Welcome

[H4K1]

Idk if it is the best place to post, tho I did not want to do this in Codeberg, as to avoid unecessary text in development process

So I would love to contribute into FBRC, I can help you with electronics, as well as firmware development, especially if you would like to develop more standalone device, in C/C++ or Rust (preferable, it just safer :P). I can also help to define/write unittests for the firmware

Also my proposition is to create a [matrix] room to create a instant messaging possibility

[kirk]

Hello and welcome! Thanks for your help on the schematic for the dev kit. We can definitely use help with electronics and firmware, especially moving forward for the large-format cell. I am starting to build a flow loop for the centrifugal pumps in my local hackerspace, they are single-phase residential AC. I would like to do speed control with them but unsure if they AC dimmer modules I have can do it. I will do a test soon and post the setup on the forum here so you can get an idea. Right now I am just using what is cheap and available to me, e.g. Arduino, some AC dimmers, these off-the-shelf chemical centrifugal pumps.

Re. a instant messaging/chat capability, that's a good idea. I wanted to set up a forum first for long-form discussions. I recently moved it from Discourse to NodeBB so that people could interact via ActivityPub/fediverse - creating a whole separate account just for a Discourse forum without much activity seemed to be a bit of a barrier to engagement.

I know a lot of projects use Discord, but I really don't like it personally and ofc would prefer something nonproprietary. I'm up to try Matrix.

We are working closely with Sanli Faez of https://github.com/SanliFaez/FAIR-Battery, they already have a chat room for that project that we can use: https://matrix.to/#/%23FAIR-Battery_community:gitter.im - there's not much going on now, if we need a separate one later we can easily make one!

[H4K1]

So from my point of view it would be nice to tinker unittests based set-up and later on base on these tests to write more "hardened" firmware. I am kind of afraid of building the flow battery myself, I find this idea very nice, though with the most common thing with chemistry and myself is I drank alcohol 3 years ago lmao

But according to #16 I will first of all take a look on submodules and later on CI/CD, as it seems to be most important job here

btw

I know a lot of projects use Discord, but I really don't like it personally and ofc would prefer something nonproprietary. I'm up to try Matrix.

I love that one

[kirk]

@H4K1 no need to build the flow battery and test chemistry to help the project out! You can also build and test just with water, especially the larger cell we'll build. But if you can do CI/CD and firmware now then that's great! You'd be the only one on the project now with those capabilities, so a huge bonus. It will help make a framework that we'll benefit from as the project advances and hopefully save us some time as we improve and develop, so we can focus on what we're all best at and enjoy!