| hads | G: Hi, I use hackvana, there's a #hackvana channel | 01:08 |
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| hads | Mitch, the guy that runs it is an aussie in China. | 01:09 |
| hads | I also currently use Eagle which I don't really like but haven't had time to learn an open source alternative. | 01:09 |
| G | hads: oh nice, thanks | 01:21 |
| G | hads: oh wow, reading his FAQ/Guide, sounds like exactly what I'll need | 01:27 |
| hads | Yeah it's a really great service. There's no automated ordering at the moment but he's super easy to deal with and has very flexible options. | 01:42 |
| hads | <5x5cm and <10x10cm boards are a special price, US$20 and US$30 for 10 units I think. | 01:42 |
| G | yeah sounds great, now I just need to think up my solution to my 3-pin header issues | 01:43 |
| G | current thought is getting some lengths of ribbon cable, and some of the connectors that sparkfun are advertising and build my own | 01:44 |
| hads | I can help with that :) | 01:44 |
| G | hads: yep :) basically need to connect some hall sensors from up to 50cm away, so the thought is, get some 6 wire ribbon cable, split it into two, and use something like PRT-08096/PRT-08232 to terminate the cable to the PCB | 01:50 |
| hads | Yeah that's what I was going to suggest as a connector option. I think we stock those. | 01:51 |
| G | the question becomes though, what is the best way to hook up the sensors to the ribbon wire, or just solder them directly on w/ a bit of heatsink as insulation of the pins | 01:53 |
| hads | Freetronics do a PCB mounted one if you want to go that route. Otherwise I'd just solder them directly as you said. | 01:54 |
| G | yeah, I already have the hall sensors, so yeah, sounds best | 01:55 |
| ibeardslee | morning | 19:22 |
| ajmitch_ | morning | 20:30 |
| chilts | morning | 20:48 |
| thumper | morning | 20:55 |
| chilts | thumper: how much are you using Go these days? like 100%? You enjoying it? | 20:59 |
| * chilts is going to play with either Go (again) or Rust | 20:59 | |
| thumper | chilts: mostly 100% for work | 20:59 |
| thumper | still using python after hours :) | 20:59 |
| chilts | I feel they're quite similar | 20:59 |
| chilts | cool, nice to have two main languages to play with | 20:59 |
| thumper | parts of go are growing on me | 20:59 |
| thumper | it does have some cool bits | 20:59 |
| chilts | I'm mostly doing JavaScript these days, and _way_ less Perl, so I think I need another language to futz around on | 20:59 |
| thumper | oh, yeah, javascript too these days | 21:00 |
| chilts | yeah, I love the messaging | 21:00 |
| thumper | I'm doing web dev in the evenings | 21:00 |
| chilts | nice | 21:00 |
| thumper | jquery, backbone etc | 21:00 |
| chilts | cool, I still haven't used Backbone or Ember, but I wanna play with Angular too | 21:04 |
| chilts | https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2013/06/11/stopwatching-us-mozilla-launches-massive-campaign-on-digital-surveillance/ | 21:04 |
| chilts | awesome -> http://fr.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/dear-nsa-let-me-take-care-ou | 21:21 |
| G | morning | 21:37 |
| hads | morning | 21:38 |
| G | hads: hey quick question, is there any template in particular you work off for Arduino boards (for the pin placements) | 21:46 |
| olly_ | morning | 22:27 |
| Atamira | mornin | 22:58 |
| hads | G: Sorry, busy distracted. | 23:38 |
| G | hads: no problem | 23:42 |
| hads | You mean in Eagle? | 23:48 |
| G | hads: or anything, the Sparkfun/Adafruit libraries contain ones, but the templated shields actually look too big | 23:51 |
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