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A project log for AquaPic - Aquarium Controller

Reef tank controller used to monitor various parameters such as temp and pH, and also control equipment such as pump and lights.

skyler-brandtSkyler Brandt 08/04/2014 at 22:160 Comments

I finally have all the parts soldered on my Control board, and tested that.

 

My hole size for the speaker was too small so I had to drill them out. There was pretty much no pad left after that so that's why there's the two jumper wires on the back of the board. I also placed the RJ-12 jack a little too close the to headers for the chipKit so it gets a little wanked over to the side.

Also I need some standoffs to keep the LCD screen and the control board from touching.

Here is everything together. So many PCB colors. I loaded up the example sketch from Henning Karlsen UTFT library and nothing happened. Then I remember the backlight on the screen has a PWM input for dimming and I wasn't giving it anything. So I fixed that and bam images on the screen. Now I can start designing screens.

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