by Sjaak | Nov 6, 2018 | arm-cortex, Blog, forsale, product |
A couple of days ago, I got a notice from Tindie all the SWM050 boards were sold. I also noticed the stock on LCSC of these chips had gone down dramatically. Despite I think the use is limited of the chip, there seems to be a quite interest in it. Many thanks to all...
by Sjaak | Aug 1, 2016 | Blog, Fixups, product |
Recently I got a lot of people writing me their soldering iron controller kinda work, but doesn’t heat up. One of the other symptons is that — ZzZZZ — is displayed on the OLED. However this is a feature of the controller, but the documentation is a...
by Sjaak | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog, product, Prototyping, vintage |
After some revisions of this project I decided to split the project in an EPROM and SRAM version. The EPROM version should be good for the general audience and the SRAM version for developers. The most obvious thing to program the EPROM with is EPYX fastloader as this...
by Sjaak | Jun 14, 2016 | Blog, manufacturing, product |
Now I had designed a soldering iron, had a couple manufactured and put them into a shop.. I realized that I should have more stuff in the store. As I think SMD is frighting at first, but in the long run it is easier to manage and better obtainable (more choice!) then...
by Sjaak | Jun 7, 2016 | Blog, PCB, product, vintage |
Together with the PCBs came in a new revision of the C64/SX64 RAM Cartridge with onboard SD2IEC. It has a completely new layout and was tailor made to a C64 Cartridge shell I got from Ebay. Now I had more PCB estate at my disposal so the layout is much cleaner and...
by Sjaak | Jan 8, 2016 | Blog, forsale, manufacturing, product |
Even more exciting news from China!! I got a message from my manufacturer that they have finished packaging the soldering iron controllers. After a few months they finally are ready to ship to you. It was quite a bumpy road to get them manufactured, programmed, tested...
