I honestly thought for a significant amount of time that said an āaverage forum memberā
I didnāt know how to feel about it lol 
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Over 48 hours later, so officially missed day, not bad timing and yetā¦ less than 7 days, so not a missed day and Iām back on track! = One happy but confused LabRat.
So, sorry for the distraction and well done again StarGazer1258!
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Hahaah omgā¦ sick burn
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Correction,
Mine doesnāt have the secondary board, the board I posted is what you get. All I have dc input, ball sensor switch, motor and battery connection
Ball sensor and dc motor
Dc in from switch, and battery connection
Coming off seemingly over complicated switch
At this point Iām just going to assume itās blown and beyond my ability to correctā¦ that single capacitor was pretty much the only thru hole component I felt comfortable replacing even if I was an idiot and had to figure out polarity
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Honestly, wouldāve been cool with it. 
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Sorry that I couldnāt be of any help.
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@b42 if you are active on that blog, these are some thoughts for you to pass on if you would like
The poster is struggling for space,
Here is a simple ~8mm he can gain back with the use of a dremel or similar
This is not going to allow him to have it NOT protrude as in the picture, but for some of his internal options, that will be significant
~ With the 8mm removed, that fit will be easier, AND for this
below
Personally, I would do two things
- Desolder the micro USB port, and attach wires direct to the pads ( I would also do that approaching from the componentās side, explained why in the next step)
- Once the USB port is removed, I would remove the ~5mm of PCB where it used to lay ( if there is a struggle for height with the cable ontop of the board, then out the other way would still work, with the newly gained space.
This looks like the board is laying directly onto a foil sheet, I would get something to insulate the board from the foil, something like a ferrite sheet, like this
https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/f/fair-rite-products/flexible-ferrite-sheets
Even thin foam or plastic would do, but not as good.
If it were my project, Those are the first tings I would tryā¦or another NFC reader
@b42 It looks like you follow that project as you posted the original and an update here.
Please feel free to post further updates, It would be interesting to me, and probably the community to see how he gets on, It might well interest somebody here to make their own.
FIre any questions back from Terence Eden, or even invite him to join the Forum, where there are far smarter people than me than can help him outā¦
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I honestly use just kapton tape for this a lot in things i make or build that may short to other devices.
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Good Idea, nice and thin too.
The ferrite might improve the performance though, so still worth a shot if it is thin enough 
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Itās fine, Iām sure you might be able to help narrow it downā¦but the more I dig into this thing the sketchier it seems and even if we narrowed it down to an IC swapping one is beyond my talent
Appreciate entertaining me
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Thanks, I sent him a link to your comment.
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The comments under the blog post support ActivityPub protocol, which is also being implemented for Discourse. In The Future 
you might be able to comment on the blog right from the forum.
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I am here infrequently! Thanks for the advice. I do also wonder if those debug posts on the side could be used.
First, I need to find someone nearby with a soldering iron and steady hands
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Where are you?
Might be one of us close. You never know.
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Sighā¦
On the one hand thatās pretty funny
On the otherā¦ this is why we canāt have nice things, and I wish theyād take this seriously
ā¦but I know they wonātā¦ Amazon only cares about shareholders now, who only care about their growthā¦ nothing about the actual product or experience
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Good! Oh, wait, I donāt currently own AMZN stocks right now so who cares.
Joking aside, if youāre asking an AI that isnāt Pilgrimsmaster for product recommendations, instead of doing your homework, you kinda deserve thatā¦
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Without going totally off the fucking rails again.
This is why.
Fuck Amazon.
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Agreed,
But also fuck shadeholders in generalā¦
The number of things that are done for short term profits, without any understanding of long term societal or product implications pisses me off
Shareholders should get next to no say in my opinion, you decided to throw your money inā¦ so I guess you agree with the vision now sit down and shut up
/rant
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