We’re excited to see that Michael Welling of QWERTY Embedded Design has completed manual assembly of his KiCad-designed PocketBone with the Octavo Systems OSD3358 SiP (System-in-Package):
BGA achievement unlocked
Michael used vacuum pickup tool to manually place the components:
Here is a video of him placing the components:
Michael then used Reflowster to reflow the solder paste:
Here is a video of the reflow process:
Check out the Hackaday.io project for more info:
Pocketbone KiCAD
The KiCad design files are available in the GitHub repo:
mwelling/pocketbone-kicad
mwelling has shared the board on OSH Park: