Author Archives: DP

Automated weather satellite ground station

Here’s an automated weather satellite ground station project from Nootropicdesign, that is available on Github: This project will show you how to create a fully automated ground station that will receive and decode NOAA weather satellite images and upload them to your own website served from an Amazon AWS S3 bucket. With this project you […]

Building your own Mini flight recorder

Pinko designed and built his own mini flight recorder: For a while a wanted to make my own flight recorder similar to the commercial altimeters but with my own requirements for functionality. In addition it needed to be visually appealing and functional in the same time … After some thinking about the design and functionality […]

#FreePCB via Twitter to 2 random RTs

Every Tuesday we give away two coupons for the free PCB drawer via Twitter. This post was announced on Twitter, and in 24 hours we’ll send coupon codes to two random retweeters. Don’t forget there’s free PCBs three times a every week: Hate Twitter and Facebook? Free PCB Sunday is the classic PCB giveaway. Catch […]

App note: Battery Fuel Gauging LSI [Smart LiB Gauge] for 1-Cell Lithium-ion/Polymer with LC709204F

App note from ON Semiconductor on their Smart Fuel gauge LC709204F. Link here (PDF) LC709204F is a Fuel Gauge for 1−Cell Lithium−ion/ Polymer batteries. It is a part of our Smart LiB Gauge family of Fuel Gauges which measure the battery RSOC (Relative State Of Charge) using its unique algorithm called HG−CVR2. The HG−CVR2 algorithm […]

Automatically re-connecting low-voltage cut-outs for 12 and 24 volt battery systems

KA7OEI writes: In a previous post I described a simple circuit that provided a low-voltage cut-out that could be used in a battery-operated system – see the article “A latching low-voltage disconnect for 12 volt lead-acid and lithium batteries”. That circuit – intended mostly for lithium-based batteries – required manual intervention to “reset” the device, […]

Homemade injection transformer for PSU loop analysis

Adil Malik made a DIY injection transformer for PSU loop analysis: Recently, I have been designing some SMPS and required some hardware to measure the actual loop response of the complete converters. People familiar with this area will probably know this can be done breaking the feedback loop of the converter and injecting a small […]

Building a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) power supply using a DPS5005 module

Dr. Scott M. Baker has designed and built a PoE-powered lab power supply using a DPS5005 and custom PoE board: The DPS5005 is a DC-DC converter. It can accept an input voltage from 0 to about 55 volts or so, and will regulate an output voltage up to about 1 volt below the input. This […]

An ATmega brushless sensorless motor driver v02

Davide Gironi has posted an update on his ATmega brushless sensorless motor driver project we covered previously: Brushless electric motor (BLDC motors) are synchronous motors that are powered by a DC electric source via an integrated inverter/switching power supply, which produces an AC electric signal to drive the motor. See the full post on his […]

App note: Assembly guidelines for QFN (quad flat no-lead) and SON (small outline no-lead) packages

NXP’s app note about the internals and how to’s footprint design and solder their leadless dual and quad flat packages. Link here (PDF) The small outline no-lead (SON)/quad flat no-lead (QFN) is a small size, lead-less plastic package with a low profile, moderate thermal dissipation, and good electrical performance. It is a surface mount package […]

Free PCB coupon via Facebook to 2 random commenters

Every Friday we give away some extra PCBs via Facebook. This post was announced on Facebook, and on Monday we’ll send coupon codes to two random commenters. The coupon code usually go to Facebook ‘Other’ Messages Folder . More PCBs via Twitter on Tuesday and the blog every Sunday. Don’t forget there’s free PCBs three […]