1.Tools for Hand solderingElectric soldering iron/ stand/ Hot air gun/ Soldering head etc.Conditions for soldering:Solderable parts/ Clean soldered metal surface/ Suitable flux/ Proper soldering temperature/ Right soldering time2.Solder and fluxAny metal or alloy used to fuse two or more metal surfaces into a whole is called solder. The solder mentioned here only refers to the solder used for soldering.Common soldering materials:Tubular solder wire/ Anti-oxidation solder/ Silver-containing solde...
PCBWay
Nov 27,2020
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By Hesam Moshiri, Anson BaoFM transmitters/receivers are among the top favorite circuits of any electronic enthusiast. In this article/video, I have introduced a complete digital FM receiver design that has equipped with an LCD screen and three push-buttons. It can search for the FM signals from 76MHz to 108MHz manually and automatically (Scan mode). The signal strength is also displayed as a bar graph on the LCD screen. The output sound is amplified by a 3W+3W Class-D stereo amplifier that hand...
Anson Bao
Nov 23,2020
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A conventional printed circuit board (PCB) has a copper layer on the board. If the copper layer is not protected, it will be oxidized and damaged, directly affecting subsequent soldering. And surface finish is to enable protection of the surface and good solderability of the pcb. There are 7 different surface finish are available in PCBWay: HASL, ENIG, OSP, Hard gold, IS, ENEPIG and IT. Hot Air Solder Levelling (HASL)After the board is completely covered with solder, the excess solder on the sur...
PCBWay
Nov 20,2020
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Law of Thermospatiality: Air-conditioning always feels too warm AND too cold by different individuals in a sizeable room.Law of Thermospatiality in actionIt’s impossible to get perfect air-conditioning in any room… But we can try! We begin by installing 5 temperature sensors around our living room (to monitor the actual temperature at 5 different spots).We’ll call them the 5 Sensor Nodes. Each Sensor Node will be an STM32 Blue Pill with a temperature sensor.Running cables through the living room...
PCBWay
Nov 17,2020
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Principles of Graphic Transfer Technology （Exposure- DES）Under a certain temperature and pressure, a dry film is attached to the board surface, and then the negative film is used for alignment, and finally the ultraviolet light is irradiated on the exposure machine. Ultraviolet light penetrates the pattern transfer medium (negative film) and the photosensitive material (dry film) undergoes a photochemical reaction, which changes the chemical structure of the polymer or between the polymer, resul...
PCBWay
Nov 13,2020
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Because the radio frequency (RF) circuit is a distributed parameter circuit, skin effect and coupling effect are prone to occur in the actual work of the circuit, so in the actual PCB design, it will be found that the interference radiation in the circuit is difficult to control, Such as: mutual interference between digital circuit and analog circuit, noise interference of power supply, interference caused by unreasonable ground wire, etc. Because of this, how to weigh the pros and cons in the P...
PCBWay
Nov 06,2020
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If you’re a software developer like me, you might be thrilled to see so many exciting embedded hardware platforms that we can now program easily, from Arduinos to the PADI IoT Stamp and the STM32 Blue Pill.Today we’ll look at a totally different kind of gadget that’s now within our programming reach — FPGA or Field-Programmable Gate Array. But unless you’re a hardware engineer it’s hard to understand how an FPGA works and why it’s different from microcontrollers and CPUs (even though they are al...
PCBWay
Nov 03,2020
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RCC stands for Ringing choke converter, which also means oscillating-blocking power converter. As a once very popular power converter structure, with the rapid development of the integrated circuit industry, it seems to have gradually faded out of mainstream applications.Through the introduction of RCC-based BUCK constant current source circuit, this article explains the method and idea of using discrete components to achieve high precision and high efficiency constant current, and the applicati...
PCBWay
Oct 30,2020
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Everywhere people are buzzing about FPGA — Field-Programmable Gate Array. It’s a computing device that works like an Arduino Microcontroller — but in a different way. A microcontroller contains a CPU that executes instructions one at a time (but it can’t run 2 instructions simultaneously). Instead of CPU instructions, an FPGA uses a grid of electronic Logic Modules which contain bundles of Logic Gates like AND, OR, NOT. The grid looks like this (from my imagining):Grid of logic modules in an FPG...
PCBWay
Oct 28,2020
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This tutorial covers how to get started with LoRa LPWAN using TTGO LoRa32 SX1276. TTGO Lora32 is an ESP32 device with a LoRa module and an SSD1306 LCD display.Using a pair of these devices, we will explore how to send and receive packets using a LoRa network. This is a point-to-point communication where one TTGO Lora32 acts as a sender and the other one is the receiver. Using the LCD display we will visualize the packets transmitted. In this project, we will use PlatformIO to build this project,...
PCBWay
Oct 26,2020
710 views
Operational amplifier is a very important component in the measurement and control circuit, and has a very wide range of applications in the measurement and control circuit. As a commonly used device, operational amplifiers are more and more widely used in measurement and control circuits. The measurement and control circuit has more requirements for operational amplifiers than other applications, so more stringent requirements are put forward for the design of operational amplifiers. If the ope...
PCBWay
Oct 23,2020
356 views
All you need is a Raspberry Pi and a Windows or macOS computer!UPDATE: This code in this article has been archived in the pre-lvgl branch of pinetime-rust-mynewt. The pinetime-rust-mynewt firmware has been revamped to support Rust Watch Faces on LVGL. Check out the updatesWelcome to the World of Modern IoT Gadgets! If you’re used to old-school IoT gadgets like Arduino Uno that are underpowered and have no networking and display… PineTime Smart Watch will surprise you! (Check out the Pine64 Store...
PCBWay
Oct 20,2020
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A button that responds to our tapping and increments a counter… That’s what we shall accomplish today on the PineTime Smart Watch…The Watch App we see in the video was created with the [druid] Crate in Rust.In [druid], UI controls are known as Widgets. Our app contains two Widgets: A Label Widget that displays the counter, and a Button Widget that increments the counter.Lemme explain the code in the [druid] app…pub fn launch() { // Build a new window let main_window = WindowDesc::new(ui_bu...
PCBWay
Oct 13,2020
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Now is the best time to experiment with low-cost, low-power IoT microcontrollers.For under US$ 14, I can buy a tiny stamp-sized PADI microcontroller with ARM Cortex-M3 and built-in WiFi plus SPI, I2C and UART interfaces. And it comes with an SWD USB adapter for flashing and debugging. All set for building the latest and greatest IoT devices!But where are the software tools for writing robust and reliable programs for microcontrollers?Today my IoT students at Temasek Polytechnic are still writing...
PCBWay
Oct 06,2020
238 views
Yet another Multipurpose Breakout Board to hack hardware in a clean and easy way!Disclaimer: due to a complaint from the citizens of my native city in Italy… I had to rename #PiadinaBoard into #BurtleinaBoard :PFew months ago I have presented #FocacciaBoard: a similar multipurpose breakout board that uses the famous FT232H to handle multiple protocols commonly found in (I)IoT devices (i.e. UART, JTAG, SWD, SPI, I2C).Despite #FocacciaBoard is extremely useful during my night-to-night hardware hac...
PCBWay
Sep 22,2020
540 views
Suppose we have four light bulbs in our home, each with its own on/off switch…Let’s make them smart… With Wireless Remote Control!Flipping the on/off switch of the first bulb should switch the other bulbs on and off. So the first on/off switch acts like a Master On/Off Switch for our entire home.How shall we implement this?We could do this with WiFi… Assuming that we have good WiFi coverage at every corner of our home. There’s a simpler solution… Bluetooth Mesh!With Bluetooth Mesh there’s no nee...
PCBWay
Sep 15,2020
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A Multipurpose Breakout Board to hack hardware in a clean and easy way!TL;DR: Go grab a copy of the Gerbers and 3D-printed Case STL files at https://github.com/whid-injector/Focaccia-Board and print through your favorite FAB.PrologueEven before the appearance of the word (I)IoT, I was breaking hardware devices, as many of you, with a multitude of debuggers (i.e. stlink, jlink, RS23–2-2USB, etc.). It was always a PITA bringing around a device that does UART-to-USB, another that supports JTAG or S...
PCBWay
Sep 08,2020
283 views
By Hesam Moshiri, Anson BaoAn H-Bridge (Full-Bridge) driver is quite popular in driving loads such as brushed DC motors and it is widely used in robotics and industry. The main advantages of using an H-Bridge driver are: high efficiency, rotation direction change, and braking the motor. In this article/video, I have introduced a complete H-Bridge DC motor driver using four IR3205 power MOSFETs and two IR2104 MOSFET drivers. Theoretically, the above-mentioned MOSFET can handle currents up to 80A,...
Anson Bao
Sep 03,2020
5710 views
Someday our Blue Pill development tools will get so smart… And automatically flag out seemingly innocuous changes we made (like adding sprintf()) that caused our Blue Pill program to bloat beyond Blue Pill’s built-in 64 KB of ROM and 20 KB of RAM.But until that day comes, we have to stay vigilant. And learn the tips and tools in this article to prevent Blue Pill Bloat…1.We’ll create a sample Blue Pill program with Visual Studio Code and PlatformIO2.Study the Linker Script that was used to create...
PCBWay
Sep 01,2020
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Create and edit Embedded Rust programs for STM32 Blue Pill and Apache Mynewt… By dragging and dropping blocks!Tomato Crop and Temperature Sensors on Moon Base OneThe year is 2029. Humans are populating the Moon, starting at Moon Base One.You have one and only one responsibility… Making sure that the crop garden on Moon Base One produces beautiful red tomatoes.How would you create the IoT sensor devices to monitor the growing conditions of the crop garden?…Like reading the temperature periodicall...
PCBWay
Aug 25,2020
443 views
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