THE SHIPPING On average, it takes about 4 to 8 weeks for my stuff to arrive in this post-pandemic era. And sometimes, they can be two weeks earlier, such as some of my ‘critical’ orders for this Project. To be fair, I had emails stating that most of the packages had arrive in the Country […]
Category Archives: JLCPCB
20220713 TR-595E Front Array PCB: Component Orientation
BOARD ORIENTATION Soldering the board is not really that complicated. Except that I opted not to place the component values over the original Gerber text when I was placing my order with JLCPCB. I do not want the wordings of the component VALUES to clash with the original Gerber NAME wordings. The Gerber data is […]
20220710 The MkVII Front Array
THE 555/4017 WAY OR THE MICROCONTROLLER WAY? To be honest, I have actually forgotten about this PCB. It was uploaded on the 7th and by the third day, I was notified that the board is on its way to me. Well, this is going to be something. This board is a decades long ON and […]
20220710 The Upper Panel PCB
THE FINAL REVISION After taking a closer look at the 3D printed TR-595E’s body, I believe I can mount this PCB flat-faced. In other words, only the LEDs are on the upper side of the PCB and they can fit into the already pre-made windows. All I have to do is to just relocate the […]
20220707 Auto Routing
THE FUN OF AUTO-ROUTING I am starting to appreciate the auto-routing features in the EaglePCB. It gets the job done and looking at the image below, saved me hundreds of hours. I am very thankful of that fact. Auto-routing is so simple. I just prepare the PCB design, make sure my schematics are correct, and […]
