This is probably pedestrian-grade for a lot of you, but I thought I'd just share a job that came through the other day. Probably the 'worst' part of this was that the USB D+/D- pads had only the tiniest of vias next to them to get a foothold for the 32AWG WW wire. If it had gone beyond this I'd have to then look up the controller chip and find out which pins the D+/- lines were going to and tap on to them.
Client got everything back of course, ~3GB of irreplacible data; so for now I'll keep a copy of the image for ~6 months... you never know.
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File comment: All good - time to make a complete image of the stick and then worry about pulling data from it afterwards. pic20130502114058.jpg [ 119.77 KiB | Viewed 5654 times ] |
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File comment: Plugged in... at least there wasn't any magic smoke released :) pic20130502114046.jpg [ 82.12 KiB | Viewed 5654 times ] |
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File comment: V+/- were easy enough to tap, but the D+/- were a bit iffy. Still, a decent magnifying desk lamp and some gentle work with an Xacto gave me just enough footing to solder on the pair of wires. pic20130502112608.jpg [ 108.54 KiB | Viewed 5654 times ] |
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File comment: As supplied from the client. They tried to flatten it back out after bending it. pic20130502105757.jpg [ 192.15 KiB | Viewed 5654 times ] |
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