I've ordered way too many components from #lcsc and #mouser for a frew projects. I also unlocked an achievement:
First full component reel ordered (just some resistors)
But now, I'll have to play the waiting game: 2-3 weeks, but that's how it works. Let's just hope that the order from LCSC doesn't arrive in Germany, but rather any other EU country. PCBs from #JLCPCB are also on their way (soon, after thy will be produced)
@themagpi I assembled a board I designed last year for the #RP2350 to test using the UART bootloader now I have ICs (from #LCSC).
After modifying the code in the pico-examples PR https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples/pull/571 to suit the hardware I have "blink" working 😁 .
I didn't break out the RUN pin so the Pico can't reset my board but powering it up after the Pico it uploads OK.
The RP2350A is feeling a bit more real today as I have cut tape in my hands (from #LCSC). Now I just need to find the board I designed for them back in September 😆 .
😠 I really wish #JLCPCB would up their game when it comes to parts for assembly.
I needed 1,500 IC but they only had ~300 so I pre-ordered on 2025-01-16 est. arrival March.
Two days later they have 3k in stock 🤦 . Luckily they're not expensive so I can just buy them again but they really need to do better IMHO.
(sadly #LCSC aren't any better with backordered parts)
Exploring Cheap Tantalum Caps of Mysterious Provenance https://hackaday.com/2024/07/22/exploring-cheap-tantalum-caps-of-mysterious-provenance/ #equivalentseriesresistance #AliExpress #capacitor #digi-key #tantalum #surplus #mouser #Parts #parts #LCSC #ESR
I'm hearing #LCSC will soon be bringing their custom acrylic and film panel service to international customers 👀
Easyeda2KiCad: Never Draw a Footprint Again https://hackaday.com/2023/08/08/easyeda2kicad-never-draw-a-footprint-again/ #footprintcreation #PCBHacks #easyeda #JLCPCB #Parts #KiCAD #LCSC
So, it turns out, if you want to buy something from #lcsc. Instead of paying $7.70 for shipping, you can go to #jlcpcb, get some small pcb's produced for $2, then select "global standard direct line", for $1.47, and including taxes and shipping, you will have paid $4.20 for your pcbs.
If you then order parts from lcsc, you get free shipping because of your jlcpcb order. This way you save $3.50 in shipping, and you get free pcbs.
And another email from #LCSC.. If I thought clicking the unsubscribe link would stop just the IPO emails I'd have clicked it already 😞
Anyone else tried to make a #PCB with #JLCPCB using *any* of the SMD5050 WS2818B RGB LEDs you can get.
#LCSC list loads of them.
JCLPCB don't seem to recognise them or even show them if I try an pre-order parts.
Spoiled for choice and cannot actually use them...
Arrrg!
Anyone else get a "Confirmation of Balance from LCSC Electronics" email from #LCSC ?
Any #LCSC parts experts here? I'm trying to find a friggin' LED (package 1206) using their search function. When I filter on package 1206 - every LED I check via the datasheet is a different package - like 0603. And when I've tried to find one on Digi-Key and then look for the matching manufacturer's on LSCS - I can't find one. I don't want anything fancy - and I don't care about the color. I'm trying to create a BOM for Dr. Borque's #FlipperZero Multiboard and it's the only part I can't find. Why is it that the simplest component is the hardest to find?
Hackaday Links: March 13, 2022
As Russia's war on Ukraine drags on, its knock-on effects are being felt far beyond the eastern Europe theater. And perhaps nowhere is this more acutely felt than in the space launch industry, seeing that at least until recently, Russia was pretty much everyone's go-to ride to orbit. All that has changed now, at least temporarily, and has expanded to include halting sales of rocket engines used in other nations' launch vehicles. Specifically, Roscosmos has put an end to exports of the RD-180 engine used in the US Atlas V launch vehicle, along with the RD-181 thrusters found in the Antares rocket. The loss of these engines may be more symbolic than practical, at least for the RD-180 -- United Launch Alliance stopped selling launches on Atlas V back last year, and had secured the engines it needed for the 29 flights it has booked by that April. Still, there's some irony that the Atlas V, which started life as an ICBM aimed at the USSR in the 1950s, has lost its Russian-made engines.
Bad news for Jan Mrázek's popular open-source parametric search utility which made JLCPCB's component library easier to use. We wrote about it back in 2020, and things seemed to be going fine up until this week, when Jan got a take-down request for his service. When we first heard about this, we checked the application's web page, which bore a big red banner that included what were apparently unpleasant accusations Jan had received, including the words "reptile" and "parasitic." The banner is still there, but the text has changed to a more hopeful tone, noting that LCSC, the component supplier for JLC's assembly service, objected to the way Jan was pulling component data, and that they are now working together on something that everyone can be happy with. Here's hoping that the service is back in action again soon.
Good news, everyone: Epson is getting into the 3D printer business. Eager to add a dimension to the planar printing world they've mostly worked in, they've announced that they'll be launching a direct-extrusion printer sometime soon. Aimed at the industrial market, the printer will use a "flat screw extruder," which is supposed to be similar to what the company uses on its injection molding machines. We sure didn't know Epson was in the injection molding market, so it'll be interesting to see if expertise there results in innovation in 3D printing, especially if it trickles down to the consumer printing market. Just as long as they don't try to DRM the pellets, of course.
You can't judge a book by its cover, but it turns out that there's a lot you can tell about a person's genetics just by looking at their face. At least that's according to an AI startup called FDNA, which makes an app called "Face2Gene" that the company claims can identify 300 genetic disorders by analyzing photos of someone's face. Some genetic disorders, like Down Syndrome, leave easily recognizable facial features, but some changes are far more subtle and hard to recognize. We had heard of cases where photos of toddlers posted on social media were used to diagnose retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the retina. But this is on another level entirely.
And finally, working in an Amazon warehouse has got to be a tough gig, and if some of the stories are to be believed, it borders on being a horror show. But one Amazonian recently shared a video that showed what it's like to get trapped by his robotic coworkers. The warehouse employee somehow managed to get stuck in a maze created by Amazon's pods, which are stacks of shelves that hold merchandise and are moved around the warehouse floor by what amounts to robotic pallet jacks. Apparently, the robots know enough to not collide with their meat-based colleagues, but not enough to not box them in. To be fair, the human eventually found a way out, but it was a long search and it seems like another pod could have moved into position to block the exit at any time. You could see it as a scary example of human-robot interaction gone awry, but we prefer to look at it as the robots giving their friend a little unscheduled break away from the prying eyes of his supervisor.
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