For chronic pain reasons holding the blue controller with the joystick further down is agony, love the joycon design besides that. Is there any way to modify it to be symmetrical?

Speaking as some who knows nothing about tech, I did theatre. Any advice would be so appreciated.

I modified a bunch of plasma lighters by simply soldering wires to the trigger switch to operate them with any microcontroller. Then I mounted them on a glove to launch little whistling fireworks.

DIY castle :]

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on a DIY stream deck project for the past few weeks and wanted to share it here, because this is exactly the kind of community I built it for.

The problem: every macropad or stream deck I found was either fixed (wrong number of keys, no knob, no screen) or needed CAD skills to change. I wanted to just pick a layout and print it.

What I made: DeckSmith, a generator that runs in the browser. You choose how many keys, add a rotary encoder, a slider or a small OLED, and it exports:

• the case files, ready to print (no supports)

• a pin map for the exact layout, so you know where every wire goes on the ESP32

The one in the video runs on a plain ESP32 dev board, hand-wired point to point (key matrix with diodes, EC11 encoder, slide pot on an ADC pin, I2C OLED). It connects over Bluetooth as a keyboard + media controller, so nothing needs installing on the PC. The firmware is free.

Here’s the full story, from the first ugly prototype to the final build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_G20Un2T14

I’m thinking about what to do next, for example a plug-in PCB kit so nobody has to hand-wire it. I’d really like your opinion: would you rather hand-wire it yourself, or use modules that plug together?

If you want to follow the project: it launches on Indiegogo on Nov 18, and the waitlist at decksmith3d.com gets 15% off.

Thanks for reading, happy to answer anything about the build!

not the most technical project, but definitely DIY 😅

Okay so maybe this is less of a technical question and more of a asking for the preference of someone with more experience than me

But I'm buying some wires for arduino/mini-electronics projects. I mostly use breadboards and perfboards so there is some soldering but most my prototyping is done on a breadboard

Now that the context is out of the way. Would you consider 30 AWG solid core wire a good fit for what I'm doing? Or am i better off buying jumper wires and trimming them to my liking? In terms of price the solid core wire is significantly cheaper considering a meter is about 2 egp vs the singular 10 cm jumper wire male-male is . 75 egp. So price wise I'm better off with js buying wire per meter or getting myself a roll but now the issue is breadboard spots are a bit wider than the 30 AWG and 22 would fit better but I've been struggling to find any sellers in my city that have it cuz solid core wire is mostly extinct from most of the common wire or electrical stores and they all use stranded and mostly 1.5 mm -3 mm or more ofc but those are the most common. I can't find . 5 mm or . 25mm which would both generally fit into breadboards comfortably and would let me have freedom with soldering on perfboards or even custom PCBs when the time comes.

So back to my question. Should i js stick with the 30 AWG solid core or should i stick with male-male jumper wires. I am buying a bit of both but i feel like it would be more resource efficient if i pool it all into one instead of buying some and some and if one fits better the other would basically be wasted and considering the delivery price is a bit hefty since I'm ordering online I'd prefer if i get everything at once instead of ordering now then again in a couple of weeks

Also the quicker the reply the better cuz i am finalizing my order list today. Thanks in advance for anyone that will answer

I just want to start by saying sorry if this isn't the right sub for this, I'm new to reddit. I have an old phone (Samsung a13 4g) and I was wondering if it would be possible to salvage the camera parts from it, and put it in a Lego camera frame to make a working Lego camera. If this is possible please give me help on how I would be able to do this. I also have an SD reader that I bought for esp32 if that helps, thanks. Also if this isn't the right sub for this can you please direct me to a better one

I might have gone a little overboard with this one. 🤔😂

(There's also a card-throwing machine hidden inside the box that can be activated separately with the push of a button.)

Does anyone have a recommendation for a quieter linear actuator? 😅