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From: Chris (CHRISSS)
8 Mar 2016 23:37
To: koswix
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A sponge?
Looking good. When are you going to be taking orders?
;)
From: koswix
8 Mar 2016 23:45
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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For the amount of time that took it really isn't worth my while taking orders.
The trouble here is that I could just do it as a vector cut, making an outline around each component/trace. That'd be quick as fuck, but it wouldn't look as good when it was finished as most of the copper would still be there.
:$
From: ANT_THOMAS
9 Mar 2016 00:32
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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Living room - nRF24
Master Bedroom - nRF24
Kitchen - nRF24
Front room - nRF24
Box room - RPi
Outside - wired to the box room RPi
Want to put one in the hallway, which I guess is the classic place for a thermostat, but unless it's battery powered or right next to a socket it would be very ugly.
From: ANT_THOMAS
9 Mar 2016 00:35
To: Ben (BENLUMLEY)
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I've made loads of changes since but an earlier version is here
https://github.com/ant-thomas/centralheating
It's pretty simple stuff, and can no doubt be improved massively even beyond what I've done since. It's only bash at the end of the day.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
9 Mar 2016 00:50
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Make a wireless one. Mine have been running for nearly 3 months and the batteries have hardly dropped. I should probably set up some kind of alert for when they drop too low.
If I ever get around to making some custom PCBs for them I'll try and find a little box to put them in (NJ) to make them nice and tidy. Have you ordered your PCBs yet?
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
9 Mar 2016 00:51
To: koswix
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How long does it take to zap all that with your laser?
From: koswix
9 Mar 2016 09:26
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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That took about 30 or 40 minutes
:$
From: koswix
10 Mar 2016 00:16
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Redid the board, not as pretty but it is functional. Should have made teh solder pads bigger round the pins, but hopefully it's OK. All cleaned, drilled and ready to solder. I think next time I'll just send off to seeed studio
:|
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sdj3aik1y4kax3p/2016-03-09%2023.09.31.jpg?dl=0
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
10 Mar 2016 00:41
To: koswix
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Looks good
:D
I couldn't work out what were the traces in your last picture but I can see it now things are connected up. Not used to seeing full copper boards like that.
Is that the way a normal PCB works but with a solder mask over the rest or is the copper just where the traces go?
From: ANT_THOMAS
11 Mar 2016 13:15
To: koswix
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If you haven't already seen some videos, this guy might interest you -
https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom
I think he describes his videos as blue collar teardowns. He's recently done a few PCB videos which are quite good.