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I've been building a qaz and stuck with my keyboard not working for a few days, I de-soldered the micro controller and double checked it and it worked fine. Put it back on the board and it just heats up and does nothing. Doing that there was a short and found it was one diode I soldered in that was to blame, you can see it hanging out right now in the middle of the picture. I ended up soldering it in since the instructions said to solder diodes in with an orientation based on the square pads. Well little did I know that that set of pins is a debug header and not for Diodes, the original design of the board even has markings for that but no they had to remove the useful information.

I wouldn't say "idiot." Lack of information is really the thing.

I felt so stupid when I realized it, it was too different when I put in that diode and I didn't think too much about it, just glad I didn't kill my pro micro

And what about everything you learned solving this. That's what we keep long after the keeb itself.

Leclerc, is that you?

Built a lilly58 for my son. Managed to put both controllers on upside down.

That definitely no worky.

I managed to avoid that trap since this board mounts the controller upside-down. But I did end up buying a different controller so I wouldn't have to de-soldered the headers from the first I got

Yeah, removed and flipped the first one. Tempted to re-buy for #2

Clearly you knows tons about building keyboards THE HARD WAY (aka soldering diodes). Yeah, it was a very close call but I bet you you will never ever ever make this mistake again. I also bet you will use this as a teaching experience for others on this sub and elsewhere.

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