For locating lost Drones and RC Aircraft. Long range, self contained, long duration, robust. The beacon signal is tracked using a radio receiver.
Read more »Cuts power to equipment when the temperature rises too quickly or exceeds the maximum. Great for computer equipments and Laser Cutters.
Read more »Electronic, industrial, computer, A/V equipment repair to a component level. Design, build, testing and production.
Read more »NiMh Cells Seem To Be Fading Away We have used NiMh cells for years, but they are now harder to find and a lot more expensive. So we are switching the main batteries over to 18650 lithium cells. We still need a stable and safer backup cell. So I Got […]
The problem: As of WordPress V5.0 they have inflicted the block editor onto us. I suspect this is a very bad attempt at a sort of year-1 finger-painting for web page creation. It may suit one page school projects quite well for anyone who has grown up with cellphones and […]
Wanting an OSD to display the basics and GPS information in a small FPV plane but not wanting to waste a lot of time playing flight controllers, I decided to try the MinimOSD Micro running with just a GPS module and a small current sensor. I don’t run Windows so […]
What is most annoying is that Vodafone created the fault and we had to wait two days for the repair. If they had said “oops our-bad” and repaired it same day – even if it was overtime – it would have saved me a lot of time, I wouldn’t be […]
This unit has gone to a new home A piece of our micro development past has moved on as of April-2019. During the late 1990s I developed some home automation controllers based on the 68HC11E20 which was one time programmable in a 52 pin PLCC package and later the 68HC11 […]
A 10 minute change that has taken 3 days I needed to change a time delay in a 8-pin PIC12F675 project started 4 years ago but has been updated since. No problem I thought, change the time, recompile, save a new output file and program some chips. But the chips […]
Conclusion – Resolved Keep enough stock on hand – but how much is enough. Don’t rely on suppliers to come through if you are caught short. Mouser did resolve the issue and release the order. But we will have a 4-5 day gap in production. Not Always Quicker Being a […]
May 2019 Update It has been an eventful month. The Orange-Pi-Zero running WeeWX stopped working and later the WH3081 sensor transmitter failed. The O-Pi-Zero is running from a 16GB micro-SD card and was saving data to a 4GB SD card plugged into USB. The 4GB SD card was corrupted, probably […]
