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Today was getting a few boards soldered up

First a layer of solder paste. I use the Loctite GC10, that is pretty easy to work with, and can be kept at room temperature.

All the parts are placed with tweezers, greatly assisted by the Interactive HTML BOM for KiCad

Half way through reflow, where some of the paste has melted. I'm just using a residential hotplate, and the heat isn't that even, so I move the PCB a little to make sure everything gets enough heat.

The two badges after hand soldering the SMT spacers, the joysticks, USB throughole pins and the screen.

Shown here fittet with a RISC-V MicroMod

The PCBs arrived today from OSH Park, and the purple is looking good as always.

There are shared projects of this variant at https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/gRSf01dV and the simple version with 0.1" spaced holes are at https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/YJqAizIf if you don't want to make your own changes to the files.