Hello, my name is Valdas. I am from Lithuania, often you can find me in UK
I work 1/2 of a day as web based program developer for one engineering company (repairing, building, modernizing industrial objects). And 1/2 of a day i work as visual design freelancer.
My first introduction to electronics was ZX Spectrum tare down, actually i was trying to fix it. At a time i was 10, I think. It was not the best experience for ZX
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By my 16 i knew what is capacitor, resistor, transistor and diode
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Few years ago i bought 1 atmega 8 for one project. Finished it and it worked nicely
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it was code generator. Next i made my own development board with atmega and enc28j60, and it started
Project that i recently made
3 axis CNC 65 cm X 45 cm x 12 cm all made of laser cut steel 10 mm
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Underwater lighting projector with with W+RGB leds for adjusting light temperature. All casing is water tight switches made with REED.
Wooden laptop (actually fiberglass laminated with wood)
UV box with timer
now i am working on tiny quad copter (4.5 cm), i just finished designing pcb (2 side, very compact layout). I has 3 axis accelerometer, 3axis gyro, 3axis magnetometer, rf chip and you guest it Atmega for its brains
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tint 6mm coreless motors, 300 ma lipo battery, step up dc chip, and some passive components. All component weight 18g. I made a test it can lift from 35g to 45g when motors maxed out, but they get quite hot, and battery drains super quickly
So thats all folks for now
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And Dave thumbs up for eevblog
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