{"id":191,"date":"2012-11-20T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T23:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2012-12-08T13:58:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T21:58:22","slug":"some-more-pictures-of-the-failed-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=191","title":{"rendered":"Some more pictures of the failed boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a few more pictures of the failed boards and sent them to the fantastic people at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.circuits.io\/circuits\/286\">circuits.io<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0They have very generously offered to send me new ones at no charge \ud83d\ude42 \u00c2\u00a0Hopefully these new boards will work out.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-191 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PB200001.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PB200001-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PB200002.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PB200002-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PB200003.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/PB200003-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 34.9rem) calc(100vw - 2rem), (max-width: 53rem) calc(8 * (100vw \/ 12)), (min-width: 53rem) calc(6 * (100vw \/ 12)), 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I also had a quick go at getting one of the boards working. \u00c2\u00a0After soldering lots of wires on the bottom of the board I powered it up and let the magic smoke out of my voltage regulator, so it looks like I may have a crook connection somewhere. \u00c2\u00a0It could also be because I didn&#8217;t have the right regulator available so tried another with a slightly different pinout. \u00c2\u00a0I put some heat shrink over the input lead and bent it into the right position. Maybe I didn&#8217;t get it quite right. \u00c2\u00a0The interesting thing is that the Mac I had it plugged in to didn&#8217;t complain about the device drawing too much current, so I don&#8217;t quite know what went wrong. \u00c2\u00a0Time to head out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaycar.com.au\/productView.asp?ID=ZV1565\">Jaycar<\/a> and get the part I actually need I guess \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a few more pictures of the failed boards and sent them to the fantastic people at\u00c2\u00a0circuits.io. \u00c2\u00a0They have very generously offered to send me new ones at no charge \ud83d\ude42 \u00c2\u00a0Hopefully these new boards will work out. I also had a quick go at getting one of the boards working. \u00c2\u00a0After soldering lots &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/?p=191\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Some more pictures of the failed boards&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-pic32","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p561S3-35","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.danielparnell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}