Saturday, November 13, 2010

New power supply and bluetooth added

Well while I wait for my new FTDI breakout board I thought I'd redo my power supply.  So I've gotten rid of the linear 7805 regulator and switched to a MC34063l dc-dc converter.

You can see on the bottom of the pic is the new power supply, much nicer looking, and more efficient.  Plus, the new protoboard fits in the exact same mounting holes as the old one (complete fluke) 

Here is a closer look with it powered up.

Also new in the work is the bluetooth, currently it doesn't do anything, but I'm hoping that once I get the ability to program the board back I will use it to pass info back and forth about sensors, outputs and the like.

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