Some space to write down what I was thinking about when I designed or photographed something.
Usually my designs strive to create tiny boards, and I often obsess for days fine-tuning, shaving a fractions of an inch at a time. However, this design goal was get it done, get it working, then make it pretty.
I’ve been trying to build a switcher to provide a portable power source for PDA’s, cell-phones, [...]
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This is the second incarnation of my tps61040 based LED driver (here and here). As I wrote just a few posts ago, I’m trying out a new layout strategy to make my gizmos more breadboard friendly.
The 300 mil (thanks Dave) DIP16 package proves to be very small, so small I had trouble trimming it [...]
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Testing SMD devices on a breadboard requires some sort of carrier. You can use the dead-bug method, affixing the smd to something, and using bits of wire to solder its tiny pins to larger ones that fit into a breadboard. Another method is using SMD converters, which is fine, but really limits [...]
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