tempting to get, but I would have no idea what to use it for.
[url]http://www.goldmine-elec-products.com/prodinfo.asp?number=G19288[/url]
Wireless Anti-Theft Master Lock Car Immobilizer -- on sale for $1.50
My ESP8266 package came.
All 3, individually packaged in anti-static bags, with a nice amount of padding.
Aliexpress has been bloody brilliant so far, delivery has been pretty fast and I've had no problems.
My new soldering station arrived!
Also I received a package from china, could be n type connectors, could be cables, certainly can't be the 100-odd ICs and 1000 LEDs, its a tad small for that.
I like that feeling of not knowing what's in a delivery from China if you ordered a bunch of stuff. I had it with one of my latest packaged untill I saw all the pins of some DIP switch poking trough the outside like a clamp :v:
I've picked up like, 7 packages in a row now, without knowing what the hell's inside them.
Actually I have a suspicion that its a bunch of ATmega328P DIP chips.
Ordering shit from china is like a mini-christmas every time.
[QUOTE=DrDevil;46583111]Ordering shit from china is like a mini-christmas every time.[/QUOTE]
Especially when the package declaration is "gift" :v:
My cheap-ass flux pens from China arrived today.
Wow. I never thought you could make solder joints that pretty.
[QUOTE=nikomo;46588058]My cheap-ass flux pens from China arrived today.
Wow. I never thought you could make solder joints that pretty.[/QUOTE]
Are you using leaded or unleaded solder?
Pretty hard to get unleaded solderjoints to look good.
Yesterday was parents evening, one of the kids in my class and his parents were there, the teacher mentioned me (he was showing an IGBT brick that I had given to the college, opened up to show the semiconductors to them) Both the classmate and the teacher seems to have said some quite good things about me as my classmate's friend has contacted me and is interested in hiring me as a junior engineer to be trained and then to 'progress up the company'..... Well, I think I’d be stupid to outright deny such an offer... being headhunted before even finishing college or looking for a job. So tomorrow I’m going to be going over to the company with a work portfolio.... Any tips?
I guess it just shows that its both who you know AND what you know.
[QUOTE=nuttyboffin;46588573]Yesterday was parents evening, one of the kids in my class and his parents were there, the teacher mentioned me (he was showing an IGBT brick that I had given to the college, opened up to show the semiconductors to them) Both the classmate and the teacher seems to have said some quite good things about me as my classmate's friend has contacted me and is interested in hiring me as a junior engineer to be trained and then to 'progress up the company'..... Well, I think I’d be stupid to outright deny such an offer... being headhunted before even finishing college or looking for a job. So tomorrow I’m going to be going over to the company with a work portfolio.... Any tips?
I guess it just shows that its both who you know AND what you know.[/QUOTE]
Do your homework on the company - make sure you have a reasonable understanding of their products
[QUOTE=metallics;46588620]Do your homework on the company - make sure you have a reasonable understanding of their products[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the tip! I've been looking over their site for the past hour.... Over the summer holidays, some of you may remember me posting about this. I actually was working for their competitors XD
Given you've built your own variable transformer I don't think you'll have any problems.
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;46588700]Given you've built your own variable transformer I don't think you'll have any problems.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the confidance vote. I find myself mostly worried about clothing. I seem to get on well with other engineers etc. from experiance. Im gonna wear black shoes and some black business trousers, along with a black, un-labelled polo shirt (standard engineer style)
EDIT:
Im gonna show them my baby:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/gIleWWl.png[/img]
[URL=http://hackaday.io/project/1376-pyppm-a-proton-precession-magnetometer-for-all]Oh my god.[/URL]
I want to build this.
BOM for the chips alone is $80 from digikey...
I could have my own NMR!
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;46588780][URL=http://hackaday.io/project/1376-pyppm-a-proton-precession-magnetometer-for-all]Oh my god.[/URL]
I want to build this.
BOM for the chips alone is $80 from digikey...
I could have my own NMR![/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3JTF9UKhac#t=21[/media]
Oh god that intro...
Its like a 80s/90s kids science TV show intro :v:
Buddy broke my bass guitars input today. Turns out the wires are totally shit on my cheap Yamaha, who saw that coming right. Anyway I'm glad I know soldering, took 5 minutes to fix something that would probably cost 100 bux for a shop to look at. wow I need a job at one of these places
Thinking about buying a bottle of flux, what is your opinions on this combined with a refillable flux pen?
[url]http://www.batterfly.com/shop/flussante-liquido-1l[/url]
Seems quite cheap compared to the price of 10ml flux pens.
[QUOTE=AGMadsAG;46589266]Thinking about buying a bottle of flux, what is your opinions on this combined with a refillable flux pen?
[url]http://www.batterfly.com/shop/flussante-liquido-1l[/url]
Seems quite cheap compared to the price of 10ml flux pens.[/QUOTE]
Well if you want cheap you can make your own flux for next to nothing with some rosin and alcohol.
So I bought an infrared toaster oven to make a reflow oven with, thinking it had them fancy-schmancy infrared heating elements that very quickly fade into a bright glow and then turn off and cool down really quick. Imagine my surprise when I discover that two of the elements are basically just quartz elements (the slow kind) and the "primary(?)" element is just a big god-damned halogen bulb.
Fuck, I coulda asked my foreman to make me a metal box with halogen holders in it for less than what this thing cost. :v:
Unless I've just gone full-dummy and halogen bulbs pretty much ARE the active elements in Infrared toasters and such.
Thing with those ovens is that the smaller bits will heat up faster due to having lower mass. Larger chips may mean the smaller bits melt before the solder reflows.
Better to get an [url=http://www.amazon.com/Presto-09020-Touch-Electric-Indoor/dp/B003WTKYAW/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1417142231&sr=8-5&keywords=electric+grill]electric grill[/url], put a layer of fine, dry sand over the top and heat the board directly.
Doesn't really work for double sided boards, though.
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;46590008]Thing with those ovens is that the smaller bits will heat up faster due to having lower mass. Larger chips may mean the smaller bits melt before the solder reflows.
Better to get an [url=http://www.amazon.com/Presto-09020-Touch-Electric-Indoor/dp/B003WTKYAW/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1417142231&sr=8-5&keywords=electric+grill]electric grill[/url], put a layer of fine, dry sand over the top and heat the board directly.
Doesn't really work for double sided boards, though.[/QUOTE]
Might as well roll with what I got for now.
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;46588780][URL=http://hackaday.io/project/1376-pyppm-a-proton-precession-magnetometer-for-all]Oh my god.[/URL]
I want to build this.
BOM for the chips alone is $80 from digikey...
I could have my own NMR![/QUOTE]
Annoyingly, both OSHPark and Seeedstudio require the following files:
[quote]boardname.GTL Top Layer
boardname.GBL Bottom Layer
boardname.GTS Top Soldermask
boardname.GBS Bottom Soldermask
boardname.GTO Top Silkscreen
boardname.GBO Bottom Silkscreen
boardname.GKO Board Outline
boardname.G2L only if you're uploading a four layer board
boardname.G3L only if you're uploading a four layer board
boardname.XLN Drills[/quote]
And the included gerber files for [url=https://github.com/geekysuavo/pyppm/blob/master/designs/ppm-2.2/ppm-v2.zip]v2.2[/url] are in .gbr files.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/nlnbmxD.png[/img]
How do I go about converting these to usable formats? I can't imagine just renaming them will do it.
[QUOTE=Cakebatyr;46591069]Annoyingly, both OSHPark and Seeedstudio require the following files:
And the included gerber files for [url=https://github.com/geekysuavo/pyppm/blob/master/designs/ppm-2.2/ppm-v2.zip]v2.2[/url] are in .gbr files.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/nlnbmxD.png[/img]
How do I go about converting these to usable formats? I can't imagine just renaming them will do it.[/QUOTE]
Just rename them.
They're all gerbers, they are just using a different naming convention.
The .XLN drill file is probably a completely different thing than the .CNC file in that package.
Yes you can just rename them, the different ending is just a convention, they are all standard gerber files.
Probably a good idea to double check with gerbv in any case.
Goddamnit I'm late as usual.
Wow.... I walked in and met everyone, got on really well. They seem to like me.... as....
Well... Job offer, day release, training etc.... and progression up the ladder.... *dances*
They asked me what kind of pay I expect.... I'm not sure what to say really. What do you guys think? £20-£23k seems like the industry standard... not sure.
Just checked, .XLN is the same as .CNC
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