{"id":64,"date":"2016-03-19T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openmyr.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2016-03-17T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T02:31:29","slug":"solder-or-no-solder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/solder-or-no-solder\/","title":{"rendered":"Solder or no Solder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It came time to attach an ESP to the newly-arrived PCB\u00a0for our stepper motor. It was only a prototype run, so we had very few boards and couldn&#8217;t afford waiting for more to come. From there the issue arose that if the ESP or the board were flawed, both would be lost since castellations don&#8217;t like being unsoldered. It would also be hard (if not impossible) to test and measure specific leads with the ESP in circuit.<\/p>\n<p>That is when I got the idea to solder 16 leads onto our board to\u00a0hold the ESP in place with only the spring tension in the wires.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-67\" src=\"http:\/\/openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_0074-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0074\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_0074-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_0074-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/DSC_0074-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cutting the wires to size and stripping the insulation ended up being much harder than the actual soldering. Once everything was in place, I simply bent the wires in a little and wedged the ESP in from the bottom at an angle. After coercing a couple of misaligned wires into place with the help of a jeweler&#8217;s screwdriver, everything was set. In the end it worked perfectly, no flaws. It reminded me a bit of a sculpture made by Arthur Ganson.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Machine with Abandoned Doll - Arthur Ganson\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XLHIf-VAgDs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I would suggest someone to do this to a project board since the wires are soldered onto surface mounted pads. This makes it much easier to rip off traces and destroy your board, but in a pinch, in works!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It came time to attach an ESP to the newly-arrived PCB&nbsp;for our stepper motor. It was only a prototype run, so we had very few boards and couldn&rsquo;t afford waiting for more to come. From there the issue arose that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/solder-or-no-solder\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,8,23],"tags":[20,6,24,5,17],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-esp8266","category-hack","tag-development","tag-esp8266","tag-hack","tag-kyle","tag-stepper-motor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.openmyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}