The price difference between Cherry MX and the competitors was huge. Just shows how copyright, in this case at least, failed to breed innovation and they just sat on their patent until it expired. Bad luck for the shareholders!
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if you read the article it explains how. TLDR: patents expired, competitors are eating their launch, perifery division is deeply in the red.
Fucking... How? They sell simple keyboards for hundreds of dollars.. and people actually buy them. How can you possibly not make a profit from that?
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Surprise: The BrickBoy kit for the Lego Game Boy uses floating magnets instead of switches
This article could have been an email to the kickstarter owner.
It's not easily available right now from what I could see.
"The 2.8-inch round IPS display is priced at$39.90 on Elecrow, and it might become available soon on the company’s AliExpress and/or Amazon stores. In the package, you will get the HDMI round display itself, along with a mini HDMI to HDMI cable, and a separate USB-C power cable."
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David Johnson-Davies USB Power Delivery Dongle Gives Configurable Juice in a Compact Footprint
One thing these adapters are usually missing is a status pin to tell you if it successfully negotiated the requested voltage and current.
On the topic of ‘what’s next,’ Skyriver says they hope to make a matching compact device to create punched tapes for this system.
Good to know, thanks!
Reading the paper tape is the easy part. Now build a punch from scratch that can run at high speed.
Arduino has always been a kinda shitified version of Wiring. The “founders” stole it from one of their grad students and have been making kinda dumb decisions since.
The main thing they’ve been good at is marketing. Arduino is a great name, but stumbling into the oddly positioned headers to make the shields unique is a good example of kinda dumb choices. Also the infighting with the board maker and ex-professors.
Wiring is a terrible name for a language, and completely unsearchable, but here’s a link to the originators of the wiring language (what became arduino) if you’re interested.
Qual is German and means "suffering"
Their documentation is a bit shit (took me an entire night to figure out how to flash the code I compiled, and their built in web interface doesn't help) but otherwise yea it's a convenient piece of kit
Shit. Welp, done is done.
The hardware side is for profit.
Perpetually licensing things copyleft is good. What's the license?
What? Pio had supported Arduino for the longest time
Does it support Arduino hardware too? Or is it ewaste now?
Ops their website is different https://platformio.org/
Is the link correct?
The website tries selling something, but I can't decipher what exactly. Certainly does not seem ESP32- or Arduino-related.
The "Qual" doesn't stand for "Quality"
Geez. Everybody should switch to PlatformIO already. It’s multiple magnitudes better. You can version control your dependencies without hunting down each package. That alone would be worth the switch.
As for hardware, ESP32 is also a magnitude more powerful, cheaper and smaller than Arduino. They can use the same code.
It's a shame. But personally, I prefer ESP32 devices more these days anyway.
Well that was coming. Rip.
Since when can you just buy a nonprofit? I guess nothing that's not crime can ever be trusted?
You have your right to have personally identifying data deleted. My understanding is that most companies let you delete everything because that's the simplest way to comply but they don't have to do it that way, they can just take your name off of everything and anonymize it instead. Like how all your posts remain on Reddit if you delete your account, they're just no longer associated with your old username.