You know Christmas is here when a big box arrives from PCBWay.
Lot’s of nice goodies, and a really amazing surprise!
It’s partner of the year award! This is really solid chunky bit of aluminium, thank you PCB Way! They’ve been a great supported of the channel over the past few year.
I’d also like to give a big shout out all my Patreons and GitHub sponsors - it’s really appreciated.
This has been a pretty jam packed year.
We started off playing with very small ESP32 boards, SDCards, Audio and TFT screens.
We made a brief foray into nickel plating, initially trying it with PCBs and then having a go at nickel plating 3D prints. I quickly realised that I was way out of my depth with this and we got back to more PCBs and messing around with addressable LEDs.
It was around this time that full colour silk screen printing started to become widely available and I leapt at the chance to try it out.
That took me to the biggest project of the year - the ESP32 Rainbow - I’m actually taking this from proof of concept all the way through to a live product.
It’s up on Crowd Supply and it’s fully funded now. But don’t worry, you can still pre-order.
We won’t actually be shipping until April 2025. It’s been a fascinating experience going from prototype to product including things like CE testing - which is something I’ve never done before.
This project will take up a lot of time in Q1 and Q1 but I’m still planning on getting some interesting videos out of the door, so stay tuned - 2025 is going to be equally exciting!
Thanks to everyone for watching an supporting - I’ll see you all next year!
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and looking forward to a prosperous New Year!