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• First SMT soldering

  Michael Best • 10/03/2018 at 07:53 • 0 comments

  First SMT soldering ever, the board was a mess going in, but it came out with flying colors.  This was a test of the 1.1mm solder pads for the 5050 leds.

  
  

• LED test boards arrived

  Michael Best • 10/01/2018 at 17:49 • 0 comments

  LED pad size testing boards have arrived from OSHPark, time to try some reflow soldering

• Solder Pad Test board

  Michael Best • 09/13/2018 at 06:04 • 0 comments

  Testing if I can put the 5050 LEDs quite close together by using a reduced solder pad size.

  Finally got my first board designed and uploaded to OSH Park

  https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/E9llSQ2v
  

• LED placement via scripting and modified footprints

  Michael Best • 09/09/2018 at 18:10 • 0 comments

  Finally got mmccoo's KiCad plugins working properly (partially need a particular environment, partially mistakes on my part).

  I need to send out some small prototype boards, I need to see if I can make smaller footprints for the LEDs, the default solder pads are huge, and I wonder if I can get away with smaller ones.

• LEDs arrive

  Michael Best • 08/29/2018 at 22:19 • 0 comments

  Received the 2000 TX1818A LEDs today, crossed fingers that they will be able to talk a standard protocol.

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