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Re:Megadesk by kevarh on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:32AM (#23677930)
I bought one of the kits and assembled it myself (although it looks like kits aren't currently for sale.) The only hiccup I had during assembly is the random board profile I found in the Arduino IDE had the chip layout reversed which took me a few minutes to figure out based on the source.
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Re:Megadesk by gcormier on Monday June 29, 2020 @12:37PM (#23679148)
Yeah there was an issue a while ago with the ATTiny library and they switched the pin definitions. Was indeed a frustrating time to figure that out initially when the library switched it and all of a sudden everything stopped working!
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Re:Megadesk by tyingq on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:57AM (#23678172)
The pin spacing on J2 looks like it would need a pretty steady hand to me. Though it appears only 3 of the pins matter.
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Re:Megadesk by kevarh on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:36PM (#23681610)
I have access to a SMD oven (just a toaster oven with a fancy controller.) Manually applied solder paste, placed the parts and they flowed just fine. Same process with a hot air gun should work but will be a little more finicky.
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Re:Megadesk by tyingq on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:54PM (#23681867)
I'll have to try that out. I suspect I'd still have trouble like accidentally shaking the components off center while putting them in the oven.
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