Tag Archives: design
minDUINO gets a logo
One of the other strings to my bow is Graphic Design. I’m self taught and have been dipping in and out of the graphic water for many years. I have designed lots of logos for various entities in the past … Continue reading
Something A Bit Different
Whilst waiting for the minDUINO v1.5/6 boards to appear, I took part in my local radio club’s DF Hunt (Direction Finding – Find the hidden station). As it is, myself and my team colleague, Ian G7PHD won the contest! Although … Continue reading
minDUINO v1.6 Sneak-Peek
I’m getting ahead of myself here but I thought I’d post a quick preview of the minDUINO v1.6 board. The main target here was to accommodate a 28-pin ZIF socket for programming purposes. The 3M ZIF Sockets have a rather … Continue reading
Park Life
I have now had a lesson in patience. My PCBs arrived from OSH Park yesterday. They are of top quality. However, I should have checked over my design a few times before submission. On the face of it, they look … Continue reading
A Walk in the Park
As a slight detour from my own PCB making exploits, let me tell you about a couple of PCBs I’m having made commercially. I am a big fan of the Z80 microprocessor made by ZiLog and have had an itch … Continue reading
UV Exposure
The next step I had to take was to obtain or create a UV Exposure box. I had already had experience with one due to another interest but that model, while easily up to the task, was prohibitively expensive. I … Continue reading
Starting Out
I’m not sure what others would say but sometimes, I just get the urge to make something. I’ve been interested in Electronics since I was a young boy. My father taught me to solder at the age of seven (with … Continue reading
First Post – Hi
This is my attempt to document the learning process and construction of a Transistor Tester based on an Atmel AVR chip and designed by Markus Frejek. There are many variations of this project online but I wanted to show how … Continue reading