Who wants a Kiwi?

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby SteveMoody » Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:59 am

Received something nice in the post this morning, just have to wait on some components to arrive so i can start building it up :)

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby simon » Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:32 pm

Great! :)

@varaktori: How is your board doing?

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby Chris » Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:58 pm

cool, the UK will have the most Kiwis in 'the wild' :lol:

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby SteveMoody » Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:45 pm

Chris wrote:cool, the UK will have the most Kiwis in 'the wild' :lol:


At this rate we will have to form a Kiwi Club :)

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby linux68k » Sat Apr 05, 2014 3:15 am

Hello
Has anyone finished a Kiwi rev 2 board and tested it
Waiting to hear about it

Thanks Tony

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby simon » Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:07 am

I did finish a rev. two board. It is currently under testing. When I am done I'll do some minor changes like moving some parts and order a batch of the PCB for the upcoming Kiwi kit.

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby varaktori » Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:31 am

simon wrote:Great! :)

@varaktori: How is your board doing?


I hope soon to get some spare time.

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby SteveMoody » Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:15 pm

Less than half the components i've ordered, i think i need a bigger box :(
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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby Chris » Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:51 am

16:25 07/03/2014 Disaster strikes :sick:

I was soldering the last few components on and my daughter came in to the room to ask something, I started soldering the CS8900A to the board only half paying attention to what I was doing. When she left the room I realised it had 4 dimples on the top of the chip and I'd oriented the wrong one to pin 1. ARGHHHH!

Then in another stroke of genius I decided to try to take it off using the SMD rework station rather than cut it off as is my usual practice, long story short I lifted a whole section of the lands from the board :oops: . I am not a happy bunny! It looks like I will have to use wire wrap to connect some of the signals, it won't look pretty.

I will be making a 'do not disturb' sign this evening.

I should have stayed in bed.

Chris

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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Postby SteveMoody » Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:51 pm

Had a busy morning

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