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Testing SMD devices on a breadboard requires some sort of carrier. You can use the dead-bug method, affixing the smd to something, and using bits of wire to solder its tiny pins to larger ones that fit into a breadboard. Another method is using SMD converters, which is fine, but really limits [...]
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As part of my mintlite project, I need to deal with an SO8 package battery charger. So I whipped up a breadboard adapter aka “breakout board” that converts the tiny chip into a 600 mil DIP package. Another battery charger I have is even smaller, packaged as an SOT23-5 part. [...]
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As sort of a follow-up to my Inket Photolithography article, I have some more pictures of the process, from start to finish.
Using paintshop pro, I take individual PCB layouts and combine them into a composite panel, which is the exact size of the PCB I’m going to expose. Often I’ll repeat the same [...]
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