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Goodbye Whisker Labs

I like the crew I'm working with at Whisker Labs and I enjoyed designing the electronics, but today was my last official day. I'm off to go work on a space rocket.

Friday July 21, 2017

In electronics

Tags: whiskerlabs

Bed of Nails Prototype

I quickly laid out a bed of nails board to program and test the Whisker Labs' Hub PCBA. A 3D printed fixture mounts on top that holds the board being tested down onto the pogo pins.

It works and will keep things humming along until our CM puts together one of their more beefy versions.

Friday July 14, 2017

In electronics

Tags: electronics whiskerlabs

Whisker Labs First Articles

First production articles are in!

This is the hub which consumes the sensor readings, crunches the numbers, and uploads the power data to the service. It was a tight fit getting all of this trickery on this board.

Whisker Labs Hub, "front" [Whisker Labs Hub PCBA, "front"]

[Whisker Labs Hub PCBA, "back"]

The production plastics also came in! They look pretty sweet!

Whisker Labs Hub, PCBA in production plastics [Whisker Labs Hub, PCBA in production plastics!]

And the power supply...we used a COTS module but we had to add a little analog filtering and smarts as we need to sense the actual mains frequency and voltage. Some standard stuff on the other side like Y-cap, MOV, etc.

Whisker Labs Power Supply PCBA [Whisker Labs Power Supply PCBA]

Friday June 09, 2017

In electronics

Tags: electronics whiskerlabs