The new PCBs arrived and I soldered everything on, testing as I went. I used an Uno to bit-bang the Duemilanove bootloader to the Atmega328P. ICSP programmers are pretty cheap on eBay, so I ordered one for the future. The headers below the Atmega are for a USB FDTI adapter for uploading sketches. Everything worked great on the bench with no solenoids connected– you can see where this is going. Once I installed the board It would cycle through one or two steps of switching on/off solenoids and reset. I pulled it out and gave the board a good looking over and found a

The boards look great. Itead did a great job and I got them quite a bit faster than I expected. Unfortunately, I made an error. I managed to, rather than connect to a signal pin on the Atmega, connect the circuit to open the relay intended for the motor controller to a VCC pin. There are 2 extra digital pins free that I left solder points for. I’ll be able to cut a trace and solder on a jumper wire for the time being. I fixed the error in Fritzing and after looking it over for the next couple of

I played with some parts and finished a PCB design in Fritzing the last few days. I’m still waiting for some terminal connectors and relays I had to get on ebay. 10 copies of the board + shipping is going to run under $30. I opted for the cheap shipping so it’ll be a few weeks before they are manufactured and make it here from China. The Pro Mini I have running things at the moments is working fine, so I’m not in a rush and I tend to prefer keeping my money rather than getting something faster anyway.