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 […]
Oh no! After completing the mainboard PCB, it turns out that I’ve wrongly designed two sections of ther board, damn! The power section has one wrong link and the model that I made for the processor board is 0.1″ too small. I’m a little annoyed but fortunately, these problems can be relatively easily rectified. I’ve […]
Wahoo! Today, to my utmost surprise, all the way from the eastern lands of Asia, my PCB’s arrived! Its been somewhat fast from PCB order to arrival (around 2 weeks, the standard time for an ITEAD order). I’m really happy though the silkscreen quality on the motherboard PCB’s seems to have deteriorated a bit. Regardless, […]
Me and my partner in design crime Richard have been quite heavily designing the Quadruped these past few days. After speaking to my tutor at university about funding, he brought up that I should mention the project in an LCF (Learning Committee Forum). Regardless, he said I should hopefully be able to get funding as […]
So it’s come to that time of the year where University societies are opening elections for the new committees. I’m an active member of around 4 societies (BladeSoc, NUIce, ShockSoc and BandSoc) and decided to run for positions on two of them. Fortunately, I didn’t have too much competition and have made it onto the […]
Today, using one of my favourite PCB companies ever, I sent off for my Phobass IV PCB’s to be made! I didn’t get round to designing the “string” PCB as that will require much more though and I’m wanting to jump right into finally completing IV! I’ve also fully completed the menu system and at […]
So with the onset of the new Phobass IV Mk2 design on the way, and after further reading into the STM32F4 discovery board disclaimer (http://goo.gl/fMIRHq) which explicitly states that I can’t use their board in any of my products, I’ve decided to broaden my search to a suitable and easily dropped in PCB without having […]
After a nice trip down to London to go and see my family, I had the joy of 4 hours of train travel! That to me seems like the ideal time to program compared to waiting doing absolutely nothing. I brought along my breadboard with my LCD and STM32F0 discovery to test my programming though […]
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