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Connectors have arrived!

Wednesday, April 13th, 2005

Finally the connectors have arrived! emoticon

Here are two pictures of a finished PassMe with DS cart inserted.

passme-connector-iso.jpg  passme-connector-side.jpg

100+ CPLDs soldered

Monday, April 4th, 2005

Here are 100+ PassMes with soldered and programmed CPLDs. Still waiting for connectors to arrive.

passme-100-cpld.jpg 

PassMe PCBs Arrived!

Friday, April 1st, 2005

PassMe PCBs have arrived today. This is how they looked once unpackaged:

passme-pcbs1.jpg 

I have broken them apart and filed down the interconnections:

passme-pcbs2.jpg 

CPLDs also arrived today. Here is a nice picture of quite a few CPLDs emoticon 

passme-cplds.jpg 

Pictures of single PassMe PCB. All pads are gold-plated:

passme-pcb-iso-top.jpg passme-pcb-iso-bottom.jpg 

Still waiting for the connectors to arrive and all PassMes I am selling will have real connectors. One PassMe with PCI pins was made to test it:

 

passme-pcb-finished-iso-top.jpg passme-pcb-cart-iso-top.jpg

 

As expected, everything worked fine. More updates to follow. 


 
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