Having had a drastic rethink over the whole Phobass design, I’ve decided that I’m going to scrap the idea of making the patch editing PC based and have a dedicated patch editor onboard. Using my trusty PCD8544 Nokia LCD and the library I wrote, I’ve been writing a menu system. So far, I’ve got the […]
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 year, I came across the Maple Mini microcontroller (http://goo.gl/G5579s) which is an ARM based arduino equivalent that came before the arduino due. It really helped me jump into the world of arm controllers and I think that its a really great little board! Unfortunately, they stopped support for windows quite a while back and […]
So my PCB’s arrived the other day and after attempting to solder one up, I failed drastically on the LQFP48 package and completely screwed up my STM32 IC. After much frustration, I placed another order with RS for some more IC’s and picked them up yesterday. With much more care, consideration and solder wick, I […]
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 […]
Today, I borrowed my friends bike to go down to the sorting office (6 and a half miles there and back!) and picked up my PCB’s that have arrived from Hong Kong! As per usual, I’m really happy at the quality from ITead studio and would happily recommend them to anybody wanting to get PCB’s […]
With hope, I should be receiving my watch PCB’s next week some time. I bought them off Itead Studio (http://goo.gl/BxYS8h) as I’ve bought from them many times before, they have brilliant prices and have a pretty fast turn around normally! Knowing the PCB’s are on the way, I’ve also placed my order with RS for […]
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 […]
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