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Where Emilee Johnson Tries to Make Almost Anything

Building a FABISP Board

This week's assignment was to construct a circuit board given the exact design layout. It was a very straightforward week, and didn't really require any creative input on my end. Essentially I just needed to mill an PCB board with the Modela in the lab and then solder surface mount parts on. I haven't really done surface mount soldering so it was an interesting and fairly tedious experience in parts. The biggest problem I encountered this week was the Modela crapping out on me a lot. I had issues with which port it was reading off of, stalling and crashing in the middle of my project, etc. Ultimately though I did successfuly generate a final product.

Project 02a
This image shows the board being milled by the Modela. Specifically right now it's processing the trace job. I believe it crapped out shortly after this was taken. I restarted the program probably 4-5 times for a variety of reasons. I learned a lot about basic troubleshooting with Linux and this machine this week.
Project 02b
This image shows my final product. There wasn't too much going on in between to take pictures of this week. Once it left the Modela it went straight over to the soldering bench and I started putting pieces on. The process doesn't change between pieces so it was simple though tedious and time consuming to do.