#schematic

Shonky Electronics!shonky
2025-06-20

Previous abominations interfacing a FT245 to a have been done largely from memory and having several webpages open.

I figured it was time to actually capture a and I also updated the logic to include bit 7 of the 6850 control register (interrupt enable) and an open collector interrupt request.

Rebuilt it with the new logic using the schematic and it all still works, along with better interrupt capability.

Still a mess though!

The latest incarnation of a breadboarded circuit on the left consisting of a FT245 evaluation board and logic chips, connected by a mess of wiring to a #rc2014 Pro computer on the right
Spencer WolfeSpencerWolfe
2025-05-19

Sometimes, you just gotta break out the and a touch of for a particular

At least, when you want to make sure you don't let out the magic smoke.

An engineer's pad showing a computation for a particular LED circuit. On a wooden chipboard clipboard and a wooden desk.

"Here is a detailed circuit diagram for <application>. ... I have not built or tested this circuit, so please let me know if you have problems getting it working."

Well, isn't that special...

#hobby #electronics #schematic #circuit #wat #helpful #wtf

2025-04-26

Transformer, rectifier, power cord. Someone put some thought into the paint on this electrical company van. #schematic

A van for an electric company with an electrical schematic painted on the side.

I just finished my first attempt at a design for a schematic symbol in Kicad for an MCU (STM32N657Z0H3QTR).

estore.st.com/en/stm32n657z0h3

#pcb #mcu #kicad #schematic #stm32

Schematic: "2022 - We've updated the circuit design to use widely-available part AB1234DL rather than the impossible-to-find one the original design used!"

<search Newark/RS/Element14>

Website 2025: "AB1234DL: obsolete, not available to order"

Sigh.

#electronics #hobby #obsolete #obsolescent #schematic #part #component #replacement #substitute

Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥cgervasi@fosstodon.org
2025-03-24

It's amazing how I can paste a #schematic into #ChatGPT and have it interpret it. But it's also amazing the nature of the mistakes it sometimes makes.

ChatGPT said:  
Why the MOSFET?
Normally in current mirrors you’d directly drive the load, but here the current mirror seems to control the MOSFET gate. This could mean:
 1. Q7’s collector doesn’t actually need to sink much current — just enough to bias Q8.
2.  The circuit could be a hybrid current mirror + switch, where the mirrored current indirectly enables another path (e.g., for higher power handling via Q8).Where's the MOSFET in this circuit?
ChatGPT said: Great catch — let's re-examine that. You're absolutely right to ask that, because on closer inspection:

There is no MOSFET in this schematic.
2025-03-20

The not-immediately-intuitive representation of guitar electrics motivated me to portray them in terms I can more easily comprehend.

#Guitar #Electrics #Diagram #Schematic

Picture of guitar volume and tone knobs, switch and pickup with wiggly coloured lines twisting between them.Schematic diagram representing connections between guitar tone and volume potentiometers, switches and pickups.
Dirk Woutersdiwou
2025-03-20

Tutorial für ein externes 8x Kernal-Modul für den C64

Es gibt immer wieder Situationen, in denen man einen anderen Kernel für seinen Commodore C64 benötigt. Entweder um etwas zu testen oder weil man den Computer nicht öffnen möchte. Und so kam ich auf die Idee, eine solche kleine Steckkarte selbst zu bauen. Und für ein einfaches Mo…

dirkwouters.de/tutorial-fuer-e

Dirk Woutersdiwou
2025-03-20

Nachbildung des REX 9628 External Kernel 8 Modul

Ein neues Board aus Bildern von alten Boards erstellen, das war mein Ziel. Leider gab es immer nur Fragmente, und das von verschiedenen Versionen. Daher war eine exakte Nachbildung leider nicht möglich, aber die Platine als solches wurde neu erstellt. Das erforderte einige Sch…

dirkwouters.de/rex-9628-extern

Dirk Woutersdiwou
2025-03-20

Ersatz für das Gate-Array in der 1541

Es gibt nur wenige Komponenten im Commodore 1541-Laufwerk, die gerne sterben. Das Gate Array, UC1 oder MOS 325572-01 ist eines davon. Und Ersatz ist nicht billig. Aber man kann sich auch einfach selber eines bauen.

#1541 #32557201

dirkwouters.de/easygate1541/

TFW your schematic capture program can export 5 different flavours of netlist, and your PCB design software can import 7, and there is no overlap between them...

#TWF #electronics #hobby #schematic #netlist #import #export

2025-03-13

"I want to make a music #synth #distortion module. Its transfer function should be voltage-controllable and vary smoothly between linear, through a sigmoid shape to hard clipping. I will use op amps, but I don't know how to do the bipolar #nonlinearity while keeping it reasonably simple. Please provide me with a #schematic with corresponding netlist I can use to get started."

DaveRFDave
2025-03-05

Nice looking Oshpark boards. I still miss the stickers 😕

DaveRFDave
2025-02-14
DaveRFDave
2025-02-12

Since I've never needed to build any low frequency active filters, I'm going to spin a proto board to see how they work. Set up for a dual op-amp footprint, and a Sallen Key on one side, and a multiple feedback on the other.

Kicad schematic snippit of a Sallen Key active filter and a Multiple feedback filter. PCB layout of an 8 pin DIP part centered on a small 2 payer PCB
2025-01-10

A little schematic update from the 1970s(?) found recently.  #Armon AR-27 tone generator board.

zasm.earth/armon-ar27-schemati

#electronic #piano #schematic

#Leonovo #ideapad 520s does not charge and does not run from power supply, but runs from power supply with unplugged battery?

In my case, the broken part was PQ305, AON7408L in DFN8-5 package, on the PCB side that faces the keyboard.

The metal foil is best removed from the inside with a toothpick through those two holes.

I used hot air to replace the part.

Part cost shipped: 10€ (10 pcs - anyone need 9?)
Diagnosis time: ~1 hour
Replacement time: ~30min

#repair #diy #ElectronicsRepair #ifixit

Edit: I was only able to repair this by using #leaked #schematic and #layout data. This should be available legally! #righttorepair

Back side of PCB with marked transistorBad transistor and its replacement, comparing if I got a genuine partBack side of PCB, covered in foil. They has some serious EMC issues I guess

@villares

Is it just me, or does this look like a circuit schematic for a keyboard matrix?

(Cool sketch!)

#circuit #schematic #keyboard #matrix

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