Woah
I haven’t checked this thread in a while. Then I scroll a little to find this
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Right? I’ve been talking it up locally because it’s just so damn cool.
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looks great!
Wifi in my arm?
Or your leg, or chest
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sick
It’s so beautiful!
You realise you don’t have to make it beautiful, as it’s going to be in the body where nobody can see it, right? Yet, perhaps this is to be a cherished meditation by the cyborg who privately knows, “Under my skin, there is beauty!”
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Yes it is fire 
i cant wait for a link on dt shop for s implantsble wifi router lol hopefully it will be smaller 
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Most circuit boards are never seen… But every engineer who’s worth his salt will design beautiful boards when possible.
There’s something insanely satisfying about going above and beyond to do things right.
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Still, more care tends to be put into the aesthetics of boards that will be regularly handled and seen by the end user, like Arduinos and other hobby microcontrollers, as opposed to chips that aren’t expected to ever be removed from their casing by the end user. This, however, is I think the most beautiful chip I’ve ever seen.
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I don’t design PCBs to be aesthetically pleasing. I can’t afford any luxury like that with the implantable tech that needs to be so meticulously engineered and optimized. There’s a kind of aesthetic appeal as a direct result of that though. It scratches your brain right to see things with so much thought put into them, that are that way because it’s what needed to be done to make them function correctly. I spent over 100hrs on the design and you can feel it when you see it.
It helps that my designs are only getting more round and organic looking over time.
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Perhaps it’s precisely because you are working so closely with the restraints placed upon you by the laws of nature, ultimately the same restrains under which evolution shaped the wilderness and us within it who find it beautiful. It may well be hypothesised that our sense of beauty is a kind of intuitive recognition of the patters that exist in things that share in being fit to these natural restraints, of harmonious things, of things that are “right.”
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Spent a bunch of time today testing the wireless power delivery for the bodybytes. It’s a pretty delicate operation but it’s kinda my specialty so there’s a path forward. I’m gonna order some more parts and while I’m waiting for them I’ll test the Wi-Fi antenna matching network.
I still need a reference image to load onto the MT7628AN and NOR flash with the JTAG interface if anyone wants to put together one for me. Emulating the vocore is fine for now. Feel free to ask if you need configuration information, but the project notes document in the GDrive project directory linked above has pretty robust documentation on all that.
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sickkkk cant waitt
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Sorted out the tuning on the Qi receiver antenna and the performance is very good. Surprisingly didn’t have a lot of issues with the BGA parts on the reverse side for my test unit. Gonna populate all the parts on the top side tomorrow and test it out. It’ll probably require a bit of rework, but after the physical population on the test unit is sorted I’ll try using my segger j-link JTAG debugger to load an image that mei& on the discord put together. Silentpotato said that may not work and I may need to make a jig to program the NOR flash directly, but I’ll figure it out and ask for help if I need. If that works then I’ll use the same technique for populating the remaining 8 units. If it doesn’t work I’ll take it in to my colleague for x-ray inspection and see what I can do better.
I still don’t have a solution for cutting the ferrite plates, if anybody has access to a wazer or knows of a waterjet cutting service that would be willing to handle something as small as 10 units lmk.
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DT might look into financing one of us reasonable.
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It’s been a couple of years, but I had a gear waterjet cut from 3/4 steel and it cost about 75 bucks ( about 1 inch diameter with 3/8 through hole) . I just supplied an .svg file. The place does small scale jobs. I’ll send you the contact info. It’s small enough of a place that they do business via facebook, and make a lot of racecar parts and / or firepits.
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