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 [...]
Well… sort of.
I finally got the PCBs from sparkfun! Almost 6 weeks, 9 days only for the “air mail” letter to get to me. Maybe my “dear friends” at the customs office were “busy” again.
Unfortunately my request to change the design I had ordered with an updated one seems to have gone unheard. Even [...]
For quite some time I have 19 SMD RGB LEDs sitting in one of my electronics boxes. It used to be 20, but I’ve ruined one while trying to solder it to perfboard. They are 3 single LEDs put into one package, no common anything. The board contains an ATmega168 chip, a few resistors, capacitors [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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