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Gondolindrim interview
Revered Brazilian PCB designer Álvaro "Gondolindrim" Volpato interviewed by _IanOfEarth.
Published April 16, 2022
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I was pretty sure I covered Gondolindrim's Acheron project on kbd.news but can't find it now. Maybe it was in the very early days when Keyboard Builders' Digest was a mere weekly link collection published as a Reddit post. :D
Anyways, here is the quite lengthy video on the design lifecycle of a PCB, the Joker microcontroller architecture, how the community has changed, etc.
Published on Sat 16th Apr 2022. Featured in KBD #74 (source).
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