In the beginning, during the prototyping stages, I tend to rely on the prototyping breadboards a lot. These breadboards are essential because they would be the basis on how the actual PCB would be designed from. 1. Translating the circuit onto the breadboard. When I draw up a circuit on paper, it was fun. To […]
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LED Resistor Values for Current Limiting Resistor by Cody Wabiszewski
This is a very good primer for those interested in LED lighting. The Author explains the reasoning why a current limiting resistor is a must and also why we do not exceed that 20mA limit.
Multicolour Silkscreen PCB from JLCPCB
While trawling through my JLCPCB account, I came across this notification dated April 1st. They are now able to to multilayer silkscreen which in other words, you can now put images on your PCB. I have seen some earlier designs from microcontrollers (Arduino?) but they used them sparingly to only mark the I/O pins. Designing […]
202040408 1/6th Proton Pack: The Guesstimation Process
Fitting a circuit board into a scale model is quite challenging and it usually ends up being a bespoke design. The challenge is to maximise the space within and making sure all the components fit in there. So far, in most scale models, I can skip this process because the available space was more than […]
