Edit: See also More 2369, with more caps !With a sporadic and limited access to the workshop (at last !) I can finally try new ideas ! I have meanwhile received 9K PMBT2369 in SMD but I decided to use the old stock of 50pc 2N2369A in metal can, that...
Stephen : Alright, let's get rolling. A BIG hello to @Parker for joining us today Parker : Howdy everyone Stephen : @Parker, why don't you kick this off by giving us an introduction of who you are, what you do, and what...
Full video on this subject (this is literally the script): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psy6lRcdGtk Introduction Old houses, like my parents’ home, comes wired with simple electromechanical doorbells. They’re a simple electromagnet with a metal...
Jasmine Brackett Hello Everyone. Welcome to this week's Hack Chat! !!!Bhavesh Kakwani WooShulie: Welcome!! We have tons of questions in our sheet already! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZHahHN4kU0YBjMgrZMU9ntrmdDD8JOUmpHX2mR6Ok0w/edit#gid=0Jasmine...
So I've recently got a fully electrically and mechanically complete CAD model of Tetrinsic and was, once again, doing some research for Tetent, mainly because I don't like how this featureless flat face looks: It turns out that the eteeController...
This entire project is a little bit of an odd bird. In terms of electronic sophistication, it’s not too different than any of the other homebrew computers you might see on Hackaday. This isn’t a project that will just sit on my workbench until I die...
Quick story. I brought this computer to the Vintage Computer Festival 9.1 last year to show Bil, Dave, and all the other cool people at the event. At the time, I was freerunning the processor, watching the blinkenlight count up. Great stuff, and proof...
→InsertImageSo here's the deal. One of my prejudices against Arduino is that it's an expensive board to leave with a project. But this is kind of a one-time thing so I was happy to find the Seeed Studio protoype shield for like $7.95 at the local Radio...
Arko started putting the rev3 board together last night, we usually build the power section first and measure how it looks, make sure none of the power is shorted in the PCB ( it happens). This board has one always on regulator, its a 3.3V LDO that...
Just took them out of the box, need to test them and see if they've worked, RF is black magic.The other boards are also out for manufacturing. They should be here this week , hopefully since we have to pre-build a bunch!
we're still waiting on a tracking number for the PCB's, the conference is in just over a week! and i can't finish the code til we get the first one made... oddly enough this hasn't been the closest we've cut it, but its getting there.since there...
It's wildfire season, but Fedex managed to get our boards from Malaysia to us in good time, unfortunately there was a cock up in the ordering department and they shipped to the billing address, we'd left there about 15 minutes before they showed up with...
My first steps were to get my hands on a motor. I started with the X27.168 motor, seen here. There are a couple of variants of these motors. The 168 motors have the pins exiting on the back of the motor, while the drive shaft exits on the front....
With motors in hand, I built up a quick prototype. The X27 motors are designed to only move a small pointer. They draw so little current (under 20ma at 5v) that they can be driven by PIC and AVR micro pins directly. Soldering wires to the thin pins of...
I designed my PCB in my favorite software - Diptrace. The motor footprint from switec's datasheet was missing a few key dimensions. It took a bit of measuring with a caliper and calculating hole sizes, but I was able to get all the dimensions correct...