{"id":184,"date":"2015-08-20T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/?p=184"},"modified":"2015-08-20T11:18:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T01:18:34","slug":"sensor-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/2015\/08\/20\/sensor-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensor Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently received the PCB sensor board from the supplier and have started soldering components. A few pictures of this are shown below.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6146.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-152\" src=\"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6146-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bare PCB - Ready for soldering\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6146-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6146-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bare PCB &#8211; Ready for soldering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Five boards were received in total. (These are &#8220;prototype&#8221; boards and the minimum order quantity is five). As you can see, the quality of these is exceptional&#8230;.much better than anything I could do at home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-153\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6147.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-153\" src=\"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6147-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Top view: Some of breakout boards soldered on\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6147-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6147-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top view: Some of breakout boards soldered on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Above is the GPS module (capable of operation up to 50km) and a Level converter. The Level converter is used by the GPS module and the IMU module. These two modules use 3.3 volts. The Arduino EtherMega operates at 5 volts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6149.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155\" src=\"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6149-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bottom View: IMU soldered on\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6149-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_6149-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bottom View: IMU soldered on<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We put this on the bottom for space reasons. This just misses a few pins on the EtherMega by a few mm. So things are tight!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The REAL work beings soon&#8230;programming all these sensors. I expect the IMU to be particularly difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have recently received the PCB sensor board from the supplier and have started soldering components. A few pictures of this are shown below. &nbsp; Five boards were received in total. (These are &#8220;prototype&#8221; boards and the minimum order quantity is five). As you can see, the quality of these is exceptional&#8230;.much better than anything &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/2015\/08\/20\/sensor-board\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sensor Board<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}