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I received my dev kit and immediately broke it. The SOM connects to the mainboard with 4x 80-pin tiny connectors. If you miss the little warning on the silkscr
by dewyatt 8y ago
I received my dev kit and immediately broke it.
The SOM connects to the mainboard with 4x 80-pin tiny connectors. If you miss the little warning on the silkscreen and lift from the wrong side, BAM, two broken connectors.
Purism said they would sell me a replacement SOM, but they're not really communicating now.
- craftyguy 8y agoWhy did you try to remove the SOM? I have a devkit, and have ported an OS to it, but have not found any reason to unseat the SOM.
- dewyatt 8y agoI always like to take note of the ICs on new dev hardware I'll be working with. For one, I may find that something isn't working and the chips may be relevant to that. For two, if I want to re-purpose the kit for something in the future, that list of chips will let me know if I'm going to need to write a driver for my target OS. You can gather a lot of this info from a running OS, but it's much quicker and more accurate to just look at the chips in my experience. (Purism did finally send me a return shipping label for the SOM today)