Manhattan Style Electronics Prototyping - An Overview

26.11.
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MANHATTAN TYL
6 ARTICL
TLL TIM LIK IT’ 1960 WITH
THI ALL-TRANITOR DIGITAL
CLOCK
April 9, 2020  Dan Malone 44 Comments
When ou’ve got time on our hands, doing something the hard wa can e
therapeutic. Not that the present situation and the aundance of free time that man
are experiencing has anthing to do with [Leo Fernekes] all-transistor digital clock
uild, which he started a ear ago with his students. ut if ou’ve got time to urn,
this might e a good wa to do it.
[Leo] sas one of his design goals with this clock was to do it with the technolog
commerciall availale in 1960, which means reling completel on discrete
components. And he and his students managed to do just that, with the exception of
the seven-segment displas, which were uilt from the LD filaments from some
modern light uls. verthing else, though, is as old school as it gets, and reall
underscores all the complexit that gets astracted awa from timekeeping with
modern chips. The video elow covers each module in detail, from the chmitt
trigger that cleans up the 50-Hz line frequenc to the ring counters and diode
matrices used to drive the displa. We found the analog stair step dividers used to
ring the line frequenc down to a more usale pulse train particularl interesting.
That clever it of engineering saved 10 transistors over what would e required for
traditional flip-flop dividers.
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There’s a lot to learn from this design, and the execution is great too – we’re suckers
for Manhattan-stle uilds, of course. Hats off to [Leo] and his luck students on a
great uild.
CONTINU RADING →
Posted in clock hacks
Tagged clock, discrete component, divider, Manhattan tle, schmitt trigger,
stair step, transistor
VINTAG ILVRTON CAINT
GT LUTOOTH TRATMNT
Jul 30, 2018  teven Dufresne 7 Comments
This luetooth speaker is full of delightful surprises. The outer shell is an antique
radio cainet, ut its practicall empt interior is a comination of Dead ug circuitr
and modern T receiver.
[PJ Allen] found the T receiver on Groupon and decided to whip up amplifier and
threshold detector circuits using onl parts he alread had in order to make this
vintage-looking luetooth speaker. The cainet is from a ilvertone Model 1955
circa 1936. Don’t worr, no antiques were harmed in the making of this hack, the
cainet was empt when he ought it.
The amplifiers, one per speaker, egan life as a circuit from TI’s LM4871 datasheet.
ome of the departures came aout ecause he didn’t have the exact component
values, even paralleling
capacitors to get in the right
range. The finished oard is
a delightful mix of “Dead
ug” and quasi-Manhattan
stle construction, “quasi”
ecause he carved up the
ground plane instead of
laing pads on top of it.
Look at the front of the
cainet and ou’ll see a
rectangular displa. Watch
the video elow and ou’ll
LM4871 ased amplifiers
see that it thros in time to
the music. To do that he
came up with a threshold detector circuit which started out ased on a circuit from a
harp/Optonica cassette tape deck, ut to which he made improvements.
Not all cainets come empt though. Check out this post  our own [Gregor L.
Charvat] aout restoring these wonderful old radios.
Posted in classic hacks
Tagged amplifier, antique radio, luetooth speaker, dead ug, Manhattan
tle, vintage radio
COLUMN
GTTING UGLY, DAD UG, AND
GTTING UGLY, DAD UG, AND
GOING TO MANHATTAN
Ma 4, 2016  Dan Malone 30 Comments
ack in the 1980s I was a udding electronics geek working in a TV repair shop. I
spent most of m time lugging TVs to and from customers, ut I did get a little ench
time in.  then new TVs were entirel solid-state and uilt on single PC oards, ut
ever once in a while we’d get an old-timer in with a classic hand-wired tue chassis.
I recall turning them over, seeing all the caps and resistors soldered etween
terminal strips olted to the aluminum chassis and wondering how it could all
possil work. It all looked so chaotic and unkempt compared to the sleek traces
and neat machine-inserted components on a spanking new 19 Zenith with the″
stem 3 chassis. In a word, the old chassis was just – ugl.
Looking ack, I proal shouldn’t have een so judgmental. Despite the decades
of progress in PC design and the democratization of oard production thanks to
KiCad, OH Park, and the like, it turns out there’s a lot to e said for ugl methods of
circuit construction.
Posted in Hackada Columns, Misc Hacks, kills, lider
Tagged dead ug, deadug, Manhattan tle, prototping, rapid prototping,
ugl construction
VFD 430 CLOCK, NYC TYL
Januar 25, 2016  Kristina Panos 7 Comments
[Daniel] seems to have a lot of time on his hands for uilding clocks, and that’s fine
 us. For his latest uild, he used a vacuum fluorescent displa (VFD) to displa
hours, minutes, and seconds using an MP430 to drive it.
Like the analog meter clock he uilt recentl, there is no RTC. Instead, [Daniel] used
the 430’s watchdog timer to generate 1Hz interrupts from the 430’s 32KHz clock.
[Daniel] wanted to tr Manhattan-stle oard construction for this project, so he uilt
each module on a punch-cut stripoard island and super glued them to a copper-
clad oard. We have to agree with [Daniel] that the are-ones construction is a nice
complement to the aesthetic of the VFD.
[Daniel] set out to avoid using a VFD displa driver, ut each of the segments require
+50V. He ran through a couple of drawing oard ideas, such as using 17 transistors
to drive them all efore eventuall settling on the MAX6921 VFD driver. The +50V
comes from an open-loop oost converter he uilt that steps up from 12V.
The time is set with two interrupt-triggering uttons that use the shift register
example from TI as a jumping off point. All of the code is availale on [Daniel]’s site.
tick around after the reak for a quick demo of the clock.
Posted in clock hacks
Tagged are metal asseml, Manhattan tle, msp430, MP430G2553, ti,
vfd
PRINTING POINT-TO-POINT
CIRCUIT ON A 3D PRINTR
Ma 4, 2012  rian enchoff 8 Comments
[CarrTheWhat] put up an Instructale on his endeavours in printing circuit oards
for solder free electronics. He managed to print a flashlight where the onl non-
printed parts are a pair of atteries and a couple of LDs.
The circuit is a weird mix of point to point and Manhattan stle circuit construction;
after modeling a printed plastic plate, [CarrTheWhat] added a few custom
component holders to hold LDs, atteries, and other tin electronic its.
To deliver power to each electronic it, the components are tied off on lue pegs.
These pegs are attached to each other  conductive thread much like wirewrap
circuit construction.
Right now, the circuits are extremel simple, ut the reall remind us of a few
vintage ham radio rigs. While this method is most likel too complex to print 3D
printer electronics (a much desired and elusive goal), it’s ver possile to replicate
some of the simpler projects we see on Hackada.
[CarrTheWhat] put the models and files up on GitHu if ou’d like to tr out a uild
of our own.
Posted in 3d Printer hacks, cnc hacks
Tagged 3d printer, electronics, makerot, Manhattan tle, point to point,
reprap, wirewrap
A HAM RADIO RCIVR,
MANHATTAN TYL
eptemer 4, 2011  Mike Nathan 3 Comments
If ou’ve never heard of “Manhattan tle” circuit construction, ou’re not alone.
Popular in ham radio circles, the process looks nicer than straight dead ug stle
circuit uilding, ut not as involved as etching our own PC – consider it a nice
middle of the road solution.
This tpe of construction is often used to uild circuits inside enclosures that are
made of copper clad, which is a somewhat common practice among ham radio
operators. Manhattan tle circuits are uilt using glued-on metal pads to which
components are mounted. One might think that the large pads ou see in the image
aove would limit ou to through-hole components, ut that’s definitel not the case.
A wide arra of MD pads are availale in common pin configurations as well,
allowing ou to use prett much an tpe of component ou prefer.
While it might not e appropriate for ever project ou work on, Manhattan tle
circuits and copper clad oxes definitel add a nice touch to certain items, like the
Wheatstone ridge Regenerative Receiver ou see aove.
[via Make]
Posted in Misc Hacks
Tagged circuits, copper clad, deadug, ham radio, Manhattan tle
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