Colin Hickey

Dad/Husband/Maker and owner of Eplop Electronics selling inhouse made projects and now other peoples :-)

[Colin Hickey @eplop]

@astro_timpeake @nationaltrust Wallington hall is our fav site

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@jonoxer Standard lighting if you’re going to start a yt channel about repairing crash damaged cars!

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@josefprusa Allow proper folder support in prusa link / prusa connect would be another biggie for me as I use it for business churning out products so being able to categorise would be great as I did in octoprint

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@josefprusa Low temp error gives no option but reboot the printer. An option to heat to 30 degrees as a warm up option would be fantastic!

[The Pi Hut @ThePiHut]

NEW! USB Power Breakout for Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2.

Allows you to power your Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 from a USB port, keeping your GPIO pins free for HATs (because a stacking header isn't always ideal)
https://t.co/frP5KnyxOP

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@anne_engineer Can’t think of anything but birds of a feather when I hear that name

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@JeremySCook Not posted in two years, need to get over myself and posting again

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@patrick_riscv Looks great

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@IanSJohnston That display is looking super crisp!

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@MrBananas @PCBWayOfficial Well done !!

[Chris Greening @MrBananas]

We did it!

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@DJSnM Grew up at the end of said wall, aptly named Wallsend :-)

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Looking pretty good! Thanks to everyone who has backed the project so far! https://t.co/DkCioDTJuc

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I forget I have the laser cutter sometimes, was handy today for prototyping a pcb to see what a physical fit will be in a case. And yes I left the little logo in still 🤣

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@no1089 It was a cheap ali purchase as i just couldn't justify the stickvice. https://t.co/dL0yxt69Q6

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When you have to improvise! The pcb vice solder spooler…

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@PaterPracticus Forgot to mention we found a ESP chip used on a 125 buffet carriage the other day which links into the seat reservation modules. Designed and made by MCLaren no less!

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@martinfasani @no1089 Oh I still hand assemble test boards for certain, only thing I try and force myself to do is buy a proper stencil even for test boards as I used to try and laser cut them but ended up with more problems.

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@no1089 @martinfasani yeah I totally agree a balance, like I still sit bagging up kits to sell as I just couldn't face paying someone to do that.

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@martinfasani @no1089 It also comes down a lot to how much your time is worth. When I started out doing my store i did everything in house but I'm really trying to shift everything to pcba now so I can concentrate on new designs and docs. My problem has been getting to a point of affording that.