LOL! Hi Stephen. At this time there’s no fully assembled version (if that changes I’ll drop you a line). Your best option is to order the PCBs from JLCPCB where they can solder on all of the SMT components except for the 5 LEDs and the buzzer. The pads are of a pretty forgiving size for hand-soldering and Michael G0POT has done a demo of soldering these components on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9kuWy1ynIs
Also, Robin G7VKQ has done an alternative technique on this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qxtlcZElow
Also bear in mind that because the PCBs are ordered in multiples of 5, most people will do this project as a group build. When you’ve gather up a group, if you have the PCBs delivered to the person most comfortable with soldering SMT then they could pop those components on for you, that’s what a few others have done.
Hope you get a team together and good luck! 🙂
Hi there,
As I am extraordinarily lazy (and hate surface mount), is there anyone selling an assembled version?
regards
Stephen G7VFY
mister35mm (at) yahoo.co.uk
LOL! Hi Stephen. At this time there’s no fully assembled version (if that changes I’ll drop you a line). Your best option is to order the PCBs from JLCPCB where they can solder on all of the SMT components except for the 5 LEDs and the buzzer. The pads are of a pretty forgiving size for hand-soldering and Michael G0POT has done a demo of soldering these components on here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9kuWy1ynIs
Also, Robin G7VKQ has done an alternative technique on this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qxtlcZElow
Also bear in mind that because the PCBs are ordered in multiples of 5, most people will do this project as a group build. When you’ve gather up a group, if you have the PCBs delivered to the person most comfortable with soldering SMT then they could pop those components on for you, that’s what a few others have done.
Hope you get a team together and good luck! 🙂
Since your board already has SMD devices, why not just include the Atmega328 right on the pcb and skip adding a complete Arduino?
Cheers
Dave AA3EE
Fair point Dave. Might be fun when I fancy levelling-up my PCB skills, good thinking. 🙂