DIY 10" sunlight readable plotter

[mmcintosh]

Really amazing work hats off! What else are you considering adding? Something like the Moitessier HAT with AIS/GPS ...... ? Looking forward to following your work.

Hi mmcintosh,

i have made two expansion pcbs to be connected to the 30pin connector.

One pcb with a Antenova GPS, MPU9250 IMU and LPS25 barometric sensor
and a second pcb with NMEA 2000 and 0183.

Both pcbs have a 0.1" 4pin header for I2C interface while the nmea pcb
have an extra header for 1-wire.

I have ordered 10 of the LCD panels last week and today I will order the pcbs.
Most of the LCDs are already taken by friends. Currently I don´t know if we
have leftovers.

For the pcbs I can definitely say that we will have much more than needed.
Because the assembly will be in the Maker-Space near Munich. They have
a pick and place machine and a vapour phase soldering machine.

It is not the best machine but it works well for all the resistors and caps:
https://www.maker-space.de/article/2142....tomat.html

For this I need to buy all the small components on reels. It makes no sense
to setup the machine some hours to populate 10 pcbs only.

Cheers,
Chris

Still you have gotten so far so fast pretty amazing. If you do end up with any extras I would gladly have one. My local maker space and there are a few https://www.openworksbmore.com/ I use because they have Juki sewing machines and I am working on new canvas presently. To get all of this in place so quickly is well very impressive. If in the end you can do an open source how that would be great too never know how it can move forward.

Cheers