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Found a workaround for running KiCAD on Wayland

Under the hood it's just running X11 but I haven't seen this solution documented elsewhere:

Xwayland :10 -geometry 1920x1080 & sleep 1 && DISPLAY=:10 openbox & DISPLAY=:10 kicad

You'll only have a single monitor but everything else works flawlessly and is snappy. Change the resolution to your liking.

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u/FunDeckHermit — 27 days ago

Review request: ESP32-S3 web radio

GitHub: https://github.com/FunDeckHermit/KINK-box/
(Schematic, renders in kicad-artifacts folder)

Hi Reddit,

I'm making an easy to use web-radio with AUX output, USB PD power input and ~30W of speaker output power.

It has four buttons with RGB, a menu switch for volume control and mode select. The four big buttons are to pick a specific webradio station. Easy to use for seniors.

I have taken some controversial liberties with the PCB design (components in antenna area, giant hole below ESP32). That's because I might use an external antenna and hand soldering the bottom pad is easier with a hole in it.

Do I need a pi-filter on the input power supply?
Does my amplifier output stage look okay?

u/FunDeckHermit — 1 month ago

Sanity check: battery monitor and heartbeat schematic

As in learning analog circuits I've build a battery monitor and heartbeat generator using op-amps and comparators. I know a single microcontroller can do everything but I like to learn.

It's powered by 2x 9V batteries and monitors both of them.

Do you think this would work? Would you have done it differently? Is my logic sound?

High quality upload here: https://drive.proton.me/urls/0QEFPWXBCC#VXhJ5s2T53WN

u/FunDeckHermit — 3 months ago