I am holding one of the unpopulated PCBs that arrived today. The completed hardware set is in the background on the mat. SunStone and Screaming Circuits did a fantastic job! There were 3 parts that I mis-specified footprints for (wrong size or pitch). All three mistakes are correctable. Two of the three will be corrected when my resistors arrive from Digikey on Thurs/Fri. One of my mistakes was the primary shunt resistor that sits between the battery and everything else. So without that resistor placed, I can't actually power it up unless I use USB (which I don't want to do just yet).
Until Friday, I will be continuing to fix problems with my build script. All of the source files and include path problems were corrected over the weekend, and I'm now fighting with the linker. But everything I will be depending on for initial testing compiles. Once I finish this task, I will be updating github with something that actually builds.
Here is a macro of the main wrist PCB, the distal and intermediate phalanx PCBs can be seen, left-to-right. The distal phalanx PCBs are the ones with the ultraviolet LEDs. I'm going to have to do some testing with the super cap. I need to know how long it will sustain the time with no other power source. I have a much shorter version on-order from Digikey. That profile needs to fall further.
More pictures and some collected discussion about the PCB can be found here:
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