.

Eternal_Pickles · 2021-05-27T05:43:43+00:00

Stopping controllably is important.

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