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Team Inspection: Sebastian Zehe  /

Sebastian has just started his thesis in computer science on wearable sensor networks at the Ambient Intelligence group at Bielefeld University. He is an enthusiastic tinkerer and also likes to skate from time to time. In the Solderin Skaters project, he is part of the hardware team and …

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Debugging the electronics  /

Hi and welcome to 2010.
Today we’d like to talk about the electronics once again. As you know we finally managed to reflow one completely new PCB and another one on which we recycled some components of the failed attempt. So in theory, we should have two working PCBs. But everybody …

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Milling Spacer-Pads  /

One of the first questions after finishing the PCBs was: “Where on the skateboard can we place them?” The initial idea was to place them next to the truck. But then we decided to fit our PCB between the deck and the truck.
The battery has to fit inside the truck. …

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