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This study[1] found that the recycled plastics analyzed were fairly toxic. I recall another that found the same for recycled synthetic clothing, but I was unable to find a reference.
1. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231110112511.h...
> Output voltage (four charging modes): PDO DC5.0V-3.0A or 9.0V-2.77A PPS 3.3-5.9V-3A or 3.3-11.0V-2.24A
5V output at 5A is pretty unusual.
For an example, compare https://github.com/meienberger/runtipi/blob/master/scripts/a... with https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/blob/master/scripts/app.
Quick review: I have one of the early units and I've really enjoyed using it. It's totally hackable, well documented, and I fully anticipate using mine for the next decade or longer. It's far from a smartwatch - it's more like you're sitting in on the Casio product meeting where they wrote the original F-91W specs. The year-scale battery life remains, but it comes with the ability to fully customize the watch behavior. For me, that meant adding sunrise/sunset and moon phase faces. I might build a quick-timezone switcher in the future.
Video: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/autocad-webassembly/
It's fast and has good search, a good editor, and uses simple hierarchical organization + tagging. I like that it gets out of my way and does a good job of handling everything from code snippets to freeform thoughts to recipes.
BookStack is best for things that 'look like' documents. Mobile editing could also be better - you have to click a maximize button to get a usable view of the editor and the editor UI still takes up a lot of space. It is web based, but it is very lightweight and I have found it very easy to host.
Pretty awesome board:
- Intel J4105 (2.3Ghz Quad-core, fanless!)
- Up to 32GB DDR4
- M.2 SSD (4 x PCIe 2.0)
- 2 x GbE
- 2 x SATA 3.0
- HDMI 2.0 and DP 1.2 at 4k
- 2xUART, 2xI2C - both at 3.3V
- 110x110x43mm
- Expected to ship in late November, price will be above $100
The 3.3v regulator could certainly be improved. Once you've verified that your sleep currents are within the expected range (<1mA), consider swapping it for something more efficient. A board like [2] should work reasonably well if you set UVLO to the minimum value of 0.3V [3]. This should get you to a few months of battery life.
A large capacitor (500+uF) on VBATT will stretch this a bit further. You want something with low ESR (the batteries should be around 400 milliOhms total; try to stay under 100 milliOhms). Anything here [4] would be pretty reasonable (supercaps are also a good option).
If you want to go even further, switch to an ATtiny85V and run it directly from the batteries. (This will work with your ATTiny85 as well, but you'll drop below its operating voltage while there's still a fair bit of usable charge left in the batteries.) Instead of wiring to CH_PD, you can wire it to the enable pin on your regulator (unfortunately not exposed on [2]; it's pin 6 on the TPS61200). You'll need to level shift the ATTiny<->ESP8266+sensor signals. The advantage here is that the ATTiny power doesn't take an efficiency hit from a converter and the ESP8266 and sensors can be 100% powered down when not in use. This is what I'd do if creating this as an original design on a single board.
[1]: https://openhomeautomation.net/esp8266-battery/ [2]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10255 [3]: https://www.circuitsathome.com/dc-dc/tps61200-board-modifica... [4]: http://www.mouser.com/Passive-Components/Capacitors/Aluminum...
On the hardware side, consider using a switching power supply. Many cheap/small ESP8266 breakouts use inefficient linear regulators. You may also consider adding a big capacitor across the battery +/- lines. This will help smooth out the large current pulses consumed by the device, which can be quite important as the battery voltage starts to drop.
The ESP8266 is pretty power hungry, but you should be able to get much more than two weeks on those batteries. Even in the worst case scenario, I'd expect about three months.
I'd be happy to take a look at your schematics and code. (email in profile)
I will never buy Lenovo again.
I have amazing small/medium business support from Dell on my monitors. If I see a dead pixel, slight backlight fade, or any other issue, I can call Dell and have a new monitor sent overnight to my door.