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Sumit

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Posted: 04:02pm 22 Sep 2011
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Here is my first attempt to a home-made single sided maximite board using the quick 'n' easy toner transfer method. It has some vias as expected but I think that is OK for a home-made design. It was built in under 2 hours including soldering and firing up the MMBASIC. It did not boot for the first time because I used capacitor "C5" as electrolytic. ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO USE A TANTALUM CAPACITOR FOR C5. Everything works as good as it was meant to be. Here are some pictures....










1.Back Side
2.Front Side
3.Front Side with PIC32
4.PIC32 adapter for easy replacement and soldering.

Images may seem bad due to reflections.Edited by Sumit 2011-09-24
 
Geoffg

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Posted: 09:38pm 22 Sep 2011
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Wow, that is amazing.

Did you make the carrier board for the PIC32? The tracks need to be very close together which is difficult on a handmade board.

Also, what is the silver thing on the underside of the board? A shield? Bluetooth?

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elproducts

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Posted: 10:16pm 22 Sep 2011
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I think that's the SD card socket.
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Bryan1

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Posted: 10:29pm 22 Sep 2011
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Wow that does look great for a homemade board WELL DONE, I did have a go at making my own on a kiwacan tqfp board but I couldn't get mplab to see the board and yes I did use an electro for C5. I do have some tantalums now so I might have to have another go at it.

Cheers Bryan
 
Gizmo

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Posted: 11:02pm 22 Sep 2011
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Yeah I agree, very good work Sumit.

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sparkey

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Posted: 11:44pm 22 Sep 2011
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i argree with others ..where did you get the cct board that holds the pic and have yo made full use of all the pins that are actully avaliable from the chip point of veiw
technicians do it with least resistance
 
Ray B
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Sumit, don't worry about the vias you did this on single sided board.

What PCB design program did you use ?
I'm just getting into Eagle and my first project is a MaxiMite I/O board extending all of the 26 pin connector out onto the board then have some I/O circuitry like MAX232, LCD connector etc. Something to replace what I currently have working on protoboard.

One challange I have is using on a single sided board (my home brew choice) restricted by the free version of Eagle to a 80 x 100 mm board to have most of the 26 I/O connector pins traversing the board to an "exit" 26 I/O connector so I could in theory daisy chain boards. This will result in a lot of vias.
Another option would be to have vertical daughter boards for the plug in options.

When I have something usable I'll publish the source files on this forum to encourage others.
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Sumit

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Posted: 01:47am 23 Sep 2011
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Thanks to everybody for the appreciation !!

I made the PIC32 adapter board using EAGLE version 5. I had to make my own device library because EAGLE does not have a PIC32 device library by default. For that, I had to edit the TQFP64 libraries from other devices eg. LPC2148 from NXP, that has the same package. It took some time but the effort is worth it. This enables me to re-design the main board without much effort since I already have the PIC32 "adapters" easily made.
 
haiqu

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Posted: 03:55am 23 Sep 2011
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I just have to marvel at that, Sumit. Quite an achievement indeed.

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Dave Everett
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  Sumit said   Here is my first attempt to a home-made single sided maximite board using the quick 'n' easy toner transfer method.


That's great work mate.

While I have played with the toner method in the past, I find it too wasteful of toner. I use a photo etch process now and I have found my UV box works great with paper artwork, much better than acetate that I used to use.

I regularly do 8mil traces and 8 mil gaps and always get perfect boards.

Dave Everett
 
jman

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Posted: 06:04am 23 Sep 2011
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Hi Sumit

Well done with the homemade PCB
I have used the same method with good success


Regards

John

 
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