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This wiki describes only build steps required for the HillSideView that are different from the original Hillside wiki.
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First set up the nice!nano by soldering pins to it. Use two 12 pin long mill-max sockets and one 3 pin long set and place them on a breadboard in the nice!nano pin layout. Add some polyamide tape on the sockets to prevent solder from getting into the sockets. Make holes in the tape and add pins to the sockets.
Then press the pins down, place the nice!nano on and solder the pins to the nice!nano.
If you are planning to use a battery that is larger than 500 mAh, then you can setup the nice!nano for fast charging the battery by soldering these pads together.
Take the MCU+sockets assembly off the breadboard and solder them to the underside of the PCB. The best way to tell you're doing the right thing is to solder the MCU on the side that does not have the soldered SMT components. And on that side, the sockets to use are the ones that have a box drawn around them and have solder pads on the top side.
Start by first placing hotswap sockets on a few switches.
With the hotswap sockets on, place the switches on the PCB and ensure they're fully seated.
Then solder all the hotswap sockets on the underside of the PCB.
It is a good idea now to take out each switch and ensure that no solder is inside a hotswap socket causing the switch to be stuck.
Before soldering a battery first solder the power switch to the PCB and put it in the power off state.
Then, using a multimeter, ensure that the battery polarity is right, i.e, the red wire is actually positive and the black wire is actually negative. There are instances where batteries have these swapped and that can cause big issues if not caught at this stage.
Then solder the battery to the PCB with ensuring the postive and negative sides are soldered to the pins labeled Bat Pos and Bat Neg respectively.
The last step is to solder the display. You must solder it to the pins labeled DS1 on the top side of the PCB. You can either directly solder it using the dupont pins that came with the nice!view or using mill-max sockets like with the MCU. You might also add some double sided tape between the MCU pins to support the top side of the display.
After soldering the display, this is what the assembled PCB should look like with the MCU under the PCB and the display above it.
