On Monday, February 17, 2014 2:07:27 PM UTC-6, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
mulling over in my mind the idea of volunteering
And another sorcerers apprentice job for me or someone I've been mulling over is between N8VEM and N8VEM-S100 there must be dozens of builds that didn't boot because the DS1210 didn't have a battery. So I'd change every single silkscreen across the entire project to have a label like "board will not operate without good battery installed" on every board with a DS1210.
There's a couple other things of the same class rolling around in my head. Another was all boards shall have a test point for ground and +5 carefully labeled for testing. No need to pickup ground off the reg heatsink ever again. Again this level of PCB editing is probably currently beyond me, but some effort and I could figure it out...
Another one was every silkscreen should have the specific board's URL on it. There are adafruit (or was it DP? or both?) PCBs like this.