Speak Jet to hell and back
by Moogle on Oct.24, 2010, under Arduino / AVR, Electronics
It started off as a simple Speak Jet chip… Then I added it to my Antimov robot for the sparkfun competition…
This is all that remained of the arduino pro and the SpeakJet board I made after the fire.
The SpeakJet chip was fused to the board and required a bit of force to remove it. This resulted in the chip cracking and one of the pins falling off.
The chip was badly damaged so I see this as a challenge to see if the chip still functions properly :)
I epoxied the chip to keep the crack in it from becoming larger and very very carefully used a small file to get some copper exposed that i could solder a new pin to.
I still want to try the Atmel 328p from the arduino pro to see if it functions too :)
Update:
both chips were dead. Speak Jet chip just became very hot when power was applied, The Atmel 328p wont show up avr dude with external crystal attached.
December 6th, 2010 on 7:48 am
Hello, I live in Nashville. At age 70 I thought I would learn how to use a MCU. I bought a Arduino and ethernet board. And downloaded lots of stuff, which does not work as stated. I am determined to learn this stuff but am going to need real help. If you are local, could you suggest a local group or an approach that does not include two year old data. My cell is (number removed)
Thanks for your site and your time, Larry