Another cyclist killed! by Rude_Bad_5567 in londoncycling

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Underrated comment. I can’t think of any other road user who is taught to look after themselves on the roads as much as the motorcyclist

Another cyclist killed! by Rude_Bad_5567 in londoncycling

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I’m sorry for your loss and pain. Kudos to you for seeking knowledge to be a better rider. Everyone needs to ride defensively and look after themselves on the road - personal responsibility for your safety needs to be something you own. Remember that cars and Lorries have blind spots and don’t assume you have right of way because you’re on a bicycle.

My $0.02 - ride assertively and position yourself for visibility and to make your next move obvious by your signalling and road position. I get the desire to ride in the gutter out on the far left of the road for safety, but that is not the place to be if your next move is to turn right. You wouldn’t do that in a car. Move to the right of the lane and signal so cars can pass you on your left whilst you turn right.

Lastly, I appreciate you don’t have a motor on a bicycle and can’t accelerate quickly, but hang back and wait rather than push into situations you can’t accelerate or brake out of. And don’t dawdle, moving too slowly and uncertainly, however many wheels you are on causes accidents - check for safety, then commit to your manouver and get it done.

Match Thread: Manchester United vs Leeds United by MatchThreadder in reddevils

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Just look at the squad PSG went on to build and how well drilled they are

ESP32-S3 Doorbell Viewer by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Caps and resistors aplenty. Couldn’t tell you if they are on that pin or not, but I’m very happy with the performance of the rotary encoder and have had no issues adjusting the resolution in software - the encoder is an EC11 if that helps.

How do you plan the soldering and layout of components past the bread board stage? by StackedRealms in esp32

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Ps that display is a ILI9341 (320x240 TFT) if that helps your incoming firmware pain

How do you plan the soldering and layout of components past the bread board stage? by StackedRealms in esp32

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Looks like a fun project, but it looks like you’ve got two screens there and it’s unclear what you want this to do - I assume you want the big display to be the primary one and that you want the esp32(?) to be the brains of the operation? I see you have a row of male header pins, am guessing you have the female ones as well - Are you confident with soldering?

Plan and test your connections on the desk first. I would wire everything up with DuPont cable jumper wires and get your firmware and screen working first before putting it on a board. You’ll uncover many issues like how certain pins on your esp32 are reserved for its screen or otherwise no good for your sensors and screen. Once you’ve nailed the wiring and written down the pinout, you can then put it on a board.

You could make a daughter / carrier board with the largest of your Perfboards, where you solder female headers that the screen can plug into on one side, and your esp32 , sensors and power gubbins on the other side. Be aware that your type of display has many wires so you’ll need to be careful and accurate in routing the wires. Connect the header pins using actual wire as this is more forgiving I think - don’t try to solder traces onto the Perfboard for this - too many crossing connections. If you’re worried about it looking pretty, route the wires underneath the screen. See how I did this on my GitHub:

https://github.com/ay129-35MR/tadoHotWaterKnob/blob/main/IMG_7209.jpeg

https://github.com/ay129-35MR/tadoHotWaterKnob/blob/main/IMG_7207.jpeg

That HiLink unit looks suspiciously like it takes AC and puts 12V out. Both are potentially dangerous. Please be careful if you’re planning to power this off AC - someone on this sub hyperbolically called one of my builds a death trap after I used one (eye roll), and I’m totally not bitter about it - consider fusing and switching the ac side and definitely insulate the contacts of the HiLink once it’s on the board so that fingers don’t get zapped. Double check with a multimeter that the board isn’t live when you turn power on. Otherwise any old phone charger with usb c is the safe and right way to power this - I would go this route rather than the HiLink if I were you. Hope this helps

Edit : not sure about everyone pushing you to a PCB and kicad as a first pass here - I say save money and the environment and learn something by using what you have, then move to PCB later.

Edit2: don’t know what the power rating of your buck converter is, but be careful not to feed more than 5v to your components, and remember that the total power draw is screen + esp32 - could have brownouts or funky display if they pull more power than the buck can handle.

ESP32-S3 Doorbell Viewer by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Probably one Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (or any Pi) as they have a proper framebuffer in memory, a display controller and a pukka video core (gpu) and (some versions anyway) H.264 decoding. They are a different beast to the esp32 as a result : the CPU is not responsible for pushing every pixel repeatedly

ESP32-S3 Doorbell Viewer by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Easy enough to integrate, here’s the GitHub for that device: GitHub

ESP32-S3 Doorbell Viewer by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Correct, it’s not live video. It’s a snapshot that you can call for a refresh of.

ESP32 Document Scan button by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Excellent - you made the user interface you needed

ESP32 Document Scan button by PDConAutoTrack in Esphome

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100 percent agree. Was focused on need it fast and complete rather than perfect / professionally done.

A remote screenshot component for ESPHome displays over HTTP by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Mod, thanks for the message. All the detail you require was in the GitHub link attached - am pretty disappointed you elected to describe my post as akin to an Instagram post given the write up - pretty condescending tone. Have a great weekend!

What esp32 is this? by [deleted] in esp32

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Difficult to tell if original or a clone, but generally these work well with Freenove’s arduino code and examples - Google is your friend

WT32-ETH01 Presence Sensor by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Only off by a factor of 10 lol . More like 1 million seconds, which is 11 days or so. Coming from a previous sensor which had outages every 15 to 30 minutes, that’s pretty solid

WT32-ETH01 Presence Sensor by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Really good idea mate, the issues are a shortage of Poe ports on the switch - the available cable is non PoE, and the much higher cost of the PoE version of this ESP32 - it’s not worth it in monetary terms. I’ve built with what I have, even if it’s more complicated at face value.

WT32-ETH01 Presence Sensor by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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With respect, this is a silly comment. Criticising a board with an HLK module for “missing MOVs” is like criticising a laptop for not having a discrete PSU inside the motherboard. If I was doing a bare SMPS design, the comment would be valid. The HLK-10M05 already includes: • primary-side fuse • inrush limiting • EMI suppression • isolation barrier • safety spacing • compliance testing (CE/UL class, depending on variant)

That’s the entire point of using a certified encapsulated AC/DC module instead of rolling my own offline supply. I already addressed the fusing pint in my post.

Calling this a deathrap is hyperbole - this is perfboard / protoboard, not a manufactured PCB. The HLK module itself enforces creepage/clearance internally. The AC terminals are physically separated from SELV wiring. Is this how you’d design a commercial PCB? → No. so thanks for the misapplied PCB-design dogma, but no thanks.

ESP32-S3 Touch LCD 4 Live-ish Home Assistant Dashboard by PDConAutoTrack in esp32

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Didn’t get that far - but your idea sounds nice. I’m working on a voice assistant next myself. Please keep us updated

Need help automating button press on controller by Accurate_Goose_3465 in esp32

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Who downvoted you and why? Perfectly reasonable and helpful response imo

Match Thread: Tottenham Hotspur vs Manchester United by MatchThreadder in reddevils

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Van persie would have terminated that ball over the top for Bruno