DIY Printed Circuit Board With Solder Mask – Part 1
Posted on November 2nd, 2014 in Custom Projects, DIY Circuit Boards, Electronics, Electronics Design Software, Internet of Things, Technology
I’ve been working on a project and needed a prototype printed circuit board to get the project looking a little more finished and less of a mess of wires on a prototyping board. I decided to use the photo sensitive method for the PCB as well as for the solder mask with reasonable results. I […]
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GE Link LED Light and Wink HUB Teardown
Last week I saw that Home Depot was running a deal on the new GE Link LED lights and a Wink hub which can control them. The deal was that if you buy 2 of the GE Link LED lights, you can buy the Wink home automation HUB for $20, instead of the normal $50 […]
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Large Switched DC Power Supply For Argon Laser Log 5 – Cabinet
Posted on August 2nd, 2014 in Custom Projects, DIY CNC, DIY Equipment, Electronics, Energy, Laser, Science, Technology
Work continues on the cabinet for the large switch mode power suppy (SMPS) for the big argon laser I’m working on. In the last couple of weeks since my last post I’ve done a lot of work in getting the old HP cabinet cleaned up, painted and new equipment installed. This is a mega-update for […]
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Transcend StoreJet 1TB Teardown and Backing Up Your Large Hard Drives
I used to make a clone image of my HDD about once a week. I run RAID 0 striped drives in my system for speed (old SATA II drives and system, so speed for me is 450MB/s in the buffered read test) so there’s no redundancy like you might have in a RAID 1 mirrored configuration. […]
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Large Switched DC Power Supply For Argon Laser Project Log 5 Sneak Peak
Posted on August 1st, 2014 in Custom Projects, DIY Equipment, Electronics, Energy, Laser, LEDs, Science, Technology
Log 5 isn’t ready for posting yet, but a lot of stuff has gone on in the past couple of weeks. I wanted to give a quick sneak peak of the front panel though because it’s looking pretty good for the most part. In the panel are two LCD volt and amp meters which I bought […]
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