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Stepper Motor Controller Rev B

Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Looks almost like the first version

This board may look familiar to some of you. Because at first glance, it looks just like its older brother described here: Dividing Head Controller. But many things have been improved in Revision B.

USB Mass Storage Device Bootloader

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Let’s start with a video. It will tell you most of what I’m going to write about today.

MPPT Solar Charger Rev C Design

Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Over the last year or so I’ve designed, built and tested a standalone solar charger. It performed quite well but as with any complex design there were a number of things that needed to be improved. So I eventually reached the point where I decided to design a revised version. And this is what this post is all about.

Programming sockets for PIC microcontrollers

Tue, 11 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I regularly use PIC microcontrollers. I’ve tried some Atmel chips lately but I’m still by far most familiar with the PIC16 & PIC18 chip families. As you can see in my other posts, I tend to use SMD components but once in a while I need to program a DIP package.