RoverWing Top Assembly

Parts included

  • RoverWing Top PCB with components soldered
  • Switch and switch cover
  • Male headers (21 mm), 12 pin and 16 pin
  • Standoffs: four 25-mm m3 plastic standoffs, four 6mm m3 standoffs, nuts and screws

Assembly steps

Warning

Before beginning the assembly process, disconnect the battery from the RoverWing. You should also disconnect the battery every time you are removing the RoverWing Top. Just turning the switch off is not enough!!

  1. Take the XT30-XT60 power cable which comes with RoverWing and cut the red wire about 5cm (2in) away from the XT30 connector. Strip about 5mm (slightly less than 1/4”) of wire on both sides of the cut.
  2. Tightly twist the stripped wire, insert in the holes in the switch terminals, and solder, as shown in the photo below. Please pay attention to details: which side of wire goes into each terminal and from which direction. Use diagonal cutters to cut away ends of the wire protruding from the terminal.
Soldering power wires to the switch

Soldering power wires to the switch

  1. Feed the wires through the opening in RoverWing board and insert the switch into the opening of the top as shown in the photo below. Pay attention to orientation of the switch .
Inserting switch in top board

Inserting the switch in the RoverWing top.

  1. Attach the m3 standoffs to the RoverWing board.
Attaching standoffs

Attaching standoffs

  1. Insert the long male headers into the outer rows of female headers in the center of the RoverWing board
  2. Plug the Feather board into RoverWing; reattach peripherals as necessary.
Board with feather and headers

RoverWing with Feather board and headers

  1. Plug the XT30 end of the power cable into XT30 adapter on the RoverWing board.

  2. Place the RoverWing Top on top of the Roverwing, making sure that the headers are properly aligned. You might need to slightly bend the wires coming out of the XT30 connector.

    Tighten the standoff nuts.

Board - fully assembled

Final assembly of the board and top

  1. Double-check that the top board is correctly plugged into the headers. Reconnect the battery. If you haven’t yet done so, remove the protective plastic sheet from the display, by pulling on red (or blue) tab.

To test the assembled board, run the TopCover example included with the RoverWing Library (make sure to edit it to define the pins connected to buttons – this depends on the Feather board you use).