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PCB

Printed circuit board

OctopuPCB

The costum PCB can be set up to ways:

  1. Order the board from a manufacturing company and ask them to pre-solder the components for you.
  2. Order the board and all small hardware components separately, and solder it by hand. Note, this requires you to know how to solder small components.

Process​

Possible companies to order from: https://jlcpcb.com/ or https://www.pcbway.com/

  1. On JLCPB if the plan is to do PCBA (to assemble the components as well), better to do the instant quote https://cart.jlcpcb.com/quote
  2. Select the standard PCB/PCBA - By selecting PCB Assembly at the end of the quote you indicate a pre-soldered device.
  3. Add upload the gerber file (from the githhub link below)

Files​

Gerberfiles, schematics and BOM can be found in the github repository here: https://github.com/MIT-Senseable-City-Lab/octopus-fabrication/tree/main/hardware