Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Beta Kits Delivered

All the intial beta kits have been delivered save one, to Canda.
Still waiting on feedback from some of testers,
But initial feedback has been great.
Thanks for everyone that took the time to test this kit.

Version 1.3 of SMT Cylon corrects a lot of ills from the original 1.0 version.  PMI calls this Progressive Elaboration, where the output from the previous step feeds the next.

Version 1.3 adds generous spacing vertically to the LEDs, as many of the testers noted it was too easy to overlap traces and leds.  I also added dots to indicate pin 1 of the polarized devices.  For the LEDs that's the positive node, for the CPU that's pin 1.  The traces under the CPU were moved away from the pads, and the Positive nodes of the batter were connected.  While I'm using a battery holder that performs this function, it doesn't hurt to duplicate the function on the board.  

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