Ep. 7 - [Guest] Bradan Lane

Show Notes

• Bradan's Video on his Portaprog. This is some of the tooling he creates to make the handwork of programming/prototyping easier.

• A bit more about the power of RP2040 usb bit banging here in elektor 

• Tiny USB Library

• Tester Brains Box for using with the USB bitbanged host.

• Microchip's SAM D 21 Series

• Bradan Lane's Store on Tindie

• Circuit Python show with Bradan

• Lost Pig - a humorous text based adventure in the browser. 

• Dark UX design

• DC540 Chakra Badge

• Low level considerations

• Bradan Tip: Underclock!  If you have a design running on battery.

• Smashcat from the UK Bradan's early advisors.

• How to convert UART to IR, instead if pin going to the LED, the pin goes to a MOSFET to overvolt and overcurrent the LED

• Coldbrew foxhunt badges

• Nordic Power Profiler -- good for getting down the consumption of parts on your board to omptimize for battery life

• PCB Usual Suspects:

  • JLCPCB

  • PCBWay

  • PCBuy

• Braden's DEF CON talk about full color PCBs.

• Adafruit

• Small Adafruit Hotplate for soldering single sided boards.

• iron OS firmware for the hotplates

• Paul Cutler's CircuitPython Podcast

• Desk of Lady Ada

• Attiny212

Bit Packing Example: