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==Third stage: PCB Layout==
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Once I was happy with the results of the simulation I moved on to building a prototype. Since I was confident at that point that the results would work, instead of building the circuit on a protoboard I went straigth into a prototyping PCB and from there I wanted to use it directly inside the enclosure I had already built so it had to be as compact as possible. Although Proteus has a built-in PCB layout program called Ares I thought that fritzing was more user friendly so I started playing with it, trying to squeeze every single pin and cutting the necessary tracks to make it small.
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==Final stage: Soldering and testing==
Once I had all the components layed out in Fritzing I moved onto building the board and soldering them. Unfortunately, some of the components at hand didn't have the exact same model so after a little tweaking I managed to get a functioning board and I was able to test the results. One caveat was the potentiometer used to set the level of light which ended up being a multiturn version instead of the one depicted.
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