by Sjaak | Feb 24, 2016 | Blog, Prototyping |
I usually collect a few PCB designs before sending them off to the PCB fabhouse. I prefer to use dirtypcbs.com as I know Ian from dangerousprototypes.com for a long time and think he provides good quality, and fast turn around time for your money. Also tend to be...
by Sjaak | Feb 13, 2016 | Blog, LED, Prototyping |
Ok I must admit.. I used to think valentines day was too commercial and never did anything serious about it. Although I always looked curious into my mailbox, but was always a bit disappointed when it was filled with even more bills and advertisement magazines…...
by Sjaak | Dec 29, 2015 | Blog, PCB, Prototyping, testing |
With no snow outside I finally got around to solder the 3rd PCB. It is the second revision of a microcontroller dummy load. It is loosely based on the arachnidlabs uc:load. It uses the same base ciruit and adds a microcontroller (PIC16F1825), rotary encode...
by Sjaak | Dec 22, 2015 | Blog, PCB, product, Prototyping, vintage |
Today came in the Atmega644P’s in TQFP package I scored on eBay. Today I’m focussing on the SD2IEC part of the RAM cartridge. I was a bit scary to order them there as ebay is wellknown for knockoffs, nonworking or rebadged stuff. Even the big players...
by Sjaak | Dec 8, 2015 | Blog, PCB, Prototyping, vintage |
As said in the previous post I have made a couple of PCB’s and they have arrived this week. Today I’m testing my design of a 23C64A to regular EPROM adapter. It will take upto a 64KB EPROM (27C512). I’m a bit hesitating to fit a prototype into my...