“Since you’re an EE, I assume your soldering is good…” Haha! All our boards are mostly SMT, and assembled by machines. If they need rework, other people (who are good at it) do it. But you are probably right that my soldering is better than people who are doing their first project or first few projects.
Anyway, I’ve been looking around the forum. You are doing an awesome job of supporting your projects. I will keep looking for the problem, and if I track it to root cause I’ll let you know. Otherwise I’ll just order a new kit from you (and pay). Thanks for your advice and please keep up the good work!
Believe it or not, my son actually asked for “fake TNT” for Christmas. Something he saw in a cartoon. So I HAD to get this kit when I saw it on make.com. I built the fake TNT with wood dowlings painted red. Bundled with black electrical tape. I left the ends unpainted because otherwise it looks way too real. I assembled it and discovered that it was not working on Christmas eve. Ugh.
–McKenzie