Etching Tutorial take 2 Posted at: Thu, Jul 1st, 2010 | 11:07AM UTC By Josh Ashby

My first etching tutorial was both my first tutorial, and also a tutorial in a subject that was fairly new to me at the time. In other words, it sucked. Big time.

This time I’m going to try to do it right, and have photos to prove it, So lets get started. Today I’m going to teach you, or make a feeble attempt at teaching, how to etch a board, from start to finish.

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Drill press Posted at: Sun, Mar 7th, 2010 | 9:42PM UTC By Josh Ashby

Having completed etching my Quad Low-side motor controller board, I needed to drill out the holes, the only problem: I don’t have a drill press, and the nearest readily available one is at my grandparents house two towns away.

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Websites, CMS’s, MySQL, PHP and … Perl? Posted at: Sat, Oct 24th, 2009 | 5:31PM UTC By Josh Ashby

One of the difficulties with maintaining a personal project site, such as this one (http://joshashby.com) is updating the content. Once upon a time, when my site was less than a year old and on the freeweb network, I manually opened my pages, added the content I wanted, and saved/closed the file. This worked fine for me, except for the fact that I could not modify, and update my site from any computer. Read more…

Bedroom Servers Posted at: Sun, Oct 18th, 2009 | 8:45PM UTC By Josh Ashby

Every one should have one of these servers, it’s got folder and cd drive sharing (Samba), ssh capabilities, a development web server (Xampp), a private IRC chat network (oftc-hybrid), and and OpenVZ server. In this how to I’ll walk you through setting up one of these servers, but please note I will not cover any items of major security, this is up to you to decide how to lock down your computers. My server is running Ubuntu 9.04 and all the commands that I give will be fore Ubuntu and all the menus will be for Gnome. This How To assumes you have a good idea of how to use the Linux terminal, enough that you can manage a system that has no GUI such as Gnome or KDE. It also assumes that you have Ubuntu 9.04 installed, internet access for installing the programs (and reading this), and time. Finally, it assumes that you will do your own research into these packages, and know how to use and configure them properly for your need; this How To Read more…

EAGLE Traces Posted at: Tue, Jul 28th, 2009 | 11:44AM UTC By Josh Ashby

A few people have asked how I do the curvy traces in eagle so I though I would do a little 5 sec how to, simply, when routing, use the three curvy lines for the trace style at the top of the eagle window:

Etching Posted at: Sat, Jul 25th, 2009 | 5:37PM UTC By Josh Ashby

Warning: This is a work in progress, getting updated when I have time to work on it. The main part is done but I have yet to add photos and refine it more, sorry for the rough reading.

So you’ve got your board designed and ready to make a prototype, but you don’t know how. Thats what this is Tutorial is for. Read more…