My new test station!

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I just finished my new test station. It was mostly built to test displays, both eyespi and old. It uses a left over proffie v3.9 test board from oshpark (therefore it only supports v3.9 boards). I designed the lower board for the minimal pins I wanted, and had it fabbed by oshpark. I still had leftover spring pins from the original test boards.

It has 2 buttons, speaker and a kill switch with separate header for non switched installs (pull battery to kill). The pixels seen are connected to data1 and led2.

In addition to the display pin headers, I have easy access to all data, led, and free pads. If needed, I could add connections to the upper test board to get the rest of the connections.

Everything continuity tested good, but I still need to test it out.

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What gel are you using to protect the board from the clamp?
*Love the LED Strip inclusion in the base.

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Nice work!

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I designed it and printed it in clear pla. It is posted here:

Further down the thread @olivierflying747-8 posted one with all the edges. Mine kinda slides around.

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Not a critique, more curiosity (and probably ignorance but)

Why couldn’t you use a v2.2 board ?

  • BATT + & - are in same location
  • LED 1 to 6 are in the same location
  • SPKR + & - are in the same location
  • Button 1 & 2 are inverted (but it can be fixed with a change in config)
  • one of the two GND (the one between BATT + & - is in the same location

I am not saying that you should, but you could if you wanted to add a few more “modular” connection points for the pins that do change. Right ?

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For the pins you listed, yes, I suppose. But the oled uses scl, sda which moved. The color display uses free and the data pins are in different places.

I suppose it would workish, but would take too much mental gymnastics (imo) to use it safely.

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For testing an OLED, yes I agree. But for testing a v2.2 without OLED, then it is just a matter of changing data1, just to test that the board is working. If you needed.