LTG – Episode 2: ”Uncapped Cavemen”

We’ve just released the second episode of “Lets Talk Geek”, Episode 2: ”Uncapped Cavemen”

Posted in Podcast at April 21st, 2010. No Comments.

Laser cut Bus Pirate and AVR Dragon cases

A couple of days ago I saw this story on Hack a Day (On the Go Prototyping)

[Riley Porter] has been working on several different custom enclosure designs … as well as slick-looking cases for the Bus Pirate, tinyISP, and face plates for word clocks.

Well the cases were pretty slick-looking. I liked his ideas of using layers of laser cut perspex, so I designed my own Bus Pirate V2go and Atmel AVR Dragon cases.

Thanks to my friend Warren for cutting them for me.

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Posted in Development Tools at April 13th, 2010. 5 Comments.

EEVblog #72 – Let’s Design a Product

Dave Jones runs a videoblog for anyone interested in electronics. He’s just released a “Lecture length” one on how to design a product from start to finish. Have a look, he’s got some good advice.

EEVblog #72 – Let’s Design a Product

Posted in Hardware Design, Podcast at April 8th, 2010. No Comments.

Design Work

I’m not sure about the rest of the world, but here in SA Easter weekend is a 4 day weekend. What to do, what to do? Some design work that’s what!

Above was a first attempt to get my ideas and design written down. There are some fundamental problems with the above design, but it is as a starting point and has the major elements laid out. Read More…

Posted in Hardware Design at April 6th, 2010. No Comments.