AYAB 1.0 Developer meeting 1/21/24

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# Agenda
- How is hardware going?
- What happened with the beta?
- What is still left to do
- Fight about the web

# Notes
- Hardware - pretty good shape.
  - Adrienne did a print out of the board, going to post a video or stils of the 950
  - Minor changes: duplicate power connector for 950, existing may not reach
  - Height restrictions in some machines
  - Open source hardware association certified, just the new board not the old board, doesn't mean much but it's nice to have, adding logo to the silk screen
  - BOM cost $25 first run, at scale < $20, mostly assembled, not everything will be pre-stocked, going to get some parts from Tom
  - Not supporting the 970? Need to take another look. Extra different, but need to take another look. Demand is low.
  - Adrienne has every supported machine except 965
  - Almost ready for actual boards: minor changes, maybe additional hall sensor
  - First batch is 10, 6 in the US, 4 in Europe
- Beta
  - Installs and works on Windows
  - No deep dive yet
  - Mirroring was changed, some things are wrong, orange and green are flipped
- Mac build
  - Carson to take a crack at it
  - Chris might know someone who can help
- New Arduino (R4)
  - AYAB builds don't work for it, hardcoded error for untested microcontroller
  - Matei had to change CI to get it to build, hard to figure out
  - Need to make changes on another branch
  - Planning to add support for this new board
  - Will only impact shield users who buy a new Arduino
  - 0.95 might not still build. Won't be an issue when we get 1.0 out.
- Moving between machines 
  - Have to tell the firmware from the desktop software
  - Can we make it more obvious which machine you're using in the UI?
- Moving the web fight to async
  - Carson will put together a design doc
- Will the current desktop app be compatible with the new board?
  - Get up and running on the new hardware with the existing software
  - Has two cores, one can handle web server, one can handle knitting, the two communicate
  - Can host or electron web app
- Website
  - Outdated
  - Soliciting news articles or updates through PRs
  - Maybe just advertise the Discord
  - Newsletter also
- Documentation
  - Kick off the 1.0 documentation? Branch already exists
  - Don't bother with the 0.95 documentation
  - Should we switch back to a wiki? To be more accessible
- Evil Mad Scientist has some old documentation
  - They were bought out, they might be moving stuff around
  - Made 250, Jens made more
- German sites
  - Knitting forum, had a sub forum for machine knitting
  - German Facebook group
  - Mostly Victoria (ETI Berlin)
  - Should we get our documentation translated to German. Try auto translations and then just ask for forgiveness.