<PERSON> PCB Badge
Introduction: <PERSON> PCB Badge
What are the Best <PERSON> in the history of Dragon ball?
Well in this post, I'm giving you the 10 greatest <PERSON> in the history of the series. Number 1, that time when <PERSON> decided to be on a PCB and fire LED Chasing Sequence which is actually powered by a Coin Cell, not chi in this case.
The whole setup is powered by an Attiny84 and a few MOSFET ICs!
INTRO Idea behind this badge and story
Hey everyone what's up! All jokes aside, yes I made another PCB Badge which has a very interesting character on it. for those who don't know anything about <PERSON>, well it's an anime. So this character <PERSON>, He's a Martial artist and he's also an alien from outer space, he and his group of friends protect the world from generic bad guys. In this show, <PERSON> and his friends use this power known as Chi, <PERSON> is the name of Chi blast that <PERSON> uses to defeat his enemies.
A few days ago, I saw dragon ball after many years and this thought pops up in my mind, which was to convert <PERSON> into a PCB and use Blue LEDs to emulated or imitate the CHI Blast!
So I made this Cool looking PCB in my OrCAD PCB designing suite and send it to PCBWay for samples. 982
In this Instructables, I'm gonna show you guys how I made this PCB Badge in few easy steps, also if you're interested in purchasing this badge, then you can visit my tindie store.
Supplies
These are the materials required for this built!
* Attiny84
* Custom PCB
* 8205S Mosfet
* 0603 Blue LEDs
* Coin Cell Holder (SMD)
* 10K Resistance
* 1K Resistance
* USB Micro port
* Header pins
Step 1: DESIGN
After Finalizing the Schematic, I then added components package details in the schematic and then converted this whole schematic into a PCB Board.
Before placing everything, I first imported this BMP image of GOKU into my PCB Design to keep this as a reference or guideline for placing the components. Please note that the importing BMP image process will be different for your PCB Suits. Anyways, after this I added components to their assigned places one by one, I added LEDs in rows and columns in the Kamehameha place. it took only a couple of hours to finalize this PCB, in the end, this was the result.
After this, I exported its Gerber data and sent it to PCBWay for samples.
Step 2: PCBWAY Review
After sending the PCBs for manufacturing, it only took 7 days to get delivered.
The PCBs that I had received were nice as expected!
this project required a custom silkscreen job which was not exactly easy to make but they did a great job in making these boards.
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Step 3: PCB ASSEMBLY
* After getting the PCBs, I started the assembly process.
* we add solder paste to the pads of each component first.
* then we pick and place each component, one by one on their assigned location.
* After this, we carefully lift the PCB and place it on a reflow hotplate for SMT REFLOW.
(I'm using my DIY SMT HOTPLATE to reflow this PCB)
* Anyways, after that I removed few shorts which occur during the reflow process, these happen because of excess solder paste, how to avoid this? by using a Stencil instead of dispensing solder paste with a needle.
* After this, I added THT components and our PCB was basically ready.
But it still needs a critical thing to run, which would be,
* option A Code,
* option B, more code
And then the right answer here is option A. We have to upload code to it!
Step 4: PROGRAMMING
I'm using an Attiny84 in this project, to program this microcontroller we can do two things here.
1st is to program it via USBASP and Atmel studio which is the hard way or use an Arduino as ISP Setup to flash this MCU.
I'm gonna use the Second option here which is the Arduino as ISP setup, for that I have already made a custom programmer that utilizes an Arduino Nano Board to flash a variety of stuff.
To do that, we first need the infamous Spence konde AttinyCore for Arduino IDE which you can download from here https://github. 472