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Took me a while to get stuff soldered, but I did the diodes and LEDs on Saturday, chose the resistors and soldered those last night. I bought 150,220,330,680,1500 resistors and made the worlds gnarliest LED tester, as you can see below, and chose 680 ohm resistors. Bright enough to see during the day but won’t blind me at night. Should be pulling 5mA for each LED.
I had a heck of a time with the diodes - I have a nice variable 40w soldering iron that I ran a bit short of full power; I used a ton of flux (that stuff is amazing) and for most part it went well - I may have some cold joints but it’s hard to tell. It’s no where near as neat as what some people can do with SMD components - my solder kept getting stuck to the iron and creating little peaks. These components are so tiny!! The resistor were the smallest, but because the pins are on the sides, they were ironically the easiest to place.
I also soldered on the Teensy, and clipped the headers short. I’m thinking of using a dremel to carefully grind down the stems closer to the Teensy, what do you guys think? That’ll be a lot of fine dust but I think I can clean it all out to prevent shorts...
Anyway, pics and vids! Sorry there’s so many!