A quick proof-of-life update for you. The whole month of July was pretty much wiped out for me between the yearly family vacation which was followed by hosting friends from out of town. We had a lovely time, but it left very little time for getting work done. Add to that the fact that the… Read More Mid-Summer 2018 Update
As you have probably seen, I’ve launched occasional Twitch streaming of my work activities, including schematic capture, PCB layout, library coding, firmware coding, and even some solder melting. It’s been a bit of a learning curve, but I’ve been traversing it fairly successfully, I think. However, one big problem that I was having was with… Read More A New and Improved Experience
I managed to finish the layout of the OpenBeacon Mini prototype PCB in KiCad this evening while livestreaming on Twitch. A 3D rendering from KiCad is above. It looks about how I sketched it out and wasn’t too nasty to route, so I got that going for me. So I’ll get on order off to… Read More OpenBeacon Mini Proto PCB Layout Complete
I’m happy to report that I managed to pull off my first Twitch stream today, and even got a handful of viewers. There were some initial problems, as I was trying to stream at 1080p, but my wifi connection from my office just couldn’t give enough bandwidth for that to work. After restarting with the… Read More Twitch Success
Given my withdrawal from Patreon, this seems like a good time to try out some new ideas that have been rattlin’ around the noggin for a while. One of those ideas was to get a little more social (at least in internet terms) by streaming some of my work sessions on Twitch. So I’ve set… Read More Now Streaming?