A few days ago I visited my parents. The main purpose was to ‘deposit’ my new Lecroy WaveAce224 DSO. I bought it as a gift for myself, but I haven’t fulfilled all criteria to receive the gift yet. Therefore my parents are ‘guarding’ it for me until I’m allowed to have it. As Lecroy were [...]
I was having problems with the “led ring” boards. Their internal oscillators were not ticking with the same speed and required constant re-syncing. I tried to improve the situation by recalibrating by adjusting the OSCCAL registers. Recalibration can be done quite easily with an oscilloscope. Either assuming that the _delay_ms() routine is reasonably correct for [...]
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 [...]
Nothing good can come from a freak idea after midnight !
I was tired and should have gone to bed. But when I get too tired I can’t fall asleep anymore and turn into a zombie, looking for something stupid to do. Sadly at that time my idea seemed brilliant.
So I started testing how low [...]
I’ve waited for 5 weeks for the 2nd batch of the 64-pixel RGB matrix controller boards. This time I ordered from MakePCB as I wanted to test another PCB manufacturer. Also I couldn’t get gold plated pads from GoldPhoenix for a reasonable price. As far as I can see right now, the boards are of [...]
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