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Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires

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Reverse-Engineering a Nintendo Switch Lite Boardview at 6K PPI

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Show HN: Nintendo Switch Lite Netlist Extraction at 6K PPI

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uSoldering
·hace 3 meses·discuss
Why feed it photos of a photo when you could just feed it the photo that was printed out?
uSoldering
·hace 3 meses·discuss
It’s hard to imagine anyone wanting this to be real more than I do, but this is nowhere close to being ready to do actual work. Photographing real PCBs is hard, there is no fiducial maths, no actual probing is being done. It's just photos of a photo being piped into an agent. If it actually did what it claims, no reasonable person would exclude it from the demo video.

https://gainsec.com/2026/04/16/autoprober/
uSoldering
·hace 6 meses·discuss
For the bottom 99.9% of wealthy people, it is not a good thing.
uSoldering
·hace 6 meses·discuss
Eric Schmidt is, in his own words, an arms dealer now and is driving the R&D of autonomous A.I. weapons.
uSoldering
·el año pasado·discuss
I guess I missed it and was hoping for a deeper dive.
uSoldering
·el año pasado·discuss
I think it's odd to make a whole video about a DIY rear-projection television without using the phrase 'rear-projection television'. It's novel to bounce it off the ceiling, and it repurposes e-waste so it's a great project.
uSoldering
·el año pasado·discuss
As someone with over a decade in industrial manufacturing, there is only ever the in-group of the masters, and the out-group of the serfs. Actually making things is merely the means to the end of neo-feudalism.
uSoldering
·el año pasado·discuss
I am voicing my opinion in which I believe in strongly, nothing more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
uSoldering
·el año pasado·discuss
You are missing the forest for the trees. This is an aerospace vehicle capable of flying in the air indefinitely. How many drones can you fit on a vehicle? How many vehicles can you fly at once? 60 miles is already reachable by the cheapest and most deadly weapon class of short-range drones. And now all they need to do is fall down. At freefall that is 140 seconds until it reaches the ground.
uSoldering
·el año pasado·discuss
I like how the article glazes over the fact that this is drone swarm delivery tech. You are naive to think otherwise.
uSoldering
·el año pasado·discuss
Apparently, the rabbit hole goes deeper. The wayback machine puts the "AI Generated" description on the cheese website at August 7th, 2020. The AI didn't hallucinate anything because it didn't generate anything, the entire premise is simply fake.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200807133049/https://www.wisco...

The (edited) cheese ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I18TD4GON8g

What probably should be the target link: https://www.theverge.com/news/608188/google-fake-gemini-ai-o...
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
If this worked well you would imagine a demo consisting of more than a single through-hole component.
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
What is the overlap of people who are reading a blogpost about Cloudflare standards and people who need a metaphor to understand what compression is? You have 7 paragraphs of highly technical information then just in case, you need to explain how compression works? Just tell your reader you think they're a moron and save yourself the keystrokes.
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
Driven at 1 amp, ~2 inches from skin, ~5 minutes, twice daily. 660nm seemed to work better. Note that 850nm light is not visible and exceptionally dangerous. You will burn your eyes by looking at anything the invisible light is bouncing off of.
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
Anecdotally, I designed and built a simple 'LED on a stick' to emit 660nm or 850nm red light at levels that cause eye damage and found it cuts wound healing time roughly in half.
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
Wait until you hear the news about eggs.
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
If you photograph and stitch a panorama of a CD at a resolution with the data visible and distribute it under your copyright, is it piracy?
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
Truly remarkable that technology can disrupt any industry— even one that has been around for millennia, like pimping.
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
There is a direct parallel from companies using open source code to build monetization platforms while paying open source developers nothing; to companies using user generated content to build LLMs. At least with LLMs it is a self-poisoning well. The internet is dead, long live the internet.
uSoldering
·hace 2 años·discuss
For this PCB, the smallest targets are about 0.2mm in diameter. In terms of precision robotics, this is very manageable. A robotic soldering iron, or even a laser soldering system, with a wire feeder and cutter could be used to make something like a rudimentary die-bonder, that simply solders the wires to the correct pads.

My background in process engineering made me lean towards a figuring out very manual process that could be automated, instead of figuring out a highly automated process.