Ultiboard (continue)

       Back to the ultiboard lesson today. Today we learned more about the design of our circuit in the ultiboard.
      
       After we put the electrical component in all around of our board, we learned that it is not enough. We have to arrange our components. The autoroute function in the ultiboard allowed it to find the suitable way or route for the components to connect to each other. When the yellow line appeared, it show that the position of the component we put is not suitable and have to arrange it to other place.

      After all the route is complete, then it will show all green line, means the route is ok already. Then, we also had been taught to play around the position of the route and components, whether to decide it to be top of the board or bottom of the board. We also can lock the route up , so then the route will not being move when we move the components to other place of the board.

     Next, the properties of the routes that represent the wire that have to be connected can also being adjusted such as changing the width of the wire. But, if we do that, there will be a problem too. As the wire become thick, the wire designed on the board will overlap if two or more of the wire are close together and it need to be adjusted again.

    Besides that, we also learned pac and jumper in the design of our board. The hole for the component to be inserted which known as pac have to be large enough to being soldered. If not, the solder will mix to another pac that close to the previous one and whole of the circuit will be ruined.

    Furthermore, we also can design the name of our board on the board to make it nicer. The size, width and type of the word can be adjusted easily.

    Lastly, the board that had been completed have to be printed out. We had been taught to see the preview of our board in 2D before we print out the board. Here, we can list out the page that need to be print and seperate them in different papers.

    Before we were going back, we also watched the video about the match of the robots. It is so interesting that I almost wish to design my own robot now after watched the video.

   I wish I have the good luck and good memory  for the test tomorrow. Hopefully it will be not so difficult...