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Automated cat food dispenser PCB

April 18, 2016 by Mikey

Finally the power supply modules arrived, and I could finish the layout. And sizes seems to be fine, and with enough clearance too. My first plan was to just use serial between the ESP8266 and Atmega329P, but I changed that to I2C instead, with a pair of BSS138 for level shifting. A bit more love to … Read more

Wireless switches, with higher WAF – Part 3

December 10, 2015 by Mikey

Previously I have been working on making some better looking switches, and today I got a step closer once again. This time PCB dimensions and hole positions got verified, and a button got added too.

Importing BMP into Eagle

June 27, 2015 by Mikey

With some help from Peter van der Walt, I got some good results importing a BMP into Eagle. Just selecting a BMP and importing it, most often gives a bad and jagged result on the pcb, here is how I did some processing on the image before importing it. First, you need to download and install … Read more

ESP8266-01 node

June 14, 2015 by Mikey

Soooo… Months ago I started working on ESP8266 based projects. One of them is a simple PCB with a connector for mains voltage in, 100mA fuse on to provide a bit of protection, switching power supply to convert the mains power into 5V DC, a LDO linear 3v3 regulator to bring the 5V down do … Read more

Using paper to verify your PCB design from Eagle

April 20, 2015 by Mikey

When I design a PCB, I spend a lot of time looking at how the traces are looking, trying to find better routes, and wasting a lot of time because I made some connection wrong somewhere in the schematic… But having passed all that, the next big question is, will it fit in the box? … Read more

Eagle library

October 12, 2014 by Mikey

As some might have noticed, I made my own library for Eagle. In this library I got all the components I design myself, and my goal is to get all the parts I use into that, so if anyone finds my site, they will be able to both download the schematic and board files for … Read more