1. Introduction First of all I would like to start with an apology to those who started following this series early on, I appreciate that it's been a while since I have published any articles in this series, and for this I am sorry, but I wi...
1. Introduction One of the fundamental pieces of work that is required to create schematics and PCB layouts is creating library parts. Lots of packages ship with a large library of parts, including EAGLE, and there are numerous resources on the ...
1. Overview For a while now I have been building up a library of tools and utilities written in ULP for EAGLE. Whilst some of them are very much tailored to my design flow, some of them are more generally applicable so I have decided to start to...
So some of you may have noticed my status update from last week confessing my weakness when it comes to purchasing test equipment Well that purchase was a Keysight U1733CU1733C LCR meter and I have been after one of these for quite some time I'...
Overview For those of you that saw my blog yesterday on my experiments with a cheap LM2596S based DC-DC converter board you are no doubt aware that under one of the test conditions my first test board emitted the magic smoke. If you haven't seen...
Overview Over the Christmas break I was thinking about my blogs for this year and decided as well as following the builds for my various lab equipment projects (they've unfortunately been on hold while other work took priority!), I would do a se...
1. Overview This is the second instalment of my blog series following my Vacuum Pick and Place Assistant project. If you haven't seen the first part and want to get an overview of what this project is all about then I recommend you go take a...
There's been a lot of talk on shabaz's blog for his pick and place buddy recently and this gave me the motivation to get on with the very similar project I have been planning. There are some great ideas in that project and the subsequent disc...
I thought I would give a brief overview of my current lab setup to show the equipment I use and how I have things configured, and outline how I want to change things etc, and what additional equipment I would like to have which will lead into a futur...
1. Overview To maximise available space on my benches for actual electronics work, my lab bench PC is a tiny Gigabyte BRIX BXBT-1900 which I have mounted on the wall behind the bench. The monitor is then a 24" flat panel display mounted on an ar...
1. Overview In my engineering setup I have a lot of various physical machines, virtual machines, and servers. I tend to work mostly on my Mac laptop and access the other machines on my network remotely via SSH. This can lead to having to type pa...
