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@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ So to solder the MCU in place, put the main PCB on your soldering surface, such
You can now optionally stabilize the MCU with pin headers and solder the MCU to the main PCB. You can now optionally stabilize the MCU with pin headers and solder the MCU to the main PCB.
## Soldering in the diodes ## Soldering in the diodes
There exist two versions of the PCB, one has silkscreen marking for the orientation of the diodes, in the other one the shape of the solderpads indicates the direction of the diodes.
### silkscreen marking
On the top side of the PCB you will find a lot of `U`-shaped markings in with `Dx` where `x` is a number $\in \{1-36,73\}$ next to them On the top side of the PCB you will find a lot of `U`-shaped markings in with `Dx` where `x` is a number $\in \{1-36,73\}$ next to them
The top side of the diodes shows a vertical line followed by the letters T4, i.e. it looks like `|T4`. The top side of the diodes shows a vertical line followed by the letters T4, i.e. it looks like `|T4`.
The diode has to be solder to the PCB such that the vertical line is on the closed side of the `U`-marking. The diode has to be solder to the PCB such that the vertical line is on the closed side of the `U`-marking.
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Solder in all 37 diodes that way. Solder in all 37 diodes that way.
Diodes `D1-D36` are in the center of the PCB, diode `D73` is $\approx 4\,\mathrm{cm}$ right of the MCU. Diodes `D1-D36` are in the center of the PCB, diode `D73` is $\approx 4\,\mathrm{cm}$ right of the MCU.
### Solderpad marking
To clean up the PCB the silkscreen markings for the diodes were removed.
The diodes shall be soldered in to the footprints were one pad is rectangular, and the other pad is pentagonal.
The pointy bit of the pentagon points to the kathode. I.e. the line marking on the diode need to be soldered to the rectangular pad.
The right direction is shown in the following picture.
![picture of how to solder diodes](diodes-footprint.webm)
Solder in all 37 diodes.
36 Diodes are in the center of the PCB, the final diode is $\approx 4\,\mathrm{cm}$ right of the MCU.
## Testing the keyboard ## Testing the keyboard
Now the keyboard should be functional. Now the keyboard should be functional.

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