Project 11/24/17 Fox and Hound Part 1

The Fox & Hound wire and cable tracing kit consists of a versatile Fox 2 tone generator (toner) and a high performance Hound inductive amplifier (probe). Featuring adjustable sensitivity, and Warble or Pulse tracer tone selector. Students learn breadboard, PCB milling, design and use a Epilog M2 Laser cutter to make a custom the enclosure made from 1/8 inch plywood.

Tune in soon for part 2 the Hound.

Student breadboard of the FOX Student Breadboard of the HOUND

 PCB mill design and final design

 Student cut enclosure using our Epilog Laser Cutter

Assembly of the FOX

TV Repair

Student repairing a LCD TV, TV was brought in form a teacher and the complaint was it did not turn on, below is a picture of what we found. Broken mains line, re soldered and up and working!

Project 11/17/17 TPS

Triple Power Supply Project

A must have in any laboratory, on a test bench, or for experimentation. This power supply is 3 variable power supplies in one unit. It features ±1VDC to ±15VDC at 2 Amps and 5VDC up to 5 Amps. 

Student learn the basics of linear voltage regulators (LM317/LM337), 16x2 Parallel loading LCD screens controlled by Arduino, bread-boarding, PCB design as well as custom enclosure design using our Epilog M2 laser cutter.

Also cover in this project is OPAMP signal conditioning using a LM324, Buffers, Inverting Amps and Dividers. Scaling, A2D conversion and math functions of the Arduino. 

Student finishing touches on TPS

Custom Enclosure using 1/4 inch Plywood

Arduino Clone

Find and test communications to chip

sudo avrdude -c usbtiny -p m328p

Erase Chip

sudo avrdude -c usbtiny -p m328p -e

Burn Main Hex file program

sudo avrdude -c usbtiny -p m328p -U flash:w:optiboot_atmega328.hex

Burn Fuses

sudo avrdude -c usbtiny -p m328p -U lfuse:w:0xFF:m -U hfuse:w:0xDE:m -U efuse:w:0x05:m