Wim Van Gool

@wimvangool.bsky.social

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Founding member @ http://area3001.com // Founder @ http://phyx.be // Team badge @ https://fri3d.be/

A box containing multiple 5CC syringes filled with flux and a short medal dosing needle.
Assembled PCB for an 8x8 midi pad based around the CH32X035 microcontroller. The back side of this large PCB reads "This side was intentionally left blank"
Bottom layer of the euro box with 12 x main controller of the BK969C solderin stations
Close up of the KeebDeck Basic bottom pads for interfacing with an MCU
me holding the Solder Party KeebDeck Basic. A silicone based, but very tactile, miniature keyboard with USB-C interface made out of a stack of PCBs.
Closeup of a PCB with solder paste applied and some parts already mounted. Picture is showing a set of tweezers mounting a bridge rectifier on the PCB.
2 apple slices cut in the shape of the number 8. As requested by my wife, or so I thought...
A bag of Lego bricks with a shipping note.
The Phyx ESP32-S3 Stamp in a circular experiment board from Solder.Party showing the LED ring lighting up.
Pinout diagram for the ESP32-S3 STAMP currently under development.
I'm helping a kid aged 7 soldering his first solder kit
More than 100 SMD parts, mostly 0603, piled together after being removed from a PCB.
Inside view of an EMC room set up for radiated emission test of a DUT placed on a Styrofoam table.
Radio shack EC-220 calculator showing the number 12345678 on the bubble LED display.
The box of the Agiler trackball for Windows 3.11
Overview shot of the Opulo pick and place machine loaded with the led panel
Comically large RP2350 based stamp PCB from Solder Party mounted on the wall in my office.
Fluke 283FC DMM plushie used in a giveaway
Toshiba G900 showing a slide-out ortholinear keyboard
Fri3d Camp badge 2024 with stereo audio output expansion running Doom.
Solder Party keyboard in the back of the photo, due to be launched in 2025 for sure.
Word clock hidden in a wooden beam showing the current time using green LEDs. The current time shown on the clock is 15.37h.
TESS, the Adafruit feather compatible board with Allwinner T113-S3 processor running embedded Linux, connected to the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 showing terminal output.
TESS on the back of the RPi touch display 2
PCB solder kit in the form of a reindeer with the on-off switch in a naughty spot 👀
Water on the 50W LED light source due to ingress / condensation in a light fixture
pinout diagram for the LANA TNY board. This board is based around the WCH CH32V203 microcontroller.
pinout description for the feather compatible TESS board with an Allwinner T113-S3 chip on board
"audiophile" power cable being sold on an electronics store in Japan for ¥154.000, roughly €1000
Texas Instrument ADS1278-HT in CFP package which looks like a dead bug style QFN with leads soldered on each pin to make it into a QFP
Top view of the Tess board showing the Espressif ESP C3 Mini module, and the power circuitry.
Adafruit Feather compatible board
RP2350 microcontroller based earrings
Laptop running Altium Designer, editing an Adafruit feather compatible PCB looking over the Cardiff airport.
Adafruit feather compatible board with dual core Cortex-A7 running at 1.2GHz, 128MB DDR3, 512MB~4GB SD card flash onboard, ESP32-C3/C6 based Wi-Fi, fast battery charging and microphone. It also has headers for audio output and MiPi DSI connector compatible with the RPi 22pin pinout.
Labels for the STS solder kit and the CH32V203 microcontroller board called LANA TNY for Adafruit.
Fri3d Camp badge with a brand spanking new keyboard by Solder Party with a pink cover plate.
QT Py / XIAO Compatible breakout board called "LANA TNY" for the WCH CH32V203 RISC-V microcontroller. It includes a WS2812 Neopixel LED and a Stemma QT / QWIIC header.
Fri3d Camp 2018 Badge