Wednesday 8 April 2015

I've continued printing the parts for the Ciclop.  Have pretty much everything printed now.  Located what I think are all the electronic parts needed to make it work.  At this point I won't bother listing anything until I get the machine up and running.  At that point I'll document the working parts.

While I'm waiting for my parts to arrive, I decided to start looking seriously at the available wiring diagram.  I think I understand where each line is to go.  Found this really interesting site [ http://fritzing.org/ ].  They have some free open source software for putting circuits together.  A neat feature I found is that you can put together a circuit on a breadboard.

So, I translated the diagram I found to a breadboard.  I posted it on the ATLAS 3D Google+ site.  Hopefully someone there can tell me if I'm on track, whether I've got the circuit right or not.

Here's the diagram that I translated.








My original breadboard diagram I uploaded was wrong, so that's gone.  Included now are three diagrams, basically the same thing with slight differences.

This first diagram was provided to me by Bill Owens.  This diagram he created based on a Pi2 for someone who did not have any of the capacitors and was using 5V lasers.  I'm told that if you have the capacitors, you should use them.


This second diagram I created, based on the first Bill Owens sketch, with the capacitors included, as well as the variable resistors to bring the 5v supply down to 3.3v for the 3.3v lasers.


This third diagram is something that I've created that eliminates the variable resistors and instead, substitutes a new circuit to drop the 5v supply voltage down to 3.3v to feed the lasers.
 

Keep in mind that I have not tested any of the circuits yet, as I'm waiting for the last of the parts to arrive.  Once they all arrive, I'll give the circuits a try, and will post whether they work or not.

3 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing so far. I too am new to this side of electronics and inspired by the Ciclop/Pi mashup. I hope to see more updates soon.

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    1. And thanks for visiting my blog! It has been very exciting watching all these different versions of the Ciclop emerging. Getting very close to having the parts I need to put this together. Are you working on putting one together for yourself?

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  2. Hi Thomas, what is the current for the 12v and 5v supply? , Thanks for sharing

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