My #cyberdeck Mk1: barely a functional prototype. It's enough to support my hardware hacking. Right now, it has a 1ft 40-pin female-to-female cable to support breadboarding. This way, I can code, prototype, and then upload to microcontrollers all from the same small package.
Later, to make it prettier and more functional. Considering integrating the breadboard into the deck with a plugged-in 40-pin labeled breakout to make my prototyping even easier.
All to make my hardware hacking a little more pleasurable.
And, hey, it can even play h264 (but not h265) well. I imagine freaking TSA out with my kit ashes computer some day.
@silverwizard The chef is often the hardest judge, I suppose.
As I was telling my wife earlier, functional is pretty. But I can make it even more functional.
And then I can also add a RP2040 or ESP32 controlling the power with a switch like this.
@elight I am currently experimenting with some cyberdeck builds, so I'm definitely the target audience.
And yes, covered switches are very good! Do it!
@silverwizard #3dprinting is where it's at. I'm now a HUUUGE fan of #openscad It lets me write code to describe the physical characteristics I want. For someone like me, who despises learning complicated new tools, learning a new programming language and using it to create objects that can be printed is so wonderful!
Props to @rasterweb for turning me on to #openscad. Such an amazing tool. The open source libraries make it even better.
Caveat: #openscad doesn't seem to support semantic completion for functions defined in OSS libraries.
@elight @silverwizard @rasterweb FYI I've generally used Emacs and the mode it has available. I did a spot-check with VS Code and it also had OpenSCAD support as an option.
Main point, I think, is that I've found #OpenSCAD plays well with external editors.
@joncruz @silverwizard @rasterweb Ooooh! But can you still get a preview of your work with a single command? If so, that sounds wonderful! I feel silly that I didn't think of this!
@elight @silverwizard @rasterweb I'm trying to remember (I've been mainly playing with #FreeCAD and #GodotEngine the last many months). Might be just ctrl-x ctrl-s alt-tab for me (save then switch apps). Might not even have to hit F5 to refresh the view.
@joncruz @silverwizard @rasterweb FreeCAD