Are you selling the assembled keys?

Texas_Ace wrote:

Are you selling the assembled keys?

I see, how much for an assembled key shipped to the US?

Lexel wrote:

for the mirrored key its 3.5$ shipped

I got ones that now also fit the socket 1:1 but need to assemble a few then running out of pogo pins

So the new ones can just plug right into the usbasp correct? I will wait for those then I will most likely buy 2 to play with.

HarleyQuin and Lexel, do you have pinout and pcb layout recommendation for the programming pin connector? I think it make sense to standardize something for easy use on many drivers types.

the only one for pinout and pad pattern I see so far is loneoceans pogoprog here: http://www.loneoceans.com/labs/pogoprog/ but it look like everyone using slightly different spacing and pinout?

Yes, a standard pinout and via pattern would be good.

Lexel, do you have a diptrace pattern for the via pattern you use? Thinking about adding this to the GT4 driver.

Eh, 6 pads is so overrated… 3 is more my style

I’ll give 6 pads a shot, though. Lexel, are all v3.2 fixed (not mirrored)? Or was the mirroring only on the 10-pin connector? I had trouble flashing this board (my first attempt at using your pgm key), but I think it was probably my driver design at fault.

ToyKeeper wrote:

Mostly, I just want this to be a thing… like, yesterday. And I hope we can get someone to manufacture keys and sell a flashing kit. It looks like a huge upgrade to how we’ve been doing things, and it could enable the use of smaller and fancier MCUs.

EDIT: I’d still want the kit to include the usual programming clip because I already own some drivers that don’t have pogo pin programming on-board.

If I want the key to be used on the bottom of the driver, do I apply the via pattern to the bottom of the driver or to the top of the driver? I want to get the mirror issues right the first time lol.

I assume it should be applied to the bottom of the driver since not all the patterns use vias?

This is how the pinout looks like on the bottom side of the driver, just want to make sure it is correct since I don’t have a key to test it with:

Texas_Ace wrote:

This is how the pinout looks like on the bottom side of the driver, just want to make sure it is correct since I don’t have a key to test it with:

gchart wrote:

Texas_Ace wrote:

This is how the pinout looks like on the bottom side of the driver, just want to make sure it is correct since I don’t have a key to test it with:

In looking at my assembled key from a couple posts above, this looks right to me.


Different topic… I seem to be having trouble with (at least some of) my pogo pins. They don’t seem to be making full electrical connection unless I completely depress the pins and the sleeve itself makes contact with the pads. Is this normal? Or should I try some other pins? It makes trying to flash a chip extremely aggravating. I think I tried repositioning this stupid thing like 25 times last night before getting a good connection.

Thanks, since it does not look like I will be able to test it before it goes into production I wanted to double check.

You could try soaking them in Alcohol and pressing them in completely while soaking to work any gunk out of them.

That is all I can think of.

With the normal SOIC clip, I have found spraying some Alcohol on the clip and then flashing while the clip is still wet nets me an almost 100% success rate when I am having trouble flashing a mcu. Of course I try cleaning the MCU with Alcohol first but this seems to work when that fails almost every time unless the MCU is dead.

Yeah, I was thinking about doing a good cleaning. They seem like the should be foolproof… I’m sure it’s gotta be something simple and stupid (like dirty contacts)

Edit: it’s a tiny difference, but I see I used 0.35mm drills instead of 0.4mm. Perhaps the difference in contact area isn’t helping either.

Have you got the new batch of keys put together yet? I would like to order a few so I can test it out when they are ready.

Ok, I want to order 2 of them when you have them assembled let me know. Thanks.