Pcb on Lizerd

PCB Batch on the way back :)

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I made a batch of totally 9 board that I have sent to seeedstudio for production. Mostly the boards are for my PnP project, I was planing on waiting a few more weeks before sending the batch for production. But i have to create the camera vision SW/HW function in quite a hurry because i took on the vision implementation as a curse project in school. So I desprately needed the light ring for the camera, aka lighthouse. So this is the main board controller, there will be 2 of those in the PnP machine.

handles 7 stepper motor drivers, “3 digital and 4 normal step/dir”
4x quadrature encoder inputs
5x analog sensor inputs , mostly for vacuum sensors
6x digital outputs to control relays and stuff like that
2x RS424 connections to PC trough the RS424_to_USB board
1x camera control, lens focus driver
2x UART connections
and some other stuff

The other boards to the PnP project

Solder Station V2 Board delivered

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Finally the board has arrived, usually seeedstudio makes the board within a few days, this time is was more then a week before the boards was in production and the shipment was delayed. The fact that I ordered red board which is less used then the standard green one, may be the reason for the production delay. .

Solder Station V2 Pcb Cad done

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Going from idea to schematic and board layout makes the project feel more realistic. Will be even better when the housing cad part is done. I have sent the pcb gerber files to seeedstudiowhich is great, nice price and have always been fast. Usually i prefer to use DHL, but for this project time is not critical so it will be fine with normal china mail.

Just for Fun

Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000

I made a high speed video when I solder my latest board