Thursday, June 17, 2010

My First 5V Regulated Power Supply


All thanks to Sparkfun! This website has very detailed instructions and great tutorials for beginners. After reading the tutorials for the power supply, I assembled this circuit without even need to look at the circuit diagram anymore coz the instruction is so clear I was able to remember it by heart.

Next project will be assembling my TinyUSB Programmer. And also my LCD! :D

Monday, May 10, 2010

Summer 2010

So I've been lazying around this early summer.

I shall resume my work soon, I'm still recovering/recuperating from the terrible semester I had last Winter.

So my pending projects are:

1. Arduino Motorshield from adafruit.

I've assembled this kit but still haven't test it with the bunch of motors I have right now. Reason being is that since I'm still new with Arduino, I find it REALLY hard to understand how to hack the library or maybe it's better for me to say to store the examples provided by ladyAda into the Arduino library in my computer. Tho I've figured it by now, so I shall be working on this as soon as possible.

Important Link: http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/

2. USBTiny AVR Programmer

Again from adafruit. So I bought the kit as one of the effort to learning how to program microcontrollers. This will be the second project following the first one. And this project will be about 1) assembling it and 2) learn how to use it.

Important Link: http://www.ladyada.net/make/usbtinyisp/

3. Learn Embedded Electronics

So this is the first kit I bought from Sparkfun Electronics. And honestly I really can't wait to learn this shit.

Important Link: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/tutorial_info.php?tutorials_id=57

Other Stuff

Alongside these projects, since I have to improve on my programming skills, I've decided to learn PHP and MySQL as well this summer.

Cost: TIME

Now since the summer is only 4 months, which I only have 3.75 months left, I kinda have to be very wise with my time management, especially when I have a 6-credit-graded French course alongside until end of June.

God's willing, when the project is done or still in progress, I shall post up all my works progress and share the problems/difficulties I had when doing the project and how I manage to get around with it.

So when will I start working? Hurmm lemme see. I'm giving myself until this Friday to at least, HEAT UP THE SOLDERING IRON!