Chris built a USB IR Toy free PCB. With the USB IR Toy you can use a remote control with your computer, view infrared signals on a logic analyzer, capture and replay remote control buttons. If you build a free … Read more
MickM built a free Bus Pirate LCD Adapter v2b PCB. 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 … Read more
Rohit blogged about his MSP430F5310 Breakout board build: This is the article and the comment by Boseji to his git repo for the project that was extremely useful in building it! If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! … Read more
ZackFreedman blogged about his FT311 Breakout board v1b build: Dangerous Prototypes’ products are almost all surface-mount, so I used the same special prototyping tools I use for client work. I applied Zephpaste solder paste (amazing quality, easy to clean, and … Read more
Twinpeaks built a Cortex M3/M0 breakout board free PCB. I just finished my free Cortex M3 Breakout Board using an NXP LPC1343. Running at up to 72 MHz this has quite some power for such a tiny uC. I think … Read more
Mikelelere built a free XT-IDE Adapter v1b PCB. I’ve finally found some spare time to assemble the XT-IDE adapter v1b free PCB I received a couple of weeks ago. I could not manage to find the CPLD included in the … Read more
Zak Kemble posted his AVR based PWM fan controller build: So this is a bit of a continuation on my 555 timer based PWM controllers, but now using microcontrollers and MOSFETs instead of 555 ICs and transistors. I made 2 … Read more
Phalox blogged about his LCD backpack build: I’ve been using this LCD for a week now at work, and it makes receiving emails nicer :-) Now I should still get it to work with LCDproc. That should provide for a … Read more
Ptarmigan labs blogged about his free Smoke Tester v1 PCB build. It’s a board designed to safely power your prototypes, and check if they have a short somewhere using just about any available supply. A while back I got a free … Read more
j_dja tweeted his Bus Pirate Demo Board v5c free PCB build. This board was designed to emulate various different ICs with which the Bus Pirate can talk to. I2c, SPI, and UART protocols are supported, with device emulation for RAM, … Read more
TomKeddie built a Smoke Tester v1 free PCB. It’s a board designed to safely power your prototypes, and check if they have a short somewhere using just about any available supply. Via the forum.
Drjeseuss shares his Bus Pirate v4.0c PCB build using a toaster oven to reflow the solderpaste: All in all, this project was a success! The process worked well enough to repeat and the reflow toaster puts an end to my fears of … Read more
Juanma built a USB IR Toy free PCB. With the USB IR Toy you can use a remote control with your computer, view infrared signals on a logic analyzer, capture and replay remote control buttons. If you build a free … Read more
jechavarria recently received a Digital Paddleclock PCB in the giveaway and wrote a post on his blog detailing its assembly and operation. Via the contact form.
Andrew built a Bus Pirate Arduino Shield from a free PCB. This board gives the Arduino the same front-end circuity as the Bus Pirate. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a … Read more
Mikelelere built a free Android Accessory Development kit PCB. I’ve assembled over the weekend a free PCB I received last week: the Android Open Accessory Kit. When I ordered this PCB from the free PCB drawer I noticed a paragraph … Read more
Cosminnci posted pictures of his free DP6037_SMT.v1 PCB build. This is a universal breakout board for SOIC microcontrollers. It features a USB power supply and data lines, a quartz crystal, breakouts for all the pins and a small prototyping area. This … Read more
Last March Ray presented his design of a portable breadboard power supply with a selectable voltage using the Microchip MCP1640 boost converter he dubbed the AASaver. After receiving and assembling batches of AASaver PCBs he wrote this tutorial explaining the … Read more
Dmmedia built a free MMA7455L accelerometer breakout board. The MMA7455L is a 3-axis accelerometer with I2C and SPI interfaces. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a picture on Flicker, whatever – … Read more
Garyservin built a free ENC424J600 Ethernet breakout board. This is the 100MBPS ethernet chip from Microchip, the fairly recent update to the 10MBPS ENC28J60. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you another one! Blog about it, post a … Read more
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