Thursday, 3 April 2025

Build up the first board. What could possibly go wrong?

Here it is. Order placed with JLCPCB on Tuesday, arrived Monday a week later. Including both manufacture and shipping from China. Can't complain, although the boards (£2) cost almost 10 times as much as the carriage (£18).




I can't see anything wrong at this stage (yet?).



Hmm, the relay doesn't look 100% right.


I can sort of jiggle the pins a bit but I left this to The Stupid Fat Bloke, who got the coil and contacts swapped over. Besides, it's actually a 5V relay and the output of the Pi is driven by a 3.3V rail. We will fix that later....


There we go. It certainly looks all right. 




But now let's try it and see if it actually works...

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Build up the first board. What could possibly go wrong?

Here it is. Order placed with JLCPCB on Tuesday, arrived Monday a week later. Including both manufacture and shipping from China. Can't ...