Kerry Wong wrote a post on his blog showing how he modified the 12V rail of a TL494 based ATX power supply to 14.6V for 4S LiFePO4 battery charging: To charge the 110Ah battery bank I built, I need a power supply that can provide at least 10A at 14.6V. Since I have many old […]
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DIY ATX Bench power supply
@LuisMirandaAceb tweeted, “I started only with ATX PS and your breakout board but finally this is what I ended with… ”
Bench top power supply
@mattbrailsford tweeted his DIY bench power supply. You can get one for $14 at Seeed Studio.
ATX Breakout Board V1.1 Acrylic case back in stock
The ATX Breakout Board v1.1 Sick of Beige case is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This case is designed to be simple, cheap, and easy to assemble. The ATX Breakout Board is sandwiched between two laser-cut acrylic sheets, and the whole assembly is held together with aluminum screws and standoffs. This is a minor […]
ATX Bench power supply
Nick Carter blogged about his DIY bench power supply with the ATX breakout board: There are tons of such projects out there on the internet but most involve hacking open the power supply and I didn’t think that was the way to go. I considered getting a cheap ATX adapter from Monoprice and breaking out […]
DIY benchtop power supply
Tom blogged about his benchtop power supply using the ATX breakout board he won in the 7400 competition: This time the build was going to be so much easier. I had the great fortune to win an ATX breakout board from Dangerous Prototypes in the 7400 logic competition. Once I had liberated the power supply […]
ATX Breakout Board V1.1 Acrylic case back in stock
The ATX Breakout Board v1.1 Sick of Beige case is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This case is designed to be simple, cheap, and easy to assemble. The ATX Breakout Board is sandwiched between two laser-cut acrylic sheets, and the whole assembly is held together with aluminum screws and standoffs. This is a minor […]
ATX Breakout Board V1.1 Acrylic case V1 back in stock
The ATX Breakout Board v1.1 Sick of Beige case is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This case is designed to be simple, cheap, and easy to assemble. The ATX Breakout Board is sandwiched between two laser-cut acrylic sheets, and the whole assembly is held together with aluminum screws and standoffs. This is a minor […]
ATX Breakout Board V1.1 Acrylic case V1 back in stock at Seeed
The ATX Breakout Board v1.1 Sick of Beige case is back in stock at Seeed Studio. This case is designed to be simple, cheap, and easy to assemble. The ATX Breakout Board is sandwiched between two laser-cut acrylic sheets, and the whole assembly is held together with aluminum screws and standoffs. This is a minor update […]
Workshop Update for September 6th, 2012
We received a box of goodies and shared them on the blog. We also got our order from Mouser, and got to test fit the ATX Breakout Board Sick of Beige case pre-production version. Video editing ate up a huge chunk of our time, but we did get to test out the power supply for […]
Laser cut acrylic power supply case uses ATX breakout board
Systemstech posted pictures of a case he built for his ATX Breakout board. You can get a ATX Breakout Board v1.1 for $14 at Seeed Studio.
Workshop Update for July 9th, 2012
Today we finished building latest revision, and started testing the secret project firmware. We found a couple of bugs in our latest PCB design. The ‘DIR’ pin of the 74xx245 transceiver was connected to GND instead of being pulled high, and the ‘R/W’ pin of the LCD was left unconnected. We also organized in-progress projects […]