Today I am going to follow the instructions to Generate Gerber file from Kicad for the first time. Wish me luck!
Update: I also needed to know how to do this: KiCad 6: Add Board Outline to Edge Cuts.
Today I am going to follow the instructions to Generate Gerber file from Kicad for the first time. Wish me luck!
Update: I also needed to know how to do this: KiCad 6: Add Board Outline to Edge Cuts.
This post is part of my video blog: In The Lab With Jay Jay.
Silly Job Title: Grounding Genius
Old Book: Industrial Electronics Reference Book by Electronics Engineers of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation published 1948 with 680 pages.
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Today we teardown a homemade continuity tester which I put together for use before I had a multimeter, so that was in the early days of my new lab, circa August 2021.
While I was preparing the links for this blog post I discovered that the plastic case I used for the continuity tester was the HB5610 Black Hand-held Electronic Enclosure from Jaycar. I purchased one of these for AU$9.95 back in August 2021, which was around the time that I made this continuity tester.
I subsequently purchased a ten pack of similar plastic cases from AliExpress for AU$64.55 (inc shipping) in March 2022. I went to find the AliExpress listing so I could link you to it, but it’s an old listing and has been taken down. I did search for an equivalent product but didn’t find what I was looking for. The dimensions are roughly 70mm x 135mm x 24mm and there is a facility for 2x AA batteries built in.
The multimeters I use/mention in this video are:
The multimeter I mention I want to get is this one: EEVblog 121GW Multimeter.
What I say in the video about active vs passive piezoelectric buzzers is correct. The active buzzer will do the buzzing for you, all you need to do is supply some power. The passive buzzer will need an input signal in addition to power, so some sort of oscillator if you want to generate a tone.
I knocked up a schematic for this continuity tester, something like this:
I’m gonna try getting some PCBs made for this circuit from PCBWay, because I’m still trying to learn everything I can about that process!
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