The board is double sided, with the top being mostly a ground plane. I did some playing around with different methods of adding a solder mask to the board. I refined my earlier procedure using IR curable paint, and am very happy with the results I was able to obtain. This will make it much easier when it comes to building the RF board, which will be some of the tightest SMD layout I have ever tried.
After assembling the board, and doing a quick functionality test, most everything worked as expected. I did have to add a jumper on the board to bring 5 volts out to the Joystick, and found I will have to make a couple slight changes in positioning some of the connectors on the final board. But, this will be adequate for testing, and writing the SNA software.
I cutout a opening for the display , and added a cutout for the Joystick in a piece of copper clad board. Then mounted the board and display, and installed the assembly in the 3D printed case.
Looks like everything will fit, but may have to change some of the dimensions a little and reposition the guides for the RF circuit board.
Now to write the SNA software and do the layout for the RF board.
Shouldn't take too long, unless I spend too much time playing with the 3D printers.
Hi Duwayne:
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to the next version of the snakjr. Will there be an oshpark version of the PCB?
73 Ross K7RSB
I plan on posting to OSHPark when finished. I have the size down to under the 10 x 10 cm. size that many of the Chinese board houses often have special pricing on. I will have the Gerber files available if someone wants to order from one of them.
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