Today the new project from Boldport Club arrived. It is called “The Cuttle” and it is a minimal configuration of the ATMega328-PU microcontroller with minimal elements to get it running. As usual the PCB is artfully designed in shape of a cuttlefish. Soldering was easy this time. Here some photos of the project how it arrived and…
SMD Components Under the Microscope
Today I took some photos from common SMD components using a microscope. From naked eye, this components look so tiny and fascinating perfect. Looking at them using a microscope, they do not look that perfect anymore. I cropped the pictures to make the picture better visible at lower resolutions. I always put a scale, which…
SMD Soldering
Here a video where I solder a SMD practice board. While the 1206 and 0805 are more or less easy to solder, the really small 0603 cause a lot of troubles.
New Application: Micro Disk
I published a new application to create “Micro Disk” images for embedded projects with very limited resources. This format fits perfectly on SD cards and it can be read with minimal effort. The application is available as binary for macOS and Windows. The sources are available on GitHub which can be easily compiled for Linux….
Projects from Boldport Club Arrived
This week the beautiful projects from Boldport club arrived. Each of them comes with a nice box or bag which matches the individual project. All electronic components to assemble and solder the project are included, but you need some external power supply and jumper cables to bring some of the projects to life. In the…
Introducing the Boldport Club
I recently stumbled over the “Boldport Club”. This is a subscription where you get an unique electronic project for soldering every month in your mailbox. Each project is based on artful crafted PCBs and a couple of electronic components. You have to assemble everything by yourself, soldering all components together. Read more and have a look at the projects…
Table Light Demo Video
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
How Build a Beautiful Table Light
I just published a new project, how you can easily build a nice table light from a cheap candle holder you get in any IKEA shop. The project is using a NeoPixel ring and a Adafruit Trinket as microcontroller. The microcontroller is very limited, but you will find ready made software which will get most…
How to use the Scripts in the Cat Protector Project
It seems the cat protector project documentation has a small gap. There is just a hint that you have to use some scripts to prepare the SD card to play the audio files, but no details about this. To use the scripts you need some knowledge how to use a command line interface on your…
Data Logger Deluxe Documentation Online
Finally the a step by step tutorial, how to build the deluxe version of the data logger is online. I split the documentation into multiple parts: Start Page Overview Usage Parts Build the Hardware Build the Software Start reading here on the start page.