@adafruit @blue_on

That's pretty sweet. I'm just learning Kicad, and I didn't know about the 40% reflow rule, so thanks for that education.

For the past 25 years, I've tried to avoid proprietary closed-source tools for my software work, and now I think hardware is getting closer to having totally FOSS tool-chains, including FPGA programming and silicon chip design. I'm not exactly "looking forward" to using FOSS equivalents of what you've shown here, but I do like the idea of having reliable automated routing and layout tools in FOSS tools, like Kicad.

@Arthfach @Em0nM4stodon

Hi Arthfach, I'm sorry that I've made the impression to you that I'm resisting privacy and security. I'm attempting to resist the idea that glasses are a fundamentally insecure or not private medium. Also, recording ICE and police, possibly using glasses, is important. Again, I think you have misunderstood my position. It's totally my fault, and I hope to better communicate my position, which is in summary:

1. Glasses with cameras and computers in them are important for visually impaired people. So, we should not push back against them indiscriminately.

2. Security and privacy are critical for medical devices, including assistive tech, and FOSH (Free Open Source Hardware) is a required but not sufficient part of secure and private technology.

I'm also blind, mostly, legally. I have Retinitus Pigmentosa, and I'm developing this private and secure assistive technology for myself and I believe it will also be useful to others who value security and privacy as much as I do.

@Em0nM4stodon

The FOSH assistive glasses that I'm planning to build would require being glasses, but your point about them being a bright color is a good idea. I need to study more about how to guarantee that they do not record, which I think is unnecessary for the use cases that I think would be most immediately useful for low vision people. I think brand trust is necessary but not sufficient. For example, some people trust Apple, while I don't.

@Em0nM4stodon Recognizing that Facebook should be boycotted in general is also a good idea, but also unrelated to glasses.

@Em0nM4stodon

It's a slightly separate topic, but I'm interested in building and selling FOSH headsets for low vision people to see better. It's an accessibility medical product idea with important privacy and security considerations. The product *could* record people in a creepy way, if it is built in an insecure and non-private way, but it's important to establish non-creepy glasses for these purposes and other useful purposes.

@Em0nM4stodon

People walk around with their phones in front of them, as if they are video chatting, all of the time.

If someone is secretly recording video and audio of other people, that's creepy, independent of form factor.

@Em0nM4stodon

Right, I'm just making the point that whether it is a phone or glasses makes no difference.

@Em0nM4stodon What if my glasses are FOSH, secure and private?

@Em0nM4stodon What about recording ICE and police?