{"id":75,"date":"2012-01-04T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2012-03-01T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T10:55:41","slug":"alpha-ufo-pcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Alpha UFO PCB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things are looking up! The fab house had no problem making the donut shaped PCB and I&#8217;ve just received the first batch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7885.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-76\" title=\"UFO PCBs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7885.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7885-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7885-447x300.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what&#8217;s more, they actually fit in the saucer!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7886.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" title=\"PCB in saucer\" src=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7886.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7886.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7886-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/DSC_7886-447x300.jpg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The next job is to build one up and make sure it still fits with all the components added &#8211; that&#8217;s still a gamble. I&#8217;ve gone for surface mount resistors to save space, but after checking and checking, the one thing I didn&#8217;t notice until <em>just<\/em> after I sent the design off is that I&#8217;ve used the smaller 0805 package rather than the intended 1206 package which means they will be even more fiddly to hand solder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are looking up! The fab house had no problem making the donut shaped PCB and I&#8217;ve just received the first batch. And what&#8217;s more, they actually fit in the saucer! The next job is to build one up and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/?p=75\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphaufo","category-electronics","category-lighting","category-modelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antsnest.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}