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Re:Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:17AM (#44885167)
I really wish Freecad would move as fast as Blender does. I mean they are doing great work and the 1.0 release also works really well, but it's really fascinating to see how much progress an open source project can make once there is a bit of funding.
Re:Command Line Interface for Signal on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @02:18AM (#27685514)
You could use a docker container. e.g https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api

(I am the author of REST API wrapper)

But I agree with you on that...Java isn't my preferred language either.

Re:Real-time Netlisting in KiCad [video] on Thursday June 03, 2021 @10:31AM (#27381935)
Does anyone have any experience with Horizon EDA? https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon

Two days ago version 2.0 of Horizon EDA was released. I haven't tried it yet, but I've watched some Youtube/twitch Videos about it and I've to admit I am really impressed. It has some really nice convenience features - and the way it handles libraries is much nicer than the way Kicad does.

The only thing that's holding me back is, that it's basically a one man show. Although the project already exists for several years there's always the fear that the author at some point abandons the project. I really wish there would be some sort of semi automated conversion tool which allows me to convert Kicad projects to Horizon EDA.

Re:Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1 on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @06:23AM (#27352552)
What I would really like to see is a ESP32/ESP8266 competitor. A small 32bit uC with built in WiFi. That would be really awesome.
Re:QNAP ships NAS backup software with hidden credentials on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:33PM (#26987070)
Am I the only one that thinks that connecting the NAS directly to the internet is a stupid idea to begin with?

Don't get me wrong, I can totally understand why people (without much technical background) are tempted to do this. But with all the complexity these NAS systems nowadays have it was only a matter of time for something like this to happen.

Re:CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet on Sunday March 21, 2021 @04:41PM (#26533783)
The Inkplate 6 works pretty well - I am using it for my digital picture frame. The only disappointing thing for me is, that they haven't released the actual source files (Eagle, Kicad, etc..) for the hardware yet. [1]

[1] https://github.com/e-radionicacom/Inkplate-6-hardware/issues...

Re:CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet on Sunday March 21, 2021 @01:25PM (#26532084)
A few months ago I built a E-ink picture frame, which displays an image that was taken today but x years ago. The picture frame now stands on my desk and already brought back some really nice memories.

In case anyone is interested: https://mindfulbytes.io/

Re:Signal Is Back on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:26AM (#25810161)
Not sure if this fits your needs, but I am maintaining this project here: https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api
Re:GitHub Is Down on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:30PM (#23605082)
yep, also noticed that. At first I thought I've messed something up with pihole. But looks like it's something bigger...

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github

Re:What's New with Qt for Android on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:27AM (#23322160)
I have written a bunch of Qt android apps over the last few years (not all of them still on the app store though):

e.g:

https://github.com/ImageMonkey/imagemonkey-thegame

https://github.com/bbernhard/nextload-client

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.imagemonkey...

Re:Ask HN: What projects are you working on now? on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:31PM (#22648674)
For me it's mostly fitness (as all the gyms are now closed in Austria, I've to become creative) and working on ImageMonkey - a public open source image dataset. (https://imagemonkey.io)