I’m still on the fence with all these Arduinos, ESP32s, ATtinys, etc., so upon seeing this development board, my throughts were, “Oooh, small screen!”. It’s like showing a monkey the value of a bar of gold. But here were are.
Category Archives: Microcontroller
20250911 Spinner: Top Revolving Light New PCB Design
With the new dimensions for the SMD LED’s cut-out, I re-created the shape again from InkScape before importing it into EaglePCB. The only problem is that no matter what I did, there is a ‘leak’. Understandably, JLCPCB confirmed this when I uploaded the design. So, most of the day was spent on trying to figure […]
20250909 Spinner: That Inspiration pt. 2
And so, after the first inspiration hit a few days ago, I had another. This time, instead of making the sandwich, the idea is to use a single PCB board with the 0805 LEDs soldered in the middle. It is very difficult and time consuming to align the two halves together to match the soldering […]
20250906 Spinner: Top Revolving Light
The two PCBs for the Revolving light arrived today and I felt both delightful and dismayed. Delighful because JLCPCB came through with the goods which means, they can do this without breaking a sweat. Dismayed because these 8mm discs are really going to be a b1tch to solder and all that. Still, this is going […]
20250826 Spinner: Changing the Design
This is going to be the definitive 2nd revision of the Board. Back in about November 2019, after getting the first version of the Board from JLCPCB, the plan was just a matter of fine-tuning it for the next revision. Some components needs to be moved a smidgen for soldering, fitting, etc. It was all […]
