Datasheets. The thing ever engineer has to look at in order to use a part. They should not be cryptic crosswords. I should not have to look at the marginalia of a technical drawing on page 63 to find out how the pins are numbered. Inverted. Fucking. Pyramid. 1/♾
Datasheets 2/♾: the patents on I ²C expired LAST CENTURY. You can stop pretending your part uses some novel unnamed “two wire interface” and replace those twenty pages of timing diagrams with “it’s bog-standard I-squared-cee you know the drill [link to the drill]”.
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Mar 4, 2021 • 16 tweets • 11 min read
#ToolOfTheDay: If you 3D print, you probably know that trying to sand or grind PLA is futile: it just melts and gums up. Well (as happens more often than you’d think) the beauty industry has got dis. A nail sculpting burr and pneumatic drill allows finessing PLA fits w/ no clogs!
JST connectors can be a pain to disassemble. Screwdriver, tweezers and scalpels all work, if you don’t mind the odd stab wound. A set of connector shims is much better but even then it’s not obvious which tool to use. Here’s how I use the two-prong tool for JSTs. #ToolOfTheDay