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After a very busy weekend working on polishing the SDrive NUXX documentation, PCB layout, end panel artwork, and programming nuances (in between fun times for dinner with friends, parents visiting for dinner, etc) I’ve come to what I hope are the final versions. That up there is v1.0 of the end panels, which I hope capture a nice 80s feel with the Atari-esque font for the name and the round-end single-pass-with-a-cutter-in-a-mill line font for the labels.
This artwork is also (hopefully) much better than the last stuff I posted, a bit over a month ago, which was rather limited, particularly due to the limited features of Front Panel Designer. This new artwork was done in Illustrator, providing far, far more flexibility. Hopefully the end panels will come out nicely.
I’ve also finished off v1.1 of the PCBs, moving the tactile switches slightly outwards, adding two missing traces, fixing a footprint, and adding test pads to make voltage testing after assembly easier. This, combined with the finished artwork, and the (forthcoming) results of