Saturday, January 17, 2015

74HC595 breakout board

Recently I've bought a bunch of cheap 74HC595 shift register IC's. But SOIC case is not suitable for solderless breadboard. I didn't want to buy this IC's in a DIP case too, so I've made my own breakout board for them.
Single side PCB with 3 jumper wires on top side. Not so small as Adafruit's (for example), but easy to make with laser printer and iron. Supports daisy chain.


Etched PCB's

Tiny glue gun mod

Some time ago I've bought a really cheap and simple glue gun. Device works fine, but there was no power-on indication.
Today I decided to make tiny device update =)

Disassembled gun