Adobe Reader Internet access causes hangs
On my fast, SSD-enabled machine, every bit of software runs quick except for Adobe Reader. It got to the point…
SAM-ICE connector pinout
The pin labeling is in the user guide, but the connector numbering was ambiguous. This photo and table snippet from…
Component Storage
SMD devices like resistors and capacitors can be stored in tiny plastic boxes such as shown here. Make sure the…
SMD soldering
This is a quick tutorial on how to solder an SMD board with 0603 and QFP sized components. This was…
Surface Mount Soldering – Tools
This set of tools is (in my opinion) some great tools for SMT soldering without going the reflow route (which…
Long-tailed-pair oscillator
I needed a quick alarm tone generator for a piezo speaker, and with no 555 at hand, this turned out…
EAGLE CAD Toroid drawing tool
This small bit of software can auto-generate a toroid outline for EAGLE. You can select horizontal or vertical mounting, and…
EAGLE CAD layers reference
This document eagle-cad-layers-reference3.pdf explains what all the layers in EAGLE mean when it comes to PCB component and board design…
EAGLE CAD SMD tool
After getting fed up manually creating device packages for EAGLE, the following tool was created. It allows for the automatic…
Toroid (Amidon) calculations
The excellent website changpuak.ch here and here allows you to figure out what core and number of turns for a…