Some space to write down what I was thinking about when I designed or photographed something.
As part of my mintlite project, I need to deal with an SO8 package battery charger. So I whipped up a breadboard adapter aka “breakout board” that converts the tiny chip into a 600 mil DIP package. Another battery charger I have is even smaller, packaged as an SOT23-5 part. [...]
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The huge size of my previous pcb layout kept bugging me … it was about 1.3×1.2″ and would have consumed more than half of the mint tin space! So, I spent few hours coming up with something a little more compact.
This second layout is more compact, but still a bit on the large size; [...]
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MintLite - The Luxeon Powered Mint Tin Flashlight!
This idea has been rattling around in my head for more than a month now, and I finally have thought it out enough to do some doodling in Eagle. The basic idea is built around a six watt Luxeon K2. I plan to use a pair [...]
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