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Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:59 am
by SteveMoody
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?

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:32 pm
by simon
Great! :)

@varaktori: How is your board doing?

Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:58 pm
by Chris
cool, the UK will have the most Kiwis in 'the wild' :lol:

Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:45 pm
by SteveMoody
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 :)

Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 3:15 am
by linux68k
Hello
Has anyone finished a Kiwi rev 2 board and tested it
Waiting to hear about it

Thanks Tony

Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2014 8:07 am
by simon
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.

Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:31 am
by varaktori
simon wrote:Great! :)

@varaktori: How is your board doing?


I hope soon to get some spare time.

Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 6:15 pm
by SteveMoody
Less than half the components i've ordered, i think i need a bigger box :(

Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:51 am
by Chris
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

Re: Who wants a Kiwi?

Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 2:51 pm
by SteveMoody
Had a busy morning

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