<PERSON> on a PCB
Introduction: <PERSON> on a PCB
Hey Everyone What's up!
So this is my <PERSON> PCB Badge or PCB Art (actually I'm not sure what to call this thing I made)
It's basically a Blinky Board powered by an Attiny13A Microcontroller, 12 LEDs constantly Fades IN and OUT in this setup with the help of 8205S Mosfet Driver IC.
In a nutshell, it's an Over-Engineered Blinky Board with lots of LEDs and an anime character printed on the TOP silkscreen.
Pretty sick right?!
In this Instructables, I'm gonna show you guys how I made this Blinky Board in few easy steps.
Let's get started.
Supplies
Following are the things I used in this built
* Custom PCB
* Attiny13A SOIC8 MCU
* SMD LEDs RED 0603
* 8205S Mosfet IC
* 10K 0603 Resistor
* 1K 0603 Resistor
* SMD Button
* THT Switch
* Solder paste
* 3D Printed Frame
* Header Pins
* USB Micro THT Port
* Coin Cell holder
* Coin Cell, CR2032
Step 1: Prologue
So recently I've been making these cool-looking PCB badges of nerdy stuff from movies and anime!
Like for example, Previously I made a <PERSON> Badge, in which the famous character <PERSON> is doing his Kamehameha chi blast attack, so added LEDs in <PERSON> place and drive those LEDs in a chasing sequence to create an illusion of the <PERSON> and I also made a Flux Capacitor Badge.
https://www.instructables.com/Flux-Capacitor-PCB-B...
https://www.instructables.com/Goku-PCB-Badge/
My point here is that we can make anything into PCB, just visualize and get creative with the idea.
But why make PCB Badge when you can prepare a 3D Printed body of that character?
You see, it's more convenient to make a PCB Badge than making a whole 3D Printed body of XYZ stuff, let me explain why.
Badge shape can be made in PCB Cad software, we can add our character's drawing on the PCB Silkscreen, then place components like LEDs around the drawing. In the end, we generate Gerber data and send it to a PCB manufacturer. That PCB Manucature will produce the Badge professionally and we don't have to do anything except for the unboxing and the assembly process.
By the way, I used PCBWay Service for this PCB Badge this time! more about that in few mins!
Step 2: Schematic of the PCB
Here's the main schematic of the whole PCB which is actually pretty simple.
Attiny13A is connected with an SMT Button and a con6 Header pin which is for programming the microcontroller.
Mosfet IC 8205S Drives all the 12 LEDs and the Attiny13A Controls the Mosfet IC's Gate.
Step 3: PCB Designing Process
To Design this Majin Vegeta PCB
* I first think about ways that I could add <PERSON>'s face in the PCB and add LEDs on it.
* I Google-searched a few images and finally choose the image in which a huge M was written on his forehead.
My goal here is to add RED LEDs in this M Shape.
* we convert this image into a BMP image as my software only imports logos in BMP format which is a standard format for importing image but other software include adding PNG so you can skip this converting process and import your image into the PCB Cad software. 982
(how to do that? well in my OrCAD software, I have to make a logo file first and then add the image into this logo file, later then I can import the logo file into my PCB design. this process is long and your software probably can directly import the image so search around for any imported image option or just google how you can do that in your PCB cad software)
* Next, we place all the components around the logo or on the logo like in my case, LEDs are on this character's forehead.
* then we connect tracks and do the general thing which is required in a PCB Designing process. which is to connect tracks one by one.
* then we have to import the Gerber data and our PCB-making Process is complete!
* But before sending the PCB File to the manufacturer, open the Gerber data in any PCB Rendering software, your software already has this feature so just see how your PCB will look after getting manufactured.
* after making sure that everything is fine, we send it to any PCB manufacturer that we like. 472