Author Archives: daniel
The replacement PCBs have arrived and they look good :)
I now have the replacement PCBs from circuits.io and they look great. Â They also included some free PCBs, so hopefully they will work. Â 🙂 I’ll post some pics when I have some
It’s alive!
I spent a little time on my lunch break putting in the last few wires and the board has come up 🙂 The flash from my phone has drowned out the LEDs on the board, but they were blinking as they should. Since I didn’t have another voltage regulator handy I have used the voltage …
Some more pictures of the failed boards
I took a few more pictures of the failed boards and sent them to the fantastic people at circuits.io.  They have very generously offered to send me new ones at no charge 🙂  Hopefully these new boards will work out. I also had a quick go at getting one of the boards working.  After soldering lots …
My PCBs have arrived
Unfortunately they don’t appear to have worked out as well as I was hoping. On the top side many of the tracks are incomplete, while the bottom side has no tracks whatsoever 🙁 The boards look really nice though. Â I’m going to have a go at making one of them work soon as I …
Toilets
Over the weekend I replaced the leaking inlet valve of our toilet. What should have been a 5 minute job took a couple of days as whoever installed it in the first place glued the nut joining the inlet pipe to the inlet valve. This meant that I had to cut the inlet valve out …
I’ve ordered my first PCB :)
I’ve been playing with circuits.io and have decided to order a couple and see how it goes 🙂 Hopefully they should be here in a few days/weeks.
Strange smells
A while ago I came home to a strange smell in the house, then a little while later I found this!
SVG
I’ve been looking into making some software with my daughter. She wants to make a game with some characters she has drawn, so I need a nice way to render them. I want to make them using vector graphics, but iOS doesn’t really have a nice way of doing that. What I am in the …
Success!
Time for bed. Â I’ve successfully hacked an app I need for work to do something it is not supposed to do 🙂 Â A little reverse engineering, byte patching and single stepping through machine code and I now have it being quite naughty 🙂