31 OCTOBER 2015
This is part two of the USB MultiComms project, you can view part one where we built the controller board at USB MultiComms Part One - USB Board
In part one of this USB MultiComms I detailed the design and construction...
15 OCTOBER 2015
Designing a USB communications box.
Several of the projects we have been working on recently needed some form of serial communication with our PC, either through RS232, UART, I2C or SPI and at the moment we use a handful...
30 SEPTEMBER 2015
With the dark winter evenings drawing in we are starting to use the bikes more at night than in the day time due to work commitments to try to keep fit.
We purchased a set of Hope One LED lights earlier this year and they...
22 AUGUST 2015
Last week we ordered a new compact pc for the loft workshop and a new wide screen monitor to use for our electronics development and also to use with our SDR radio.We purchased a Quiet PC Sentinel Mini system from www.quietpc.com...
26 JANUARY 2015
In November 2014 my brother and I decided to buy a pair of Specialized CruX E5 cyclocross bikes to use in addition to our full suspension mountain bikes. We decided to buy cyclocross style bikes rather than pure road bikes...
22 NOVEMBER 2014
On our ecommerce shop we needed to be able to format customer addresses in the correct format and layout for the destination countries, to do this I have written a simple C# postal address parser to format the input address...
06 NOVEMBER 2014
On the 15th October 2014 I ordered a pair of Voltz 5300mAh 8.4v Stick Pack with Traxxas Connector NiMH batteries from www.modelsport.co.uk which they sent to me via Royal Mail at a cost of £76.90
When the batteries...
02 OCTOBER 2014
We have now purchased a Maynuo M9812 Programmable LED DC Electronic Load rated at 0-150V 0-30A 300W.
We had planned to buy a DC load for to use for testing battery drain, battery controllers and for our new solar data...
18 MAY 2014
Things have been very busy with both work and hobbies and there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get all the planned projects finished and keep the blog up to date.
At the start of May my sole...
23 MARCH 2014
Alongside our electronic projects another long term hobby has been model making and more specifically model railways. We have had a model railway in our loft workshop for many years and it has always been a way of...