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Posted on 19/02/09 7:33:24 PM |
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Luis
Six-String Synthesist Posts: 236 Reply  |
Circuit Board - Work In Progress
Hello everyone. Here is something new that I'm working on. It is still a work in progress. I don't know why I decided to make a circuit board, but it was a challenge to create. As you all know, I like to make things from scratch. For this project, I cheated a little. The hardest part was trying to create the printed circuit board pattern for the front and back side. I searched the web for patterns that I liked and I found some. However, I decided not to use any of them. What I ended up doing is using software to create the printed pattern. In the end, the pattern used about five layers in Photoshop indicated by the color diagram shown in the first picture. This was the only thing that I used to create the pattern. Everything else was done from scratch. Printed Circuit Diagram Colors: - Shown in picture below Blue - front and Back of board (two layers) Light Green - front of board Red - Back of board Black - front of board 
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Posted on 19/02/09 7:39:53 PM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply  |
Re: Circuit Board - Work In Progress
Luis If you want to make a circuit board, then don't let anyone dissuade you. Everybody has to make something and if that floats your boat then go for it!! It's looking great and I guess the final version will be up to your usual fine standard. Great work again. Nick |
Posted on 19/02/09 9:58:02 PM |
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steve hill
Brain Basher Posts: 228 Reply  |
Re: Circuit Board - Work In Progress
luis looks convincing to me and not a soldering iron in sight. |
Posted on 20/02/09 00:30:54 AM |
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Paul 2007 thru 2010
Lego Legend Posts: 361 Reply |
Re: Circuit Board - Work In Progress
Why are all your resistors the same value? 63 ohm I believe. That seems very low. I would have expected to see a few higher value ones in there and certainly a wider selection. I see you used 5% tolerance ones  I can just make out the gold band.
It's a nice bit of wood you have it screwed to. Wouldn't you need wider tracks going to the relays. I presume they will be carrying a bit of current. I like the back best. The soldering looks very realistic for something that was soldered by hand. The tracks just above R8 seem to have merged. What is it supposed to do? |
Posted on 20/02/09 09:53:32 AM |
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maiden
Golden Gif Gagster Posts: 471 Reply  |
Re: Circuit Board - Work In Progress
Paul I'm not sure it's meant to be a working model but as a Photoshop design it's fantastic and as I've said before Luis you should be writing a book. If it is meant to be a working model then I wouldn't have noticed any errors but then I don't solder electronic circuit boards. I bought a book by the Authors of FriendsofEd and they did something similar to this but Luis yours blows theirs out of the water as yours is far more detailed and far more believable - I very nearly gave up learning Photoshop from books because of the mass of trite so-called tutorial books luckily I stumbled across Steve's book as well as Martin Evening, Scott Kelby and the always brilliant Adobe Classroom series. Luis if I can give you any advice (although offered in the most humbliest of ways) the thing I seek most in any tutorial is flexibility I don't particularly want a cookbook of pre-made projects that look fantastic at the end of the tutorial that I've simply just read and copied verbatim and not really understood the process involved - if you see what I mean. What I feel a tutorial is all about is demonstrating a skill set rather than the finished thing and it's more about what Tools where used and why they where used instead of some other set of Tools or technique. Bearing that in mind it takes the viewer through the processes and gives them a clue about what's under the hood of Photoshop and how they can get their tinkering heads on and use the skills demonstrated to them into their own work. Steve's first book really fuelled my imagination as it isn't a set of tutorials as such but a collection of skills demonstrated through a tutorial. Like taking you through using the various selection tools and which tool works best for certain situations. I really think you can put your work into a book or get a website set up for yourself although to some respect it will be a cookbook it is still a valuable resource and I have seen many example of very shoddy Photoshop books that I have looked at in the bookstore and immediately put back on the shelf because I can see there is no learning process involved - after all do you really really need a tutorial on creating a glowing glass ball with electric sparks flying out of it with purply blue starfields in the background Oh and don't forget to add the Lens Flare (no piece of art is truly art without a Lens Flare - Yay!) and after creating this wonderous visage you are left feeling "Yeah it's pretty but what have I learnt and how can I use this in anything else I might want to make?" Luckily your stuff, Luis is all practical stuff the Corkboard, the Record, the CD, the Cardboard Box etc. can all be used in creating other stuff and adding to a scene but a glowing glass ball with electric sparks and purply blue starfield? I have one in my living room right now 
Dissclaimer: The example of the Glowing Ball was a theoretically example rather than an actual example - and was used to demonstrate the trite, tacky, cookbook style tutorials that litter the shelves of the Photoshop section of any bookstore you might wander through - although the FriendsofEd book does happen to have a Glowing Glass Globe with Electric Sparks and Purply Blue Starfield the above example is not the same glowing ball of glass as mentioned aboved lol
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Posted on 20/02/09 10:23:23 AM |
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steve hill
Brain Basher Posts: 228 Reply |
Re: Circuit Board - Work In Progress
Becky Im in full agreements with you, looks to me like you two should get together and write the book. youve got one sale already. steve |
Posted on 20/02/09 10:48:49 PM |
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Paul 2007 thru 2010
Lego Legend Posts: 361 Reply |
Re: Circuit Board - Work In Progress
I agree it's a fantastic piece of work. But knowing Luis' eye for perfection I was just pointing out a couple of things he may have overlooked
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Posted on 21/02/09 00:55:48 AM |
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Luis
Six-String Synthesist Posts: 236 Reply |
Re: Circuit Board - Work In Progress
Thanks for your comments. Paul, thanks for your observations. I just noticed that some of the tracks have merged. The reason why the resistors, diodes, and the chips (the small ones) are all the same is because I got kind of lazy. I just copied each layer and positioned them. The circuit board design that I used came with the program that I downloaded. I have no clue to what it is used for. The back of the circuit board is what I started out first. I want something easy to do and I did not really want to put a lot of work into it. Then I decided to do the front. This part, I was going to have to do some research on creating the parts. I have done some work in soldering parts onto circuit boards when I was young by building little robots. I still have some parts left over to study so I can recreate them Also keep in mind that this is still a work in progress and I’m sure I will fix some errors. |
Posted on 22/02/09 5:21:40 PM |
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Nick Curtain
Model Master Posts: 1768 Reply |
Re: Circuit Board - Work In Progress
I think Becky's point is pertinent. I guess that the board would be used in conjunction with other elements to tell a story, so unless the viewer makes circuit boards, they're very unlikely to pick up on the detail. I certainly wouldn't. Great work! Nick |