Desk of Ladyada – New Factory and a Lipo Buck Board #DeskOfLadyada
This week, we had our official ‘Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting Ceremony’ – complete with big scissors from bigscissors.com. We had ada-friends come from around the area to visit and speeches from the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and Industry City.
So we didn’t get a ton of new hardware worked on this week – hopefully, next week will be a little more chill. Instead, this week, we’ve been doing some component research.
The Lipo Buck board we designed right before the move has a USB-charging lipo chip and then a 3.3V buck based on the TLV62569. However, we’ve since discovered the BQ25185, which is a little more expensive than the MCP73831 but allows us to ditch 3 components and also has ‘solar’ input and up to 1A charge rate.
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