Mikey shares his first impressions with DirtyPCBs: Yes, exclamation mark and lots of yelling! The PCB’s has arrived, lets have a look at them. At first glance they look very good, silk screen is fine, both on top and bottom. The outline of the board feels smooth with a sharp edge, just as it should […]
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DirtyPCB BeagleQ
HouseOfBeck shared his DirtyPCB BeagleQ in the project log forum: The BeagleQ is a wifi enabled wireless intelligent bbq smoker controller based on the BeagleBone Black controller. This device is designed to control a fan connected to the smoker’s input vent/damper. Using a temperature probe placed in the pit the controller can read the pit temperature and […]
DirtyPCBs silkscreen text size
sleemanj writes: I made some text on my pcbs really quite small, fully expecting it to be a miserable mess, but in fact it’s beautifully sharp. In the text sparks.gogo.co.nz shown below, the width of the lines in the characters is approx 6 mil (approx 0.15mm), this is a “Vector Font Size 4 with Normal […]
ESP8266 WiFi LED dimmer Part 8 of X: Version 2 of the PCB design
Quindor blogged about his ESP8266 WiFi LED dimmer project with DirtyPCBs: With the help of kind internet folks I was able to get a fritzing part for the new voltage converter I wanted to use to try and make a smaller board. A few weeks ago I sent my new ‘panalized’ design to dirtypcb’s and I got […]
DirtyPCB’s based project: TDR pulse generator for testing coax
Marcus Jenkins blogged about his TDR pulse generator build: I saw an excellent YouTube video from Alan W2AEW and thought I’d have a go at making a prettier version of the tool myself. After all, checking 50 Ohm coax cables is a pretty common need for an amateur radio enthusiast. Alan’s video says it all, but here’s […]
DirtyPCBs two layer ENIG PCB closeups
DirtyPCBs two layer ENIG PCB review by manis404: The standard service is $14 for 10 boards. You can have the pads ENIG finished for $15 more, which brings the total cost to $29 for 10 boards, shipped. It is still an excellent deal. The quality is excellent too, as the closeups below illustrate. See more […]
DirtyPCBs: HDC1000 temperature and humidity sensor breakout, with Arduino library
Francesco Truzzi published a new build: a breakout board for the TI HDC1000, a tiny (8BGA) temperature and humidity sensor The boards were again fulfilled by DirtyPCBs, perfect for this kind of small projects. So here are the pictures of my board and here are the features: Address selection jumpers: ADR0 and ADR1 are tied to […]
DirtyPCBs: C64FC 16K edition ready
Stian Søreng writes: A stack of release candidate 3 boards of the C64FC are on my desk, and a few changes have been made since RC2. We’re talking 16K support, software switches to select 8K/16K cartridge, cart disable support, bugs fixed and patched. I also want to give a good shoutout to DirtyPCBs for their […]
DirtyPCB LSF0204 breakout board – a bidirectional, multi-voltage level converter
Francesco’s LSF0204 breakout board, a 4-bit, bidirectional, multi-voltage level converter: I needed a small, fast and reliable multi-voltage level translator (mainly for connecting ESP8266 boards to the Arduino, got tired of resistor networks pretty quickly) so I built a breakout board for TI’s LSF0204(D). Datasheet and info here. The LSF0204 is a nice little chip. […]
DirtyPCB Pico-Kubik quadruped robot
Pico-Kubik, the tinniest quadruped robot with Micropython on board by Radomir Dopieralski: This is the fourth quadruped that I’m building, after Kubik, µKubik, and Nano-Kubik. This one literally fits in the palm of your hand (you can see it next to a LEGO brick on the photo). It’s going to run on Micropython on a VoCore […]
Avoccado° Nora, batch of PCB from DirtyPCBs
Natalie Kane writes: Nora is the most recent approach to cram up everything of the recent prototypes but use only 2 layers and populate all of the components on one side. Nora is the smallest board with a LiPo charger yet, measuring just 23.5 mm x 23.5 mm. Nora is the first version having the […]
Box of new PCBs from DirtyPCBs: Raspberry Pi add-on boards
TonyD posted pictures of his latest batch of PCB’s from DirtyPCBs: In the box where 4, yes 4 sets of PCB’s. In the photo, the big PCB at the back is RPi-X PIAC. On the photo front row, on the left is MiniPiio LED Breakout, in the centre is MiniPiio BOP4 and to the right is MiniPiio […]