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Journal Entry
on December 5, 2010
My PCB business card works now. Check it out. Please see my previous posts for more information, and leave a comment if you need help modifying the Eagle CAD files to make your own.
If you haven’t read any of my previous posts, I’d like it to be clear that I borrowed heavily from Mike ...
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Journal Entry
on November 7, 2010
I’ve been seeing a lot of printed circuit board (PCB) business cards on the internet these days, particularly on hackaday , so I decided to jump on the nerd bandwagon and make my own. I searched google images for inspiration and found this one , which I thought looked pretty awesome. So I copi ...
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Journal Entry Follow-Up
on November 16, 2010
Just came in the mail from Gold Phoenix. They came out better than I was expecting. I’m glad I went with exposed silver, instead of silkscreen, for the text and QR code. However, it’s a bit difficult to read under uneven lighting conditions.
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Journal Entry Follow-Up
on November 17, 2010
I now take back what I said about not using silkscreen for the QR code. I still like the look of the silver text, but if anyone wants to do this I suggest you put your QR code on the silkscreen layer. I tested it with two different iPhone models, and both had a hard time reading the QR due to reflec ...
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Journal Entry
on December 19, 2010
Eagle Cad is a necessary evil to me. It’s the only usable PCB design software I know of for OS X. Plus, there’s an abundance of parts libraries out there. Beside its sometimes horrible user interface, my biggest complaint is its autorouter. Luckily there’s a website, FreeRouting.n ...
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Journal Entry
on March 2, 2012
My last business card was too expensive to give out, so I designed this one using a Texas Instruments MSP430. Combined with the chip’s Pin Oscillator hardware, and TI’s Capsense Library , it wasn’t too difficult enabling capacitive touch. The great thing is that in software I can h ...
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Journal Entry
on November 4, 2010
So, last year I spent close to 100 hours laying out my smallest circuit board, even to this date. The only problem is that I couldn't get it to work. I think I figured it out. I made the mistake of designing the board around a quad flat no-leads, or QFN , Propeller Chip microcontroller. In hindsight ...
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Journal Entry Comment
on November 7, 2010
that looks pretty frackin' awesome. well done, young man. can't wait to get my grubby little paws on one!
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Journal Entry Comment
on January 15, 2011
Cool. Which fab house are you using for the PCBs?
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Journal Entry Comment
on January 15, 2011
@Adrian
Gold Phoenix in China. They do a pretty good job, and are very fast.