The new mbedGC is in the house! Issues we had on the original were corrected and other improvements have been made to the newer version. Compare the new version on the right with the original on the left and you’ll see it’s now 35% smaller.
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Finally! After 8 months of working on the video game console it’s “complete” (at least for the senior design presentation). Weeks ago the EagleCAD drawing of the game console was sent to a fabricator and once we received it the device was assembled. We notice there were a few issues with the board. Certain componets were connected incorrectly, but since it was our first PCB board these types of errors were expected and with a few greenwires the issues were fixed.
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After toiling with the PCB design on Eagle CAD for weeks, we just received it from our PCB fabricator! This week is spring break, instead of going to the beautiful beaches of Miami we plan on finishing a majority of the project. The project was to be demonstrated April 22nd but since that day is Good Friday the presentation was moved up a week to April 15th. This added pressure makes us want to finish the project sooner.

A big shout out to Daniel Urquijo and Ander Sahonero! Danny went through the tedious task of designing the PCB board. Ander helped whenever Danny had issues with EagleCAD.

The mbed game console is due in 2 months and we just finished designing the PCB! Teammate Daniel Urquijo spent hours getting it just right. Great job Danny! Soon we’ll be sending it to get fabricated. We expect to have this board in our hands by March 1st. This gives us a month and a half to get all the kinks out with the code.