{"id":496,"date":"2014-11-19T02:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/?p=496"},"modified":"2014-11-19T02:32:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T02:32:47","slug":"11152014-teb-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/2014\/11\/19\/11152014-teb-update\/","title":{"rendered":"11\/15\/2014 TEB Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-476\" class=\"post-476 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-assignments category-news\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">\n<ul style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong>What did you do this week?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">I received all my components from Sparkfun and Digikey, which\u00a0can be seen below. You may be wondering whats in the syringes. One is thermal paste while the other is solder paste.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/Comp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-498\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/Comp-300x229.png\" alt=\"Comp\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/Comp-300x229.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/Comp.png 871w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">Here are all the SMD components in their electrostatic discharge bags (too small to be photographed individually)<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/ESD-components.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-499\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/ESD-components-300x265.png\" alt=\"ESD components\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/ESD-components-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/ESD-components.png 728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">I also soldered headers onto the microcontroller.<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">I wrote the program for device as well, which can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1zkp1PSa1aJUv_zGe1wzOr3v2FXHiaH3HzkIDIBM9PsA\/edit?usp=sharing\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong>Describe the problems you encountered<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">One challenge I ran into when soldering the headers \u00a0to the microcontroller board was ensuring that the headers were aligned perfectly perpendicular to the board. \u00a0This was very important because if they were not perpendicular, it may not fit in the socket on the custom PCB. \u00a0I solved this problem \u00a0by just soldering one pin to the PCB and then I could adjust it as needed by just applying heat to that one connection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-497\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/1-300x202.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/1-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/files\/2014\/11\/1.png 740w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong>Describe the successes you had<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One success I had was completing the program that the Thermoelectric Bracelet will run. \u00a0Professor Ponto verified that there weren&#8217;t any blatant errors so I consider that a success. Of course, there will most likely some small debugging errors that I will have to deal with, but the foundation is there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<ul style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong>Are you on schedule?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am actually currently ahead of schedule because I initially overestimated the time it would take to ship my board. I received an email saying that three PCBs should be here on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<ul style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: inherit;font-style: inherit\"><strong>What do you plan to do next week?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">Next week, I plan to solder the surface mount components to the board and perform a variety of different tests to ensure it is functioning as designed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What did you do this week?\u00a0 I received all my components from Sparkfun and Digikey, which\u00a0can be seen below. You may be wondering whats in the syringes. One is thermal paste while the other is solder paste. \u00a0\u00a0 Here are all the SMD components in their electrostatic discharge bags (too small to be photographed individually) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/2014\/11\/19\/11152014-teb-update\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">11\/15\/2014 TEB Update<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.discovery.wisc.edu\/wearable14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}