Monday, March 06, 2006

Homemade PCB's


Been making PCB's lately, they have come out quite good IMO.

Heres a SSOP to "normal" adapter (it is not dil, just fits in veroboard)


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I think it will work ok :). I'm making two, one for a girl i know, and the other for myself :).

Heres my micromouse microcontroller PCB (compared to the adapter for a size difference)

Just got to drill the board, solder the compoenents and laquer them and test ;). More progress info soon.

Thursday, March 02, 2006

Circuitry

I'm currently building the micro controller board for my micromouse, hopefully it should be crashing around the maze in a week! I shall post pictures and possibly a video of it runnign soon.

Sunday, February 26, 2006

My Micromouse

Heres my micromouse so far, its for my final year project at uni and is going to be run at the the compeition in June and at the RoboTIC compeition in November. Still have not got a name for it but I am happy with what it looks like so far.






























Its a stepper based mouse, using a PIC 18F series microcontroller and a microrobot.com stepper board, and Sanyo Denki Stepper Motors.

My DC mouse i have designed is going to be called (goint to be built after graduation):
SPEEDY GONZALEZ!

Thursday, February 09, 2006

ICD2 Goodness


Been working on my ICD2 clone, its coming along good.

Heres the finished icd, based on the stolz design.

No more guesswork for me :-D.

Thursday, December 01, 2005