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HMLiberator v1.0 PCB complete, except for cables.<\/center><\/p>\nWell, the HMLiberator<\/a> v1.0 PCBs arrived today from Advanced Circuits<\/a>. (Top<\/a> and Bottom<\/a> at 600dpi.) They came in a rather large box which can be seen in the photo in this post<\/a>. The size of the box seemed to matter, though, as not only did it contain the wrapped stack of PCBs<\/a>, it also contained a t-shirt, sticky notes, and a bag of microwave popcorn.<\/p>\n I got the first board fully assembled<\/a>, with the SMT stuff taking a bit longer than normal, although I found that it wasn’t too bad. Things must have gone at least partially right because once I connected the programer<\/a> to do a test-write with some random copy of the firmware it wrote successfully<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since Danielle just got here we’re going to grab food and watch a movie. Tomorrow I’ll test the voltage regulator, add the header cables, and connect it to the car for the first time. Hopefully it’ll work. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HMLiberator v1.0 PCB complete, except for cables. Well, the HMLiberator v1.0 PCBs arrived today from Advanced Circuits. (Top and Bottom at 600dpi.) They came in a rather large box which can be seen in the photo in this post. The size of the box seemed to matter, though, as not only did it contain the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","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=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24576,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/24576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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![wrapped stack of PCBs<\/a>, it also contained a t-shirt, sticky notes, and a bag of microwave popcorn.<\/p>\nI got the first board fully assembled<\/a>, with the SMT stuff taking a bit longer than normal, although I found that it wasn’t too bad. Things must have gone at least partially right because once I connected the programer<\/a> to do a test-write with some random copy of the firmware it wrote successfully<\/a>.<\/p>\nSince Danielle just got here we’re going to grab food and watch a movie. Tomorrow I’ll test the voltage regulator, add the header cables, and connect it to the car for the first time. Hopefully it’ll work. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HMLiberator v1.0 PCB complete, except for cables. Well, the HMLiberator v1.0 PCBs arrived today from Advanced Circuits. (Top and Bottom at 600dpi.) They came in a rather large box which can be seen in the photo in this post. The size of the box seemed to matter, though, as not only did it contain the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","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=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24576,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/24576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_7210-scaled.jpg\"){kind=link}
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![wrote successfully<\/a>.<\/p>\nSince Danielle just got here we’re going to grab food and watch a movie. Tomorrow I’ll test the voltage regulator, add the header cables, and connect it to the car for the first time. Hopefully it’ll work. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HMLiberator v1.0 PCB complete, except for cables. Well, the HMLiberator v1.0 PCBs arrived today from Advanced Circuits. (Top and Bottom at 600dpi.) They came in a rather large box which can be seen in the photo in this post. The size of the box seemed to matter, though, as not only did it contain the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786","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=8786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24576,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8786\/revisions\/24576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/hmliberator_pickit2_firstwrite.png\"){kind=link}