Tag Archives: review

Week in (p)review December 27, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. USB and serial enabled LCD backpack and Bus Pirate v4 are back in stock Check out Tom’s 12mm Rotary Encoder breakout, Nickjohnson load project, Sjaak’s Nixie clock, and Mats’ LoadMaster Jr in the project log forum Coming up: Free PCBs via Facebook on Friday App […]

Agilent 34461A miniseries part 1 Histogramm and Cdf

Michael Rubitschka writes: Today I received a Agiltent 34461A Truevolt multimeter from Xtest.at the Austrian Agilent distributor. I plan to write some articles about this  multimeter and especially about features which imho separates it from it’s competition. I am a Hewlett Packard / Agilent fan but I will try hard to be as unbiased as […]

Reviewing Dorji’s DSTH01 digital temperature and humidity sensor module

Raj did a review of Dorji’s DSTH01 digital temperature and humidity sensor module: The DSTH01 module is smaller than 0.4″X0.4″ in dimension and operates at 2.1-3.6V power supply. The pull-up resistors for I2C lines are available on board. I tested this sensor module with Crowduino (an Arduino Duemilanove clone with Atmega328) using Jonas Bo Jalling’s Si7005 Arduino […]

Week in (p)review December 06, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Bus Pirate Demo board free PCB build Sick of Beige basic case v1 (DP5031) and Sick of Beige basic case v1 (DP6037)  are back in stock Check out Tom’s relay control board on DP5031 PCB in the project log forum Coming […]

Turnigy 9X review – 9 Channel RC transmitter

Oscar Liang did a review of the Turnigy 9X RC transmitter: The Turnigy 9X is one of the best RC transmitters out there at the moment for it’s price. For $60, you’ll get a 9 channel transmitter (8 usable), a receiver and a bind plug, but with no battery. I have been using this transmitter for over […]

Week in (p)review November 29, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Steve shares his impressions of the Bus Pirate as a prototyping and test tool Check out kehribar’s UDP bootloader for Atmega328p + ENC28J60in,  Mats’ POTONG6 – Potentiometer & Slide switch breakout and MCC8 – PIC24 based CHIP-8 game emulator  the project log forum Coming […]

Experience with the Bus Pirate

Steve of Big Mess o’ Wires shares his impressions of the Bus Pirate as a prototyping and test tool: I finally got curious enough that I decided to just buy one, and get the sense of the Bus Pirate through hands-on experimentation. My conclusion is: it’s great! Imagine every hardware programmer, debugger, serial cable, and interface tool […]

Week in (p)review November 22, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Sick Of Beige Basic Case v1 (DP7043), Sick Of Beige basic case v1 (DP9056) and Bus Blaster v3 are back in stock Check out Nick’s uCAN project update, cpldcpu LPC812 Breakout board, and jrychter’s Bus Pirate reference card in the project log forum Another chipKIt […]

Week in (p)review November 08, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Tokyo Mini Maker Faire 2013 Check out Mats’ PlingPlong a portable synth in the project log forum This week giveaway: Circuit patterns trading cards Coming up: Free PCBs via Facebook on Friday App notes on the weekend Free PCB Sunday […]

Week in (p)review October 18, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Bus Pirate v3.6, and Bus Pirate v4 are back in stock xQFP80 +50 Protoboard free PCB build Coming up: Free PCBs via Facebook on Friday App notes on the weekend Free PCB Sunday Free PCBs via Twitter on Tuesday Weekly roundup […]

Week in (p)review October 11, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Testing a MAX7219 LED array with Bus Pirate Bus Pirate v4 Acrylic case kit v1 and USB Infrared Toy v2 are back in stock Fan Controller free PCB build Check out ezflyr’s open Ssurce Nixie clock project , Bertho’s Executive Decision Maker […]

Week in (p)review September 20, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. OpenBench Logic Sniffer ported to Pipistrello LX45  USB LCD Backpack PIC18F24J50 free PCB build Diolan firmware update tool for PIC18F2550 used in USB IR Toy Coming up: Free PCBs via Facebook on Friday App notes on the weekend […]

Week in (p)review September 13, 2013

Here’s a summary of major developments over the last week. Free PCB Friday is coming up soon. Another case for the ATX Breakout board bench power supply by Phenoptix Check out Mats’ TraId – Transistor type & pinout identifier in the project log forum Coming up: Free PCBs via Facebook on Friday App notes on […]

Quick test of the PS-305D PSU

Mats did a review of the PS-305D PSU he bought from Smart-Prototyping: I ran some basic measurements on the PS-305D (Linear 0-30V/0-5A, 1mA Display) I recently bought from Smart-Prototyping.The internal volt meter in the PSU seems reasonably well calibrated.Then I tested the Constant Current capabilities with having a direct short circuit through my DMM. It […]

Talking Electronics Frequency Counter

John Boxall over at Tronixstuff has a detailed review of Talking Electronics’ Frequency Counter: The counter works by using a multi-vibrator using a CD4047 to generate a square-wave at 50, 500 and 5 kHz, and the three trimpots are adjusted to calibrate the output. The incoming pulses to measure are fed to the 4026 decade counter/divider ICs. Three of […]