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bbernhard90on Blender on iPad Is Finally Happening

I really wish Freecad would move as fast as Blender does. I mean they are doing great work and the 1.0 release also works really well, but it's really fascinating to see how much progress an open source project can make once there is a bit of funding.

bbernhard90on Command Line Interface for Signal

You could use a docker container. e.g https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api

(I am the author of REST API wrapper)

But I agree with you on that...Java isn't my preferred language either.

bbernhard90on Real-time Netlisting in KiCad [video]

Does anyone have any experience with Horizon EDA? https://github.com/horizon-eda/horizon

Two days ago version 2.0 of Horizon EDA was released. I haven't tried it yet, but I've watched some Youtube/twitch Videos about it and I've to admit I am really impressed. It has some really nice convenience features - and the way it handles libraries is much nicer than the way Kicad does.

The only thing that's holding me back is, that it's basically a one man show. Although the project already exists for several years there's always the fear that the author at some point abandons the project. I really wish there would be some sort of semi automated conversion tool which allows me to convert Kicad projects to Horizon EDA.

bbernhard90on Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1

What I would really like to see is a ESP32/ESP8266 competitor. A small 32bit uC with built in WiFi. That would be really awesome.

bbernhard90on QNAP ships NAS backup software with hidden credentials

Am I the only one that thinks that connecting the NAS directly to the internet is a stupid idea to begin with?

Don't get me wrong, I can totally understand why people (without much technical background) are tempted to do this. But with all the complexity these NAS systems nowadays have it was only a matter of time for something like this to happen.

bbernhard90on CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

The Inkplate 6 works pretty well - I am using it for my digital picture frame. The only disappointing thing for me is, that they haven't released the actual source files (Eagle, Kicad, etc..) for the hardware yet. [1]

[1] https://github.com/e-radionicacom/Inkplate-6-hardware/issues...

bbernhard90on CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

A few months ago I built a E-ink picture frame, which displays an image that was taken today but x years ago. The picture frame now stands on my desk and already brought back some really nice memories.

In case anyone is interested: https://mindfulbytes.io/

bbernhard90on Signal Is Back

Not sure if this fits your needs, but I am maintaining this project here: https://github.com/bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api

bbernhard90on GitHub Is Down

yep, also noticed that. At first I thought I've messed something up with pihole. But looks like it's something bigger...

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/github

bbernhard90on What's New with Qt for Android

I have written a bunch of Qt android apps over the last few years (not all of them still on the app store though):

e.g:

https://github.com/ImageMonkey/imagemonkey-thegame

https://github.com/bbernhard/nextload-client

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.imagemonkey...

bbernhard90on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

For me it's mostly fitness (as all the gyms are now closed in Austria, I've to become creative) and working on ImageMonkey - a public open source image dataset. (https://imagemonkey.io)