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Written by Chad Hill on 2024-11-15 at 06:19

Well, that’s ALMOST all the top sensors installed: lidar, rotary encoder, light sensor, 2x OLEDs, accel/gyro. Just missing the position sensor for the lens rangefinder cam. Thats a lot of electronics gear in a DIY camera.

I realllllly hope this works. 😄😅

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Written by S e l y F r i d a y 🇵🇸 on 2024-11-15 at 10:36

@ChadHillPhotos Nice!! Looks great too. I wanted to build this.The electronics and programming were/are too much for my skills. The building part is really fun though. I made a Brancopan a few years ago, and more recently a Nanopano. Fascinating to see them finally work. Looking forward to some images when it's finished!

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Written by Chad Hill on 2024-11-15 at 12:56

@selyfriday I have built a pretty good number of electronics projects and am reasonably handy with a soldering iron and I was pretty intimidated by the guide. Not everything was clear until I started actually assembling it.

But the guide is actually quite good.

Now that I have all the components and can see how they go together it is not NEARLY as difficult as I imagined and the total amount of soldering is low.

Most components just drop into well designed mounts and get daisy chained. 😅

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Written by Ralph Brandi on 2024-11-15 at 13:14

@ChadHillPhotos looking at that circuit board you posted a picture of, it looks like it’s all through-the-hole discrete components, no surface mount. True?

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Written by Chad Hill on 2024-11-15 at 13:41

@thereisnocat yeah, it’s mostly designed to use the adafruit “stemma” connectors to chain the components together and then the board is all headers connecting things or a couple of these jst-xh plugs mounted in the through holes. No surface mounted components. There is a little cable fabrication to be done, but I’m using pre-crimped ends and just splicing them together.

I’m happy to send you a daughter board. 😅

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Toot

Written by Ralph Brandi on 2024-11-15 at 13:54

@ChadHillPhotos Thanks. I would appreciate that.

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Descendants

Written by Chad Hill on 2024-11-15 at 14:26

@thereisnocat no problem. Dm your address and I’ll pop one in the mail.

I’d never ordered custom pcbs before, from a provided design file, but it was surprisingly easy (and also not expensive).

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