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Guess the hardware, get a prize

19 October, 2008 (19:52) | News, Projects

 I picked up some new sample hardware to play with. The surface mount pads are freakin tiny, so I had to get creative to break out all the pins I need access to. I murded one pad with a piece of 24 gauge wire that put too much stress on it, so I pulled individual strands of copper wire from some cheap speaker wire. That stuff works great, and I didn’t screw up any pads during the soldering job.

If you can name the chip, I’ll send you one of my laser cut RGB keypad bezels – free in the US, or for the cost of postage if you live elsewhere on the globe. Comment away!  (only the first correct guess wins it) Oh, if you just want a bezel, you can buy them from SparkFun Electronics.

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