While searching for a tutorial on how to use wire wrap I found this ten year old Hackaday video from Bil Herd.
Category Archives: Testing
A DIY Version Of The Franck-Hertz Experiment
I have a new post on Hackaday: A DIY Version Of The Franck-Hertz Experiment.
Making a better USB-C cable
I want to get myself one of the testers used in the video: FNB58 USB Tester Voltmeter Ammeter TYPE-C Fast Charge Detection Trigger Capacity Measurement Ripple Measurement.
PentaPico: A Pi Pico Cluster For Image Convolution
I have a new post on Hackaday: PentaPico: A Pi Pico Cluster For Image Convolution.
ORBTrace mini and instrumenting embedded applications
Today I learned about the ORBTrace mini. Gotta get me a few of those! There’s a video explaining the related software, Orbuculum, over here (but it requires you signup for a free account and validate your email address to watch).
Spectrum Analyzer using Beaglebone Black and RTL-SDR
I want to build myself one of these: Spectrum Analyzer using Beaglebone Black and RTL-SDR.
RustyMeter for OWON XDM1041
Today while watching Ultimate Trace Repair Guide for Ripped Connectors I learned about RustyMeter which will work with my OWON XDM1041 multimeter. I’m definitely going to be checking that out soon. Thanks to nanofix for the tip!
Ten cent micro
I watched this fun video about how to use a ten cent microcontroller:
How To Easily Program The ATtiny85
This is a note for Future John. I found this no-nonsense video about how to program the ATtiny85 using an Arduino: How To Easily Program The Attiny85
Building A Custom Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board From The Ground Up
I have a new post on Hackaday: Building A Custom Zynq-7000 SoC Development Board From The Ground Up.
The presenter starts by designing the power system, then makes progress on power, improves the schematic, integrates DDR RAM, adds USB PHY, Ethernet PHY, and SD card, starts on HDMI, makes progress on layout, makes progress on routing, continues with routing, configures with Vivado and estimates costs, receives PCBs and components, starts the PCB assembly, adds power rail components, adds core components, connects power and does initial programming, makes an LED blink, gets the ARM APU working, troubleshoots FT2232H to JTAG, resolves FT2232H to JTAG issue, adds UART and DDR, gets HDMI working, installs PetaLinux, and at long last configures USB and Ethernet in PetaLinux.
See AMD Zynq 7000 SoCs for specs from AMD. The executive summary is that this SoC includes an ARM Cortex-A9 Based APU and an Artix-7 FPGA (or a Kintex-7 FPGA on higher models). We suppose this is an opportune time to mention that in case you missed it Xilinx was recently acquired by AMD which is why you see the AMD branding now.
Summarizing references from these videos, other videos include What your Differential Pairs Wish You Knew and How to Achieve Proper Grounding by [Rick Hartley]; books referenced include Printed Circuits Handbook 7ed and Signal and Power Integrity Simplified 3ed; courses referenced include Mixed-Signal Hardware Design with KiCad and Advanced Digital Hardware Design from [Philip Salmony]; and software used includes EasyEDA, Vivado, Vitis IDE, and Tera Term.