We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few professionally-made PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. This week we’re giving away two Bus Pirate v3b PCBs. v3b is a minor update […]
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Web platform: PCB in red
coolnicks posted this picture of the assembled web platform hardware from Seeed. Our prototype was on plain green PCB, so this is the first time we’ve seen it in danger red. Thanks for the pics! If you’ve just received your web platform, here’s some tutorials and links to get you started: Intro to dsPIC33 programming […]
LPKF EasyContac rivets for vias
Charlie made his own Bus Pirate PCB and used LPKF EasyContac rivets (warning, page denies non-US IPs) to connect the front and back sides. He had to enlarge the vias to 31mils to fit the rivets, and suggests going even bigger if possible. There’s more discussion on Charlie’s blog and at CNC Zone. The LPKF […]
DIY Bus Pirate PCBs
s3c posted this home-etched Bus Pirate v3 PCB in the forum. Nice work! Do you etch your own PCBs? We send double-sided PCBs to the board house, but still etch simple single-sided designs. Bus Pirate v0, va, and v1 were all etched on the stove in Ian’s kitchen. If you don’t want to etch your […]
PCBs sent this week
We sent a bunch of PCBs to Seeed Studio’s Fusion service this week. The open source logic analyzer prototype was the most anticipated board, you can get the final hardware for free if you suggest the name. The final design candidates for the PIC high voltage programming adapter went to the board house too. Looking […]
Free PCB Sunday: Web platform
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few professionally-made PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. This week we’re giving away free PCBs for our powerful new embedded web platform. We’ll […]
#twatch: PCBs available at Seeed
Seeed Studio has v2 Twitter Watcher #twatch PCBs for $6, be sure to get the right ethernet jack ($1.90). These are the extra boards from our Fusion PCB service order (formerly propaganda PCB service). Assembled versions of our Twitter ticking, ethernet LCD backpack are also available for immediate shipment. A #twatch with LCD is $45, […]
Free PCB Sunday: Bus Pirate v2a
We go through a lot of prototype PCBs, and end up with lots of extras that we’ll never use. Every Sunday we give away a few professionally-made PCBs from one of our past or future projects, or a related prototype. This week we’re giving away two Bus Pirate v2a PCBs, PCB by Seeed Studio. The […]