Week of 3/9

This week I was able to complete a lot of work on the PCB. At the start of the week I finished up the design for my PCB. I added in all of the necessary components for the receiver, motors, motor driver, and battery. Once this was complete, I moved onto routing the PCB connections. At first, the design was not working, however after adjusting where all of the components were, while still maintaining optimal positions for connection points, I was able to get it fully routed and ready to be cut out.

Once transferring my file to the mill, I had to quickly reteach myself on how to properly cut out the design. However this did not take long. After waiting for 20 minutes, my board was done cutting. This initial board cut was mainly to ensure that all connections were sound, and it would be fine to be outsourced to a 3rd party to cut. After this was done I next designed a new main body piece with a place to mount the PCB to. Once I was finished designing it, I cut it out on the laser and attached standoffs to the acrylic and PCB. Finally after finishing this, I dismounted the old Acrylic piece and attached the new body with the PCB on it, and it turned out great.