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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by jmrm on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:54AM (#27844724)
Making your own hardware only for tinkering it's pretty painful. I think it's better to make a functional prototype in a board like that, and then making your own board of you need to.
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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by deregulateMed on Thursday July 15, 2021 @09:57AM (#27844766)
I was more saying that you buy the components and put the pieces together according to the datasheet.
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Re:The Adafruit Feather and FeatherWing System by OnACoffeeBreak on Thursday July 15, 2021 @10:57AM (#27845511)
Selecting components according to data sheets, capturing the schematic, designing the PCB, designing mechanical components/enclosures, ordering components, ordering bare PCBs, assembling PCBs, bringing up the PCB takes time and is not foolproof. If you're looking to prototype or to make something in small quantities for your own use, it is much faster and less error prone to order something like this.
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