The way the solder trace in his testing clip moved as he turned up the current was blatantly ignored
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I wonder how quickly one of the solder traces will get hot and melt? Probably after shaking itself off the fibreglass sheet and bridging to the adjoining trace…
The way the solder trace in his testing clip moved as he turned up the current was blatantly ignored
The way the solder trace in his testing clip moved as he turned up the current was blatantly ignored
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Normally all the tracks are covered with non-conductive solder resist of course, but with stoopidpcb(TM) if one track peels off it’ll probably short across a whole load of other tracks.

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Myself an @mik were discussing this very point. You can see how easily the solder detaches in the video. I imagine parking it in the sun for a bit will be enough to melt the adhesive on the PCB and the solder detaches.Jobbo wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2024 1:09 pm I wonder how quickly one of the solder traces will get hot and melt? Probably after shaking itself off the fibreglass sheet and bridging to the adjoining trace…
The way the solder trace in his testing clip moved as he turned up the current was blatantly ignored![]()
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I know they didn’t want a screen, fair enough, but you can also get small gauge size screens and have any font and illumination you want.
I think the mismatch of the carbon weave would annoy me far more than their gauge issues tbh
I think the mismatch of the carbon weave would annoy me far more than their gauge issues tbh
Cheers, Harry
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Have they not watched car sos? Just call up “Welsh Q” and get a custom digital dash made
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I love it how the justification was that they didn't want to waste PCB material, on environmental grounds.
Firstly, you can extract the copper from a PCB in good enough quality to be re-used again.
Secondly, while the FR4 can't be re-used as circuit board material, it can be downcycled into something useful like building insulation - this is a bit like when you hear about plastic bottles being used for car interiors. Not good enough to hold yer pepsi, but good enough for you to sit in while you drink it.
So the environmental argument is, at best, utter bollocks.
That, and as a few people in the comments pointed out, if you want to make a 'usable' prototype board, you use copper strand wire affixed with epoxy to emulate the tracks, not solder, for reasons that were very obvious in the video - no amount of epoxy will make that thing last a test drive, harmonics and heat from the voltage regulators will likely destroy it in minutes. A proper etch resist prototype board could be reused repeatedly with enough bodge wires and track cuts and wouldn't shake itself to bits as soon as you look at it.
This is just immensely stupid, but as noted, because people think electronics are magical, they think this is amazing - people in the comments saying WOW PCBWAY WILL BE QUAKING IN THEIR BOOTS
Motherfucker, PCBWay will link to this video as a demonstration as to why they exist in the first place.
"It took them 18 months and thousands of pounds to make this incredibly fragile board. Learn KiCAD, give us the resultant Gerber file file we'll have a reliable, easy to handle board with proper vias and etch resist that you can solder to directly, in your hands, in 72 hours for forty quid".

Firstly, you can extract the copper from a PCB in good enough quality to be re-used again.
Secondly, while the FR4 can't be re-used as circuit board material, it can be downcycled into something useful like building insulation - this is a bit like when you hear about plastic bottles being used for car interiors. Not good enough to hold yer pepsi, but good enough for you to sit in while you drink it.
So the environmental argument is, at best, utter bollocks.
That, and as a few people in the comments pointed out, if you want to make a 'usable' prototype board, you use copper strand wire affixed with epoxy to emulate the tracks, not solder, for reasons that were very obvious in the video - no amount of epoxy will make that thing last a test drive, harmonics and heat from the voltage regulators will likely destroy it in minutes. A proper etch resist prototype board could be reused repeatedly with enough bodge wires and track cuts and wouldn't shake itself to bits as soon as you look at it.
This is just immensely stupid, but as noted, because people think electronics are magical, they think this is amazing - people in the comments saying WOW PCBWAY WILL BE QUAKING IN THEIR BOOTS
Motherfucker, PCBWay will link to this video as a demonstration as to why they exist in the first place.
"It took them 18 months and thousands of pounds to make this incredibly fragile board. Learn KiCAD, give us the resultant Gerber file file we'll have a reliable, easy to handle board with proper vias and etch resist that you can solder to directly, in your hands, in 72 hours for forty quid".

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Not more Binky but Richard sitting down with the Retropower channel for a chat.
Some interesting stuff, very little discussion of the catastrophic delays as you'd expect.
Grit your teeth and persist after the "Singer is just a bunch of guys in a shed" and the doubling down thereof. If you can.
This channel seems to have monetisation set to EXTREME though and the ads were particularly disruptive.
TLDW in answer to "What will you finish this year"? "We will finish the Mini, it's nearly finished, we've only a few things left to do..." at 1:13:47
Some interesting stuff, very little discussion of the catastrophic delays as you'd expect.
Grit your teeth and persist after the "Singer is just a bunch of guys in a shed" and the doubling down thereof. If you can.
This channel seems to have monetisation set to EXTREME though and the ads were particularly disruptive.
TLDW in answer to "What will you finish this year"? "We will finish the Mini, it's nearly finished, we've only a few things left to do..." at 1:13:47