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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : My Silicon Chip Kit has finally arrived!

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HellbentHorse
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Posted: 04:56am 10 Aug 2020
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Time to warm the iron up and have some fun.

Looking forward to finally joining your ranks!
 
Geoffg

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I'm glad to see that they went with the blue PCB to match the Waveshare board.  I think that their front panel looks nice but if you want to match the photos you can get the artwork from the Construction Pack.

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HellbentHorse
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Thanks Geoff, I'll check it out!

The panels are actually pieces of PCB they had printed and cut for the kit. Very solid. I didn't realise and thought they were just pieces of card or thin plastic.
Edited 2020-08-10 15:14 by HellbentHorse
 
bigmik

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Hi Hellbent,

I cant see the Ir receiver.. Did they include one of them?

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Mick
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berighteous
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Sweet!
 
Bill7300
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Shame though that the front panel is monochrome, unlike the coloured version in the mag article?
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  bigmik said  Hi Hellbent,

I cant see the Ir receiver.. Did they include one of them?

Kind Regards

Mick


Unfortunately not. Not a huge deal breaker for me personally but still a little disappointing from a completionist sense.
 
HellbentHorse
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  Bill7300 said  Shame though that the front panel is monochrome, unlike the coloured version in the mag article?


Yeah it is a bit. I'm tempted to just paint inside the stripes with the colours at some stage..
 
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  HellbentHorse said  
  Bill7300 said  Shame though that the front panel is monochrome, unlike the coloured version in the mag article?


Yeah it is a bit. I'm tempted to just paint inside the stripes with the colours at some stage..


I am going to see about making a small sticker that I can put over the Mono logo on mine.  I think I can get the immage from the construction kit.  If I get something printable on an inkjet or color lazer I will post. I can get printable lable stock.
 
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It took all of 5 min from the constrution kit to cut, past, resize and some dubble sided tape and mine looks pretty nice.
logo.zip

NOW IT HAVE A PAGE FULL OF THEM.  I put my extras in the folder I am building for the CMM2.
 
HellbentHorse
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  mclout999 said  It took all of 5 min from the constrution kit to cut, past, resize and some dubble sided tape and mine looks pretty nice.
logo.zip

NOW IT HAVE A PAGE FULL OF THEM.  I put my extras in the folder I am building for the CMM2.


Nice one, thanks for that. Might have to print a few off and see how it looks :)
 
Grogster

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I also produce PCB-type front and rear panels for my ones, and you are limited to white-only silkscreen in most PCB processes.  About the only exception to that that I can think of, is that white boards will have a black silkscreen, but black silkscreen on a black soldermask would be a bit silly.  

So, that basically means, you are limited to a B/W panel design.  Basically, no PCB houses offer multi-colour silkscreen - that I am aware of.  If any did, I would expect it to be expensive, so the cut/paste/resize method is probably still the best way forward.
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HellbentHorse
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Yeah that makes a lot of sense Grogster.

To be honest at the end of the day I'm about the hardware and what I can do with it, it could be in a cardboard box for all I care as long as I can play with this little machine!

I can always loop back around to the aesthetics in the future if the bug bites me.
 
berighteous
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I like the black and white.  The only thing that bothers me is it says "Colour" instead of "Color."
 
HellbentHorse
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  berighteous said  I like the black and white.  The only thing that bothers me is it says "Colour" instead of "Color."


Looks perfectly fine to me here in the 'deep south'  
 
HellbentHorse
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A quick update for anyone considering ordering the kit from Silicon Chip.

I emailed them to confirm about the IR reciever which was not included in the kit.

Their official response was:

  Quote  The IR receiver is an optional component which we don't stock, like the DS18B20 temperature sensor, so sadly it's not included in the kit. element14 does have the part though (https://au.element14.com/vishay/tsop4838/ir-receiver-45m-0-12mw-m2-side/dp/4913190) and they're at least located in NSW. Or RS for cheaper postage, but you can only get them in sets of 5 (https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/ir-receivers/7085115/).
 
bigmik

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Hi Berightous,

  berighteous said  I like the black and white.  The only thing that bothers me is it says "Colour" instead of "Color."


It is payback for us having to see COLOR instead of COLOUR for years. And TIRE instead of TYRE.. and being a predominately ENGLISH and AUSTRALIAN designed product you wouldn't expect it to be written in a foreign language would you?

Crikey, and you still say you speak ENGLISH..            

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Mick
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bigmik

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Hi Hellbent,

If you send me your address I can send you an IR sensor.

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Mick
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Womble

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Posted: 02:33am 12 Aug 2020
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  berighteous said  I like the black and white.  The only thing that bothers me is it says "Colour" instead of "Color."

Noah Webster has alot to answer for  
At least the CMM2 dialect of Basic allows either spelling
and the case front is easily replaceable with a region appropriate logo/sticker  
 
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