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Welcome to BeeHive! Here we provide an Assembly guide and a User guide.

Tools

  • Soldering iron
  • Soldering station
  • Solder
  • Extractor fan
  • Flush cutters
  • Soldering wick (for desoldering)

Components

Resistors

Resistor colour band calculator
- 47 🟨🟪⬛️-Gold
- 220 🟥🟥⬛️⬛️-🟫
- 560 🟩🟦🟫-
- 1000 (1K) 🟫⬛️🟥-
- 4700 (4.7K) 🟨🟪⬛️🟫-
- 10000 (10K) 🟫⬛️⬛️🟥-

Capacitors

Connectors

  • 2-pin JST PH connector
  • 3-pin JST PH connector
  • 4-pin JST PH connector
  • Barrel jack connector

  • 20-pin female header

  • P1-14: 4-pin JST connectors, 14

  • P15-16: 2-pin JST connectors, 2
  • Barrel Jack: Barrel jack connector, 1
  • C1: Capacitors...?
  • C2:
  • D1:
  • L1:
  • V1:
  • Board footprint: 20 pin female header, 2

Soldering

The board

Before we begin, we need to familiarize ourselves with the board. Have a good look at the component IDs and where they go on the board. In general, we will start soldering loose parts to the board first, beginning with the lowest/shortest.

Tips and tricks

  1. JST connectors
    1. Orientation: Make sure they fit the footprint.
  2. Female headers

Orientation of components

Two of the capacitors, C1 and C2, have a white stripe

Notes

On the board, have either a separate colour or something to denote the ID of a component. E.g. a colour for when we solder, something separate from what we need when we use the board.

Do the ID letters have a meaning? Could we use a random letter so we could solder them in alphabetical order, e.g. A1, A2,... A14, B1, B2, C1, C2, D1, E1?

Capacitors, resistors, transistors, FET, inductors

We need to have up-to-date models on the repo.

Driver board & High power switch array

Resistor footprints are not the right size, too big for 1000ohm, too small for 47ohm.