{"id":1245,"date":"2023-10-19T20:56:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:38:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T00:38:32","slug":"metone-windvane-my-first-pcb-with-jlcpcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/19\/metone-windvane-my-first-pcb-with-jlcpcb\/","title":{"rendered":"MetOne Windvane: My First PCB with JLCPCB"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1245\" class=\"elementor elementor-1245\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-46f30fd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"46f30fd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0356199\" data-id=\"0356199\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4f1a252 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4f1a252\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This has indeed taken a while.\u00a0 Regrettably, <span style=\"color: var(--sydney-text-color);\">I haven&#8217;t been able to devote a lot of time to this project during the summer months.<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--sydney-text-color);\">\u00a0 And it&#8217;s<\/span><span style=\"color: var(--sydney-text-color);\"> also partially due to the fact that I&#8217;m not only learning how to use <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kicad.org\">KiCad<\/a><span style=\"color: var(--sydney-text-color);\">, but <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--sydney-text-color);\">this is my first PCB using a PCB fab house, in this case <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/jlcpcb.com\">JLCPCB<\/a><span style=\"color: var(--sydney-text-color);\">.\u00a0 Only $2 for 5 boards, and only like $1.94 for shipping.\u00a0 Super cheap and I&#8217;m very happy with the result.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b3e0ebc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b3e0ebc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: var(--sydney-text-color);\">The mounting holes lined up perfectly; I was worried that <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1249 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-1000x1333.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-230x307.jpg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3688-rotated.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>I might have to do some (ulp) physical modification with a small round file.\u00a0 \u00a0The first image shows that (amazingly) the holes do line up (yay!).\u00a0 The second image shows that the outer housing smoothly slides over the PCB.\u00a0 No bad engineering for a newbie KiCad project.\u00a0 I did apparently mess up on a couple small things: the QR code and the placement of the JLCPCB order number.\u00a0 I thought for sure I checked the <strong>specify location<\/strong> box under <strong>high-spec options<\/strong>, and I did put the text <\/span>JLCJLCJLCJLC in the silkscreen layer at a place I thought to be good per the site instructions.\u00a0 <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1250 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-1000x750.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-230x173.jpg 230w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/IMG_3689-rotated.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I apparently failed to check that option.\u00a0 Oh well.\u00a0 The other thing I messed up was the QR code.\u00a0 <span style=\"color: var(--sydney-text-color);\">Apparently, I didn&#8217;t read the fine print when I created the QR; when the QR is scanned it goes to some site called qr.code, and you need to have one of their &#8220;plans&#8221; to use it.\u00a0 Like $35!! \ud83d\ude2e\u00a0 I only want ONE QR code. Jeez.\u00a0 Oh well, this was an experiment anyway.\u00a0 \u00a0Now to solder the SMT devices to the PCB.\u00a0 Definitely need to practice some here lest I hose up a board, or worse, toast a MLX90316 angle sensor!\u00a0 SMT resistors and capacitors I have lots of but only 3 sensor chips.\u00a0 Fortunately they&#8217;re not too tiny!<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has indeed taken a while.\u00a0 Regrettably, I haven&#8217;t been able to devote a lot of time to this project during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kicad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unixwizardry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}