Dead KORG microKEY, Part 2: Noobface McHamfists Desolders His First SMD

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Oh God. Oh God. I've been putting this one off, but the stuff has arrived. I can't back down now! A brief résumé of what happened in Part 1: this great little KORG microKEY MIDI controller stopped powering up for reasons unknown. By wiring it up to a J-Link debug probe, we found that the CPU was still alive and kicking, yet somehow the computer...