Test Boards Manufactured

 

So we made 2 boards as soon as they arrived today.

There were some issues about the legs of the microcontroller as well as the fact that it had a massive ground pad on its underside which could short out the paths that are on the circuit board… but after testing one out we seemed to have gotten lucky that it doesn’t cause a problem. We just need to make sure to test each mounted microcontroller before finishing each board.

 

Roger is going to make a few more in i3. We now have enough to do some basic testing and the boards have successfully “Hello world”-ed so lets get cracking!

We will have to arrange a manufacturing day to do the bulk of these but for the meantime we need to get working on the code. They require an ftdi connector to upload code (we can get our hands on a few of these) and we’ll be using Atmel Studio 6 (windows only unfortunately) to code.

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