I just received a PD-22 printer from BG Micro for planned use with a PIC16 and am wondering if anyone knows the pinout of the serial connection on the printer?...
I realize this is pretty late notice... But the Chicago robot group is putting on a Robomagellan contest this Saturday. http://www.chibots.org/drupal/ And they...
Jeffry Sampson
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Jun 4, 2008 12:17 am
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HYPERLINK "http://www.twinslan.org/tailgate.html"http://www.twinslan.org/tailgate.html LOTS of cool electronic stuff out here. and HEY its a great place to...
An opening with my group in Plymouth has come up. If I do say so myself, we do some pretty cool stuff and this might be a good fit for someone in the robotics...
I'm not sure what I'm going to do tonight since I let the smoke out of my $60 compass module last week. I'm working with sparkfun to see if I can get a...
http://www.maxanet.com/cgi-bin/mnlist.cgi?hoffhilk26/72 ... I am not biding on it since I have enough stuff. ;) But it really shows the progress of technology....
... A: Audio But... I've decided that it would be easier to figure out what's the servo is doing if I could sample the quadrature encoder at the same time. so...
All, I went to Chicago this weekend for the ChiBots Robomagellan contest. Then I stayed Sunday for the 3 hour monthly robot meeting. I had a great time. They...
Jeffry Sampson
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Jun 9, 2008 10:50 pm
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besides buying dewalt packs on ebay ~10$ per cell ? if you buy the battery pack for 100$ and hack it? Andrew ...
Ryobi 18V battery packs are CHEAP. $40 for a package with two 18V batteries ($20 per battery pack). I heard a single 18V Dewalt costs close to $100 each...
All, I ended up doing my own rework in Chippewa last week. They had a real cute desoldering iron to remove chip type parts like SMT resistors. It was two...
Jeffry Sampson
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Jun 10, 2008 6:46 pm
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... I just use two soldering irons. http://www.all-spec.com/1/viewitem/WTA50/ALLSPEC/prodinfo/w3path=cat -- Bill, grumble - William The lion ... This e-mail,...
I use one at work from a company called "Pace." It's pretty slick, and includes a soldering tweezer, as well as a soldering iron with hollow tips and a...
I think the one I used was from Pace. I have two resistors to remove right now. I will try Bill's two soldering trick. But I want to find something (cheap) for...
Jeffry Sampson
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Jun 10, 2008 8:18 pm
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I see these on ebay for $20-25 often Dave ... From: tcrobots@yahoogroups.com [mailto:tcrobots@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jeffry Sampson Sent: Tuesday, June...
Aww... eBay. I hadn't thought of that. Also notice below, Outlook added extra blank lines in my message. It probably did it "to help me out"... So to answer...
Jeffry Sampson
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Jun 10, 2008 8:57 pm
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From: Chris Hruza [mailto:hruza001@...] Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:28 AM To: hruza001@... Subject: U of MN ReUse Program Sale Our inventory...
Take two cheap soldering pencils, bend a hacksaw blade or piece of pallet banding in a U and some duck tape and you have a nice soldering tweezer. ;-) -- ...
... That's an interesting idea. But I wanted something a little more precision than that. :-) Although, If I had irons with some small tips it may be worth...
... What I normally show during the soldering demo is how to use a larger tip and a blob of solder to unsolder parts up to 1206 I then show how to re-solder...
... Did you ever figure this out? What does the connector look like? If not, can you unscrew the case and get a look inside? What do you see in there? Maybe we...
For those with a cheap tools budget (all imported) http://www.cdcotools.com/ My father visits them in person from time to time and my first mail order package...
Solder tweezers work real good at removing parts. If you try to place parts with them, the part just clings to the tweezers. It is possible to take a frog...
Oh, the other problem with tweezers is getting a small enough set of tips for them. The ones we had were really no good for anything smaller than a 0603. At...
I'm planning on trying NOT to blow up Jeff's PIC-SERVO-to-OSMC driver board when I hook it up to a Puma 560 robot arm. I'm testing this for a student in South...
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