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00:00:00	in this video we're going to actually begin soldering the components onto the Raspberry Pi stepper motor hat I'm going to replicate everything that was on that uh initial uh Bread Board the first thing that I did was really just in my
00:00:15	notebook I jotted down exactly what I needed to do and how everything was uh wired up on the breadboard then as I began looking at how I wanted to wire this up I cut small pieces of wire and I wanted it to look neat as I've seen in
00:00:31	other videos and I really spent a lot of time bending 90° bends into these wires so that I could wrap them around specific components make sure that they look neat now the level shifter that I'm using it actually raises the data pin
00:00:49	from 3.3 volts from the Raspberry Pi up to 5 volts that the addressable LEDs need in order to operate but the problem with that is that the level shifter is so wide that it takes up the entire width of the project board that is on
00:01:04	the Raspberry Pi hat so in order to get around that I needed to actually run some of the wires underneath the level shifter and we'll see if that ends up being a problem later um I don't know if this is going
00:01:20	to work I think it'll work I don't see a reason why there should be a problem uh another idea is to actually just run the wires underneath the that the board and Tire but I'd like to keep everything up on
00:01:32	top if I can so we'll see how that works out here you can see I put a little piece of painters tape over all of the wires that I just put in and that way I can flip the board over and put it in the holder and then I can solder
00:01:44	everything from the back side here you can see me putting down some flux U so that I get good solder connections and I am making sure to solder everything solidly but again between uh cutting all these
00:02:01	wires and making sure that they look neat that which is probably not a priority uh it took me over two hours uh to get all this put together and all of that seemed to work pretty well I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out
00:02:17	but there are clearly problems here so I thought I was being clever by placing the data and the uh ground wires underneath the level shifter but now that I'm through and it's taken me 2 hours to get to this
00:02:38	point I realized that I forgot to actually add power to this so you see that there's actually two ground wires that pull down these two pins the pin this pin here and this pin here on the end both of those are connected to
00:02:55	ground but there is no power running to this thing but I think I'm getting a little a little tired tonight so I'm going to call it quits for today and we'll come back at this tomorrow I'm a little bit frustrated with myself but
00:03:08	hey we'll we'll take another crack out of tomorrow it's funny that I took all that time to lay out all the wires and everything I really thought that I would get to all of that this evening but it's again it's taken longer than I expected
00:03:20	so we'll be back at it tomorrow but I think that's enough for tonight I'm tired and I think I'm going to go to bed this is day 17 of a 30-day challenge I've given myself to post a video to YouTube Every Day in the month of
00:03:33	September and as I've said in the previous videos if anyone has any feedback from me about how I can make better solder joints or better videos please leave a comment down below but for now that's my two cents thanks for
00:03:37	watching everyone have a great night and stay awesome