Time on my hands…
Someone in the Arduino forums mentioned they were having troubles with their Single Sided Arduino board that they built on their own. It reminded me that I wanted to make one for myself. I needed an extra Arduino I could use for RS485 testing and a NON-USB one was preferred.
What a great afternoon project this is. I took the toner transfer PNG file and printed it out so I could use the laminator to do a toner transfer. Once it was etched I could really see the benefit of having a silkscreen on the topside… the trouble is, I’ve never done a board with imagerey on top. I first tried using a heat transfer… just like I did with the copper side but I had no luck. After 10 times through the laminator I still had no luck bonding the toner with the fiberglass side. (I sort of figured that would happen…)
I remembered that I had some 8 1/2 by 11 blank decal sheet on hand and thought maybe I could float the silk screen side decal onto the surface. OK… having never done this before I’m going to now admit I was a bit overconfident, this is really not easy.
Eventually I got it applied. I lost a few bits here and there, but the important parts didn’t tear off. I wanted to coat the decal with FUTURE floor wax but I could not locate the bottle I had for this purpose. It would be a good idea though.
Anyway… here are the results. Powered it up and loaded a sketch… Yippie.
Hello, friend. I have some problems with my Arduino Severino and I have accidentally found your link on arduino.cc forum. May you tell me what transistors do you use and why did you orientate them not like on the mounting diagram http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardSerialSingleSided3 (flat part of the transistors is up orientated, not down)? If you can, please answer me by e-mail. Thank you
Sure. The Board was designed for EU Style BC547 and BC557. While in the USA, I have more readily available 2N3904 and 2N3906. These devices are similar, but the pinout is different. To make them work with the designed board… I needed to flip them around, since Collector and Emitter pins are opposite on the USA style transistors.