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Searching for the next great hack... lukego@gmail.com
Sep 28, 2020 28 tweets 11 min read
1/ Here's the thread for me hand-soldering a lead-free Glasgow board. This will be🤞the first PCB that I fully assemble. Likely to have major problems due to my n00b soldering skills which should make it very interesting to test and troubleshoot 😀 Soldering the iCE40 FPGA took two tries. First chip floated off the pads and deposited its solder balls at random. Cleaned up with braid and Metcal blade tip. Second chip looks good to me. (Have to separately reball the first chip for reuse.)