Pete´s Playground

My personal log of various projects

The first PCBs are here!

After some days a package arrived at my apartment, the RFF LPC boards are here! Hurrraaay!

So the first step is to solder the tiny 0805 resistors by hand. I have never done that before! So I watched some videos and it looks like I can do it! Some frustrating minutes later I finished with the soldering. Was not that hard but please do not judge my solder joints ;)

I measure every connection with my multimeter and everything seems ok. Nice! Now I go on with soldering the IDC connectors and the ESP8266 on it. Some minutes later. What the heck. My 8266 V3 has wider pins that the footprint in EasyEDA. I already knew that the V3 is wider than the V2. That's why I searched for the V3 in the library. But the footprint was wrong.... But lucky me! I have some V2 lying around too! Some minutes later the board is ready for testing.

But it did not work. The board keeps resetting itself. After I measured every trace, I saw the mistake. I connected the RESET pin of the ESP to the RESET Pin of the SKR and not to the 1.31 pin... Idiot!

The fix for that was easy! The RESET Pin and the 1.31 are neighbors! So one solder joint and one cut pin later the board works!

I quickly updated my schematic!

May 18, 2020

richgain
Written by richgain on August 3, 2020
Love your project and I have got my SKR 1.3 running RepRapFirmware! My question is why is it called RFF and not RRF? Sorry if I’m being picky but that’s the line of work I’m in!