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Geppetto Electronics

1,493 orders since Jul 17, 2014

129 Reviews

Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

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Crazy Clock

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EVSE Tester

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Pi Power

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USB µISP

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$19.97

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AVR ISP Pogo Adapter kit

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$10.00

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GPS Clock

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$149.99

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SkyTraq Venus838LPx-T Timing GPS module breakout

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GPS Disciplined OCXO

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FE-5680A GPS Discipline module

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$99.95

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Toast-R-Reflow Power board kit

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Toast-R-Reflow Controller

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AD8495 breakout board

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About

I design and build small, useful electronic things. I started in 2013 after leasing an electric car and deciding that I could build my own charging station. Since then, I've gone on to design lots of things to fill particular needs.

The name of my store is partly a nod to Arduino's Italian roots, since Arduino got me into microcontroller engineering, and that led to everything else. I also like the image of Geppetto, working away in his workshop making little things that come to life.

Reviews

Review Breakdown

Average Ratings

Product: (4.74)

Documentation: (4.19)

Shipping: (4.76)

Communication: (4.71)

Thomas | Jan. 28, 2020

Antenna placement is important.

For GPS Clock

The GPS clock has to continuously receive the signals from the satellites in order to continuously display the time. I tried putting the antenna in a south facing window and the clock showed the time about 80% of the time. I expect that the fact that my house has aluminum siding was causing problems as that would block the signal from many of the satellites. I bought an extension cable for the antenna intending to put the antenna on the roof. But a friend suggested that I try putting the antenna up on the second floor or perhaps in the attic. With the antenna on the second floor about 3 feet above the floor the clock showed the time about 95% of the time. With the antenna in the attic the clock shows the time 100% of the time.
I bought my clock in kit form and had no problem building it. But I have worked as an electronic technician. If you have no experience soldering parts to a circuit board then you should probably buy it already assembled.
The antenna specifies that it wants 3.3 volts for power but my clock came setup to supply 5 volts. This does not seem to cause any problems but I re-jumpered it to supply 3.3 volts.

John | Jan. 25, 2020

excellent board for the FE-56x0a Rb oscillators

For FE-5680A GPS Discipline module

Works great, I just wish there was a little more concise documentation. I was able to figure out most of my questions from the schematics and the project log entries on hackaday.io, but putting all the pinouts and mode description in one place would make it a little easier to use.

Hans Georg | Dec. 28, 2019

I am pretty convinced about this product,it does its job per

For Crazy Clock

A good procuct if you are involved in astronomy .
I used it to make an astronomical clock to show our stars during days and night and it works fine

Dave | Dec. 14, 2019

a fantastic little programmer

For USB µISP

I've had several Atmel programmers over the years, including a (now dead) AVRisp mkII, and a (now dead) Pololu PGM03A. This one has withstood the test of time and many, many programmings. I used it with a pogo-adapter for programming literally hundreds of boards.

I really like the switchable power, a great convenience and saves me from having to make some kind of mezzanine jig for providing power to my boards during program+test.

David | Dec. 14, 2019

works well and is surprisingly robust

For AVR ISP Pogo Adapter kit

I've used this pogo adapter to program at least 500 devices, not including the 500 times I've used it on one device while debugging. :-) It works well and has held up nicely. If the pins become misaligned, it's easy enough to gently put them back into place.

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