Outroot and things

Electronics, programming, computers, and geek stuff by Kevin Darlington

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So, my girl­friend bought me a STM32F103 board to play around with that has a RS-232 ser­ial port on it to pro­gram it. Since I haven’t owned any com­puter in the last few years that has a ser­ial port, I needed to get a converter.

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Fume extrac­tor

Lately, I’ve been inhal­ing a lit­tle too much flux fumes so I decided that I needed a fume extrac­tor. I saw a lot of DIY fume extrac­tors on the web but I wasn’t sat­is­fied with the per­for­mance of those extrac­tors. A lot of the demon­stra­tions showed that you had to be within 2 inches of the fan in order for it to work properly.

My dad hap­pened to have an Attwood Turbo 4000 blower in his shop, and it seemed per­fect for this type of task. It already has the hous­ing for the fan and plenty of room for a fil­ter, switch, and power.

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