It was a pretty quiet for the circuits and PCBs night, but that didn’t stop anyone from getting into some hardware. Angus got working to try to cut a solder stencil on the laser cutter for his nixie tube driver PCB. First attempts were a little burnt, but slowly he refined it down to an almost usable stencil, a little more work needed to be done to allow for the smaller pads to be cut at a lower intensity since the heat stayed for a length of time in a small area, charring around those spots. Bevan worked in the back room on his UAV project, showing the 3d printed motor mounts and how he’s constructing the airframe; the brains of this aircraft is an ardupilot.
Bevan works on his university’s final year project
One of the motor mounts for the tri-copter/plane hybrid
The plane partially assembled, bit more work to do first!
Trystan hooks up a Salae Logic to his Leaflabs Maple to test out some code without having to resort to building a circuit
Angus brought in his Olimexino-STM32 board to play around with
A quick look at the differences between the maple and olimexino
Solder stencils are meant to be extra crispy right?
Well, for a first attempt, not too bad and certainly some lessons were learnt
After a few more goes, the stencil is looking better, but needs a few more tweaks
Jack learns how to use a raspberry pi; planning on using the GPIO later
