Stripboard Planning Worksheet
Download: Stripboard Planning Worksheet I’ve been doing some in depth research on modular synthesizer and Eurorack module designs. As long…
KiCad PCB Design for Electronics Rapid Prototyping
This is a talk on PCB design I gave at KiCon in 2019 on the topic of Electronics Rapid Prototyping,…
Rapid PCB Prototyping with the Othermill
The phrase “failing fast” is commonly associated with software. With hardware, short of paying a huge premium for quick turns…
Snowbot Assembly Guide
This Snowbot Assembly Guide will help you put together the Rheingold Heavy Holiday Project: The 2015 Snowbot Rev1. Snowbot Assembly:…
Snowbot Ornament Project
It is my great pleasure to introduce you to the Rheingold Heavy Holiday Project: The 2015 Snowbot Rev1. Snowbot Project…
Building An Electronics Design Workflow…
Over the past two weeks, I’ve had a string of prototype failures that are entirely attributable to one origin: me.…
MSGEQ7 Breakout Board Build Log
March 28, 2015 The production boards arrived last Thursday, the same day I got back from a month giving I2C…
HP QDSP6064 Bubble Display
The nostalgia is strong with this one, reminding me of innumerable calculators I had as a kid growing up, so…
Recovering an Abandoned Kickstarter: the MSGEQ7…
Sometime in early 2014, I backed a kickstarter project that was supposed to create a breakout board for the MSGEQ7…
Education Shield Display Board
One of my design requirements for the I2C and SPI Education Shield was to make it expandable, and the first…
PCBGrip Electronics Assembly System Review
In February of 2014, I backed the PCBGrip Electronics Assembly System on Kickstarter. It was the first Kickstarter I backed…
August 2014: I2C and SPI Education Shield
August 4, 2014 I had Digi-Key ship the parts to the UPS depot down the street, and they arrived, last…
Design Revisions: I2C and SPI Education Shield
A list of possible design revisions for subsequent I2C and SPI Shield boards… Done 18-AUG-2014 Rev: Move the temp sensor…
Make your own DIY Optoisolator
[mathjax][/mathjax]An optoisolator is used to electrically isolate one part of a circuit from another. Say you’ve got a noisy part…
I2C and SPI Education Shield
The Rheingold Heavy Education Shield is my response to a problem I discovered as I was pulling myself up by…
July 2014: I2C and SPI Education Shield Design Updates
June 28, 2014 Spec out the design and figure out what you want the thing to do. Take the vague…
