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<\/a>First Draft of the HMLiberator PCB<\/center><\/p>\n
Having some time on conference calls this morning I went ahead and began laying out the first draft of the PCB for the HMLiberator<\/a>. Well, there it is. It’s small. Really small. 54mm x 25mm, in fact, and I could probably cut it down to 50mm x 25mm if I feel like it.<\/p>\n A 300dpi version of the schematic is available here<\/a>, if you’d like to see it.<\/p>\n I’ll let the design stew for a few more days while I work on the software (and other thing — especially laundry) and wait for the first order of parts (enough for three boards, $20 total) to come in. After validating that the parts match their footprints, and assuming I don’t run into any huge problems with the software, I’ll order a prototype run of boards.<\/p>\n Oh, I also ordered one of the OPPO DV-970HD<\/a> DVD players from AV Science<\/a> as well. It was US$149 with $10 shipping. I wasn’t expecting to pay the shipping, but at least I know it’ll go out today, a small company is getting the business, and the forums they run helped me learn about and decide on the player and TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First Draft of the HMLiberator PCB Having some time on conference calls this morning I went ahead and began laying out the first draft of the PCB for the HMLiberator. Well, there it is. It’s small. Really small. 54mm x 25mm, in fact, and I could probably cut it down to 50mm x 25mm if\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12875,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/12875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![here<\/a>, if you’d like to see it.<\/p>\nI’ll let the design stew for a few more days while I work on the software (and other thing — especially laundry) and wait for the first order of parts (enough for three boards, $20 total) to come in. After validating that the parts match their footprints, and assuming I don’t run into any huge problems with the software, I’ll order a prototype run of boards.<\/p>\nOh, I also ordered one of the OPPO DV-970HD<\/a> DVD players from AV Science<\/a> as well. It was US$149 with $10 shipping. I wasn’t expecting to pay the shipping, but at least I know it’ll go out today, a small company is getting the business, and the forums they run helped me learn about and decide on the player and TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First Draft of the HMLiberator PCB Having some time on conference calls this morning I went ahead and began laying out the first draft of the PCB for the HMLiberator. Well, there it is. It’s small. Really small. 54mm x 25mm, in fact, and I could probably cut it down to 50mm x 25mm if\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12875,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8755\/revisions\/12875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/board_temp-scaled.png\"){kind=link}