Saturday, June 15, 2013

Serial Port 'ThingAmaJig'

So to do some 'handy work' on some of these radios and clusters some people over at carmodders hacked together a solution on a breadboard. I figured it would be nice to clean it up a bit and make it more user friendly. I'm not going to post the details but I'll post pictures of the design and the finished product. I'm quite pleased how this turned out with the silkscreened logo on the back.

I went through a couple of rough drafts before I had a small design I was happy with. As to why I didn't fully extend the board under the serial port: I had some size constraints (I had to be under 'x' amount of square inches) so anything helped :) Aesthetically I would've preferred the PCB to extend the full length under the DB9 connector.


And here are the circuit boards as they came in from OshPark



Couple minutes of soldering and it's done
 
A whole bunch completed for all the guys over at Carmodder

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