My reflow oven in action! Although I can skillfully solder as small as 0.5mm pitch QFN package chip by hand (post, video), more and more space saving components appearing on the…
If you have read my “Designing bootloader for Microchip dsPIC33E/PIC24E micro-controller(2)” of this series, you should be able to extract all the necessary information from the hex file compiled by…
I sent out a new circuit board design to a PCB fab house last week, but was put on hold multiple times for the reason of “insufficient copper to copper…
If you want to customize your own remote controller for Panasonic HD video camera HC-X900M, or build it into your own system to control multiple camcorders just like my old…
In my last post “Designing bootloader for Microchip dsPIC33E/PIC24E micro-controller (1)“, I talked about some basics of bootloader and picked up one of the architectures as my solution, which is…
When speaking about good bootloader product for Microchip’s various MCU product series, I put my two cents in “ds30 Loader” from Mikael Gustafsson. However, “ds30 Loader” is no longer available…
Let’s first take a look at the video clip of how my customized remote synchronize two (or more) Canon Rebel T4i video shooting. Canon Rebel series latest model T4i (as well as…
For lab geeks or hobbyist who often sends out small quantity PCB fab orders but doesn’t care about a little bit extra work, this post will help save a decent amount of…
QFN pitch could be as small as 0.5mm. To make the things worse, there are no leads coming out of the package. The only externally accessible contacts are on the…
I don’t know why but it seems that Illustrator only allows Javascript’s setEntirePath() function to draw a path with up to 1,000 points. If you try to pass an array…