{"id":235,"date":"2017-02-21T23:15:47","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T07:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/?p=235"},"modified":"2017-12-01T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T09:27:09","slug":"connector-cable-assembly-and-first-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/connector-cable-assembly-and-first-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Connector Cable Assembly and First Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought it would take an hour to make all the custom cables I need to connect the shield to the front panel, RJ45 jack, etc. Luckily I started with the RJ45 jack cable so I could test the boards. I needed to crimp a connector onto each wire and slide them into the female connector header. But the magic crimping tool ain’t so magic after all, and it takes a lot of finessing to get a clean crimp that will slide and snap into the connector properly.<\/p>\n

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Crimper, crimps, crimped.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The cable\u00a0carries the two TX\/RX signals for the Hand Controllers to two RJ45 jacks.<\/p>\n

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First cable made and connected, finally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rather than spend the rest of the night making the other cables I plugged the Mega and a Hand Controller together, powered them up and it worked! The Hand Controller sent a steady stream of accelerometer data to the Mega.<\/p>\n

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Ethernet cable carrying the data. Hooray!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am NOT looking forward to more cable making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought it would take an hour to make all the custom cables I need to connect the shield to the front panel, RJ45 jack, etc. Luckily I started with the RJ45 jack cable so I could test the boards. I needed to crimp a connector onto each wire and slide them into the female […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hand-controller","category-hardware","category-main-system"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20170223_230129.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8pDaO-3N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anirama.com\/1000leds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}