Who wants a Kiwi?

[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

[simon]

Great!

@varaktori: How is your board doing?

[Chris]

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

[SteveMoody]

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

At this rate we will have to form a Kiwi Club

[linux68k]

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

Thanks Tony

[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.

[varaktori]

Great!

@varaktori: How is your board doing?

I hope soon to get some spare time.

[SteveMoody]

Less than half the components i've ordered, i think i need a bigger box

[Chris]

16:25 07/03/2014 Disaster strikes

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 . 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

[SteveMoody]

Had a busy morning