Sweet smell of soldering.

I promise (serious) that I will eventually put everything I have on the project up here. Circuits, research, pictures and code will all be posted (probable under a GPL type license). However I am rather busy and have only got time to take photos and post them instead. Cheap excuse if I ever saw one.

Today we shall be looking at the (intentionally oversized) control board I created for the LED cube. I spent 5 odd months designing and producing this to be exactly what I needed. Then it took all of 3 full days work to prepare, clean and solder it. Looks OK in my opinion, the roller tinning machine put way too much tin down on the board, it got lumps everywhere. Then there was my soldering, not exactly perfect either. The good news is it works (for now), I still need another cable then I can hook it all up and finally get down to working on just the software part. (3 weeks late.)

: Too many wires

: The workspace

: The workspace 2

: The workspace 3

: The workspace 4

: The workspace 5

: The cube and PIC controller

: Components stash

: A mysterious box!

: What have we here?

: The PCB

: The PCB 2

: The PCB 3

: The PCB 4

: The PCB 5

: The PCB 6

: The PCB 7

: The PCB 8

: The PCB 9

: The PCB 10 – Scale

: Mid Via wiring. Via: a small connection from one side to the other of a PCB.

: Mid Via Wiring

: Mid Via Wiring – Close Up

: Mid Via Wiring – A small part of whats left.

: First components in

: First components in 2

: First components in – Bottom

: Almost done

: Finally completed. This took its sweet time.

: Completed PCB – Close Up 1

: Completed PCB – Close Up 2

: Completed PCB – Close Up 3

: Completed PCB – Close Up 4

: Completed PCB – Close Up 5

: Completed PCB – Close Up 6

: Completed PCB – Close Up 7

: Completed PCB – Close Up 8

: Completed PCB – Overview

: Completed PCB – Overview 2

: Completed PCB – Overview 3

: The annoying cable

: The good end

: The annoying end

: The complete setup.

[EDIT]: For those wondering, yes I do have 3 chairs at my workspace. None of them are on rollers so I swap between computer, circuit and soldering chairs.

Oh and yes that equipment is worth several thousand too. If there is something I like about Uni then it’s this.

Later.

About The Author

Sandy

A 4th year University student working on a volumetric display for my project. Check my personal website for my blog.

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01 2010

by Sandy
posted in Hardware
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Phil #

03.13.2010 13:45
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Man what an effort. Thoroughly impressive progress and results I’d say. Can’t wait to see it in full function.

Keep doing what you’re doing ya damn genius haha!

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