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Welcome to GemPillar! This is my personal tinkering site. The collection of projects you can find here are some of the items that I have had the pleasure of tinkering with.

Latest projects

  • EtherCAT2Serial Board (04/15/2013 06:58 am)

    In this project I created schematics and layout files for an EtherCAT-to-Serial (RS232/485) Board. This board was never fabricated and it is hosted here simply for historical reasons.

    Please see the Wiki page for more details.

  • ad9910 DDS (04/15/2013 05:01 am)

    This is a project I designed a PCB for the Analog Devices ad9910.

    Please see the Wiki page for more details.

  • Spark-Gap Tesla Coil (04/12/2013 06:03 pm)

    In this project I built a spark-gap Tesla Coil. I created this coil when I was a sophomore in college for my Physics class (approximately a decade ago).

    Please see the Wiki page for more details.

  • Reflex AM Radio Receiver (04/11/2013 06:16 pm)

    In this project I built a Reflex AM Radio Receiver. A reflectional radio receiver (also called a reflex radio) is a radio receiver design in which the same amplifier is used for both the high-frequency radio (RF) and low-frequency sound (AF) signals. The radio signal from the output of the amplifier passes detection and then re-enters the input of the amplifier. During the second pass, the sound frequency is amplified then passed to the earphone....

  • Tuned Radio Frequency (TRF) AM Radio Receiver (04/02/2013 06:20 pm)

    In this project I built a simple two transistor TRF AM Radio Receiver. A tuned radio frequency receiver (TRF receiver) is a radio receiver that is usually composed of several tuned radio frequency amplifiers followed by circuits to detect and amplify the audio signal....