[01:08] <hads> G: Hi, I use hackvana, there's a #hackvana channel
[01:09] <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.
[01:21] <G> hads: oh nice, thanks
[01:27] <G> hads: oh wow, reading his FAQ/Guide, sounds like exactly what I'll need
[01:42] <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.
[01:43] <G> yeah sounds great, now I just need to think up my solution to my 3-pin header issues
[01:44] <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 :)
[01:50] <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
[01:51] <hads> Yeah that's what I was going to suggest as a connector option. I think we stock those.
[01:53] <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
[01:54] <hads> Freetronics do a PCB mounted one if you want to go that route. Otherwise I'd just solder them directly as you said.
[01:55] <G> yeah, I already have the hall sensors, so yeah, sounds best
[19:22] <ibeardslee> morning
[20:30] <ajmitch_> morning
[20:48] <chilts> morning
[20:55] <thumper> morning
[20:59] <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
[21:00] <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
[21:04] <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/
[21:21] <chilts> awesome -> http://fr.slideshare.net/EmilandDC/dear-nsa-let-me-take-care-ou
[21:37] <G> morning
[21:38] <hads> morning
[21:46] <G> hads: hey quick question, is there any template in particular you work off for Arduino boards (for the pin placements)
[22:27] <olly_> morning
[22:58] <Atamira> mornin
[23:38] <hads> G: Sorry, busy distracted.
[23:42] <G> hads: no problem
[23:48] <hads> You mean in Eagle?
[23:51] <G> hads: or anything, the Sparkfun/Adafruit libraries contain ones, but the templated shields actually look too big