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Uhhh... Hm... Saw some fireworks and quickly pulled away. So... I may have put the battery wires in reverse. I ordered another PMS (thank God it was still in stock.) On the bright side, that means it works in reverse and the only thing I got to worry about now is the PMS. The most important...

I got Bluetooth! Awww yeah!

Absolutely. It's island themed. ... And the Louii is just orange.

Back from the dead. Sorry, I was busy... training... and real life kicked my ass. I built myself a little PiGRRL 2 to practice soldering and learned some more stuff about soldering. Then I got into 3d printing to save myself some money so I can have unlimited case tries. Like I REALLY got into...

Alright. Yes. Thanks for really clearing that up. That actually helps a lot. I can see now how much of a caveman I was before. I was trying to solder up a little to secure the joint but that messed things up even further. Then to make things worse I went from 1 to 8 because I thought most heat...

Wait hold up. So basically, I'd have to keep the wire and the trace together after soldering for 1 - 2 seconds longer. Like really heat it up and then pull away. And flux keeps those joints from looking like it's rusted and gross, which also makes it more consistently durable and I shouldn't be...

Got it. I had some practice after completely wrecking the board. As for the resistors, I was looking hard at the Trimming guide's pictures and the highlighted parts were on those pads... After looking verrrry closely at my mistake, I see a hole. I'm surprised it initially worked but more than...

Real talk, I burned off the r71. Do I have to restart all over again? EDIT: I'm gonna start all over again. Completely destroyed the battery's solder pads + R71 which I'm assuming is mega important. Also I JUST saw the via in between those pads. Beyond that, I actually had it working before...

Smaller than this?

Need help finding a short. Also I figured out, there's only need for one GND.

How much GND should I be connecting? Also U10 works perfectly.

Wanna know something funny? I actually have a clamp. That first time cutting with a Dremel was exciting though. My fingers were in danger the entire time. MX looks okaaaay... It looks like I thankfully over cut the thing out. I'm more concerned about that goofy solder blob bridging the U9's...

Noooooooo! So I already ordered another Wii from eBay. Surprisingly enough, the Wii is the most replaceable part of the entire thing. So while I wait for that to show up I might as well ask a few more questions. First, that Bluetooth relocation was a gosh darn nightmare. I doubt I should use 34...

I think I messed up. Looks like a couple of important things relied on that top piece. Now I cry for a different reason.

Too late. Just sliced off the MX chip as a test run for the dremel. How would the test run go? I assume you connect all that good stuff to the TV with the power source and the component cables on the motherboard and click that little button?

I swear to god. I think I cried. I feel like this is right. Is this right? I'll find out after slice thing board up now.

My guts are telling me to remove that blob and use the module pin on the other side for the last 3.3v connection. Would it better to reconnect the Bluetooth from scratch?

That's actually something I never thought of. Thanks, I'll try to figure out the rest on my own.

Got it. I'll turn this into a worklog if it gets excessive. I guess I have one more question then. Is there an easier way to solder the wires onto the GPU pin? As in, should I have soldered it onto the board itself?

Got it. Thanks you guys. I'll try the rest on my own but if I get stuck again, would it be better to open up a worklog or just ask another question here?