so I’m on amazon and I want to get some items but I want to know if this cable is sufficient connecting the usb to my proffieboard.
my wife also told me she has magnifying visor or should I just get a microscopic camera.
etc.
It’s correct. Fragile, but will work. However, shows out of stock.
Can you get these by you?
I use a visor, and +2 basic Reading glasses.
Microscope camera sounds cool though
Oops. That’s the usb cable aaah ok. Hows it used.
Microscope is more helpful for streaming and for inspecting certain things.
A magnifying visor or stereo microscope is far more useful for doing actual work, like soldering.
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Try it and see?
L1 is relatively easy to replace if need be.
serial monitor?
No, you’ll need to play sound and/or measure the 5v pad.
So i got usb connectors i have 10.
Im gonna try attaching it to my busted saber. Gonna use a fine tip.
yeah my brother bought 10 L1 coils, to arrive in december (when he comes home). I also have solder paste 30g BGA Tin Solder Paste Leaded Sn63/Pb37 Syringe Liquid Melting-Point Tool NEW | eBay I’m hoping that this and the usb connector plus the l1 coil, do I just use a soldering iron to heat up and remove the component?
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Afrojedi, Is there any update to this project?
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I simply couldn’t do lightsabers or indeed anything small without my magnifier headset. (At my age, unaided close up focus is a dim and distant memory). My one has a range of lenses which you can ‘stack’ when things get really small. It’s amazing how you adapt to using it. Absolutely worth its weight in gold. 
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No, alas I gave up. I may look into this in the future
so i’m doing inventory on this. and I found this proffieboard but the l1 component I have are a lot smaller then that component that is exposed.
Here’s a current photo with L1 component
Looks like they substituted the part (cheaper if I had to guess) The inductor on my board I have here is an SMD one.
So long as the replacements you have there are to the proper specs, it’s fine. Just a different form factor.
Though, yours do look a little small…
The mouser image for the part linked on the V2 BOM is more what I’d expect such an inductor to look like. I can’t say I’ve seen an SMD inductor that looks like that, but maybe they exist (the small SMD ones I’ve seen aren’t typically labeled like that, and are marked differently if at all). I’d be worried about its current ratings if it’s that small though.
Is that 1.0uH 4.0A?
Do you have a data sheet link?
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