Devblog 10

I finally finished assembling the dryer!
The assembly could have gone a bit smoother, but I had run into some issues (that are now fixed) while putting everything together :

• When designing the PCB, I somehow forgot to fill the zone connecting the heater to the trace delivering power. I had to manually fix it on the PCB, and update the files to contain the changes
• The screws holding the PCB were almost impossible to put into place and screw down. I made holes in the bottom of the enclosure to make allow easier acces with a screwdriver
• I run out of solder just before finishing, and needed to wait for a few days to get more. Also turns out soldering is so much easier when the solder you use is not ~40 years old…
• Just as I was writing this devblog, I noticed that the heater was turning itself on as soon as I plugged the power in… Debuging this took incrediably long, as I thought I had a short somewhere, since my 12v psu was now only delivering 5.3v. Turns out my 5A PSU cannot even output 4A constantly because it overheats itself. I fixed the heater turning on by itself by adding one line of code. All of this took like 3 hours of debuging that I did not record as I thought that the issue would be simple to fix

Next changes:

After assembling everything, I found a few bugs I need to fix. After that, I will finally move on to making the github page

Also sorry that this devblog got really long, thanks for reading it!