MapleEngineer @ MapleEngineer @lemmy.ca

25 years in the federal government in guns and badges, 22 of those in Corre

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Dude, calm down. Lemmy is nothing like Reddit was. r/canada was a right wing cesspool of bots and brigades. c/canada tends to be more centrist. There are half a dozen far right agitators who try to get in early and downvote any leftist comments but they are few and weak. There are a few angry leftists and tankies but their numbers are also limited and their influence weak. Both groups slink back into the shadows when challenged effectively and resort to hurling impotent downvotes at every comment they don't like.

It does seem to keep happening.

This is christofascist virtue signaling. Why would they consult with anyone? Their christofascist base is all in. Everyone else is not. They aren't going to learn anything that they don't already know by consulting with voters or experts.

"Christofascists say christofascist things."

So what's newsworthy about this?

I wanted something smaller than most of the designs I had seen. These are 60mm x 60mm which makes them small enough to go into the Plano parts boxes I use for storage. I also wanted them in various widths with various slot openings. I use resistors and capacitors on paper tape but I also have chips and LEDs on plastic tape which require a wider body and slot. The splitter and slot width was important because I need to be able to clip off the end of the tape and throw them in a drawer without losing parts. I wanted to avoid multi part designs with clips and springs to connect to a rail or spools to hold the tape which make the whole thing wider. The cover was important because I expect to use them individually rather than connected together. Connecting them together with the LEGO pins was a concession to the guys I work with (well, one of the guys) who tends to build a few at a time where I tend to do a lot of prototyping and repairs. The pins mean there are no clips or pins projecting from the individual cartridges.

Yes, I've been a LEGO builder for 50 years or so and there is lots of Technics in my office. The LEGO pins are POM and very compliant. I've actually considered adding a DIN mount to these using a compliant DIN latch from BUD that I can buy from Digikey or Mouser. Another thing I've considered is just building DIN end clips where you have one with an integrated cover and one without. You would clamp those to a DIN rail then sandwich your stack up of cartridges between them. I'm just kicking around ideas right now.

I may ultimately make up a version with a window in the little sloped part so my friend can use a pick and place pen to pick the parts up from there with a bunch of them pinned together for assembly work. I tend to just expose the one or two parts I need and dump them out into the board I'm working on. I'm an electronic slob. I do most of my work under an Olympus SZ40 binocular microscope setup for soldering.

So, nothing major and I could have used any one of the designs available for download but I wanted to tinker with the design and print a bunch of similar but different cartridges that work for me.

Sorry...flow of consciousness.

Tweezers are the bomb. I've been doing a lot of repairs to old gaming consoles and hand helds. That actually paid for the new soldering station. Removing the surface mount caps without tweezers is possible but not easy.

Far left source.

I know OpenPnP. We have talked about it but most of the work I do is very small run. I hand solder everything down to 0402s and TQFPs with 0.4 mm pitch in one to three or four units. I've considered buying a hand PnP unit and I may at some point. I just upgraded to a new Hakko dual head soldering station which makes hand soldering stupid easy. I've probably got a few years of hand soldering in me.

Most of what I do is repairs and rework with a fair amount of prototyping.

For any production runs the guys I work with have PCBWAY do the populating for them.

Thanks. It's loosely based on a number of designs that I've seen online. I wanted to make improvements to meet my needs.

True.

Hey, so we were taking about how the fact that you have, "Indian blood" meant that the system was stacked against you. I said I would mention that to my wife, who has status.

What I'm wondering is this: When I consider my family, daughter number 1 who is a department head at an NHS hospital in London, daughter number 2 who is in med school, son (the youngest) who is planning to become an engineer, my wife's younger brother who is a mining engineer and mine manager at a larger copper mine in Arizona, wife's youngest brother who is a software engineer and a senior developer and program manager at Microsoft, and our friends who are successful small business owners, small farmers, and retired teachers if the decisions you have made don't have a much bigger impact on how you're making your way through life than a historical disadvantage you might have, if any.

Perhaps you have been convinced that the system is stacked against you to manipulated you into voting against your own self-interest?

This is the entire problem that the right has with the CBC wrapped up in a tidy package. It is centrist, slightly left biased, highly factual, professional journalism. The CBC is internationally respected. The right hates that. The right hates the truth. The right hates neutrality. The only reason the CBC is seen as left biased is that the extreme right has pulled the center to the the right. They can't force the CBC to become a right wing propaganda network like Fox "News" so they want to destroy it.

I'll be sure to let my wife (who is Raven Clan) know that.

This is exactly what I was taking about in another comment. Ego. You can't see that the things that we do in terms of foreign policy keep you safe in the long run. The world is confusing and scary and you want more than you have right now so it's Canada's fault and Trudeau's fault and foreigners fault. It's everyone's fault but yours.

Canada is a beautiful, free, and open country and I love it. I'm sorry that you don't.

So you think that Norway just gives people money?

I worked with a woman when I worked for the federal government who was quite unpleasant. She left and went to work for a major contractor. I was on a call with her when several of her people didn't show up for the call. She was raging and asked me where they were. I told her that I had no idea where her people were. She finally had had enough and demanded that I go find them and get them on the call. I said, "I'm not going to find YOUR people on your call with me, THE CLIENT. I don't work for you anymore, Diane." and hung up on her

Has Google considered making their advertising engine better? Allow us to skip every ad. Allow us to block all those fucking cryptocurrency scam ads. Forcing me to watch an ad for a company that I'm not interested in guarantees that I will hate that company and never buy their product even if I need it. I will go out of my way to buy something from a company that hasn't tried to ram their advertisements down my throat. If ads weren't so fucking terrible I might agree to watch them.

You never answered my question. What country do you think gives money to its citizens like you?