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A project log for Tachtastic - a fantastic Tachometer

I know, a cheesy name - an AVR ATMega8 tachometer, with external sensors and a good design experience.

ejaadtechEjaadTech 07/22/2014 at 07:000 Comments

The Tachometer needed to be small, portable, and should be extensible, so many designs were made and finally the one agreed upon was first tested on a cardboard cutout.

On top is the ISP connector for programming, on the left are the extra pins left, the sensors input were put with a 3.5mm audio jack female connector and the 2 ICs, the Opamp and the ATMEGA8 were concealed beneath the LCD.

I designed the PCB with big traces and some jumpers as I was just learning to make PCBs back then.. :) the final outcome:

without the LCD

The bottom Copper side

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