Sadly my phone is awful at this level of macro, but this is after I re-soldered it. I didn’t really look too closely when it was broken because with the module off it was obvious what the problem was. The capacitor next to it looked like slightly dry joints, just not quite enough heat.

I should have gone round the corner and got Dave@EEVBlog to fix it and make a video. He is the next suburb over.

No, I have very limited surface mount skills but managed to get it done.

I should have gone to Dave, that way we’d get a video. I will open up 116 and have a look at that too, and if it looks suspect will see what Dave says. The workshop downstairs is all set up for this and there’s a proper microscope that I can get hopefully screenshots out of. I just have to bribe the technician 🙂

here’s photos of the wifi module from 117 after my hack job. It does work though! the b and c photos are tilted up a bit to make the soldering easier to see