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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 17:45:00 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   EE folks: how do you check for continuity when the footprints are on the opposite side of the board?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 17:55:05 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     i would usually use my apparently fairly good hand-eye coordination to simultaneously hold the board and two test probes and position the probes precisely enough for 0.5mm pitch ICs

     this only works if i can push one of the probes against a bump of some sort, and is _very_ awkward, but i've done it a lot

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 19:05:17 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Fridtjof

     @fridtjof instant order :D

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     Fridtjof (fridtjof@ruhr.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 19:05:18 JST Fridtjof

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     @whitequark I've recently discovered these non-slip tips that help with this quite a bit

     https://www.tag-connect.com/product/non-slip-probe-tips

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 20:34:27 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • dojoe

     @dojoe ooh I'm excited to try that

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     dojoe (dojoe@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 23-May-2025 20:34:28 JST dojoe

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     @whitequark what others wrote, plus two mirrors at 45° to see both sides simultaneously

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 27-May-2025 20:12:52 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

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     • Fridtjof

     @fridtjof hell yeah these are fantastic