Comments on: Microcontroller cheat sheet

By: itomato

itomato — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:42:30 +0000

Chicago, FTW

By: ray

ray — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:35:32 +0000

i like the way you think steve :D

By: steve

steve — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:35:14 +0000

laugh if you want. I’ve been doing electronics for 16 years. I make my living at this. while most of the time I can remember my most often used pinouts, but since I usualy end up doing most of my circuit boards by hand (I have and can use autocad, but most of my work is one off prototypes and time is always short so I end up making 80% of my circuit boards with a sharpie and some acid. there simply isn’t enough time to do the design on a computer and send it out to get made.) combine that with the fact that I usualy end up doing this stuff at 4:00am and you can see why I like to have a reference to double check myself before I do anything permanent. a simple mistake like that could easily cost me a full days work, and that delay could cost me a customer and all his word of mouth referals: potentialy thousands of dollars of buisness. I have a kid to feed; I can’t afford to make those mistakes. having my pinouts all up on the wall not only avoids these types of problems it makes my workshop look awesome.

By: Hitek146

Hitek146 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:04:52 +0000

^^^lol… Pinout for 78xx and 79xx series regulators… May as well add pinouts for discrete resistors… :)

By: Taylor

Taylor — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:31:11 +0000

This is perfect! Exactly what I was just about to go looking for, no kidding! I think hackaday has predictive mind-reading capabilities lol.

By: Mark Carlson

Mark Carlson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:55:17 +0000

also, the logic pocket data book from texas instruments can be handy:
http://focus.ti.com/lit/ug/scyd013b/scyd013b.pdf

i think you’d need a pretty big pocket to hold 400 sheets of paper, though

By: Mark Carlson

Mark Carlson — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:49:55 +0000

Huge old pinout database, The Giant Internet IC Masturbator:
http://www.kingswood-consulting.co.uk/giicm/

By: Cris Abbott

Cris Abbott — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:57:19 +0000

@tombola

while you could do that, alot of us probably start designing a circuit on graph paper, without a computer, as it can be sometimes quicker. this is definately a nice bit of information to have around. and i also agree with steve on the other common parts that would be nice to have listed. i’m bookmarking this one to print out.

By: nubie

nubie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:50:02 +0000

NICE!

(just need to get access to a printer.)

This will help nuts like me who hand-wire every project.

By: Spork

Spork — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:42:37 +0000

Not a hack, but very nice for electronic newbies.

By: tombola

tombola — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:44:29 +0000

just open eagle and you have all this and much more in the libraries

By: error404

error404 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:22:52 +0000

Great to see the ISP header pinout alone. It’s always a 15 minute search for me to find it whenever I’m developing a new board. Buried in the AVRISP manual somewhere or something…

Thanks

By: steve

steve — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:13:32 +0000

I have these all hand drawn out on graph paper taped up to the walls of my work area. that way when I need a pinout I just look at the wall. while this isn’t a hack it is quite useful to those who do the hacking so I’m all for it. why stop here though how about adding pinouts for other common devices like 741 opamps, 555 timers, 12ax7 triode tubes, 78 and 79 series voltage regulators, 3904 and 3906 transistors, common pc ports and anything else you might use. I find myself constantly reffering to pinouts while I work. I will gladly print this out and hang it up in my shop.

By: hurrrrr

hurrrrr — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:49:23 +0000

Great Hack.