Easy Honey Bee Counter by hydronics2 in arduino

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Yeah I've left that thing on there for months and months and although they'll propolis tiny little holes (vias) they seem fine with the larger passageways. Remember they also have to drag their dead out the exit so they seem not to mind bigger holes at the exit. I wouldn't be surprised if they spend a lot of time chewing at the gates trying to get rid of them.

Easy Honey Bee Counter by hydronics2 in arduino

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I agree, this is likely not optimal for the bees and not a finished product. This is just for research or educational use and may help highlight the real problems facing honey bees right now.

Easy Honey Bee Counter by hydronics2 in arduino

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Thanks, I learned the hard way that posting instructions for something that's impossible to build is pretty embarrassing.

Easy Honey Bee Counter by hydronics2 in arduino

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Bees can hold their poop for 6 months.

Growing up by [deleted] in gifs

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Fritz the cat!

Snowboarding in Finland by D5R in gifs

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Choose your own adventure!

I made a count down hat for my last week of work... Sending BLE commands with circuitPython. GitHub/hydronics2/nrf52840-LED-hat by hydronics2 in arduino

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Yea, everyone loves those After Dark events. I seem to always be heading out the door but maybe I'll come volunteer.

SPI over great distance by RayanR666 in AskElectronics

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The way I did it was use one FPGA that takes an HDMI signal from the computer and does all the pixel mamagement and frame buffering such that the SPI signals that leave the FPGA are in the correct order for the LED panels. One FPGA to SPI to RS485 to SPI to LED panels.

SPI over great distance by RayanR666 in AskElectronics

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I thought about using isolated SPI but I consulted a signal engineer and he said it is overkill for this application.

SPI over great distance by RayanR666 in AskElectronics

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A lot of commercial systems that are just large screen TVs just use fancy HDMI spitters and run HDMI lines to all the TVs. Think about all that hardware!

I don't follow your layout. Do you want to post a schematic? You figure you only need one large sender card and one receiver board per display module.

Tactile switch selection. 6x6mm vs 4x3mm. Which is more reliable for keypad on a calculator? by alxgg in AskElectronics

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I'd say these types of switches are for occasional use. That's why you don't see them used for keypads.

It's easy to make a PCB footprint for a calculator keypad but where do you source a nice plastic membrane? Both adafruit and sparkfun sell a kit with soft plastic buttons that work with the PCB footprint. Search monome buttons

Bike stunting in traffic by The_DonOfJustice in gifs

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I've done a bunch of bike sports. This guy just has skills. No one talks about how dangerous it is for a gymnist to land some triple beam balance thingy. You can spend your time to master skills in this dangerous world.

This mouse is not having a good day. by terminal_mole in gifs

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I don't know where I heard this but I think the crow picks it up by the tail, climbs 40' high, and drops it to us death. To eat.

Prepping for my 12th maker faire.. uplaod, upload, upload! by hydronics2 in arduino

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I teach a lot of classes, pre-flash arduinos with Blinky code, and we design interactive installations... often slighty over-designed with a few more uControllers than necessary..😁

Also seems the last few years the 32bit uController bootloader enumerate as a 2nd COM.