fcobcn built a free Superprobe PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer.
Category Archives: builds
USB LCD Backpack v1 free PCB build
startracer built a free USB LCD Backpack v1 PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Available for $16.95 at Seeed Studio.
Advanced alarm clock project
Arup started an advanced alarm clock project in the forum: The hardware will contain a general purpose MPU with USB bootloader, and we just connect it to USB port for downloading our routines(*.csv files maybe) and appointments into it.
Simple Nokia LCD breakout board: Update
Arup is guest posting about his Nokia LCD breakout board: I’ve designed a Nokia LCD breakout board, which was posted in this blog few days ago. That was the first version, and of course with few bugs. After numerous suggestions from the forum and the blog post, I’ve redesigned the PCB with few more fixes, […]
USB IR Toy v2 free PCB build
tayken built a free USB IR Toy v2 PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Get an IR Toy v2 for $22.05, including world wide shipping.
Bus Blaster v2.5 free PCB build
Randy Glenn built a free Bus Blaster v2.5 PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. You can get a Bus Blaster v2 for $34.95. Via the contact form.
Simple Nokia LCD breakout board
Arup wrote a guest post about his Nokia LCD breakout board: I designed a simple Nokia LCD Breakout board which allows you to interface any Nokia 6100 compatible display to microcontroller like PIC and AVR. The board itself provides 6.8volts for the backlight by a simple boost converter built up using a common 555 timer […]
CoolRunner-II breakout free PCB build
David built a free CoolRunner-II breakout board. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Get the CoolRunner-II development board for $15 and XC9572XL dev-board for $15.
XT-IDE Adapter free PCB build
J1mbo built a free XT-IDE Adapter PCB. That’s the second XTIDE board build. A revised PCB will be available in a few weeks. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer.
MMA7455L accelerometer free PCB build
Kenneth Finnegan built a free MMA7455L accelerometer breakout board. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Get the MMA7455L breakout board for $15 at Seeed Studio.
Open source universal soldering station controller
Arhi posted v3 of an open source soldering station controller. Add an AC transformer from a cheap soldering station and you have a powerful pro-tool. Settings are entered by a rotary encoder dial, temperature and menu options are shown on a 16×2 LCD. It works with most major soldering iron brands. Hakko (thermistor) or Solomon […]
Bus Pirate v4 free PCB build
pietja built a free Bus Pirate v4 PCB. There should be a few dozen of these out there. If you have the Bus Pirate v4 please help us develop and test the new firmware. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – […]
USB IR Toy v2 free PCB build
startracer built a free USB IR Toy v2 PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Get an IR Toy v2 for $22.05, including world wide shipping.
Bus Pirate demo board v3.0 free PCB build
Menno built a free Bus Pirate demo board v3.5 . If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available […]
From the mail bag: Which developers get free PCBs?
George writes: I’m of the understanding that you give away free PCBs to “dedicated developers”. I was curious how you determined what a dedicated developer was, as opposed to somebody that was just trying to get one from you to build. If you could let me know, I would appreciate it. A dedicated developer is […]
Vintage XT computer IDE controller benchmarks
A followup to the XTIDE build. Pietja successfully tested the CPLD-based version of the IDE hard drive controller for old XT computers. Check out these benchmarks, with and without a speed mod: Unmodified: Write Speed : 213,99 KB/s Read Speed : 248,67 KB/s 8K random, 70% read : 21,20 IOPS Sector random read : 60,37 […]
Bus Pirate v3.5 free PCB build
Freddie built a free Bus Pirate v3.5 PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our […]
XT-IDE adapter with CPLD builds
pietja built the XT-IDE controller with CPLD PCB, it will get further testing today. “The XT-IDE project is a Vintage Computer forum driven project to develop and manufacturer an 8-bit ISA IDE controller. It allows any PC/XT class machine to use modern IDE hard drives or Compact Flash devices for long term storage.” (From the […]
Bus Pirate v4 free PCB build
Dillon Nichols built a free Bus Pirate v4 PCB. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer. Get your own handy Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly […]
PICqueño free PCB build
erdabyz built a free PICqueño PCB. You can follow our PICqueno build in our recent videos. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – we’ll send you a coupon code for the free PCB drawer.