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tl;dr complete version 1 build summary

There are a lot of posts to trawl through in this blog if you’ve not followed it from the beginning. Hopefully this summary makes everything a bit clearer…

The first thing I did was to have a look at other cat tracking products on the market.  I found that they all have a big flaw… battery life.  I wanted GPS level accuracy and a battery life measured in months.  Nothing on the market offered that, so it was down to me to design it!

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PCBs have arrived! Soldering and matching the antenna…

The PCBs have arrived from OSH Park!  As expected, they look good and the quality is excellent.  As an added bonus, they even fit in the case I designed them for.  Result!

Over the last couple of weeks I have also been ordering all the components from a combination of Farnell and tme.  Everything’s arrived and it’s all ready to solder into place.  I’ve also got the firmware into a state such that something should work too.

Now it’s time to get soldering!

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