{"id":875,"date":"2013-05-22T04:04:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/?p=875"},"modified":"2013-05-22T04:07:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T02:07:01","slug":"funny-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/funny-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just burned a 10K poti &#8230; I hate when that happens, which is somehow\u00a0discouraging.<\/p>\n<p>I was trying to replicate my own NE555 timer circuit (see <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.lazlo.de\/trac\/labs\/wiki\/ProjectTimerBasedOscillator\" target=\"_blank\">wiki page<\/a>) on a breadboard. This circuit will be the central piece of a signal\/function generator\u00a0I&#8217;m building.<\/p>\n<p>For now it is simply an oscillator, but \u00a0I will add a circuit which will convert the oscillator signal to different wave forms (sinus, triangle, saw tooth). Later on I&#8217;ll also add a micro controller to be able to have the device controlled using a serial interface or USB and give it a display and some keys.<\/p>\n<p>I have already drawn a schematic and worked on a board layout, even though the thing is not totally finished. So, if you are interested, checkout the schematic and layout files from <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.lazlo.de\/trac\/labs\/browser\/trunk\/projects\/hardware\/function-generator\" target=\"_blank\">this directory<\/a> in the labs repository (there is also a <a href=\"http:\/\/labs.lazlo.de\/trac\/labs\/wiki\/ProjectFunctionGenerator\" target=\"_blank\">wiki page<\/a> but its content is in a draft state).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just burned a 10K poti &#8230; I hate when that happens, which is somehow\u00a0discouraging. I was trying to replicate my own NE555 timer circuit (see wiki page) on a breadboard. This circuit will be the central &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/2013\/05\/22\/funny-smoke\/\">More<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,102],"tags":[121,137,136,135],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-work","category-work","tag-circuit","tag-fail","tag-ne555","tag-timer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lazlo.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}