@RyanDiLorenzo-U04JGJN2B400I completed my first full PCB assembly using a PCB I made. The PCB I created it a re-creation of the stock one used for my 3D Printer that I added some new ports/connectors for, all without the original PCB files. I used both leaded solder and bismuth solder paste, this was my first time using solder paste and first time working with bismuth, I found bismuth's melting point to be excruciatingly low since the 4-layer PCB had so much thermal mass. Here are some photos I took along the way, lmk if anyone has questions.
@EvanGan0Day 55 of #100-days-in-public.
Today I had some free time and was able to get the video I took yesterday of the eclipse on a drone to slack. A bit of context if you watch the video, I was in a parking lot of sorts with lots of people around. There are some nice folk next to us with little kids which you may hear in the background. All the audio is coming from where the controller is and the camera was ~300 feet above it up in the air. (see thread for video, as scrappy does not like how large it is)
I also worked on cleaning up my PCB design with some helpful observations from @AtanasAtanasov. As I went to export the design to try to get a price estimation I found lots of design rule violations that I made. Tomorrow I am going to take a closer look to see what I need to resolve.
@zfogg0every morning in the life of a community game designer for hack club
