For incidental smd soldering a fine tip iron and flux will do the trick just fine. Get a bottle of liquid smd flux, wet the components good and put a tiny blob of tin on your iron. The flux will make the tin flow perfectly. Check youtube for instructions, search for smd flux soldering. But if you ha...

Aha, i must confess cinnamon was not my first choice either but was the only one i could get.
Altoids are not easy to get here in Europe.
Hope i can get a red one when v3 is released...

I just opened it up for a quick shot. I was a bit generous with the hot glue, i had the lower bracket come loose on me once. looks good man, wouldn't mind seeing the guts of it, I'm curious how you got all that on the back of the tin Yeah, hot glue nasty looking but i does the job (most of the time...

What did you write into this file to deactivate the video? You can remove this lines in the script: sleep 5s omxplayer -o alsa -b --layer 10000 "/home/pi/mintyPi/minty-splash.mp4" & sleep 25s sudo pkill omxplayer Or better comment them out: #sleep 5s #omxplayer -o alsa -b --layer 10000 "/home/pi/mi...

Nevermind figured it out myself, it is in the /home/pi/mintyPi/minty-startup.sh script

Shipping batterys indeed is a risky thing, i know (especially for the seller). But the mintypi community is international so pointing people in the right direction seems imho a good thing. I can guess that most of the non us v3 buyers would want that exact battery (with or without the really nice st...

Nice faq, Only one question, i think i already know the answer but will ask anyway... Why do international buyer have to source their own battery? And if, the battery seems to be a rather important new part and not as common as the v2 type lipo so some good pointers would be advisable. No battery no...

Edit: I probably should have posted this in the mintypi help forum, sorry for that :oops: A quick question, is it possible to replace/edit/disable the mintypi/sudomod video that plays at startup. When i enable the splash screen through the splash menu i get two videos playing at the same time, the o...

There's a dutch proverb that says "conceit stinks" but in your case it is covered by the sweet smell of mint

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Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:12 pm

Those pins are connected on the pcb as well so no problem.

Ah great, thanks for the info!