CORTEX BRAIN BREADBOARD IN A TRAY PART 51
EACH TRAY HOLDS A BRAIN CORTEX
Take a plastic veggi and rice food tray and recycle it for constructing solderless breadboard brains. The advantage is it holds all the tiny parts and the breadboard, and assembly can take place inside the tray without misplacing and losing any parts. Additionally, the trays holds all the parts collected for assembly, so access to assembly parts is swift. An assembly line could distribute completed parts trays. The photo shows a brain cortex being assembled inside the tray. The jar at left is waiting for the electric brain board.
The tray is ideal for assembly of multiple brain boards. Note the tray holds a double wide breadboard which can hold two Parallax Propeller chips or 16 computers. Also a chip for EEPROM memory can be included with each board. At right is a solar panel. Assembly hints: move the board to the left side and deposit parts on the right side. Another tray can hold assembly tools like a wire strippers, wire cutters, screwdrivers, and meter.
Index to the Brain Cortex
http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/11/brain-cortex-index-part-16.html
01-03-2011, 01:37 PM Code 5-96 BOARDS ON BOARDS
This is the board attachment phase
Boards on boards simply refer to the mounting of secondary boards on the PPPBs. This is a small solderless breadboard (SBB) for wiring the components for data transfer (various BUS), data lights, power rail, power connection, and any additional circuits. It's also useful for rapidly changing and morphing the wiring and to run various test circuits. The board is extremely small and is very minimal in its propagation of EMI/ RFI and can be situated close to the Propeller chips' pin array - another useful minimization. This may or may not allow overclocking, future tests will determine the viability of overclocking. Currently the boards handle 80MHz and 20MIPs per cog.
Although there are 20 PPPBs, only 19 will receive the SBB. This is because the PPPB in the Brain Stem is a hybrid which must interface to a BASIC Stamp and already has a tiny SBB made up of 7 total pin connector arrays. It may take some time to attach all SBBs. They are attached directly beneath the PPPBs label "PropClip" and "Keyboard." Note the hybrid PPPB already has the expansion kit installed for attaching keyboard, VGA, and mouse, so in the remaining boards this position is available for adding SBB real estate.
SBBs are attached with large pieces of rolled plastic boxing tape. SBBs can be reposition, relocated, and removed at any time. The adherence may last for years, depending on environment and tape qualities.
