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Colin Hickey

@eplop

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Dad/Husband/Maker and owner of Eplop Electronics selling inhouse made projects and now other peoples :-)

UK
Joined August 2009
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Colin Hickey
8 months
RT @ThePiHut: NEW! USB Power Breakout for Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2. Allows you to power your Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 from a USB p….
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Colin Hickey
9 months
RT @MrBananas: We did it!
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Colin Hickey
9 months
RT @MrBananas: Looking pretty good! Thanks to everyone who has backed the project so far!
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Colin Hickey
10 months
I forget I have the laser cutter sometimes, was handy today for prototyping a pcb to see what a physical fit will be in a case. And yes I left the little logo in still 🤣
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Colin Hickey
10 months
Happy to announce I’m now selling some of my products via @ThePiHut super happy :-).
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Colin Hickey
10 months
RT @lectronz: Lectonz has created threshold pre-order campaigns to help open-hardware hardware creators gauge the market before spending to….
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Colin Hickey
11 months
First of the yeah, oh joy. I really wish there was a good work around for this when you know the hardware is good.
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Colin Hickey
11 months
It’s all rock and roll in our house on a Saturday night. Packaging products up for orders :-)
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Colin Hickey
11 months
We’re planning some decorating and my wife did some testers on the wall, inadvertently created a homage to the Microsoft logo 🤦‍♀️
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Colin Hickey
11 months
More great work.
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11 months
I've finally finished the new #ReflowMasterPro oven calibration & characterisation system for the 3.0 firmware release. Here are some screenshots of the process showing the 50-100C range, but the system also characterises 100-150C and 150-200C. #maker #coding #projects #reflow
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Colin Hickey
11 months
When you have to improvise! The pcb vice solder spooler…
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Colin Hickey
1 year
Tried @JLCPCB pcba last week and damn I’m impressed. 8 days from order till delivery. Not sponsored I should add was just impressed with the service and cost!
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Colin Hickey
1 year
Revision two and all working, now to see how much it'll cost to get made!
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Colin Hickey
1 year
Fantastic project!.
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Chris Greening
1 year
More progress to report on the ESP32-S3 ZX Spectrum
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Colin Hickey
1 year
Also found the build plate tossed on the floor by the printer for good measure. I’m sure it was seeing how many failures it could get in one failed print.
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Colin Hickey
1 year
Thankfully only making simple boards today but damn I forgot how long it takes using hot air vs even a basic reflow oven. Should have broke out the hot plate maybe!
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Colin Hickey
1 year
Safe to say the new thermocouple I put in my reflow oven isn’t reporting correctly…
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Colin Hickey
1 year
Love it when a design works first time.
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Colin Hickey
1 year
RT @Adam_V3D: Today I'm officially Introducing VLMP 2 and VLMP pro. The next generation of insert tools from Vector3D. Shipping 20th May f….
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Colin Hickey
1 year
Can't remember if i was asked at school what i wanted to do when i grew up but i'm sure human pnp wasn't on the answer!
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