{"id":2714,"date":"2014-09-18T11:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T18:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=2714"},"modified":"2021-06-17T08:47:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:47:57","slug":"proximity-sensing-leds-part-2-on-a-pcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/proximity-sensing-leds-part-2-on-a-pcb\/","title":{"rendered":"Proximity-Sensing LEDs Part 2: On a PCB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/index.php\/proximity-sensing-leds-part-1-on-a-breadboard\/\">my previous blog post<\/a>, I designed the proximity-sensing LED\u00a0circuit to eventually move it on to a printed circuit board, or PCB. This was my first experience with PCB layout, and thankfully it was successful! The board I designed is in the picture below. We ordered 6 &#8220;prints&#8221; and soldered them in our MakerSpace. I also included extra vias (electrical connections between the layers of the board) so that we could connect multiple\u00a0boards together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/blog_photo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2721\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/blog_photo1.jpg\" alt=\"blog_photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/blog_photo1.jpg 2976w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/blog_photo1-600x240.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/blog_photo1-1024x410.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/blog_photo1-225x90.jpg 225w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/blog_photo1-800x320.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning PCB layout, I posted an Instructable on my design process. You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Basic-PCB-Design-in-EAGLE-Part-2-of-Proximity-Sens\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0I will also be teaching a PCB layout course in our MakerSpace next Thursday. I used CadSoft&#8217;s EAGLE software to do the layout, and CadSoft offers a freeware version of EAGLE so anyone can do this! A link to the\u00a0Instructable will be posted here very soon.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-2714 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='2714' data-nonce='579aded7b7' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-2714 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-2714 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='2714' data-nonce='579aded7b7' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-2714 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-2714 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I designed the proximity-sensing LED circuit to eventually move it on to a printed circuit board, or PCB. This was my first experience with PCB layout, and thankfully it was successful! The board I designed is in the picture below. We ordered 6 &#8220;prints&#8221; and soldered them in our MakerSpace. I also included extra vias (electrical connections between the layers of the board) so that we could connect multiple boards together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4327],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4467],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/blog_photo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4467,"user_id":16,"is_guest":0,"slug":"wwadkins","display_name":"William Wadkins","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f23af17e3f0aa5cdce4db10c96eb005614c30853a9579a999104e070cf86df4c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}