One must also consider that solder paths are not able to ‘cross’ one another (the only way to pull of a junction is to use an actual wire to 'jump’ the row that already has a path).Īn actual physical wire can be used in a point-to-point fashion. The only way I’ve found to fix such a problem is to solder sucker the whole mess and start again, which is generally extremely frustrating and not to mention, a waste of solder. However, the problem lies with the fact this requires a lot of skill to pull off and is extremely tedious, especially if adjacent solder paths accidentally join to form one messy blob while they’re still molten. The advantages of creating a solder path is that it appears much neater (since there won’t be anything on the board other than the components). One can make contacts between pins by creating a solder path underneath the board. Generally there are two ways of going about this: Take note that I’m working with a pad per hole perfboard so the interconnects between pins have to be made manually. I had already started soldering in all the headers required for the seven-segment displays in line with my decision to go for a socketed approach for everything for make benefit less headache and just general sanity preservation. Well here it is, this was a picture in it’s more or less 40% completed state. However with the extra time I’ve had in January since leaving the blasted organization, I’ve recently had the urge to complete it once and for all as it had been laying in an uncompleted state on my desk collecting dust for the past few months.Īs of now I’ve actually already completed the hardware of the dashClock (meaning it’s all ready for programming now), however I will still be posting updates chronologically (as I did take the effort to photographically document the process while I was engrossed in building it). Yes I’ve had a hiatus from late Sep till about late Dec where I stopped all work on the dashClock and it’s related projects due to a lot of stuff going on in my life.
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