Category Archives: Electronics

Surface Mount Stencils

Posted on 2017-02-14 by Nigel VH

I’ve been working on a project recently that calls for a pretty sizable board, with a fair number of parts on it (4″ x 10″ board size). Traditionally when I’ve assembled these boards, I’ve either used wire solder and soldered … Continue reading →

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Coin Teardown

Posted on 2016-11-29 by Nigel VH

Some time ago I backed a project called Coin that aimed to make a single card that could replace all of your other credit/debit cards. I thought the idea of having all my cards available without having to make room … Continue reading →

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Surface Mount Toaster Oven

Posted on 2016-09-05 by Nigel VH

As part of my continued work on my Homebrew GPSDO, I’ve been working on a new circuit board design to both add new functionality, improve existing functionality, and consolidate a bunch of the parts in the last revision, onto a … Continue reading →

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HamShield

Posted on 2016-09-05 by Nigel VH

Some time ago I posted that I’ve been involved in a Kickstarter to create a ham radio shield for the Arduino platform. That project is called HamShield, and is now complete and the boards have been shipped to the Kickstarter … Continue reading →

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2016 Balloons Launch

Posted on 2016-05-21 by Nigel VH

Launch happened the morning of Saturday, May 21st. We had one launch from Moses Lake, WA, which reached approximately 18.5km in altitude. While this is lower than we normally expect burst heights, student experiments were successful. We were successful in recovering … Continue reading →

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