New PCBs from JLCPCB: Juliano Chilli Pepper

My Chilli Pepper CP2102 USB to serial PCBs have arrived. Do they work?

Interested in my new garden workshop? Follow the entire build on Julian's Shednanigans:

(We each get £50)

#ElectronicsCreators

[jlucasound]

OH! The board is excellent Julian(o)!! Please keep going with making your originals and working with the Chinese modules and Arduino stuff. I personally can't get enough. I hope your fan base agrees. Cheers from New England! (I am a Mayflower descendant, so I am from your neck of the woods.) :-)

[MarkDixon]

If you wanted to see the Rx/Tx LED's flash a bit more you could include some serial stuff in your sketch, such as return the millis since start or the on/off switching of the LED. We all love flashing LED's here :)

[jaxjackson]

If the 2nd set of mounting pins are needed, you can use a piece of wire wrapped over the top of the connector.

[sethrd]

Purchased a number of those mini usb 4 post + through hole pins from aliexpress/baba and the delivery was 100%.

[SidneyCritic]

Those edge pins on chips, eg RP2040, are easier to solder if you make the footprint pads extend a decent distance past the chip. Basically you solder on the outside exposed pad and it wicks under.

[frazer]

On the CH340 I think you can program it so in device manger it will say chilli pepper, should try that

[gregorythomas]

I know what you mean...suppliers getting careless...I ordered a new Maserati...they shipped me a VW Beetle...the nerve!!

[frankowalker]

Same here with ebay, I ordered 500 Assorted Capacitors, they sent 200.

Your Chilli Pepper board is brilliant.

[TradieTrev]

USB mini, you don't stuff around with old school electronics tech! :P Love your trolling mate!

[AndyFletcherX]

You could have used a SMD Micro socket, part number "C381143" then JLCPCB would have put it on your boards for you.

[Ed.R]

Why didn't you arrange the pins on your board in the same order as the pro mini? Then you could have used a female header and just plugged in the pro mini directly.
Good to see custom boards with surface mount components, giving me the confidence to get some made for my own projects.

[colormaker]

Thats good news JLCPCB does aluminum boards now. We were using PCBWAY for our aluminum boards as JLCPCB did not offer them. I will have to check there price structure but it will be nice to order all our pcb needs from one manufacture. great project its a bummer that the cap passed there QC but otherwise the boards looked great.

[mikewillis]

Looks a nice board. I have also been getting things that were not what I ordered, on occasions completely useless substituting one board for another and to add insult replacing capacitor with zero ohm link. You got one of the resistors upside down I see. Consistent so it might be about the way it is placed.

[ebenwaterman]

If you designed for 2 pins and got 4 what would you do? I'd have cut 2 off.

[jumadhaheri]

HOW, I am sure I had placed my order way before your video and still my pcb in China in transit !

[michaelstevens]

Could we have a closer look at the Jigsaw? Is this one you did not have before. Do you have enough to do a complete video review? I hope that might be an option for your video regime.

[peterzeboroff]

I also order a lot of various electronic parts from Ebay and the photos they show online depicting what they are supposedly selling, not to even mention their discriptions of what they are supposedly selling is grosslly inaccurate a good portion of the time.I am getting the very strong impression that they people posing the adds arent the people that take the orders and they dont share their information

[fredflintstone]

Morning?? what country are you in when you release the video :-) congratulations it works ;-)

[TBL_stevennelson]

I rather have ordered your boards then the ones I picked randomly from people I don't know

[DaedalusYoung]

I don't mean to toot my own horn too much, but I can assure you that all items I sell on eBay are 100% as advertised. It's also shipped from within the UK, so no waiting for weeks. But I do apologise, my Atari Punk Console kit is currently out of stock, it's a popular item.