A Little Green Light: The story of the first motherboard I designed.
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- čas přidán 3. 06. 2024
- The first prototype HEC motherboard is here! In this video I'll explain briefly the work that went into creating it, as well as the future plans for the project. If you have any questions, please join our Discord server using this link:
/ discord
If you would like to support this project, you can do so on Patreon:
/ andy18650
Link to my Tindie store: (the motherboard and kit are still awaiting admin approval)
www.tindie.com/stores/andy18650/
If you have any suggestions, especially regarding whether I should make a complete kit version of this, please let me know in the comment section below!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction: A short story
02:15 PCB design
06:50 Soldering and testing
10:30 Selling the board & future plans - Věda a technologie
great video, really enjoyed watching it.
dude, dont worry about the influence, with all the work you have now you have it!
I like the more relaxed and off the cuff chat about the project. The outtakes are fantastic too. 😊
Congrats on getting it working!
As an owner and assembler of the original Altair 8800 kit in 1975, I have been enjoying your videos for several years. All I have left of the Altair is the original 1k memory board, a 64k board I added later, and the original 8080. Unfortunately I lent it to a former student, after I had moved on to a Z80 computer, and it died in a garage fire, along with a 256k memory board. Keep up the good work with your videos!
Andy, great job! Yes, I would like an option to get a full kit.
Coming soon!
totally will be buying a full kit once available!
Your voice is being heard!
must be so satisfying
Nice work!
I also find that JLCPCB is way less expensive than PCBWay. The quality is just as good, however stay away from the purple solder mask as, for some reason, I find for that colour only it has quality issues.
Four layer boards are so much better for signals when you use the inner layers for power and ground.
You should try an auto router. I use Kicad and FreeRouting. I do a lot of designs and it speeds up development by orders of magnitude. It makes editing/moving components quick and easy. Also, the final boards tend to be much smaller than hand routed ones.
My board is MATX so there is little point to make it 'much smaller'. I will move to a four-layer design eventually but currently I need to be able to cut traces including power and ground. Thanks for the advice anyway!
hey Andy, the invite to your discord is no longer valid, can you please provide another?
Are you in Australia at the moment?
Nope, why?
@@andyhu9542 10 days ago. Because I walked past somebody who looked like you.
@@Mi-583 I was on the other side of the earth from Australia 10 days ago (almost).
@@andyhu9542 lol! 👍