Posts Tagged ‘tools’

Stripboard

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

stripboard

Stripboards (sometimes called veroboards) are typically used for prototyping electronic circuits. They have little holes, evenly spaced at 0.1 inches (yes, even in Europe - electronic components usually have their pins 1/10″ (0.254 mm) apart.
The image shows the soldering side - usually the back or bottom side. You stick the components in from the other side and solder on this side, and then cut off the pins so they don’t stick out too far.

See also: Yoshi’s DIY stripboard cutter

Processing

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Processing is an easy-to-learn programming language that is geared towards visual programs. It’s completely free and even completely open source. It is very easy to make simple things and still powerful enough to do some really interesting things. There are lots of examples of what has been done at the Processing.org site. Processing builds to applets (so you can post them live on a web page), or to executable files. And it works for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Download Processing and learn more from http://processing.org