Arhi posted pictures of his latest soldering iron driver build: Here are the pictures of the populated board. Actually the DC driver is not populated as I’m not very interested in it and there’s no usb connector and D10, R40 as those are also only required for USB operation and I ain’t going to be […]
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Soldering iron driver v2 build
Fcobcn received some soldering iron driver V2 PCBs from Arhi. He used replacement parts for those components he couldn’t find locally. The version 2 unfortunately only supports thermocouple type soldering pencils. Our recommendation is to use the V2 driver with ether the cheaper Solomon SR-976 pencil, or the more expensive Weller PES51. Support for PTC […]
Free PCB build – PIC USB LCD Backpack
SineWave built a free USB LCD Backpack v1 PCB. He posted lots of pics of his build process. 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. The USB LCD Backpack is […]
Bus Pirate with mix of through-hole, SMD parts
Rohit documented his Bus Pirate clone build: I recently bought an XC9572 CLPD board from Seeed and realized I’d need a JTAG programmer. The BP has got some great firmware that makes it into a JTAG programmer. And since I’ve bombed several times at the Free PCB giveaways I decided to build one myself. My […]
Hackable Christmas card build time-lapse
Piotr got a hackable Christmas card PCB on free PCB Sunday, and made this time-lapse video of his build. Excellent use of tweezers, a key tool for surface mount soldering.