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A minimal CircuitPython board.

dehipudeʃhipu 10/30/2017 at 18:356 Comments

The second version arrived from @oshpark, and it seems that the neck is fixed. Also, the hole for the LED in the eye looks fine, and the vias that are buried under the solder mask and the silkscreen are practically invisible.

I don't know where that brighter violet circle on the neck comes from, but it's in the same place on both boards (for some reason I only received 2 from, not 3 boards).

I'm not assembling the circuit on the back just yet, because I ran out of parts for it — I will need more micro USB sockets.

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oshpark wrote 10/30/2017 at 23:00 point

@Radomir Dopieralski  Sorry that you only received 2 boards.  There was a problem with the panel your order was on and your order is already being remade.  It should ship to you on Thursday via UPS World Express.  Thanks, Drew

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davedarko wrote 10/30/2017 at 19:25 point

would be cool if the mousebytes would be placed outside of the board and not ON the outline

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deʃhipu wrote 10/30/2017 at 20:03 point

that is unfortunately outside my control

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Clara Hobbs wrote 10/30/2017 at 20:36 point

Well, you could put it inside your control by adding a frame around the board you want, placing mouse bites connecting the board to the frame where you want them to go.  But then you'd have to pay for the frame's entire area rather than just the board.

I guess the best solution would be for @oshpark to add an option to put the mouse bites outside your board's outline instead of inside, but I suppose they might have valid reasons for not doing that.

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davedarko wrote 10/30/2017 at 21:39 point

right, @oshpark then ;)

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Dan Sheadel wrote 10/31/2017 at 18:50 point

Dan from Oshpark here! Figured I'd chime in.

Clayton's got the right idea on this. If you need full control of the tabs, a framed board is the way to go. 
Another option for this kind of thing is to just talk to us about getting it fully routed, so there's no tabs at all. We can do this on a medium run panels, and for boards like this we're happy to shuffle your order around to make it work. 

At present, we don't really have a setup that lets us handle fancy tab placement or types, although it's on our roadmap. We're just set up to do the tangent tabs, which can look a bit awkward on some boards due to how the milling and drill tolerances work out. We stick with it because the vast majority of boards we see are rectangular, which work really well with the current setup. 

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