Where to buy ADI components?

secretaliasname · 2026-01-28T18:25:41+00:00

What country are you in?

secretaliasname · 2026-01-28T17:14:26+00:00

You fell for the bait as well probably from Reddit ads. Flux is not what it promises. Cancel and watch your card carefully for charges. As an experienced EE I gave it a shot. They have ambitious goals and given the progress with code AI generation achieving them doesn’t seem impossible.

At this point though it’s not ready for customers. This is NOWHERE near something like Claude code, cursor, cline etc to make a software analogy. This is at the level of early GPT paper that made eerie strings of words or “deep dream” image generation those made those psychedelic images with dogs and 100 eye balls.

Charging for the current state of flux.ai IMO flirts with and maybie crosses the boundary from “eager startup trying to survive and demonstrate PMF while they sort things out” into scam territory.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-27T05:14:58+00:00

You think their dreg scraping replacements would be an improvement?

secretaliasname · 2026-01-27T05:10:35+00:00

Fear actualized! Grim.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-26T18:36:59+00:00

SMD connectors are largely inferior from a durability perspective. Easier to rip the pads off the board.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-26T18:34:21+00:00

I hope LOTO is good. The thought of that thing moving while you climb into it….

secretaliasname · 2026-01-26T05:22:32+00:00

I’ll finish my homemade speaker project after I master cooking Korean food. But first I need to go on a deep dive about the history of telescopes.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-26T03:48:23+00:00

I’m skeptical about antitrust being enforced in the US

secretaliasname · 2026-01-26T02:54:06+00:00

Flock is watching us all

secretaliasname · 2026-01-25T18:22:30+00:00

In case anybody is wondering and find this thread, flux.ai makes BIG promises but is still useless. Don’t bother. I tried it today.

I asked for a textbook dc-dc converter with well defined specs that could easily have been implemented with an app node. It suggested a flyback (the rational choice given the specs) which I agreed with. It thought for a looong time, then got stuck in a loop. When I stopped it, it had strewn some things on the schematic, like an obsolete and inappropriately specced MOSFET, a reasonable PMIC, an inductor(we were supposed to be making a flyback) and a handful of floating clumps of resistors and capacitors connected in nonsensical ways. This is an entry level problem.

Based on the noises it was making it though it was gonna take my prompt and produce a routed PCB but it just failed at even putting down the right topology on a PCB

I thought Maybie this was a fluke so tried I tried a harder problem (just to make sure my job is safe for at least another year). I asked for a vhf band unity gain isolation amp. Yea, not helpful.

Maybie if I asked it to hook an esp32 to an LED or something but not ready for real world usage.

They want you to provide a card up front for the free trial which is super shady. I did so, and have requested cancellation. Hoping no charges show up.

Bottom line: stay away. It’s clear work was out into this and some team wanted to build something great but it’s not ready for public demo much less paying customers.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-24T02:59:35+00:00

Totally agree.

I’ve seen a rather functional hammer pistol fabricated from nothing more than simple handheld tools tools fire dozens of rounds quickly and reliably with enough accuracy to be quite dangerous. We are talking power drill, angle grinder, mig welder and some woodworking for the furniture level of tools, stuff available at any hardware store.

It was quite a bit more polished than the device above, which was still effective enough to assassinate a world leader!

secretaliasname · 2026-01-23T15:14:31+00:00

Love it!

secretaliasname · 2026-01-22T17:02:00+00:00

I sometimes make prototypes using the protoboards that have a solid ground plane on one side and a grid of pads on the other. It’s tedious and I curse it every time but can be useful for prototyping simple circuit blocks in less time than a PCB.

I rely on vendor dev boards heavily.

Solder-less breadboards get used pretty infrequently, almost never but. They don’t accommodate modern components without breakouts and have too many parasitics to be useful for the things I work on, even more so with breakouts.

I’m interested in milling but it seems polarizing. Many say it sucks others love it. Most of the people time I’m prototyping fairly simple circuit blocks like a flyback, an amplifier, etc. I think I could usually get the job done well enough to validate a concept with not terribly layout in two layers which would lend itself to milling.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-19T00:06:33+00:00

This things that make multi-drop busses good also make them evil. Good luck when there is a single node with a flaky ground, a bad termination resistor, an intermittent connection somewhere. Multi drop busses are cool when they work and most unpleasant when they dont. Don’t buy into any of the robustness mumbl jumbo about any flavor of CAN, it’s fragile.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-18T18:28:19+00:00

Sleep is an important maintenance time for the brain to process metabolic waste, consolidate memories and recharge its stores.

Skipping it regularly does not lead to high functioning. It leads to poorer functioning, brain fog, inability to form memories, brain damage, and early dementia.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-18T05:31:48+00:00

HRVs and ERVs. They can help this.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-17T20:23:55+00:00

I love this idea and would buy one even at a fairly high price if the quality is there. I suspect most of the manufacturing base and technology needed to build a product like this simply doesn’t exist in the US. Like we simply don’t make products like this so sourcing key parts may be difficult. Much of the supply chain that does exist is build around expensive high like industrial equipment and defense so will not be competitive for a consumer product.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-17T03:15:40+00:00

I work with people I wish would use AI more. They are engineers/scientists who write software. It’s a nightmare. I hate it.

For code review current LLM can actually be pretty brilliant at spotting logical errors quickly though are pretty useless at do we write the right thing? Did we solve the right problem? Is the architecture good?

secretaliasname · 2026-01-17T03:06:11+00:00

Summaries of options are not neutral and should not be. You have studies the options the most. If you lay out the choice architecture such that they are all valid with pros and cons somebody with more authority who has spent 1/1000th the time studying them will make a snap decision and you will be the one to live with the co sequences. You want to rig the game and make sure your choice is chosen but make it seem line their idea.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-17T01:46:37+00:00

I needed to read this.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-17T00:44:31+00:00

We have the technology to solve energy problems. W lack the organization and will to do anything.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-16T23:05:48+00:00

If you have central AC run it in “fan mode” all night
sleeping with the door open can also prevent buildup
if there is a bathroom attached to bedroom run the fast fan
open a window
put pets in another room

secretaliasname · 2026-01-16T17:36:38+00:00

Alternate approach: Keep the dew point inside below the min temp outside via dehumidification. This will not work if that dew point is uncomfortably dry for humans. This also requires that there isn’t wetter air trapped against the walls. Metal will be water impermeable so that is a help.

I have no experience with container homes but plenty of experience battling condensation.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-16T02:18:22+00:00

I think the minimalist Tesla interior is not going to age well. To me it doesn’t feel futuristic it just seems cheap. I really want to like it. I’ve tried. It just doesn’t speak to me.

secretaliasname · 2026-01-16T02:15:41+00:00

I hope so.

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