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 […]
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20240506 Wrong Guesstimation
Remember the previous post I did about guesswork by placing the PCB on top of an image of the shape? Well, this time, it did not work if what I discover is true. This is because after I had located the stl extension for the obsolete Sketchup Make 2017, I was able to import 3d […]
20240201 Razor Crest Main Board PCB Revision 5
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024 A month has passed by and before I knew it, its already February. I was quite busy with my Day Job since December and so, I had to put a lot of things away for obvious reasons. I was hoping to start with calculating and planning for the production of the […]
20231017 The Template
I got the template back just yesterday and to be frank, I was worried that it might not fit. If you watched YouTube videos, you’d see the Author arranging some PCBs surrounding the actual circuit board before using the solder mask template. This method ensures the template is height-matched as accurate as possible with the […]
20230716 Replacing The Capacitor
My programmer is on the mend and just like last time, it was giving inconsistent feedback. The programming steps would start with me erasing the data on the microcontroller, check to verify it is really blank before I can program it. The errors crops up when:One, I was verifying if the chip has been erased […]