Even more silk screen

The displays have arrived - and they work! Just need to make some final tweaks to the boards...

Great news — the displays arrived from China!

This is one stack; there are 10 displays on each layer and 5 layers.

And there are another 3 boxes…

I wanted to wait for these to arrive before doing the bulk order of PCBs — there would be nothing worse than having 300 displays and 300 boards that didn’t work together.

Everything is looking good, though. I’ve tested a sample of the displays, and they work nicely with the latest board design. So, I’m now ready to get the PCBs ordered.

But before hitting the order button, I wanted to make a few tweaks. I’ve been thinking: we’ve got some lovely full-color silk screen on the front of the board.

But on the back, we’ve pretty much got a blank canvas. There are a few helpful symbols for the various connectors, but not much else.

This feels like a terrible waste, so I thought I should fill the space with useful information.

So, here’s what’s going to be on the back of the board:

This should give us a nice quick reference to the board’s GPIO pins and an easy way to get to the website for more details.

I’ll be placing the PCB order this week, which means that we are still on track for delivery!