1″ 100W Hot-Plate for SMT Reflow


https://www.electronics-lab.com/1%e2%80%b3-100w-hot-plate-for-smt-reflow/

This is a small hot-plate for SMT reflow soldering build upon an Arduino Pro and controlled using PWM and high side power MOSFETs. Black Mesa Labs has been using a $20 hot plate for a year now for soldering QFN ICs to PCBs. Only issue so far has been the size ( 10″x10″x3″ ) and […]

VoCore: A Cheap And Coin-sized Linux Computer With Wi-Fi


https://www.electronics-lab.com/vocore-a-cheap-and-coin-sized-linux-computer-with-wi-fi/

VoCore is an open source hardware that runs OpenWRT Linux. This tiny computer comes with Wi-Fi, USB, 20+ GPIOs that will help you to embed it on your projects. With each passing day, mini computer boards are getting more and more popular. Single board computers like Raspberry Pi, CHIP, OrangePi etc. are being endorsed by […]

9V to 1kV DC/DC converter


https://www.electronics-lab.com/9v-to-1kv-dcdc-converter/

Bob tipped us with his latest project, it’s a 9V to 1kV DC-DC converter using CD4011 IC to produce a square wave and a IRF530 transistor to drive the transformer. Finally, I have made a new high voltage supply based on an inverter transformer and voltage doubler. It seems to be ok for this job, […]

Dual DC Motor driver using two L293D


https://www.electronics-lab.com/dual-dc-motor-driver-using-two-l293d/

Dual DC Motor driver using two L293D IC. The L293D device is quadruple high-current half-H driver. The 293D is designed to provide bidirectional drive current up to 600mA a voltage from 5V to 36V. It provides 600mA +600mA on each channel suitable for mini hobby robots. The board been designed mainly for small size robot, […]

Dual DC Motor driver using two L293D


https://www.electronics-lab.com/project/dual-dc-motor-driver-using-two-l293d/

Dual DC Motor driver using two L293D IC. The L293D device is quadruple high-current half-H driver. The 293D is designed to provide bidirectional drive current up to 600mA a voltage from 5V to 36V. It provides 600mA +600mA on each channel suitable for mini hobby robots.  The board been designed mainly for small size robot, […]

Getting Started With the ATMega328P


https://www.electronics-lab.com/getting-started-with-the-atmega328p/

Here is a detailed guide on how to get started with ATMega328P microcontroller. The guide goes in details on how to setup it on a breadboard and how to upload your first code on it. and blink a led. The real benefit of using this microcontroller is that it’s only $4 US, whereas many other […]

Build an 8-Bit Heart with MeowCAD


https://www.electronics-lab.com/build-an-8-bit-heart-with-meowcad/

You can find some interesting projects on MeowCAD and one of these is a“8 Bit Heart”. MeowCAD is an online, in-browser electronics design tool that’s completely free and open source. Use it to create schematics, printed circuit boards, share with your friends or just play around. At some point, after you design your schematics and boards, you […]

IoT IP camera teardown and getting root password


https://www.electronics-lab.com/iot-ip-camera-teardown-and-getting-root-password/

Jelmer @ jelmertiete.com did a teardown on a cheap IP camera and also obtained the root password of it with the goal to investigate the security of such a devices. He writes: IP Cameras have become extremely cheap in the last couple of years. Mass production made the prices of decent quality image sensors, and very […]

DIL-Duino – Arduino in a DIL shape


https://www.electronics-lab.com/dil-duino-arduino-in-a-dil-shape/

DIL-Duino is a complete Arduino environment in a DIL-8 form factor based on the DigiSpark Hardware. by Daniel Grießhaber: DIL-Duino uses the QFN Version of the ATTiny85 and a USB Bootloader to provide the easy to use Arduino stack in a single DIL-8 Package Footprint. To fit the Micro-USB socket on the board, it was […]

ESP8266 superfast flashing: flash ESP in 5 seconds


https://www.electronics-lab.com/esp8266-superfast-flashing-flash-esp-in-5-seconds/

Deomid Ryabkov introduces us a method of flashing ESP8266 in 5 sec. To achieve that he used a modified ESPTool. More details on the link below. If you are developing for ESP8266, you may be familiar with esptool, which is a tool that you use to upload your code to the device. And it will […]