I was wondering about that... There's no reason why it couldn't be, but I'm a bit scared of either:
It snapping off when it's not meant to
The board being damaged when the end is snapped off... it'll be 2mm thick, so the board itself will be harder to snap than a 'normal' 1.6mm PCB - and on top of that the non-leaded chip is more likely to come disconnected if the board is twisted.
I could very easily re-arrange the wiring such that you could cut the end off if you wanted though. I'd imagine attacking it with a dremel would be far less likely to damage it than snapping the end off.
"micro"-Espruino module
That's a really nice idea. Someone on here was planning a wearables platform that looked a bit like that, but actually having solder-on boards for Espruino/protoboard/etc would be great - especially as I could do a whole series of small specific purpose boards (for example for connecting to a WiFi module). If I ditched the voltage regulator (the chip can run off 2-4v) then the actual module could be tiny.
I think given how far I'm along with this one it's maybe a job for an Espruino v3.0 though ;)
I guess it could come down to what the extra cost of producing two separate boards was, but I guess as one would be almost through-hole I could supply a more expensive assembled board, as well as a kit.
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I was wondering about that... There's no reason why it couldn't be, but I'm a bit scared of either:
I could very easily re-arrange the wiring such that you could cut the end off if you wanted though. I'd imagine attacking it with a dremel would be far less likely to damage it than snapping the end off.
That's a really nice idea. Someone on here was planning a wearables platform that looked a bit like that, but actually having solder-on boards for Espruino/protoboard/etc would be great - especially as I could do a whole series of small specific purpose boards (for example for connecting to a WiFi module). If I ditched the voltage regulator (the chip can run off 2-4v) then the actual module could be tiny.
I think given how far I'm along with this one it's maybe a job for an Espruino v3.0 though ;)
I guess it could come down to what the extra cost of producing two separate boards was, but I guess as one would be almost through-hole I could supply a more expensive assembled board, as well as a kit.