{"id":176,"date":"2014-10-15T16:55:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T22:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/?p=176"},"modified":"2014-10-15T16:58:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T22:58:00","slug":"dg5-emulator-version-1-5-pcbs-have-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/15\/dg5-emulator-version-1-5-pcbs-have-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"DG5 Emulator Version 1.5 PCB’s have arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got the boards in yesterday, was feeling pretty confident about the design, so I ordered 20 this time. \u00a0Lucky, the boards look good, and the first one I built fired up right away – whew!<\/p>\n

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Here it’s fully populated and mounted on an Arduino Duemilanove.<\/p>\n

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The new boards are a bit more packed than version 1 as they have a few more features. \u00a0There’s a 5V 7805 regulator option, 2, 6-pin headers for an external LCD (with a contrast pot), and 4 mounting holes that match up to the Arduino boards. \u00a0Quality looks good, these are from Accutrace here in the US – see\u00a0www.pcb4u.com<\/a>\u00a0for info. \u00a0Only 2 weeks as opposed to 4 or so from China.<\/p>\n

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With the boards packed, the clearances between the Arduino and the DG5 shield are tight – too tight in areas as is a usual issue with shields. \u00a0I put a piece of electrical tape over the top of the USB connector, and trimmed the mounting tabs for the RCA connectors that protruded thru a little too far. \u00a0I also covered the ICSP connector to keep it from touching.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the layout.<\/p>\n

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The 6 pin jumper cables I had are a little long, 12″ I think. \u00a0I’ll be ordering up some 4″ jumpers that will make it easy to mount in a case.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in a board, leave me a note here and I’ll get in touch with you! \u00a0I am working on the Bill of Materials for the complete kit – I had a lot of parts in my parts bin so I haven’t sourced everything, but most parts are available from Mouser, and a couple are from SparkFun (RCA connectors, LCD Jumpers, shield headers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got the boards in yesterday, was feeling pretty confident about the design, so I ordered 20 this time. \u00a0Lucky, the boards look good, and the first one I built fired up right away – whew! Here it’s fully populated and mounted on an Arduino Duemilanove.   The new boards are a bit more packed than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NQIK-2Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kv6o.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}