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lol it's pretty simple, you just follow the instructions in the dfm8001 datasheet - SCRIN + GND to your solar panel, BAT + GND to your battery. Tie all three VFC pins to the BUCK pin to configure for lipo. Tie both MPPT pins to GND for a shitty solar panel. Tie L_EN, H_EN (unless you wanna use it instead of the RT9080), PRIM_U, PRIMBAT, and DCSC to GND. Leave all other pins floating. I think it's $6 on digikey.

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Migrants aren't pushing down wages. It's your boss.

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What if you're going on strike, and your boss hires some scabs to replace you, and for a second there you're really mad at the government and the policies that allow your boss to hire those scabs, and you're a little mad at the scabs too, except hold on there partner, those scabs were imported from another country. They're immigrants. What are you, some kind of anti-immigrant?

This is capitalist bait.

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What about when they're temporary, and go back home with their money?

What about when they come from a country so desperate and poor that they're terrified of being forced to go back, and so they'll do anything for work, even work half of minimum wage? You don't think that might drive down wages?

What if they're so terrified that they won't form a union? Shouldn't the IWW care about that?

What if this is all a trick by the capitalists themselves?

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Yeah this poster is idiotic and hopefully not real. My boss and my government is the problem, for hiring and exploiting the migrant workers who are so desperate that they will work for lower wages.

If we fix the laws so that there aren't so many desperate poor people to import and exploit, we could solve this problem.

But the IWW is captured and corrupt so it makes sense they would make this.

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Migrants aren't pushing down wages. It's your boss.

They absolutely are pushing down wages, especially when they come from poor desperate countries, because they're in a much more precarious financial position, they're easier to exploit, less likely to join a union, and most importantly, more likely to work for lower wages.

Separating that, from the notion of racism or people getting mad at the immigrants, and not the elected officials creating the policies that allow your boss to import and exploit people from overseas, is important to working class success.

How did we get so easily baited into falling for this?

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I either lost the schematic or never made one, but this one for the newer STM32U3 version is pretty much identical, just with an STM32U3 instead of the STM32L4:

https://i.imgur.com/r15uMNC.png

i think i actually omitted physical pullups on the switches. the max17055 is only so I can track exactly how low-power it is.

this is the pin layout I used on the L4, mirrored, because I deadbugged it upside down:

https://i.imgur.com/vEPDjOL.png

I did it on perfboard and plotted the layout in photoshop, this is the closest to the end before it was all done:

https://i.imgur.com/aDK4pHn.png