I made this PCB vise out of some ground steel rod I already had and spare 3D printer pieces.
I cut a groove into both of those aluminium castings with a mill (which holds the board) and drilled and tapped into part of an old dumbbell for weight.
Adjusting the vise means having to use a 3mm hex wrench, but I have those on my workbench so this is no big deal.
Pleased to get some lightweight metalwork done.
Just learned enough Verilog to output a VGA signal from an FPGA board that's been sitting in a drawer for two years. This went from overwhelming to actually working in around 24 hours. I'm chuffed.
Having a camera phone is such a boon when working on electronics. I was shortening the USB lead on this mouse and took a photo to remind me what order the wires were in.
Then I dropped the mouse off the table and bits of rotary encoder and spring came loose and I had no idea how they should go back.
Good thing I _just_ took a photo and was able to piece it all back together!
Finally executed on the idea of an OpenGL shader that tints your whole X session amber. This way I can avoid buying an amber CRT from eBay that I do not actually need, just to tickle that nostalgia part of my brain and get it to leave me alone.
Shader gist is here: https://gist.github.com/insom/88c473a0980b43b59fcbabc64650513d
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