2017-08-15
Revision B of the board PCB came in and has been assembled. All of the issues from revision A have been addressed. Did find a couple of issues in this revision though. I added microprocessor sanity checking circuitry and IC. It does not work at all. On the PIC24 it keeps rebooting the chip on the dsPIC30 it prevents the ICD3 from connecting to it. I will be ripping it out in rev C and Read more…
2017-01-10
Starting dabbling with creating the schematics for the project. Tried several open source 2D CAD packages. I think I’m going to stick with QCAD (https://qcad.org/en/). The most important feature that sets it apart from other free CAD packages I’ve tried is the distinct lack of corrupting of drawings and loss of said drawings. I’m definitely going to have purchase a “pro” license to support development. This is really my first foray into drawing circuits. I’m Read more…