Thank you thank you thank you everyone for teaching me, helping me, pushing me, and making this stuff so dam frustratingly fun!
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For the batch that you have now, seriously… try a drop of dark nail polish AKA “poor mans’ conformal coat”
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asking the little lady for some now. Pop a resistor, dab some polish
It’s seriously fun to help you make it through developing some new, and mad, skills. My weekend’s already made, and it has barely even started!
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That works but it is harder to do than the resistors. I bet a toothpick will help. Kinda nice having penalized boards for work like this.
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They’re not build failures… They’re rework fixtures 
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Yup toothpick, and this
Is a great capacitor removal tool
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Okay, dinner time.
You guys are amazing. thanks again
I really hope you do not know that off the top of your head…I am just so excited I knew that is what a capacitor looked like over time.
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Not really, except that 10k/100nF is one of my most commonly used filter values for DC/slow signals. f(-3db) of 160Hz, step response of ~2.5ms.
For RC filters, the time constant is the result of the product, so 1R/1F is the same as 1MR/1uF. 1R/1F is 0.16Hz and 2.3 seconds and you can scale from there. 10K/100nF is the same as 1K/1uF or 1R/1mF which is 160Hz and 2.3ms.
So yeah, it’s not too hard to just eyeball!
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So how did the rework push go?
Are you happy with how a dab of dark nail polish dims out the blinding LED?
Are you now going to get a good yield on this production batch?
Sick of the questions yet? 
I’m up to buy a vew V1 branded ESP32s, should any show up on the shop. Price them with a decent margin, call them V1 premium edition ESP32s or something…
Yeah, That works. Right on top and it shines more sideways and you don’t even notice the dot on top. I am reworking the schematic now.
100%
Nope
I will get another batch started, that is hopefully a bit less expensive, and figure out a price then.
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Okay looking at the LED’s. The specs are close between the jackpot and the ESP32 The jackpot LED’s run at 0.85-0.95mA…the ESP is 10mA 
To my defense I think I calculated it at 3.3V not 5V, at 3.3V it would be 1.5mA…still double but way closer. Bonehead mistake.
Moving it down to 22.1k (to decrease unique part count by 1) that gets it to .95mA which should be a very similar intensity. I could try to solder a resistor on there…if my hand is steady enough.
Very similar, maybe a touch more dim. 22k
As they currently are, the picture does not portray the brightness accurately… Looking at it is too much.
With dried black nail polish, a little brighter than perfect.
On its way today!!! 1st official sold v1 ESP32…
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You need that picture, but with the matching Jackpot
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It would be Camouflage. 
Woohoo! Thank you Ryan.
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I did actually sign the underside…little tight on top!
Dang that looks good.
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I have a bunch more coming. The best price I can get them for is about $8.50-$9 to my door. Same price as the Espressif (smaller memory not broke out USB UARTs on the bottom) with shipping. I think I will just get them for the Jackpots.
No one really wants these outside of the Jackpots right? I guess I can list a few and see what happens.
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I would just come up with a price that’s worth it to you, and list them.
You never know who might order them…
If I was going to order a genuine board for something, I would probably order it here before I went to Mouser or Digikey if the pricing is similar.
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