Open source, stand alone, ASCII terminal project

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Chuck" == Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> writes:

 Chuck> There are inexpensive SMT to through-hole adapters available.
 Chuck> While I wouldn't trust myself to carefully hand-solder a whole
 Chuck> board full of SMT, the adpaters are fairly easy to do.

Soldering SMT by hand (other than BGA of course) is no big deal.  It's
only slightly harder than through-hole.  It does require suitable
tools -- thin solder and a fine tip professional grade soldering
iron.  And it's a good idea to use liquid flux (a lesson I learned
from a technician friend who used to assemble large SMT based boards
by hand).

I've assembled boards with 100 or so 0603 caps, and some 60-120 lead
flatpack packages (0.65 mm pitch) this way.  Take a bit of time and
work carefully.  Mine worked the first try.

     paul