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A project log for BeagleStamp

A pocketbeagle in stamp form, for direct SMT soldering to your board

dylan-brophyDylan Brophy 05/01/2023 at 20:240 Comments

The finished product (so far) looks about as nice as I had hoped!

Now, when I got the boards, I immediately noticed a serious problem.  Most of the pins are not plated.  See here:

I decided to assemble a board anyway though.  I can desolder the components later (The components used here are already desoldered from another board I made XD).  I can also correct for the lack of copper manually for now, just to test the boards to know I don't have any other design issues.

I tried to solder wires to these pins, but without metal on the sides, he wires easily pulled up the pads.  I'll have a board to test with soon though, so I'm going to wait for that, then I can see if I have any other design flaws.

I expect to make a board rev in the coming week or two.

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