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Making a beginner friendly soldering workshop within a week
Within my study association, I am active in the practical workshop committee called Volundr. As Volundr, we organize workshops such as PCB design, antenna design, IoT programming and soldering workshops. The soldering workshop used before was due for an update, which I decided to pick up. The previous workshop featured a 5×5 addressable LED matrix…
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Design theory for revision 3 of the 5 V to 170 V DC-DC Boost converter
The prototype of the converter seemed to be working fine, but it could be improved. In this article, I will design the converter from scratch using equations from Under the Hood of a DC/DC Boost Converter and the datasheet of the UCC3803 to account for component values and show my understanding. Before we get started,…
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My journey of creating a 5 V to 170 V DC-DC Boost converter
For a Nixie clock I was designing, I needed a compact but functional and stable 170 V supply for upwards of 18 mA. The only available source on our board is 5 V, as we wanted this product to work on any USB supply that supported our current draw on 5 V to eliminate the…