DIY Test Instrumentation

DIY Test Instrumentationhttps://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/en-USTelligent Community 12<link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/ssfg---simple-stupid-function-generator?CommentId=22b4001b-c877-4ab5-84e0-5ef2a5338403</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:47:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:22b4001b-c877-4ab5-84e0-5ef2a5338403</guid><dc:creator>kevinmp</dc:creator><description>have a look at dac function generator https://github.com/RobTillaart/FunctionGenerator</description></item><item><title>Forum: Forumhttps://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/f/forumTue, 11 Jun 2024 17:37:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d57e1e92-5caa-4f5a-ac2a-dc537ea7e24bForum<link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/the-missing-link-bbc-pcb?CommentId=37fc1ebd-c2f1-453a-be7c-25e7d5a6bb19</link><pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 06:42:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:37fc1ebd-c2f1-453a-be7c-25e7d5a6bb19</guid><dc:creator>patstyles</dc:creator><description>These boards look great! I could imaging assembling 3-4 of them. Did you ever go ahead and make or publish these?</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/the-missing-link-bbc-pcb?CommentId=363efd72-9665-4057-9929-d95e339eab5b</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:58:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:363efd72-9665-4057-9929-d95e339eab5b</guid><dc:creator>dougw</dc:creator><description>If you need the manufacturing files, just say the word.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/the-missing-link-bbc-pcb?CommentId=bdccbf68-77d3-4740-8645-df8ef2a4ca01</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:57:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:bdccbf68-77d3-4740-8645-df8ef2a4ca01</guid><dc:creator>dougw</dc:creator><description>No tea unless it is a BNC T... ☺ It is for bread boards not biscuit boards.... ☺</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/project14-diy-test-instrumentation-build-your-own-test-instrumentation-automated-cable-tester-ii?CommentId=f6c63406-5518-4ad0-9e40-333a590b39b8</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 21:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:f6c63406-5518-4ad0-9e40-333a590b39b8</guid><dc:creator>phoenixcomm</dc:creator><description>/members/jancumps 50 wires are not much work on a plane!! lucky me I did not have to build the dam things!! now I do</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/project14-diy-test-instrumentation-build-your-own-test-instrumentation-automated-cable-tester-ii?CommentId=e9daecb2-988b-4c62-ab52-26be712c03f4</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:e9daecb2-988b-4c62-ab52-26be712c03f4</guid><dc:creator>Jan Cumps</dc:creator><description>I still need 50 pins yes, but not 50 wires routing from a single source all around the vehicle. They can be branched out locally at the point of load</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/diy-3-d-printed-4-wire-kelvin-lcr-adapter-for-smd-components?CommentId=3c09cfad-e6bc-4135-beb1-7223d15dbdfe</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2022 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:3c09cfad-e6bc-4135-beb1-7223d15dbdfe</guid><dc:creator>Jrussell88</dc:creator><description>Nice project. Are you publishing the PCB files? I'd like to use them with the Kelvin Clamps which I will modify to make the leads pluggable.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/viewing-noise-with-a-measurement-amplifier?CommentId=ac68823f-c334-4cb6-bf33-993e5c81b77a</link><pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2022 17:37:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ac68823f-c334-4cb6-bf33-993e5c81b77a</guid><dc:creator>Andrew J</dc:creator><description>I see you have the job code on the bottom left of the panel. I've tried putting it on the back silkscreen layer so that it's hidden - I'll let you know if it works.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/viewing-noise-with-a-measurement-amplifier?CommentId=3002f106-e575-4314-9a85-b78b59b7bdac</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 14:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:3002f106-e575-4314-9a85-b78b59b7bdac</guid><dc:creator>shabaz</dc:creator><description>(That was a response for the message last month! It's displaying out-of-sequence : (</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/viewing-noise-with-a-measurement-amplifier?CommentId=e056d537-d53e-403a-bc99-b31e4ade833b</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 14:36:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:e056d537-d53e-403a-bc99-b31e4ade833b</guid><dc:creator>shabaz</dc:creator><description>Hi Andrew, Sorry I missed seeing this message before (notification failure - no e-mail alert, seems I need to turn on blog/comment notifications for self-created blogs too). I too did not realize that some order codes in that case series might come with no panels : ( Oh well, the PCB method is very suitable for that series!</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/viewing-noise-with-a-measurement-amplifier?CommentId=914f225a-73af-41b7-91cd-bf409664a8a1</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 09:55:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:914f225a-73af-41b7-91cd-bf409664a8a1</guid><dc:creator>Andrew J</dc:creator><description>Thanks. It will be interesting doing the Sub-D cutouts then! I’m rubbish at ‘arc’ tools and they have 5mm radius corners.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/viewing-noise-with-a-measurement-amplifier?CommentId=d3d68336-3cba-4318-98ff-406d99a23d0c</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 09:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:d3d68336-3cba-4318-98ff-406d99a23d0c</guid><dc:creator>shabaz</dc:creator><description>Hi Andrew, I did it with EAGLE CAD originally but the method you say will work for KiCAD. You're right, any non circular cutouts can be Edge.Cuts layer, choose a very thin thickness for it like say 0.01mm, and then whatever line is drawn, the cut will be inside any shape you create. Since the cutter is like a drill, the inside corners will have a curve so you'll want to draw a radius for those, it can be down to 0.5mm to suit most board factories, or just pick a bigger radius if it's not critical (then the PCB factory may use a bigger cutter if they wish). That is for FR4. For aluminium, the radius needs to be 0.8mm or larger. After that, all that's needed is the silkscreen as you say. Regarding radius, I think KiCAD 6 might have a capability for that, I can't recall, however on the last KiCAD board outline I did, I manually drew the radius using arcs. To be honest EAGLE is way better for shapes/slots, it's very clunky with KiCAD, for this particular use-case. Another option is to import in from another CAD package but that is more effort to learn another software tool so I wish KiCAD development in this area would improve instead.</description></item><item><title /><link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/viewing-noise-with-a-measurement-amplifier?CommentId=9e2005be-73a6-4f0c-8b19-4090495f8ae9</link><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 06:59:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:9e2005be-73a6-4f0c-8b19-4090495f8ae9</guid><dc:creator>Andrew J</dc:creator><description>Hi shabaz , I want to create some front/rear panels and I’m going to give this a go. Can you tell me some more details. I’m assuming I would just load Kicad’s PCBNEW and creste a 2-layer board outline with drill holes of the right size where I want them and add the silk screen? Anything else? For large, square holes do you think this would be part of the edge cut layer - I assume it would be like routing a slot for, say, an insulation gap. Your case looks very similar to mine, a Hammond enclosure Extruded Alu Case in which case the files might be useful as I’m not sure yet how to do the corner radiuses.</description></item><item><title>File: Environmental sensorshttps://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/m/managed-videos/145677Fri, 29 Apr 2022 04:59:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:c42d5a50-6006-43f5-92ae-f81ea36e52f3pjbenginerdparticle eseries with sensors and touch screen displayparticlesensorsnextione-seriesdisplaygrove<link>https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/b/blog/posts/viewing-noise-with-a-measurement-amplifier?CommentId=2c82fe38-62e6-41f6-9713-6f452fd6a258</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2022 10:52:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:2c82fe38-62e6-41f6-9713-6f452fd6a258</guid><dc:creator>Andrew J</dc:creator><description>Hi Shabaz, I’ve just bought a case and was totally surprised that it came without a front panel! Looking careful it does appear to be an ‘optional’ accessory - Seriously ??! Who would begin to think that would happen. Of course, the front panel is no longer available, or even from the supplier, and judging by the ones that are for other sizes, they are hideously expensive. So much for a great find Nonetheless, I think you are to the rescue with this idea. I could design one of my own now with the right cutouts and silkscreening. Was this just a case of creating a PCB with no components, no fill areas etc. Anything particular to look out for?</description></item><item><title>File: SSFGhttps://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/m/managed-videos/144724Wed, 15 Dec 2021 16:29:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:51d0d50c-3d8d-44b9-8c32-44000a79a2fdmigration.userSimple Stupid Function Generatorssfgproject14File: BBCPCB1https://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/m/managed-videos/144612Mon, 22 Nov 2021 01:16:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:b19a08f1-76b2-4028-8a3e-45b54a932c24element14 CommunityBreadboard Connector Printed Circuit Board to make breadboard interconnection clean, quick and easy. For full blog see: https://www.element14.com/community/community/project14/diytestinstrumentation/blog/2021/08/15/the-missing-linkFile: ICB Testing the EEPROMhttps://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/m/managed-videos/144611Mon, 22 Nov 2021 01:16:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:3a9ddbe4-67f7-449c-a52c-c8f3cb6302e1element14 CommunityTesting the EEPROM feature on the Instrument Control BoardFile: ICB Testing the RTCChttps://community.element14.com/challenges-projects/project14/diy-test-instrumentation/m/managed-videos/144610Mon, 22 Nov 2021 01:16:00 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:fb453c7e-2d59-4dfd-8fed-fc1f7a54a055element14 CommunityTesting the Real Time Clock Calendar on the Instrument Control Board