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presenting asbestOsu!

a rythm game where you have to take out crumbling asbestos before it's too late

thinking about,,, 

supermicro mini towers again (you thought this was gonna say girls, didn't you)

might end up doing blue soldermask (with silver surface finish, and no castellation)

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so,,, yeah,, no way I'll get it produced as pretty as this :(
will probably have to scrap both ENIG and the castellated holes (the outer, half-cut ones)

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oh right, fuck, they don't even do SMT on black soldermask + ENIG

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doesn't this look great? sucks castellated holes are so damn expensive tbh (like, €33.12 surcharge for castellation, €13.76 surcharge for ENIG gold plating) and then add component cost, and panelizing will be difficult too because of the castellation...

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ohhhh but those have a WROOM, not a WROVER, which is muuuch cheaper (€1.79 vs €2.75)

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hm or i do the typical fox thing minimizing pcb size *even more* and doing smd pads on the back

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taxes 

heh, i received a digital copy of my "you should fill in taxes" tonight. The letter itself is dated for 27th of february (2 weeks from now)
i can only do the tax fill-in 1st of march, more than 2 weeks from now

ok well also this project doesn't make sense at all, even at 30 pieces just the esp32wrover+usb serial are as expensive as aliexpress.com/item/1005001621
which is already really space optimized, as a general devboard module. pcb + usb-c connector + other parts + shipping on top that for what, black soldermask and some custom squigglies perhaps?

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