Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Dead Butterfly

I killed our young AVR Butterfly while soldering more pins onto it. I don't see any shorts on my soldering job, so it could have died due to poor transportation conditions.

We now have to re-think the design. We will consider using a stand alone micro-controller to build our own custom circuit. The advantage is in avoiding the extra cost of buying a pre-packaged design. The butterfly has features that we will never use, and if one component goes bad, the whole thing is dead. Additionally, using separate components will allow for more flexibility incase our design requirements change.

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