Okey, I’m almost there. All essential stuff is mounted and soldered on the board. There’s just one scary part I need to do before I can put in the IC’s and fire it up. And that is testing. But even before that I need to a big inspection of the board. Check if there are no faults or shorts in the circuit. See if all components are soldered in right, check polarities, see if all component wires are cut properly, no contact points are touching because of bad soldering, no metal parts like the heat shields are touching the diodes or the legs of the voltage regulators. Again check the polarities of the capacitors. Check check check. And then I can start the testing.

ooh, look how cute. Quick before it’s mom arrives …

too late, there she is ! And she’s huge ! 😉

My brainless Ambika passed all the tests with ease 😉 No really, it did. Ready to put the IC’s in their sockets and fire it up !

No turning back now, hope it doesn’t explode …