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| ajawitz | "The "REVA" board looks awesome! It looks like you can get a lot of the components you use at Adafruit now for a good price too, so that might help..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "woohoo! http://publiclab.org/notes/donblair/02-28-2014/thermal-flashlight-reva-mostly-built " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Here she is! IR sensor hasn't yet been placed, but here's the basic idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI041unDNr8 " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Hi Jeff -- great idea! That's how they currently do it on the mchck.org design, too. For reference, students could use the LeoStick Eagle design f..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "I wonder if we could do both USB types, at least on the board? Jack, do you think adding a USB stick thing would be an interesting thing for your ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Thanks Jack! Great to hear re: your surface mount experience. I'm looking forward to trying it out myself. I haven't ordered a stencil -- but tha..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "wow don!!! is that avr a version with built in USB? could we add a USB dongly thing like the visualight board has? " | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "Hi Don, That looks really good! Did you order a stencil too? I just had my first experience soldering with paste solder and a stencil, and I was..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "image broken? jack - the "diy" version is the one I have, but I dunno if that's the one theyre currently selling. but are the 4 holes we want on t..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Hi All, Great discussion here. It sounds to me like designing the breakout board for the Visualight would be an excellent student project, and co..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "That last comment surprised me. Turns out there are three versions of the board at the github site; The one I was looking at has four holes on 0.2"..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "And indeed the eagle files also show 5 holes. The Fritzing diagram was actually just a screenshot of the Eagle board file, Photoshopped over a Frit..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "It has five holes. The Fritzing diagram was a crude reproduction by me, so it's not likely to be accurate. The Eagle files are from Visualight; the..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "Hi Jeff, I downloaded the eagle files that you can get to from the link that you reference and used the measurement tool in eagle to get the heade..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| warren | "Sure, that'd be interesting. Do you think Don's are too complex? You know, I'm not sure what the spacing is on the Visualight. Do you think you co..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| JSummers | "Hi Jeff, I plan to have some of my students make a few simple pcbs to introduce the eagle software and teach some quick and dirty fab methods. I ..." | Read more » | over 10 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Alright, I've changed the design to use a 32u4 processor (like the Leonardo), based on the Adafruit Flora schematic. The layout isn't quite finish..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Cool, I just added a screw terminal footprint, and a footprint for a resistor -- so now it's also a thermal fishing bob device (the board layout in..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "... this is sort of 'mission creep', but: if we add a footprint for a screw terminal and an extra resistor, we could connect up a thermistor -- and..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Woohoo! Sure thing -- I'll ask Ray re: his process (and if he has any spare components lying about), and get an ETA on ordering a PCB (from OSH Pa..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| warren | "Wow, so much progress! Don, if the PL nonprofit subsidized it, would you be able to order this and assemble a prototype to test it out? " | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "For what it's worth: I just added a header to the board to break out pins A0,A1,A2,D3, D5, D6, SDA, SCL (the I2C bus), VCC, and GND -- so that folk..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "So I went ahead and mashed up the Rayshobby design with the Sparkfun breakout -- note: Squarewear runs on 3.3V, so the 3.3V version of the IR chip ..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago | |||
| donblair | "Also, if it helps: there's an Eagle schematic for the associated breakout board for the IR device on Sparkfun, here: https://www.sparkfun.com/pro..." | Read more » | almost 11 years ago |