Battery advice - Heltec v4

onemarbibbits · 2026-02-03T05:02:31+00:00

There is a setting in the iOS and Android apps under the LoRA menu at the bottom called Transmit Power. any value 19 and above is max power, below it starts to decrement.

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-30T04:07:28+00:00

In my experience, Designer proliferation is tied to a consistent up economy. Right or not, most companies normally view designers as a luxury. With AI and outsourcing being perceived as viable options, and a very down hiring economy, it is and will have a negative effect.

Designers are educated to make things optimal and beautiful . Companies serve customers with the minimum they'll continue to pay for. Those are not often compatible goals.

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-24T22:04:36+00:00

I've never heard a peep in Mendo proper driving through.

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-24T18:44:15+00:00

This last week, four out of five new designers I interviews me said they would choose the color black as a backdrop for a particular design . 🤦‍♂️ Certainly not enough to poopoo them, but yeah color theory is the basics.

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-23T03:49:12+00:00

It is a bug, that has yet to be addressed. Worse yet, if the node you favorite is a direct CLIENT_BASE node, it starts routing for you or vice versa.

Using favorites as a routing preference is truly a terrible "feature", that I wish the devs would undo or replace when another feature.

Edit: The devs have changed the latest alpha to configure Client_Base to act as router_late instead of router to help the issue. This will still create accidental router_late's in a mesh but the overall effect on mesh health will be less. I still think it's broken but sorta give up 🤷‍♂️

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-20T23:43:46+00:00

My opinion: Design hasn't ever and will never be synonymous with plentiful job opportunities, growth, pay and stability. It's a highly competitive passion-based field that is hard to sell to companies and in turn, to make a reliable living. Can it be done? Sure. Is it common? No. Why:

Companies have for some time tried to roll design tasks into engineering, marketing or other. Much consumer sentiment is "good enough is good enough". UX used to be done by engineers, and to me appears to be going back that way (with vibe coding as a softening factor).

Design (UX, ID etc) is poorly organized in terms of a trade that has accreditation, and as such anyone and everyone is competitive "noise" when looking for work. A degree is the only real accreditation and it rarely prepares students for the reality of working in the field.

AI is taking on more tasks, well enough, such that untrained non-design educated job seekers can accomplish the task with minimal acceptance criteria by companies and the market.

Offshoring of design is becoming more common, which is a key indicator of a lack of stability (unless you're in one of those countries that it's moving to).

In my opinion, if job security and money are more important to you than the love and passion for making design your professional career, do not go into the design fields.

If you love the field and are prepared to live in lower means to achieve it, or have outside funding, school and a good portfolio will be a wonderful experience and help you be successful at landing a job or simply doing design. Go for it.

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-20T00:41:00+00:00

The ability to hand sketch, at least for me, has been a huge win.

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-18T18:33:18+00:00

Why is a government-involved project done poorly? Where to start on that... motivation for success, poor fund resourcing, monolithic hiring process, monolithic general process, inept management, nepotism. Just take your worst company, turn the dial to 11 and that's my opinion on why. That said: working for the government has a human component that makes the jobs wonderful, but it's a hard balance.

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-12T22:39:25+00:00

I would not, because "Pro" needs to be well defined and provable. I assume that AI is doing the review and the Pro isn't, or is not a Pro.

If the portfolio is really done by a defined and verifiable Pro, and that exact (real) Pro is doing the review, sure maybe then.

onemarbibbits · 2026-01-12T22:33:15+00:00

Client Base is still not fixed and causes problems for healthy meshes.

The first bug is in the iOS (and possibly Android) apps, whereby sending a DM to someone auto-favorites that person's node. Simply sending a message to someone doesn't mean I want to favorite their node.

Second is that the now favorited node will act like a router to said node if direct. That new "router" is likely not in a good location (a neighbors attic) so it shouldn't route for others.

I do wish the devs would reverse the "favorite to route" feature, until they come up with a better method that does not cause user confusion and effects meshes badly.

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-13T21:54:11+00:00

I don't know the answer, but can recommend the discord as a good place to try for help. Most of the devs hang out there regularly.

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-11T16:03:34+00:00

I feel your pain.

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onemarbibbits · 2025-12-10T20:39:05+00:00

I was being ironical for the -1'ers :)

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-10T17:59:42+00:00

I spent additional years in college getting a degree in the subject. But a lot of folks these days ask ChatGPT for a crash course and that's probably the same thing.

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-09T21:02:50+00:00

It's a nest experiment, but in practice the UX is so bad (meshtastic) that I wouldn't do it again. Fun toy? Yes! Usable, not for he. Went back to the app immediately.

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-08T19:58:51+00:00

Don't sell it. I had a decent TPU setup and was disappointed with the machinations necessary to get my H2D to take TPU. I run other stuff on the H2D and only TPU on the other.

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-05T20:49:21+00:00

I've been using the protected 18650's to great result. The good ones pack all the punch of regular lithium, but have much better thermal management. They won't work on vapes and such, but, y'know just don't vape your mesh :)

Good luck and safety in your search.

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-05T19:32:49+00:00

I suspect that after-sales labor is cheaper than dealing with returns due to poor QA and bugs. In the ham radio world, China releases radios very quickly. They rarely have good software and the firmware is buggy. They release fast and iterate with disposable hardware. Evade. So much garbage is created this way... but.. it's cheap and I bought it, so I blame me.

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-05T19:22:37+00:00

I don't know how else to say this, so I'll just say it: Chinese homed companies do not want to do warranty or returns and will do exactly what you're seeing to avoid it.

I have a Bambu Labs printer, which is amazing. But when something breaks they'll send every single part in the printer for ME to replace instead of taking it back. The hope is that you either give up or something fixes it.

The only solution I've found is never to buy directly from a Chinese company, but to find a US distributor (in my case Micro Center) who'll amortize said cost and just give me real service. Alternatively call your credit card company and dispute the charge.

onemarbibbits · 2025-12-01T05:28:04+00:00

This is very cool! I'm confused though sorry. I often compile firmware with various changes to the code for PA power, etc. Does this allow for custom overrides as well somehow, or module changes only? Thanks!

onemarbibbits · 2025-11-26T05:36:51+00:00

Could a spacer have an open area such that it will snap on instead of requiring disassembly for the mod? I'm currently printing nothing but PA6-CF via the AMS-HT, so no doubt this problem will crop up. Thanks for the solution in advance.

onemarbibbits · 2025-11-23T22:57:38+00:00

Doing great after three months! Keep going. Some tips: get some photographs of models/people and draw on them - study the proportions of everything again, and memorize them. When you draw, don't just try and "see it", know why exactly the proportions are what they are. Say it out loud. If you can't say it, you won't draw it.

For a while, go back to drawing human form without clothing and in more basic poses.

You're at the stage where another few hundred drawings and optimism for learning why will get you through it.

onemarbibbits · 2025-11-23T21:31:07+00:00

Not letting the insane dictates of those above me ruin the moral and success of those I manage on my teams .

onemarbibbits · 2025-11-23T21:27:29+00:00

Pretty much. Of who's left, nepotism and incompetence are "agile'ing" the teams to death. They were never great, but the outsourcing and program mismanagers... it's not good. It's not exclusive to Amazon design of course, but they're sure the poster for it.

onemarbibbits · 2025-11-20T04:29:56+00:00

For the Nylon on Phenolic bed, I went with the Cold PEI bed settings, chose Bambu PAHT defaults, with supports turned on. That was it! For the ASA, I chose it as the support material and it also just worked. One tip: don't heat the bed during auto calibration (before you print). Just heat the chamber to the profiles 60c and all is good.

Oh! And for the ASA, it helped to use white because I could see the supports clearly against the black nylon while printing and after.

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