#LoRa Backplate for #PinePhone @PINE64 is ingenious! Semtech SX1262 with an I2C-To-SPI Bridge (ATtiny84)
Probing the #PinePhone #LoRa Backplate ... Will this work? 🤔
Probing the #PinePhone #LoRa Backplate ... With Bus Pirate and #Pinebook Pro ... Seems to be responding on I2C? 🤔
Bus Pirate says that #PinePhone #LoRa Backplate is at I2C Address 0x00 ... But it should be 0x28 instead 🤔
Bus Pirate reading from #PinePhone #LoRa Backplate at I2C Address 0x28 ... Nope no response 🤔
Same thing happens when we probe the Breakout Board for #LoRa Backplate 😭
Why won't the #LoRa Backplate respond to "i2cdetect" on #PinePhone? 🤔
https://github.com/lupyuen/pinephone-lora#test-lora-backplate-on-pinephone
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@lupyuen This makes me very uncomfortable!
@lupyuen this is what I was going to suggest, but the putty farther down. In fact. if you put it so far down only a mm or so of the wire leads produce from the bottom it should be able to rest on top comfortably. A low center of gravity plus less wire length so less bending I think should do the trick.
Honestly I'm surprised you dont just have a 2x row header you could use instead.
@freemo Thanks! Lemme try that
@lupyuen the key will getting them spaced just right in the clay I think.. but if you do without much showing I think it might work nicely. Good luck.
@lupyuen Blu Tack trick 🧐
@lupyuen I would solder bare thin wires (copper strands) to the pads, snip them off at a few millimetres, then use ez hooks to connect.
@modrobert Yep that should work 👍
@lupyuen @modrobert Yes, and I even loop the thin wire back to the pad, so that the hook can't slid off. If pad is too tiny, then loop back the end and solder to itself.
Probing the #LoRa Backplate for #PinePhone ... With Bus Pirate 🤔
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinedio#Pinephone_backplate