Category Archives: pcb

LED UFO birthday greetings card

Thursday nights are BuildBrighton Open Nights, which means getting stuck in and helping out with other people’s projects a lot of the time. Last night it happened to be Justin who needed a little help completing a fancy greetings card. It’s his girlfri… Continue reading

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Etching heater

Etching with Ferric Chloride is a messy business. So the quicker you can get it over with the better – and for a few reasons. One way to decrease the time taken to etch is agitation: basically stir the mixture or dunk the board in and out of the etchan… Continue reading

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BuildBrighton PCB making workshop

Yesterday (Saturday) was BuildBrighton’s PCB making workshop, as part of the Brighton Digital Festival.From a worryingly quiet start, we ended up with six people taking part in yet another successful practical workshop – 100% success rate!Over six hour… Continue reading

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Making the reader PCB

With the pcb design drawn out (check out that trace routing!) it’s time to have a go at making a circuit board. Each cube location (there are four in total) has five pins. Four of which are simple digital inputs and one a serial comms input pin.Four lo… Continue reading

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Tray reader PCB

At this stage of the blog, we’ve already explored a few ideas and have a decided on a method for reading the position of up to four cubes at a time, which will be explained in more detail later. The basic idea is that each cube will be relatively low c… Continue reading

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Making the reader PCB

With the pcb design drawn out (check out that trace routing!) it’s time to have a go at making a circuit board. Each cube location (there are four in total) has five pins. Four of which are simple digital inputs and one a serial comms input pin.Four lo… Continue reading

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Tray reader PCB

At this stage of the blog, we’ve already explored a few ideas and have a decided on a method for reading the position of up to four cubes at a time, which will be explained in more detail later. The basic idea is that each cube will be relatively low c… Continue reading

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