Open-T12-Soldering-Station released

[clytle374]

Face plate definitely.  But it’s more than just firmware. You included jumpers to use differing sensors etc and have done a heap of PCB layout that is an art in itself.  Don’t under sell your efforts.

Looking forward to it. Well done

Cheers

Thanks, I actually like PCB layout.  I actually enjoyed the project.  But the best hardware is worthless without good code.  Sadly I only write bad code 
I got the first windows machined last night, and the knobs came today.  I found a guy that is building a whole pile of PCBs for kits over the next month and I've sent him unit #0 for torture testing. 

I forked and manually downgraded the KiCad project to 8.0 (8.0.3) here:

https://github.com/hevanaa/Open-T12-Soldering-Station

Note. Downgrading a kicad project isn't a supported operation, so results cannot be guaranteed. Works for me (TM). No warranty etc.

Thanks again.  I added a link to it in the issue about it being developed with a development version of kicad.  Also passed on the warning that it threw some errors in the conversion.  Let me know if it gets to a verified state and I'll make note of it. 

I'm not going through the process of verifying it myself, sounds like torture.  I know these things ended up too expensive.  I figure there will be a dozen variations on aliexpress before long.  Most likely with cheap opamps, resistors that drift, fake processors, ect.  If I recover most of what I put in it I'll be happy. I really doubt I'll make another run.  Sourcing the parts was a nightmare. 

[wasyoungonce]

ok tried edit of files...didn't work except schematic so downloaded ver 8.99 and forked files to my Github desktop ....all opened ok....looks great so far.   I'm a newbie on KiCad (too many years on Eagle) forced to now change.

Boy I have a whole lota learning to do.......sigh!

Many thanks ....ahh just saw Johan converted all to ver 8.0!  Well done

[clytle374]

ok tried edit of files...didn't work except schematic so downloaded ver 8.99 and forked files to my Github desktop ....all opened ok....looks great so far.   I'm a newbie on KiCad (too many years on Eagle) forced to now change.

Boy I have a whole lota learning to do.......sigh!

Many thanks ....ahh just saw Johan converted all to ver 8.0!  Well done

Luckily being hard core open source I learned both Kicad and Freecad back when it was a pretty ugly process.  People think i'm just cheap, but I have a $125 Kicad shirt, lol. It was the donation threshold to get the shirt.