{"id":8790,"date":"2007-05-22T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/22\/rs232-to-eaton-leonard-interface-prototype\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:35:29","slug":"rs232-to-eaton-leonard-interface-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/05\/22\/rs232-to-eaton-leonard-interface-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"RS232 to Eaton Leonard Interface Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Completed Prototype PCB<\/center><\/p>\n

Well, after about five hours of working this evening (after laying out the board in free time at work) I’ve finished the prototype PCB for the project I’ve been working on for a friend’s company.<\/p>\n

As with the last few boards I’ve done, I etched it in the laundry room<\/a>, as the laundry tub and large flat surface makes for a good place to work. (Photo of PCB being exposed.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Then I drilled the board, breaking more PCB drill bits than I like to. Next came manual bridging of vias (which is a really awful chore), and then finally assembly. After I had it put together I powered it up, probed around for shorts, and generally confirmed that it wouldn’t explode.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow I’ll confirm that the pinout of the board is as expected, and hopefully I’ll be able to deliver it at lunch time. If it works I’ll (hopefully) have some production boards made for them. I stayed late at work avoiding traffic and worked up a first draft of a mostly-SMT board layout, fitting in ~30mm x ~85mm<\/a>. If I end up producing these boards I can see the final product being something like this, should I choose to do it SMT.<\/p>\n

Hopefully tomorrow I’ll get to unpack the new baking stone, the new x0xb0x kit, and maybe just relax a bit. For now it’s bed time. Goodnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Completed Prototype PCB Well, after about five hours of working this evening (after laying out the board in free time at work) I’ve finished the prototype PCB for the project I’ve been working on for a friend’s company. As with the last few boards I’ve done, I etched it in the laundry room, as 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":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8790","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\/8790","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=8790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24578,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8790\/revisions\/24578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}