On 03/02/16 10:05, Terry Coles wrote:
On Tuesday 02 February 2016 23:31:37 Paul Tansom wrote:
All the Pi Zero images I've seen the Pi has been in a cardboard blister
pack, so would have some decent protection. The plastic sandwiched between
the card looked to hold its shape, so would offer some protection. Most
have also been in a clear bag with the magazine. If yours was just loose
something may have happened to it between being sent out and you getting
it. I would ask the foundation about it given that it seems from a later
post that the Pi is at fault.
....
Obviously, it was inside the delivery envelope, but it wasn't loose, a big
blob of glue had been smeared onto the track side of the PCB and then it had
been stuck to the front of the
magazine. The one I saw in Tesco's the same day had the Pi attached in the
same way.
....
This is why I was a bit shocked (excuse the pun) when I saw my very own Pi Zero
stuck on the front of
the MagPi magazine.
You saw the lovely little conductive package that my pi-zero was in,
only just large enough to put it in, but sufficient to protect it. I
just hope that they were put in the packages in a proper environment,
though I would hope that it was all done by machine. I would guess that
mine wasn't in the first batch.
By the way, did you check the impedance of the blob of glue?
Peter
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