Monday, May 19, 2014

Laser cut plexiglass Case

After the handmade case, I decided to create a new case. This was done with Inkscape, and send to a professional laser cut service.
The drawing can be found here: PDF file
A picture of the pieces:
 And of the assembled case:



The different pieces are glued together with regular acetone. To minimise cracks I put the pieces in a regular oven (see here, and here):
- Increasing the temperature with 15deg per 30 min upto 75 deg
- Left the pieces in the oven during 2h, at 75 deg
- Switched off the oven, and let it cool all night


Hand made Case

Some pictures of a prototype case I made in plexiglass:



Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Assembled Mainboard, Display board and Led driver board

The assembled (and working !) boards:

Still one displayboard and leddriver board to assemble...
 

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Getting crowdy on the bus....


Assembling the second display board. These are all the i2c adresses at this moment. 4 adresses will be added when all boards are fully assembled.

[root@rgbclock ~]# i2cdetect -y 1
     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  a  b  c  d  e  f
00:          -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
20: 20 21 22 -- -- -- -- -- -- 29 -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: 40 41 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 5a -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- 63 -- -- -- -- 68 -- -- -- 6c -- -- --
70: 70 -- -- -- -- -- -- --

Monday, November 11, 2013

Panelizing the 3 boards

I have combined all 3 boards into a single board (panalizing, reducing board costs) using this tutorial:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Panelizing-PCBs-for-Seeed-Using-Eagle-Free-Light/

Gerbmerge:
http://ruggedcircuits.com/gerbmerge/

3 boards routed !

I managed to route all 3 boards ! Still some minor changes needed to the mainboard.
Special thanks to http://www.freerouting.net/ for doing the autorouting part. All routes where routed with this autorouter. Only a few routes where manually routed (especially around the FM receiver).


Mainboard:


Displayboard:

Leddriverboard: