using a 2.42" OLED display and Game Boy buttons with a diy board around the atmega32u4 work in progress
Arduboy MAX | Reworking two prototypes
2020-04-16 00:05:05
Not sure what has happened when I soldered the boards, but I never really got them to work properly. I just spend an hour on reworking and cleaning a board, but I've must have killed the chip doing that. Before it was accepting the bootloader, but now both boards are completely gone.
One spare board from the first batch is missing the chip and I'm considering to remove everything what's on there, cleaning all the pads and try everything with a low temp solder paste and new parts. It still bugs me that everything is running off of the battery voltage on the arduboy.
Or I'll just slap a known Atmega32u4 board on there and call it a day.
Arduboy MAX | Reworking two prototypes
2020-04-16 00:05:05
Not sure what has happened when I soldered the boards, but I never really got them to work properly. I just spend an hour on reworking and cleaning a board, but I've must have killed the chip doing that. Before it was accepting the bootloader, but now both boards are completely gone.
One spare board from the first batch is missing the chip and I'm considering to remove everything what's on there, cleaning all the pads and try everything with a low temp solder paste and new parts. It still bugs me that everything is running off of the battery voltage on the arduboy.
Or I'll just slap a known Atmega32u4 board on there and call it a day.
Arduboy MAX | for those who don't want to wait on smth that might never happen :p
They've contacted me via instagram - like oh so many pcb fab houses do these days - and offered a free run - couldn't say no! I've added test points to attach the RGB LED, not so keen on using it, but wanted to have the option. The display will be soldered via wires. There's no battery protection on it, only a charger. Extra pads for I2C. Additional test points for vcc and gnd. Buttons will be classic Game Boy pads.
They've contacted me via instagram - like oh so many pcb fab houses do these days - and offered a free run - couldn't say no! I've added test points to attach the RGB LED, not so keen on using it, but wanted to have the option. The display will be soldered via wires. There's no battery protection on it, only a charger. Extra pads for I2C. Additional test points for vcc and gnd. Buttons will be classic Game Boy pads.
