It seems that life is most definitely on my side today. Apart from a couple of burns and an hour or two of complete utter frustration, I can happily announce that around 95% of Phobass IV Mk2 works! Slightly stupidly, I sent off for the new PCB a bit early (before I’d properly had a […]
Well! Even after a bit of a dodgy design, I’m happy to say that the PCB’s have quite good success! I’ve now linked up the menu and mainboard PCB and have got the menu successfully working! The PCB’s in shot showing the main board and menu linked. Even though the center button on the menu […]
Well! After the minor (I lie – major) disaster with the first design, I’ve redesigned the problems out of the PCB’s and have sent off to Itead studio for them to be made again. hopefully this time, they’re completely working! While I find it really annoying spending £26 on a new set of PCB’s, I’m […]
A purchasing of speakers isn’t particularly electronics based though they definitely will contain a lot of electronics! Regardless, I decided to buy myself a pair of these for future use! I wouldn’t consider myself a full on audiophile though I enjoy bullplopping about sound quality and specifications and enjoy my music being played to a […]
A couple of days back, a student in one of the years above me posted in our ShockSoc facebook group about an event that Thales (https://www.thalesgroup.com/) were running at my university. It involved a few tasks using an Arduino which I feel suited me greatly as I first learnt to program using an Arduino. After […]
So the other day, in a lovely triangular fedex package, my latest PCB design for the phobass arrived from PCBWing (http://www.pcbwing.com/). For this PCB, I decided to have a go designing using 0603 parts as a bit of a challenge. I’ve hand soldered with 1206 and 0805 parts with no major worries and by the […]
Last Friday, I went to one of my lecturers asking if I could get some acrylic cut into some shapes that I’m using for another project. Being as helpful as he is, he asked me to send him the sizes of the pieces and a little picture to demonstrate each part. I decided in the […]
In the first semester of uni, we had a fair few talks from the employment and careers section of the university, one of which was about applying for something called the UKESF Scholarship. After the initial talk, I didn’t think that I’d be suitable for a position on the scholarship, with me only being a […]
Having been browsing the internet for quite a while on different touch screen technologies, I’ve been really interested in the frustrated total internal reflection technique of detecting finger positions on a screen, clear object (see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfdGF9yvkTM), It looks much more viable than resistive or capacitive touch screens for certain products as it doesn’t need the ITO […]
Yesterday, one of my lecturers was kind enough to give me an Intel Galileo Arduino styled board to test out and have a bit of a play with. I managed to get some of the standard Arduino functions working, analog read, PWM and GPIO toggling. At the moment, I’m not actually particularly impressed, using standard […]
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