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Hi Folks,

Starting my Raven060 Adventure soon and like to document my built here :D

As written elsewhere, this will be one (out of 5) new Raven060 given birth in Germany.
OK, one set of PCBs will relocate pretty soon to Sweden and will be handled by @redpixel but 4 of them will be built during next weeks (or months) by me and some German fellows.

During last two months we were preparing, i.e. ordering components and PCBs - but now, finally, all seems to be ready and we can start.

The PCBs are all black (of course) and the Mainboard is pre-assembled with most of the SMD stuff by JLCPCB in China.
Only a few components they did not have on stock (and couldn’t order for some reason) like the 16245, the Max3245, the XR68M and the 24MHz OSC, we have to add manually. And all the THT stuff, of course.

Attached some first „unboxing“ pictures of the Mainboard, which just arrived yesterday (together with a big box of components from Mouser)
I am pretty excited and looking forward to starting my build.

Cheers
Michael

Good luck!

That saves some soldering, shame they didn't have thew other chips though as some of them are a pain :)

PhilC wrote: 25 Oct 2025 19:14 That saves some soldering, shame they didn't have thew other chips though as some of them are a pain :)

Yes, the 16245 and the XR68 have pretty tiny pins :D
But I will have to equip 12 RAM boards manually, too - and these SRAMs are not only expensive, but also small…

But the stereo microscope in our office lab will help a lot (as usual)

Starting…

LarryL wrote: 04 Nov 2025 13:04 Starting…

Almost done! :)

agranlund wrote: 04 Nov 2025 14:59
Almost done! :)

Yeah, almost… :lol:
Mostly black - only the electrolytic caps will be blue…

I think Ravens are hatched :-)

Aww! You're already ahead of me!! :P

Good work!!

Mikerochip wrote: 04 Nov 2025 17:57 Aww! You're already ahead of me!! :P

Good work!!

:D
You will catch up - I have most probably not much time until the weekend…
Soldering is easy for me - when it comes to programming PICs, CPLDs and stuff, usually my problems are starting :mrgreen:
It never goes as expected…