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Hi All,<br>
<br>
Could someone take some good high resolution photos of both sides of
the present build of Hermes for all of us builders to use. Abhi has
a <a
href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vgOrW9tLXZo/T_M1ca_mnWI/AAAAAAAAAGY/tC4mS4l2-d8/s1600/Hermes.jpg">1024x768
view of the top side</a>, but I'd like. something we can zoom in
on nicely.<br>
<br>
I am proceeding on to building the back side of my Hermes board
today. I have Gerber files from Abhi, and have made an svg file
from the silkscreen layer and mirrored it. It looks nice, but you
can't search it for a component, which would be really nice. If
anyone has tips for that, please pipe up. I am hoping some of you
are ahead of me on this, and have made some nice documentation of
the build process. If not, what I have will be available, if
someone directs me to the repository.<br>
<br>
We have made a stencil for the back side already, and if all goes
well, I'll let you know how it works by this afternoon. The gerbers
have to be fairly extensively modified to make a stencil for the
front side, and I have a friend working on that for me now. I plan
to send John Melton a couple of sets of stencils for Europe and if
someone here in the US wants to coordinate passing them around here,
I'm happy to make a few sets for North America. I also plan to make
the stencil files available so builders can have their own made
commercially.<br>
<br>
It would be nice to get a set of build instructions/videos up that
will make assembling the Hermes easier, maybe <a
href="http://wb5rvz.com/sdr/">kind of like WB5RVZ did</a> for the
softrock or <a
href="http://people.wallawalla.edu/%7ERob.Frohne/UDays/SoftrockBuildNotes.html">like
the one we made</a> for how to use a toaster oven to solder a
softrock and use a stencil with solder paste here. Videos <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FHvikd3BkY&feature=youtu.be">like
this one </a>are are also helpful.<br>
<br>
Tnx & 73,<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
KL7NA<br>
<br>
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Rob Frohne, PhD, PE
Professor
EF Cross School of Engineering
Walla Walla University
100 SW 4th Street
College Place, WA 99324
(509) 527-2075</pre>
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