I created a ustream channel to monitor the bird while not at home and to show it to others.... unfortunate the bird is not eating yet... i put in there some bread and some corn flour but does not seem to be very attracted by it, if you have any ideas  please let me know because a life it's at stake here, and any soul matters.

I almost forgot, here is the ustream video :

Online video chat by Ustream

Also if you want to help, you can make donations here, every penny you give will be used for the bird, take it to a vet.... buying food, etc...

But first if you have any idea how to feed the bird please let me know ASAP !!!!

UPDATE!!!

Seems like the pidgin loves parrot food... so the problem with the feeding is solved, it may stand a chance!

Right now the box is opened on the balcony, in case it may have visitors or it decides to fly... either works for me, if the bird is gone my job here is done!

UPDATE 2
Looks like its parents did not abandon it, a big pidgin it's coming to feed it !!!, so it has some chances !

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Tools you will use (this is what i used)

• soldering gun or iron
• a laser printer
• old magazine
• some tape
• needles (around 10)
• permanent marker
• multimeter (or something to check for short circuits)
• a cutter
• drilling machine (or a motor) and 1mm drill, if you don't have a drilling machine find a way to attach the drill to the motor axis and drill some 1mm holes.

In this tutorial I used the schematics and the pcb design of the ROAR MPP brain module, but all the other images are from the ROAR HB power module, i hope that this is not confusing for you.  Unfortunate when i created the power module (the h bridge) i created the board directly without creating a schematic first... my mistake, so now I only have the board for that no schematic, the schematic is only on paper.

The steps you will need to complete until the competition of the pcb are.

1.  Install eagle if  you don't already have it.

2. Create you schematics using the circuit design mode in eagle, after that is completed you should have something like this :

3. still using eagle convert this schematic to board, the easiest way to do this is to click the "board" button, that is the 5th button in the top, next to print and cam buttons. Eagle will just put your components there, but now you can drag them around to place them however you want them on the board, I ended with something like this :

board design

After you have the board and the pcb design (routed) you have to print separately the 2 faces of the design. You can do this very easy, using the layers option of eagle, so you should export both sides and print them, you should have something like this :

ROAR HB power module front

ROAR HB power module bottom

WARNING : those images are just representative do not use them in any board, if you want the board for the ROAR HB power module go to the specific post.

4. Print those images on a pice of magazine, it has to be thin glossy paper, you can also process the images first in some program to make them black, so the maximum of toner will be used, also if your printer has some tonner saving settings disable them, before printing remember to mirror the back image. After you print them, cut the excess of paper aout leaving a margin of about 5mm.

Printed circuit board

5. Now cut a pice of the board to match the biggest of the 2 prints, also leave a margin of about 2 mm on each side, we leave all those margins to make sure that both of the prints will fit on the board after we align the holes.

bread board, getting the size

6. After you cut the board to the required size, clean it very well first with acetone and alcohol and then i used some special material used to cleat cooper pipes, this works perfectly and makes the board very clean and shiny, this is important because the toner will stick much better to the board.

the cleaned board

7. Now secure on of the prints (the one with the most lines on it) on the board using some tape

the print secured

8. Now with the iron on the highest setting press the paper on the board for a few seconds (around 30), just press it do not move it, after this interval you can move the iron on all directions to make sure that all the surface is covered very well and the paper is sticking to the board, pres and iron it until you see that the paper is starting to get a yellow, brown color, this means that is starting to get burned.

ironing the paper

ready paper

9. Put the board in war water, be very care full the board is extremely hot you can get burned very very easy because cooper is a very good head conducting material.

move the hot board

board is soaking

10. Let it soak for about 30 minutes, or as much is necessary to get all the paper soaked, you can also boil the water if you want to hurry up the process. After that try to see how easy the paper is coming of, you can remove the pices that are coming off easy

paper coming of

11. Repeat the process, soak->remove paper, until all the paper is off

all paper is removed

12. Now using something with a sharp end, remove all excess paper, make sure that there is no paper left where is no toner, make sure that there are no connections made between routes, because if you leave any will be harder to correct after this.

cleaning execess paper

13. Cover the other end of the board with some plastic tape (insulating tape used in electric installations is perfect, leave about 2-3 mm excess of tape on each side

back covered with tape

14. Enter the board in corrosive solution

board in solution

15. You can agitate the solution once in a while, and check regularly if the excess cooper has gone away.

checking if the board is ok

16 . Get the board out and clean it really well with water, lots of water, because the solution is highly corrosive and can damage your pipes, after that remove the tape from the back.

cleaning the pcb

removing the tape

17. Now, you have to check again to see if there are any mistakes from the original print, check if there is any cooper left where should not be, and clean it wit something, this may be harder but needs to be done :

cleaning excess cooper

18. We drill some holes on the board, this holes will be used to insert the components, but at this point we need them to align the 2 faces of the board. To make drilling easier we mark the point with something with a rounded tip, just give it 2 hits with a light hammer.

marking the holes

19. We align the second face based on the holes :

align faces

20. repeat steps 8 to 17 for the second face, and be care full not to miss one because you board can be compromised.

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