Week 5 : Electronics Design

The task this week was to create the schematic, board layout and then mill the simple LED circuit board. Autodesk Eagle is the circuit-board software that we used > Installing it was relatively easy as it was just a simple installation but to get the correct components for the FAB LAB, downloading the library of […]

Week 4 : Electronic Production

Surface mount components are very common and are what the majority of manufacturers will use due to the smaller size, compared to through components. It seems fairly easy to use them, although the mounting of these components, via soldering is vastly different to through hole components. Through hole components have the obvious advantage of being […]