I tried checking out the new (rev. A) controller board earlier this week, with no success. A bit of diagnostics showed that the ground layers weren't switching and further research provided the reason: the SOT-89 package for the transistors didn't match the pins of other packages for the same device.
I'm not sure how I ended up making this mistake, though I suspect what happened is that I originally did the schematic assuming a different package, and failed to verify the pinning after making the change.
The picture shows the cube with the prototype boards (brown), with the SMT rev. A board behind (green). Mostly for a size comparison. Unfortunately, there probably aren't any packages of similar size and matching pinning that I could use to replace what I have. This means that I'll have to make another order of boards, which will at least have all the tweaks I've done since learning from my mistakes on the rev. A board. Hopefully, there won't be further mistakes requiring new boards as at $100 per run, the cost adds up in a hurry.
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