@masterkenobi

Yes it's more expensive, but compared to the days I spent thinking I had a problem with my code and it was just a driver change that broke everything, trust me, in my case, worth it (and it was 2nd time of driver problem, so we'll have again and again in the future). By the way, on the link I posted, they have on board regulator and 5V/3V3 switch that make them suitable for powering ESP modules that the other can't do seriously ;-) Love them

Anyway, any chinese FTDI chip claiming FTDI original are fake, trust me I've got 10, all fakes and I even built my own with chinese FT232 chip bought on ebay, and guess what, they're also fake.

But any other cheap chip other than FTDI will works ;-)

This one should do the trick
http://www.ebay.com/itm/USB2-0-To-TTL-6Pin-Converter-Arduino-CH340G-for-STC-PRO-Serial-Replace-PL2303-/321754572767?hash=item4aea1127df:g:12MAAOSwymxVPddi

What I've done is to buy some of these pretty USB/Serial adapters, from tindie
https://www.tindie.com/products/ddebeer/usb-to-serial--uart-5v-or-33v-695-/
with 5V/3V3 on board switch, CH341 chipset, and 3V3 on board regulators for ESP8266 for example

Time you win, problem went away, and bye bye FTDI problems, seriously Worth it !!!

Yeah shipping solder paste needs some special shipping such keep it into "freeze" state, may be why, when it come from DK it's really well packed to handle this!

Sure tinkering will be great, not sure we'll have enough days for this ;-)

I always had pain for solder paste dispenser (that's a shame because has you said, you do not always have stencils) because the solder always stay on the top of the dispenser and not on the pad, but may be I'm doing wrong but tried a lot of position !!

What solder paste are you using ? leaded or not ? I needed to change settings for leaded because it needs to be approx 250°C and it's difficult to calibrate (oven says 250 but really ?), and at this temp sometime the PCB change it color a little bit due to excessive heating.

What I noticed also at 250°C (didn't tried on leaded) is that heating is not uniform, I mean on a big PCB solder paste does not melt on corners, good to know, but not fun, I could increase temp and time but PCB will change it's color more and more ;-)

That said, T962 for leaded is really good, but attention need to be taken with lead free solder paste, reach the limits ;-)

You finally spent $200 for a T962 ;-) happy with it ? At this price worth having one

@scalz
Oh my Nextion are still located on my desk in their original shipping case ;-(

Great job, next time we'll see you'd be able to show me how to use them ;-)

By the way where to you get your blue PCB ? The blue I have from ElectroDragon does not looks so good. But the Red they have, rock ;-)

Hi guys,

Just to let you know that the new FTDI driver has changed the way on how it can make us crazy again. Now it does not change PUID anymore, it just send a dummy string over serial.

I just spent too much time trying to get my modbus (chinese USB/RS485 with fake FTDI chip) working until I saw master sent the good char and slave receive "NON GENUINE", so it's harder to detect because all seems to work, but transmission has been changed by this f**** string and you receive other than you send and vice versa

Anyway, thank's FTDI's guys making our life complicated, and guess what, since I can't know in advance if device I buy has Genuine or not FTDI chip, my only option is to go to ch340, cp2306 or other...

Fabien

I'm the designer of this board, which RFM69 library you tried and which board version are you using ? Because I'm using RadioHead but I needed to tweak it to be able to work on ESP8266.