SeedSigner ("the man")

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SeedSigner ("the man")
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Creator of SeedSigner, lead shill, social media guy, rando internet person, influencer bully, sometime speaker of inconvenient truths.
I've been working on this for the last several days; it is easily my favorite signer enclosure of the ones I've created in terms of the aesthetics, the form factor, and the usability of the controls. Read on if you'd like a little "inside baseball" on this design. 👇 I heavily borrowed from the compact "Push Case" that kayth21 shared in the @SeedSigner github repo (
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seedsigner/enclosures/pushcase at dev · SeedSigner/seedsigner
Use an air-gapped Raspberry Pi Zero to sign for Bitcoin transactions! (and do other cool stuff) - SeedSigner/seedsigner
) and of course have to credit @BlackCoffee for the idea to incorporate Nintendo-themed design elements (Black Coffee created a similar design a few years ago that was available for purchase for a brief period of time, and is still frequently asked about). Kayth really refined the idea of a fixed-position thumbstick topper in his push case design, as well as masterfully handled board spacing and the microSD card port. His button design is also very clever, with the lower button covers fitting around the circuit board buttons. Because of the fine tolerances between the components, I had to make some adjustments for the parts to render properly on my printers, and also modified his clamshell-style assembly to work with my drop-in approach. The DPAD topper works surprisingly quite well, especially for an FDM-printed part. The right button stack are snug with hardly any play. The memory card can no longer get lost inside the enclosure and can still be grasped with your fingers for removal. And Kayth's handling of the camera holds it perfectly centered in its respective port. This is also the first time I've offered a protective case with a printed-signer, and the grey/red color combo makes for a great initial presentation. I'll eventually also be offering a non-themed version in different colors but wanted to get this one out there immediately because it made me think of Christmas mornings when I was a kid. I was 8 years old when the original 8-bit Nintendo became available in the states, and spent many hours at a friend's house in front of a huge console TV playing the original Super Mario Brothers, before getting a system of my own a year or so later. Designers inevitably leave little bits of themselves in their work, and I'm particularly proud of this model. ❤️🩶🖤 You can find this signer available for purchase in my store at
BTC Hardware Solutions
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If you accept sponsorship money from HWW companies that act aggressively towards open source projects... AND aren’t sharing your podcast or conference platform with those building DIY/FOSS cold storage tools... There's a question you should maybe be asking yourself. image
Several people have reached out about this. There are apparently at least 10 URLs that were purchased on 5 separate days over a period of 3.5 years, all appear to have the same owner. Some of them seem intended to interfere with our ability to fundraise or accept donations? I honestly could see this sort of thing as a one-off or as a mean joke if you're having a bad day, but the pattern here comes across as something different. Given how many podcasts and conferences his sponsorships touch it feels like behaving this way towards a FOSS project should be a bigger deal? If Nostr is indeed legit with regard to wanting open source to flourish, it seems like this would be of interest here especially. image