CIF Relflow oven forced air cooling fan addon
23 April 2016 6 min read
Adding forced air cooling to our CIF Reflow oven
Electronics
Hands-on electronics projects, documented with the detail you need.
5uH LISN Tester Project
16 April 2016 3 min read
Building a 5uH Line Impedance Stabilization Network Tester Project
ESP8266 Mains Energy Monitor
01 January 2016 7 min read
Building a custom ESP8266-based Wi-Fi mains electric and gas monitoring system
Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Gen Hot Water Installation
04 December 2015 8 min read
Replacing our old dumb central heating controller with a Nest Learning Thermostat 3rd Gen and Hot Water Installation
Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger Version 2
30 November 2015 12 min read
Time to replace our Raspberry Pi solar data logger with a new version 2 revision with more features and sensors
Mastervolt Soladin 600 Optical Interface Noise Fail
11 November 2015 4 min read
Trying to add an optical interface to our Mastervolt Soladin 600 solar mains inverter but had problems with unwanted RF noise from the inverter
USB MultiComms Part Four Case
11 November 2015 4 min read
Putting everything together in an enclosure and making custom front panels.
USB MultiComms Part Three UART Board
11 November 2015 4 min read
Designing an isolated USB to UART interface.
USB MultiComms Part Two RS232 Board
31 October 2015 6 min read
Designing an isolated USB to RS232 interface.
USB MultiComms Part One USB Board
15 October 2015 3 min read
Designing a modular serial interface for RS232, RS485, I2C, SPI and JTAG.
Sinclair ZX81 Kit Build
13 October 2015 3 min read
We purchased a boxed and unopened Sinclair ZX81 Kit from eBay and decided to build it and see if it still worked after being in a box for over 30 years
USB Smart Charger with Bluetooth LE
11 August 2015 6 min read
Designing a USB smart charger with wireless power monitoring.
Designing a PIC24 Development Board
08 July 2015 3 min read
Designing a PIC24 Development Board to use with different microcontrollers
DIY Pick and Place Speed Updates
19 May 2015 3 min read
Software tuning to make our DIY Pick and Place place components faster
DIY Soldering Robot Project Completed
04 May 2015 12 min read
We made a soldering robot to solder dual-row headers for Raspberry Pi development boards