I took a short break from working on Spare Parts to start on a new project; The Open Book. This neat opensource project, designed by Joey Castillo (https://github.com/joeycastillo/The-Open-Book), is a feather compatible open-hardware e-book reader that aims to be a simple device that anyone with a soldering iron can build for themselves. In this first […]

Continuing where I left off, I finished up soldering the capacitors and resistors on the Open Book’s board and was able to complete diodes and several components like the card reader, switches and more. This was streamed on Twitch on Jan 18, 2021 You can buy a PCB for this project on Joey’s Tindie page […]

Wow, I got so much progress done on Spare Parts and the Open Book in this stream! So a lucky few in chat had their first drive with Spare Parts on Twitch and immediately flipped the robot. I also completed the hardware build of the Open Book! Enjoy this mix of overlay dev on Twitch […]

In the final part of this short 4 part series, I completed the Open Book! This is such a great piece of open hardware and was genuinely fun to build. This was streamed on Twitch on Jan 25, 2021 You can buy a PCB for this project on Joey’s Tindie page here: https://www.tindie.com/products/joeycastillo/the-open-book-pcb-bare-pcb/ 00:00:00 Stream […]

I Show & Tell some things that came in the mail before moving on to the Keyboardio Atreus and the Corne Chocolate. The Corne Choclate needs a little TLC as it’s a diy project so chat and I hangout while I solder some diodes! This was streamed on Twitch on Dec 15, 2020. Special thanks […]

I continued putting together the Corne Chocolate. This split board still has a long way to go before it’s complete though! Watch me solder all the things, flash firmware onto the boards and enlist chat’s help more times than one. This was streamed on Twitch on Dec 17, 2020. Special thanks to Jesse Vincent of […]

It seems like this keyboard has a million little LEDs! No matter, in this chill stream I got them all soldered on and after replacing a LED or two, all of them seem to light up! This was streamed on Twitch on Dec 28, 2020. Special thanks to Jesse Vincent of Keyboardio for loaning the […]

We’re SO close! I think there’s a configuration issue because the same key on both boards doesn’t work. I soldered all of the key sockets to the boards and then built them up almost to completion! This was streamed on Twitch on Dec 29, 2020. Special thanks to Jesse Vincent of Keyboardio for loaning the […]

OK, this should be the one where I fix this thing, right? So we have a couple of keys that don’t work and a bit of an LED Party Mode going on. Come find out what’s wrong and watch as we get this Corne Chocolate split keyboard finally working! This was streamed on Twitch on […]

“I’m not gonna read any instructions or take much advice from Greg to start with. I’m just gonna plough into this.” ~with these famous last words, I show chat the robotics care packages that were sent to me, ignore the advice and start building a robot that you can drive around my shop! This was […]