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| tonyc | "Those recesses look like the ones I was reqeusting for the zip-tie mounting idea. should be simple manufacturing-wise, and if we had recess on fron..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "I wonder if the connector were recessed from the edge of the board, and perhaps wrapped around some kind of supporting shape of the board itself? I..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "My impression, from what I've heard, read, is that it's a bad idea to use SMT components when there is any regular mechanical stress expected. Cf...." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "I don't know if this part can be placed by a pick-and-place, but if it can, might be worth trying -- the double row SMT pads might make it sufficie..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Receptacle side ... http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/610114249221/732-6081-2-ND/5047736 Hmm, maybe we can get away with no soldering requi..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "male side ... http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/610114249121/732-6071-2-ND/5047735 " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "oh, interesting ... i don't know how mechanically stable these will be, but: " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "@warren -- wow, that Pocket Operator looks so cool. It makes me wonder if there are AA battery holders like the one they used with the metal clips..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Wow, so many good thoughts .... soldering & accessibility It's a good point that it'd be nice for the kit to be useful without requiring any ..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| pdhixenbaugh | "Exciting stuff! I'd second the easy AA battery option. I can solder at a basic level, but the less it's required, the less it can go wrong. I don'..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "The Pocket Operator has a great 2x AA battery clip on the back. I know that's not exactly what you're looking for but I just love my PO so much I h..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "well, it's all tradeoffs...I'd prefer to have an option to use AAs without a soldering iron, since it's the simplest way to get the thing working o..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Note: regarding the RTC wakeup functionality, I posted some thoughts here: https://publiclab.org/notes/donblair/12-02-2015/random-bits-atmel-low-p..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Thanks @warren re: Semver -- that looks like just the sort of guidance I was looking for! @tonyc -- I was thinking about this issue ... one of the..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| tonyc | "Cool! I super support the easy AA battery option. I have a design for a DIY battery case I can mock up soon, one that will ship flat. I'll watch to..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| warren | "For versioning, I'm tending to use Semver. Did you push this announce out to the lists, btw? Great to see it! " | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "It's been on my to-do list for ages, but I finally got around to posting the build tutorials for the basic 3 component data logger based on Promini..." | Read more » | about 9 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Just back from our recent fieldwork, and we've had great success with the DS18b20 temperature strings that we deployed back in March. http://edwar..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi again everybody. I finally got around to posting the Cave Pearl Project on Hackaday, and realized that it turned out to be a pretty concise sum..." | Read more » | over 9 years ago | |||
| bhickman | "The per unit cost is about about $35 if you are buying everything (microcontroller, PCBs, components...) and you are using the real time clock. The..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Hi, do you have a sense of the cost of the bill of materials? " | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| EdMallon | "Hi Everyone Just thought I should post a progress update on the Cave Pearl Project. We finished off 2014 with a challenging field trip that had so..." | Read more » | almost 10 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "OK. Got them up on GitHub. Please see the new section in the body of the Research Note where I (hopefully) have it all chronicled. Jack " | Read more » | about 10 years ago | |||
| clothos | "Hello Dr. Summers,I've tested both the Energia code for the Tiva C board, and the Prcessing GUI.It all compiles properly and runs as advertised.I w..." | Read more » | about 10 years ago |