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Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing text/html 2014-11-13T18:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/notes?rev=1415904614&do=diff Notes APC Environmental card AP9512TH IC1LM35Temperature SensorIC2LM358NDual OpampIC3LM78LVreg, 5VBP1[TDK CHS-UGR]Humidity Sensor AP9612 IC1ADC08348-Bit Serial I/O A/D Converter with Multiplexer OptionIC2MM74HC14NHex inverting Schmitt triggerIC5P87C521 Controller PCF8574 - 8-Bit I/O Expander for I2C-Bus text/html 2014-11-13T18:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/electronics?rev=1415904614&do=diff Electronics Pages This section is more for quick notes. See Electronics Projects for more pages ~~PAGEINDEX=:electronics~~ (Automatically generated list) text/html 2024-04-10T20:20:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/pi?rev=1712780402&do=diff Raspberry Pi Notes Zero W GPIO Show GPIO in use cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio echo 461 > /sys/class/gpio/export udevadm info --path=/sys/class/gpio/gpio461 --attribute-walk text/html 2014-11-13T18:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/taurus?rev=1415904614&do=diff Vehicle If I only had a single wrench, I hope it's 13mm. 10mm for thermostat bracket bolts. Remote Starter Does not engage A/C, rear defroster. Horn is not connected either (for programming). Rear Defroster relay [Relay] ContactNote85Coil - Switched by ECM, ground to activate text/html 2014-11-13T18:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/todo?rev=1415904614&do=diff <http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_experiments.html> <http://link.aip.org/link/?JAPIAU/48/3895/1> <http://www.dacomwest.de/e_index.htm> TODO * E-mail Jim Bixby * Locate Rich Heineck <http://home.carolina.rr.com/gcodemcode/ttftodxf.htm> Plugins Notes Other * <http://www.matwei.de/> text/html 2017-03-20T21:45:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/3d/tiko?rev=1490046311&do=diff Tiko I was fortunate enough to receive my Tiko for Christmas from batch #1. Starting on Christmas day I printed a bunch of owls, a benchy, and some other ornaments as well as the Tiko demo print. Video of my first print Things I've designed * Thingiverse * Tiko build volume * Top hat (for a failed owl print) text/html 2014-11-13T18:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/arduino/lcd?rev=1415904614&do=diff LCD Display MJKDZ I2C board from eBay. Notes: * eBay search for board * * I2C address is actually 0x20, not 0x27 * I'm using the New LiquidCrystal library * Need pull-up resistors on SDA and SCL lines (A4 & A5 pins) Test Code #include <Wire.h> #include <LiquidCrystal_I2C.h> #define lcdAddr 0x20 // set the address of the I2C device the LCD is connected to // create an lcd instance with correct constructor for how the lcd is wired to the I2C chip LiquidCrystal_I2C lcd(lcdAddr, 4, … text/html 2017-11-12T17:12:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/inv/modules?rev=1510506723&do=diff Module box QuantityComponentDatasheetNotes Row 1 Col 1 Row 1 Col 2 Row 1 Col 3 Row 2 Col 1 some colspan (note the double pipe) Row 3 Col 1 Row 3 Col 2 Row 3 Col 3 text/html 2014-11-13T18:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/405nmlaser?rev=1415904614&do=diff 405nm Laser Diode Blue, Violet, almost Ultraviolet really. I made a driver board and just need to finish the heatsink and mount it in a case. I bought a translucent blue project box from Hammond that I'll be mounting the laser in. * 405nm (Blue) Laser text/html 2016-12-11T20:47:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/chip?rev=1481489238&do=diff C.H.I.P Computer Headless Setup * Connect CHIP to your Linux computer via USB * Run minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0 to connect to CHIP via a serial console * Login to chip, username: root, password: chip * Run nmtui, a console based wireless configuration tool text/html 2014-11-13T21:23:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/electronics?rev=1415913830&do=diff My Electronic Projects ~~PAGEINDEX=:projects:electronics~~ (Automatically generated list) Suppliers Online * Digikey - Supplier of choice * Sparkfun - Great hobby site, Interesting components, I've ordered quite a few parts from them. * BatchPCB.com - Great hobby site for fabricating PCB's text/html 2017-08-17T04:33:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/vintage/pyxis?rev=1502944428&do=diff Sony Pyxis IPS-360 Next GPS rollover will be on April 07, 2019 Notes It truly does take 30 minutes to achieve satellite lock from a cold-start. 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Imgur photos * Nov 24th: I received the boards, Yay!! * Nov 7th, 2014: I'm waiting on the PCB's from text/html 2014-11-13T18:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/electronics/optrexdisplay?rev=1415904614&do=diff Optrex IM50240 Display Hitachi HD44100H Chipset PinFunctionNotes1DL12CL13CL24M500KHz @ 50% duty cycle5n/c6VCC7IC GND & VEE8“Clear” Button9“Secure” Button10Ground text/html 2014-11-13T18:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.photonicsguy.ca/projects/electronics/sdgpslogger?rev=1415904614&do=diff SD GPS Track Logger Why? This is why:Bicycling Trips ICSP Connector Need a PIC18 chip with more memory, I'm using the PIC18F4685 with 96Kbytes of program memory. Microchip Mass Storage Class Firmware [Still not working] Still not working. Might be software or hardware, I'll need to check it on a digital oscilloscope. Correct clock rate (less than 400KHz).