Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialKevin Santo Cappuccio @jumperless.org · 22/08/2026Me telling people how to use KiCad: "Just make your own footprints it takes like 2 seconds" Me actually using KiCad: 3 days and 8 printed mockups in for a single cursed 2x35 pin header / card edge footprint. 3143
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Back in the day this payphone needed two of these payphones at minimum for a phone call. 020
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialCatherine @whitequark.org · 08/04/2026chat, please rate my NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU power, cooling, and communications solution yes, that's a hairdryer. yes, it is very loud. yes, it reduces the temperature from "96C and after 10 minutes the NVMe gives up trying to read" to "80C" 5491
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026New day new LNB. This time a Digital Channel Stacking (dCSS) one from Canal Digital. It digitizes both polarizations and then puts the requested channel at the requested place in the down link. Too bad the MaxLinear MXL862 has no public documentation. A quick teardown thread 100
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialOsmoosi @oh3cnz.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Folks should at least be able to present theory for their claims, and failing that, simulations. The scientific method hinges on presenting theoretical foundation for reproducible proof, and if you got neither, you're just regurgitating what a stochastic parrot fed you (vomited down your throat!) 131
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialCatherine @whitequark.org · 10/02/2026age verification? i still feel like linux 2.6 is kinda new bsky.app/profile/jcog... 2414
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialTinyTapeout @tinytapeout.com · 10/02/2026Join us tomorrow at 19:00 CET for the announcement of the TT08 demoscene competition winners! www.youtube.com/live/il_qKTi...youtube.comTiny Tapeout demoscene competition winners will be announced!YouTube video by Zero To ASIC Course 045
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Another board from a module. With some Sprague made 2N2219A. 7401 datecode. 010
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialnnnilabs.net @nnnilabs.net · 08/02/2026ready for the next prototype github.com/macaba/TheMa... 181
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Inside a plugin module from an Ancient Nokia radio link. 130
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialCatherine @whitequark.org · 01/08/2025happy mailing list membership reminder day 0151
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialBenn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025When Behringer runs out of repos to copy and paste on Émilie Gillet's Github page, a whole lot of dystopian Chinese factory town workers will be out of a job. 310411
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialHackaday @hackadayofficial.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Farewell Shunsaku Tamiya: The Man Who Gave Us The Best Things To Buildhackaday.comFarewell Shunsaku Tamiya: The Man Who Gave Us The Best Things To BuildHackaday Article 073
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialDan KD7WRJ @danradiopdx.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Ham Radio Users Clash With Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Over Spectrum Use | PCMag share.google/CXpKxl1CHSA7...share.googleHam Radio Users Clash With Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Over Spectrum UseAST wants to use the 430 to 440MHz band for a satellite-to-phone service. Ham radio enthusiasts say the company's plan is vague and could interfere with their slim slice of spectrum. 493
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialRue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 22/06/2025For your entertainment! Here is switching on and off an 800A breaker I got from ewaste. It has an internal motor to wind the spring, but its not powered up, so the manual winder has to be used. 8203
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialN² @antire.al · 15/05/2025the Marathon alpha released recently and its environments are covered with assets lifted from poster designs i made in 2017. @bungie.net @marathonthegame.bungie.net 262120685211
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialTomb💀Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 12/05/2025so i wrote another program for the IBM 1401 computer this past week. i wrote what it does on the card, but can you figure out how it works? the program is ,008015,022029,036043,048056,061066,070074U%U2MM%U2070WU%U2BB048B.048DATA⯒ that last little character is special! 7602
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialRue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Mowerbot back after a night on the lawn. 2301
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Shiny waveguide multiplier with a WR-137 flange. So maybe 5.76GHz target output with suitable Drive. Currently best output was achieved on ~6GHz with 1.5GHz and 3GHz drive. 010
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 30/03/2025My first 122GHz band QSO. VK3CV transceiver with UV-K5 with fagci spectrum as the IF radio. QSO was with Michael, OH2AUE. #122GHz #mmW #microwaves 030
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialIo Black @ioblack.bsky.social · 22/03/2025That we even considered sheltering such a wild slate of stories under D&W's patchy umbrella speaks to one of its great strengths and, to me, joys - it was less a comic, more a launchpad for whatever hare-brained thing tickled us in a given week, like releasing an entire album of in-character noise.danielanonyme.bandcamp.comPrivation Sensorielle, by Daniel Anonyme13 track album 1132
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Okay so, one of the local radio clubs got these Avaya things. Outside of them doing VOIP and that one dude reportedly has two controllers for them, I don't really know anything about them. 4x G450 and 3x G430 Is there anything useful one could do with these? Or should we just part these out? 100
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialHolBolDoArt🏳️🌈 @holboldoart.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The Number You Have Reached Has Been Disconnected 4737181268
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialThorn @coelliptic.bsky.social · 02/03/2025The Kalyazin RT-64 radio telescope would fix me 17847169
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Cool idea for how to have horns with transitions on the lab desk. 030
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialStargirl @thea.codes · 28/02/2025👀 @hacksterio.bsky.social and @nordicsemi.com are doing a BLE audio design contest with *cash* prizes! www.hackster.io/contests/Son...hackster.ioSonic SprintNext-gen bluetooth audio device With Nordic Semiconductor and PCBWay. 1177
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Added a quick Meshtastic node at the OH2TI radio club with some donated Lilygo TTGO boards. #Meshtastic #PRK #OH2TI #TTGO #LoRa 111
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Got a SNES and a flash cart? Find some fun data on how cheap ceramic resonators they used age and drift in frequency. 000
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialShawn Hymel @shawnhymel.bsky.social · 10/02/2025If you have access to an #ESP32 and a WiFi network with WPA3 security, could you help me test my #WiFi driver? It should only take a few minutes, and I'd be very appreciative! Instructions here: github.com/ShawnHymel/c... #microcontroller #IoT #embedded 4258
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Just some retre things from the archives. Fun to run the higher end version of the mobo I had in 2004. #Retro #Athlon #win2kpro 110
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Came across an older video in my archives about the initial setup I used for testing the EDUP 2.4GHz linear amplifier. youtu.be/G7NG8zl9Vqk #hamradio #2.4GHz #23cmyoutu.beTesting EDUP "8W" 2.4GHz linear amplifierYouTube video by oh2ftg 010
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025Rated to do at least 50W from 20MHz to 512MHz and do that while being VERY linear. Guess what, it's dead. A quick lil thread about it. #surplus #GHz 110
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 02/02/2025The absolute chaotic energy. From top to bottom on the left: - MMIC's and other GHz - Miniature valves -NAILS 010
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Some more Quansheng TK-11 images dropped. This time of the internals. The images seem to be of the triband TK-11(8). Thanks for Dimitar Milkov for bringing these images to my attention and Silent YANG for taking them. #Quansheng #TK11 #hamradio 111
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 25/01/2025There's now also some video of the new #Quansheng #TK11 and not just the pictures in the promotional material. So I guess it's less likely to be vaporware. www.youtube.com/shorts/aPo4I...youtube.comQuansheng Taiko Kong TK11YouTube video by Gmrs Kissimmee 000
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialTomb💀Time @tubetime.bsky.social · 24/01/2025"what's it doing in the circuit?" "just chillin" 21066
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 24/01/2025New #Quansheng announced. 10m/6m/2m/70cm Quadband with 0.5 - 1160MHz wide receive. AMF/FM/SSB receive and likely only FM TX, like usual. Also 6m/2m/70cm tribander with the same wide RX. Sadly no 23cm, even on receive. Will be interesting to see what price point these end up on. #hamradio #VHF #UHF 2193
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialArsenio @handle.invalid · 18/01/2025Added a pile to cart, just cause 2183
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialJeri Ellsworth @jeriellsworth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025I want to see this chart with only electrical engineers segmented out. 18826
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialJohn Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 14/01/2025I had this idea a decade ago for a clock that rolled around (the number facing up indicates the time). My sketch was a mechanical, brass clock. The 3D printer I got recently had a battery-powered clock mechanism so I thought — why not? Decided to go 70's style though. #3dprinting #bambulabs 2244
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialSound Byte Labs @soundbytelabs.net · 13/01/2025Don't let your dreams stay dreams! You are full of good ideas and you just need to start somewhere. My process starts with a sketch, then component selection and rough layout. #SynthSky #KiCAD #OSHPark #prototype 1174
2ftg.bsky.social @2ftg.bsky.social · 13/01/2025RIP. Apparently the raspi2's spring loaded socket ejected this one and it got bent. And now I get to get some more SD's. 020
Reposted by @2ftg.bsky.socialRue Mohr @ruenahcmohr.bsky.social · 11/01/2025huh, lots of good stuff happened in 2021, here is my first chip reballing (CPLD for 2 layer board) 1122
