I’ve waited almost 8 weeks… and finally the reward ;-)
And I’ve already managed to solder the LT1618 boost converter chip to one of these. Compared to soldering TQFP-32 packages this screams for solder paste and a hot air station. You need patience and flux… LOTS!
This needs a very steady hand. Even with a quite pointy [...]
Hi,
I’ve been planning to build a prototype driver for the Seeedstudio LED module (1, 2) for quite a while, but I just cannot get MSOP-DIP adapters that are reasonably priced. The cheapest single one I could find was 2.50€! The LT1618 boost driver chip I intend to use only comes in a MSOP10 package, and [...]
Not having the right tools is such a pain.
The modification I’m planning to do requires cutting 72 round 35mm holes into the white plastic foil that forms the Ikea SAMTID’s “head”. I tried to do that with a scalpel, but failed miserably. Getting holes in there is not a problem, but getting them to be [...]
Maybe you remember my last post about the Jyetech oscilloscope and it’s weird behaviour. Not all of them are strange, as the free replacement DIY KIT I received from them works fine. At that time I suspected a sick ATmega64 cpu and had all sorts of plans to detect what components might be bad.
Long story [...]
The symptoms since a firmware upgrade (and downgrades, re-upgrades…):
strange characters on the display for SEC/DIV
system freezes
+/- buttons are ignored (but still work physically)
the ADC chip doesn’t get a CLK signal during a freeze
My theory:
The ATmega64-16AU is overclocked to 20MHz, which is a good reason for failure. But all the other KITs seem to work, so [...]
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