MAP2

It took a while, but I finally managed to assemble the first trial bunch of MAP2 boards. I took a piece of copper clad laminate, made roughly half inch wide tracks by cutting off a strip about a sixteenth of a inch between them, drilled holes, and assembled the boards on them using short threaded standoffs. The half inch wide tracks alternate between [+] and [-] , so I wired up all the positive and negative ones.

Here's a video of the 20 assembled boards, powered from a 5V DC source.

It's just a couple of parts, so assembling the first module took under 15 minutes. It works as planned. Now we got to see how a Soldering workshop goes. And after that, how a number of these modules react with each other in a large matrix.

I ordered out 20 nos. of MAP2 boards via PCBpower in Ahmedabad for INR1500/- (around $23), and got them today, 3 weeks later. Hopefully, we will receive the parts too at the Maker's Asylum today. We'll assemble a few, and then leave the rest for a "Learn to Solder" workshop during Genuino Day on April 2nd.