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Offline margo baggins

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Margo's Mods - Back Open
« on: Mon, 15 August 2016, 08:33:47 »
Hello everyone,

I'm back open for taking stuff if any of you UK or euro people need services.

$37.50 an hour, or £30 an hour. Let me know what you need and I'll let you know how many hours it will be.

Reflows, SMT, building keyboards, building point to point keyboards.

I won't take on any metal work\plate work or anything like that.

If pro audio is your cup of tea, I can build you a nice DAC or Headphone amp - PM me for more details. Working on a Poweramp at the moment but I haven't finished the prototype.

As ever - you can find me with [CTRL]ALT, on my imgur here http://margobaggins.imgur.com/ or on my website here www.mattartley.com

Currently the waiting list is very short,

- RS68 repair - posted back
- TX1800 for Bunny - 50% complete
- GON 60 for Bunny - 0% complete
- Nothing
« Last Edit: Thu, 01 September 2016, 10:10:15 by margo baggins »
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #1 on: Thu, 01 September 2016, 10:28:51 »
Just fixed an RS68 for a forum user, it was completely dead. Was missing some SMT parts.

to fix:

- desoldered switches
- Changed USB port as was broken
- soldered on missing SMT caps (0402 size)
- board still didn't do anything - probed it with my meter and it was full of electricity in all the places it should have been
- Hooked up my serial interface to the isp port on the board to test the controller, which was fine - took a backup of the firmware which was GIBBERISH! corrupted firmware :)
- Soldered a couple of switches and LEDs to see if i could get into the bootloader
- Booted the board into the bootloader
- Flashed new firmware
- Flashed key map
- moved some of the SMT LED to replace some that had been broken (moved the 2 under the RS68 logo to the side positions where some were missing - you don't need 4 LED around the logo :) )
- added 2u stabs, fixed space bar stab
- Soldered it back up
- Tested

FIXED




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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 01 September 2016, 10:50:22 »
Glad to see you back at it margo!
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 01 September 2016, 11:09:09 »
Quote from: SpAmRaY on Thu, 01 September 2016, 10:50:22
Glad to see you back at it margo!

Thanks Spam :) Still number 1, still humble :D hahaha
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #4 on: Thu, 01 September 2016, 14:49:38 »
Owner of that RS68 and now a very happy bunny now that it's in working order again. First time sending something to Margo and am more than satisfied with the constant updates I was given at every step and it was back in my hands the very next day, as good as new, after I was told it was fixed and working. Nothing to fault, impeccable throughout.

Thanks again Margo   :thumb:
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #5 on: Thu, 01 September 2016, 15:06:54 »
Margo is the best, people. Glad to see you back in service!
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #6 on: Thu, 01 September 2016, 17:17:45 »
Glad to see you back on here Mr. Baggins. :)
Still enjoying the Orion that you built for me.

Guess you might be seeing that Weaven soon enough. ;)
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #7 on: Fri, 02 September 2016, 01:29:36 »
Quote from: JaccoW on Thu, 01 September 2016, 17:17:45
Glad to see you back on here Mr. Baggins. :)
Still enjoying the Orion that you built for me.

Guess you might be seeing that Weaven soon enough. ;)

bah I can't wait! I really want to see one of those cases and get jealous that I missed them :D

Quote from: heedpantsnow on Thu, 01 September 2016, 15:06:54
Margo is the best, people. Glad to see you back in service!

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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #8 on: Fri, 02 September 2016, 05:23:04 »
Welcome back, margo :)
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 02 September 2016, 09:41:00 »
Quote from: rowdy on Fri, 02 September 2016, 05:23:04
Welcome back, margo :)

Thanks down-under-bro :) I hope it's nice and all still yellow there :)
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 03 September 2016, 06:08:41 »
Quote from: margo baggins on Fri, 02 September 2016, 09:41:00
Quote from: rowdy on Fri, 02 September 2016, 05:23:04
Welcome back, margo :)

Thanks down-under-bro :) I hope it's nice and all still yellow there :)

There are some elements of yellow, yes :D

And, for the record, two elements of (translucent) red and one of GiD blue on this particular HHKB.
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Re: Margo's Mods - Back Open
« Reply #11 on: Tue, 06 September 2016, 05:57:35 »
Wooooo! I will be in need of your services soon dude, my Leeku 1800 needs some treatment :(
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