Hi forum,
as a newby to 21st century electronics I have a burning question:
How does an hobbyist deal with surface mounted chips?
Quite a few ICs nowaday come only in the surface mount package and are therefore difficult to handle.
I have soldered a small 8 pins surface mount chip onto an adapting board to go achieve a DIP configuration. The soldering in iself was do-able, although I haven't finished building the circuit yet, so I don't know whether I damaged the chip.
Using adaptor boards is however is inconvenient as you have to hase the right size for each chip, etc. and I was wandering whether there are stripboards/veroboards/breadboards/anyboards which can take surface mounted chips.
How do people handle such devices?
What is the best way to go about prototyping?
I looked at previous threads for a while, but not found an answer, so....
thanks
Riccardo
as a newby to 21st century electronics I have a burning question:
How does an hobbyist deal with surface mounted chips?
Quite a few ICs nowaday come only in the surface mount package and are therefore difficult to handle.
I have soldered a small 8 pins surface mount chip onto an adapting board to go achieve a DIP configuration. The soldering in iself was do-able, although I haven't finished building the circuit yet, so I don't know whether I damaged the chip.
Using adaptor boards is however is inconvenient as you have to hase the right size for each chip, etc. and I was wandering whether there are stripboards/veroboards/breadboards/anyboards which can take surface mounted chips.
How do people handle such devices?
What is the best way to go about prototyping?
I looked at previous threads for a while, but not found an answer, so....
thanks
Riccardo