Open Source Hardware Goodies
Daniel Joliffe has been updating the Freeduino site. One of the exciting changes is that he has free advertising for sites devoted to DIY and open hardware. I am honored to be one of the sites given...
View ArticleBreadboard Power Supply Review
Alan Wang sent in this review of the breadboard power supply kit. We will be sending him the latest revision of the kit as a thank you for his review. If you are interested in the solderless breadboard...
View ArticleUpdate on Wind Generator project
Well it is not good news. Seems that the Sunforce Wind Generator does not work well. We believe that they may have over complicated the generator package to make it easier to use and ended up making it...
View ArticleNixie Tube Display Kit Review
I just received and built up some ogi lumen display boards. These boards use Nixie tubes to display a numbers (0-9) with an old school/steampunk look. Each module consist of a display board with two...
View ArticleWhere to start with Microcontrollers
In this article Jacob Woj gives his take on which tools are best for a hobbyist getting started with Microcontroller projects. He compares that Arduino, Make Controller Kit, and more direct programming...
View ArticleAVR Dragon’s at uCHobby
We purchased two Atmel AVR Dragons from Digi-Key (order page) to support a series of articles Jacob Woj is doing about developing and debugging with AVR Studio. His first article compared the various...
View ArticleEEVBlog is Awesome
Reading my feeds today I came across the EEVBlog in a post at Electronics Lab blog. Many of the uCHobby readers probably watch the Electronics-Lab blog as well but I wanted to add my vote to the...
View ArticleBreadboarder’s Perfect Protoboard
Wright Hobbies has started selling the perfect prototyping board for breadboard lovers. The Protoboard 400’s pad arrangement and connections match those on a 400-point solderless breadboard. The pads...
View ArticleProtostack ATMega8 Developers Kit Review
Daniel over at Protostack sent uCHobby an ATMega8 Developers Kit to review. The kit is basically a prototyping board with a spot for an ATMega8 chip and the minimum support parts. For $15 you get the...
View ArticleXMOS Dev Kit Arrives and Contest Information
Just received an XMOS XK-1 Development Kit in the mail as part of a Design Challenge hosted via Trossen Robotics. XMOS has in interesting architecture, something new to explore. I am especially...
View ArticleKiCAD for Schematics and PCB Layout
It’s been a while since I’ve done my last hobby PCB project, the SBBPWR module. SBBPWR stands for Solderless Bread Board Power Supply. I did this design and several other BB adaptors using KiCAD....
View ArticleInexpensive Stepper Kit
Initial review of a inexpensive, too good to be true, stepper motor with driver kit from BangGood. While browsing around at Amazon I came across some amazing deals on items related to the Arduino. This...
View ArticleCypress PSOC4 kit for $4!
You can really get a lot for $4. I just received a PSoC 4 CY8CKIT-049 4xxx Prototyping Kit. What is a Cypress PSOC? (from their site) PSoC® 4 is Cypress’s newest ARM-based PSoC, featuring the low-power...
View ArticleUDOO Up and Running
Just fired up a UDoo to play with in the lab. A UDoo is a combination of a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino. But4 X the speed of a Pi and the Arduino is really an Arduino Mega built into the same board....
View ArticleMy Favorite Arduino, the Nano
The Arduino Nano is my favorite version of the Arduino. Pictured here in my breadboard next to a custom made FTDI adapter, more on that later. The Modern Device Educato might be a close second but I...
View ArticleDigital Oscilloscope Kit from China
We recently built the Digital O-Scope kit from BangGood in China. It is based on the STM32F ARM processor and includes a nice color LCD. It’s single channel and not very fast but plenty fast enough to...
View ArticleChina Goodies – Gearbest.com – Arduino Bits
A review for some Arduino related items we recently received from Gearbest.com. A cheap Arduino Mega compatible board, LCD/Keyboard shied, Acrylic mounting plate for Arduino and a simple cable. Each...
View ArticlePCB Supplier Review–PCBCart
We had a PCB made for the ESP01 Neopixel adapter project featured in a prior post. In that project we used an ESP826 to create a web site monitor. In this post we do a review of the board supplier,...
View Article$14 GM328A Component Tester + 3D Printed Enclosure
GM328A_2I purchased a “GM328A Transistor Tester Graphic Wave Signal LCRRLCPWMESR Meter Inductance” from Banggood. It came as an assembled unit and tested out very well on my bench. Unfortunately, it...
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