{"id":602,"date":"2008-01-12T22:19:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T02:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=602"},"modified":"2019-09-25T17:35:35","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T23:35:35","slug":"installing-the-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Installing the Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Electronics<\/a>

Electronics installed<\/p><\/div>\n

Next up was getting all the internal circuit boards aligned with the graphic windows and then glued down. I found the best way to do this was to align as many windows as I could, and then apply a few dabs of low-temperature hot glue to hold the boards in place. I then flipped the tricorder over and made minor adjustments to ensure the LEDs were lined up as best as they could be. Once I was happy with their placement, I applied some additional glue to secure everything in place. I also took this opportunity to glue down the magnetic reed switch. I did this by closing the lower door and placing the reed in a place that would shut the electronics off. Once I found a good spot, I went ahead and glued down the switch. As you can see, the interior is pretty tight.<\/p>\n

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\"Sealing<\/a>

Sealing up the back<\/p><\/div>\n

My next challenge was getting the battery and battery holder installed. After trying several different ways of situating the battery holder, it became apparent that there was no way I was going to get the battery holder and battery in the cavity and get the back door to sit flush. I ended up removing two of the terminals from the battery holder and soldering the wires directly to them. I then held the applicable terminal against the appropriate battery terminal, and secured them in place with some simple masking tape. It wasn’t pretty, but it got the job done. Carefully, I situated the battery in the back cavity and then attached the back door, which is held in place by two screws. All I have left is some detailing on the upper portion, but I’ll save that for next time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next up was getting all the internal circuit boards aligned with the graphic windows and then glued down. I found the best way to do this was to align as many windows as I could, and then apply a few dabs of low-temperature hot glue to hold the boards in place. I then flipped the tricorder over and made minor adjustments to ensure the LEDs were lined up as best as they could be. Once I was happy with their placement, I applied some additional glue to secure everything in place. I also took this opportunity to glue down the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mark-vi-tricorder","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/markvikit49.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p930oe-9I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2261,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions\/2261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}