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Desk of Ladyada - New Factory and a Lipo Buck Board
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This week, we had our official 'Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony' - complete with big scissors from https://bigscissors.com/. We had ada-friends come from around the area to visit and speeches from Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce (https://www.brooklynchamber.com/) and Industry City (https://industrycity.com/). So we didn't get a ton of new hardware worked on this week - hopefully, next week will be a little more chill. Instead, this week, we've been doing some component research. The Lipo Buck board we designed right before the move has a USB-charging lipo chip (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4410) and then a 3.3V buck based on the TLV62569 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4711). However, we've since discovered the BQ25185 (https://www.digikey.com/short/3z3wqbcm), which is a little more expensive than the MCP73831 (https://www.digikey.com/short/3rbdvbn1) but allows us to ditch 3 components and also has 'solar' input and up to 1A charge rate. And on The Great Search: looking at newer surface mount non-contact "Infrared" temperature sensors. https://www.digikey.com/short/r38rnvbv
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