ESP8266 Pico Shim - Reminder - install pin headers first ;-)

Posted on Sat 18th, April 2015

• #1

DrAzzy

This may seem obvious, it certainly does to me in retrospect...

But don't install the shim before you install the pin header - it blocks you from getting a soldering iron onto the other side of the board to solder the pins on!
• #2

Gordon

Oh - strange... are you putting your shim on the top then?
• #3

DrAzzy

I'm doing it just like you show here: http://www.espruino.com/ESP8266

Soldering the pins in then requires getting soldering iron onto the top of the pins, but that path is blocked by the ESP8266. It's do-able, but considerably less pleasant than the other way around.
• #4

Gordon

Ahh, right! Sorry, I was thinking about the shim, not the whole thing with the ESP8266 as well.

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