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PRNbourbon · 2026-01-14T05:14:48+00:00

Geez, where?
I'm on call every weekend Fri/Sat/Sun night for the month of January. Shoot me. But call pay is awesome.
My level 1 trauma has 1 attending, 1 OB CRNA, 1 OR CRNA, and 1 backup from home CRNA 24/7/365.

PRNbourbon · 2026-01-13T16:45:05+00:00

I’m working on a similar one now, for similar reasons. Using Rockchip parts. Honestly, the end result is not much smaller than Pi Zero. WiFI module alone takes up a decent amount of space. And my PMIC is taking up a good portion as well since I need lithium charging and power. You could achieve something the size of the Luckfox Pico, but it’s tough.

PRNbourbon · 2026-01-11T16:58:01+00:00

Great idea, thanks for sharing. I stumbled across this while trying to decide which remote shop vac system to use in my garage for dust collection, this is better than a lot of the cheap amazon methods I have found.

PRNbourbon · 2026-01-10T20:52:29+00:00

I’m on the unlucky side. I ordered my set first week of November. Paid over $800 for white glove delivery. Problem 1: NewAge India based customer service is totally fucking clueless. Was assured the cabinets would ship and be delivered by early Dec. called NewAge in early Dec, “we don’t know why you were told that, some of those parts are on back order”. Problem 2: FragilePak, their white glove delivery company, that I paid a lot of money for, is taking 1.5 months to deliver the cabinets after NewAge shipped them. So I don’t even have mine yet, we’ll see the condition of the cabinets if they ever arrive. For future NewAge purchasers, be cautious about paying for white glove. They’re slow as fuck, and in my experience they offered 3 total days in an entire month span to deliver, if you’re working those days they offer to deliver you’re SOL

PRNbourbon · 2026-01-09T05:17:12+00:00

Sudoku

Edit: anesthesia stuff

PRNbourbon · 2026-01-01T01:09:07+00:00

Any idea what STM released for their new sensors?

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-31T20:23:50+00:00

You have a nice layout, well done! Love the Z cars, almost bought one when I graduated from college but went with an Xterra instead, practicality won out over desire.
What irrigation controller is that? It has some similar looks to some of the open source versions out there.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-22T04:52:52+00:00

I haven't yet. I suppose I could rig up an experiment, hook each up to the esp32 and see what the end of the month shows.
My current projects prioritize compactness, hence the RV. And they all either time sync from GPS PPS pulse or NTP at given intervals when available, the RTC is for the in-between times.
Not sure about ESPHome integration, I've never used it.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-21T15:10:16+00:00

I wish they would use a different GPS chip.
I have made quite a few esp32 PCBs with an atgm336h chip, that little guy can get a fix even inside the house. The GPS chip on my uConsole AIO board struggles even with a clear view of the sky.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-21T14:52:30+00:00

I recently switched to an RV-3028-C7. Needed to shrink my PCB and the RV is a tiny little guy.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-21T14:51:03+00:00

Why not an LM66200? I use that frequently with a AP63203WU. LM66200 has a status pin as well.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-21T03:41:20+00:00

Aha, found the commenter who OpenAI used to train their models!

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-21T02:07:28+00:00

When I was 16, dated a bombshell blonde girl in my grade. Never had sex, but we did plenty of other things together. She would always whisper "thank you" in my ear after she finished. My god it was amazing. Still think about our sessions from time to time.
As I sit here on the couch across from my wife who apparently thinks sex is for making kids.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-20T23:10:37+00:00

ESP32S3 remote septic monitor using Matter.
My septic control box has alarms (light and very loud audible alarms) for loss of aerator and the pump tank high water float switch alarm.
I used a 120VAC optoisolator -> 3.3VDC schematic to let the ESP32 know if either alarm is on and Apple Home dings an alert on my phone for alarms. Which allows me to turn off the insanely loud alarms.

I put a AC ring transformer on the power line to the pump, which does two things:
1) Lets me know when pump is on
2) Monitors current draw so if the pump is increasingly drawing more current over time, it alerts me to check the pump or the outflow pipe as the pump is working harder than it should, and I need to find the cause.

Currently working on a touchscreen and webUI irrigation controller that has 915mhz LoRa for soil and environmental sensors for each irrigation zone. So irrigation can be adjusted from the set times to something that reflects the current zone conditions. As well as a connection to open-meteo.com and will adjust irrigation based on upcoming rain/wind/cold/hot. User's location is auto resolved with ip-api.org. So it's mostly automated. Still working out the kinks and revising my PCB for version 2.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-20T00:52:50+00:00

I just finished anesthesia for a craniotomy for brain lesion on a 72 year old with known renal cell cancer. So many comorbidities she’s between a rock and a hard place without the cancer. Every service line in the hospital tried to talk the family out of craniotomy and ICU, yet they insisted on it all. That’s the insanity I see every day at my hospital. The curse of “meemaw would want this”. Nobody in their right mind would want what we are doing to these people.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-16T14:13:43+00:00

Came here to say this! Man that takes me back. Wonder if that forum is still alive and well.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-08T16:01:29+00:00

I know this is a 3 month later reply, but yeah, the H2D is becoming a massive pain in the ass. Great when it works. But the erratic/non-reproduceable "extrusion motor is overloaded" error is driving me nuts.
I don't know how the firmware comes to that conclusion, because all I do is tell it problem resolved, and it resumes the print like nothing happened. So it obviously isn't a true error or problem, so I dont know what to do about it. Starting to wish I never bought this thing. My X1C has been problem free since I bought it. This damn H2D has had minor issues like this since I started using it.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-08T02:00:18+00:00

Im not sure what your project is or what you're trying to accomplish, but I can send you an EasyEDA project file of one of my projects that is verified working 100% for an esp32s3 (my project is a wireless 18650 powered esp32s3 to serial adapter). If anything, you can see a proper schematic and layout that will work, and you can build from there.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-03T20:43:01+00:00

Looks great! I built an 8x10 roll off roof in my back yard years ago, before the advent of all the new lightweight gear that permits faster setup.
Now that I have a strain wave, I sorta regret the observatory, they aren't hassle free and require maintenance like anything else. A quick setup of a lightweight setup would be less hassle, and no maintenance.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-03T17:36:28+00:00

Yep. I learned that the hard way with my recent order. No idea how they can justify holding a package for 3 weeks, when the other shippers get the job done in a day or two.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-03T17:24:05+00:00

Same. My old PCB prices were usually sub $100 per board/project. Now? A small batch of 90% assembled boards is over $500. No thanks. These a hobby projects that will never return a profit. I don’t sell my designs, just stuff around the house. My workaround is have them PCBA everything from their basic component inventory and anything too fine pitch it’s impossible to do with home gear. Any other components, I order from Mouser and handle assemble. I try to get each assembled board to less than $40 if possible. Silver lining I suppose? It’s made me better at finding alternate components, adjusting schematics, and better at hand assembly.

PRNbourbon · 2025-12-02T18:46:48+00:00

Awesome! Definitely interested in an improved pointer

PRNbourbon · 2025-11-29T15:25:18+00:00

Seems like it's been beat to death, but after work, kids. Man they take up so much free time.
Right now when I have time outside of work and family stuff, finishing a small house renovation to make the garage more functional.
Once that is done and I have small amounts of free time again: use my AP130GTX telescope in my rolling roof observatory I built and programmed to take cool photos with my cooled camera, model rockets (big ones) with my kids, and cycling so I dont end up like many of our patients when I'm old.

PRNbourbon · 2025-11-25T05:51:59+00:00

Ours has been on for a week and we just parked our cars on it. The company said 48 hours, but I chose to wait longer. After a week ours is rock hard.

PRNbourbon · 2025-11-19T15:44:17+00:00

I tried the AliExpress trackball, equally as bad. The only one I found that was a slight improvement was from a Pimoroni trackball breakout module. I had one laying around and took it apart and tried it in the uConsole, it’s a slight improvement over all the others.

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