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The Printed Circuit BoardsThe photo above shows the main board and the Navigation Switch board near the end of construction. To get a snug fit, I filed the PCBs around any "obstructions" inside the enclosure. When finally assembled, the navigation switch fits into the top half of the case and will move about 1cm to the left from its position in this photo and fit snugly alongside the LCD display. Although the PCB layout provides for header pins (or sockets) for the wires to the 7-way navigation switch, as I didn't have anything small enough available, I just soldered the wires directly to the PCB. As I mentioned previously, there is potentially a high voltage at the flash (PC) connector so I used a short length of screened cable with a decent thickness outer sheath for the connection between the PC socket and the opto-isolator. The ATmega328 programming socket is designed to be used with an external RS232-to-TTL converter such as the one shown here.
Download Circuit Wizard PCB Layout.
This photo shows the boards being etched. The two small boards at extreme left and extreme right are for the power supply options. I wasn't sure at this stage which power supply option I'd be using so I etched both boards while I had the etching equipment out.
Note that some tracks on the main board are, of necessity, very close to the edge of the board and the thin border of copper around each board needs to be filed away once etching is complete and the boards have been separated.
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