Projects from the Hardware Hackathon: Reflow Toaster Oven
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Recapping the Week: May 3-9
We hope this week been good for you. As graduation nears for many universities, we know you’re busy. We’ve worked on a couple of really cool projects, including some things for workshops and upcoming conferences. Have a good weekend!
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Chips and Silicon
Printed circuit boards (PCB) are the basis for most electronics that we use the modern era. The power of the PCB is that it allows electronic components to be attached and connected more easily than with the alternatives (wire wrap and point-to-point).
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Proximity-Sensing LEDs to Help Lighten Up Your Day
This time of year, it’s easy to slip into a funk of finals and stress-inducing studying. But how to snap out of this haze? With some fun LEDs, of course. Will’s proximity-sensing LED projects from last year provide a fun, cheerful break from end-of-semester blues.
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Multisim: Why, Oh Why, Would I Need That?
If you’ve been keeping up with Digilent over that last couple of years, you may have heard about our merger with National Instruments. We’ve collaborated to create new products, and we’ve expanded our capabilities to work with more of NI’s products. One of those products is Multisim, a full-function testing and simulation environment for analog, digital, and power electronics designs.
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Digilent and WSU Senior Design Recap
Another Digilent intern and I are both in our senior year at Washington State University. For our senior design course, Digilent put together a project that we have been working on with four other WSU students since September of last year. We will continue working on the project until we all graduate in May.
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Proximity-Sensing LEDs Part 2: On a PCB
As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I designed the proximity-sensing LED circuit to eventually move it on to a printed circuit board, or PCB. This was my first experience with PCB layout, and thankfully it was successful! The board I designed is in the picture below. We ordered 6 “prints” and soldered them in our MakerSpace. I also included extra vias (electrical connections between the layers of the board) so that we could connect multiple boards together.
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Proximity-Sensing LEDs Part 1: On a Breadboard
Who doesn’t love interactive LEDs? This project started because I wanted to make a simple circuit that I could later move on to a printed circuit board (PCB) that I designed myself. (The original goal was to learn PCB design and layout.) This idea was given to me by my manager, Larissa, and was inspired by Evil Mad Science’s Octolively. Being an analog enthusiast, I came up with my own design that doesn’t use any ICs.
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