Circuit Classics visit Adafruit

February 19, 2016 fustini1 Comment

Star Simpson joined Ladyada on Adafruit’s “Ask An Engineer” last night to demo her PCB versions of classic Forrest Mims circuits:

Thanks very much to Star for the wondeful shout out! [00:18:08]

And we loved when Ladyada proclaimed:

This is OSH Park purple! [01:13:48]

Canon DSLR WiFi Remote with ESP8266

February 18, 2016 fustini1 Comment

Guillermo Amaral shows how to make your own WiFi Canon DSLR Remote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1oXFDUl1DU&feature=autoshare

Having a tripod with you is not always all you need in order to take sharp, good looking pictures. Sometimes in low light conditions, your hand pressing down on the shutter trigger can make the image come out blurry.

So why not mix the power of the ESP8266 with a convenience of a shutter control? That way you could take photos while you’re chilling watching Netflix.

Guillermo shared his board on OSH Park:

Canon WiFiMote

2 layer board of 1.17×0.89 inches (29.67×22.56 mm).
Shared on January 14th, 2016 09:50.

ESP8266 interface board for Canon E3/N3 Cameras.

More Info: http://guillermoamaral.com/read/canon-wifimote/

Make a PCB with Fritzing & OSH Park

February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 fustiniLeave a comment

Fritzing is an open source free downloadable PCB design tool for hobbyists that only allows you to design and export gerbers for two-layer boards. It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac:

OSH Park Docs: Fritzing

Fritzing + OSH Park = PCB!

Pete Prodoehl of Milwuakee Makerspace and Maker Faire Milwuakee posted yesterday about his experience designing a Teensy LC breakout board with Fritzing and having it made by OSH Park:

I recently created my first “real” printed circuit board. By “real” I mean one that I sent out to get fabricated, not one I did at home by etching it myself. The board is for a Teensy LC, and breaks out most of the pins to screw terminals.

Credit: Pete Prodoehl [ http://rasterweb.net/raster/2016/02/14/fritzing-osh-park-pcb/ ]

Once all the pieces are in place and connected up I switched to PCB view where you get to see what the actual printed circuit board will look like. […] It will output a whole bunch of files to the folder specified. Once I had this folder I made a ZIP file from it, and named it Teensy-BOB.zip and uploaded it to OSH Park.

8-bit Valentine with MeowCAD

February 14, 2016February 15, 2016 fustiniLeave a comment

abetusk designed an “8-bit” style LED heart with MeowCAD and has shared the board on OSH Park:

8bit heart 20150503

Source: https://hackaday.io/project/7229-meowcad

Source: https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/NkKj9z3P

The LED matrix is controlled by an Atmel ATMega328 microcontroller and the code to scroll text available on GitHub:

GitHub: 8bitheart

The parts list for Digi-Key is also available in that repo: BOM.csv

Here’s a video of the 8-bit heart in action:

abetusk is the creator of MeowCAD:

An online free and open source electronic design tool that runs in your browser.

Source: https://meowcad.com/

The 8-bit Heart schematic and layout can viewed and edited on MeowCAD:

For more information checkout:

Quadcopter Running Lights

February 13, 2016February 13, 2016 fustini2 Comments

Matthew Matz recently tweeted about his tutorial to add running lights to the Parallax ELEV-8 quadcopter using a PCB from OSH Park:

Credit: Matt Matz

Running Lights for your ELEV-8 v3

Are you ready to mod your ELEV-8 v3? This tutorial will show you how to build a set of fully programmable running lights composed of bright RGB LEDs.

Credit: Matt Matz http://learn.parallax.com/running-lights-your-elev-8-v3

Shared Project: ELEV-8 Running Lights Rev2

Matt Matz recorded a video of the surface mount components being reflowed… it’s magical when all the components snap into place at the end!

OSH Park sponsoring reddit contests

February 11, 2016February 11, 2016 fustiniLeave a comment

diy

We are pleased to sponsor /r/DIYElectronics contests on reddit:

Each winner will receive a $30 gift code to be used on OSH Park!

The current contest is:

Credit: JesterVineo https://flic.kr/p/fQAdtU

Credit: Jan Kaláb https://flic.kr/p/39gBmX

Credit: TechCrunch https://flic.kr/p/85e39x

An unconventional clock

The mission here is simple: give me a clock you won’t see in a store.

Perhaps a word clock. A lava lamp water clock. An alarm clock that slaps you in the face and eats your hair (warning: audio). I don’t care.

Constraints

There are no limits to parts, budget, or size. Your project can be as simple or as complex as you want.

You can use a breadboard, or you can design your own PCB. You decide for yourself whether you want to use a microcontroller. Up to you.

Winners

There will be 2 winners, one decided by a voting thread and another decided by a panel of judges.

Prizes

Each winner will get a $30 gift code to be used at OSHPark
Plus: /u/optionsanarchist will be awarding 0.1 BTC to each winner

Deadline

March 14th

Shared Project: Sturdy Pot Adaptor for Breadboards

February 6, 2016 fustiniLeave a comment

Sometimes it’s the simple things that make all the difference:

Sturdy Pot Adaptor for Breadboards

by Paul Stoffregen

Ever built a quick demo on a breadboard that needed a pot to adjust some parameter? As soon as someone tries to turn it, things come loose. That is, if they even try… little trim pots aren’t very inviting to touch & turn.

This pot adaptor board lets you use real full size (6mm shaft) pots on breadboards. With 10 header pins, the pot mounts securely to the breadboard, even when people turn the knob!

Paul has more information in his Dorkbot PDX blog post including this video:

I assembled the board with the recommended Bourns 10K pot from Digikey (#PTV09A-4020U-B103-ND). For quick demo, I wired it up to a Teensy 3.2 Purple OSH Park Edition running an Arduino sketch that outputs to an Adafruit OLED:

Thimble.io prototypes with OSH Park

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 fustiniLeave a comment

We were excited when Oscar Pedroso told us that Thimble.io uses OSH Park to prototype their new monthly electronics kit service:

*“A big thanks to OSH Park for making these look gorgeous”*

There are 3 days to go with their Kickstarter:

Thimble: Learn & Build Electronics w/ Monthly Delivered Kits

Create fun, electronic devices each month with guided tutorials and helpful community; first kit includes parts to build a wifi robot.

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By making the Wi-Fi robot, you will:

create an Android/iOS app that makes things move
understand how electricity, motors, and microcontrollers work
prototype your own ideas to improve the robot
have fun showing off your creation.

Made for those curious about hardware and software: make things move!

For ages 13+ (soldering is involved)

Normal schedule during Lunar New Year

January 27, 2016 fustiniLeave a comment

Credit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_moon#/media/File:Howling_at_the_Moon_in_Mississauga.jpg

Happy Lunar New Year!

We would like to let our customers know that all of our boards are manufactured in the United States, and OSH Park will be operating on a normal schedule through Lunar New Year:

Shipping Information and Turnaround Times

There are two periods of time to think about when making your order:

Fabrication time between when you place your order and when we receive boards from the fab.
Shipping time between when we ship and when the post office delivers your order to you.

All PCBs ship from Lake Oswego, Oregon, and are fully manufactured in the United States.

hackaday.io projects shared on OSH Park

January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 fustini2 Comments

Hackaday.io is full of amazing projects, and we’ve noticed a fair number of those projects have purple PCBs! Here are some nifty projects that have shared their boards on OSH Park: