[dorkbotpdx-blabber] SMT soldering and adaptors

[krux at thcnet.net]

> Thinking of difficult SMT soldering, I recently received some junk mail which
> turned out to be 2 samples of a little surface mount adaptor from a company
> called Schmartboard.  I was about to toss them when I realized they had a chip
> from Analog Devices, which turned out to be a pretty nice opamp (AD8608), so I
> took another look.
[..snip..]
> I have no affiliation with this company, and honestly at $5 or more for each
> one, I'm not planning to buy much of their stuff, if any.  Years ago I
> invested in fab'ing a bunch of boards with adaptors for almost every type of
> SMT part and I have no problem soldering the normal way.  They're a little
> ugly but get the job done.
>
> But if you're wanting to solder wires to fine pitch SMT and can't, maybe these
> could help?

Yea, I messed around with those before.  Makes it pretty damn easy at the cost
of having a SMD being a big board.  But if you are prototyping something, they
can get the job done fairly quickly and easily.

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