I didn’t know there are major differences between the instances (like the voting system). I’m basically here because the join-page suggested lemmy.world 🤷🏻‍♂️. But I like it here :). Still haven’t fully understood how these instances work or work not together but I like that you don’t need accounts everywhere you want to post something. Is there a single server that handles user authentication or how do other instances know my account? 🧐

Ah, so I’m basically posting into foreign communities through my home-instance :).

What would be nice is when instances could merge their communities so there aren’t many dedicated duplicates, like I could imagine there are for example LEGO-communities on 7 instances and the according owners of those communities could initiate that they want to merge with others so everyone can post wherever they are but have a common community-feed.

It’s not really missing, there’s some life-insurance fraud going on.

Wet sanding (with appropriate sandpaper) makes a huge difference, especially for smaller grid sizes.

But it’s probably easier to just get some individual pieces from Bricklink.

For example these things here:

Maybe you can use this to find more connectors that could match yours: https://connectorbook.com/identification.html?m=NT&n=lo_prof_1r_w2b_conn_1p2 It has a pretty handy identification tool (you can even browse by pictures). It usually suggests quite an amount of connectors but it can guide you in the right direction and you can look at the according datasheets to find out more. By the way the creator of this community made that homepage and a book related to it (or probably the other way round 😅).

The train on the left is heading into an (under construction) underground section

There are also some leftovers from a crashed monorail train (no monorails were harmed here, it’s built from regular parts).

On the other end the trains are heading into (modified) winter-village.

In between there are some areas that aren’t built yet but there’s quite some space left. Also I’m a little surprised that shelves hold it up that well :D (they are bolted to a substantial brick wall tho).

I’m sure https://lemmy.world/c/pcmasterrace can help :)

Thanks for starting a new home for the community ☺️.

Do we like emojis here or rather not? :D

I was feeling the same :D.

Boy, because of 500c you made me do all that? I was feeling like the Crimson Fleet treated me nicer here.

I remember being a child and building a space station (it looked a bit like StarLab so I guess the station in general was on TV or in a book) with a solar array that shape, my parents were a little angry and asked where that shape came from. I didn’t have a clue so I basically just said I liked the symmetry. They told me that’s a "very bad shape and that I have to rebuild it. It ended up being 8-shaped, which was also nice.

I did it somehow expect to be even more expensive, so I’m not that shocked.

Yeah I have such a small, cheap Chinese one (T962) that I modified and flashed a nicer firmware on.

I basically populated the bottom side (with more components) first after applying solder past with a stencil, then reflowed the board. After cooling down I applied the solder paste to the upper side (with the LED) by using a small needle on a syringe (because using a stencil was too weird since the board wasn’t laying flat) but since the pads are relatively large and not that many that worked fine. Then I placed the components on that side and simply run the reflow cycle again.

I started with the bottom side because there are no heavy components. I expected heavy parts to just fall off on the second reflow cycle so I tried to avoid that.

At the end I manually assembled the USB connector using a regular soldering iron and tons of flux gel.

Maybe they first have to make it worthless before trying to buy it.

It actually depends, on longer posts they somehow disturb the reading flow for me (because they are kind of distracting compared to plain text). For short comments on the other hand I like them and find them rather refreshing.

They are called soft termination, I’m not sure if that’s available for every component, it came to my attention on ceramic caps. It’s a dedicated feature you can filter components e.g. on Digikey.

If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

I just received that gel-flux I ordered and gave it a try on some cheaper boards I got to practice :D. I did mess up one but the second one actually did come out pretty okay and wasn’t too much of an issue:

(The rightmost pins are connected anyways on the PCB)

Oh don’t be afraid it doesn’t go to nowhere :D. I just posted some images how that line continues :).