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Frank N. Furter
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Posted: 09:09am 20 Jul 2018

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Hi to all!

I want to share my little SimpleMite project with you. I developed this one-sided board to quickly test something with the MicroMite.

It can be equipped with an SMD 78L33ACUTR or a THT LT1121CZ-3.3.

You need only two wire bridges on the TOP

...all other components are on the BOT...

You can program it directly with a PICKit3 without external power supply:

...and you can use it with a USB-SERIAL dongle (like PL2303)...

...it's breadboard friendly when you solder longer pins

All pins are led out and the console can be connected directly.

I have no PCB's to sell, but here are the Gerberfiles:2018-07-20_190306_SimpleMite_Gerber.zip

Feel free to use it and have fun!

Frank

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Posted: 10:00am 20 Jul 2018

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Nice one, Danke. Ja, Das ist gut mein frund.

Still learning German, so sorry if this made no sense!

Smoke makes things work. When the smoke gets out, it stops!

CaptainBoing

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Posted: 11:06am 20 Jul 2018

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my first foray into SMD mites was something similar - I just wanted a breakout board with all the power and VCap linked up so I just plug it in and start playing - has been a great success. I have gone through three iterations of the board, the first was a very simple beast that was a small as possible on 0.1" spacing (to the point it wasn't breadboard friendly but fine for it's target of mounting in other equipment)

V2 was a bb freindly version with some small mods and V3 is a better silkscreen and a programming port for firmware upgrade. - I have a programming adaptor for 28 pin SOIC devices and I blow the latest stable MMBasic into all the devices so upgrading isn't generally an issue - the thing is got working and then it ends up in some dark cupboard or roof-space for the rest of its life doing the same thing day in day out.

get the PCBs done 50 at a time from JLC and it takes about 10mins to assemble each one. 170s arrive in tubes of 20 at a time when needed and I just rattle them out with the adaptor on the pickit3.

Any that I feel might need an upgraded firmware get a V3, others get a V1 or 2

I plan a version using SSOP to get the width down a bit but 1) there isn't much to gain as I want 0.1mm connection pads, 2) never soldered 0.65mm before

Frank N. Furter
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Posted: 12:34pm 20 Jul 2018

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@Grogster:

(...why are you learning such a horrible language?

When a gangster says, "Du musst den Polizisten umfahren!" means he should kill him. If a driving instructor says exactly the same thing, the student driver has to drive around him. - isn't that silly?)

@CaptainBoing:
This is V2 - My first version had no programming interface either...
Normally I develop complex SMD boards - but this one has proven to be very useful.

Frank

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Posted: 01:36pm 20 Jul 2018

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German is a great language for when you are angry. :) Great curse words.

Microblocks. Build with logic.

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Posted: 01:40pm 20 Jul 2018

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@Frank N. Furter

here's a Mk1 going in a Harley Davidson FDX on Monday.

Edited by CaptainBoing 2018-07-21

plasma
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Posted: 09:36am 22 Jul 2018

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gute Idee , ich eier immer noch mit lochrasterplatten rum 😬

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Posted: 11:50am 22 Jul 2018

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gute Idee , ich eier immer noch mit lochrasterplatten rum

Google Translate comes up with
"good idea, I still eggs around with loch raster plates" ??

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Posted: 02:01pm 22 Jul 2018

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Chopperp said gute Idee , ich eier immer noch mit lochrasterplatten rum

Google Translate comes up with
"good idea, I still eggs around with loch raster plates" ??

rum eiern = to act shaky
lochrasterplatine = hole grid board

causality ≠ correlation ≠ coincidence

Chopperp

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Posted: 11:19pm 22 Jul 2018

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OK. I myself will definitely stick to English. That's hard enough.

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