[TriEmbed] OSH Park board problem, shared project search page & vendor solution

[Pete Soper]

Folks,
    I recently had a chip programming problem and when I debugged it the 
issue was surprising: a defective OSH Park PCB. Here are the details of 
the problem and the rapid response by the vendor.
    I needed more ICSP breakouts for solderless protoboards and went 
looking for a cheap solution. By using the TriEmbed OSH Park shared 
project search page <http://triembed.org/searchoshpark.html> (a link in 
the TriEmbed resources <http://triembed.org/#resources>) I looked for 
"avr" and found shared project "AVR ISP adaptor" 
<http://oshpark.com/shared_projects/JCbaKwcL> submitted by nsayer. I 
ordered three of these to use with 2x3 male headers and they arrived 14 
days later.
   I was having problems programming chips so when I switched to a 
breadboard using one of nsayer's adaptors it took a little extra time to 
figure out why I couldn't get joy. I'll never forget staring at a board 
that should look like the image at 
http://triembed.org/images/avr-icsp-ok.jpg but instead I found my self 
searching for a missing trace. A portion of the MOSI signal connectoin 
was simply missing as shown by 
http://triembed.org/images/avr-icsp-over-etched.jpg 
<http://triembed.org/images/avr-icsp-ok.jpg>
    OSH Park has a support system with a ticket submission system and a 
few hours after sending the details an automatic order for three more 
boards was initiated , so I'll get three good boards at no charge. They 
thanked me for the well-doc'd bug report and that was that.

-Pete

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