schematic for building your own boards

[mattpatt]

Does anyone have a schematic for a simple control board that they would be willing to share?

Thanks,
Matt

[bowgod02]

This one is for a fast hack S40 I did. But if you eliminate the opto on the left it would be good for a 3 wire hack cam. If you have a 4 wire hack cam you need that second opto.

[mattpatt]

Thanks for posting. Is that a header in the bottom left also what optos did you use? Where would I connect the 4th wire for a 4 wire hack?

Thanks,
Matt

[bowgod02]

Yes, that is a programming header in the lower left. The optos that I use are these..

http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Fai ... bZY2mDaY1s

If you are doing a 4 wire hack that uses power/power common and shutter/shutter common then you can probabily just use the one opto in the upper right of the picture. But instead of tying pin5 to pin7 you would connect your shutter common to pin5


If you are doing a fast hack with an s40 or s600, then you need another opto. You can get away with just buying a 1 channel opto for the fast hack wire instead of using the 2 channel likeI did there. Thats just what I had on hand when I built the board.

[bowgod02]

The board that I built using the schematic

[mattpatt]

Sorry for all the questions. Is that PIR a module that you bought from somewhere?

[bowgod02]

Yes it is. There are a few different ones that I have used. That one there is a radio shack pir board. You see on the drawing there is an "input from pir" there. Also on the pir I marked it - , + , and out. The out is what goes to the input on picaxe.

[mattpatt]

Thanks for all the info. Now that I have a rudamentary understanding of PICAXE I want to tackle making a homebrew control board. Would be nice to be able to build everything because I'm too cheap and impatient to wait for things to come in the mail! LOL