
Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon:
- USB Infrared Toy firmware v22 final released
- Bus Pirate v3.5 is back in stock at Seeed Studio
- Jawi uploaded a preview of the new signal display component for the Logic Sniffer application
- Logic Sniffer: Vote for signal display annotation style
- Christmas LED card built and shared
- Welcome to (another) new server
- Site style guide update: being more SI conscientious
- Check out Rajs’ breakout board for 18pin PIC16F microcontrollers , Paul’s I2C driver for a 16-digit alphanumeric “bubble-type” display, Arhi’s transitor tester built into a case, Kehribar’s Little Wire AVR multi-tool and Jason’s Portable software defined transceiver: Power amplifier, Transmitter, Roofing filter in the project log forum
Coming up:
- No videos this week due to the holidays, but we went on the road and recorded some QFN soldering videos that will be ready next Tuesday
- App notes on the weekend
- Free PCB Sunday
- Free PCBs via Twitter on Tuesday
- New designs on Thursday
- Free PCBs via Facebook on Friday
- Weekly roundup and preview every Friday
What are you hacking this week?

Wow! What a luck! Just yesterday I soldered some DFN and QFN packs :)
Well what do you know..
I soldered yesterday a QFN also .. !
Pictures or it didn’t happen!?
Sent by PM :)
Hmm it did happen indeed :)
Shhhhhh that is a surprise :-)
OOOWww…
a surprise.. :)
Awww… Where’s the review of the Seeed Studio USB/JTAG FPGA/CPLD programmer?
Programmer is still in the mail.