May 22, 2024May 23, 2024Electronics, KiCAD, Uncategorized, Weather Instruments MetOne Anemometer Fix… Finally! Well, after screwing up the footprints for the IC’s on both PCB’s (this board AND the DS2423 rain gauge board), I soldered […]
March 27, 2024March 27, 2024Electronics, KiCAD, Weather Instruments Reworked PCBs arrived from JLCPCB! Just received the re-worked PCBs from JLCPCB and the replaced IC pads look like they will work a lot better. While I […]
March 9, 2024March 26, 2024Electronics, KiCAD Now Rev 2 of the PCBs is in the works at JLCPCB Edited footprint to extend pads I now have the updated the MLX refit board and uploaded the Gerber files to JLCPCB. I […]
February 6, 2024March 20, 2024KiCAD Maybe I should have checked the IC pads :-( Well, I blew it…again. This time with the IC footprint for the latest boards I received from JLCPCB, the 1-wire counter board […]
February 3, 2024August 27, 2024KiCAD MetOne Windvane: Well, so much for my EDA skills… Back to the Kicad drawing board apparently. I inadvertently used the wrong IC outline for the MLX90316 sensor, which is an SOIC-8 […]
January 6, 2024March 20, 2024KiCAD Another JLCPCB order sent off today I had such good luck last time with my anemometer retrofit PCB with JLCPCB so this time I sent off another order […]
October 19, 2023March 20, 2024KiCAD MetOne Windvane: My First PCB with JLCPCB This has indeed taken a while. Regrettably, I haven’t been able to devote a lot of time to this project during the […]
June 20, 2023September 4, 2024Electronics, KiCAD MetOne Rain Gauge 1-Wire Retrofit I’m currently also working a retrofit for my MetOne rain gauge using an (unfortunately, think) obsolete 1-wire device, the DS2423 counter/4K memory, […]
April 7, 2023August 17, 2024Weather Instruments MetOne Anemometer Now, on to the anemometer testing. I am currently trying to use a hardware debounce circuit (shown) and it WAS working and […]
January 21, 2023March 20, 2024Electronics, KiCAD MetOne Windvane: Testing the MLX90316 angle sensor – Part Deux During testing the wind vane pot replacement, I was getting some weird results. I was getting errors like NO SPI DEVICE FOUND, […]