jpm,
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So, I finally finished the basic bring-up of the board I’ve been assembling the last couple of days. I found the dead short from 3V3 to GND under the ADC, but needed to do a lot of digging to find it.

Right now, the MCU seems to work using its internal oscillators, and a quick poke shows that the 12MHz crystal is working too. The I2C ADC and GPIO expander appear to be responding, but the RTC isn’t (yet?)

I also think I melted the push-buttons because they don’t push now, and there’s one LED I forgot to hook up to anything in the schematic…

jpm,
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Hooray! The RTC appears to be alive! Just need to replace the 2 melted buttons now…

jpm,
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Ok now the actual work begins, making the software that runs on it.

All software sucks.

jpm,
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Ah, the RTC needs a write before it will read at all after POR. Makes sense (kinda)

jpm,
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Right, off to Spotlight for Electronics Nerds (Jaycar) to grab some PCB cleaner and a burger or burrito or something for lunch

unixben,
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@jpm Jaycar sells burgers now?

video/mp4

PaulWay,
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@jpm Given that Jaycar basically steals other people's products, have you tried Altronics?

jpm,
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@PaulWay if there was one within, say, a 20 minute drive I would have gone there. Jaycar is a 10 minute drive

PaulWay,
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@jpm There's no Altronics in the ACT, so I sympathise.

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Brb mixing a batch of my “ultimate PCB/stomach cleaner”

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