electronics production
This week, we made the FabTinyISP, which is an in-circuit programmer that we will use later on in the class. I followed the instructions outlined here.
The traces were milled, which was a very neat and fast process (traces+cutting the board took under ten minutes, I think). Then I soldered everything on, which was a less neat and fast process. I initially grabbed all the wrong resistors (I thought the labels were for the box above and not the box below, so everything was like an order of magnitude off, oops), so I had to re-do those. But now the programmer works, I think? The programmer's a little ugly, but I'd like to think that just means it has character.
I'm looking forward to using it; I don't have very much EE experience, so this stuff is pretty exciting for me.