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On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:24:17PM -0400, Timothy J. Weber wrote:
> Peter Todd wrote:
> > But it's such a crowded board, oh where oh well will I put all those
> > regulators?
> > 
> > Fortunately the LEDs actually have two parallelogram shaped pockets on
> > the backside in the middle of upper and lower boxes formed by the digit
> > segments...
> 
> Hee hee!  You made a board layout joke!

That's worse than Star Trek jokes isn't it?

> Best I've been able to do in that regard is to rotate a 9V battery by 
> something like 18 degrees in order to fit it in amongst some standoffs. 
>   Fit so tightly, I didn't need to do anything extra to hold it 
> stationary, even when you shake the case.  But that was mainly serendipity.

I once did that on a project too. I had to fit 64 circuit boards, each
controlling a stepper motor, onto a big 2ft by 2ft plate. I'll have to
admit I designed the motor driver boards first without thinking how I
was gonna fit 'em all in. (hey, I was working 12-16 hours days for a
month...)

Of course they didn't fit length wise until I tilted them ever so
slightly...

http://petertodd.org/art/8-2-automaton/imgs/pcb-assembly-full.jpg

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