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Re: [AVR-Chat] Challenge

2005-06-08 by Dave VanHorn

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>I just wanted to say, I had to do this before, when a the guy who did the
>PCB for a project made a mistake and reversed all the bits on a port and
>no-one noticed until the code didn't work properly..
>As the board was already assembled and hardwired (SMD) we had to use the
>'soft' approach and a LUT was used.

I had one once where the board maker flipped the layers. He put the 
solder layer on the top, and the component layer on the bottom.
Fortunately, DIP chips aren't THAT hard to bend the pins the other way..
Rewiring the keyboard was a bit of a pain.


Excrement Occurs, and it's often up to us to deal with it somehow.

This challenge is proving more interesting than I thought it would, already.

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