NanoDeck
Going to be assembling my Macropad! Soldering the PCB, adding hot swap sockets, backlights, and putting together the case!
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Timeline
Assembled the case, put in all the switches and keycaps, and potentiometers caps, and added the heat inserts and put in all the screws!
Had to adjust some bits of the acrylic sheet using a soldering iron to make the potentiometers fit.
Soldered the potentiometers!
Soldered the Seeed Xiao RP2040!!
Desoldered the SSD1306 LED again because I think it was shorted. I think GND and VCC are shorted. Will put the LED aside for now and solder up the rest of the board!
Soldered headers onto the LCD (and accidentally damaged it too, hope it works)
Soldered all of the MillMax sockets!!
Now the macropad has hot-swap capability!
Put 26 tiny MillMax sockets onto the PCB using tweezers and secured them with tape!!
And soldered 12 of them!!
Soldered a PCF8574A IO expander! One of the hardest components I have soldered yet because all the pins were so close together!
Cut off all the excess wire of the THT components using a scissor!
It was hard :peefest:
Soldered resistors and the rest of the diodes!
Irtaza
3 months ago
To pull up the SDA and SCL pins!
Lukas
3 months ago
for what are you using the resistors?
Made a cool diode direction and current tester to see if they were all connected in the right direction and working!
Irtaza
3 months ago
cskartikey
3 months ago
Soldered all the diodes (hopefully in the right direction!!)!
It took so long. I think something is wrong with my soldering iron. The edge of the soldering tip doesn't melt the solder, and only the middle part melts it :(
cskartikey
3 months ago
looks great!