Building a PyCubed Board
1. Order PCBs
2. Order Components
Digikey, Mouser, and LCSC are all good places to put together component carts.
3. Assembling the Board
- Use the Interactive Bill of Materials to aid in placing parts during assembly.
- Typical assembly uses solder paste and a reflow oven. Nevertheless, everything but the IMU can be soldered by hand! 🖐
See my introduction to soldering tutorial to brush up on your soldering skills 👇
4. Verifying the Board
- After assembly, the board should be powered via the USB port and a multimeter used to verify a 3.3V voltage is read between
3V3
andGND
.
5. Programming the Firmware
- See 🔌Programming the Bootloader for instructions on loading the bootloader and flashing the latest firmware.