Rack Mounted Raspberry PI 5 2024
Auto Antenna switched
Hardened GPS NTP and 10 MHZ Nanosecond Time Source.
1 Hz an 10 MHz outputs
Accurate to -+0.000 000 001 second,
compared to averaged GPS time.
Designed by Mike Cutts for B2C Labs, Humber Polytechnic
THE ULTIMATE BREAD BOARD
Final project for Humber Polytechnic
Electronics Engineering Technology
Spring 2024
The transparent Plexiglass base was laser cut.
Testing Function generator. Sine wave output. Bottom of main board view
The case was from an old electronics kit from the 1970's. The system runs on a laptop adapter and contains 5 buck and boost regulators.
They supply -+ 15 volts for testing OP Amp circuits, +12 Volt, +5 volts for the computers and displays, and overload protected +5 Volts and +3.3 Volts.
I had to add an expansion board (above, bottom left) because some of the 5 volt chips were not 3.3 volt input tolerant.
Touch Screen Arduino LCD board shield adapter (Left) and MEGA 2560 (Right). Also showing the level shifting components 74LS08 and resistors (Left)
Main CPU Board showing voltage shifting mods (Left) and Raspberry Pico
Main Power Supply and output board showing the 12 Volt Regulator (Top Left) , the -+15 Volt booster (Top Center),
the two 5 Volt regulators and the 3.3 Volt regulator (Top Right) The board was still missing the BNC driver transistor)
Creating touch screen buttons for the Arduino and showing serial data flow on the CPU board. 500 ns makes the data pulse width 100 ns (10 MHz bitrate)