http://projects.dimension-x.net Thoughts, ideas, projects, pictures. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:09:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As the (normal) bicycling season draws to a close for my latitude, I'm nearing completion on my bicycle taillight project. I sent out a few weeks ago for some professionally fabricated pcbs and as usual, they look great. There were a few bugs that were entirely my fault, ... http://projects.dimension-x.net/archives/249 I just received these FedEX on Tuesday, fresh from China via Colorado. The first stack of boards is the prototype taillight driver, sporting a tilt switch for motion detection. The second board is a pretty similar design, with a bigger inductor and more compact layout. The intention here is ... http://projects.dimension-x.net/archives/246 It would be nice if online parts vendors gave you csv or excel files of your order or invoice. Mouser for example gives you the option of html files or pdf files. Future lets you download a plain text file, but it's next to useless, there's no part ... http://projects.dimension-x.net/archives/242 A little quick work with the rattle can this weekend "finished off" my revision 2 and revision 3 bike taillights. Revision three is nearly the 'final product' but still lacking some automatic control circuitry that I want to implement, and a few tweaks to the firmware to make it ... http://projects.dimension-x.net/archives/236 I completed PCB revision three of the mint tin bike light on Tuesday, but due to lack of batteries for the camera, no pictures were taken! Luckily I've found and recharged a second set of batteries and the camera is once again operational. Feature-wise, this revision adds nothing over the ... http://projects.dimension-x.net/archives/230