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 […]
Question: I just wanted to know the operating voltage for the FPV RC BEACON, when its signal lead is connected to a RC receiver running directly on a 2S Lipo, which can reach 8.4V when freshly charged. Maybe a glider install. Answer: The FPV tracker does monitor the power and […]
I have a couple of applications in mind and thought these boards looked quite interesting. Small, low cost reasonably powerful. So I bought two each of the Orange Pi Lite and Orange Pi Zero boards, and a couple of camera modules. The first application is a weather station, which is […]
They need modification I got a couple of these 6 position rotary switches from Ebay and fitted one to a Turnigy 9XR Pro transmitter replacing one of the analog pots. The solder pads are labelled VCC, GND and FLAP, I assumed for +5V, GND and SIgnal. The result was a […]