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Do you have more devboards than you have projects? Is the teetering pile of boards threatening to topple and crush a household pet? Do you have a google alert for “arduino compatible” on kickstarter? Can you use boards running “blink” …
This week we’re building Logic Pirate open hardware logic analysers at VHS in our SMD workshops. The ICSP header is 0.05″ pitch so I came up with a top and bottom programming jig to load the initial firmware. Tickets …
The circuit boards from dirty pcbs for SMD May are here just in time. The Logic Pirate is a nice cheap compact logic analyser design by Markus Gritsch. More at Dirty PCBs and Dangerous Prototypes.
VHS and Vancouver Mini Maker Faire are closely associated. The 2014 Maker Faire will be at the PNE like last year, it is only 3 weeks away. This year, for the first time, a selection of excellent workshops are running. …
The dangerous prototypes logic pirate is a new 8 channel logic analyser design from the home of the bus pirate. It uses the open SUMP protocol supported by the ols java client software (Mac, Windows, Linux). This project is …
In light of the cancellation of the VTL workshop, we’re going to do an alternative spring cleanup! Things to be done: Setup a filing system for the laser cutter wood in the workshop. Thank you, mystery people! Create a breaker …
Links from the night David Clement – custom VR headset Verold Studio – Ross & Ian – 3D Editing and Oculus Rift support on WebGL Gorgon – Heather & Brad Snow Drift – Jesse Mega Binaural – Richard Zhang
You can see from looking at the block diagram above that the isolation is transformer based, it’s quite remarkable that they can fit 5 transformers in such a small package. If you can’t attend the workshop the pcb files can …
As part of the recent pi protoplate/connector group buy we included funds for Adafruit, the authors of the open hardware PCB design we chose. We ordered 25 boards and aimed to include $1 per board kickback for Adafruit. The final …
In one of the earlier SMD workshops I managed to temporarily kill my new macbook pro when I plugged in a prototype. I revived it by removing the battery all the time chanting to myself, must get a usb isolator, …