CRUD! I had just mounted my mbed into a PCB but did not have it cased up (the pcb traces were exposed). Anyway, the bottom of the PCB came in contact with a metal surface and jumped god knows what to god knows what... :-(

I found the fuse feeding power to the device had blown, but it was a fuse for something else (3A)... Had my hopes up thinking that the meb would power up and that maybe it was an external short that hed blown the fuse... No luck... The mbed is toast.

If I hook it upto the PC (nothing). If I supply 5V directly to pin 2 the mbed chip or the LPC chip gets VERY hot in a few seconds...

Is there any discount deals on replacement mbeds? Or do I just spring for a new one at full costs?

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PS: At least I thought enough to place headers on my PCB, So I'll be able to just plug in a new mbed... And yes, I'll cover up the circuit board this time...

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No discounts, that's your penance for leaving metal around.

Hint, hang the burned out MBED up as a reminder.

I had a circuit board contact something metallic once and it did a good job of generating smoke. Lucky for me it was just a resistor.

Christain, Truth is I should be looking into putting my own together... I have written a TON of code to carry out the functionallity of my "idea"... I love features of the mbed, and have even posted on why we can't we use the device as a production solution?... All I need is the USB interface, local file functions, both CAN readers, and a bank of PWM & Analog pins.

HOW I would build this is way beyond my skill level. I'm not a hardware person...

Clark, LOL (penance) That's a great phrase for what I should do.. :-) I think I will do just that! I really was stupid on my part to leave it all exposed like that...

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