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       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
        
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