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Step 7Make it stronger by attaching the boards to something
Add acrylic pieces with drilled holes, and nylon spacers to make a sturdy assembly. You don't want the wires getting tugged on. Leave access for the USB/power plugs, reset buttons and getting the SD card and antenna out.
When attaching the TelosB to the acrylic, watch out not to short out any parts on the board with the metal screw or nut! There's a resistor that is very close by a hole near the USB port on the TelosB, and if contacted by the screw, it will heat up. A 0-80 screw we used had a small enough top to not do this, but the cap styles vary so watch out.
Another example with the same 1/8 inch acrylic is shown below (red Sparkfun Logomatic board connected to a different TelosB.) The Logomatic's processor and SD card holder are on the same level, so its construction was simpler than the Mega+shield+TelosB.
When attaching the TelosB to the acrylic, watch out not to short out any parts on the board with the metal screw or nut! There's a resistor that is very close by a hole near the USB port on the TelosB, and if contacted by the screw, it will heat up. A 0-80 screw we used had a small enough top to not do this, but the cap styles vary so watch out.
Another example with the same 1/8 inch acrylic is shown below (red Sparkfun Logomatic board connected to a different TelosB.) The Logomatic's processor and SD card holder are on the same level, so its construction was simpler than the Mega+shield+TelosB.
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