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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • I remember being a child and building a space station (it looked a bit like StarLab so I guess the station in general was on TV or in a book) with a solar array that shape, my parents were a little angry and asked where that shape came from. I didn’t have a clue so I basically just said I liked the symmetry. They told me that’s a "very bad shape and that I have to rebuild it. It ended up being 8-shaped, which was also nice.






  • Mine is the smallest one of a series of these, it has two heating elements inside.

    I don’t have it for that long but I didn’t have problems so far, I’m usually only making rather small PCBs tho. I did make some recommended modifications like replacing the paper insulation tape with a kapton tape, proper grounding and flashed another firmware.

    I did only use a small hotplate and/or a hotair station, so it seems to be definitely a stepup here 😌.


  • Yeah I have such a small, cheap Chinese one (T962) that I modified and flashed a nicer firmware on.

    I basically populated the bottom side (with more components) first after applying solder past with a stencil, then reflowed the board. After cooling down I applied the solder paste to the upper side (with the LED) by using a small needle on a syringe (because using a stencil was too weird since the board wasn’t laying flat) but since the pads are relatively large and not that many that worked fine. Then I placed the components on that side and simply run the reflow cycle again.

    I started with the bottom side because there are no heavy components. I expected heavy parts to just fall off on the second reflow cycle so I tried to avoid that.

    At the end I manually assembled the USB connector using a regular soldering iron and tons of flux gel.



  • tbe@lemmy.worldOPtoLEGO@lemmy.worldA part of my shelf-city :)
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    1 year ago

    The train on the left is heading into an (under construction) underground section

    There are also some leftovers from a crashed monorail train (no monorails were harmed here, it’s built from regular parts).

    On the other end the trains are heading into (modified) winter-village.

    In between there are some areas that aren’t built yet but there’s quite some space left. Also I’m a little surprised that shelves hold it up that well :D (they are bolted to a substantial brick wall tho).