Tag Archives: SMD

Note to self: 26.0V >> 2.60V — A short ChipQuik review

Posted on August 4, 2009 by robert

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 … Continue reading →

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8×8 RGB Matrix V3 + KICAD + SMD — part 2

Posted on March 31, 2009 by robert

Lost in some office, surrounded by clueless clerks, and low on patience… This is my adaption of the famous tag line of Army of Darkness: “Lost in time, surrounded by evil, and low on gas…”, which describes what I’ve been … Continue reading →

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8×8 RGB Matrix V3 + KICAD + SMD — part 1

Posted on February 26, 2009 by robert

Now that I’ve started to work with KICAD, I’ve made the transistion to SMD parts and finally got my switch back. I hade to remove it in V2 as the DIP parts took too much space. The quartz is back … Continue reading →

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