{"id":663,"date":"2009-03-17T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T15:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2009-03-16T21:59:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T04:59:23","slug":"the-circuit-boards-are-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/the-circuit-boards-are-in\/","title":{"rendered":"The Circuit Boards are In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonmaque.blogspot.com\/\">Jon<\/a> and I are working on a <a href=\"http:\/\/jonpaint.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/elrae-redesigned.html\">new sculpture project<\/a> and this time we&#8217;re doing things a little differently.  I decided to use an online milling house to create the boards rather than using prototype board.  This means lots more work planning and preparing, but a much more compact (and hopefully better) design.  Here are some pictures of the boards I had milled for Elrae:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-attachment-id=\"665\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/the-circuit-boards-are-in\/img_0510\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0510.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,423\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_0510\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0510.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0510.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-665 aligncenter\" title=\"Elrae Circuit Board\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0510.jpg\" alt=\"img_0510\" width=\"499\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is the board for the power plug:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-attachment-id=\"666\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/the-circuit-boards-are-in\/img_0513\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0513.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,521\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Elrae Power Plug\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0513.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0513.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-666 aligncenter\" title=\"Elrae Power Plug\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/img_0513.jpg\" alt=\"Elrae Power Plug\" width=\"499\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the pictures, some of those traces are <em>tiny<\/em>.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be soldering all of this by hand, so wish me luck.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never printed my own circuit board, so this was a very fun project and I&#8217;m really excited to see how it turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Jon and I are working on a new sculpture project and this time we&#8217;re doing things a little differently. I decided to use an online milling house to create the boards rather than using prototype board. This means lots more work planning and preparing, but a much more compact (and hopefully better) design. Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[13],"tags":[227,225,182,226],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}