This week and the previous week I primarily worked on finishing the board. At this point in time, the board is fully functional and no design issues were detected. The board bring up was actually not painless at all however, since all the useful gear at Techspark were not operable due to the lack of staff during the break, therefore everything had to be hand placed and hand stenciled. Furthermore, the stencil received was thicker than ordered, therefore this resulted in many solder bridges that I had to manually fix with a soldering iron under the microscope. Afterwards, an acrylic was laser cut and keycaps and standoffs were installed, completing the piece.
My goal for next week is continue working on the ESP32 software (https://github.com/Absolute0K/DSKY-firmware) and researching the AXI interface for the FPGA-ARM communication for the demo.
