/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/my-first-pcb-printed-circuit-board&quot;I want to connect my *thing* to the internet&quot;First question:- Why? For me, Lucy Rogers, it&#39;s mainly for fun. I want my toy dinosaur to nod anytime someone tweets #wakedino. But also sometimes for a purpose - I want to be abl...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/my-first-pcb-printed-circuit-boardTue, 28 Apr 2015 16:29:40 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:862a99ef-603f-4bcb-9c51-02dc8c43e223jstodberg1<p>Cool project, is the dino still moving if some tweets #wakedino. I am using the free version of Eagle but also Kicad daily build which can be painful sometimes. Looking forward to Altium CicuitMaker when open beta comes out on May 16th.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=20316&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/my-first-pcb-printed-circuit-boardWed, 22 Apr 2015 18:44:45 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:862a99ef-603f-4bcb-9c51-02dc8c43e223DAB1<p>Very good post Lucy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>You have a good gift for identifying problems, describing the issues and your path to a working solution.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Your board design is nice, clean, and simple.&nbsp; An excellent first project.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Great work,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=20316&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/my-first-pcb-printed-circuit-boardWed, 22 Apr 2015 18:36:10 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:862a99ef-603f-4bcb-9c51-02dc8c43e223dagonlan9311<p>great information, like Clem said well written, and great work. i look forward to see what else it can do. </p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=20316&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/my-first-pcb-printed-circuit-boardWed, 22 Apr 2015 18:05:20 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:862a99ef-603f-4bcb-9c51-02dc8c43e223Former Member1<p>I really loved this write-up. So grass-roots. I&#39;ve built 2 projects with my raspberry pi so far. Both are modified RC Cars; one uses wifi connected to my home internet. The other makes its own wifi hotspot. I had to figure things out like what mobile power to use, how to gut the RC cars to remove the circuitry and connect their motors to the pi. Also I purchased a motor control board from RyanTek which is purchaseable from adafruit.com. That helped me prototype the motor control software I wrote for the cars. Other things I learned were how to configure the pi upon startup to play an enginre startup noise which required installing the sound drivers---I had to gut an off-the-shelf speaker for that. Not to mention the whole world of soldering and glue-gun usage to get everything to fit in the cars; my Dremmel also came in handy to make modifications to the cars&#39; plastic bodies to make things fit. I then drew an architecture diagram and wrote a native Android app to control the cars, and also wrote an HTML5 app to control it as well. Then once I enabled the IP/Ports through my router, I&#39;m able to control the in-home wifi RC car over the internet anywhere I am. If you&#39;re interested I can send you the link to play around with it.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=20316&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/my-first-pcb-printed-circuit-boardSat, 04 Apr 2015 14:51:39 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:862a99ef-603f-4bcb-9c51-02dc8c43e223clem571<p>Good work and well written</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=20316&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">