That face when Raspberry Pi camera works
@chuck Yeah, I'm just getting started learning with a practice board. But it's just solder paste and a hot air rework station.
As the paste heats up, the metal melts and liquid surface tension draws things onto the circuit board pads. Hardest thing is carefully dabbing the paste and roughly aligning parts
@sungo@nymwars.org @chuck Oh yeah, I need to try something like that next!
Not sure why, but I feel suddenly pedantically outraged about Xfinity's "Supersonic" wifi because supersonic speeds are generally slower than wifi
Haha I somehow missed that this complaint had already been registered more thoroughly https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1515557879524179971
Decided to play with an ESP32cam board on my laptop on the couch. Hadn't touched it in like 2 years.
After 30 min of head-scratching, I recall that the board needs way more power than my lil FTDI friend pumps into it.
Oh, right, that's why I never played with it on the couch like this.
So back in 1992, the last track of a new Information Society album called "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)" was very clearly the high-pitched warbling of a modem.
I remember rigging my boom box to a VicModem on a C64 and this text file is what I saw.
It's been bugging me for years that I remember doing this, and I remember that it involved a 9V battery, but I forgot exactly what I did.
I think I figured it out: I must have built a Line Voltage Inducer, like this!
https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/guide-build-a-line-voltage-inducer/
I remember getting books from the library on how phone lines worked. At one point I hooked up my boom box to the house’s “second line” wires to send audio to a speaker in basement where I soldered stuff. But my mom could hear the music on a phone call, so I got in trouble.