Mats has amazed us with his board a week projects, and now one of them could be yours! Today Mats is giving away three TraId kits – Transistor type & pinout identifier. All parts included except for a CR2032 battery that needs to be sourced locally due to postage regulations:
TraId is a really low cost version of the Part Ninja. It’s made to only identify the pinout and type (NPN/PNP) of a transistor and display the results on eight LEDs. Currently the firmware only handles BJTs but I think FETs should be possible as well.
He’ll give these away to 3 random commenters, just leave a comment on this post.
Firmware and other files can be found on Github. For more information visit the project’s Tindie site.
Will come in handy for transistor applications
What a great circuit! Very clever!
This is rad, please pick me I could use one of these. Thanks!
I’m in!
Nice Project!
They should ask students to make this kind of project in college.
Good way to learn more about analog and digital electronic.
Hell ya! Hopefully better than my Hameg 205 Component Tester!
Looks awesome! So could use one of these.
This is awesome. Looking forward to a FeT version
I’m too late :(
This is pretty cool.
This looks like a great piece of kit! Def count me in.
Mats, awesome job as always! Thanks for giving away so many neat projects.
will be helpful!
good job!
Nice work mate
I so could use this!
I would love one of these for building motor control circuits
Great to identify the leads of all of those old transistor sitting in the drawer
What a neat idea. I wish I had the time, skill and imagination to create a new project every week!
Sounds pretty cool!
Hell yeah! Matt’s stuff is great. Go to Tindie. Buy it all.
Always using a meter to find out what I’ve got in the scrounge bin, this would be ultra-helpful!
Great little board!
I’ve got a bunch of transistors that fell out of their containers in my old hobby box. This would help me sort them out!
Those board are great inspiration for me. Thanks for making them.
I would like to have one :)
This PCB a week series has been pretty fantastic.
Me! :)
Would love one!
Would be very handy – is it open source, can you share the code for the diy?
I really want this
neat idea
Very handy on the workbench!
Yup.
Yes! This will really help with getting the transistor bin organized!
This would make a sweet little project for my son, who’s just getting into electronics.
Pick me looks awesome.
Sure!
Great Job! I think there’s some place for it on my desk :)
Sounds awesome!
This is perfect for my student helpers to identify pin outs on a drawer full of transistors they use for breadboard projects. The transistor pin out is their biggest obstacle and they are always getting it wrong!
I’d love to get one of these, and am happy to pay for it. Will it be up in the store soon?
Sounds Fun!
yay o/
maybe me :):)
Can’t wait to try this!
Me
One of this will be very handy…
Really nice tool! I would love having a look at the firmware…
Firmware and other files now available at github. The link at my name in this comment should take you there – if not my username at github is SmallRoomLabs.
Looking forward to FET support ;)
One here please ;)
Uow! Here we go again!
I am a random commenter……….. :-)
Beats commenting on and not winning the sunday PCB. Not winning a TraId will just make my day!
I’m in, and WHAT? Am I a winner…? :)
Just what I need to check out my bag of transistors. I’ll be glad to take one.
This looks super useful. I would like one :)
Great Idea!!
I have a PILE of transistors that I would love to identify. Many are at least 20 years old and the markings are at best worn and at worst gone totally. This would be an awesome tool.
Great tool to have on my bench if I’m the choosen one
Most excellent!
nice one
yes, one for me, please.
Small hardware with big application must inform student
Woohoo!
Nice
Cool project!
Here’s my entry. :)
Rollin’!
Cool little project ! And its useful too ! Greeting from Germany :)
clever!
I would love to get one !
Cool! Can it detect the difference between mosfets and standard bipolar transistors?
I think it will be able to handle mosfets correctly, but I haven’t actually written any firmware for it yet. Hope to have it done before sending out the boards to the winners in a day or two.
Pretty neat!
That’s great one! Pick me!
Cool kit, would love to have one. Good work Mats.
Me
Nice piece of kit!
Great , I like this ..
Ahhh, now I can put those old transistors I have to good use!
pretty cool little device, hope i get it.
j
Hey, That’s a good handy device. Hope to get one.
Nice! Takes the mystery out of the transistors in the “Mystery Bin!”
Great idea. I could really use one of these!
Very nice project!!!
very nice!
Great idea. The LEDs are already labelled for FETs as well as BJTs, do they definitely work?
Well…. They work for low Vgs N-Channel FETs like 2n7000 and IRF540. I haven’t implemented P-channel yet in the firmware because I couldn’t find any in my parts bin.
Since this is just a prototype and a test I labelled the PCB in the hopes that I might get FETs to work as well. It would be rather annoying to get it working and not have the labels :-)
Hi,
I would be very proud of getting one of these …
Thank you very much
Have a nice day
Thanks for sharing the firmware source.
looks like a handy tool to keep in the parts box..
Nice and simple project! Keep it up. :)
Now this is something that should be found in every hackers’ lab…
I hope I am not too late for this…