#Youtube diptrace series#

To make things simple electronically, one of the transistors drives the LED and the rest are a series of amplifiers strung together. There are 6 transistors, an LED, multiple caps and resistors all on a board that is about the same width as a dime. Click another button and a company in China printed this board out and shipped it to me, sans Covid-19. He clicked and dragged, poked and prodded and then mashed the proper button and “voila”, there is the circuit board all laid out on the computer screen and ready to order. Over a period of several weeks, Rick and I designed the board on my desktop computer with my 42 inch monitor (great for designing circuit boards).

For me, at the tender age of 76, the learning curve for this program is a bit steep. As covered in a previous Superflex newsletter, Diptrace is a program that allows you to click and drag components and design a circuit board on your computer. I talked with Rick and we decided to use Diptrace to design the circuit board for the Mr. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Rick Curl, another AHRS member, was working with a program called “Diptrace”. He was building an electronic probe for troubleshooting radios.Īs I watched, I thought “Gaaaaaa-Leee” this probe thing has to be the best thing since sliced bread. Carlson’s Lab, one of my favorite electronic repair blogs on YouTube.