2017-07-31
I’ve made a huge mistake While waiting for my boards to come back from fabrication (they should be here tomorrow OMG SQUEEE) I decided to do some software work. Early on in the process I made a slight little design error. I made the piece of the stack that’s gonna live on the Beagle Bone a bit more complicated than it really should be. Naturally, rather than admitting my mistake I plowed forward. At this Read more…
2017-07-18
So many failures, so little time More failures. Apparently the driver IC I chose to drive the digital outputs is an N-channel driver. Naturally I had it trying to switch +24V. I know what you’re saying: hey Vic, you stupid, you’ll need a charge pump in order to bring the gate voltage above the source voltage. I did not have nor am I willing to incorporate a charge pump. Another failure was failing to properly Read more…