Best thing about stuffing a project into a case, it hides all that embarrassing wiring…
Got everything stuffed into the box for the beer fridge lock. Hardest part will be to mount the cabinet lock.
USB-C powered, SONOFF SV connected to HomeAssistant (so I can yell at it to open if it doesn’t scan), LF RFID RDM6300 (just barely works with xMagic, works like a boss with FlexEM) operating a 12volt cabinet lock thingus.
Have you tried swapping ground and data just in case?
I have. I think it’s buggered, but I’ve got some esp32 stuff arriving today thankfully.
Does anyone have a good recommendation on a 3d printable soldering station?
What soldering iron?
There’s a shit ton on printables… I saved a bunch for ts101/pinecil types
But there’s also a bunch of generics
I’ll find a few that look decent
I have been eyeballing this, looks pretty handy
https://www.printables.com/model/843353-solder-scroll-ergonomic-adjustable-solder-tool
Thank you!
I just got a cheapo one for right now. I’d love to get a pinecil at some point.
I’ve seen the solder scroll before and it does look neat, I’ll print that one out tonight after I’m done printing the third hand.
Edit:
Got the new soldering iron and I’m off to burn the apartment down!
Not bad for my first time soldering in probably a decade besides crappy wire joins here and there lol
Don’t worry about the blurry ones, those are top notch solder joints, just blurry 
They are so nice. I use a Ts100 I modified to take usb-c
It’s on its last legs so I’ll be upgrading to a pinecil v2 soon.
Such a great line of irons though
I bought this
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EH85rzH
Knowing that the actual Pinecil can’t be delivered to my island (like most things), is this a good alternative? I also needed that 100w charger for my laptop because my power brick swam in the recent flooding so it’s quite convenient.
I know chinese crap is never anywhere close to the real stuff but at least they’re smart enough to include all regions in their shipping locations…
Do you know if it uses the risc-v so with open source software?
No clue if that one is any good
This one is a pretty good deal for what it is
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mr9VVJQ
Ts101 is basically the ts100 with usb-c
The TS80P is very good and it uses USB C.
And now my wishlist is getting longer…
Took a few hours, but I’ve got my first esp32 device up and running! It’s monitoring the soil moisture for some Orange Expansus isopods.
Hopefully I can narrow in environmental conditions so they can start reproducing.
I’m going to be up all night setting these and the SCHT3s up on Home Assistant lol
Man those are pretty
They’re definitely my favorites! They’re my GF’s, she absolutely hated isopods until I got into them, now she’s slowly coming around to them. She bought these, but they’re staying at my place because she hasn’t come that far around to them
I’d totally print that if I had the files… While adding a mfgc on the dorsal side.
I have some files that could work as a base to
Build off of…
I expect there will need to be a lot of sizing and reprinting for a good fit
This could be a great base for wearable with flex sensors 
not currently supported in IronOS but looks like they might in the future…
I need a shirt that says “Caution: Dangerous when Bored.”
Anywho, it’s up and running. I’ll take it for a first spin this weekend, hopefully. Gonna hafta enlist a buddy for extra hands, plus I want to shoot a video to document it to youtube to pay it forward (back?) for all I’ve learned there. Maybe it’ll be someone else’s inspiration.
