Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Any recommendations on how to best cut the traces on the board? Scrape them with a nail? Cut them with utility/x-acto knife?


Xacto knife: two cuts, slightly apart, angled toward each other, almost making a mini V-groove. Then just peel the copper away from between the two cuts. A gap of a millimetre (or more) is the minimum needed.

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Actually, the part I'm most worried about is soldering wire to points on the board where there aren't any existing pads (marked in green). Should I just scrape up a small area for the wire?


You can do it without any scraping, but for the red wires I personally would scrape away the green stuff to make room for new pads. That way I wouldn't be soldering too close to any components I might damage. smile

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