Sadly I haven't soldered the stage 2 board yet, I've had birthdays and other family celebration preparations to tend to. But I still got time to do a visual inspection and found a couple of things that need fixing to stage 3. But none of them was a showstopper yet!
So what have I found so far:
- I'm missing an chip name on U26 a GAL chip. Definitely not a deal-breaker!
- Footprint on power switch SW1 is not correct (I made this my self and must have been holding my caliper upside down when i did it)
The hold pins (pins that are not connected but just a part of the switch chassis) are to close to the other pins.
The hole diameter is to small, the pins on the switch are quite large. - The USB socket is too far in to the board, it will not reach out of the case correctly.
- The same goes to the power socket, but I'm looking for another type of socket for that.
But none of these are bad enough to stop me from making a stage 2 machine to test on.
When I finalized the basic tests and those are ok, I'm curious if any one else is interested in trying this computer? I will probably have 2 or 3 boards over after the I've made my prototypes. And I think I will be able to send them out if any one is interested in this project. The only thing I ask of is to get feedback and hope that you will share what you have been doing on it with the "community" (thats what I call my self for now).
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