JanW has used the Part Ninja to rescue a PM5132 function generator: Today I put the Part Ninja to good use, it came in handy when I was troubleshooting an old Philips PM5132 function generator. While I was working on … Read more
JanW built a Part Ninja on perfboard. He used a DIP cased microcontroller and through hole parts. He also replaced the 2.5V voltage reference with the similarly specced LM385-2.5. The connections were made with enamelled copper wire AWG 28. The … Read more
Mikelelere built a free Part Ninja v1 PCB. The Part Ninja is a electronic component testing tool. It identifies electronic components like transistors and FETs, determines the pinout, and measures basic specifications. If you build a free PCB we’ll send … Read more
Dolabra is designing Donatello, a Part Ninja and Superprobe combo. Instead of having a display on the board, like the Superprobe and Part Ninja, he delegated the display to a host computer over USB. My intention is to make a … Read more
Ginpb built a free Part Ninja v1 PCB. The Part Ninja is a electronic component testing tool. It identifies electronic components like transistors and FETs, determines the pinout, and measures basic specifications. If you build a free PCB we’ll send you … Read more
Shooting on tomorrows video started early in a sweltering workshop. The accompanying tutorials are all edited and ready to go for Thursday. Sent an order of PCBs and laser cutting to Seeed. Part Ninja documentation continues today, with further diagrams, … Read more
We played with the site theme a bit. There’s a temporary theme on the wiki right now. We sent a few projects out for a quote, including an acrylic case for the ATX power supply. WordPress, plugin, and server updates … Read more
Like every Thursday we spend a lot of time in video production. We did manage to get the latest two versions of the Part Ninja in the free PCB drawer. Beware, the version 1b doesn’t support battery power supply, while … Read more
We sketched a power up test helper to protect new circuits from going poof if there is a short, or other problem. We prepared for tomorrow’s workshop video, and we are preparing a Mouser order of standoffs in various sizes. … Read more
Today we ported the open source USB to two microcontrollers, the PIC18F2550, and the PIC24FJ64GB002. While the echo demo we had worked with the PIC18F2550, it was built to work with the IR Toy, so some board specific stuff was … Read more
Today we worked on the homemade flux video. Documentation for the Part Ninja continued. Most of the part recognition diagrams are uploaded, and the information on how the Part Ninja identifies different parts was added. Today we took a look … Read more
Today we mixed up a few batches of homemade Rosin based flux recipes, the results in tomorrows workshop video. Documentation on the Part Ninja continued today, with concept and overview documented on the part specific testing page. We hit a … Read more
Today we renewed websites, including 7400contest.com which is coming up again soon. We patched an SPI speed error in the Bus Pirate binary access mode. We had to cancel the company credit cards because 7 unexpected charges to Blizzard (World … Read more
Today we investigated bug reports in the PC Keyboard, SPI, and logic analyzer mode of the Bus Pirate. We also continued to work on the new sales pages for our projects. The first batch of Bus Pirate v3.6 with a … Read more
The workshop video always sucks up a whole day, this one way longer than normal to edit though. Learn about the parts we stock and why. Routing of the soldering practice badge continues today. We set the design using 3 … Read more
Desktop cleanup yielded a few random project files that we added to the SVN. We’re preparing 2 different sales pages for the Bus Pirate. We’ll post both for feedback, and then randomly display them to determine if one is more … Read more
We commited a patch to the SPIsniffer utility for the Bus Pirate that fixes an error with correct port speed settings on some systems. We also started work on some landing, and sales pages for the Bus Pirate. A bunch … Read more
Bay Area Maker Faire 2012 is over, but we still have pictures from last year (and every other Global Geek event) sitting on desktops around the workshop. We cleared 4 computer desktops that became totally packed with crap over the … Read more
Today we made a video of the Get your Stuff Made presentation. We also worked on cleaning up the Bus Blaster v2/3/4 buffer logic. Design of the badge for New York Maker Faire started in full. It has options for … Read more
Today we submitted one talk and two poster proposals to the Open Hardware Summit. We’ll post those, including an idea we didn’t submit, tomorrow. A big box of PCBs from Seeed Studio’s Fusion PCB service came while we were away, … Read more
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