AstroEQ MEGA Shield upgrade

[chemistorge]

Hi All, this is my first post on here. I have been in to astrophotography for a few years now and I am very much intro to DIY and not Buy if possible. This lead me to the excellent AstroEQ by Tom Carpenter (www.astroeq.co.uk). I made myself the Arduino Mega version which has worked great. The only issue was all the wires. To solve this I designed a custom shield. I had the 5 boards made by JCLPCB for £10 landed to UK (amazing). If anyone else could find this useful I have posed the gerber and kicad files, and pictures and videos of it working.  Note: I uses a DC-DC buck converter to power the arduino as in the past the onboard regulator has blown and taken out everything. 

Hope someone finds this useful.

AstroEQ Mega Shield.pdf Astroeq Mega Shield_kicad.zip Astroeq mega sheild_gerber.zip