Almost a year ago I designed my first PCB. It was a small 50x50mm PCB that acts as an undershield for an Arduino Nano. I designed it because the Arduino Nano has a tiny 5V voltage regulator. To not overheat the regulator you can not draw more then 200-300mA from it depending on the input [...]
When I started out with Arduino I stumbled on the letsmakerobots.com website. I found lots of robot projects on LMR, it’s amazing what people can make at home today. One particular kind of robots sparkled my interest, hexapods. Controlling and powering lots of servos looked quite difficult to me so I first started with my [...]
A couple of months ago I started playing with Eagle. Something I had always wanted to try but never had the time or courage to get started. After playing with Arduino’s and a Dagu Red Back Spider I had the idea to design a board with the ATmega328P-PU and a powerful 3A 5V switchmode regulator. [...]
I’m back home after a 4 week vacation in Thailand. While I was there I ordered some more components from Tayda Electronics and had them delivered to my hotel. This time I received my order in 3 days instead of the 2 – 3 weeks it normally takes for shipments from Asia to Belgium. I [...]
