This week our students had the task of taking Neil’s Hello Board design, redraw it in EAGLE and add at least a button and one LED to it. For the newbies, EAGLE is a program that helps you to design schematics and circuit boards. It comes with a series of libraries with many components, to which you can add your own, as we did with the fab EAGLE libraries.
You can see the serious (almost desperate) faces of our students while trying to work out the design of the Hello Board. Because EAGLE for beginner is no fun… It’s a nightmare. Some students described it as a Sudoku, others as a Labyrinth…
Would you believe that, given the difficulties, we could come up with so many variations? Here some examples!
The students than went on to mill and solder their components.
These are some of our MARVELLOUS boards!
We also tried some fun things. Gabriel designed, 3d printed and soldered a battery pouch:
And Francesca cut with the Vynil cutter some copper traces, applied to the bottom layer.
We also got on with some programming in the Arduino IDE. So all our boards blink at the pressing of a button as Lina shows us in her page.
