It was Christmas again for me this week. V2.1 PCBs arrived from PCBWay and I have to say- I love them. 

I went with white mask this time and I'm really happy I did. Not only do they look cool but they make it VERY easy to tell them apart from V1's in my workshop (V1 is black mask).  This time I let the board house do the penalization and the V-grooves are waaaay nicer than the mousebites.  

I got one out and started adding components right away...

It works! 

I still need to check the expansion connectors but so far things are working great.  As before- users can decide which side of the board they want to mount the components on by simply soldering the headers to the side that suits their preferred "stack".  It is best to have the old not firmly mounted and instead use wires or ribbon.  For my tests here I like it stacked for ease of testing.  

This will all be shown in the assembly an user manual as well as videos.  I just finished editing video Part 3 today and it will go live next Friday on YouTube (editing takes forever).

Now to start on the design for an all-in-one board solution that could be manufactured with discreet components.  Of course it will still be the same base design so it can be used in both the air and ground versions- Handy!  One ResQ board to rule them all! 

I still have a pretty big announcement coming on a NEW ResQ application I am finalizing- just when you thought ResQ could do all the things- but wait... THERE'S MORE!

I ween.