PCBs are here!

Precisely 2 weeks after order, boards are on my table. Quality, as always, very impressive.

Fun fact, 30 small boards cost less than 10 🙂

Stencil, solder paste, some sand and frying pan – and first PCB is ready!

After correcting some small issues

I noted, what I soldered the wrong microcontroller on! Hot air, a lot of flux, and it shining again.

Some checks:

Common mode choke (0805 size)

Placed some more parts, and FreeRTOS is running, LED is blinking, encoder is working and even PT6315 can turn on/off the LEDs.

Tried to get GPS working, but it somehow simply doesn’t want to work. For some seconds it was green, but then… I don’t know what to do.

I tried even to solder the antenna directly, corrected the battery charging diode (it was soldered in reverse polarity). It is cursed!

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