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Etching your own PCBs Photo

Etching your own PCBs

01 April 2013 3 min read

Creating Your Own PCBs Using UV Exposure and Etching Fluid: A Step-by-Step Guide

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Vacuum Pickup upgrade Photo

Vacuum Pickup upgrade

27 February 2013 2 min read

Upgrading the vacuum pickup on our DIY manual pick and place machine.

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Automatic component feeders DIY pick and place Part 2 Photo

Automatic component feeders DIY pick and place Part 2

27 February 2013 2 min read

Automatic component feeders for the DIY pick and place machine Part 2

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Low Voltage Cut off using MAX8212 Photo

Low Voltage Cut off using MAX8212

10 February 2013 1 min read

Using a MAX8212 to add a low voltage cut-off on our off-grid solar PV system

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Automatic component feeders DIY pick and place Part 1 Photo

Automatic component feeders DIY pick and place Part 1

01 December 2012 2 min read

Adding automatic component feeders to the manual DIY pick and place Part 1

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Magnetic PCB holders Photo

Magnetic PCB holders

01 December 2012 2 min read

Making some small magnetic PCB holders

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Diy Manual Pick and Place Machine Photo

Diy Manual Pick and Place Machine

19 October 2012 5 min read

Building our own DIY Manual Pick and Place Machine

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T962 Infrared Reflow Oven Vent Hack Photo

T962 Infrared Reflow Oven Vent Hack

02 October 2012 2 min read

Modifying a T962 infrared reflow oven to try and improve its cooking performance.

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RF Shielding on a Mains Inverter Photo

RF Shielding on a Mains Inverter

19 September 2012 2 min read

Our mains solar inverter is causing RF interference on our ham radio transceivers so we put it in a metal case to improve the RF shielding

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ADC Pi Raspberry Pi I2C Analog to Digital Converter boards available to buy online Photo

ADC Pi Raspberry Pi I2C Analog to Digital Converter boards available to buy online

14 September 2012 3 min read

ADC Pi Raspberry Pi I2C Analog to Digital Converter boards available to buy online from our new shop at AB Electronics UK

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Axminster SIEG Super X1 Micro Mill Z Axis Ballscrew Upgrade Photo

Axminster SIEG Super X1 Micro Mill Z Axis Ballscrew Upgrade

05 September 2012 3 min read

Adding a ballscrew to the Z-Axis on our Axminster SIEG Super X1 Micro Mill

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Cheap Sources of Components Photo

Cheap Sources of Components

19 August 2012 3 min read

How do we find cheap sources of electronic components

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