About 5 days ago, the circuit boards has arrived and you can say, I was overjoyed because this signals the completion of the prototyping stage and into the production stage. As usual, a small project grew into a sizeable challenge and the saving grace was that I was able to learn a few things from […]
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20240923 Lighting for the AndersFP Blaster Pt.19 – V5.01 Board Testing and Instruction Manual update
Finally, I managed to test the two boards over the weekend and I am happy to say, I can now into Production Stage! But first things first This stage is quite dangerous and can kill the Project entirely. Yep, financing. I have calculated the BOM (Bill of Materials) and it is quite a big sum. […]
20240919 Lighting for the AndersFP Blaster Pt.18 – What You’re gonna get
The two boards have arrived. And I am excited to populate and test them by this week. Once they are OK, I can move on to continuing with drafting the manuals. What is the damage? Seriously, I have not thought about the pricing yet. I have seen the pricing for the ones out there and […]
20240906 Lighting for the AndersFP Blaster Pt.16 – The PKD & The Ghost Boards
OK, these boards are more or less done with the prototype design stage. In the last revision, everything worked out nicely. But this time, I will go over the designs again because I was quite busy and literally forgot there I left off. Just some more last minute revisions and it’s off to JLCPCB! There […]
20240905 Oops
In what seemed like an oscillating crystal soldered to a QFP chip of sorts above has some very interesting theories on Facebook. But do note that there is no facility available to put the crystal on the PCB, not even a silkscreen. Some of them were: But the photo, hilarious to most, felt painful to […]
