Monday, May 5th, 2008

StrobIt Board

Ok I have finally had a little bit of time to work on things (will be short lived as I’ve just bought a house and moving in the next couple of weeks Aghh!!).
Things are getting very close to reality after many design changes, the very nearly final Strobit Trigger base board, aka a modified Ardiuno [...]

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Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Strobit Triggr Prototype Finished

After a hectic and very hot Christmas (41DegC) I managed to get some development time and finished 2 prototype boards.  My RFM12 header boards still have not arrived, caught up in the christmas mail I guess :(  So I’ve had to resort to hand soldering some wires to the header in the meantime. (Murphys law suggests [...]

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Friday, December 7th, 2007

SHT-15 Humidity Sensor

I couldn’t get any hands-on hardware development time for the Strobbit open triggr project today, so I designed a breakout board for the Sensirion SHT15 Humidity/Temperature sensor for my weather station I’ve been intending to build.  I have a couple of these sensors at home waiting for something this so I can have a play with them.  PCB uploaded for [...]

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Thursday, November 8th, 2007

EBAY Trigger Receiver PCB

A couple of design changes,  main one being I could not physically fit a single design into the existing housings that would encompass the Tx and RX, the RX housing is the problem as it’s a fairly small board so that means I’ve had to change the processor so that I can physically fit everything as [...]

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