Another build thread

[skov]

Some goodies in the post this morning

[CTWV50]

Originally Posted by skov

Some goodies in the post this morning

Did you make them or order them? Have you got a machine at work to solder the components on?

[skov]

Originally Posted by CTWV50

Did you make them or order them? Have you got a machine at work to solder the components on?

I got the boards from OSH Park. They took a while to arrive (from the US), but they look really good and were surprisingly cheap.

Machinary to solder the parts on? Nah, just a normal soldering iron and pair of tweezers

[CTWV50]

Originally Posted by skov

Machinary to solder the parts on? Nah, just a normal soldering iron and pair of tweezers

Wow! I'd be cross eyed doing that! I replace dc sockets on laptops as part of my job and have removed and replaced bios and 8 pin SIOC chips but no, I couldn't manage that! Hats off to you!

[skov]

Originally Posted by CTWV50

Wow! I'd be cross eyed doing that! I replace dc sockets on laptops as part of my job and have removed and replaced bios and 8 pin SIOC chips but no, I couldn't manage that! Hats off to you!

There's nothing much harder than an SO8 on that board to be fair.
The trick is to use plenty of flux and have some solder wick handy to fix any mistakes.
For the really fine pitched devices you just need to tack down the corners, then get some solder on the end of your iron and sort of brush it along the legs of the chip. The flux makes the solder flow to where it needs to go.
I suspect wasting my youth painting warhammer figures probably helps though

[skov]

My spare ECU with it's new brain



Now I just have the small task of writing the software to run it!

[Stot]

Very cool. Looks like the board was the easy bit, no small task left even to just emulate the OEM function let alone make it user editable!

Cheers
Stot

[skov]

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