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Weller WT Solder Station – Great Tool with Great Issues

Posted on 2017-03-202018-07-17 by Lucky Resistor

Update: Weller solved the problems I describe in this article with a new design of the retainer. This new retainer solves all the problems described in this article. The new retainer looks very different and uses a spring to pull the tip to the heating element. A little bit more than a half year ago…

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12 Time Wasting Issues in Autodesk EAGLE

Posted on 2017-03-062018-07-17 by Lucky Resistor

I am a machine engineer and very used to work with CAD software. The abbreviation CAD stands for Computer Aided Design. I personally think, Autodesk Eagle fails with the ‘A’, because often it does not give you any aid. On the contrary it often puts a spoke in the wheel and makes your life horrible….

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Finished a Series of the PissOff Project

Posted on 2017-01-13 by Lucky Resistor

I just finished a small series of the PissOff project. After all work done, I probably would use a stencil and solder paste next time. For this series I used a slightly larger speaker to improve the loudness and sound quality. Tried some different ones, but the really good ones do not fit on the…

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Video: Soldering Boldport Project “Touchy”

Posted on 2016-10-022016-10-03 by Lucky Resistor

I made a short video how I solder the Boldport project “Touchy”. It is a SMD project with a quite difficult to solder chip. For the first half of the assembly, I did not notice that the solder tip was no screwed tight, so the heating of the tip was not optimal. Click the link…

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Boldport Tap — Second Try

Posted on 2016-09-21 by Lucky Resistor

If you already saw the soldering video, here two photos of the result. To get this result, I was inspired by the way Saar from Boldport was soldering his own projects, I adapted his technique. After initial soldering, I flush cut carefully the wire as close as possible to the board. Cutting off any solder…

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Soldering Boldport Tap

Posted on 2016-09-202016-09-20 by Lucky Resistor

Here a short video soldering the Boldport Project “Tap”. Here you can see the PCBite PCB holder in action.

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PCBite Arrived

Posted on 2016-09-162016-09-16 by Lucky Resistor

I recently ordered a set of “PCBite”. These are special PCB holder as shown in the images in this post. To solder components into PCB I sometimes used one of this many “helping hands” products with two clamps, but they are no real use in most cases. PCBite seems to solve some of the problems…

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Everything That Went Wrong

Posted on 2016-08-24 by Lucky Resistor

As expected, there were many things that went wrong in the process from the prototype to the first PCB version of the project. I would like to share them here, maybe it will prevent similar mistakes in one of your projects. Wrong Values While drawing the circuit diagram, I copied all values from the components…

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Table Light Demo Video

Posted on 2016-05-22 by Lucky Resistor

Today I shot a short demonstration video, which shows all 50 modes of the table light visually. The video can not replace a real table lamp, but you will get a first impression. And you can obviously implement your own colours and effects with own code. Enjoy! Lucky Resistor

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Compact Text Based Driver for Sharp Display

Posted on 2015-09-072019-07-24 by Lucky Resistor

Update 2015-09-10: I also added a timer 2 based version of the driver which does not need any manual refresh. I created a fast and compact driver for the Sharp memory display LS013B4DN04. The driver is text based and uses 8×8 pixel characters on the screen. The screen can display 12×12 characters using this size of…

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