{"id":143,"date":"2020-03-21T22:19:44","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T03:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/?p=143"},"modified":"2020-03-21T22:19:44","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T03:19:44","slug":"altons-status-update-for-march-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/2020\/03\/21\/altons-status-update-for-march-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Alton&#8217;s Status Update for March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from spring break, my main focus has been trying to work around the limitations that the COVID-19 pandemic poses to our fabrication. Our original plan for fabricating the controllers was to cut plywood using the TechSpark laser cutters. Now that TechSpark has fully shut down, I plan to either find an online lasercutting service, an online 3D printing service, or fabricate the controller with the limited tools I have at home (power drill). My construction material will either be plywood (still), some sort of acrylic or polycarbonate plastic that I can score and snap, or just plain perfboard.<\/p>\n<p>Over the break, the middleman PCBs came in from OSH Park, and the next step for them is to solder the components on. Below is a picture of the bare board as well as the board with components:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-144 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2020\/03\/IMG_9340-1024x581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2020\/03\/IMG_9340-1024x581.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2020\/03\/IMG_9340-300x170.jpg 300w, http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2020\/03\/IMG_9340-768x436.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Professor Nace was kind enough to deliver the boards as well as some soldering equipment. Unfortunately, the solder from the ECE labs is lead-free, which I can&#8217;t seem to get to work. I&#8217;ve tried a range of temperatures and tip-cleaning methods but the solder just won&#8217;t flow. I&#8217;m going to get my hands on some leaded solder, either from online or shipped from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming back from spring break, my main focus has been trying to work around the limitations that the COVID-19 pandemic poses to our fabrication. Our original plan for fabricating the controllers was to cut plywood using the TechSpark laser cutters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[7,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/course.ece.cmu.edu\/~ece500\/projects\/s20-teamc1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}