I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad

Re:I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad by ricksunny on Thursday April 11, 2024 @02:12PM (#40005088)

We need more general purpose embedded modules to act as an abstraction/ middleware / API interface to diversity implemented but frequently utilised low-level hardware. (and since this is a real world, with grades of environmental reliability like automotive, or specs like -45 C to 85 C.

edit * models-> modules (autoincorrect)

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Re:I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad by jareklupinski on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:16PM (#40005753)

I start pretty much every new electronics project with the question "Which M5Stack product handles 99% of the use cases?" and I start iterating from there

https://shop.m5stack.com/collections/m5-controllers

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Re:I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad by ricksunny on Thursday April 11, 2024 @03:29PM (#40005877)

Love it and was hitherto unfamiliar - thanks for clueing me in =)

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Re:I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad by imchillyb on Thursday April 11, 2024 @09:06PM (#40008474)

That’s an amazing resource. Thank you for sharing.

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Re:I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad by HeyLaughingBoy on Friday April 12, 2024 @08:56AM (#40012058)

Same here. A ridiculous amount of busywork just disappears when I go with M5Stack.

I do a lot of custom builds of arduino-class hardware and it gets easier and easier every year. Cheap hardware coming out of China is plenty good enough and means that I rarely need to design anything electronic. Just write code.

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Re:I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad by 0xEF on Thursday April 11, 2024 @09:17PM (#40008543)

We also need more manuals with dinosaurs.

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Re:I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad by lelanthran on Friday April 12, 2024 @04:39AM (#40010538)

I'm game to build anything. What specifically did you have in mind that doesn't already exist?

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Re:I made a thing to help you make a thing out of a keypad by ricksunny on Saturday April 13, 2024 @12:43PM (#40024278)

Motor control. All the motor control. I want literal lego blocks that convert me from position control to speed control to torque control, sensorless to position/velocity feedback, squirrelcage motor to induction motor to BLDC to brushed dc and any phylogeny in-between.

Getting the mechanical engineers to produce a modular shaft, motor mounts, and modular payload mounting interface will come later. (Yes I'm aware of brackets, shaft couplings, pillow-blocks)

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