My first professionally made PCBs

A stack of PCBs ready to be assembled

I thought I’d have a go at getting my PWM controller PCB made professionally.

Updated code for simple PWM LED controller

I’ve updated the code to my LED strip driver and included a few new features.

Here’s a quick demo video.
[UPDATE 7 Mar 2011] Added input/output graph plus link to download LUT calc excel file.
[UPDATE : DEC 6 2010] I’ve had some proper PCB’s made for this circuit. More info here.

It’s been a while. New bits and bobs.

Various gizmos

Life does get rather busy sometimes.  For us it was having a baby and moving house in the same week.  Subsequently I’ve been rather preoccupied.

But that was nearly 6 months ago and things are getting a little more sorted out now, plus it was my birthday recently so I thought it was about time to get back in to electronics and also to add some new posts to this blog.

Electronics suppliers

I’ve added a short list of some of my favorite electronics suppliers so I don’t forget who they are… It’s not supposed to be exhaustive or finite, just some of the ones I’ve used a lot in the past and had good experiences with.
The list is here