Blogs about Assembly

• Building the SoftRock SDR

  Andrew Back

  This is the first of two posts which take a look at the relatively simple and easy to construct SoftRock software-defined radio (SDR) that is designed for HF amateur radio use.

• The changing face of PCB Assembly

  Steve Soumac

  The ‘Auto Sembly’ process was devised by the US Army in the 1950s. It was the invention of this technology that enabled PCBs to become common place in consumer goods, enabling cost-effective mass production.

• Coconut Pi: An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development Project

  gohew

  We are a team of Undergraduate Engineers embarking on an exciting journey into the embedded realm of Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Development. Follow us on our facebook fanpage at https://www.facebook.com/coconutpi or stay up to date as we post our fortnightly blog updates to Designspark! Our team is also open to suggestions and opinions from the Designspark Engineering community. You can either comment on our blog posts or just scroll through our daily pictures and updates on our facebook page and leave a helpful comment or suggestion for us to consider in our development process!

• An Open Internet of Things

  Andrew Back

  The Internet of Things (IoT) is set to herald an age in which physical objects create and consume data without human intervention, and this will have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. In recog

• A Treacle Tin Radiation Detector

  Andrew Back

  The OpenRelief project is building “open, modular information solutions for disaster relief”, and as part of which they're developing a range of network-enabled sensors. I offered to help out by p

• Fun, Forth and FIGnition

  Bill Marshall

  This post is not about Raspberry Pi. Sorry about that; I thought I'd take a break from all that heady stuff about HD graphics and ARM processors to look at a similar sized and priced beginners' computer board, but located towards the Arduino end of the processor power spectrum. It comes as a kit of parts and you have to solder it together yourself.

• Pi Perspectives: Dr Jeremy Bennett (Embecosm)

  Andrew Back

  Dr Jeremy Bennett is Chief Executive of Embecosm, a provider of embedded development tools and services, and is former Champion for Embedded Systems at the Technology Strategy Board's ESP Knowledge Tr

• Pi Perspectives: Kevin Murrell (National Museum of Computing)

  Andrew Back

  Kevin Murrell is Director of the UK's National Museum of Computing based at Bletchley Park. I caught up with Kevin and he kindly agreed to be interviewed, providing us with insights into how he starte

• Insights into small-scale manufacture

  Andrew Back

  The 16th Open Source Hardware User Group (OSHUG) meeting had a manufacturing theme and talks explored some of the practical considerations, options available and issues that may be encountered when ta

• Fun with the Freescale Robot

  Bill Marshall

  I finally got around to playing with a Freescale Tower Mechatronics board with accompanying robot kit a few days ago. Readers may remember my original post on the launch of FSLBOT back in May. The Fre