[sdiy] Keeping Busy this weekend

[Andre Majorel]

On 2002-05-27 10:04 -0700, patchell wrote:

>     Well, here is one of the things that kept me busy this weekend.
> 
> http://www.silcom.com/~patchell/synthmodules/patgenpcb.jpg
> 
>     It is a 16 x8 pattern generator I am working on.  The PCB is
> complete in this picture, except for the LED's.  The reason they are not
> in yet, is I am not sure how it is I am going to get them in...a very
> complicated story.  It was bad enough getting the switches in.  To get
> it to go into the panel, I figured I would have to solder the switches
> to the PCB while it was mounted in the panel...easier said than done.
> Trying to get 128 switchs that are just flopping in the breeze to go
> into a 128 holes in a panel is quite an exercise...One that I will have
> to repeat soon here (I am making two of these).
>
>     If this doesn't prove I am crazy...I don't know what will.

The PCB doesn't seem to have any holes for the screws that hold
the panel and the PCB together. So you plan to use the switches
for that, don't you ? 128 nuts to unscrew every time you need to
disassemble...  Now *that* proves you're crazy. :-)

-- 
André Majorel <URL:http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/>
std::disclaimer ("Not speaking for my employer");