Soldering the gyro

Finally, a way to solder the Analog Devices ADXRS610 gyro… The last time we attached a gyro, we overheated the board and the board delaminated. This time, we use a skillet and avoided that problem.

 

 

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Zeetah VI Mechanical and Electrical design

I missed discussing a couple of items in the last post: How are we going to attach the motor/axle brackets to the board and how do we handle the gap between the hub/gear and the bracket. Our original thought was to reduce mechanical complexity of the bracket, we wanted to support having axles that go between both brackets on the mouse.

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