Day 161 of #PCBs - Assembly and testing edition!
I updated these two boards (8-bit switch / 8-bit LED stamps) to the latest template for #Protonema stamps, and got the BOM all fixed up. That way I can get a bunch assembled.
These aren't hard to hand assemble, but after a few hundred 0603s plus a blunt soldering iron tip, it gets a little tedious.
Putting the component values on the board really helps with hand assembly. Highly recommended for simple boards.
Turns out I copied and pasted a part number wrong somewhere in the past, and had 100 pf decoupling capacitors specified instead of 100 nf decoupling capacitors.
This didn't affect these boards, since I was assembling them by hand, but this may have affected a few other boards. Fortunately it seems that I did this fairly recently, and all of my boards where these capacitor values are critical aren't affected.
BOM management requires a lot of discipline, and it's easy to mess something up.
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