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Trades

I have been trading on Forums since around 2003. I started buying and selling on the orignal OCAU and Tweakers Australia forums. Most of my old messages have been lost with database crashes and sites being disabled. I am also a regular on the Overclockers IRC channel if you wish to chat through there. I have started putting a list of all trades here for others to look at regarding trading with myself or other users....

August 16, 2023
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Arduino LCD Shield

After playing around with my Arduino I quickly realised every project I had made required an LCD display. I set about making a LCD Shield to go on top of a standard Arduino. The circuit uses a 16x2 LCD with the common 44780 chipset. To save on pins this is then run through a 4094 8-Bit Shift Register. Running the LCD in 4-bit mode it can be hooked up with 6 wires....

August 10, 2023
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M8 Terminal Post

I use quite a lot of these Terminal Blocks in my work doing wiring in caravans and canopies. They can be purchased from suppliers, but I find them to be quite expensive for what they are. They can be purchased from M6 to M10, but they dont have a very good range of bolt length. I played around with the idea of these for a while, doing a few test pieces out of PLA....

August 10, 2023