Tag: github

Poor man’s compliance testing: The EnderEMC (#P50)

Such a bold title, such vague blog post – I recently had the pleasure of comparing two very different systems for EMC pre-testing at the lab bench, and one of them gave me an idea.
The two systems were a

  • Y.I.C Technologies EMScanner / EMScanner+ / EMScannerR / EMScannerR+ (with an additional capital R, whatever SEO marketing genius came up with THAT idea), which is a base plate that has all of the signal pickup coils already integrated. Advantage being a fast scan since there’s no moving parts – with the drawback that the raster is fixed in X/Y but also Z direction, and the DUT more often than not needs to be placed upside down onto it.
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Waveshare 400×300 4.2″ three-color SPI E-Ink / E-Paper display module (WHL #38)

Bit of an upmarket item for today, not the usual Wan Hung Lo…had the honour to make that thing display some demo content for a side project at work. So…why not take some photos, publish the code, and get ahold of a similar unit for use at home?

So this is an e-Paper / e-Ink display, actually a module that consists of the display unit itself and a base PCB that takes the flimsy flat-flex connector, adds some passives and presents a more sturdy interface to the microcontroller that will be handling the thing. Also, the PCB is large enough to offer mount points on each corner. […]