For the first in a series of posts describing how to make a PCB, we’re going with Eagle. Eagle CAD has been around since the days of DOS, and has received numerous updates over the years. Until KiCad started getting good a few years ago, Eagle CAD was the de facto standard PCB design software…
Mike Rankin created this tiny sensor board with an ARM Cortex M0+ microcontroller and OLED display:
It’s pretty tiny so a 4 layer board made the whole job easier. The top and bottom are pretty much dedicated for components, layer1 are tracks and power traces, layer2 is a ground plane. Mixing up an internal plane and routing layer was interesting.
The hardware consists of:
The design files and source code are available on GitHub:
mike-rankin/SAMD21G18A_Sensor_Board
Video of the board in action:
miker has shared the board on OSH Park:
Neil Movva created this wearable project to assist the blind:
wearable device that translates distance into haptic feedback. Users just wear the wristband (or glove) and point at objects up to 500 centimeters away, and feel gentle pulses at their fingertips corresponding to the object’s distance
The design files and source code are available on GitHub:
neilmovva/pathfinderKaktus Circuits created this board to analyze USB devices:
Easily tap into the USB signals coming and going while the device is still connected to the bus [..] monitors power consumption [..] handy for reverse engineering devices without having to take the device apart
The assembled board can be purchased on Tindie. The hardware design files have be shared on GitHub:
kaktus85/USBuddy
The MinnowBoard is an Open Source Hardware single board computer with 64-bit Intel Atom processor. Jose Navarro created this “lure” board to simply connecting the MinnowBoard to a breadboard:
Fish Food Lure, breadboard adapter for the MinnowBoard MAX / Turbot compatible boards (because you feed bread to fish). Enables fast prototyping on a breadboard, connects to the MinnowBoard using a ribbon cable.
Switcher – A WiFi Open Source Power Switch and Socket Based on ESP8266
The switch uses the prominent ESP8266-01 module, an Arduino program, a 3D printed box and modules. It is free and open source, so you can build and modify it on your own!
Shared project:
PDX Maker Week has been amazing!
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OSH Park is looking for a part-time Customer Support Engineer to help our customers navigate our website, order from our service, and learn about designing circuit boards for manufacturing. We’re a small company and we offer high quality manufacturing in the USA by combining many small printed circuit board designs onto batch panels.
We see hundreds of orders a week so this is a great opportunity to see how engineering design meets the cold hard reality of manufacturing. We also offer paid time to work on your own Open Hardware projects.
Our office is in Oregon but our support team works from home so you should expect to work independently, manage your own work schedule, use Slack to keep in touch, and join us for biweekly remote meetings using Google Hangouts.
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You never know what you’ll find when you open the projects feed on Hackaday.io. Most weeks, The Hacklet follows a theme of some sort. Sometimes I find projects that just look so cool that I have to get the word out about them. Such is the case with this week’s first project, Mr. Runner created by Alex Martin
Creating a four legged robot with a running bound gait.
The Lino board was correctly made and roughly tested. But now, how can I see how correctly performs? By simply integrating the load (power LEDs) and the PC environment to a complete working system. In this article will be provided a summary of these various steps, just to keep rtace of the progresses. The […]
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