Tag: pcb design
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Stackable hexagon prototype boards
We are working on a lot of hardware projects at the moment as we are interested in how to to rebuild technology from various alternative starting points. It seems most “off the shelf” hardware has converged on increasingly inaccessible and conservative forms, but luckily (and probably not due to entirely unrelated reasons) at the same…
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Viruscraft tangible hardware prototyping: etching PCBs
While we experiment with new fabrication techniques in order to shorten supply chains (with a philosophy of collapse in mind), electronics is problematic. Components can be salvaged and reclaimed but a particular problem is printed circuit board manufacture. Like many we have tended to outsource this work to China, where the costs allow us to…
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Pattern Matrix PCBs arrived & first tests
After triple checking the schematics and design files and ordering 80 PCBs (50 sensors and 30 i2c boards) there was an anxious wait for them to arrive and do some initial tests to find out if there were any mistakes. We now have enough boards to make two new pattern matrix devices, one 4X4 and…
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PCB design for pattern matrix 2
This is the pattern matrix 2 tangible sensor schematic, which is fairly simple – just 4 hall effect sensors and a capacitor to smooth out any noise on the power supply. We need to make hundreds of these for the Penelope Project, and we can save some costs by using the built in pull up…