Process Control from Stamps in Class .....PCB board to make it easy !!
xanaphyst
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Industrial Control / Process Control has always been the best book in the Stamps in Class series in my opinion. I decided to make a PCB based on the exercises in the book. Here is the first one. I'm still working
on the second board which contains the remaining exercises. This is my first experience in trying SMD components. The board is rather small so I went with a hot plate to assist in my first efforts.
This is REV 0 but Id also be interested to here about any other ideas to make this an interesting setup. I thought about making each board separate with holes that match the Board of Education and stack them up on top each other like a tall Basic Stamp sandwich.
The board of Education has a 2x10 header on it. Does that header have an indexing notch in it? Maybe I'll make all the boards the same and then its simple plug and play using the same cable for every exercise.
Thoughts ??
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Nice project. I might use IDC cable to connect from BOE to same header on this board. One of those should give enough pins several of these activities...
BTW: A step up from hot plate might be hot air gun. That's what I do now for prototyping... Just tin the pads, put a drop of liquid flux on the soldered pads, drop the part on top, then hit it with the gun.
Actually for the simple parts, I just use soldering iron... For a resistor, just put solder down on one of the pads, then use tweezers and iron to get that half soldered down. Then, solder the other half.
That won't work for those resistor networks though...
In review I think I'll try this a different way. I made this template board which I'll use to make all the exercises. Then I'll just stack the boards up on one another with
some stand offs.
One thing I would consider is adding a port for QWIIC. Pretty sure Basic Stamp can do I2C and there are a gazillion QWIIC gadgets to play with...
There may not be code yet for that, so might be a bit of work, but maybe there is already code, not sure...
The "P" series have I2C built in. For others it takes a chunk of code (I showed that in StampWorks).