[HN Gopher] Breadbee: Build your own (tiny) single board compute... ___________________________________________________________________ Breadbee: Build your own (tiny) single board computer (2020) Author : goodburb Score : 76 points Date : 2023-06-25 17:29 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (wtarreau.blogspot.com) (TXT) w3m dump (wtarreau.blogspot.com) | Palomides wrote: | if you're going to make a board like this, get a stencil, they're | not expensive and you don't have to worry about carefully | blobbing the correct amount of paste on every pad | | personally I use a hot plate for small boards | ilyt wrote: | I just use soldering iron, splurge some flux and hope for best. | | I should probably get a hot plate... | wildzzz wrote: | Yes, this looked like an absolute mess. Repurposing a toaster | oven as a reflow oven would have given much better results or | just using a hot plate. | ilyt wrote: | I think there are even some toaster-oven priced hot plates on | aliexpress | creer wrote: | A useful write-up - because - it rather thoroughly documents an | SMD assembly with minimal tools. Trying this, trying that. A | naive approach. Lots of things that didn't work, lots of extra | comments, lots of photos. Beautiful. We know what it's supposed | to look like done neat and tidy, with stencil and at least a | minimal reflow oven - that would be less useful. Perhaps not the | first to do that, but an interesting project (the write up) with | current packages pushed to its publication. | | It's often tempting to mess with such tiny boards without the | "proper" tools. This serves as proper warning. | NikkiA wrote: | Called 'BreadBee', but designed with a form factor that is | allergic to breadboards!? I know a lot of younger engineers | prefer to solder jumpers to in-line pins, but come on | ilyt wrote: | https://github.com/breadbee/breadbee/raw/master/blinky.gif | | That's how it is supposed to be plugged in, giving maximum | amount of space for other things on breadboard ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-25 23:00 UTC)