I didn’t think my entry was that over the top :p
I’ll hopefully be posting a few more projects on my site in the next few weeks.

Posted at 12:34 am on Jan 6th, 2007 by nuxie1

nuxie1 I noticed you have a MSP430 section on your site…recently I found a wifi hostpost locator keychain thing…opened it up and there is a 16 pin “MSP430″ connector on the board. I imagine that its for a JTAG connector or something? If you want more info about it email me at kcbanner@gmail.com

Posted at 2:08 am on Jan 6th, 2007 by kcbanner

All the other entries seem to be posted to a blog. I just put mine in a zip file on my host and submitted the link. Would it be helpful if I also posted it to instructables or something?

Posted at 8:40 am on Jan 6th, 2007 by ian

how do you make 3d renderings of the board like that?

Posted at 10:49 am on Jan 6th, 2007 by Elliott

to make those 3d renderings, you use a script called eagle3d. You design the board in eagle, then run the eagle3d script on it. It has a library of most parts, or you can make your own (you need to be able to use povray tho) This creates a text file that can be opened with povray, which is a really nice looking board.

One thing I was wondering, does anyone know if it is possible to export the povray file into something that could be used in Solidworks? I do a lot of files in solidworks, and it would be really neat to have real renders of the boards in my designs!

I found a program to go the ohteer way (solidoworks->povray) here
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://solidworks.cad.de/prog_stl2pov.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=3&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dpovray%2Bsolidworks%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2006-28,GGLG:en

In any case, thanks for the design! I will be making a few of these… I always thought that the only choice was the icl8038 (since the max038 isn’t made anymore) but those top out at like 100khz. And the chips are reasonably priced at $5 a pop on ebay :)

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