Arraugh. I think I overheated the FT232BM in the x0xb0x. That is, the surface mount USB to RS232 chip which is used to update the firmware and such.<\/p>\n
I had a really fine screwdriver tip (about the size of a needle head) and the iron was turned way down, but I had a little trouble soldering it, and when I was done it didn’t work. I think I need to get another one (at $4.95\/each) and try again with the 1\/64″ conical I’d used for other SMT work. <sigh> Unfortunately that also means desoldering the current part… At least I can do that. (Worst case I’ll just cut all the legs and remove them once at a time.)<\/p>\n
Other than that, the x0xb0x is ready for its first flux removal, before I install the LEDs, pots, tactile switches, rotary encoder, rotary switch, etc. Then after I complete the rear panel it’ll be done. Oh, and once I fix the damned USB stuffs. It’s not needed, but if I’m going to sell it, it has to be working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Arraugh. I think I overheated the FT232BM in the x0xb0x. That is, the surface mount USB to RS232 chip which is used to update the firmware and such. I had a really fine screwdriver tip (about the size of a needle head) and the iron was turned way down, but I had a little trouble\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12810,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8820\/revisions\/12810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}