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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It doesnt seem fair that I can see well enough to replace the itty bitty screws on my glasses, without glasses, but I still need to wear glasses.

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Dan Fogerburp @nicksterj.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

If you see this, post a robot. #MARCHintosh blog.adafruit.com/2023/03/15/t...

an Apple Macintosh computer with feet added and relabeled as a 'Banana PC Jr.' from the comic strip 'Bloom County' by Berkeley Breathed. The screen reads, ``I.B.M. sucks silicon.''

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Of all the things I didnt expect to delay me from working with the milo cnc on my afternoon off: especially fragrant dryer sheets.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I've never had occasion to gnash my teeth. I feel cheated

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

It amuses me to no end to rock up to work carrying this science experiment looking lunch

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

YES! I bought a 16 year old ZM400 label printer to replace my hated QL1100. The brother QL1100 has awful linux drivers, tries to lock you into their labels and is stupid expensive. Someone pointed out these older ZM400 workhorses so I picked one up cheap on ebay. It is exactly everything I want.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I wonder if we can convince trumpf that he can 'troll the libs' by shutting the fuck up for 3 days.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Watching movies while I work on stuff today. Just finished Grand Torino and now I'm going to watch its complete opposite movie; El Camino.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I tried Forge-X on my AD5M and so far its been a really good experience. Its nice to have all my old klipper interfaces back. Missing those on the AD5M made it feel a little stifling to me. The install process was very trivial #3dprinting #ad5m

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

These little reflow plates punch well above their weight! Very useful for fixing little issues.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I am stupid excited to play with this thermal printhead. The datasheet even lists what connector can be used to connect to the ribbon cable!

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

My wife and I were sharing from the same bowl of cereal. I started laughing uncontrollably. My explanation that 'we were eating cereal in parallel' did not help.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

After the panic buying of 3d printers then Defcon I'm finally getting around to putting together the Manufacturing Nook (need a better name for it). This is probably the only time it will be this clean for the foreseeable future. 😂

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Not every sword needs to be brooding and dark. Perfect for defending Equestria and your network! I love this color experiment for the Neosword badge—regular versions available for preorder at untitledelec.com. Preorders will have first dibs on color options. #Defcon33 #defcon #badgelife

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Fresh from the forge: a box of Neosword hilts ready to power up your Defcon badge! May or may not grant +5 charisma. Preorder here! untitledelec.com #DEFCON #BadgeLife #SwordUp

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

After Shitty Kitty V1, dont miss out on the Shitty Kitty V2!

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Here is a little teaser for my upcoming indy #defcon33 #badgelife badge! If you can guess the final form I'll give you a free SAO at the convention!

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Woot! Finally assembled this CH32V006 Nucleo-style dev board! I've been excited to try this one out. #wch #Risc-V #Devboard

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Oh man! This is exciting! This really feels like an actual product to me! V2 of my USB-C PD to Chinese PSU module adapter. Now I need to redesign the front plate (blue plastic) and finish the rest of the case.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Holy shit, Paychex.com. Why on gods green earth is there a link to a paycheck loan app ON MY PAYSTUBS PAGE?! Your emails explaining my 'benefits' which are actually advertisements for 3rd party insurance are bad enough but this is RAGE INDUCING! Why can I not opt out of this shit?!

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I'm just over here trying not to lose my shit over getting hit with tariffs. $18 additional charge on a $56 order of parts. Just like last time it would have been cheaper to manufacture in China and send the whole unit rather than buying parts to prototype and assemble in the US. #tariffs

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

It works! I wanted a super simple USB-C PD supply for these cheap ($30) RK6006 buck power supply modules for when I needed a power supply away from my bench. Now onto designing a 3d printed case. Probably no parts for at least a week.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

If you shoot a golf ball out of a cannon does that make it a cannon ball?

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My wife only eats cool ranch Doritos, it's blatant flavortism.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I think from now on I'm going to call ChatGPT "The Oracle of Stolen Knowledge

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

My #nerdsnipe of the day. What is the weirdest thing I could possibly do with a Toaster Controller IC?

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I got a week off for the Holidays, lets see how many boards I can crank out in that time. I have SOOO many projects that I want to make progress on so its time for a marathon! First up a tester board for a PWM3389 Optical Mouse Sensor paired up with a CH32V003

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Wow, for something I've never heard of before I am stupid excited for this. Sounds like a solution for something I've been wondering about. Automatic generation of documentation and possibly some versioning. It would be nice if a zip file was created with every modification of a board file.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

It's always amazing seeing something designed on a computer screen in hand. This clamp is a simple USB to serial adapter and also works for programming ESP32. I'm working on STM32 and CH32 versions. It needs refinement but this idea works! #Electronics #FreeCAD #Kicad

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Its amazing how hamstrung I am with a broken pair of calipers. I mean, this is less annoying than when the South American equivalent of the TSA took an older one of mine but still...

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

How anyone in the year of our lord 2024 anyone can be surprised at a rugpull of a memecoin is completely beyond me. #hawktuaw

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Woot! Finally got around to designing this! A pogo pin clamp programming jig! The circuit boards have been sitting on my desk for months! #PCB #FreeCAD #Embedded

A FreeCAD view of the pogo pin clamp model

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

That gives me all sort of cool ideas! Very nicely done prop.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New favorite leftover solution! I'm calling it the Chimicheerful!

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is pretty cool. A few times in my life I've had people comment that I was helpful in brainstorming. I've followed these steps for years and its neat to see them codified here.

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

This is one of the more interesting things I've read lately. As I'm designing more and more complex things this type of thinking is getting more important.

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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 27/11/2024

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm trying the openLight theme in FreeCAD and its pretty slick I think its from ondsel and of course there's yet another learning curve but it feels pretty refined. #FreeCAD

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Wow, Past William didnt screw me for once in a hardware design! Color Me SHOCKED!

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William 'Patron saint of cheap parts' LastName @untitledelec.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Hardware Hacker Parent: You know, I could use a weight sensor and an nRF52 then I could write an Android app to track my water consumption AND THEN I might know why I'm tired all the time!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/11/2024

Me: This is a pretty big donut, maybe I'll just eat half of it Donut: Motherfucker I did not put on all these sprinkles just to gummed on by a QUITTER Me: You make a compelling point, donut

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