"Andreas fixed an electronics problem with a chair"
I know I've been quiet for quite a while (not that I have as many followers who care about it). I've been messing round with the ESTCube project, soldering in a week more than I've ever soldered in my entire life.
Today was mostly fun... There was a fundamental flaw in a board design and I had to figure out a way to fix that. After 4 hours of messing round doing nothing helpful, I in frustration came up with the most ideal way to fix the problem: a chair! The problem was that the disigner had left pads poorly aligned to the actual component that was meant to be on it. So, I simply bent a pin-header array to create a small stool for the component to sit on. I have no idea why I hadn't thought of that earlier...
Next I'm going to have to figure out a way to get some USART inputs and outputs out, so that we can use them, because the wise guy designer didn't think it neccessary to put pins for them. Let's see what my crazy mind thinks up this time!
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