Gadget Factory

Jack Gassett

  • See how a PCB is manufactured.

    What an incredibly helpful video! See first hand all the steps to manufacture a PCB. This answers all the questions I’ve always had when designing a board… Via EEVblog

  • Node-Red – A visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things

    As we continue to puzzle out all the different approaches to create an IoT application something that caught our eye was Node-Red. It’s billed as a visual tool for wiring the Internet of Things. The home page says this: Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and…

  • Setting Up Your Own Arduino IoT Cloud Server – DZone IoT

    With the soon to be released GadgetBox IoT enclosures we have been on the hunt for server solutions to drive our IoT devices. We really like Blynk so far, but it is not free. So when we saw this VPS based solution we knew it was something to put on the list to evaluate! If anyone gets a…

  • Easiest 3D Viewer for EAGLE PCB boards we’ve ever seen!

    Alvie pointed us to this amazing new website that lets you drag and drop an EAGLE board file and view it in 3D. While there are other sites that have been around for a while do the same thing, this is the first site that lets you edit the components on the board with ease.…

  • Are we witnessing the birth of the Gameduino 3?

    Over in the forums Ken Boak, James Bowman, and myself have been playing with a prototype shield (codename Evita) using the EVE FT812 chip and the Papilio DUO. Ken developed a nice board and James has been able to overclock the thing to output a nice crisp 1024×768 resolution through a VGA connector. Things have been coming…

  • µGFX – embedded library for Displays and Touchscreens

    Here is an interesting GUI toolkit that we’d love to see running on the ZPUino!             µGFX is a library to interface all kinds of different displays and touchscreens to embedded devices. The main goal of the project is it to provide a set of feature rich tools like a…

  • EEVblog #754 – Altium Circuit Maker First Impressions

    Altium’s free version of their PCB software called Circuit Maker is open to the public now. We gave it a spin and liked it, here is a video showing some more details. Dave gives his first impression of Altium’s new FREE PCB design tool for the maker community, Circuit Maker. via www.eevblog.com

  • Gates to FPGAs: TTL Electrical Properties

    Great reference from Bil Herd about TTL Electrical properties. On the path to exploring complex logic, let’s discuss the electrical properties that digital logic signals are comprised of. While there are many types of digital signals, here we are talking about the more common voltage based single-ended signals and not the dual-conductor based differential signals.…