When you use software regularly, thing become natural. Especially when you can find errors in your work and they need correcting. Over the past few evenings I have spent several hours trying to correct inconsistencies between the schematic and board on my first PCB project, the MSFduino.
There's nothing fancy about the MSFduino. Its what I've started calling my shack clock project. Its a cut down version of the popular Arduino uno and a 60khz receiver with an LCD to display the date and time.
I got so frustrated in the end I started all over again. That made life an awful lot easier. So easy in fact that I wrapped up the Gerber files in a nice zipped package and sent them off to be prototyped. Seeing as this was my first attempt I have agonised a bit about getting it right but in the end I just had to press the send button.
Here's hoping
Hi Alex,
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I have a receiver module, some suitable LCD displays that - like you - I bought as a bulk pack off eBay and an Arduino Uno (only one project built with it so far, so it could do with another airing!)
Will you be selling the PCB that you've designed?
Cheers
Mark
G6WRB
If I can get the bugger to work properly then I'll put one aside for you. There is a minimum order for them which isn't too much so they aren't going to cost a fortune. Once i have them working I'll pop a notice on here. the prototype is displaying some muck at the moment and I need to sort it out. that's planned for next week when I get some free time.
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