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Making my own Ion board

RainbowShooter

RainbowShooter

Drop the gun, fat boy.
Oct 12, 2006
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Ok, basicly for my CW for Electronics (Tech) I was thinking about making and programming a new board for my Ion.

Just wondering if anyone thinks this would be possible? If so how would I program the board?
 
Fish

Fish

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May 15, 2006
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thought about pm'ing john c? this is right up his street :)

not sure if it's really possible for you to achieve though... in theory and on paper it'd look brilliant for coursework... but i seriously doubt you'll get a working model :confused:


good luck though :D
 
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Ahdinko

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I googled "simple 555 timer circuit" today whilst researching some stuff for my electronics CW, and found a diagram that has a solenoid and stuff on.
Might be worth having a hunt and seeing if you can find it.
Instead of having a programmable dwell, you could just have the timer circuit made so its on for however many ms, and off for a lot, giving a basic circuit that activates the solenoid for a set amount of time every time the switch is activated.

For CW, if you make a circuit and its well thought out and developed, and works on paper, but doesnt work on your project, you'll lose 4 marks out of 100.
4 marks isnt much to lose.
 
Tom Allen

Tom Allen

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you're looking at pic's rather than a 555, pretty simple control curcuit just getting the timings sorted. Good luck.
 
John C

John C

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Im afraid to say I dont think its project material.

Reverse engineering and reprogramming an existing board is one thing(although better suited maybe to an embedded programming final year project).


But designing a fully featured board, from shcmatic through routing, component selection, prototyping, and code development it takes you to another level which is beyond the scope which your tutor has to assess you.

If you ever want this board to fit in an ion then then you cant make the board yourself. I have a couple of thousand pounds worth of electronics prototyping equipment and even I will not prototype SSOP (0.8mm spacing), its just takes too long and is far too easy for things to go wrong. You would need to at least get the bare boards made proffessionaly.

Then theres the few thousand pounds worth of software that I use to do the routing and the few thousand pounds worth of test equipment used to get all the code doing what it should.
Not essential but trust me its money well spent.


If you scale your ideas down somewhat there may be some potential in this idea.

Having been in your situation, please trust me when I say this. The absolute worst thing you can do is embark upon a project which is far too complex. You would get far better marks and waste less time doing something incredibly simple and getting it 100% perfect, than attempting something extremely complex and struggling with it.
 
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