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IR Remote Control Repeater

Posted on November 14, 2016 The Engineer

Here’s another random gadget for teardown, this time an IR remote control repeater module. These would be used where you need to operate a DVD player, set top box, etc in another room from the TV that you happen to be watching. An IR receiver sends it’s signal down to

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Official Raspberry Pi 7″ Touch LCD

Posted on November 25, 2015November 25, 2015 The Engineer

Finally the Raspberry Pi Foundation have released an official LCD for the DSI connector on the Pi. When these were announced, I placed an order straight away, but due to demand it’s taken quite a while for it to arrive in the post. The LCD itself is an RGB panel,

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SainSmart Frequency Meter

Posted on July 16, 2015July 16, 2015 The Engineer

Thanks to Lewis, M3HHY for lending me this one 🙂 Here’s a quick look at a Sainsmart frequency counter module. These are useful little gadgets, showing the locked frequency on a small LCD display. It’s built around an ATMega328 microcontroller (µC), and an MB501L Prescaler IC. The circuit for this

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Wouxun KG-UV950P Teardown & Analysis

Posted on July 5, 2015 The Engineer

Following on from my review, here are some internal views & detail on the components used in this radio. Below is an overview of the main PCB with the top plate removed from the radio. Most visible are these MOSFETs, which are Mitsubishi RD70HVF1 VHF/UHF power devices.  Rated for a

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Precision 10v & 5v Reference

Posted on May 2, 2015May 2, 2015 The Engineer

After watching a video over at Scullcom Hobby Electronics on YouTube, I figured I’d build one of these precision references to calibrate my multimeters. It’s based around a REF102P 10v precision reference & an INA105P precision unity gain differential amplifier. For full information, check out the video, I won’t go

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Cat Links Hacks, Personal Project, Randoms

AD9850 VFO Board

Posted on November 7, 2014November 7, 2014 The Engineer

Continuing from my previous post where I published an Eagle design layout for AD7C‘s Arduino powered VFO, here is a completed board. I have made some alterations to the design since posting, which are reflected in the artwork download in that post, mainly due to Eagle having a slight psychotic

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Flyback Secondary Waveform
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555 Flyback Driver

Posted on December 3, 2013December 4, 2013 The Engineer

Here is a simple 555 timer based flyback transformer driver, with the PCB designed by myself for some HV experiments. Above is the Eagle CAD board layout. The 555 timer is in astable mode, generating a frequency from about 22kHz to 55kHz, depending on the position of the potentiometer. The

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Raspberry Pi GPIO Breakout

Posted on July 25, 2012July 25, 2012 The Engineer

After seeing these on eBay for £8.99 I thought it might be a good deal – interfacing with the RasPi’s GPIO & it has built in power supplies. As a kit, it was very easy to assemble, the PCB quality is high, and is a fairly good design. It worked

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