Picked up this PCB from a member over at Muff Wiggler and decided to give it a go. I first went to Amazon and picked up a SMT practice kit to get comfortable with my cheap hot air station. I bought some solder paste from Amazon also that was recommended to me by a friend that does a lot of SMT work. I spent a night trying different temps and placing parts before I got the courage to give the uO_c PCB a go.

Here is the basic build guide for the lager model, but this is almost the same in every way.

It did not take to long before I almost had the board completely populated. I took a break for a few days waiting on some parts.

Most of the parts came in and I was able to continue to populate this board. I am just missing a couple caps and resistors that I forgot to order.. ugh.

So far I am really happy with the results but I guess it will mean nothing if this does not fire up. I hope to have this done in the next few weeks… I forgot, I need to order the panel for it also!

Github location for the uO_c project

BOM for the project