Yeah, i fcked up big time.
I first tried soldering the ESP32 c3 supermini to the display - this was damn hard.
I first took a thick ass cable that kept touching the other pins on the supermini, but still pressed through - and well, it didn’t work.
It took like an hour to solder the shit on, and it was damn hard cause the space between the pins was tiny and i have next to no experience with soldering, but i pressed through,
and it ended up not working. So i removed all the wires again, used thinner wires, and then it didn’t work AGAIN cause some of the non covered parts of the wires were exposed. UGHHH right ?
Then i tried again, and also put some solder on the wire so that it sticks and doesn’t like wierdly frizzle, then soldered everything again and then
put like a TON of tape on it for insulation, then decided it was too much tape and took it off.

Anyway, that finally worked, so tadaa !

then came the horrible part :

the damn switches.

You see, these damn switches use SMD. Thats bad enough. Then THEY HAVE THE AUDACITY TO F$#@!ng MELT WHEN YOU try and solder something on the pad - i mean it literally.

The damn thing would honest to god literally damn melt when i tried to solder wires on it.
And as if that aint bad enough it also has balls enough to literally lose its PADS - the literally just come off, and then theres nothing to attach the damn wires to !

Needless to say, i burnt, melted, snapped andraged through 4 switches - and it wasn’t just my fault either :

Sure, the first time i was careless, but the second time i took as much care as a literal surgeon doing brain surgery, and the pad still snapped of and left me fuming.
Then i gave it to my friend whos been soldering for literal years - and he fucked up twice too. So yea, whoever made these switches, FUDGE them. (mom, if you read this, i really tried, i really did)

I pretty much spent the entire day at the makespace, and i made barely any progress.

Btw i managed to melt an esp by going too close to it with a hot air solder gun, and i also managed to melt my display.

Today was pretty much a waste.