Finally complete! Thank you so much @okyeron for designing such a thorough and satisfying project! The build is relatively straight forward. 0603 SMD were simple, I used this paste and a rework station. I had to reflow the DAC twice to get audio coming from both headphone channels.
Through hole parts came together nicely too. I noticed that the pins of the USB C jack don’t reach all the way through to the other side of the PCB. I assume that’s normal, it works fine. The rear post of the PJ302M2 jacks had to be sanded down slightly to fit into the PCB. The screen was by far the trickiest part, I had to clip several mm off the male pins to fit flush with the spacers. There looks like there is room for additional stand-offs inside the case, I might add these later to make it more stable (probably overkill)
The case I made was cut from 3mm acrylic, with a sanded finish. I got it cut from a local service but ponoko seems to have similar material. I used a Raspberry Pi 4, with copper heat sinks. No problems with heat so far. Instructions to flash worked great. Occasional SuperCollider fail message, but power cycling usually fixes it.
Very excited to dive more into this! I’ve only tried the stock scripts so far. I am hoping to build a Norns shield to accompany this in the very near future!
