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A project log for Not Just Another Coffee Table

Custom coffee table with a DCC train track, automation, LEDs and a web interface

jack-flynnJack Flynn 06/21/2019 at 16:040 Comments

The 7Ps - Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance

I think about that phrase a lot when I'm putting together circuits. Sometimes it works, sometimes I get carried away with the fun of building. However, (un)fortunately, I'm not onsite with the table so the best I can do is plan ahead and with that in mind I put together the rats nest below as attempt to plan out all of the inter-connectivity that we'll have on the table. 

It was modelled in Fritzing *GASP!*. I know, but despite fritzings uselessness for pcbs and schematics, it does print a pretty picture and it had 90% of the device images that matched what we're actually doing on the table. 

Hopefully design and reality can meet somewhere in the middle;

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