Projects
These are the projects I have made. Most of them are electronic in
nature but also contain articles and software. I like how software can
control hardware and it is my main drive for doing embedded systems
development. Unfortunatly I dont have enough time to really document my
projects. Most of them just contain some pictures and some additional
information. Where applicable I also give sourcecode and hardware
designs. They are all without any warranty and fitness of use. USE AT
OWN RISK!
Electronics
Printed board stuff
Here is my first try out
for a double sided board, the board
is one segment of a LED matrix controller.
My most complex board thus far.
(soon) CNC PCB drill
RF
A cantenna to help a needy friend.
CC1000 breakout board
IRwebcam
I got a second better webcam as a gift, what to do with the first? Modify it to see infra red.
Led flashlight
My dad's flashlight broke, and i gotten some high brightness 20000MCD
white leds. Better put them to good use in a led flashlight.
function generator
Sometimes you just need that specific signal at a certain freqency.
Well i made a function generator
based on the MAX038.
High voltage
stepup converter based PSU
Tiny transformer based PSU
FPGA/CPLD Related constructions
FPGA's are wonderful chips, so versatile but expensive.
Not anymore when you order pulled chips, or single quantities from Ebay.
XC4010E PC84 adapter board
XC9572XL PC44 adapter
board.
Xilinx FPGA programmer
XC2C256 devboard
XCV600 devboard
XC2C64A devboard
XC9572XL QFP44 breakout
FPGA/CPLD experiments
FPGA's and CPLD's are great chips, here are some projects i made with
them.
Videocard Version 1
Videocard Version 2
Tweakers Democompo
CPLD SDRAM interface
Sharp LQ043 LCD interface
Mechanical
Here are some robotics experiments i made.
Photovore robot
Stepper motor driver
8051 projects
8051 Harddisk interface
ARM Projects
For 32 Bit power I choose the ARM Controller series, and specifically
the LPC2100 series, cheap and powerful.
Not really a project, but just a link to a useful ARM development
board. I did remove the pinheaders and replaced them by breadboard
friendly turned round headers.
ARM stamp
The new STM32 chips are quite powerful, here a
nice board from futurlec.
Atmel AVR Projects
I really like the AVR microcontroller series, cheap and powerful.
AVR programmer
ATmega168 Mp3 player
Mystery Mp3 player PCB
AVR 8-bit ISA interface
AVR DRAM interface
Missing out on a good
deal on led matrix
board, I have decided to make my
own. Its more scalable then the cheap board and its also the test
case for etching my own double sided boards.
The AVR dragon has an small prototyping area. I have filled it in such
a way so it can be used to program avrs, and quickly use the HV
programming mode, AVR dragon
ZIF socket
Articles
Here are some interesting articles, some written by myself or just some
links to other sites.
Electronics is a fun hobby, but can be expensive. Here are some tips.
Prototyping with SMD components.
Using breadboards.
Favorite parts
Future projects
Oscilloscopes
Tektronix 545B.
Tektronix 544
Philips PM3230
Tektronix 425M (mil spec version of the
465)
Links
Interesting homepage's and links are added here.
Hackaday:
Lots of cool projects
and general articles.
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that
matters.
Circuitsonline: Forum for
dutch speaking electronics enthousiasts.
Chan's homepage: Great homepage. It
has a lot of easy to do projects.
Shops
These are links to some interesting shops, they are mostly based in the
netherlands but are in general more then willing to ship outside. I
have bought personally at these shops.
voti.nl: small webshop that have many
interesting things, more geared towards PIC projects, and robotic (good
selection of motors and driver chips).
futurlec: cheap webshop
with quite a assortment, 4 dollar delivery costs from thailand if you
order under 30 dollars.
sparkfun electronics: has a lot
of
speciality items and a wide assortment, but in my opinion a bit
expensive. Altough their breakout board are worth it. Easy to use and
high quality stuff. They recently reduced delivery to europe! So they
are becoming quite more accessible.
Dick Best: is a dutch webshop for a
variety of components, big assortment and good pricing.
SMD shop: is a dutch webshop that
specialises in SMD/SMT devices, very good pricing and quick delivery.
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Last update at: 04-11-2009