@zeeclor is available Mon 9 June to Thu 12 June for an online meetup. I’m available any of those nights, but Tue 10 June “feels” like a good night to me. Any other votes before i publish a date on meetup.com?
Last night was fun seeing and hearing a bit from @Belfry. I’m guilty of indulging in a little gadget lust while handling his LilyGo T-Deck. I don’t suppose i can talk @Belfry and @techman to do a little show and tell with their hardware projects? @techman and I tend to fill the agenda with software focused stuff, and it’s nice to listen to stuff that is out of my comfort zone.
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Sure, but atm my focus is on building my AI PC and my NAS so I can get back to maintaining my badly neglected website.
Also, my projects are all electronics in nature as I’m an electronics guy, (not a software one, tho I have to do a lot of software to support the hardware) and all my projects tend to be totally uninteresting to the laman because of their complexity.
For instance I’m doing a number of designs atm, one is a ‘hotmelt pencil’. It’s battery (18650) powered and delivers a small measured amount of hotmelt glue for precision jobs.
That may sound interesting, but the design sure won’t be as it involves a miniature central self oscillating power inverter which:
- supplies the high frequency AC to excite a Linear Variable Transformer which measures the quantity of hotmelt delivered.
- delivers the low voltage, high current power to the nicrome heating wire surrounding the hotmelt pellet
- powers the STM32F051 MCU that controls the whole process including measuring the temperature (via a LMT01 temperature sensor) using the Forth operating system.
While I love all of this stuff, I have found that talk of such things inspires instant tiredness and distraction among 99.99% of the population 
So we will have to see if I can find something interesting to the layman ?
10th works for me for an online meet, @jdownie. +1 vote
Happy to put together a bit of a talk on one or more topics, although I think last night’s chat with the T-Deck in front of us already covered my entire knowledge and experience with Meshtastic so far!
