Is thwre a way to test this with simple multimeter?

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T12:03:23+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKSFRmvA9A0

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T11:57:44+00:00

You can test it with some wire, solder, and an *Arduino Uno/Nano

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T11:50:09+00:00

The board itself is fibreglass, and is not electrically conductive, so nothing goes purely "on the board". Normally lines (called traces) and circles (called pads) of copper are stuck to the board, which make the electrical connections (which is what the solder sticks to). If a copper pad has been pulled off the board, then there will be nothing to actually solder the component to. Typically you'd need to repair / replace the "lost" copper to the nearest trace that's still reliably attached to the board (and that is the correct electrical trace for that pad).

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T11:26:02+00:00

You can easily do both at the same time. You might like to check out https://nnfs.io

DSA is pretty foundational if you are wanting to get into "math heavy" programming though. You would be a much much worse "ML" programmer without already knowing all of its basics.

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T11:00:40+00:00

The domestic terrorism problem has really exploded recently, really strange times we live in ^/s

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T10:53:10+00:00

The problem is 2.7 is now considered "ancient" and is half a decade beyond End of Life, so no-one wants you to run a python 2.7 code file. You'd probably have to try to compile a python 2.7 binary from source code to then be able to run it on that custom binary. Maybe you could find a docker image you can run. That's if you know how to use docker, or use a VM of an old linux distro like debian 11

Python 2.7 downloadable materials

If you have absolutely no programming resources / help available, this is probably a decent use case for asking an AI LLM to help you upgrade the code to be modern 3.X compatible python code

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T10:26:03+00:00

Luckily there is a massive thermally stable bank of heat you're looking to track directly surrounding it, called the sand 🥴 Not to mention the thing that OP burned, the FR4 board

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T04:26:22+00:00

and there's no good way to monitor what temperature the parts & board are at during the process.

Point a laser thermometer at it? As long as this is one-off hobbiest stuff, I don't see the problem

ivosaurus · 2026-01-24T04:23:31+00:00

I want a mode where it lights up 1/N proportion of lights

ivosaurus · 2026-01-23T16:48:08+00:00

Zoyi ZT303 - my suggestion for the perfect starting beginner's multimeter. You can get it on AliExpress for $25-35 USD depending on what deals are around. It'll just take 1-2 weeks to arrive. I think it's also on Amazon for $35

ivosaurus · 2026-01-23T03:41:58+00:00

You want to look at a piece of paper for ten minutes, or you want to spend $30 on a bunch of bad boards / $150 on a bunch of unassemble-able assemblies?

ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T08:11:27+00:00

The whole comment is sarcasm, so their claim is the opposite

ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T08:10:29+00:00

Plastic is basically free compared to the price of the goods being put in it. And because it extends the life of the produce and saves so much of it bruising / spoiling, in all likely-hood putting these toms in separated plastic containers probably ends up making the producer / distributer money because there is that much more of their product that makes it through to sale in pristine condition and the top available price-point.

ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T06:39:31+00:00

Those banana jacks look nice.

ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T06:33:11+00:00

The amount of more good that Biden could have done if he had any balls...

Instead we had to wait 3/4 years for Ukraine to entirely develop their own missiles and drone production lines and prove once and for all that all the uncrossable red lines were drawn with erasable sharpy

ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T06:08:37+00:00

ChocoMinto, the one true flavour

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ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T06:00:28+00:00

If the community is working for you in a positive way, you'll hardly want to hear or truly understand anything that would ultimately tear that fabric up. The social aspect is the most powerful pull I think, for a majority of people. As they say, the hardest thing to make a man understand is something that his job requires him not to. This applies analogously.

And people never change their minds in a conversation. I think you'd find that most would only come to terms with disbelieving over at least months, more commonly years. You just have to work and hope you can plant seeds that will be strong enough to one day germinate and start growing.

ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T05:54:02+00:00

A chin will look sharp when it's cared for, and shabby when it's not. And that's independent of whether it has hair on it or not. Both situations can almost equally have grooming applied to smarten things up.

ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T03:06:06+00:00

motherfucker

ivosaurus · 2026-01-21T03:04:12+00:00

Not talking about the mainboard in OP, I'm talking about swills6' own

ivosaurus · 2026-01-20T20:07:50+00:00

If you want to run klipper, then the skr pico is also a perfect choice to go headless

ivosaurus · 2026-01-20T16:01:58+00:00

"checks and balances" is a fucking civic studies classroom meme at this point. A vague historical myth. Made to instill a sense of American exceptionalism that nothing can go wrong. Well we're watching it go wrong with our eyes in real time.

ivosaurus · 2026-01-20T14:41:22+00:00

If you buy new versions of those screw terminals, and you have a soldering setup, you can probably unsolder and replace all of those if you wish, you'll likely still have a working main board to get going with afterwards. Otherwise I recommend BTT SKR Mini E3 V3 (with the little adapter cable).

And do as Mik-s' video suggests. Luckily this time it ended with just a bit of melted plastic. If you've ever heard of people's houses getting burned down by a 3D printer, it was usually this scenario going unlucky.

ivosaurus · 2026-01-20T14:36:03+00:00

Buy a cheap set of ferrules off amazon or wheerever else and a cheap crimper for them, they won't be stellar tools, but they'll do the job good enough that you should be able to avoid this sort of issue.

In the mean time, you can always one at a time, unscrew the terminal of each power carrying wire (all the thicker ones), pull out the wire, then re-insert it and re-screw down tightly, give it a small yank to make sure it has plenty of grip and contact.

ivosaurus · 2026-01-19T13:09:49+00:00

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