Any advice for soldering on the capacitors? Tin the pads before?
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Tin one end first only, otherwise might be difficult to get it flat against the board.
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I don’t like to cross post, but I thought there were likely people in the beta group that aren’t watching the main post. Here’s the housing I designed, its tested and good.
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All shipped.
I’m going to ship the remaining 7 kits assembled. Looking for people to test those. It’s fine if you’re not much into electronics/Arduino. It will be good to test whether updating the FW is feasible even for people with no previous Arduino experience and figure out how the FW updates could be made easier.
It would still be nice if you could help us tweaking the enclosures, so mechanical DIY skills and/or access to a 3D printer are much appreciated.
Please PM me if you’re interested in an assembled test kit. Price will be the same as for unassembled.
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I can’t really ride due to snow… So I’ll still wait 
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Reeeealy tempted! Pm’ing you now!
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All remaining parts came in today:
The capacitors are nice and small, no taller than the crystal:
The problem is that the legs of the 22 pF caps are too close to each other and they don’t fit well in the PCB. I will update the next version of the PCB such that they fit. For this batch, I’ll just keep adding the SMD caps.
It’s late and I had a busy day, so I won’t be able to get the packages ready tonight, but I should be able to make it tomorrow and ship on Wednesday morning.
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Ok so first of all thank you @janpom for the great kit. 
Is there someone who could maybe sell me a display withi the eu?
I can’t find one locally and I don’t want to wait
All shipped to these guys. I accidentally posted to the wrong thread yesterday. Just to make things clear here, the batch 1 is now closed. We’ll do some testing now and once all is tweaked I’ll start the second batch. It will probably happen early next year (January or February).
I’m still waiting for delivery on mine. Not a big deal as my screens haven’t turned up either…
That’s too long for UK. I’ll PM you.
Still waiting for screens wish I knew of a local source.
Ebay had some under 10
How long does the kit usually take to get delivered, I have not seen mine yet.
About 2 weeks if it’s outside of Europe. It should arrive early next week.
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Mine just arrived 
I losted a bit the latest news about Dave, so time to catch up reading the main thread and than… 
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It arrived but the screen still some were in the post got a feeling it’s going to get lost in Christmas post. 
I still havent gotten anything. Hopefully it arrives next week. Before i leave for the holidays!
It looks like the packages outside of EU are taking their time. Could people please confirm whether their received theirs yet?
- @SourPlumGoose - ?
- @Battosaii - ?
- @venom121212 - ?
- @Andy87 - yes
- @High-roller - ?
- @yelnats8j - no
@ROFEN13, yours went out 19 days ago. It might have got lost. I believe all other packages to US from the same batch already arrived. I’m sorry. Let’s give it a few more days. If you don’t have it by Monday, please let me know and I’ll ship another one or refund your payment.
Next time, we should probably do tracked outside of EU.
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As of today, I have yet to receive it.