Over the past year or so I spent a lot of time designing and iterating over a new upgrade for my pick & place. The result is an upgrade kit that can be installed without modifying the original feeder. It...

MoteinoM0 is now at revision R2. Here’s a summary of changes: removed castellations for the short side header, to allow better panelization and better routed side finish on the long sides. The castellations remain on the long sides. the micro...

If you’ve been using Wirelessly Programming, a unique feature that comes with all Moteinos, you will love this new update to the OTA GUI. The main requirement for this release was the ability to change the Programmer Moteino settings right...

Ed Mallon who runs the Cave Pearl Project, is all about “developing a data logging platform from inexpensive pre-made breakout boards, and are using this at the heart of new environmental sensors that anyone can build.” Ed is also a...

The Pi Gateway software package is continuing to be improved and the latest release is v9.1.0 (see GitHub releases). It contains some breaking changes, new features, and bug fixes. This blog entry serves as a feature review, change log and update guide....

The CurrentRanger continues to be improved especially on the firmware side, and in some hardware aspects as well. This blog is to summarize the most important changes and bug fixes with this new release: UF2 bootloader – allows easy backing...

I ran out of MightyHat stocks a few months ago and was debating whether it is time for a complete remake with a SAMD chip. While that feature set slowly baked in and out of my brain people kept bugging...

There is a major new release for the Moteino SAMD Boards Package 1.5.0. It will popup as an update reminder the next time you restart Arduino IDE, or you can go to the Boards Manager and update from there: Here...

CurrentRanger is now at revision R3! I received great feedback and several threads in the forum outlined some patterns of user behavior which led me to make some improvements and hopefully eliminate some of the issues I’ve seen people run...

The Pi Gateway software is now at v9.0.0, this release is a major new feature and bug fix release. This blog entry serves as a change log and feature review. Below are the main highlights. New Node button & sample metric generators (ex:...

I made some changes to the RFM69 library to support 10bit node addresses, and you should see version 1.3.0 available in your Arduino IDE Library Manager. Previously the standard was a 1byte (8bits) address for sender and receiver, a total...

Sunday morning I woke to an unusual amount of email asking about the CurrentRanger availability. And the limited stock was all gone, so I knew something happened. I was then pointed to to Andreas Spiess’s latest video: Thanks to Andreas...

My readers may not know that I hold dual citizenship, and was born and spent my first 19 years of life in Oradea – a beautiful city at the foot of the pittoresque Carpathian Apuseni mountains and in the western part of Transylvania...

RaspberryPi projects are always lots of fun, and when combine it with displays, 3D printing and Moteinos, the result can only be awesome! I had an older RaspberryPi and a touch display, and I wanted a portable IP camera monitor...

I’ve always wanted a fast auto-ranging low-burden voltage current meter. You may find expensive high end bench meters which can auto-range they may be slow or lack the bandwidth to capture fast dynamic loads that go through several orders of...

There are now a few more breakouts available in the shop. With the release of MoteinoM0 I also wanted to make available a few boards specifically designed to mount flat on the M0 PCB for a super compact wireless sensor...

I have an Bausch & Lomb optical Stereo-Zoom (SZ4) microscope which is a great instrument and not a luxury when you do a lot of SMD prototyping and repairs. The light solution for this was a simple piece of white...

I prepared a complementary video to cover all the basics of the LoRa and RFM69 transceivers used on Moteino boards. I concentrated on the most common topics I’ve seen show up in the forum and in support emails. This should...

Since my LE40-V Pick & Place machine’s factory PCB holder is difficult to use, has no support, and is not well suited for V-scored panels, I had to get creative and use neodymium magnets on a metal plate to hold the PCB...

I’m pleased to introduce a new version of the PCB Dipole Antenna, a significant upgrade from the previous version. This has a nice VSWR of almost 1.0 at both 868Mhz (at default 78mm length), and 915Mhz (trimmed at 73.5mm). It...

The LE40V pick & place PCB holders consist of 2 adjustable brackets that are meant to hold the PCB tightly on 2 sides (let’s call them TOP and BOTTOM) while the machine pounds the panel with parts. Typically you’d set...

Do you have a laser cutter? Do you need an emergency shipping box? The USPS Priority Small Flat Rate Box has a nice template that can produce an easy to cut resizable box from the endless supply of throw-away cardboard...

The full SwitchMote kit is available again. I had to redesign the PSU cover and some 3D printed spacers which fit the new PSU R3. Everything is pretty much the same as before, except that there’s significantly less soldering to do....

If you’ve watched the forum, it’s been suggested to develop a new Moteino board featuring new/more powerful/more flexible or even ARM microcontrollers. Mentioned candidates were the Atmega328PB, STM32, SAMD from Microchip and perhaps others were mentioned over time as well....

The SwitchMote PSU is now at revision 3, here are the changes: DC side is now SMD assembled, no more through hole components 2OZ copper PCB with the RECOM RAC02-05SGA there is no need for a fuse, only a MOV...