ELECTRONICS
Electrical Subsystem of the ROV
What is a Computer PCB Board?
Chips and other electronic components are mounted on the circuits. Computers consist of one or more printed circuit boards, usually called cards or adapters
How to Solder?
Order of how the components were added:
Circuit on a PCB controller: each wire pin controls a different piece of the circuit board
Chips and other electronic components are mounted on the circuits. Computers consist of one or more printed circuit boards, usually called cards or adapters
How to Solder?
- Place the soldering iron in its stand and plug it in.
- Wait for the soldering iron to heat up.
- Moisten the sponge.
- Wipe the tip of the iron on the damp sponge.
- Melt a little solder on the tip of the iron.
- The tip of the soldering iron should be a shiny silver color.
Order of how the components were added:
- Cut the PVC pipe to the sizes we were going to need to complete our frame.
- Drilled holes in all of our PVC pipes and into all of our elbows/t-joints.
- Referenced pictures of the ROV we were trying to recreate.
- Soldered the connection wires for our controller
- Soldered the circuit board
- Put the controller together
- Used electrical tape to tape the film canisters
- Used to toilet bowl wax to make it waterproof
Circuit on a PCB controller: each wire pin controls a different piece of the circuit board
What I Learned
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During this entire Electronics section of physics, I learned overall that every electronic device that we have in the world and surrounds us have many things going on inside them to make them work. There are many wires and pieces such as a circuit board that all work together and contribute to making a device work. This is the insides of a laptop that I took apart in the beginning of the electronics unit.
Reflection
Learning about these electronic devices and about the way they are powered / what makes them work was very interesting to me. I liked the hands on parts but the actual knowledge was confusing to me because some things would get mixed up in my mind. I was really hard to be extremely precise for the soldering because of we messed up one piece, it could blow out the entire circuit board.