From the MAKE Flickr pool Feurig etched a well-planned fish-shaped circuit to hosts a slew of pink LEDs as scales. Great work – though it would be nice to see all those lovely copper traces exposed in the final product. A lot of work goes into designing circuitry and etching your own provides an excellent […]
This looks like an easy way to hook things up on a protoboard: Using 0.3 mm insulated copper wire. I solder to the wire tips at approx. 400 degree Celsius first (that burns the insulation) and at 310 degree Celsius finally. Not to fast though – needs some patience… A way to wire prototype boards […]
If you’ve ever used the ‘toner transfer’ method for making printed circuit boards, you may be familiar with the sore wrist/arms associated with prolonged pressured ironing. It seems using a lamination machine and magazine paper might alleviate the ironing portion of the process. (of course you could always try using a hotter iron first) Lamination […]
Eagle users, in case you haven’t heard: Cadsoft released version 5 of their popular PCB layout software – and with it a lot of very welcome changes. To name just a few – When clicking with the right mouse button on an object in an editor window, a context specific popup menu is now displayed […]
Reader Kevin wrote in to point out an excellent resource for DIY synth makers – Ken Stone’s Modular Synthesizer site offers an excellent selection of schematics for all manner of synth building, and sells PCBs for most of the circuits listed – some very cool unusual stuff too like the V8 simulator and Stompbox adapter […]
Evil Mad Scientist Auxiliary member Fightingsquid built this aesthetically pleasing Peggy board display. Nice use of multiple LED sizes. Possibly a relative of the 8-bit blooper? – Peggy kenkaika set on Flickr In the Maker store: Peggy v1.0 Kit
Opening up an Eyeclops video magnifier reveals an unusual detail. Apparently the designers thought the included SMD circuit was so unimpressive that an enlarged, printed version was necessary – or maybe they were just really excited about magnification in general? Either way, mounting a standoff directly onto a crystal oscillator is generally not advisable. [via] […]
