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:

PocketBone KiCAD (OSHPark Edition)