Crimpin’ ain’t easy
Since I received my FCI “Clincher” parts from Element14 today, I headed down to the Singapore Hackerspace after work to commune with my fellow nerds and do some more work on the my Burning Man project prototype. After a bit of experimentation I found that the nose of some linesman’s pliers was the best thing to crimp down the Clinchers’ contacts with, and if I tried to bite the crimp down further than the exposed copper, it shorted the red and blue lines, so I could only get green, white and various shades of purple. Unfortunately I buggered up at least one end of all of the five strips while working this out, but this is why we make prototypes.
Next job is to wire some proper cables and maybe solder up a little board with the “power” electronics on it, rather than the gimcrack arrangement of test leads and protoboard I’m using now. The help I’ve receieved from the Electronics and Robotics Stack Exchange site has been invaluable in getting me this far in my journey.
