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Recently Newark Canada organised a competition where contestants needed to create a project using Conductive Ink. Our very own Robert Butterworth had a crack at it and this is what he came up with. You can check out the full …
For SMD August we’re breaking out the toaster oven and controller to cook some SMD stars. Participants are likely to end up with a working product but they’re more likely to end up more knowledgable about the electronics fabrication process. …
I’ve been asked about how I programmed the bootloader so I’m putting the doco here. For all my AVR work I use a bus pirate v3 with the stk500 firmware. I have a cable I made that adapts the bus …
When Kickstarter came to VHS to talk about launching campaigns they showed MaKeyMaKey as an example. They chose well. This has to be close to the most fun you can find in a circuit. You can find out lots about it …
This is a beginners SMD workshop. You’ll be taken through a technique for solder smd components and then get a chance to build the board shown in the photo. The price is the cost of the parts including battery. People …
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.
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 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, …
There’s a lot of work that goes into putting workshops on at vhs. In the photo below you can see some of the parts for the SMD March Internet of things board laid out ready for packing. Many SMD components …
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