justDIY Project Log

Thoughts, ideas, projects, pictures.
 
 
 

Some space to write down what I was thinking about when I designed or photographed something.

Archive for December, 2006

Big Ugly SMPS

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

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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Switchmode LED Driver

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

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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New Theme

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Seeing as how my project log is more than a year old now, it is overdue for a new coat of paint.
Presenting “I feel dirty 1.0 by The studio ST team”. I’m not sure about the name, but I do like the little bit of color, but still mostly plain white. Hey, [...]

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