Time for an Update
It's been some time since the last update of my website. Well, better late than never. Besides, the longer it takes, the
more projects can be developed, tested, documented, and (finally) published here.Details about building a new HF SSB transceiver has been added, a matching ATU, as well as a digital thermometer for your office desk with a colourful binary display. It's been an instant eye-catcher around the office, and a great way to introduce others to electronics.
And there are many other new designs that have been added too. Adding them all up, I've documented 15 new designs in this upgrade. Phew! They are all listed below, and in the clickable column over there to the left. Yes, I've been a little bit busy!
What's on this Website?
My website describes a variety of projects related to my hobbies of amateur radio and electronics. These include circuit diagrams, descriptions of how they work and what they do, PCB layouts (sometimes), construction details, and software for designs which use microprocessors or microcontrollers.
For the record, the microprocessor designs here
use the AVR chips including the ATtiny15, ATtiny25, ATtiny45 and
ATtiny85, ATtiny2313, ATtiny26, ATmega8, as well as some earlier designs which use 8051 processors including
the 80C552, 80C751, 80C51, 80C52,
AT89C1051, AT89C2051, and AT89C4051, and so
on. Almost all of my 8051 software is written in assembler while the
AVR code is a mix of assembler and BASCOM (Basic).
New Designs
New projects and designs added in this latest website upgrade include:
- A high performance audio signal generator
- A pulse width modulated (PWM) test
generator
- A four-digit LED frequency counter made
from a
modified Maplin (UK) alarm clock kit
- A desktop thermometer with binary display
- An old-school CMOS digital frequency display dial and a matching programmable CMOS crystal reference oscillator
- An analog permeability-tuned VFO (PTO VFO)
- My experience with building the Watford Lydford SSB transceiver kit
- A DDS VFO for the Lydford transceiver using one of those cheap Chinese AD9850 DDS modules, and
- A "silent tuning" QRP antenna tuning unit (ATU)
Email
Just be warned - I might take a little time to answer your email sometimes. I might be out the back, feeding the camels, testing a new antenna, or at my workbench playing with a new design.
Or maybe I'm at the office, actually working at my day job, and trying to earn eoungh money to pay for the parts in my next design.
The Legal Stuff
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