My latest hardware shenanniganry

Scythe

<div class="IPBDescription">Designing my own microcontroller, fun with acid!</div>I've made another post in my projects log thingo. This time I'm designing, etching and soldering my own microcontroller circuit, for great justice!

<img src="http://www.tjhowse.com/carputer/controller/micromacro2-small.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Also, very small soldering.

<a href="http://www.tjhowse.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=92" target="_blank">Clickzor.</a>

--Scythe--

DiscoZombie

you are way too smart for me. allow me to return to rotting my brain with videogames now. I wish I had a hobby that was actually useful =P

remi

Whatsitfor?

Faskalia

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You could click the link and read, but what the hay:
<span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>world domination</span>

Xyth

Man that is one horrendous looking PCB, luckily the fact that you used an AVR instead of PIC redeems you in my eyes. High-Five!

Also: I totally feel your pain on ordering surface-mount pieces by accident. I have a hand full of super-small surface mount resistors that I bought by accident. I will never use these, my soldering iron isn't even small enough.

remi

<!--quoteo(post=1685153:date=Aug 2 2008, 10:43 AM:name=Faskalia)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Faskalia @ Aug 2 2008, 10:43 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1685153"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->You could click the link and read, but what the hay:
<span style='color:#000000;background:#000000'>world domination</span><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I actually have a lot of difficulty linking anything on that forum he links to because the page stretches past the bounds of my screen (so I have to scroll left and right for ever line...)

I was just hoping for a summary from Scythe of what it does because from what I did read it seemed like a project log. I also saw something saying it is to pass input to a laptop, but I don't really know what it's intended for. (And because of the obnoxiousness of the linked-to forums I don't care to try to read carefully and find out)

*shrugs*
If he's going to post it here I feel he could provide some of the information here too. Not necessarily the whole work log but a summary of what it does would be nice.

Also Scythe, how old are you / are you in college for ECE or are you just hobby-learning it?

Scythe

<!--quoteo(post=1685207:date=Aug 4 2008, 10:09 AM:name=Psyke)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Psyke @ Aug 4 2008, 10:09 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1685207"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I actually have a lot of difficulty linking anything on that forum he links to because the page stretches past the bounds of my screen (so I have to scroll left and right for ever line...)<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Yeah, I kinda assume you've got a minimum of 1280 horizontal resolution. According to google analytics this accounts for 85% of visitors, so the majority wins I'm afraid. :<

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I was just hoping for a summary from Scythe of what it does because from what I did read it seemed like a project log. I also saw something saying it is to pass input to a laptop, but I don't really know what it's intended for. (And because of the obnoxiousness of the linked-to forums I don't care to try to read carefully and find out)

*shrugs*
If he's going to post it here I feel he could provide some of the information here too. Not necessarily the whole work log but a summary of what it does would be nice.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

It's basically a little microchip that has eight digital outputs, eight digital inputs and can communicate with other devices of its kind and a laptop over an RS485 serial bus. This'll let me do nifty stuff in my car, like drive little servomotors, turn on lights, drive relays and suchlike. I'm mostly doing this to have a go at writing my own serial protocol, it's gonna be fun.

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Also Scythe, how old are you / are you in college for ECE or are you just hobby-learning it?<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I'm 23 in a few months and I have a bachelor's degree in mechatronic engineering. This kind of thing is my bread-and-butter, I figured it'd be a cool solution to a few problems I had with my carputer.

--Scythe--

remi

<!--quoteo(post=1685235:date=Aug 4 2008, 02:31 AM:name=Scythe)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scythe @ Aug 4 2008, 02:31 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1685235"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Yeah, I kinda assume you've got a minimum of 1280 horizontal resolution. According to google analytics this accounts for 85% of visitors, so the majority wins I'm afraid. :<<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I guess I must have been reading it on my laptop which has 1024 rather than my desktop which does indeed have 1280.

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->It's basically a little microchip that has eight digital outputs, eight digital inputs and can communicate with other devices of its kind and a laptop over an RS485 serial bus. This'll let me do nifty stuff in my car, like drive little servomotors, turn on lights, drive relays and suchlike. I'm mostly doing this to have a go at writing my own serial protocol, it's gonna be fun.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Neat. I have an ECE minor and I really want to start learning how to do this stuff. I did some stuff in my classes but I don't really know how to design circuits.