Maker, tinkerer, curious learner. Biz @ledmage Mastodon @benhencke@leds.social

Joined March 2012
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I've been putting off fully switching to KiCad for too long, but late is better than never. In other news, I won't feel at all obligated to learn this one 3D CAD tool I used to have access to. #autodesklife
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Then a year later I'm giving talks about #KiCad 🤣 x.com/baldengineer/status/18…

23 Jun 2024
In a closing session of #Teardown2024, @im889 walks through the recent experience of switching to @kicad_pcb (for good.) Welcome to the right side Ben!
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Ever find yourself doing this?
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@benhencke@leds.social Ben Hencke retweeted
11 May 2023
We all had the same problems: Wires getting yanked off between synchronized skydiving team costumes, or low framerates across 18 LED-encrusted garden gnomes... Pixelblaze now lets you run patterns (including audio-reactive ones) across many controllers! #GnomeMoreProblems 🙄😑
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Gah! @JLCPCB support is giving me the run-around for weeks. Got a bad batch of panels that usually have no issue (reorder). These are missing so much soldermask they have yield problems. Random, and really bad in some spots. Will they fix it?
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@benhencke@leds.social Ben Hencke retweeted
21 Feb 2023
There’s a new #Pixelblaze kit in the shop, the Beautiful box!
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@benhencke@leds.social Ben Hencke retweeted
I played with @im889’s pixelblaze board all night and had a blinky blast. Full thread over on the elephant site: hackaday.social/@ScottMonagh…
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@benhencke@leds.social Ben Hencke retweeted
I just placed the order for a shipping crate of GC10 Type 4 in tubes. If you want some, send me a DM.
Hey there. Are you looking for some factory fresh GC10 (Dated Dec 2022 or Jan 2023)? Send me a DM. #GC10 #ElectronicsTwitter
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Halware: an abstraction layer that promises to remove the requirement of becoming intimately familiar with the low level documentation but actually does the opposite.
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A 3D mapped #pixelblaze Christmas tree
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The tree has almost 600 LEDs on fairy wire and is run by #pixelblaze with an output expander using 3 channels. I made a stripe pattern so I could tell if each loop was more or less lined up. I had a helper work the mapper code to speed things up.
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One of the neat things is getting a 3D preview in Pixelblaze
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@benhencke@leds.social Ben Hencke retweeted
Sale ends at midnight Pacific tonight (Wed)! Click thru for info on our Tindie sale as well.
It's already Cyber Mega Buy Shit Week, and we're doing a few promos thru Nov 30 to entice you. Website: free US shipping on $75 orders w code SHIP75, free resistor Bender jig with each order. We've also got an SMT board bundle with some… mstdn.social/@alpenglow/1093…
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@benhencke@leds.social Ben Hencke retweeted
23 Nov 2022
Happy #FibonacciDay to those who celebrate! 🐚✨ We love finding the #Fibonacci sequence in nature and in #maker projects — like @jasoncoon_'s @evilgeniuslab #electronic #art! 🤩 Where else have you seen cool examples of Fibonacci in action? 👩‍🔬🔎🍥
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LEDs social! Find me here @benhencke@leds.social I've started posting some interesting stuff there, less so here anymore.
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Putting together this supercon badge hack with Zach was awesome fun. With no real prep, we used what components we had on us. I still can’t believe we got it working just 3 minutes before the badge hacking ceremony began!
18 Nov 2022
Supercon Badge Reads A “Punch” Card hackaday.com/2022/11/17/supe…
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