#ibal151 — Public Fediverse posts

Ordering another thousand speakers for @museuminabox. And a few additional speaker samples for R&D on a couple of project ideas.

#plotting #IndieMfg #ibal151 #weeknotes

It worked quite nicely. Got some video and photos to share, so I'll write it up on the @museuminabox blog.

In the meantime, a sneak peek...

#ibal151 #GLAM #microscopy #weeknotes

This morning I had a look at the boop stats for the @museuminabox we had at Wirral Makefest on Saturday.

There were 195 boops (objects placed onto the box) over the day.

The top three objects were:
1. the heart (32 boops)
2. the prosthetic hand (23 boops)
3. assistive tech pen holder (20 boops)

#GLAM #Wirral #weeknotes #ibal151 #museum #WirralMakefest2025

It's been too long since we blogged. In lieu of #weeknotes here's a studio catchup post on what's been going on with us and @museuminabox

https://mcqn.com/posts/studio-catchup-museum-in-a-box/

#ibal151 #GLAM #museum

Levelled up (well, moved to the next quantity price break 😀) on our NFC sticker ordering at @MCQN_Ltd

We'll shortly be receiving 10,000 new stickers for the next @museuminabox batch.

#weeknotes #ibal151 #NFC #RFID

The two sides of @MCQN_Ltd work today: @huffeec is doing more testing of the TEM cell while @amcewen boxes up the latest @museuminabox orders #weeknotes #IndieMfg #ibal151 #electronics #hardware

Over in Chester today for the #CIfA2024 conference. Learning lots of interesting things about archaeology and I'll be showing off @museuminabox in the final session this afternoon

#weeknotes #Chester #archaeology #ibal151

Although @huffeec did sterling work to solder the 0.6mm square varicaps on the test boards, we got robots to place the parts on the first production batch.

They've just arrived from the production house and are looking lovely! 😍

Anyone want an NFC/RFID board? We'll have some on our @tindie store soon.

#weeknotes #ibal243 #ibal151#NFC #RFID #electronics

Today I am mostly antenna tuning.

Here's my macgyvered RF probe and test setup

#electronics #ESP32 #RF #RFID #NFC #weeknotes #ibal151 #ibal243

Euphoric scenes here at @MCQN_Ltd towers, as we try a second board that @huffeec has just finished soldering up and (a bit dimly) an LED lights up on it!

(it's a ridiculously important LED)

#ibal151 #weeknotes

Today's soldering challenge at @MCQN_Ltd. @huffeec has 12 of these varicaps to hand place.

We have broken out the crazy 25x magnifying eyeglasses.

(micro-SD card for scale)

#ibal151 #weeknotes #electronics #soldering #HandSolder

0.65mm-pitch 28-pin HTSSOP hand-soldered with zero flux given.

Feeling quite pleased with myself for that.

#PCB #PCBA #soldering #weeknotes #electronics #ibal151

First time using Tony, #DoESLiverpool's largest laser-cutter, and the Lightburn software is great. Many box inserts for the latest https://www.museuminabox.org batch, cut to perfection #ibal151 #weeknotes

Cutting test designs for the next iteration of Museum in a Box out of this wonderful transparent yellow acrylic. It reminds me of the bright yellow and green "Banana" and "Lime" prototypes that Psion had for the Series 5 to stop any of us working on them from being tempted to get them out in the pub or on the tube.

#lasercutting #lasercutter #fluorescent #acrylic #psion #series5 #ibal151 #MuseumInABox