Teachers Timer

I have just finished the website for my "Teachers Timer" project. This is all based on the documentation produced for the Circuit cellar competition last year.

here is the blurb:

Teachers Timer is an innovative and discrete timing device for assisting teachers and lecturers. Using cell phone style vibrations and a simple one-button interface the user can be alerted to the passage of time without staring at the clock. For lectures and presentations the device can also include a laser pointer that will gently fade in and out to alert the user.

My station master project is also up at brokentoaster.com/stationmaster/

New soldering videos

Just recorded some more soldering videos this weekend. One involves soldering a very fine pitch zigbee RF transceiver using some solder paste and a standard kitchen stove top. The other is a far more usual soldering of a TQFP ATMega 88 on the same board by hand.



You should of course carry this out in a well ventilated area as soldering fumes are toxic.



The PCB being constructed in these videos is an open source Zigbee module. Zigbee is a low power wireless mesh networking technology based on IEEE 802.15.4 initially aimed at home and industrial automation. You can get the PCB from http://www.anteeo.se/zigbee.php

Brokentoaster Software 2003

I've resurrected my old geocities site from back in the day. Complete with rants, raves and how software would save the world. You can check it out here

Brokentoaster.com

Well I've finally got around to getting a real domain and some web space. I've moved my SF project web pages there to

http://www.brokentoaster.com/butterflylogger/ and

http://www.brokentoaster.com/butterflymp3/

Hopefully I'll post some new pages for my other hardware and software projects soon. I might even resurrect the old brokentoaster software site from the 90s.