04:50 <purdeaandrei[m]> Well manually pick and placing is horrible. Takes ages, and my back is in pain. And I'm only done with the top side. Hot plate + hot air worked okayish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPKSArql3Bw

04:50 <purdeaandrei[m]> I got a few shorts, but I fixed those with a soldering iron.

04:51 <purdeaandrei[m]> Most importantly the BGA chip looks okay, all the balls on the 4 visible edges look okay, for all 5 boards

04:51 <purdeaandrei[m]> I can't tell what's in the middle but I'm hopeful

04:53 <purdeaandrei[m]> Initially I was planning to just solder all components manually on the back, but now I'm thinking I should attempt to put the board on some stanoffs, and attempt cutting out the bottom stencil, so I can have a tiny stencil I can still put on the board.

06:04 <_whitenotifier> [glasgow] neuschaefer opened pull request #506: applet.interface.spi_serprog: New applet that implements the Flashrom Serprog protocol - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506

08:59 <esc_ctrl[m]> My question: i’ve used a BusPirate and JTAGulator in the past. Would the Glasgow be a good new choice for something to let me first figure out the exact test point pinout, and then read/write to the NXP chip?

08:59 <esc_ctrl[m]> Hello folks!! I took apart my busted old Razor mouse and it has a nice big NXP chip on it, and a nicely labeled group of testpoints that says “Firmware Download”.

09:00 <esc_ctrl[m]> I’m an analog EE, not super skilled at firmware but i can code microcontrollers normally. I want to do more reverse engineering and firmware hacking with old tech that i am temporarily saving from the recycling bin 🗑️

10:13 <xyz[m]> hello I noticed on the latest design revision that there's a power trace going under the USB connector. it seems it might cause a short if there's an issue with the soldermask registration, especially since there's a via on the trace

10:48 <_whitenotifier> [glasgow] whitequark commented on pull request #506: applet.interface.spi_serprog: New applet that implements the Flashrom Serprog protocol - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#issuecomment-1878472889

10:49 <whitequark[cis]> <esc_ctrl[m]> "I’m an analog EE, not super..." <- this is how *so many* applets were written

10:49 <whitequark[cis]> <esc_ctrl[m]> "Hello folks!! I took apart my..." <- > <@_discord_502340037099257856:catircservices.org> Hello folks!! I took apart my busted old Razor mouse and it has a nice big NXP chip on it, and a nicely labeled group of testpoints that says “Firmware Download”.... (full message at <https://catircservices.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/catircservices.org/qKYYAKPHCwGGsDOFSzCkXUqo>)

10:49 <whitequark[cis]> <purdeaandrei[m]> "Most importantly the BGA chip..." <- nice!!

11:15 <_whitenotifier-3> [glasgow] whitequark reviewed pull request #506 commit - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#discussion_r1442752964

11:15 <_whitenotifier> [glasgow] whitequark reviewed pull request #506 commit - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#discussion_r1442752201

11:15 <_whitenotifier> [glasgow] whitequark reviewed pull request #506 commit - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#discussion_r1442751332

11:15 <_whitenotifier> [glasgow] whitequark reviewed pull request #506 commit - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#discussion_r1442751008

11:15 <_whitenotifier-3> [glasgow] whitequark reviewed pull request #506 commit - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#discussion_r1442753667

11:15 <_whitenotifier> [glasgow] whitequark reviewed pull request #506 commit - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#discussion_r1442751817

11:16 <_whitenotifier-3> [glasgow] whitequark commented on pull request #506: applet.interface.spi_serprog: New applet that implements the Flashrom Serprog protocol - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#issuecomment-1878505892

11:44 <_whitenotifier> [glasgow] neuschaefer reviewed pull request #506 commit - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#discussion_r1442781168

11:46 <_whitenotifier> [glasgow] neuschaefer commented on pull request #506: applet.interface.spi_serprog: New applet that implements the Flashrom Serprog protocol - https://github.com/GlasgowEmbedded/glasgow/pull/506#issuecomment-1878541636

23:03 <purdeaandrei[m]> Let's see if I can make the bottom work with hot air like this