Arduino Nano PI Main Discussion

[6666]

Fingers crossed. I soldered up a 3rd one after work today and it worked a treat.

Got to wait a few weeks for mailing from USA, but fingers x'd.

[6666]

You may not need it. You can check how many pins a DipTrace design requires by selecting "File> Schematic Information" in the schematic package.
The Pro Q design uses 258 pins out of the maximum of 300.

I was wondering how to do that, thanks.

[Qiaozhi]

Thanks for the link, I had considered requesting this before but I think that I shall follow through now.

You may not need it. You can check how many pins a DipTrace design requires by selecting "File> Schematic Information" in the schematic package.
The Pro Q design uses 258 pins out of the maximum of 300.

[surfdetector]

Seeing that these nano's worked for you I have ordered some, hope they work for what they cost to purchase them from Australia.

Fingers crossed. I soldered up a 3rd one after work today and it worked a treat.

[surfdetector]

I was able to find the link to the 500 pin free dip trace.

Took me bit to figure what I had searched before as it was a while ago.

https://diptrace.com/buy/non-profit/

I had to email them and ask for a code but it was pretty quick as they got back to me the next day.

Best

Thanks for the link, I had considered requesting this before but I think that I shall follow through now.

[godigit1]

I was able to find the link to the 500 pin free dip trace.

Took me bit to figure what I had searched before as it was a while ago.

https://diptrace.com/buy/non-profit/

I had to email them and ask for a code but it was pretty quick as they got back to me the next day.

Best

[6666]

The non recognition of the clone board is interesting. I was fortunate enough to have mine recognized as a Nano, at least one out of four that I purchased. I shall solder up the other 3 and try them.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Seeing that these nano's worked for you I have ordered some, hope they work for what they cost to purchase them from Australia.

[6666]

Hi 6666 thanks for doing the pdf on the pro Q. In the past I've had to take pictures of the board and post them
now that you guys have done it I can figure it out by your posts and you guys wont have to look at bad pictures of my boards anymore
Cheers

All good GD
the trick with the pdf is to use the scale and print scale and drag to get the sch inside the square
you can also save the sch or pcb as a bitmap or jpg, on a win 10 machine
File
preview
adjust scale and print scale
click the + to drag the sch or pcb into square with mouse, then alter the scale and print scale to suit
save
save as bitmap or jpg
change to 300 DPI to get a good quality picture when zooming
name file
save

[godigit1]

Got up early to do write up, Its seems you got it to work, there are a couple of ways to resize etc to make PDF, back to bed

Hi 6666 thanks for doing the pdf on the pro Q. In the past I've had to take pictures of the board and post them
now that you guys have done it I can figure it out by your posts and you guys wont have to look at bad pictures of my boards anymore
Cheers

[Qiaozhi]

What sample ranges?

It's all described in the book, but if you're referring to the main sample delay, you can actually figure out the answer to your question by looking at the Arduino software. With the current version, the delay can be adjusted from 10us to 72.5us. Obviously you can modify the code to do whatever you want.

[6666]

Obviously I don't have "Microsoft Print to PDF" as an option in Linux, so you've made me go and use Windows 10.
Here's the PDF for the Arduino Nano PI Detector attached.
I'll also put this file in post #1.

Got up early to do write up, Its seems you got it to work, there are a couple of ways to resize etc to make PDF, back to bed

[Lam-part]

What sample ranges?

[Winston2021]

I only recently ordered and received your Voodoo Project book which will be N/A for now because I just ordered your book for this project and really like the programmability concept and the fact that you're using a cheap Arduino board. I've always wondered why so many microcontroller-based project creators don't do the same, but it seems to be catching on. It simplifies everything including the PCB design and reduces or eliminates the need to do surface mount component soldering.

[Qiaozhi]

In Windows 10:
File
Preview
Select X icon
Drag schematic onto sheet
Resize print scale to ensure schematic is captured in print area
Select Print
Select Microsoft print to PDF

Obviously I don't have "Microsoft Print to PDF" as an option in Linux, so you've made me go and use Windows 10.
Here's the PDF for the Arduino Nano PI Detector attached.
I'll also put this file in post #1.

[surfdetector]

Since you've obviously discovered a means of generating a PDF, I decided to give it another go. However, the print option does not allow me to print to a file. In the end I selected File > Preview and saved the schematic as a jpg image, and then viewed the image in a viewer and saved it as PDF. Unfortunately the result is not a clear as the one you created.

So... how did you do it?

In Windows 10:
File
Preview
Select X icon
Drag schematic onto sheet
Resize print scale to ensure schematic is captured in print area
Select Print
Select Microsoft print to PDF