Schmartboard package from the UPEW

CassLan

Hi All,

I was checking the Schmart stuff from the expo, and I searched for the build instructions as per the package label, but was unable to find any.
The thing is that included was a mini-bread board and also a PS2 & RCA breadboard adapter...making this almost like a demoboard [noparse]:)[/noparse]

Should the mini-bread board attach to any specific location on the Schmartboard PCB after its built? Or is it meant to be a seperate piece connected with jumpers?

I haven't yet put mine together, has anyone had any luck/issues with this?

Rick

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Post Edited (CassLan) : 7/1/2009 8:52:43 AM GMT

Ken Gracey

Hey Rick,

The latter - it was provided so you could jumper to the breadboard using wires, where you would connect the PS2/RCA adapters. We didn't provide much in the way of documentation for the UPEW kits.

The one part we clearly omitted was the PropPlug (sorry). Hopefully you already have one of these so you can debug your soldering skills. Of the nine (9) units I've seen built, only one of them programmed immediately after assembly - built by one of the whiz-bang hacker kids who hung out in the soldering room. These were the kids described as "short on financial backing but really high with enthusiasm and capability". I'm referring to the kids who jazzed and Cookston lent their PCs to. Those kids built beds at Parallax from office chairs by pushing them together. The shaggier-looking kid made his SchmartBoard work immediately after he finished.

Ken Gracey
Parallax

W9GFO

Did any one get a picture of the back of that LED array???

Rich H

CassLan

@ken

Those where awesome add-ons then, I was just checking.

I'm gonna have to pick-up a proper iron, the ones I saw at Parallax where very robust feeling. Then I'll tackle that!

Ken Gracey

When choosing tips I received a very important tip from Neal @ SchmartBoard: for this product, choose a tip no wider than the thinnest trace. At Fry's Electronics, this translated into NOT choosing the sharpest tip, but one which was probably 3/64" if I remember correctly.

Ken Gracey