{"id":4838,"date":"2015-12-27T12:40:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2015-12-27T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T19:40:46","slug":"apc-pcbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=4838","title":{"rendered":"APC PCBs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Front side of the PCB. The back side has labels for the components as well.<\/p><\/div>\n

My first PCBs arrived in early December, but due to the holidays I haven’t done anything with them yet.\u00a0 I just wanted to show what they look like.<\/p>\n

There are 5 small boards attached to my PCB:<\/p>\n

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  1. An FTDI Basic from Sparkfun for connecting a USB cable to my Linux box for programming the microcontroller<\/li>\n
  2. An Arduino Mini-Pro board<\/li>\n
  3. A RTC clock board<\/li>\n
  4. A tiny color display board<\/li>\n
  5. An ESP8266 board<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There is also a small USB connector for power.\u00a0 I don’t have to use a real USB connector for this.\u00a0 I just needed the power and ground points from a USB part for Fritzing to not complain about unclosed loops in the PCB layout.\u00a0 I’ll wire this directly to a power converter that takes 110V input and drops it to 5V output.\u00a0 That way I can use the same power input used for the outlets in this project to power the PCB (and relays, for that matter).<\/p>\n

    Not all of these have to be connected.\u00a0 I could just use the pinouts for them and wire them manually.\u00a0 For example, I’ll probably just add L-shaped male headers to the board for the FTDI Basic.\u00a0 It doesn’t have to be installed for the board to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    My first PCBs arrived in early December, but due to the holidays I haven’t done anything with them yet.\u00a0 I just wanted to show what they look like. There are 5 small boards attached to my PCB: An FTDI Basic from Sparkfun for connecting a USB cable to my Linux box for programming the microcontroller […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[605,8,5,562,565],"tags":[606,344,610,619,611,615,614],"class_list":{"0":"post-4838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-arduino","7":"category-hardware","8":"category-linux","9":"category-pibox","10":"category-raspberry-pi","11":"tag-arduino","12":"tag-cable","13":"tag-ftdi-basic","14":"tag-linux","15":"tag-pcb","16":"tag-pcb-layout","17":"tag-usb-connector","18":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe9t8-1g2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4838"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4841,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4838\/revisions\/4841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}